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The Stills, The Professor, and The Excitement
My favorite time of year! (Not in the weather sense, in the entertainment sense.) It’s SXSW, everyone! I don’t live far from Austin, so that affords my friends and me the positively gratifying recreation of live music. Now that I’m all growed up and have a real job (no more classes than can be skipped, boo), I can only find time to go this weekend. This trip will serve multiple purposes of satiating my craving for live music (the last show I saw was Stars at Stubbs on October 30th!), allowing my friend to test out her new Nikon D40X and its fancy lens, and to allow me to look up a professor by whom I’ve become star struck. I won’t name any names just yet—don’t want him to alert the authorities before I get there. In all seriousness, though, I am excited about this trip. The only show we have time for, though, is The Stills at the Parish. Great band from Montreal. Their new album “Without Feathers” is just OK to me, so I hope they mostly will play stuff from their previous album, “Logic Will Break Your Heart”, but they probably won’t.
A song from that album, “Still in Love”, was used in a promo for Showtime’s new season of The Tudors. The more I think about it, the more excited by this month I become. The Stills this weekend, Pacific Life Open (today) and Sony Ericsson Open (24th) tennis tournaments, the start of Thursday night Russian classes (27th), The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure (29th), and the start of the second season of The Tudors (30th)! What a month!
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Mix Tape
As a person who uses music to cope with, express or understand all what life throws at us, this book looks like the perfect starter of my summer reading list.
From Amazon: ”Music critic Sheffield’s touching and poignant memoir of love and death will strike a chord in anyone who has used a hand-selected set of songs to try to express something that can’t be put into words. A socially awkward adolescent, Sheffield finds true love as a college student in the late ’80s with Renée, a “hell-raising Appalachian punk-rock girl.” They’re brought together by their love of music, get married and spend eight years together before Renée suddenly dies of a pulmonary embolism.”
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Почему Я люблю Кайт Бланщет
Caught Cate Blanchett’s performance in “The Man Who Cried.” This only just reiterates how gifted and skilled she is at her craft. Cate plays Lola, a Russian living in Paris who befriends the protagonist, Christina Ricci. The film is set in pre World War II Paris and follows a young Russian Jewish girl named Suzie (Ricci) who leaves her adopted family in England in search of her family from whom she was separated at a young age. With her beautiful singing voice she finds a job in a theatre where she meets Lola. Eventually she falls in love with a gypsy who also works at the theatre named Caesar (Johnny Depp). The film’s cinematography is superb, but the acting (aside from Cate’s, of course) is just alright. Cate’s Russian accent is spot on, but Christina Ricci should have spent more time with her dialect coach while she was learning her English accent. Overall the film is great, but that’s probably only because Cate Blanchett is too good.
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Loop? There's a loop of which one can be out?
- Co-Worker: What!?!?! Heath Ledger died!?!?!
- Me: Yeah. Hey, that rock you've been living under, is the rent very high?
- CW: Oh that's Heath. I thought he was Jake.
- Me: No Jake is the other one. He's dating Reese Witherspoon now.
- CW: What?!?! She's publicly cheating on Ryan Philippe?
- Me: You need to subscribe to Perez Hilton RSS.
- CW: And who would that be?
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Mainstream+Cool … Can I get them together?
My friend and I were bored the other day and wanted to do a lip dub video. She wants to go all out like the Flagpole Sitta one or iJustine and Desiree’s Kelly Clarkson one. The music I like isn’t exactly “mainstream” and we can’t really settle on a song that’s fun and cool and mainstream, too.
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I normally don’t like these sorts of videos because they can be a little hokey. This one’s not much different aside from the facts that a) Leaving Las Vegas is one of the greatest films ever in the world, b) the scenes chosen are great and c) the song makes sense.
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