Isn't it lovely when you have sweeps on tv, 31 days of Oscars on TCM, the actual Oscars, X concerts and a bunch of other fun stuff going on all coinciding with the time where your professors decide its time to really crank the heat up?? Ahhhh, our favorite time of the year. Speaking of Turner Classic Movies, this is the time when they atone for all the other mistakes in programming they make for the year, like showing all the movies I want to watch at either 7am or 3 pm when I'm in class and then showing some B-rate movie with Red Buttons during prime time. This is the month they start cramming in so many good movies into their schedule that you contemplate moving permanently onto the couch for the rest of the month and curse the fact that you have to go to the bathroom (the ONE time I actually wished there were commercials), eat, sleep and basically have a life. "I wonder if these toothpicks will really hold up my eyelids. [sigh] I really should sleep. Oh but Lavender Hill Mob is coming up next! I Love Alec Guinness!!"



Turner Classic Movies

Speaking of Oscars. If Ang Lee doesn't win this time, I swear heads are gonna roll. Not only was he NOT nominated for an academy award for Sense and Sensibility, which was such a wonderfully beautifully directed film - shocking those who didn't think a Taiwanese man could direct a British period drama with such insight and emotion but then when they could've redeemed themselves, they went and gave the award to Steven Soderbergh for Traffic, which really isn't that great of a movie. I mean, has anyone mentioned it recently? However, Crouching Tiger is still in the minds of many. Not that I don't like Soderbergh. I hear his new film, Bubble is really fantastic and really want to watch it.


Ang for his Foreign Picture win. Hope this image will be repeated on Oscar night.


Passage I found scrawled on on a slip of paper and hidden in my notebook. I'm pretty sure its from Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie:
"I looked past their heads into a small crowded room of men and women sitting in folding chairs to the front where a slender woman in a rusty black robe played passionate boogie-woogie on an upright piano along witha young man wearing a skull cap who struck righteous riffs from an electric guitar [...] "Just listen to it, Sister Harris. Thats the new kind of guitar music I told you Rever'n Rinehart got for us. Ain't it heavenly? " "Praise God," Sister Harris said. "Praise God!"

Recommended Tunes For Today:

+ Scissor Sisters - Lovers In The Backseat
(Dancerific. Sightly off topic, someone said Anderson Cooper is gay because he hangs out w/ prominent homosexuals like the lead singer of Scissor Sisters. I don't think that is a very good indicator of whether he is or not but on the other hand, if he is, I shall weep a few tears. I shall join the chorus of millions of women all over the country - and some other parts of the world - when I say he's so damn hot!)

mmmm premature gray never looked so good:






I was pretty surprised when I found out he was Gloria Vanderbilt's son, but it makes sense now where the genes come from.

Ok, back to topic:

+ Sufjan Stevens - Jacksonville
(come on and feel the Illinoize!)

+ The Beta Band - Space Beatle
(Freakin A. I just tried to look up some info on them, because I didn't really know anything about them except I liked their music and I just found out they broke up. Freakin A)

+ Scott Walker - My Way Home
(One of my favorite crooners)

+ Curtis Mayfield - Kung Fu
(I hope hope hope no one has forgotten him. Its always the non-controversial ones isn't it?? He just made great music and wrote great lyrics. Plain and simple)

+ Architecture In Helsinki - Like A Call
("The next big thing" people are whispering and murmuring to each other. I agree)

+ Jackie Greene - About Cell Block #9
(Scrawny geeky kid playing the guitar and harmonica like a less talented but making it up with enthusiasm and gusto reincarnation of the folk singers of yesteryears, particularly one Mr. Zimmerman)

+ Of Montreal - Disconnect The Dot
(When I heard their name I thought, sparing landscapes of frosty Canadian melodies but its really quite different)

+ Seu Jorge - When I Live My Dream
(A not often heard Bowie song. In Portugese. How cool is that?)

+ Arcade Fire - Crown Of Love
(May coconuts from trees passed fall upon the heads of those who doesn't have this album already)


Man, these fuckin posts on bloggers are considerably more difficult than post on the blog provided by bowienet.com. Its harder to type the coding crap to post pics and links. At bowie.net, you just gotta type a couple symbols and letters!
Here its all complicated html crap. Okay I probably sound like a complete computer illiterate moron but, well I kinda am and anyway to make this easier, I'll take. Anyways the whole reason I brought this topic up is because of the following video. The new stars of the internet. Boy when Warhol said 15 mins of fame, I don't know if he was thinking of this....

A whole new spin to: "I Want It That Way" but some Boyband group
I DARE you not to laugh or at least smile.