May 2008
11 posts
“If I were forced at gunpoint to name my personal Top 10 albums, I’m pretty...”
– Damn Straight! The AV Club’s Noel Murray gets it right.
Cineplex Reflections - Iron Man
I realize that I am weighing in on this one a bit late, but after three solid and satisfying rounds of bowling, I capped off my day with a late afternoon showing of Iron Man. Without question, Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark is the perfect anti-hero hero for this modern age. Humor me as I unpack my ideas concerning why: At the start of the film, Tony Stark has attained a certain heroic status...
Totally on Top: ANTM's Whitney! Yay!
So, I’m nearly 48 hours late on this one, but the joy is just as immediate as it was Wednesday night when full-figured Floridian (Whoo, Florida!) Whitney was crowned America’s Next Face to soon only be seen in those cheap and annoying “My Life as a Cover Girl” spots. Still, it was an overall victory for girls everywhere that like to both ingest and digest food. Or so Mamma...
Observations Made at Last Night's Cut Copy Show
I counted at least a dozen girls in the audience with bangs perfectly frozen in place. Not a stray hair in sight. This phenomenon unsettles me and yet fascinates me. Hearing Howard Jones’ “Everlasting Love” between band sets is both a joy and a privilege. Cut Copy compels my body to move energetically even when clothed in leather and a stifling sweater while being crushed by the...
Noooooooooooo...
alexbalk: “Nicolas Cage will star in an updated version of 1992’s “Bad Lieutenant” with Werner Herzog directing, Edward R. Pressman producing and Avi Lerner’s Nu Image/Millennium Films financing.” I have a lot of faith in the Vernster, but, uh, no. I’m not sure what’s worse: the possibility of seeing Cage’s wee-wee or the fact the EVEN Bad Lieutenant IS FIFTEEN YEARS OLD. I recently viewed Bad...
"Sticky as Lips and Licky as Trips"
I was one of those Cure weirdos in high school who thought that Robert Smith was the bard of young solitude for using words like “treachery” and “duplicity” as many times as possible within the same song. Under a canopy of glow-n-the-dark stars, I listened to Disintegration and my 9th grade soul floated from the bed merging with Robert’s wild, mopey howls. I was...
“We’re the non-judging Breakfast Club.”
– Blair Waldorf perfectly capturing what I adore about Gossip Girl. It’s John Hughes without the moral conventions and with Ed Westwick doing a naughtier James Spader than, well, James Spader.
No Longer on Top: ANTM's Dominique
Now that I’ve returned from Florida, I can finally say my belated farewell to Dominique. What will the show be without her trannylicious egoism to fuel catfights and catty comments from the panel? We will no longer hear Miss J utter such witty quips as “That’s why it’s called Cover Girl ‘cause it covers up the man in you” or witness Tyra’s guffaws at...
No Longer on Top: ANTM's Katarzyna
Last night the girls did their best imitation of Russell Crowe and battled out as gladiators in Rome’s Coliseum bringing new meaning to the word “fierce”. Anya and Whitney were victorious as fashion warriors while other girls struggled to be simultaneously pretty and violent. It was no surprise that Fatima wielded her sword like it was something awkward, cumbersome and foreign;...
