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Yes, I'm still alive
• all the Louis Garrel silliness in Dans Paris
• rock 'n' roll weekend = Gogol Bordello after party on Thursday, Control on Friday, Stars and Jens Lekman on Saturday ( Read more... ) -
Feist show
illyriadeity and I met up for the Feist show at the Pantages last night. The opener Grizzly Bear played their weird songs first--including flute, authoharp, and falsetto parts--and then won me over with a version of "He Hit Me (and It Felt Like a Kiss)" and a really good song that started out with "I want you to know." (I'll figure out the title later.) One ( Read more... ) -
making my summer more tolerable
• milk over coffee ice cubes
• food-based reality shows (Top Chef, Hell's Kitchen andThe Next Food Network Star)
• Tinto de Verano
• the trials of Julie Cooper
• spring rolls, homemade or not
Tagged by evolvedsquidList seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs ( Read more... ) -
summer shows
I'm nuts about Bat for Lashes' "Horse and I" and VHS or Beta's "You Got Me." Both are on my summer mix. If you're at the Pipettes show on Friday, I'll give you a copy ( Read more... ) -
It's probably time to have another Pies 'n' Pies party.
• the utterly charming Waitress, which should come with a recipe book in the DVD (I wanna make Marshmallow Mermaid pie ( Read more... ) -
Who the @#%& is Russell Brand?
• The Fratellis thanking the members of the fictional band Strange Fruit at the Brit Awards
• my old Hit Stix!
• hard cider and deep-fried pickle chips
• Robin Sparkles "Let's Go to the Mall"
• Good Tempered Food by Tamasin Day-Lewis
• EJ Wells' acting through blinking and charm
• the two parts of Children of Men that nearly had me in tears ( Read more... ) -
nicked from wildefan
THE RULES:
Pick your birth month.
- Strike out anything that doesn't apply to you.
- Bold the five-ten that best apply to you.
- Copy to your own journal, with all twelve months under a lj-cut.
SEPTEMBER:
Suave and compromising. Careful, cautious and organized. Likes to point out people's mistakes. Likes to criticize. Stubborn. Quiet but able ( Read more... ) -
to the left, to the left
• Vicious Vicious "Castaways" (good on CD, amazing live)
• Tommy "Richie Tenenbaum" Robredo
• the way Gordon Ramsay hold his chin and says "dear oh dear"
• The Bachelor Pad "Jack and Julian"
• Paul Dano's "mug shot" in Jane
• Lea Massari's fashion in Le Souffle au Cœur• Beyoncé "Irreplaceable ( Read more... ) -
Damn, I love dude comedies
I'd like to think that I'm pretty well-rounded in my viewing habits, but lately I can't get enough of frat pack comedies. It started with renting The Break Up but in the past few months, I've rewatched Old School, Starsky and Hutch, Anchorman, Dodgeball, and Zoolander. Then I had to see Talladega Nights and The 40 Year Old Virgin. I'm watching ( Read more... )