1. The movie is called Edward Scissorhands. Hello, awesome!
2. The pastel color scheme is amazing. The neighborhood is iconic and I’m pretty sure I don’t need to go into that. I’m going to point out the interior decoration and the costumes. Take the home and character of Kathy Baker’s Joyce.
Her lipstick, her shoes, [...]
I love meta, art talking about itself and the beauty of the frame that points to what’s inside as much as to what is outside. The theater is especially rich with meta-theater–the musical about a musical is a staple in, well, musicals. A Chorus Line, 42nd Street, The Producers all spring immediately to [...]
Reading The New York Times Sunday Magazine, as I do enjoy it, and its weekly column On Language by William Safire, I came across the word (phrase?) phrasedick. Now, I can pretty much figure out what phrasedick means–a person who sleuths out the origination and etymology of phrases–but I do so love to [...]
It is a holiday weekend. I don’t have to go to work tomorrow. I cannot tell you how happy this makes me. Seriously, the happiness is unconveyable (this is not a word, but you know what I mean).
Today we spent doing all the laundry we should have done for the last 2 or 3 weeks. [...]
Let me introduce you to the coolest rap group I’ve ever encountered, Snook. They’re Swedish. They rap in Swedish.
After spending a good forty-five minutes this morning digging my car out of the ice–it’s only occasionally that I miss the old Jeep, which was like a toy monster truck the way it powered over snow and [...]
Jeff mentioned parenthetically in his last post how utterly ridiculous the bonus featurettes for Bubba Ho-Tep were. Bruce Campbell, bless his giant chin and sweet heart, was the only person who seemed to understand that this indie-blockbuster, this “Elvis-Mummy-Redemption picture” as he called it, was at its most very basic a campy piece of whatever. [...]
I adore Nigella Lawson–she is glamorous and practical and uses words like “blitz” and “shriekingly” in her recipes. But I was a little skeptical of her directions to mix cupcake batter in a food processor. I swallowed my snobbiness for a second in hopes of finding a quick way to make cupcakes without [...]
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So…let’s talk about Bubba Ho-tep. We watched it last night, and I admit, I was really excited to see it. I had heard just enough about it to make me psyched about the prospect: I mean, really, Bruce Campbell as an eldery Elvis; Ossie Davis as JFK, died black [...]
Long time ago, when I lived in California, I must have loaned someone my copy of The Triplets of Belleville and that someone never returned it. To be fair, I have no idea who that person was and I completely do not blame him/her for failing to return the movie to me in a timely [...]
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