CanNOT believe how long it’s been since I’ve watched this (Kysa, didn’t we used to watch it all the time “back in the day”? When was that? 1995?). Also canNOT believe I do not own this on DVD. Will have to fix that. Still love it just as much as I used to, although admittedly the background music is very dated and somewhat humorous. Matthew Broderick is so fun in this, and I don’t know that I can think of very many other movies where him being in it is one of the reasons I like it. Rutger Hauer is YUM, yum, yummy. The love story is so desperately poignant. Oh the heartbreak. Oh the torture. Yes I’m being facetious; but I love it nonetheless.
Daily Archives: June 25, 2006
Cable: First Daughter
This movie was so bad (and I couldn’t even honestly say “unbelievably” so), I really can’t believe I watched the whole thing. But I was tired and needed to sit still for a while, so it served its purpose. Really bad dialogue, bad acting, disjointed scenes, leaps in both logic & time. Michael Keaton just looks pained here. Bad.
KCRW’s Bookworm: Leonard Cohen (6/22).
The beginning of this interview was a little annoying. Too much of Michael Silverblatt’s (usual) long meandering statement/questions with Cohen just saying “yeah, that’s a good way to describe it.” “Sure, that sounds good.” But eventually Silverblatt had him read one of the poems in the new book, and Cohen started to loosen up and participate a bit more. Cohen’s mournful songs are (yes I’m saying it again for about the 8th time in two weeks) “such a huge part of my childhood.” Always playing in the background, things like Suzanne takes you down…to her place by the river… Love reminding people that Cohen wrote Hallelujah, not Jeff Buckley (Buckley just did a cover of it). One of those artists with such a huge oeuvre, it feels like he’s been around FOREVER, but of course he’s 72 or something now…
Quirky Nomads: Marian (6/16)
Loved this episode. Sage reads a story/essay about falling in love with her straight best friend. There’s mud in it. It was a really great story.
Quirky Nomads: Wet Food (6/15)
Texan woman recounts her 14th year when she wasn’t allowed to listen to “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” at her relatives’ house where even the radio stations wouldn’t play it due to the cursing…the baddest man in the whole damn town… 🙂 Too funny.
Bonus: the little girl who won’t wear the sweater…because it’s not PINK!
Quirky Nomads: New Orleans (6/14)
Jennifer’s story about driving to New Orleans, and not just the devastation from the storm but the continuing complete destroyal of normal life, and the fact that most of us are just not really comprehending what it is like there now… Powerful stuff.
Quirky Nomads: Librarians (6/13)
Really funny bit about trying to hide her shameful (in her mind) DVD check-outs from her favorite librarian.
Quirky Nomads: Dear Skin (6/12)
Claudia is really loving her new microphones as she appears on this podcast as well. Too funny to randomly hear one of your friends when you are not expecting it! Enjoyed the bit read by the 15 year old although I actually felt my eye twitch on two mispronunciations! These are the things that drive me batty in my old age.
Leonard Lopate[‘s Stand-In] Interviews Lorraine Bracco (6/7)
Have been a fan of Bracco’s for years, before the Sopranos, as she’s got both a great voice and a great physical presence. Since she isn’t normally the subject of the gossip rags, I was unaware that she went through a horrific divorce and custody battle. Has a book out discussing such and her subsequent trips to therapy. It was an entertaining conversation to listen to but a little too much “since you play a psychiatrist on TV, what do you think of this?” on the part of the interviewer.
Wait, Wait…June 4th edition.
For some reason I just thought this entire episode was hilarious and I was having a really hard time not busting out laughing on the El. Craig Ferguson played Not My Job. There was a hilarious bit about a Greenpeace gaffe in a press release. The drought in England was the subject of the “which story is it” part of the show. And there were all kinds of sidecracks and random joke occurrences. Very funny episode. Why aren’t you listening to this podcast? Go!