one of the prettiest sad songs about the need for a cold heart



one of my favorites from 'help!' -- lovely period mod details in this sequence. note chairs, colored walls, and recessed living room nook just for ringo and his tambourine. i could also write a story on george harrison being the sexiest boy w/ the crookedest teeth.

Kiss my ass global warming! It's TOO EFFING HOT.

a youtube man does an admirable david gedge impression for "swimming pools, movie stars," but ooerr, those high notes mister.

aw i miss the weddoes. i need to fish out watusi. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.

remember this song? perfect pop. it's making my day at 2 am. we have to cover this song in my band. and his hair! i want my boyfriend to have this hair. it made everyone look like david naughton back then. i will look so cute playing the drums on this one.

hooray! director todd haynes' (of 'safe' and 'velvet goldmine' and the dylan movie 'i'm not there' which i haven't seen) best movie is his first -- 'superstar: the karen carpenter story,' which was told using barbie and ken dolls but was later banned from public consumption by richard carpenter. luckily, it's online (ssshhh) here.

it's a great movie. i wonder what the "private life" of richard's that karen threatens to reveal consists of? even w/ the dolls you can tell the incestuous undertones of the family dynamic. poor karen. a great drummer/singer.

eric ripert and tony bourdain would make excellent drinking (and post-midnight bone marrow dish-eating) buddies. i caught a great episode of bourdain's "no reservations" where he goes back to being a line cook for a day at les halles in nyc, his old aching back straining to reach for the sauerkraut and his failing eyesight squinting at the orders for scallops and pepper steak. you don't need to read bill buford's 'heat' to get a look at the brutal life of working in a restaurant kitchen if you watched this episode. even better, tony ropes in mr. french fancypants himself eric ripert to join him and then gets pissed when ripert doesn't even seem to break a sweat. har har! classic.

eric seems like good people, he made a complimentary "last meal" for a man who was about to lose his sense of taste due to surgery.

c's friend frank told her he once went to bourdain's restaurant in nyc and spotted the man himself ... flanked by hot models. that guy! yeah, we both agreed there was something about him that was pretty hott. in fact, i believe that was the impetus behind my making out w/ that one tall guy in the leather jacket at that halloween party. he was all, "who's anthony bourdain?"

did you know there is a giant vortex of garbage that is twice the size of texas in the pacific ocean? it's called the great pacific garbage patch or the north pacific gyre. disturbing. i wish the pilot would point this out when i flew to the philippines.

hot damn... the atlantic monthly's website just took down its paywall so anyone can now read their mag online for free, including archives. (i do still enjoy sitting down with a hard copy, tho. which i get from the library.)

We hope that the quality of its writing, the trenchancy of its insights, and the depth and thoughtfulness of its reporting will inspire many of our online readers to join the Atlantic family by becoming print subscribers.

i didn't know "trenchancy" was the noun version. them's fightin' words. why couldn't he use incisiveness? is that word even what he meant? oh, you are as thought-provoking as ever, guys!

for every vocab word you guess right, this site donates free rice to those who need it. it's pretty addictive.

i drove to santa monica to see 'the future is unwritten' at the nuart. i'm crushing on joe strummer.