| Testing my recall abilities... |
[Jul. 29th, 2006|03:02 am] |
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Notice how a lot of tv shows (well, those that I watch...) use the same songs/ songs by the same artistes?
Here's some off the top of my head:
The Dandy Warhols
- We Used To Be Friends:
Veronica Mars; theme song
The O.C; ep intro: Seth Cohen walks around the house (season 1)
Ivy
- Edge of the Ocean:
Grey's Anatomy; (Derek: "So you blew me off for a bottle of tequila. Tequila is no good for you. Doesn't call, Doesn't write. Its not nearly as much fun to wake up to.") *le sigh* season one ep. 5 I think.
Veronica Mars; Veronica driving Duncan to the doctor (season 1 ep 3) And again in season 2.
Rilo Kiley
- Portions For Foxes: (LOVE this song. And Jenny Lewis.)
Grey's Anatomy; Pilot ep. Mere leaves for work.
The O.C
Syntax
- Pride:
The. O.C
Nip/Tuck; Sean gets in a car accident
Six Feet Under (?)
Tegan and Sara
-I Know I Know I Know:
Veronica Mars; Logan and Hannah make out (season 2)
-So Jealous:
Veronica considers reading Meg's email
And a whole lot of Tegan and Sara songs in Grey's Anatomy. Don't even know the songs, just recognize the voice and style as theirs.
Spoon
- I Turn My Camera On:
The O.C
Veronica Mars; Veronica spies on Kendall (season 2)
- I Summon You:
Veronica Mars; (season 2) Weevil takes the bus to school
The Postal Service
- Such Great Heights:
Veronica Mars; Veronica in the car with Icetwin (season 1 ep 5?)
Grey's Anatomy
Aqualung
- Take Me Home:
Nip/Tuck: Season 2, Sean and Julia talk about The Carver
The O.C
-Strange and Beautiful:
The O.C; Ryan and Marissa scene
The Perishers
- Sway:
Veronica Mars; Season 2: song played at prom
- Trouble Sleeping:
The O.C
I can think of more but whew, that's a long enough list of useless information. :P |
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| Grey's Anatomy - A Hard Day's Night (Pilot) |
[Jul. 27th, 2006|01:19 am] |
Which I'm re-watching now.
Cristina: Dr Shepherd! Just one moment...umm, Katie competes in beauty pageants...
Derek: I know that. But we have to save her life anyway.
LOL! I'm sorry, but that one *still* makes me laugh.
I think it's in the McDreamy delivery...
...McDreamy.
Le sigh. |
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| Oh, for real? |
[Jul. 24th, 2006|01:56 am] |
"Yes it's true -- I'm told Jake Gyllenhaal and Lance Armstrong are
hanging at the Tour De France together because the actor is the leading
contender to play the cyclist in a Sony bio pic being quietly developed."
The rest here...
Well, that explains it. Meh. I'll prolly skip it.
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| Since I'm waiting for my hair to dry... |
[Jul. 9th, 2006|04:13 am] |
Top 10 songs on constant itunes play at the moment in no particular order:
1. Youth Group - Forever Young
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Turn Into
3. The Lashes - Sometimes The Sun
4. Mere Mortals - Lost Art
5. Modest Mouse - Float On
6. Rufus Wainwright - Vibrate
7. Imogen Heap - Goodnight and Go
8. Tegan and Sara - I Know, I Know, I Know
9. Death Cab For Cutie - Marching Bands of Manhattan
10.Rilo Kiley - Portions For Foxes
...except for "Turn Into", these are all fairly old songs. :S |
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| So this is what myspace is good for... |
[Jul. 9th, 2006|02:58 am] |
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| | Mere Mortals - Lost Art (3:20) | ] |
...discovering new bands!
http://www.myspace.com/meremortals
Loving it. C'mere fresh new CD. |
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| Since it's the holidays... |
[Jul. 2nd, 2006|10:39 pm] |
I finally got around to watching Match Point. It didn't really strike me as a Woody Allen film though for two reasons. He isn't in it and it's not a comedy. (I've only seen Annie Hall, Manhattan and Mighty Aphrodite, ya see :P) But still, I rather liked it despite how none of the characters are particularly likeable. How odd. I kind of subscribe to that belief...that how 'well' you do in life has ~a lot~ to do with just plain old dumb luck.
Anyways, the next Woody Allen film to be released soon...Scoop.
Synopsis and trailer at apple trailers:
"In Woody Allen’s new contemporary comedy, a student journalist
(Scarlett Johansson) for a college paper visiting friends in London
happens upon the scoop of a lifetime. Along the investigative trail,
she finds magic, murder, mystery - and perhaps love, with a British
aristocrat."
Hugh Jackman's in it!
"The man is a liar and a murderer. And I say that with all due respect."
Bwahahaha! I love his line delivery!
I'm so watching it...
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| Posting from IMDB - re:Zodiac |
[Jun. 19th, 2006|04:05 am] |
"[...] As I watched the monitor there was that Fincheresque quality from Se7en coming alive on the screen. Dark and gloomy."
"[...]It was quite evident with the scenes with Jake. About 15 takes of him entering the store and approaching the counter. And another 15 or 20 of Jake responding to John Lynch's "May I help you?". To break the monotony, Jake, at one point, threw in his 2 cents of adlib humor by asking for "Snail Soap"."
Heh!
"[...]I think he was just frustrated with the 20 or so takes. He wanted a specific reaction from Jake when he'd hear "May I help you?" And he wasn't getting it.
But at one point, Jake nailed it cause David would start nodding in agreement...in triumph. We all (the crew & I) sensed it too. But, to my caught-off-guard surprise, I'd also hear "that's a print...one more take", from David."
HA!
I love hearing these stories of how Fincher works.
It's like he absolutely has to have it exactly the way he's played it out in his head. I mean, 15 takes just to enter a store and walk to the counter? :P
Uncompromising indeed. |
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| "my brain's repeating... |
[Jun. 16th, 2006|01:52 am] |
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| | Death Cab For Cutie - The Sound of Settling (2:12) | ] |
'if you've got an impulse let it out'
but they never make it past my mouth.
...
and i'll sit and wonder
of every love that could've been
if i'd only thought of something charming to say."
Damn. I love Death Cab/The Postal Service so much right now. |
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| From zodiacfilm.blogspot.com |
[Jun. 14th, 2006|12:23 am] |
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| | Beulah - Popular Mechanics For Lovers (3:02) | ] |
"The release date for Zodiac has been pushed back to January 17 2007. [...] [O]ne of the big reasons for the delay is that Fincher is reshooting a scene with Robert and other key cast members. Filming will begin in 2 weeks."
Ha.
80 takes per scene and he still needs to reshoot?
Are we ever going to get to see this thing? How about just a trailer? I'm easy... |
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| Posting from IMDB - re:Zodiac |
[Jun. 9th, 2006|02:59 am] |
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| | Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (3:38) | ] |
"Jake would get restless during scenes and start throwing paper at the other actors which would piss off Fincher....but the only time I saw it get out of hand, Fincher snapped at him and Jake got huffy and had to walk off the set and have a little time to recoup."
LOL LOL LOL! Monkey Boy is a Little Brat. (♥)
Not that I blame him. Who wouldn't get restless after a gazillion takes. :P
This whole Fincher/Gyllenhaal working together thing is quite fascinating (to me) ...on the one hand, you have the extreeeemmely perfectionist, verrry technical director who does take after take after take till he gets his shot... and then you have the actor who Sam Mendes says is the "least technical actor [he] know[s]" who isn't "designed to hit marks".
How did they do it? :P
Love David Fincher. Love, love, love.
Cannot wait for December. |
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| I'm getting back into comics... |
[May. 27th, 2006|05:57 am] |
Because I've just found out that Peter David, who is a comic book writing genius in my opinion, is working on the re-launched X-Factor.
...*boggles*
Exactly, Jamie doll! Score! (And I have to say, the hair has improved muchly since I last saw you...)
((Fangirl Alert))
Seriously. Peter David is the *only* writer that can/should write X-Factor and my beloved Jamie Madrox (aka Multiple Man). His old run on X-Factor was one of the best (and funniest) X-title runs I've read. When he left, it got meh pretty fast.
Now, not only is he back to writing X-Factor, he's put Jamie in charge! 0_0''
Hijinks galore! Can it get any better? Oh, the fangirl giddiness...*giggle*
I've read some scans of the Madrox mini-series and the new X-Factor and it is exceeeelleeent. Going to grab copies as soon as I leave the house.
AND...
(taken off PeterDavid.net)
August 03, 2005
Wow. Madrox would make a cool movie
I've come to this conclusion having taken Ariel to see "Sky High."
There's a character in there named Penny who basically has the same
power as Madrox...to split into replicas of herself. It's used to
hilarious effect in the film since she serves as the entire
cheerleading squad of the high school. [...]
PAD
Yes! Yes! Yes! It so would!
And you know who would make a good Jamie?
*cough*
Jake G of course.
Yeah, I'm not just saying that because I'd like to see endless multiples of him but...
he fits Jamie's physical description as follows:
Height:
5 ft. 11 in.
Weight: 155 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brown
I can sooo see J.G delivering Jamie's hilarious lines. Comedy gold. In fact, while I was reading the comics, I hear the lines in my head the way Donnie Darko would say it. ...well, except with a deeper voice. :P
Oh, and not to mention they both have gay rumours surrounding them...
Okay. Enough fangirling.
It's not going to happen anyway. Sounds good on paper, probably pretty silly on screen.
I swear, if I were an X-Man, I'd want his abilities. I'd make dupes to go around and learn stuff and a dupe to write my damn papers and a dupe to clean my room etc etc etc.
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| 0_0! |
[May. 5th, 2006|02:00 am] |
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| | Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism (7:55) | ] |
Death Cab For Cutie
07-14-06
Forum Theatre
Corner Russell & Flinders Streets
Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Ticket price: $45 + bf
If I were there, I think I'd cry when they play "Transatlanticism". (And they *have* to play it right?) Soooo beautiful.
~sways~ I need you so much closer...I need you so much closer.
Man. I hate living in no-band-land.
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| Reasons to stay off the gossip sites... |
[Apr. 28th, 2006|02:39 am] |
I like Sofia Coppola's films. Well, at least the two that I've watched. (The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation)
I love her aesthetic; her films are so good as mood pieces and she uses music so well...
Which is why I'm kinda torn about whether I want to watch Marie-Antoinette (go watch the trailer - QT) or not. Torn because on the one hand, its a Sofia Coppola film and I do like period films...on the other hand, it's...it's...gah, it's Kirsten Dunst.
Now, I was never a hater... but never a fan either although I like some of the films she's been in (Interview With a Vampire, Bring It On, The Virgin Suicides). I sincerely disliked some as well (Wimbledon, Elizabethtown). Still, pretty neutral about her as a whole. Until I started reading all the celebrity gossip blogs religiously that is. Now, it's ...hmm. Bordering uncomfortably towards dislike.
I think it was Screen Theory or Media Studies that I was reading about the star system; how the audience tend to perceive the character in terms of the actor's public image e.g Meg Ryan as America's sweetheart (up to the point of the whole Russell Crowe mess anyway) and so she becomes the romantic comedy go-to actor. More recently, Jennifer Aniston and how the test audience for The Break Up wanted the ending changed so that Jen A's character gets a happy ending (whoops, sorry...spoiler :P) to make up for all the Brangelina stuff that's been going on. And undoubtedly, whether an actor is liked or disliked affects the audience's willingness to see a film. Even if that's not necessarily true, I'm sure public image affects the studio execs' decisions to cast an actor or not. That's why they all have publicists!
Is it silly and unfair that an actor's private (well, its hardly private but that's not their fault. *thinks* Sometimes.) life should affect the roles that they can credibly play in the audience's eyes? (And I do think this is why Toothy's PR people want him to be quiet...) Sure. But nevertheless, it's an inescapable facet of the business I think.
Umm. Point. I always seem to lose it.
Oh yeah. Kirsten Dunst. Not too fond of her. Not sure if I can stomach watching her for two hours.
Similarly... Tom Cruise. MI:3 looks pretty awesome with J.J Abrams at the helm. But I cannooot staaand Mr. Crazy.
So, that's my personal problem with the star system. It's, of course, my own fault for reading all the sordid stories. I should really just stay off the gossip sites. ...But it's like a trainwreck, you can't help but look. :P
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| music meme from limegreenspyda |
[Apr. 26th, 2006|04:34 am] |
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| | Sia - Breathe Me (4:35) | ] |
I had fun with this! Go do!
Since I have a reasonable amount of music files, I ~thought~ using shuffle would *cough* show off my eclectic *cough* taste in music. Who knew a whole bunch of NIN songs would show up instead? Le sigh! Some of the song titles really do fit nicely though. Me is much amused. And so it begins:
Instructions: Go to your music player of choice and put it on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud, and press play. Use the song title as the answer to the question. NO CHEATING.
((How does the world see me?))
Immature – Ayumi Hamasaki
I suppose that's possible. I'd even venture to say it's...probable. *smiles sheepishly*
((Will I have a happy life?))
And So I Know - Stone Temple Pilots
I don't know what that means.
((What do my friends really think of me?))
Excitable – Def Leppard
Oh, absolutely. Hysterical, me. (Song's from Def Leppard's "Hysteria" album too.)
((Do people secretly lust after me?))
Birth of the God – Nobuo Uematsu
Umm. Is that a "yes"? Heh!
((How can I make myself happy?))
Wish - NIN
“The 26 years on my way to hell…” Hey! I ~am ~ 26 thi…*gasp* I’m old.
So...just using that line from the lyrics, I take it the way to happiness is being absolutely, sinfully hedonistic?
Eh. I don’t think *any* NIN song would be an appropriate response to this question.
((What should I do with my life?))
Piggy - NIN
I think I've just been insulted...
((Will I ever have children?))
Light My Fire – The Doors
Whuh the whuh whuh?
((What is some good advice for me?))
Drain You - Nirvana
Ehhh. I don't think *any* Nirvana song would be an appropriate response to this question either.
((How will I be remembered?))
I Know I Know I Know – Tegan & Sara
Arr?
((What is my signature dancing song?))
Standing (Long Live Doug) – Howlin Maggie
That is kind of a fun song to jump around to...
((What do I think my current theme song is?))
Suck - NIN
OohHHh..AnNgssst. AngST meAns yOU muSt tYPe liK dIs...
((What does everyone else think my current theme song is?))
Head Over Heels – Tears for Fears
I LOVE THIS SONG! Since I was like 5 or 6!! Never really got tired of it!
“I’m lost in admiration. Could I need you this much? Oh you’re wasting my time. You’re just…just…just wasting time.”
Well, this bit pulled out of context sounds kinda apt actually.
((What song will play at my funeral?))
Release – nearly
Wow. That’s eerie. That would fit. Especially since nearly’s raison detre is to exorcise a recurring dream of Jerome’s in which he dies…spooky.
This is totally clichéd and rather poseur-ish but the song I’d like played at my funeral would be Mozart’s Requiem. Imagine that!
~Confutatis! ..maledictus! Flammis acribus addictus..~
”A great mass of death!” - Salieri in Amadeus
How grand is that?
What type of men/women do I like?
True Blue – Madonna
Aw. That’s a sweet sentiment ain’t it?
What is my day going to be like?
Lounge Fly – Stone Temple Pilots
“I wanna fuck, I wanna fuck
but do you need me?”
...uh.huh.
Queens of the Stone Age's "Skin on Skin" would top that though. I'm just saying...
That is all! And I didn't cheat! :D |
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| Ask me how many times I've watched Se7en.... |
[Apr. 17th, 2006|12:42 am] |
I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE! David Fincher y'all!
"Zodiac" Script Review
By Jeffrey Wells
Taken from: http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/
The last truly exceptional hunt-for-a-serial-killer movie was David Fincher's Se7en. And the next one, I'm fairly convinced, is going to be Fincher's Zodiac (Paramount, 11.10).
I'm basing this on a recent read of James Vanderbilt's script, which runs 150-plus pages. This persuades me that what I heard last week is true: Zodiac is going to be a three-hour movie, or close to it.
Scripts never really tell you that much, but reading Zodiac planted an idea that Fincher is again pushing the thriller boundary. Not just in the tradition of Se7en but also Alan Parker's Angel Heart, another chasing-a-monster film that ended with something pretty startling.
Zodiac is based on two best-sellers by Robert Graysmith, "Zodiac" and "Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed", which are first-hand accounts about the hunt for the Zodiac killer who terrified the San Francisco area in 1968 and '69.
The chief Zodiac hunters in Fincher's film (as they were in actual life) are Gray- smith, a San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist at the time (Jake Gyllenhaal), and a blunt-spoken, never-say-die San Francisco detective named Dave Toschi (Mark Ruffalo).
Toschi is understood to have been the real-life model that Steve McQueen based his tough-nut San Francisco detective on in the 1968 Peter Yates film Bullitt.
And of course, the Zodiac killer was the model for Andy Robinson's psycho killer in Dirty Harry , the 1971 Don Siegel-Clint Eastwood classic...right down to the Zodiac claim about wanting to kill a busload of school children.
Zodiac is partly about the thrill and fascination of the hunt (the scores of hints and clues that pile up are more and more fascinating as the story moves along), and partly about how the complex, seemingly never-ending nature of the case makes Graysmith and Toschi start to go a bit nuts.
Is there such a thing as being too determined to stop evil? At what point do you ease up and say, "I've done all I can." Is it always essential to finish what you've started? Should never-say-die always be the motto, even at great personal cost?
Zodiac isn't just about sleuthing. Deep down I think it's a metaphor piece about obsessions wherever you find them, and how the never-quit theme applies to heavily-driven creative types (novelists, painters, architects, musicians) as much as cops or cartoonists or stamp collectors or baseball-card traders.
Zodiac and Se7en have at least a couple of things in common: both are heavily focused on the bottled-up emotions and personal frustrations of their two main protagonists, and both films end on a note in which the "crime doesn't pay" motto doesn't exactly ring out from the belltower.
Let's just say it: these are two catch-the-bad-guy movies in which the good guys try like hell, but they can't quite manage to be McQueen or Eastwood in the end.
Partly because the up-and-down life of a cop generally isn't that heroic or simple. And because Fincher would probably have trouble staying awake if somebody forced him to direct a Bullitt or a Dirty Harry.
Fincher and screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker ended Se7en with a mind-blowing twist in which the killer won and the good guys lost, and in such a way that the final fate of the killer didn't matter as much as the fact that his vision (which had a certain moral foundation) ended up being fulfilled.
[...]
I'm not going to spill the Zodiac finale in any detail, but anyone who's read even a little bit about the the hunt for the Zodiac killer knows the culprit was never charged or convicted, although his more ardent pursuers were convinced that he was a pudgy alcoholic and an ex-school teacher named Arthur Leigh Allen, who died in 1992.
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Graysmith is the best part Gyllenhaal has ever had, and I'm including Jack Twist in this equation. If he does it right he'll generate a lot of heat for himself, and I can't see how he wouldn't.
Graysmith is a very strongly written guy with a lot of struggle and frustration inside, and the pressure on him just builds and builds. The coup de grace comes at the end when Graysmith delivers a spellbinding 12-page oratory that ties up all the loose ends. (I was reminded of Simon Oakland's this-is-what-actually-happened speech at the end of Psycho.)
Robert Downey, Jr. has several good scenes as a Chronicle reporter named Avery. It seems at first as if he'll be a prominent costar along with Gyllenhaal and Ruffalo, but nope. Anthony Edwards, as Toschi's partner, has a smaller role than Downey. |
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[Apr. 17th, 2006|12:04 am] |
Donnie Darko is #2 on Empire's Greatest Independent Films list.
No. 2?!
LOVE Donnie Darko. Loovee it. Love it to itty bitty pieces.
(And I'm not just saying that because I adore J.G.
I rolled my eyes like a thousand times during The Day After Tomorrow. See, I can be objective.)
But even so, I 'm very surprised it ranked higher than Memento and Clerks...
Looking forward to Southland Tales even though the premise sounds like the movie could go terribly wrong.
But then, Darko was an odd little film too.
Yay, Richard Kelly!
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