Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Speed round:
Sex and the City: The Movie? I'm not so sure this is a good idea. Dunno why, there's just something that gnaws at me about it. If it's done, it's done, y'know?
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Joe Orton fans, who've either read the John Lahr biography Prick Up Your Ears or seen the film based on said book, are aware that Orton and his partner, Kenneth Halliwell, covered - literally - the walls of their bedroom with pictures cut from books. Its re-creation in the film is quite an astonishing example of collage. I saw something this evening which is just as astonishing, albeit a bit scarier. Remember the "can I borrow some porn" guy, almost exactly one year ago? Well, he still lives in my bldg, and tonight, whilst making my way up the stairs, I noticed he had his door wide open, and couldn't help but glance that way. Shock and awe, let me tell you: he appeared to have every inch of wall space covered in cut-out pictures of women from fashion magazines. Very gay, very disturbing, and a bit Mad Love (thanks, Chrisafer)-via-One Hour Photo. Eeesh.
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1.02 million: that's how many copies Norah Jones sold of Feels Like Home last week. Whoa.
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Billy Corgan's finally talking about the dissolution of Smashing Pumpkins on his website (entry dated 2.17.04), and it's worth reading. I have tempered, but high hopes for his forthcoming solo album (later this year). That Zwan record was pretty solid, you know.
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Acute readers may have noticed that earlier today, I posted an mp3 of Chaka Khan's "I Know You, I Live You." It's a really, really great song (especially in its Tony Humphries mix, from Life Is A Dance - The Remix Project), but I had to take it down tonight and replace it with her 1981 smash "What Cha' Gonna Do For Me." Why? Because it's just. So. Fucking. Hot.
Sex and the City: The Movie? I'm not so sure this is a good idea. Dunno why, there's just something that gnaws at me about it. If it's done, it's done, y'know?
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Joe Orton fans, who've either read the John Lahr biography Prick Up Your Ears or seen the film based on said book, are aware that Orton and his partner, Kenneth Halliwell, covered - literally - the walls of their bedroom with pictures cut from books. Its re-creation in the film is quite an astonishing example of collage. I saw something this evening which is just as astonishing, albeit a bit scarier. Remember the "can I borrow some porn" guy, almost exactly one year ago? Well, he still lives in my bldg, and tonight, whilst making my way up the stairs, I noticed he had his door wide open, and couldn't help but glance that way. Shock and awe, let me tell you: he appeared to have every inch of wall space covered in cut-out pictures of women from fashion magazines. Very gay, very disturbing, and a bit Mad Love (thanks, Chrisafer)-via-One Hour Photo. Eeesh.
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1.02 million: that's how many copies Norah Jones sold of Feels Like Home last week. Whoa.
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Billy Corgan's finally talking about the dissolution of Smashing Pumpkins on his website (entry dated 2.17.04), and it's worth reading. I have tempered, but high hopes for his forthcoming solo album (later this year). That Zwan record was pretty solid, you know.
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Acute readers may have noticed that earlier today, I posted an mp3 of Chaka Khan's "I Know You, I Live You." It's a really, really great song (especially in its Tony Humphries mix, from Life Is A Dance - The Remix Project), but I had to take it down tonight and replace it with her 1981 smash "What Cha' Gonna Do For Me." Why? Because it's just. So. Fucking. Hot.
# posted by Thomas : 5:37 PM
