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the first is a great slogan the protestors came up with at the climate summit. the second is another doomsday kinda thought though jokes on that thought cause like there's going to be neighborhoods in the future! :) i read that in london there are so many cameras the average person gets videotaped/photographed 500 times.....a day!
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I've got about two more conversations to write in the 30's and 40's coming of age film, aka the feature, I'm writting. this blog might seem like a bad distration but i think it helps me clear my head and not get obessed about the script or like my career. still need to do a red pen read through of the whole thing then before really sending it out, well to whomever i can, ari gold hasn't got back to me yet:) but i do have the first like 15 pages ready to read if you want them just give me a holler.
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since i'm making lists
video of the decade - fell in love with a girl, white stripes, dir. michele gondry
singles of the decade - bad romance, lady gaga - rehab, amy whinehouse
most critically overrated song of decade - b.o.b.(bombs over baghdad), outkast
my fave albums of the decade( in order) - rabbit fur coat, jenny lewis and the watson twins - only by the night, kings of leon - skin deep, buddy guy - yankee hotel foxtrot, wilco
my fave country album - that lonesome song, jamey johnson
my fave rap album - lil wayne's tha carter III
fave song of the decade - knocked up, kings of leon
my fave local nashville release (at least 2002-2009) - fresh pair of eyes, brooke waggoner
artist of the decade - bright eyes
best video of the 90s - smells like teen spirit
video of the 80's - tom petty and the heartbreakers, don't come around here no more (i've added these to the end of my video playlist on here
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what the bleep do we know ranks as my number one movie of the decade. it combines interviews, live action and animation. ( maybe i'll write up some posts the rest of this year on the best of decade films/music.) while some of what the bleep is 'speculative' there's plenty of solid science in it. the story is quite good as is the animation which does a fine job of explaining some of the concepts of cutting edge science. related or similliarly styled films like parrell lives parrell worlds and american splendor also didn't shine quite as bright as what the bleep.
in the 90's i'd go with being john malkovich, with dances with wolves runner up
80's raging bull with honorable mention to do the right thing,
70's clockwork orange with shout outs to annie hall, star wars and the godfather,
60's probably go with weekend though dr. strange love could go really toe to toe and 2001 was like "better filmmaking"(for a real head scracther look up the unknown godard railing against early kubrick films in the famous notebooks on cinema).
the 400 blows in the 50's
citizen kane in the 40's
then in the 30's you've got all the great comedians chaplin, keaton, marx bro, mae west, w.c fields and then like artsy fritz lang movies that I don't really have a list right away for but i'll go with horse feathers in the 30's,
the gold rush in 20's,
poor little rich girl in 10's
the great train robbery in the 1900's
a trip to the moon from the 1890's though that this point i've only seen a handful from the era.
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I did stuggle a bit with director of the decade so I picked a writer, Guillermo Arriaga who finally directed one of his scripts this year according to imdb. if pushed i prob. go with danny boyle, though i haven't any to plans to see those '28 days' horror films of his. if i was more excited about the dark night i'd say chris nolan would get it with his insomnia, memento, batman begins all being great but none being what i'd think of as one of the top films of the decade. eastwood would be a solid choice but i can't say that i'd really enjoy watching any of his films like tonight unless a bombshell blonde on blonde wanted to with me. Arriaga certainly delves into the darkness but keeps a better sense of humor and i'd say a better sense of drama than anyone else this decade. you wanted to watch each burial in three burials of melquiades estrada three times :)
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there is good in the world, someone in LA called the piano teacher the film of the decade and he's empolyed so thats two for him. actually with the la weekly. again under the 'if i had to pick' cato, if i had to pick an all fictional movie of the decade, i'd prob go with the piano teacher. it meets all the requirements, the privileged white guy's worldview crumbles, deep and naunced discussions about love and s and m, and a shocking ending all crafted so well that it feels fresh and urgent. it all confirms my hope that there are some people who really get it in the all corners of the biz. it was one of a few book adapations that i had read in like 2000 and thought, this would be a 'good' movie but actually did turn out well loved, not quite so much for high profile books into movies, the reader and blindness
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i did kind of, sorta, absolutely have that "it's dire dire news for obama if no h.c.r. passes" at least when it passed the house. they really have got to get rid of the fillibuster rule but right they won't. now however, i do see that there's actually a lot of time left for obama to prove that he's a leader or that h. dean will run for pres in 2012. at this point i'd really have to see the numbers(good luck right on getting accurate ones) on the health care bill to make my own choice but those 'talking heads' that i really follow are in line with dean so i am too. it's rough though because it seems like according to eugene robinson of the wash post, that at this point the bill does what i thought they should have aimed for to begin with, it insures most of the uninsured, and helps people avoid going bankrupt from health care which is currently the two biggest problems with it. but it all took so freaking long to get here that it's probably better to just make a stand now.
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might be transitioning this blog to inlcude a record a day review from my extensive vinyl collection.
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