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Saturday, July 20, 2002
More Gorgeous In French Oooo, Amelie looks even more gorgeous in the French original, with no subtitles... {Of course blogger hasn't been publishing my notes for a couple days now, so who knows if this will ever actually make it to Just Dreaming.... But anyway..) The French! It's beautiful!! Friday, July 19, 2002
Cutouts  Those extra scenes of Audrey, from the DVD for Amelie, are quite amusing. That girl sure has the expressions. Bad Version!!! There's apparently some mystery about why vocal harmony 60's pop band The Free Design never made it big. I can of one reason. Their version of the "59th Street Bridge Song", one of my all-time favorite tunes, is terrible!! I'd say they're less like the Beach Boys or the Mamas and Papas, and more like Spanky and the Gang. To be fair, their "Make The Madness Stop" is quite interesting. A perfect hip 60's vibe there. Should have been a huge hit! Thursday, July 18, 2002
I Love Amelie!!!  I can see, she's just as much fun to watch at home! At least the little girl Amelie is... So much happened at the start, all her experiences as a little girl.. Funny girl! She could be so cruel! The rest of the film would have a hard time topping that. Although Audrey Tautou is wonderful. It's very cool seeing this again! I really remember it intimately... The film made quite an impression on me the first time. Actually, before it even came out. Unspoken Love I've got so much, unspoken love. Can love be unrequited, if you've never even mentioned it? I don't think so. It could simply be unspoken love as well. So much love, so much love...Sighted her. (...Listening to "Sad And Beautiful World" - Sparklehorse) She's Cute  Calista Flockhart is so cute... She looks like she never really grew up all the way. She seems like she'd be fun. Wednesday, July 17, 2002
She's Got Something I'm really enjoying PJ Harvey this morning, from her latest album... That girl's really got something. She's quite unusual, and at times almost a bit much. This morning she sounds so rich though, just fantastic..... On another topic, movies keep surprising me. Last night, I turned over to the TCM movie channel, to see what might be happening there. They were wrapping up an interview and overview with director George Kukor. Directly following was the movie, "The Philadelphia Story", from 1940. I didn't think I would really like it, but in my mood last night, I thought I would at least give it a few minutes, for a chance to draw me in. Wow, what a surprise!! It was excellent, and I had a few good laughs. Amazing, in the last year or so, I seem to have become a movie fan. Especially comedies. I've never enjoyed Katherine Hepburn so much as last night. I'd never seen the attraction in her as an actress before.. Tuesday, July 16, 2002
Not Every One Not everything I lost when my IBM drive took a dive is missed all that much... I've found Sleater-Kinney increasingly screechy. The Pixies have a very high noise factor. I don't see myself pursuing Spoon these days... I think I've got enough Built to Spill. I sure don't miss all things. Massive Loss Help! I lost so much Pavement!! Albums and albums, singles, EPs... So many I had not even listened to yet, just saving back.. Ugh!! *That* is massively frustrating. Will I *ever* find every single of those songs again? It could happen. That was such a nice stash to look forward to though... Now, I have all these little tidbits I'd put on CDRs here and there.. Just listening to six of Pavements from four albums I'd luckily put on a rough draft of a CD which I later sent off with just one left (I guess they didn't fit the mood somehow...) Ahh, Sparklehorse is so foreboding, on "Dog Door." *They* were a lot easier to get back. Plus some. The trouble with Pavement is, there is so much... Where Is She? I do kind of like Sneaker Pimp's "Bloodsport", but what happened to lead vocalist Kelli Dayton? The group just isn't the same without her. Like a Beach Boys album with no Brian Wilson leads... It's just not the same. Hide If You Can I've found a certain biorhythm site which I kind of enjoy. It doesn't have useful graphs like another site might, but the narratives are pretty amusing. Like today's for me... My emotional and intellectual states are both supposed to be dead bottom today. The sites agree on that. This one's description cracks me up though: "You want to hide in the deepest corner. If you can arrange it, do it, because you're going to have a bad day." Encouraging, huh? The other thing is, no matter how old you are, it can make you feel really ancient, because it tells you your age, *in days*! I wouldn't mind turning off that function, if they'd let you. You don't have to be very old to be *thousands* of days old! Ancient! The nice thing about being at your bottom, emotionally, biorythmically, is that it only gets better from there, for quite some time. Plus, you have a reason for not feeling really all that good about things, which can actually make you feel better about things. There is a reason. Oh, if you should go there, the thing defaults to the 5th of October, 1958, for some odd reason. Just put in your own, or whoever's you'd like to check on. Sunday, July 14, 2002
Stiffling At Midnight Actually, it was Friday night... I was up fooling around, and tracking the temperature outside. I thought, "well it's midnight, I bet it's cooled down some by now out here..." So I ducked my head out my front door for a moment. Ooooo, it was stiffling. I could hardly breath out there.. Was it the humidity? I quickly came back in, thankful for the air in here... |
