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Wildwood

The Jersey Shore premiere blew my mind. Here's a little fix until the next episode.

From the 1994 doc Wildwood via four four.

New Moon

I saw it. Catherine Hardwicke you are sorely missed.

Born On A Train

1. to ramble without a definite purpose or objective; roam, rove, or stray:
2. to go aimlessly, indirectly, or casually; meander: .
3. to extend in an irregular course or direction:
4. to move, pass, or turn idly, as the hand or the eyes.
5. (of the mind, thoughts, desires, etc.) to take one direction or another without conscious intent or control:
6. to stray from a path, place, companions, etc.:
7. to deviate in conduct, belief, etc.; err; go astray:
8. to think or speak confusedly or incoherently.

v.
To move about without a definite destination or purpose.
To go by an indirect route or at no set pace; amble:
To proceed in an irregular course; meander.
To go astray:
To lose clarity or coherence of thought or expression.

Adorable!

I need that jacket/shirt combo

Precious Gays

"I felt sorry for her. I thought she might really need my ten dollars. After all this was Saturday night, and yet she didn't have any customers. Somehow I equated her fatness, her blackness, her unpopularity with my own outcast status. She'd show me sympathy, which would magically awaken my virility.In her adoring eyes I'd become a slender hipped young prince under a gold crown of hair, skin as smooth as petals under a light green tunic. I'd protect her. I'd earn money and buy her freedom. We'd be outcasts together as a mixed couple, she a Negro whore and I her little protector. But no matter, for if this fantasy kept me a pariah by exchanging homosexuality for miscegenation, it also gave me a sacrifice to make and a companion to cherish. I would educate and protect her. I would nurse her back to decency after her years of debauchery."

- Edmund White excerpt from A Boy's Own Story

History Lesson Of The Day

More Maggie!

Back by no popular demand whatsoever.

The More You Know....

Legend has it that Michael Stipe upon seeing how R.E.M.'s song Radio Free Europe was put to use in the 80's comedy sex romp The Party Animal shouted, "Birthday party cheesecake jelly bean boom!"

Appropriate response, right?

When The Robin Lays His Nest

One of the only operas I've ever seen is Madame Butterfly. It was during my Freshman year of college and it wasn't even live but taped. Pretty much everyone in my Humanities class openly hated it, jeering and laughing the whole way through. They had a point, watching a VHS copy of a staged theatrical event is pretty tedious and hardly a substitute for the real thing. But I remember feeling slightly sad and bitter knowing that all their hearts and minds were closed from the get go*. It was a general elective class meaning everyone had to take it which created a high school like atmosphere. Lots of students who did not want to be there, were. Maybe if they had spoon fed us with Malcom Mclaren's Hip Hopra take things would have worked out better.

Personal highlight: Cho Cho San's modernized lament
"Gotta have something to believe in/ My white honkey, I do miss him"

Wow, and I thought Weezer's Pinkerton album was THE final word on pop culture's reappropriation of Puccini's masterpiece.

* But their hearts and minds were not closed to say Incubus or Dashboard Confessional and often showed up to lecture in pajamas with frappachinos and ringing cellphones in hand. HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Childhood

Plaid Van

There is no shortage of critics who have observed and recorded the dissolution of public discourse in America and its conversion into the arts of show business. But most of them, I believe, have barely begun to tell the story of the origin and meaning of this descent into a vast triviality. Those who have written vigorously on the matter tell us for example, that what is happening is the residue of an exhausted capitalism; or, on the contrary, that it is the tasteless fruit of the maturing capitalism; or that it is the neurotic aftermath of the age of Freud; or the retribution of our allowing God to perish; or that it all comes from old stand bys, greed and ambition.

- excerpt from Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman WRITTEN IN 1985! If only he knew what a prophet he became.



For the record: I enjoy both these shows immensely.

Maggie's Party!

"Whether it is better, I ask, to be a slave in a fool's paradise at Marseilles. Fevered with delusive bliss one hour, suffocating with the bitterest tears of remorse and shame the next. Or to be a school mistress free and honest in a breezy Mountain nook..."

"But you feel solitude an oppression? The little house there behind you is dark and empty."

Green Gay

Why Does This remind me of amateur gay porn?

All it's missing is a creepy off camera voice coaxing them to take their clothes off and questions about their girlfriends.

The Sad Truth

This looks like someone went over to Andrew Dice Clay's house and said, "Hey, listen Andy, we want you to write a screenplay for us, think Taming of The Shrew meets My Fair lady but set in Sacramento!"

The Essence of Summer

A short scene from Eric Rohmer's latest film, Summer Twilight

Terrible? No, It Just Reminds You That We're All Alone, That's All

Rebel Without A Clause as filtered through the Paula Abdul experience.

I love when music videos have extended introsssssss, thanks Nick

Its so hot today

and I'm hungover

Church of LaToya

Happy 4th!

I'm celebrating by staying at home and studying the Jackson Family Tree.

Goodbye Michael

This has truly been a month of goodbyes for me. How I like to remember him

Maybe The Hays Code Was Onto Something...

"wrong entertainment lowers the whole living condition and moral ideals of a race"

Goodbye!

Goodbye analog television! You had a long good run, here's to you

Goodbye Angel!

Sad

Someone owes P.P. Arnold and Cat Stevens an apology

The Victum


The perpetrator

Goodbye Lilac Terrace!

Underbites

cute


not cute

Life is so confusing!

I'm Officially Coming Out

as a Mariah Carey defender and occasional fan of some of her singles. This is a really difficult and hard thing for me to do but the process is mitigated by the fact that it's the internet and no one is reading. You might be thinking duh Michael, you should have posted this in 2007 but I'm a late bloomer. Also there is this!

(its a lot to trudge through so I've put key elements in bold)
(No, I'm not going to cite where I found this because I'm lazy and irresponsible)

Mimi's overriding public image of the past few years has been the cult-kitsch Mariah of 2002's Glitter-- a bad/good amalgam of Flashdance's flimsy script and "Saved By the Bell"'s plaster-faced deliveries-- and that one time she pushed a hot-dog cart onto the set of "TRL" unannounced. Mariah Carey no longer equals CRAZY TIME. But back in '03, she was Ms. Vilification.

Barely anyone defended her but she found camaraderie among feminist punks Erase Errata and Sonic "I believe Anita Hill" Youth, who collaborated on a Mariah Carey-themed split 7" in 2003 for Narnack Records. The idea for the seven-inch evolved from a series of conversations between Erase Errata vocalist Jenny Hoyston and Kim Gordon about how Carey's persona was portrayed and manipulated. (And, I will add, gets less of a break than other talented musicians practicing worse alleged offenses, such as R Kelly-- I would rather listen to a thousand of the chirpy screeches on "Fantasy" with the subtext of mental instability, than the champagne-warmth of "Step in the Name of Love", with the subtext of R.'s "love" translating as "pre-teen.")

Just after the release of the Narnack 7" in '03, Erase Errata singer Jenny Hoyston told me, "When we were touring with Sonic Youth, Kim [Gordon] and I were discussing Mariah-- who she was and how she was mentally and her impact on the world at large. We were also discussing how cleavage was increasingly visible in the rise of emo, and how directly proportional boys being more sensitive was to the amount of cleavage shown. I wrote the lyrics for our side from the perspective of the woman who was Mariah's character's mother in Glitter, and it's about a woman who's a talented singer but has some substance-abuse problems and some behavioral problems, and burns down their house and keeps fucking up but she sees her child and tries to take steps for better."

Erase Errata totally pre-cogged her emancipation!

Sonic Youth's side to that mini-alb was called "Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream", which later landed on Sonic Nurse-- it was the noise-anvil one featuring Gordon in her gruff bark-coo, "What's your gut feelin' about the new deal/ How's the label gonna remake you...Is innocence gonna still overtake you?...Ah Mariah, you're endless/ Like the wind, you're feelin' defenseless."


Phew! I feel so validated and less guilty after Kimmy G said it was okay to not hate her since I base my entire being and personality after emulating my favorite celebrity figures. My uncomfortable feelings for Mariah (re)started when Touch My Body came out which I view as a Feminist anthem with no irony. There are many ways in which she has done more for the woman's movement through her songs and healthy body image than say... Madonna has ever done in her entire career. Especially the last ten which has seen Madge disappear into pseudo meta physics with song lyrics embarrisingly trite and anemic record sales, making the same aging queens in LA and NY buy her albums over and over. Not to mention her obsession (hatred?) with her body, distorting it to look like a 13 year old boy's.

People actually buy mariah's music! Young(ish) people! Black people! A broad spectrum of people. Still to this day! If the beauty of pop music is a broad mass democratic appeal she certainly seems to fill that role better than many other pop starlets out there both young and old. Also there is this:


I rest my case

P.S. While we're on the subject of shameful pop crap I have to admit that I "get" Taylor Swift. It makes sense. Just say yes.

Art.

urklebot!

Just Do It Already

My sister is about to pop any day now and I"m impatient. Just have it already

:(

Its cinco de mayo and I work nights so there is no way I can enjoy a 42 ounce margarita from El Conquistador.

I Need This

Anyone who knows me will agree.

Jenkem

I've been working on a show that follows around people who throw grossly expensive weddings. One couple lives in Florida and are very proud of that fact as they refer to the state as the capital of the world.

Butt hash!

Tough Times

call for comfort youtube clips! Two of my favorite things mashed together! Not sure about their compatibility yet.

Hair Piece!

Hair Piece in a heavy thick accent sounds like herpies!!!!

Oh My Gawwwwd

I'm at a work computer and I'm going to list some of the recent box activity suggestions when I went to name this post!

Addicted To You
Anal Sex Birthday
Anniversary Blow Job
Bury The Hatchet
Congrats On Divorce
Come to the BBQ
Give The Fuck Up
Your vagina
Your Vagina youtube

I need to meet whoever is here during the daytime!

Tomorrow Is A Big Day

Australia and Beverly Hills Chihuahua come out on DVD tomorrow. I'll be camped out in front of Video Journeys at 10am (so early!) to ensure my rental copy. No pretty pics of chihuahuas in jewelry or mean spirited snaps of Nicole Kidman's awkward botoxed face (she can act, alright?!?! Leave her alone) as I no longer have a computer. Don't ask.

Happy President's Day!

no on 8!

Culturally Expansive

Oh the benefits of cohabitating with a foreign born gay, you get to learn all about bad early 90's Euro dance music!!!! Typical of Europe a lot of them are DOWNBEAT as opposed to the American optimism of black diva wailings to a club thumping beat usually describing emancipation, freeing yourself, talk of the girl you used to be, etc etc. I mean it was the worry free 90's right??? Guess they didn't get that memo across the pond.

This is Gala, who was a dance diva giant but sadly only released one album at least according to my roomie. I'm too lazy to verify the statement so its true. Its a little medley of her biggest hits, the opening video is a classic queer anthem called Let A Boy Cry, a black and white tale of homo shame and guilt punctuated by urine colored tears.

choice lyric: you're always waiting for somebody and you don't like yourself/they made you change do you remember, when you were someone else

Call And Response

My good friend Max over at Lightning History. posted a playfully insolent Woody Allen interview which in three minutes manages to be more interesting and insightful than the entirely of a few of his select works (INTERIORS!). I feel its my duty to needlessly stir the pot and try to ONE UP him by posting my own funny and boldy disrespectful interview of someone appropriate to my BACKground... which naturally means a drug addled tranny chaser!

I'm starting this lame blog war to DRUM UP business!

OMG THE MOON!

Its a full, luminous, mysterious, beautiful, roMANtic, wintery moon! Crazy!

p.s. It hailed today! crazy!

Clips From My Favorite RomComs!

Bcuz its February!

Fast Food Fast Women


Next Stop Wonderland


Broken English


Eban And Charley

Okay kidding about that last one! But you know, not.

Its February!

January always feels so slow and stale. When it hits the first of Feb my entire psyche leaps with joy. Its the shortest month (I'm a fan of the brief), the big V day and its delightful color palette, all those presidents being born prompting a national HOLIDAY, Black History Month, the list goes on and on!

These Days

I play rockband a lot. Probably too much. This is a pretty accurate depiction/reenactment of what goes down.

Beneath It All/ Desire of Oblivion Runs

The Recession Is Affecting Everyone

November 17th, 2008 - According to Soap Opera Digest, Deidre Hall, along with Drake Hogestyn (her on-screen husband) have been let go from the show. NBC renewed the show for a few more seasons but significantly dropped the amount of money they would pay for the show. Both Hall and Hogestyn were dropped as a result of the large budget cut by NBC.

I can't believe the iconic Dr. Marlena Evans couldn't survive the current low economic tide. And it happened waaaaay back in November, where have I been? I'm unemployed and there is no excuse why I should have just found this out. I hope Deidre Hall will be OKAY, somehow I think she'll just scrape by, above is a picture with her son, hopefully she can still provide.

Most Anticipated Film of 2009

Ronnie and Maggie

I have a feeling Ronnie made a raunchy pun somewhere along the lines about the lady turning during a passionate clandestine tryst in the White House.

Poor Nancy! I think we know where she found solace

My Favorite Films of 2008!

Smile! No One Cares

In No Particular Order:

Happy Go Lucky
Love Songs
The Witnesses
Snow Angels
Tell No One
Milk
The Dark Knight

3 of the films are French. Yes, I'm a Francofile ...

But who isn't????