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*a piece of paper blows in the wind*

Peter 'Family Guy' Griffin: Sometimes there is so much beauty in the world that I feel like I can't take it.

*cut to heaven*

God: What's wrong with you?!?! It's just a piece of paper! Do you know how complex the circulatory system is?!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

When is somebody going to mention Larry Clark?

Larry Clark.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Blowing my own head off is more appealing than watching Happiness ever, ever again.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

sadly accurate too, Nicole!

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

happiness >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> lost in translation

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

>>>>>>>>>>>>> american beauty

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"Bully" was pretty good, i thought.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember someone accusing me of not being able to handle "true" filmmaking because I didn't like Happiness.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to see it. What was the one with james woods? Was that good?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

welcome to the dollhouse >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> happiness >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> storytelling

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I see a trend there.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, "Happiness" is fucking garbage. "The Ice Storm" is pretty good but even patchier (and much shallower) than AB.

― frankiemachine, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

gygax, what's your take on JOHN WATERS?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't stand fucking lame ass yuppie guilt movies where a character has to die in some shocking manner to pay for his/his family's sins.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I LOVE JW!!!

Seriously, can't get enough. He's in town a lot, did you know? He goes shopping in the tenderloin for old books 1-2x a year.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I have yet to see a celebrity in SF.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

But then I'm hardly ever there now.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I like him too, btw.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i love larry clark.

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely you mean "i love the films of larry clark"

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Or is mutual?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to live next to Benjamin Bratt (1860 PAGE STREET) when he was dating Julia Roberts.
I used to see Joan Chen all the time.
I saw Huey Lewis in a yoghurt aisle in Marin.
I waited on Yasmin Bleeth pre-liquid cocaine bust.

All very B-List compared to my weekly Drew Barrymore run-ins in LA.

xpost: Better to like the films of Larry Clark then the photos.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

...i like the photos...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

a yoghurt aisle????

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Woodlands Market in Ross (near Sean Penn's house). It's about as granola as possible.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I like granola now!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Happiness is another movie I tolerated when I saw it (and maybe even admired Solondz's envelope-pushing) but now I think it just kinda blows. If the movie had been about any one of those characters, separately, it might've been interesting. But as an ensemble it mostly comes off like, "YOU THOUGHT THIS GUY WAS FUCKED UP?? WAIT'LL YOU SEE THIS OTHER GUY!!"

I liked Bully. Mostly it demonstrates the banality of evil more intensely than any other film I've seen. It was actually really affecting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

jaymc, what are three of your favourite movies?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Of all-time?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Today anyway. You can change your mind.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, you don't have to answer. Maybe post to this thread!

Sum up your personality with five movies

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

(xp)
I dunno. Questions like that always make me extremely self-conscious ("But do I really still like that movie? Gosh, I haven't even seen it in five years. Maybe that last movie I saw! Oh, but do I get to call it a favorite yet? Or do I need to see it again? Or do I just need to dwell on it more? ET FUCKING CETERA.) So I'm just going to give you what it says on my Friendster profile:

Domestic realism (All the Real Girls, Secrets and Lies, You Can Count on Me), surrealism (Mulholland Dr, Spirited Away), mixes of both (Buffalo 66), comedies (Annie Hall, Waiting for Guffman), classic thrillers (Vertigo, Rosemary's Baby)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

john waters does a lot of work at some editing place in berkeley actually. I saw him on shattuck avenue once. I don't like any of his films at all.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

y'all seen KEN PARK?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

(I actually had the Lukas Moodysson Together and The Ice Storm filed under "domestic realism" and then took them out to make room for the "classic thrillers" category.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

(the "classic thrillers" category = oh no! people are gonna think i haven't seen any movies before 10 years ago!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Stop worrying about this stuff so much!

I am very pleased that someone else likes Buffalo '66.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

buffallo '66 is amazing!

also, the brown bunny is on it's way to the US apparently; but he re-edited it.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I love Buffalo '66.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon Waters edits at the Saul Zaentz Film Center in Berkeley. I wrote to them three or four times trying to work there.

John Waters
"All the people who work there are great. They completely work with you and understand every bit of pressure you’re under. They make me relax - that’s really hard to do because I’m a hyper person. I love Berkeley, the good restaurants. It’s away from prying eyes of Hollywood and New York. They do a great job, that’s all. I’ve just had a wonderful experience there. I look forward every time to coming to Berkeley."

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG Kyle and Adam in agreement about film SHOCKER

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Re Ken Park: Is there a U.S. distributor yet? Didn't Larry Clark sock someone in the jaw at a banquet who was going to release it here?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i have a european PAL version that i (downloaded)

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I loved Fargo.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't Larry Clark sock someone in the jaw at a banquet who was going to release it here?

Yes, at the London Film festival.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

My bad, it was the UK distributor:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A872057

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I am very pleased that someone else likes Buffalo '66.

i like it, too. when he buys her the heart cookie from dunkin' donuts? aw, shit.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Buffalo 66 is good here.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

and i'm dying to see the brown bunny too.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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