sometimes we rock and roll, sometimes we stay at home. this heart's on fire.
1. Having houseguests is kind of exhausting. I had my parents here this week and last for grad, and the week before that it was my best friend from back home. Fun, but for someone who has gotten used to spending about 90% of their downtime alone, all the doing stuff and going places is a bit much. This, plus working full-time, plus praticing for a cousin's wedding I was enlisted to play the piano for despite not having touched the instrument since I finished with it five years ago (except for maybe the occasional time when I crack out my "Once More, With Feeling" songbook when nobody's around), means my lj time has been reduced to the occasional surreptitious skimming of my flist at work (which contiinues to be awesome, btw). I have deciced that I really like LJ polls on my flist and there should be much more of them. That way I can feel like I'm actually participating in lj-dom without, like, actually participating.
2. Josie and the Pussycats is a seriousy underrated movie. I loved it when I was sixteen; I just bought up the dvd (and a whole pile of other guilty pleasures) and I love it still. Seriously, the opening scene alone is worth the price of admission. Seth Green and Donald Faison (plus Breckin Meyer and an Ethan Hawke lookalike) as members of the boy band DuJour (of the hit single "Backdoor Lover") is GOLD. DuJour means seatbelts! Dujour means crash positions! (My Faison love, by the way, has grown exponentially over the past year or so. I'm usually so much more of a JD girl, but he so owned Scrubs this season). Plus, there's Rachael Leigh Cook before she failed to become relevant outside of teen moviedom, Tara Reid before she was better known for her nipples and public drunkenness than her acting, and Rosario Dawson (whom I love) in her one musical acting gig before Rent (which I also love). And apart from that, it's just a (sometimes) brilliant satire of the music industry and teenage consumer culture. I heart it muchly. In 2001, it was pretty relevant for its diatribe against manufactured music and the boy band phenomenon, but it also makes a lot of sense in the current climate where bands (like the Pussycats in the movie) to achieve instantaneous worldwide success without seeming to have really earned it, because of the internet and all that.
3. I say this because I went to the Arctic Monkeys show last week, and besides being OMG SO MUCH FUN! I was also struck by a) how young they are (20, but look about 15) and b) how massively overhyped they are. And in light of that, the whole backlash trend that says that they're just kids and don't really deserve their fame because they haven't really worked for it and they're just getting set up to fail in the future, seems pretty persuasive. But really, it should be completely irrelevant. In any case, I loved them and the show was tons of fun (except for the people up front that don't DANCE, wtf), and even though no one really deserves that much hype I think they're as good a candidate as any.
4. Speaking of satirical movies, I went to see Art School Confidential, which is from the same writer and director who did Ghost World. There was some really funny skewering of artsy "types", and a lot of great performances, though I felt it ultimately failed in that it wasn't clear whether the main character was himself a satire or not. So, yeah.
5. So yesterday I went to the fabric store today, and on one display table there were rolls of "Veronica" fabric piled right next to the "Lily Collection"... right beside the Lamb(skin fleece). Totally made my day. I would say this was the work of some fans, but considering that I didn't see a single person under the age of seventy the whole time I was there, this seems unlikely. I conclude, therefore, that VERONICA MARS is AWESOME and the universe knows and acknoledges this. Lily, by the way, is embroidred cotton crepe. Veronica, dissapointingly, is not red satin, but some heavy cotton-polyester blend in brown and navy. Also yesterday, I bought a pack of socks because the brand was "K. Bell" and they were pink and green striped. Veronica may have "evolved" past this particular colour scheme, but I stubbornly refuse to (as evidenced by my journal layout, among other things). And yes, random fan geekiness like this is totally why I ever got an LJ in the first place.
2. Josie and the Pussycats is a seriousy underrated movie. I loved it when I was sixteen; I just bought up the dvd (and a whole pile of other guilty pleasures) and I love it still. Seriously, the opening scene alone is worth the price of admission. Seth Green and Donald Faison (plus Breckin Meyer and an Ethan Hawke lookalike) as members of the boy band DuJour (of the hit single "Backdoor Lover") is GOLD. DuJour means seatbelts! Dujour means crash positions! (My Faison love, by the way, has grown exponentially over the past year or so. I'm usually so much more of a JD girl, but he so owned Scrubs this season). Plus, there's Rachael Leigh Cook before she failed to become relevant outside of teen moviedom, Tara Reid before she was better known for her nipples and public drunkenness than her acting, and Rosario Dawson (whom I love) in her one musical acting gig before Rent (which I also love). And apart from that, it's just a (sometimes) brilliant satire of the music industry and teenage consumer culture. I heart it muchly. In 2001, it was pretty relevant for its diatribe against manufactured music and the boy band phenomenon, but it also makes a lot of sense in the current climate where bands (like the Pussycats in the movie) to achieve instantaneous worldwide success without seeming to have really earned it, because of the internet and all that.
3. I say this because I went to the Arctic Monkeys show last week, and besides being OMG SO MUCH FUN! I was also struck by a) how young they are (20, but look about 15) and b) how massively overhyped they are. And in light of that, the whole backlash trend that says that they're just kids and don't really deserve their fame because they haven't really worked for it and they're just getting set up to fail in the future, seems pretty persuasive. But really, it should be completely irrelevant. In any case, I loved them and the show was tons of fun (except for the people up front that don't DANCE, wtf), and even though no one really deserves that much hype I think they're as good a candidate as any.
4. Speaking of satirical movies, I went to see Art School Confidential, which is from the same writer and director who did Ghost World. There was some really funny skewering of artsy "types", and a lot of great performances, though I felt it ultimately failed in that it wasn't clear whether the main character was himself a satire or not. So, yeah.
5. So yesterday I went to the fabric store today, and on one display table there were rolls of "Veronica" fabric piled right next to the "Lily Collection"... right beside the Lamb(skin fleece). Totally made my day. I would say this was the work of some fans, but considering that I didn't see a single person under the age of seventy the whole time I was there, this seems unlikely. I conclude, therefore, that VERONICA MARS is AWESOME and the universe knows and acknoledges this. Lily, by the way, is embroidred cotton crepe. Veronica, dissapointingly, is not red satin, but some heavy cotton-polyester blend in brown and navy. Also yesterday, I bought a pack of socks because the brand was "K. Bell" and they were pink and green striped. Veronica may have "evolved" past this particular colour scheme, but I stubbornly refuse to (as evidenced by my journal layout, among other things). And yes, random fan geekiness like this is totally why I ever got an LJ in the first place.