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c'est géniale!...

last friday i watched these 2 films. Departures i saw at the cinema and I don't think there was a dry eye in the audience for most of the film, for laughing and crying equally... a lady in my row alternated between laughing out loud and uncontrollable sobbing. brilliant. Tokyo Sonata is in the same vein as Sabu or Kitano maybe - in it's banality and eventual crazy route to profundity... I really like this kind of film

both left me with the desire to cook more japanese food, get a rice cooker, and collect more crockery

sing out...

if I ever have 2 cats, I will name them Harold and Maude and if I have just one, I will call it Cat Stevens.

one band...



one sound.

accepting that my dreams of owning / being able to play a full drum kit are presently unrealistic, i would, for now, like just one, preferably around my neck, possibly with tassles.

love affairs...

Bjarke Ingels x The Mountain x The Notwist x some surprisingly flexible young men =



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in an attempt to prove to myself that idleness can be educational, i'm not only nurturing my relationship with the (highly addictive) TED (we decided to have an open relationship), i'm also spreading some love across the podcast world. here's last night's bedtime entertainment...

The New Yorker Fiction: Paul Theroux reads Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Gospel According to Mark."

time of his life...

inevitable post of the day... i have always proclaimed (unashamed) my love for this

on the importance of hygiene...

the Narnia tv serialisations were an important part of my childhood development...i'm not sure how exactly, but watching the weekly episodes at my great uncle's was always preluded by a bath (we only had a shower at my house), so if nothing else, it helped keep me clean... the chronicles represent a big piece of my childhood nostalgia pie and for this reason i put off watching The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe movie extravaganza afraid that it would be too slick and shiny and just too nice ...

last night, in an effort to entertain Ro (my 6 yr old charge for the week), i succumbed with more than a little trepidation. it was at this point (see below) i knew everything was going to be ok...



i'd like to extend a personal thank you to Mr. McAvoy

devolution...

last night i developed a strong desire to yield a scalpal (it wouldn't be the first time)... i finally got to watching Lotte Reiniger's film The Adventures of Prince Achmed. it's the oldest surviving feature-length animation - it's also the most beautiful and inspiring i've ever seen. the stills below, even the clip, don't do justice to the experience of watching the film... if you pay attention to anything on my blog, please let it be this

cat people...

last night Jez and I went to see 'Inglourious Basterds'...
did i want to see it? - not really, i'm far from being a taratino fan BUT am i glad i did? - HELL YEAH!

and i recommend you do the same

Cat People [Putting Out The Fi...

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nice.

i'm developing an obsession for drawn stop animation, but that's healthy right?



myspace.com/firekites

ummmmmm...

Logh are one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE BANDS IN THE WORLD EVER... I followed the making of their new video for 'Death to My Home Town' on the creator, Kenny Lindström's blog... let's just say I had my doubts. now it's finished and I am still very undecided - it's nice in a very strange way, but about a million miles away from any image or feeling that Logh invokes in me... oh well, I know one lovely lady who will LOVE it. and you can make up your own mind...

Logh - Death To My Hometown from Bad Taste Records on Vimeo.

I, for one, was never more excited about a computer game then when I discovered this...

thursday...

in reference to my inaugural posting (here)... i went with Richard to see Mr. Pallett in his Final Fantasy guise last night... the show was nothing short of amazing, in the setting of Union Chapel and with the unexpected and beautiful projections of Stephanie Comilang...

pre show ramblings included artistic adventures in the Tate, yummy food and the discovery that I had not been to the chapel before, did not know where it was, and that it certainly was not white

sometimes girls like skate videos too...

there is a couple of skate videos i used to watched endlessly; namely First Broadcast and Waiting for the World... a few years later, after repeated recommendation (all from Arild) i discovered the band South, and re-discovered this song...

Paint The Silence - South

it's on the Franklin Stephens section. i tried to find it on You Tube and failed but found some Ryan/Marissa action instead...



why did you stop it Ryan? you can watch the whole First Broadcast video here though... http://blip.tv/file/1571512...i imagine none of you will

hands up who was kind of disappointed with the fire shows in Queen's Park last night? ...hands up too who thought kids fighting in the dark with different coloured light sabers was pretty special... i count Ben and Hannah and me, so that makes three.

listening to Okkervil River this morning reminded me of how I love this film...



and I know I posted it multiple times on Facebook, but I love it so much I even bought it, and anyone who knows me must know that makes it pretty special... the premise of the film is a bit ridiculous, and you have to stick through the beginning on the film, but that just makes the end all the more poignant. or I am just a stupid romantic. or both. or whatever. sigh...

happy holiday

i don't know what the etiquette is for stealing things off other people's blogs, but i just found this music video for Moray Mclaren by my talented friend Mr. David Wilson whilst on a blog trail... i think it's amazing/original/genius/perfect... and the illustration is just beautiful

Moray Mclaren - We Got Time from welovemusique on Vimeo.

and here's Tom Stoke's blog, where i found it...

right. i'm off for a day of leisure. i'm hoping it will involve a screen print exhibition, reading in cafes, parading children and sunshine

My Dear Vardebedian...

unimpressed with Woody Allen's contemporary efforts at movie-making I have been gradually aquainting myself with his past efforts... the most recent (and so far, my favourite) being 'Manhattan Murder Mystery'... and i was much entertained by this piece of Allen prose the oh so talented wordsmith Mr. Dan Hancox shared with me... http://maxxwolf.tripod.com/woody.html... considering Dan is a much valued, albeit intermittent Scrabble chum, the in-joke remains ours... still, enjoy