i am on a losing streak when it comes to rentals this week. first this boring and predictable thriller called Fracture and then this sci-fi dystopian action flick called Equilibrium.

(8:25:56 AM) audrey: i watched equilibrium last night, that movie was mega corny
(8:26:09 AM) audrey: last time i listen to you
(10:40:45 AM) woo: i didnt say it was classic
(10:46:12 AM) audrey: That part where Christian Bale risks his life to save a puppy because it licked his face is so corny
(10:46:33 AM) audrey: You just like movies where puppies are protected by futuristic machine gun toting martial arts freaks
(11:03:20 AM) woo: maybe true
(11:06:05 AM) woo: watch big rig
(11:06:10 AM) audrey: NO
(11:06:13 AM) woo: yes
(11:06:14 AM) audrey: i’m not listening to you anymore
(11:06:19 AM) woo: shut your face
(11:07:02 AM) woo: you would have watched equilibrium eventually anyway
(11:07:15 AM) audrey: no i wouldn’t, it got lousy reviews
(11:07:15 AM) woo: you wish christian bale would come to your house and yell at you

sorry for the language, but it’s the only way i can describe this scene from nick cage’s latest movie, Bangkok Dangerous (shouldn’t it be called Bangkok IS Dangerous?)

first cage beats up women and terrorizes kids in the wicker man remake and now he’s in a movie where he beats up and severs asians. i wonder what he is going to beat up in his next movie. it’s probably going to be sea otters or something random. he’s running out of things to beat up.

i watched this Sabbath dvd last nite and this part had me in stitches

Geezer for President

guess i’m really disconnected from my catholic heritage because it’s been at least a decade & 1/2 since my moms last badgered me about mass attendance and/or important catholic-related holidays that i must celebrate to avoid eternal damnation. so, i forgot how fun easter can be! i didn’t know until today, but the washington post has a peeps diorama contest. pretty fun me thinks. the birds one is killer - i loved that they used the boat scene. hitchcock & bodega bay forever. seriously, this scene looks like a scene i would enjoy eating.

i saw an american werewolf in london when i was really young and just watched it again. it was a lot more funny, entertaining & gorey than i remembered, almost in an evil dead way.

i think i have a crush on griffin dunne circa early-80s now.
yeah, that griffin dunne. the guy who chased madonna around in a 1 1/2 star movie and starred in a movie where he talks to his manhood for advice about career decisions. yeah, the guy that was named after a virile mythical greek beast. i’m grossed out by it too.

sorry i haven’t been posting as often. i have a lil bit of insomnia now, so here is a megaupdate. going through a seasonal lo-key period where i’m enjoying a meandering pace a little too much and indulging in simple pleasures. watching a ton of movies on netflix, having dinners with friends, practicing drums and learning french thanks to rosetta stone and my weekends are spent with family in the sj burbs or the sonoma cuts instead of partying and getting wasted.

student loans are scheduled to get paid off this year and i am weirded out at how excited i am about that because i once thought there was no end in sight. somewhat unrelated, i deleted my myspace account. and as stupid as that sounds, it feels really good to not depend on that to keep in touch with people.

some random things i’ve enjoyed/enjoy during this hermity respite:

I rewatched the film adaptation of All The Pretty Horses- haven’t seen it since it came out and it was so beautiful & satisfying to me this time around. I saw it in the theater nearly 8 years ago with my pops and couldn’t get into it. probably cause i was into heavily stylized movies like Reservoir Dogs with clever editing and felt like an elite insider when i recognized pop culture references that were only a few inches outside the mainstream field of vision. it embarrasses me out how much i love books but am so disconnected and impatient when it comes to finishing them. no matter how much i love great fiction, i never can find a break in my daily routine to tell them how much i appreciate them. seems like i’ve spent more time with it in celluloid form than in print form because i am such a slow ass and have a short attn span.

anyway, i still read although it takes me forever. after reading The Road and watching and loving the Coen’s adaptation of No Country for Old Men, I realized I was already familiar with Cormac McCarthy stories unknowingly because i just realized that All The Pretty Horses was one of his books; i was surprised because i thought his range was limited and didn’t think he was more than being a really good dark townie grit & bloodbath author. rewatching this movie made me believe the hype cause it was so different than what i knew of C. McCarthy. i loved this romantic suffering plot as well as the reversal of stereotypes. two struggling white texans leave the US though the border to find work and a better life in Mexico. what?! and end up working on the estate of an affluent mexican blue blood taming wild horses. how awesome is that?

Spring cleaning in February has unearthed more strange things in my house,

I didn’t think that finding wtf relics after those proofs, archaic russian cameras, and news clippings was possible.

I do miss going to live shows, but i haven’t been as proactive about finding out when bands i like are performing in my neck of the woods and am too disconnected from the flavor of the month albums to get really excited. i’m really loving the new Beach House album though.

so out of touch with new music mainly because i’m judgmental and picky when it comes to music, but this album is getting lots of wear as my “fall asleep to” album and i didn’t think anything could replace my droney heaven that is Windy & Carl’s Introspective. That last Cass McCombs album came close but there were some upbeat tracks that woke me up. i really need to throw together another sleep mix. speaking of sleep, i just typed a bunch of stuff and uploaded pics, and christy brinkley is squinching her ass for some exercise informercial on my tv and now i’m tired. at least staring at a bunch of text on a monitor is still sure bet for making me sleepy. good night

finally got around to making that Slap Shot fan-art T i said i would a month or 2 back. it’s a little messed up since i used iron-on transfer but i’m gonna make a better one in the near future and hopefully find a tomboy nerd who can appreciate a hilarious & subversive dudestravagent violent hockey flick from the 70s, give it to her and make her day. excuse the mediocre pic, young took it.

i thought i was strange for taking pictures of things that appear on my tv, but this person’s set takes it to the next level. some of these screen shots are familiar to me, but taken out of context with the kodak duaflex makes them seem far more mysterious and classic than they are.

stupid young. i watched all of those jason bourne movies for the first time this past week and got really into it and what did he do? this:

just because in theory i think it’s cool to be able to get a eurothug in a chokehold while cussing him out in french/russian/german/italian or spanish, it does NOT mean i want to marry MOR matt damon.

I caught Katie’s cold that made her sound like Demi Moore, except when i woke up this morning i sounded like Lucille Ball in her 60s. i kinda like it. Having this somewhat androgynous raspy voice makes me want to record myself talking shit and/or making threats like some kind of She-Serg and use it on a mix.

it’s rainy and windy as f*** outside. tonight i’m going to be inside spending some quality time with two of my favorite comforting things

if you want to see a This is Spinal Tap kinda film but with real idiots, I highly recommend that Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster. Those guys come off so dense it’s unreal. here is a stupid but true summary I put together when it came out if you want to know what it’s about.

jesus christ, i want this on a shirt or my wall so bad.

if you know what movie this is from then we should be friends.

i don’t know why but i was searching for a screenshot from the final blues brothers car chase scene and came across this madness

i can’t believe somebody broke down that scene in terms of physics.

hello rosemary’s baby! look what i found. if i had more time to kill on the interweb, i’d spend it this way. if only money were involved, i would be all over that. don’t test me!

god, it’s been a while. this movie is so entertaining and hysterical. “i came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass.” roddy’s sunglasses are stylish again wtf. i love john carpenter.

Ok so I’m pretty obsessed with that UGK “Like That” remix. Usually I couldn’t care less about spotting samples, but when film scores are used I get really excited. One time I was watching Blue Velvet and heard the strings that Amon Tobin used for a song called “People Like Frank” and I flipped the f— out. It was the precise moment Laura Dern emerged from the shadows. I’ve watched that movie so many times and i love Angelo Badalamenti and I loved that Tobin track, even used it under KRS on the Comedy Noir mix. Then another big thing hit me. It dawned on me that the Frank in the title “People Like Frank” was referring to Frank Booth, Dennis Hopper’s sicky psycho character! I almost pissed my pants when I had that revelation.

So back to this UGK remix, I’m almost positive that is John Barry and I’m 70% sure that it is from a James Bond soundtrack. i recognize that sweeping and seductive baller sound anywhere. Instead of finishing this book I’ve been reading for the last 2 months (wtf is wrong with me and my slow ass reading), tonight I’m going to dust my turntable and listen to all of my 007 OSTs. And I’m gonna sip on some cabernet and enjoy this.

Here is UGK. beware - it’s raunchy and NSFW so sack up (pun intended)

(i never thought i would hear Dick Cheney and Tony Snow name-dropped in a song about dirty sex.)

And here are 3 (!) John Barry pieces I have on my computer which coincidentally are my favorite

off of Goldfinger

off of Moonraker (it’s the fake ending that kills me)

off of From Russia with Love am i crazy or does it sounds like a clock.

um, a beautiful clock as it were. if i was a producer i’d be ALL OVER THAT

completely unrelated, i love ricky gervais’ laugh. LOVE IT!!

a few weeks ago, young sent me a link to a lowend lomo ringflash which was evil of him because he’d knew i’d buy it. he knows too well my camera compulsions and i’m sure you do as well since i’m always writing about some camera crap i bought. 3 weeks later, i finally get it. don’t ever buy anything from www.lomography.com they are slow as hell.

anyway, i think i’ll get some good use out of the flash. it has a built-in slave in addition to the hotshoe adapter which is surprising cause it’s kind of toy and came with a bunch of color filters. i think that’s what did me in because as you can see from a lot of my night shots, i love flash filters. also what was appealing was that it was $65 and ringflashes at least “real” ones are reallllllly expensive. they produce even lighting, minimize shadows and they’re usually used by fashion photographers or used for promo shots. i like this one of iggy

back to the cheap ringflash, the biggest obstacle i see is that it doesn’t come with a rig for any other cameras outside of the lomo lc-a, lomo fish eye, and holga. sucks, because i’ll have to get creative and jury rig so it will stay on my digital cameras. and it’s not a true ringflash because the real deal is a complete circle of light whereas this has 4 little flashes at each corner. it does work with digi cams though. here’s 2 test shots i took last night. i still am trying to figure out what speed i should set it at

i haven’t had a chance to test it on real actual humans yet which is what they should be used for. last night i opted to hang out with dave gahan instead of going out and meeting up with folks

OH LITTLE GIRL

THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I FEEL

I’D RATHER NOT BE

THE ONE BEHIND THE WHEEL

i thought, well since i’m sitting on my ass i might as well break out the drum sticks and practice my dribbles and stick control while watching this 88 dm concert. i like to multi-task my geekery. so here i am using this magazine on the floor as my practice pad and one of the sticks flew out of my hand during “Pleasure Little Treasure” and chipped the paint off my wall where it struck. i don’t know why i feel compelled to share these things with you.

i watched the simpsons movie last nite and it was much funnier than i expected it to be. it dawned on me just how long this show has been on the air and i realized that i’ve been watching it since 9… really?? i’m old. not to mention i saw it with my old roommate and he snuck in beer for us and i felt like old times in the living room. the last few seasons have been kind of hit or miss for me though cuz a lot of the episodes seem more A.D.D. and excessive on the pop culture references that don’t pertain to anything about the story. but there have been a few great episodes. i really like the one where homer and bart convert to catholicism and marge envisions protestant heaven as a snotty WASPy nightmare and Catholic Heaven as a multi-cultural party where every party ends with everyone doing river dance on a giant cloud

seriously though i love that so much

this one is worth mentioning because i think his films are incredibly special and badass. i don’t know where to even start. scenes from a marriage, wild strawberries, & persona are ones i’m really in love with. i highly recommend you get to know him if you aren’t familiar with him outside of the Seventh Seal. hour of the wolf is awesome too but i’m scared to rewatch because it gave me nightmares for days. i used the cover for persona for my cosmic dust mix because i think Liv Ullman is kinda gorgeous

here is a decent obit from the guardian

i saw Rescue Dawn and enjoyed it. it’s probably one of the most conventional movies Werner Herzog has made as far as the story structure goes, but it still had his touch all over it like his weird sense of humor, lots of madmen (both the violent and the ‘good intentions’ kind), intensely intimidating (and breathtaking) scenes of the jungle/wildlife and strange but endearing bonds born out of the most dire and anomalous circumstances. i was a little scared when i read the examiner review and they mentioned Rambo in it, which I guess i can see cause it’s about Dieter Dengler. Dengler was the subject of Herzog’s documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly and Rescue Dawn is Herzog’s dramatized film about Dengler’s experience in 1966 in Laos. He escaped a POW camp deep in the dense nowhere of the jungle after his plane got shot down and his story of surviving is nothing short of a miracle. any fictionalized movie based on his experience during the Viet Nam war inherantly has “suspense” and “action-adventure” built into it. So yeah, it has elements of a popcorn flick and it had some flaws, but it’s not like Herzog is having an identity crisis or anything. Christian Bale plays Dengler like the subject of any Herzog movie: a guy with unreal optimism so stubborn and unwavering that it’s dangerous and borders on delusional. However unlike a lot of Herzog’s movies, this personality trait (or disorder depending on your take) ends up working out to the subject’s advantage. Although the title of the movie can’t help but remind me of Red Dawn, it isn’t pro-patriotism or gross heroism schmaltz like the trailer makes it out to be at all. the killing of ‘the enemy’ isn’t done in a macho celebratory light but rather out of complete paranoid desperation. god the trailer is garbage though. i guess they have to entice the broader audience with that kind of teaser. It’s just a good dramatic story that would (and did) make a decent and satisfying movie. what can I say though, I’m a total sucker for “man vs. nature” stories and read Lord of the Flies 4 times in 7th grade and The Most Dangerous Game like 1000.

uh.. here is a photo of werner with an AK-47 on location

i assume for gunning down leeches in the mekong delta