Thursday, December 25, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
I like to dance
do you?
My favorite place to dance is on the couch, because it's sort of soft and you have to use your knees a lot if you want it to look cool. I like to do Elvis moves, on the couch. Especially the move where you keep your toes on the ground but you get down low and make like you're running really fast and turn your head to the side sort of.
My favorite place to dance is on the couch, because it's sort of soft and you have to use your knees a lot if you want it to look cool. I like to do Elvis moves, on the couch. Especially the move where you keep your toes on the ground but you get down low and make like you're running really fast and turn your head to the side sort of.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
some things to listen to
Vashti Bunyan - Train Song ... off Some Things Just Stick In Your Head
Yma Sumac - Incacha ... Royal Anthem
Monday, December 8, 2008
netlfix, what what
I watched This Is England last night. It's my new favorite movie right now. It's not, like, my all time favorite or anything (I don't even know what my all time favorite movie is, anyway)... but it's what I'm going to be recommending for like the next month or so.
Being an 11 or 12 years old kid, is hard. Also, 1983 in some shit coastal town in England. There is cool hair and cool clothes.
On another level, the movie illustrates the gradual partial appropriation of English skinhead culture by nationalist and race driven political movements of early 80s. When Shuan first joins the local skinhead crew, they are basically apolitical. There's a great scene in the beginning, where Shaun is invited to go haunting with the rest of the kids (who are all older teenagers). They dress up in funny clothes and raid abandoned houses and break windows. But things change, and Shaun is pulled away from the loose egalitarian anarchism of the initial group, toward political activism and racist thuggery. Anyway, the movie has some heavy shit going on, too. I mean, it's warm and touching, and you sort of wish that these kids were your crew when you were young. Even Combo, who's sort of the antagonist of the movie (and he does some pretty fucked up, violent shit)... you want to like him too. He's just fucked, and trying to find something to cling to.
word.
oh, and the soundtrack is friggin awesome.
Being an 11 or 12 years old kid, is hard. Also, 1983 in some shit coastal town in England. There is cool hair and cool clothes.
On another level, the movie illustrates the gradual partial appropriation of English skinhead culture by nationalist and race driven political movements of early 80s. When Shuan first joins the local skinhead crew, they are basically apolitical. There's a great scene in the beginning, where Shaun is invited to go haunting with the rest of the kids (who are all older teenagers). They dress up in funny clothes and raid abandoned houses and break windows. But things change, and Shaun is pulled away from the loose egalitarian anarchism of the initial group, toward political activism and racist thuggery. Anyway, the movie has some heavy shit going on, too. I mean, it's warm and touching, and you sort of wish that these kids were your crew when you were young. Even Combo, who's sort of the antagonist of the movie (and he does some pretty fucked up, violent shit)... you want to like him too. He's just fucked, and trying to find something to cling to.
word.
oh, and the soundtrack is friggin awesome.
Friday, December 5, 2008
what the frack? (let's get lost edition)
Netflix doesn't have the Bruce Weber directed Chet Baker doc "Let's Get Lost". It's an incredible documentary... Bruce Weber is the photographer behind all those A&F catalogs with the shirtless gay dudes, and Chet Baker is the seminal cool jazz trumpeter and singer. He has one of the most awesomely androgynous voices of all time... he makes Antony Hegerty sound like Martin Short impersonating Liza Minelli. Chet Baker's voice is like pulling a silk scarf out of a vat of honey.
Mmmmm.
Can't find anything from the doc... here's some other stuff...
Heroin fucked him up big time. I know right? A 50s-60s jazz musician using heroin? Way hard to believe! They say he got beat up trying to buy drugs in San Francisco and lost some of his teeth, and that sort of fucked up his embrochoure, and later clips of him singing are weird too. The drugs and the prison time did a number on him. Don't do drugs!
Here's a good clip of him singing:
Mmmmm.
Can't find anything from the doc... here's some other stuff...
Heroin fucked him up big time. I know right? A 50s-60s jazz musician using heroin? Way hard to believe! They say he got beat up trying to buy drugs in San Francisco and lost some of his teeth, and that sort of fucked up his embrochoure, and later clips of him singing are weird too. The drugs and the prison time did a number on him. Don't do drugs!
Here's a good clip of him singing:
Monday, December 1, 2008
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