Oh it’s the kids are now “adults” part of the series. Never a very interesting plot move. But hey, I’m completely down with Rogue’s decision. I mean, if you’re a romantic, how could you not be?
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Cable: Aeon Flux.
OK I didn’t think it was good, but I’m not sure why this was quite as panned as it was. I mean, yeah, the woman with the hands for feet was just grotesque… but I really didn’t think the rest of it was THAT bad. Charlize Theron was convincing and the dude that played her man-from-the-past was kinda hot in a Dominic West-hot way.
I’ve certainly seen worse movies than this. And if you got rid of a couple of really annoying things, I think it could have been decent.
Old Favorites Revisited…Lonely Boy Fall 05
Sometimes I get in a bad habit of only listening to the new tunes fighting for space on the iPod and conveniently forget that there are loads of playlists full of old stuff that I love and if I’m not going to listen to it then maybe it wouldn’t need to be there taking up its own space… So this morning I started going through old mixes. When I listen to this now, it seems a bit more straight-out rock than I remember… I haven’t listened to some of these songs probably since shortly after I first made this mix… Glad to find I still dig it.
Lonely Boy Fall 05
- “Homesick” Kings of Convenience
- “You’re So True” Joseph Arthur
- “Sending a Note” Graham Colton Band
- “The Drifter” David Poe
- “Cold Day in the Sun” Foo Fighters
- “Strangerman” Ringside (lots of love for this song)
- “How to Dream” Sam Phillips
- “Eve, the Apple of My Eye” Bell X1 (…SOUNDS LIKE…Annie Lennox!)
- “All for You” Sister Hazel
- “Faded Beauty Queens” The Thrills
- “Home to Me” Josh Kelley
- “Across 110th Street” Bobby Womack & Peace (long-time fave)
- “New York, New York” Ryan Adams
- “Be Be Your Love” Rachael Yamagata
- “New York” Richard Ashcroft
- “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” Everlast (cover)
- “Real Love / It’s Only Life” Mike Doughty (cover)
- “Life on a Chain” Pete Yorn
- “Let It Be” Beatles (can’t go wrong…)
Try it. You might like it.
To crib from Al Franken, “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”
Wow. I’m flabbergasted. I just found out someone has been telling me a lie. A fairly big lie that has involved numerous “edits” to numerous conversations. FOR MONTHS. And the reason for telling the lie…was to not “alienate” me.
Here’s a little piece of advice: being lied to is alienating all on its own.
Yes, I know, I have kinda a “thing” about being lied to. My mom has remarked on that it bothers me a lot more than it bothers you know say your average normal person when they get lied to. Bygones. This is me. This is how I feel. I can’t be YOU on MY web site, can I?
Lyric of the Day.
Let my heart be the part by which you judge me.
Like the sun in everyone, it is pure.
–Jeremy Fisher “Lay Down (Ballad of Rigoberto Alpizar)” Goodbye Blue Monday
Faux-Amies*
It is always amusing in French class to watch the “I know too much to look up these words” people get tripped up by what we call *”false cognates” en anglais. I’m hoping for such tonight as one of our vocab words is décevant. Deceiving? No. Disappointing.
I, as you must have known, am an anal-looker-upper. Even when I know that I already know the word in question. I’m always checking to make sure there isn’t also an idiomatic definition I don’t know about. I waste a lot of time that way. But time…well, that’s in surfeit over here.
Protected: It’s got the right rhythm.
Last Night on iTunes.
New albums by two of my favorite bands of recent years:
- Athlete “Beyond the Neighborhood”
- The Thrills “Teenager
And trying out two new boys:
- Jeremy Fisher “Goodbye Blue Monday”
- Fionn Regan “The End of History”
Death and Faith.
I got an email from a friend telling me her Dad died, and it reminded me that Madeleine L’Engle died recently and I’ve been meaning to recommend a specific book of hers.
While I dearly dearly love the Wrinkle in Time books, and there are a few of her adult fiction books I enjoyed also (A Small Rain, A Severed Wasp), my all-time favorite L’Engle book is from her “Crosswick Journals” ‘set, Vol 4. Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage.
A large part of the book is about her husband dying of cancer, and her struggling with her faith to “make sense of” or deal with that without falling back on either the nonsensical “why god why” or the equally (to believers in the concept of Free Will) nonsensical “God must have had a reason.” (In a world operating under Free Will, God is not a puppet master.)
It was a really lovely book and helped me when I was dealing with a death that hit me particularly hard, given the specific circumstances.
I reread the Wrinkle in Time books a few years ago during Harry Potter mania, to reconfirm that I did still love them even though I didn’t love (what I tried of) Harry Potter. They are more like both C.S. Lewis (faith-based fantasy) and Phillip Pullman (lovelovelove), and Meg and Charles are very beloved characters (by me and, of course, many others).
RIP Madeleine L’Engle.
RIP Papa Auta. I am sad I’ll never meet you when I finally make it to New Zealand. Your daughter has been such an important part of my life.
Album: Eddie Vedder “Into the Wild”
I really hadn’t listened to Pearl Jam much in recent history, but then I started reading I Am Fuel, You Are Friends, and Heather is an unabashed PJ fan…and then they played Lollapalooza…
This album is the soundtrack to the movie. And I swear when I listen to it..this is going to sound crazy!… I can FEEL Alaska. I can feel wide open horizons… I can feel solitude, and silent (echoing?) forests… Expansive. Lonely. Calm. I don’t know what it is — Vedder’s voice, the background music, the lyrics — but it is creating very vivid pictures in my mind…
It’s a mystery to me…
You think you have to want more than you need
Until you have it all, you won’t be free.