MOVIES!

I think i need to go see paprika tomorrow night after brazzaville.

5 HBO channels, and as many SHOWTIMES

oh man awesome

cablestory: after my first semester of grad school i went to toronto to have christmas with my boyfriend, who had recently moved there and found a place that had cable included in the rent whoa, and i was so wiped out and i think had a cold too that all i did for two whole days was lay on the couch and watch cable tv, mostly old movies and the home and garden network and the price is right
and my boyfriend went to work and figured out dinner too
it was sweet

i had free basic cable for a year once. i used to stay up and get stoned and watch charlie rose. i made "remote control" out of a wire hanger and used it to change channels by poking the buttons on the tv.

how do i get a friend with basic cable benefits

Ronin - better than Heat

cable without a remote control seems like a kind of v v minor form of purgatory

i'm pretty sure that this time last year i was watching Ronin with gravel puzzleworth and being totally confused (stoned)!

no wait that was in wintertime. still though, ronin is good and i should be watched again.

in the commonwealth of canada, ronin watches you

my friends made the best remote control substitute: a stuffed rubber glove, with the index/pointer finger extended, tied to a broom handle.

one of my kid's knucklehead friends hid our DVD remote. hahaha. was not where he said (after torture/interrogation)2 weeks later still can't find the fucking thing. and since we were liberal arts majors the universal remote my wife bought as replacement is un-programmable.

ronin better than everything

haha oh i forgot the t on it - ronin does watch back probably

oh i thought many times about the broom/stick remote control but could just not bring myself to do it esp for just like 5 channels. but stuffed rubber glove addition, i salute you

Just got a copy of Scorpion Thunderbolt in the mail.

Richard Harrison is God!

wow knocked up was good

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489049/

Four guys from the Midwest drive across the country to honor the wish of their dying friend: to watch "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace" at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch before the movie's worldwide release.

Trivia for
Fanboys (2008)

...
* The scene with the Star Trek: The Next Generation fans in full costume dedicating the Captain Jon-Luke Picard birthplace statue memorial as they confront the Star Wars fans was shot on location in the Town Square Park Plaza of Las Vegas, New Mexico. You can see the historic Plaza Hotel in the background in certain shots.

Knocked Up

MEAN GIRLS

it was very funny, i hadn't seen it before.

lohan much cuter in pre coked-up party girl days SHOCKER

she is mad cuet in that.

"FUNNY GAMES" (Haneke, 97)

whoah, way way way harsh

amazing too

Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan

maybe i neeed to watch the thing in bed? y/n?

STRANGE DAYS. <3 <3 <3

i love how "the future" in that movie is set only only 4 years after it was released

cyber-drugs s/d

not so strange, i think -- pre-millennial anxiety was beginning to set in and there was the popular idea that culture and technology were accelerating exponentially.

juliette lewis' pj harvey impersonation was pretty good, though, haha. and i loves me some hard-as-nails angela basset.

it is a crminally underrated movie

one thing that always irked me though: i think the experiences recorded by those head thingies would be tainted by the fact the wearer is all too aware that their experience is being recorded.

oh wait, i guess myspace/reality tv makes that point moot

yeah, i love strange days

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/5825/microje1.jpg
MICROCOSMOS

^^^^ that was a stoner staple in college

ooh, speaking of future depictions in movies, i've been browsing through this site here:

http://www.futuristmovies.com/movies/the_movies.html

i love this gem about Starship Troopers (various story elements are rated according to their "plausibility"):

Society:

The world has adopted a neo-fascist model in which citizenship is dependent on military service. Given the strong global trend toward liberal democracy, this is unlikely.

there's a lot of little blatantly ideological assumptions like that sprinkled throughout the site. still, very entertaining/informative!

Ghost Dog

weird, i just got that in my netflix

GD was pretty good. I was worried about the idea of a Jarmusch hitman/action movie, but he never goes nuts with it.

Obsession (de Palma) @ the SF Castro

I last saw this maybe 28 years ago (on network TV). It's very entertaining for 'Variations on Vertigo,' even tho the Who and the What are laughably obvious.

Picked up DVDs of 'all about lily chou-chou' and Visconti's 'the dammed' on the cheap. both really amazing in their own ways. i feel like i'm recovering.

read a few essays on Alain Resnais that i picked up at the library in time for Resnais weekend at the lumiere (next week).

oh, and 'half nelson' at the cinema.

Is that the one about the crackhead English teacher? Is it still playing?

i like obsession

Pirates 3 - big time fun. If you were to take just one drink of beer every time someone yells "FIRE!" you would be retarded wasted.

Has anybody seen Rescue Dawn yet? It will be playing here in July; it looks fantastic.

Oh and in the theater there was a poster for a movie called Stardust and I was all wtf is this? and my dad had been reading Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys and we were being these big Gaiman fanboys all week and we get into the theater and see a preview for it and wouldn't you know it was based on a Gaiman graphic novel. Anyway I want to see it.

just a novel (or novella, it was pretty short) originally

Cronos

Killer of Sheep = great

And it's still playing and still drawing crowds, which is impressive

The Beat my Heart Skipped kinda sucks.
I really need to see Killer of Sheep.
Paprika was okay; maybe Kon's weakest film though.
But the Music! http://www.teslakite.com/freemp3s/e/paprika/

H didn't come with me and I'd go see it again if you and the lady want to go some time.

knocked up