“When they closed down the Movieland Wax Museum I bought a couple of wax figures, including one of Sammy Davis, Jr. And one of my kids friends – we got a call from one of the parents, alarmed, saying that the kid had come home and said we had a dead black man on our sofa.”
—Tim Burton, please never change.
May 2011
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Modest Mouse
Out of Gas by Modest Mouse. Today’s theme song.
Thinking about Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter at dinner with the President AND The Queen
is too excruciatingly funny. Can’t breathe. Imagination exploding.
"Handed the hairbrush"
- a new phrase denoting the departure of a beloved character from a TV series. Often used in conjunction with “jumping the shark”.
Got Nuffin
Spoon
Totally jazzed to hear Spoon on the season finale of House, because it means that more people are about to discover this crazy under-appreciated band. As I say, “Once you go Spoon…”
So, I'm re-watching Synecdoche New York
and I realized that Kaufman’s male characters are always pathetic, particularly in comparison to the women in their lives. And it’s not like the women act like “manic pixie dream girls”, nor are they “crazy bitches”. They’re often rightfully telling the male character to sack up, but they always display the wisdom to accept people for who they are without thinking you can change someone. It’s his male characters who are unable to accept that a woman will not magically change them.
While it’s not quite Hollywood, I’m trying to think of another American filmmaker who un-glorifies men as much as Kaufman. It’s damn refreshing.
i havent seen "the big chill" yet, but its been on my to watch list for awhile.
and i miss you.
It’s a perfect movie for a rainy day when you’re feeling lonely. And you actually have to be alone to watch the film, because it’s very talky and if you try to watch it with your best friends as an uplifting ode to friendship, it won’t work, because BITCHES WILL TALK OVER THE ENTIRE THING (including me, but whatever).
I miss you! But mostly I’m envious that you’re about to go into summer (although Vancouver is still colder than here).
what made you start this tumblr and what motivates your posts.
p.s.
It's pretty outstanding that you like "The Big Chill". Most people have no idea about that film.
Hi there! Pleased to “meet” you!
I started this Tumblr last year because I’d just completed a trip driving across Canada and when I got back to Vancouver I was having panic attacks, living in my friends’ lounge room, unemployed, crying over a boy and suffering insomnia. I knew about Tumblr because a close friend had been using it for years, so I decided I’d join in and create a “happy place” for myself (Julie Bowen with pitchers of beer, Grandma winning the slots, cowboy dwarf riding a tiny penny-farthing etc).
This may sound a bit tttttruuufghhhh (weird Ross Geller noise)…but what motivates my posts is that, day to day, my inner monologue is interspersed with movie quotes and song lyrics. It makes me feel better to express myself through a movie frame, rather than to blog precisely about my life. I can look back to when I posted a picture from Mad Men or a Hunter S. Thompson quote and remember what was happening in my life at the time.
Or, sometimes, a photo is just a photo.
To me, what elevates Tumblr above other blogging or social networking sites is the freedom of interpretation of how to best use it. I’m happy in my own space here, and I don’t have to engage with anyone using Tumblr in a way that annoys me.
P.S. I wish more people would watch The Big Chill, but…you can’t always get what you want.
“Sometimes when I’m nervous I add extra syllables to fill dead air.”
—John Cage (Ally McBeal)
