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weekend short list
What I am up to this weekend. 1. Catching some of Pitchfork Music Festival (streaming live on my computer) I’m not at Pitchfork in Chicago, but this is the next best thing. Tommorrow there are sets by Cass McCombs, Beach House, St. Vincent and Pavement. 2. Discovering new music I like. This morning I caught the last half hour of weekend edition and there was a short interview with a singer-songwriter called Samantha Crain, who is excellent. Interview 3. Finishing books 4 & 5 of Scott Pilgrim. The 6th and final volume, Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, comes out next week! I want to have read them all by the time I see the movie! 4. Seeing “Inception”. Aside from the delicious Nolan-ness of it all, I’m not gonna lie, I’m really looking forward to sitting in air conditioning for a few hours right about now. 5. Obsessing over Beechwood Sparks I really hate when I’m 8 or 9 years late hearing about a great band, but music really is better late than never! While reading the Scott Pilgrim books, I noticed Bryan Lee O’Malley wrote a playlist of songs in the back of one of the books and they were on it. He specifically loves their amazing, amazing jangly cover of the Sade song “By Your Side” (and secretly loves the original!) And I do too (on both counts). I will leave you with this: I saw the movie yesterday and have been obsessing over it all day. I sat down and wrote this blog post about all the random details, names and connections I was playing with in my head. I didn’t crosspost it because it’s hella long, but please go read it and comment away if you’ve seen the movie and have thoughts to add! 
Wonder Boys. Fall/Winter comfort movie. I have a sinus infection and feel like crap. This helps. 
It always amuses me when I browse stats for my blog and discover that my page hits have multiplied exponentially in one day. This really only ever happens when someone sticks a post on dig or stumbleupon or something. Suddenly, something I posted a couple years ago blows up, like this one featuring the image above: I’ll take “80’s Move Reference” with a side of “Jesus Humor” please! Sure enough, it got stumbled. While I was on it, I remembered how much I loved the image and felt the need to post it here. Click the link if you don’t get the joke, the blog post explains. 
This is the 3rd time I’ve seen something from this blogged by all different tumblrs. I think the universe is asking me why I don’t just own this movie, because now I want to watch it immediately. (Source: ch-ch-ch-cherry-bombb) 
On my TV right now. It might be my favorite adaptation, and I’m not even joking. Muppets forever. So in the “better late than never” style that I’m so acquainted with, I finally got around to finishing and posting my best of list for movies on the blog. My top ten, not in any particular order: Black Swan If you want to read my post with the commentary on each choice, it’s here. (Source: listofnow) Attention everyone: Basquiat: The Radiant Child is currently streaming on Netflix. (Along with a ridiculous amount of other great art docs and films). If you haven’t seen this, you really should. One of my favorite documentaries in years, possibly ever. In which I talk about my list of must see movies in 2011, which so far includes: Somewhere and I’m looking forward to hearing more about: Bernie click it to read all my commentary. what’s on your upcoming list so far this year? |
