heard that sound

Caught John Waters' one-man show at the Regent Showcase Theater. And yes, it was filthy. But in a good way.

Are apostrophes that hard to figure out?

You've heard the story before. Band forms. Band gets popular. Band gets screwed by multiple record labels. Band has creative differences. Band gets new members. Band breaks up. Everybody's sad.

So they mangled the grammar on both the ticket stub and in the opening credits -- "Punk Rock Eats It's Own" -- but those are the only things they got wrong in this movie. They managed to extract interesting -- even touching -- interviews from all the former band members of face to face.

Saw it as part of AFI's music documentary series at the Arclight. Fun Q&A session afterward with lead singer Trever Keith.

The movie is available as part of this DVD set.  The music.

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The Netflix Queue

Movies I'm watching.

quote

"It's like, Okay, dude, do you realize I've answered that question 600 times? I just have to say over and over, 'I don't knooooow.'"

Evangeline Lilly, who plays Kate on Lost, plagued by fans who want to know what's inside the hatch. Entertainment Weekly #838/839

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"It's like Stephen King washed up on shore with the cast of Melrose Place."

Ellen Degeneres, on Lost

favorite movies

In no particular order...

Make mine non-linear, please
Run Lola Run, Pulp Fiction, Go!, The Limey

Would you like a twist with that?
Fight Club, Confidence, The Sixth Sense, Matchstick Men, The Player

Musicals I can tolerate
Moulin Rouge, Grease, Annie, Chicago, The Sound of Music

Guilty pleasures
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Some Kind of Wonderful, Can't Hardly Wait, Orange County, Clueless

Don't answer the phone
The Exorcist, Misery, Jaws, The Ring, Seven, Jacob's Ladder

Classics
Casablanca, The Narrow Margin (1952, not 1990), Some Like it Hot, Double Indemnity, Psycho, Rebel Without a Cause, To Kill a Mockingbird

Comedy
Airplane, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Raising Arizona, Bill Cosby: Himself, L.A. Story, Dr. Strangelove

For the inner child
Mary Poppins, Alice in Wonderland, Spirited Away, Toy Story, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Documentary
Gimme Shelter, Step into Liquid, Spellbound, Koyaanisquatsi, The Thin Blue Line

And the rest...
Lean on Me, Fargo, The Hunt for Red October, Eyes Wide Shut, Scarface, Blow, SLC Punk, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Shawshank Redemption, Priest, American Beauty, Whale Rider, To Die For, Erin Brockovich, Bend It Like Beckham, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, U-571, Contact, Magnolia, Cruel Intentions, The Opposite of Sex, Six Degrees of Separation, Election, Traffic, Jackie Brown, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, M*A*S*H, Star Trek...most of 'em

And finally, for the best Elvis Costello cameo ever...
200 Cigarettes

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"Oh look, we're even featured in this month's Details, the official magazine of guys who haven't come out yet."

Jack from Will & Grace

stop me if you've heard this one

"[Team America] is patterned on jingoist Reagan-era contraptions like Top Gun (1985). It's got the maverick - hero - with - the - guilty - buried - trauma - backstory - resulting - in - emotional - blockage - that - must - be - manfully - overcome template. It's got the soap opera triangle that rears its stupid head even in the middle of apocalyptic action sequences. It's got the turning point where the despairing hero wanders the streets to a soul-filling R&B tune, recovers his skills in a montage of training scenes (with a hard-rock backbeat), and goes mano a mano with the bad guy in the name of the father figure who recruited him and the sultry babe who believes in him. It's got the final face-off that comes at the emotional blockage with a gargantuan plunger."

http://slate.msn.com/id/2108232/

USA Today

"Honestly, I think my favorite new TV hour so far is The Ellen DeGeneres Show (weekdays, syndicated). I've already seen it four times and haven't grown a bit tired, thanks to the pratfalling intern, A-list guests and spontaneous bits. Ellen is funny, full of energy and a pleasure to experience.

When you think about it, she's a lot like bok choy."

Whitney Matheson, "Around the tube in 18 shows" http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/popcandy/2003-09-30-pop-candy_x.htm