Randominity II
Kudos of the moment: To my friends. After complaining bitterly in my last post of our indecision at mealtime, last Sunday night a decision on a restaurant was made in record time with little to no debate. Gold stars for everyone.
CD of the moment: Fair and Square, by John Prine. John Prine is one of my favorite songwriters. This is his first CD in about 5 years, having recently survived a bout with throat cancer. He is one of the few writers that I know of that can go from funny to devastating within a single phrase. The music is simple: At its best it is just him and his acoustic guitar.
Obscure foreign film of the moment: Audition. This one has been out a few years. In the opening scene a Japanese film executive with a small child loses his wife to a long illness. Fast forward ten years and his son and friends are trying to get him back on the dating scene. He has no idea how, so he and his friend devise a fake movie audition for a leading lady, and from the participants he'll choose one to court.
For its first half or so this plays out like a gentle almost romantic comedy. Then, instantly, things go horribly horribly wrong. There are few things in movieland as rare as a good horror movie. This one is an exception. A scene toward the end involving piano wire, needles, and a girl whispering "Deeper, deeper, deeper" is one of the most grisly and disturbing scenes ever. Not for the weak-stomached. It shouldn't be too long before the crappy American remake.
Incredibly cool loft of the moment that I can't begin to afford: Wertham Loft #313. Sunday afternoon I was driving around looking at open houses. I stopped at Wertham Lofts just on a lark because I had never been in the building. #313 was open and for sale. It was absolutely amazing. Two bedrooms, two baths, all exposed brick, 15ft ceilings, huge windows with great downtown views, spacious, beautiful, crunk. $400,000. The realtor must have had some sort of income-detection equipment because he watched me suspiciously from the moment I entered. I'm guessing the white-trash meter went over into the red.
CD of the moment: Fair and Square, by John Prine. John Prine is one of my favorite songwriters. This is his first CD in about 5 years, having recently survived a bout with throat cancer. He is one of the few writers that I know of that can go from funny to devastating within a single phrase. The music is simple: At its best it is just him and his acoustic guitar.
Obscure foreign film of the moment: Audition. This one has been out a few years. In the opening scene a Japanese film executive with a small child loses his wife to a long illness. Fast forward ten years and his son and friends are trying to get him back on the dating scene. He has no idea how, so he and his friend devise a fake movie audition for a leading lady, and from the participants he'll choose one to court.
For its first half or so this plays out like a gentle almost romantic comedy. Then, instantly, things go horribly horribly wrong. There are few things in movieland as rare as a good horror movie. This one is an exception. A scene toward the end involving piano wire, needles, and a girl whispering "Deeper, deeper, deeper" is one of the most grisly and disturbing scenes ever. Not for the weak-stomached. It shouldn't be too long before the crappy American remake.
Incredibly cool loft of the moment that I can't begin to afford: Wertham Loft #313. Sunday afternoon I was driving around looking at open houses. I stopped at Wertham Lofts just on a lark because I had never been in the building. #313 was open and for sale. It was absolutely amazing. Two bedrooms, two baths, all exposed brick, 15ft ceilings, huge windows with great downtown views, spacious, beautiful, crunk. $400,000. The realtor must have had some sort of income-detection equipment because he watched me suspiciously from the moment I entered. I'm guessing the white-trash meter went over into the red.
posted by CHADDDD at 8:58 PM
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How do you find these foreign films? Do you go to Blockbuster and say, "Yes, I'd like to rent a movie that no one else has ever checked out." I will recommend one to you, though. Utomlyonnye solntsem (Burnt By the Sun). It's Russian. Wonderful, wonderful movie. It's directed by Nikita Mikhalkov and won an Oscar in '94 for Best Foreign Film...
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