"Whenever our voices speak, it's never our minds that meet"
Ok I shall prefigure this by saying LIVEJOURNAL THE FUCKING EMBED VIDEO LINK DOESN'T FUCKING WORK!!! I have spent aaages trying to put the actual clips in here and it never works....does anyone else have that problem with it??
Anyway
I have just finished watching The Painted Veil, which I found a beautiful visually and interesting enough to maintain my attention right until the ending that I saw coming a mile off. Edward Norton was wonderful, I had a crush on his character right from the beginning and even Naomi Watts wasn't all that irritating. Not that she does irritate me generally but there is something about her that leads me to believe that my prevailing indifference will eventually descend down that route. I think it's her Antipodean blondieness, her perfect pretty face and pert figure....
Nothing quite like hating an actress for that, if she were male all these things would be a bonus...
Actually scrap that because I remember now that she has irritated me previously, her character in "I Heart Huckabees" irritated me to no end, I hated her upon watching that film. Mind you that wasn't so much her as much it was the fact that the entire film revolted me. I think I made enemies of almost all the cast (lol too strong a word?) after watching that mess so perhaps that wasn't her fault.
I turned I Heart Huckabees off before the end in fact I hated it so much. It seemed to me all irritating kookiness devoid of a likeable character or any wit or cleverness or funnies.
I did that with The Royal Tennebaums too though, to me that suffered from the same syndrome, totally unbelievable characters spouting stupid, poorly written lines. I mean it's one thing if you make the eccentricities of the character or the implausible lines funny to compensate but they didn't have the decency to do that.
Gee I hated that film too. Lol gee... Strangely enough though everyone seems to think it's so original and funny and great, which mystifies me a little but ah well different strokes.
Ha ha that was a great show.
Anyway otherwise
I read a bit of Vile Bodies today, by Evelyn Waugh, or Mr Brideshead Revisited as I like to call him...I don't know if I will persist with reading it all, I highly doubt it in fact it but I have certainly begun...
Hours previous had been consumed in customarily fawning fashion. In that I passed many hours yesterday solidly viewing all the interview/performance clips of A-ha that I could get my hands on from YouTube and committing them to my Favourites list.
From this I have learnt that they were pretty gauche for popstars and that I could seriously slash Morten Harket and Magne Furoholenem based just on THIS FAN SLIDESHOW HERE Srsly there is a picture of them at 3.41-3.42 .... one of them on a bed and another where Mags has his arm between Morten's legs effectively....
They are fucking asking for it based on this lil YouTube clip too, I wonder what Mags just said to Morten....that made him smile so widely...
Note to self, I must not write slash that answers that question....
Although oh my god Mags would find it so funny if someone slashed them I think. From his journal on his MySpace that guy seems like he would totally laugh at almost anything thrown at him as a point of principle.
I lu Mags...
Though this is my current favourite clip of the moment because not only does it include an exhausted/confused/bemused Morten Harket, it also includes Bonnie the dog, which all Englishers will remember as the Golden Retriever from kids tv show Blue Peter, so it has additional nostalgia points....
Then there is the hilarious/sweet fact that Bonnie keeps licking Morten's face....
Bonnie/Morten OTP??
Ilu Morten
Their music continues to wow me too, Pal Wakaater, on the left of the picture.
who wrote most of their songs singlehandledly (certainly all my favourites) is a talented, talented man. I am so suprised that I read of so few people enthusing about them or his lyrics. They were perfect pop in places. So I adore Morrissey a lot for the fact that he did...
In this interview, Morrissey describes going to see them as involving many indecent squeals and musicians embarassed by the reaction of their fans...
(Edit: Oh and lol at THIS scan of a Smash Hits interview where Mags says he admires the Smiths....
I shouldn't slash them should I????)
I love it because they seemed pretty awkward with all the attention to me as well.
Love.
Their sad ones are getting to me to the point of tears now, Manhattan Skyline ...gah it cuts into me, There's Never a Forever Thing, Time and Again as well, gah Wakaater has mah heart.
The entire first album Hunting High and Low was golden this is demonstrable fact, succesively they got worse as is perhaps inevitable but the thing is there are still some gems scattered about the place in the following albums too.
This has been an obsessive, ranting entry but we're used to them around these parts.
Anyway
I have just finished watching The Painted Veil, which I found a beautiful visually and interesting enough to maintain my attention right until the ending that I saw coming a mile off. Edward Norton was wonderful, I had a crush on his character right from the beginning and even Naomi Watts wasn't all that irritating. Not that she does irritate me generally but there is something about her that leads me to believe that my prevailing indifference will eventually descend down that route. I think it's her Antipodean blondieness, her perfect pretty face and pert figure....
Nothing quite like hating an actress for that, if she were male all these things would be a bonus...
Actually scrap that because I remember now that she has irritated me previously, her character in "I Heart Huckabees" irritated me to no end, I hated her upon watching that film. Mind you that wasn't so much her as much it was the fact that the entire film revolted me. I think I made enemies of almost all the cast (lol too strong a word?) after watching that mess so perhaps that wasn't her fault.
I turned I Heart Huckabees off before the end in fact I hated it so much. It seemed to me all irritating kookiness devoid of a likeable character or any wit or cleverness or funnies.
I did that with The Royal Tennebaums too though, to me that suffered from the same syndrome, totally unbelievable characters spouting stupid, poorly written lines. I mean it's one thing if you make the eccentricities of the character or the implausible lines funny to compensate but they didn't have the decency to do that.
Gee I hated that film too. Lol gee... Strangely enough though everyone seems to think it's so original and funny and great, which mystifies me a little but ah well different strokes.
Ha ha that was a great show.
Anyway otherwise
I read a bit of Vile Bodies today, by Evelyn Waugh, or Mr Brideshead Revisited as I like to call him...I don't know if I will persist with reading it all, I highly doubt it in fact it but I have certainly begun...
Hours previous had been consumed in customarily fawning fashion. In that I passed many hours yesterday solidly viewing all the interview/performance clips of A-ha that I could get my hands on from YouTube and committing them to my Favourites list.
From this I have learnt that they were pretty gauche for popstars and that I could seriously slash Morten Harket and Magne Furoholenem based just on THIS FAN SLIDESHOW HERE Srsly there is a picture of them at 3.41-3.42 .... one of them on a bed and another where Mags has his arm between Morten's legs effectively....
They are fucking asking for it based on this lil YouTube clip too, I wonder what Mags just said to Morten....that made him smile so widely...
Note to self, I must not write slash that answers that question....
Although oh my god Mags would find it so funny if someone slashed them I think. From his journal on his MySpace that guy seems like he would totally laugh at almost anything thrown at him as a point of principle.
I lu Mags...
Though this is my current favourite clip of the moment because not only does it include an exhausted/confused/bemused Morten Harket, it also includes Bonnie the dog, which all Englishers will remember as the Golden Retriever from kids tv show Blue Peter, so it has additional nostalgia points....
Then there is the hilarious/sweet fact that Bonnie keeps licking Morten's face....
Bonnie/Morten OTP??
Ilu Morten
Their music continues to wow me too, Pal Wakaater, on the left of the picture.
who wrote most of their songs singlehandledly (certainly all my favourites) is a talented, talented man. I am so suprised that I read of so few people enthusing about them or his lyrics. They were perfect pop in places. So I adore Morrissey a lot for the fact that he did...
In this interview, Morrissey describes going to see them as involving many indecent squeals and musicians embarassed by the reaction of their fans...
(Edit: Oh and lol at THIS scan of a Smash Hits interview where Mags says he admires the Smiths....
I shouldn't slash them should I????)
I love it because they seemed pretty awkward with all the attention to me as well.
Love.
Their sad ones are getting to me to the point of tears now, Manhattan Skyline ...gah it cuts into me, There's Never a Forever Thing, Time and Again as well, gah Wakaater has mah heart.
The entire first album Hunting High and Low was golden this is demonstrable fact, succesively they got worse as is perhaps inevitable but the thing is there are still some gems scattered about the place in the following albums too.
This has been an obsessive, ranting entry but we're used to them around these parts.