Wednesday, January 30, 2008
linky!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0ILPnh4mOKo
Lost: the synchronizing. Heard about it from the nymag. very cool to see how fans reconstruct the Lost chaos into a coherent timeline
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MR5xv3pt7KI
Sara Bareilles- Love Song. My current fab song on repeat. I'm not going to write you a love song b/c you asked for it, la la la
also, just got a new phone today- for free! me no need fancy iberry. just need phone make calls be tech cavewoman
Lost: the synchronizing. Heard about it from the nymag. very cool to see how fans reconstruct the Lost chaos into a coherent timeline
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MR5xv3pt7KI
Sara Bareilles- Love Song. My current fab song on repeat. I'm not going to write you a love song b/c you asked for it, la la la
also, just got a new phone today- for free! me no need fancy iberry. just need phone make calls be tech cavewoman
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
willa in lit
I was reading today and finally found a character named Willa! i'm not telling you the book, that would be too easy, but it was very satisfying. I've suffered many disses over the years- at one point some characters mocked the name Wilhelmina as incredibly ugly. i dont want it to be too popular, but some recognition is nice
Monday, January 28, 2008
in response to cashmere mafia
Cashmere Mafia will aways pale in comparison to Sex and the City. That's simply the way it is. Sex and the City is the mythical "origin" of the gang of girls show. Cashmere lacks the shock value, the outrageousness, the freedom of the sex talk, the dreaminess, the tug and pull of those women's lives. I'm not here to plug SATC, it had its many problems- the wealth, the racism, the hetereosexism (best addressed in another troubled but potentially rockin' show, the L Word), the wrapped up romantic independence squashing ending. In the end of course, all these shows about women are really about men (and the awful, awful women they cheat with who are never part of the club).
so here's my dream, for the writers to cook up with all their spare time. a television show with:
ugly women
fat women
character actors!
women in the secretarial roles, assistants, nannies
working class women
feminists
sexually aggressive, husband stealing women (who do not have to be redeemed or punished!)
women of color (it doesnt go blonde, brunette, redhead, other- in which case it now seems
fashionable to substitute a chic asian woman as the acceptable diversity quota. push the boundaries, now)
older women and i'm talking 50+
women who don't want children
put them in NYC and let them live large, fashionable lives and rip the shiza out of Sex and the City and its postfeminist glitter. why does it always have to be one step forward and two steps back?
so here's my dream, for the writers to cook up with all their spare time. a television show with:
ugly women
fat women
character actors!
women in the secretarial roles, assistants, nannies
working class women
feminists
sexually aggressive, husband stealing women (who do not have to be redeemed or punished!)
women of color (it doesnt go blonde, brunette, redhead, other- in which case it now seems
fashionable to substitute a chic asian woman as the acceptable diversity quota. push the boundaries, now)
older women and i'm talking 50+
women who don't want children
put them in NYC and let them live large, fashionable lives and rip the shiza out of Sex and the City and its postfeminist glitter. why does it always have to be one step forward and two steps back?
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Miss Tex?
I've been watching Miss America the Reality Check.
Miss Texas has not once flashed across the screen. Not once. Why? Is she just too boring?
Miss Texas has not once flashed across the screen. Not once. Why? Is she just too boring?
421 Broome St
Heath Ledger's apartment. His shrine.
Sad.
I was shocked and saddened by Heath's death. Really sad. I liked him a lot. The general mourning seems to revolve around his potential, the he could have been...an era defining actor, a comforting face to watch over the next thirty years, a vessel for our mutual fantasy. The next Johnny Depp.
As my mom said, soldiers are dying in Iraq every day. Their faces flash across our evening news without notice except for those who knew them. So what's one more death? But Heath's face is familiar, its cultural property. We have seen it grin at us from giant wide screens, been enveloped in the fiction of fantasy worlds where we know Heath, we love Ennis. The fans at the shrine left notes referring to his films, like 10 Thing I love about Heath or I'll Never Quit you, Heath. This is how we relate to death: through filmic tropes. So its much easier to deal with an actor's death than a solider's- in any sort of communal way. His death ends in a moving, heart wrenching story and that's something Americans can get their minds around.
I feel it too. Because I invested in Heath. I went through a Heath phase, watched all his movies, had his face as my screensaver for months. His loss is the loss of something I connected in the swarming sea of popular culture. i picked him out of the mass to represent my niche of interests, the quirky, aching melancholy of films like Brokeback. Ang Lee. jake gylenhaal. their ourve was mine.
anyway, i will miss Heath Ledger, the actor. I don't think I can claim to miss Heath, the person, the partner, the father.
Sad.
I was shocked and saddened by Heath's death. Really sad. I liked him a lot. The general mourning seems to revolve around his potential, the he could have been...an era defining actor, a comforting face to watch over the next thirty years, a vessel for our mutual fantasy. The next Johnny Depp.
As my mom said, soldiers are dying in Iraq every day. Their faces flash across our evening news without notice except for those who knew them. So what's one more death? But Heath's face is familiar, its cultural property. We have seen it grin at us from giant wide screens, been enveloped in the fiction of fantasy worlds where we know Heath, we love Ennis. The fans at the shrine left notes referring to his films, like 10 Thing I love about Heath or I'll Never Quit you, Heath. This is how we relate to death: through filmic tropes. So its much easier to deal with an actor's death than a solider's- in any sort of communal way. His death ends in a moving, heart wrenching story and that's something Americans can get their minds around.
I feel it too. Because I invested in Heath. I went through a Heath phase, watched all his movies, had his face as my screensaver for months. His loss is the loss of something I connected in the swarming sea of popular culture. i picked him out of the mass to represent my niche of interests, the quirky, aching melancholy of films like Brokeback. Ang Lee. jake gylenhaal. their ourve was mine.
anyway, i will miss Heath Ledger, the actor. I don't think I can claim to miss Heath, the person, the partner, the father.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
I HEART MR.DARCY
According to gawker.com (i love love love that site) Colin Firth was in NYC today, spotted at 34th St and Rockafeller Plaza. Be still my heart. It is entirely possible that I could bump into Mr.Darcy any day now!
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Fox y
Yay Fox! You have finally caught up with all the other networks and put your shows online. This means I will once again watch new episodes of House, Family Guy and even...The Simpsons! I have an unpredictable schedule which means I rely on network websites to watch primetime TV- cable is endlessly repetitive so I never really miss Project Runway.
So I started watching new eps of the Simpsons because I could, and there were less commercials. And it was quite interesting. Over the years I've drifted to Family Guy, b/c FG has more of an edge and is quite unpredictable. its also more crass, which i enjoy. The Simpsons cannot deny its heart of gold, the genuine sweetness between Marge and Homer which forms the core of the show.
the two episodes i watched were recent and they were interesting to me because of the play with the form. for example, one episode featured a 3-d animation in the form of a election commercial. it was a bit startling, but you could feel the animators getting bored and trying new things. i also laughed at a lot of the jokes about form- such as the below post about Nelson shouting "Ha Ha! you're medium is dying." there was also a point where the episode became a youtube video playing that familiar "would you like to watch this video again" screen.
although the content of the simpsons is a little dry and overused, the show is an excellent platform to see the shifting tides of media. after all, the simpsons movie was very successful, maybe because it came out of animations 30 minute slot and allowed us all to finally see these beloved characters up close.
So I started watching new eps of the Simpsons because I could, and there were less commercials. And it was quite interesting. Over the years I've drifted to Family Guy, b/c FG has more of an edge and is quite unpredictable. its also more crass, which i enjoy. The Simpsons cannot deny its heart of gold, the genuine sweetness between Marge and Homer which forms the core of the show.
the two episodes i watched were recent and they were interesting to me because of the play with the form. for example, one episode featured a 3-d animation in the form of a election commercial. it was a bit startling, but you could feel the animators getting bored and trying new things. i also laughed at a lot of the jokes about form- such as the below post about Nelson shouting "Ha Ha! you're medium is dying." there was also a point where the episode became a youtube video playing that familiar "would you like to watch this video again" screen.
although the content of the simpsons is a little dry and overused, the show is an excellent platform to see the shifting tides of media. after all, the simpsons movie was very successful, maybe because it came out of animations 30 minute slot and allowed us all to finally see these beloved characters up close.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
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