Old Dance Song: Black and White movies

That’s what it’s called on Youtube. I think it’s neat.

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Dina Martina’s Christmas Show

I went to see Dina Martina last night for the first time. Given her alarming appearance, her humor is surprisingly gentle. She comes across as a very nice woman who you would love to have over to the house sometime. A kindred spirit really. But again that scarily drawn mouth does make you pull back. [...]

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Quantum of Solace

I went to see the new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace this weekend. Did you know that there is now such thing as an AM matinee. I’m not sure if it’s everywhere, but we paid $6 a piece to see the show at 10:30 in the morning. The drawbacks are: who can eat popcorn [...]

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RIP Paul Newman

1925-2008 Here’s a clip from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

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Is corporal punishment addictive?

Here’s an interesting article on parents who use corporal punishment in order to discipline their children. Instead of looking at the psychological affects on the child, it looks at the psychological and “addictive” affects on the parent. But parents keep on hitting. Why? The key is corporal punishment’s temporary effectiveness in stopping a behavior. It [...]

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Animated Kiwi

I love films that begin with confusion. You watch just to find out what is going on.

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Christian Siriano’s debut collection

For those of you watching Project Runway, here’s an article about last season’s winner Christian Siriano’s debut collection. I’m glad to hear he’s doing more than maternity wear. Here’s a link to view the photographs of the collection. Interesting quote from the article: “I just think there are so many reality shows that people become [...]

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Famed movie critic Roger Ebert attacked

This is the age we live in. Disabled people being attacked by assholes. The audience at the Toronto Film Festival press screening of “Slumdog Millionaire” didn’t know they were also going to get live entertainment Saturday. There’d been lots of Oscar buzz about Danny (“Trainspotting”) Boyle’s flick, about a poor Mumbai guy who wins a [...]

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Lip-syncing at the Olympics

A pretty girl who won national fame after singing at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games was only miming. Wearing a red dress and pigtails, Lin Miaoke charmed a worldwide audience with a rendition of “Ode to the Motherland”. But the singer was Yang Peiyi, who was not allowed to appear because she is [...]

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Mad Men

I’ve just discovered “Mad Men” in its second season. What a great show. The show reveals the lives of the employees of an advertising firm in the early 1960′s. What I really like about this show is that it shows an earlier part of American history without the rose-colored nostalgia that we are so used [...]

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Here’s to Bernie Mac

I posted this same youtube video of the Bernie Mac show during a recent controversy which you can read about here. The pettiness of the controversy seems so silly now that Bernie Mac has passed away. The video really gives you the sense of what the Bernie Mac show was — a surprisingly smart sit [...]

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John McCain on SNL

I was watching Verdict last night on msnbc when I caught this absolutely disturbing Saturday Night Live skit with John McCain. I guess the really disturbing part is that he is quite good as stalker. I always thought Bill Clinton was quite a thespian, but John McCain has one on him. McCain’s performance is a [...]

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Center Stage

The film Center Stage is one of my guilty pleasures. The plot is ridiculous and there is an implausible lack of gay male dancers, but still you get to see Ethan Stiefel dance. Here’s the ending dance sequence.

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Smart Girls

I love this scene from The Big Sleep. It’s playful, risque and the woman is well read. What more could you want?

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Food Network Stars and Virginity

So I’m reading the Seattle Post Intelligencer (not sic) blog on the reality series “The Next Food Network Star” when all of a sudden this sentence pops out at me. Do I question it? Do I make any sense of it? No, I just assume it’s some weird Food Network language. Luckily an astute commenter [...]

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I like Bernie Mac

Bernie Mac got some heat for telling a joke at an Obama fundraiser. Here’s the line that caused the problem: “My little nephew came to me and he said, ‘Uncle, what’s the difference between a hypothetical question and a realistic question?”‘ Mac said toward the end of his routine. “I said, I don’t know, but [...]

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Deconstructing WALL E

I just read this piece on Slate on how WALL E is a commentary on obese Americans. Wall-E tells us that if we don’t change the way we live, we’ll all get really fat and destroy the world. Do any of these cinema deconstructors like Daniel Engber actually see the movie there are writing their [...]

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Interesting Correlation

An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult Internet Market Research Company), has discovered that many websites focused on adult or erotic material have experienced an upswing in sales in the recent weeks since checks have appeared in millions of Americans’ mailboxes across the country. According to Kirk Mishkin, Head Research Consultant for AIMRCo, “Many of the [...]

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WALL E and Waste

I remember being a kid and learning about “bad” things in school like the effects of smoking and drugs. Later we would learn about recycling and re-using. I remember Arbor Day when we would plant a new tree. I suppose the idea was to encourage children to practice good habits hoping that some of those [...]

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WALL E

When watching a Pixar movie like WALL E, you can’t help but think how grateful you are that it is Pixar at the wheel and not Disney. I realize Pixar is owned by Disney, but as a completely uninformed outside observer I distinguish the two. WALL E starts surprisingly bleak and its commentary can be [...]

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Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime

This came up at trivia last night. Still as great a song as ever.

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The Lost Art of Dancing

I get sad when I think about all the great things of the past that are dying out. Like dancing. Can the formation dancing of Britney Spears or Justin Timberlake really ever compare with Fred Astaire?

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Trivia Night at Purr

A friend knowing that I play pub trivia not once but two times a week asked me if I wanted to go to Purr to play trivia. Purr is a very trendy gay/lesbian bar with very good music. For those interested, Purr’s quiz takes place on Sundays at 8:00. There is no charge to play. [...]

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Othello

All of the great classical actors of Twentieth Century played Othello like Olivier and Gielgud, but there must have been some shift in the public psyche when it became more advantageous to play Iago. This version of the play focused on contemporary psychology of the characters, and perhaps it’s modern psychology that makes Iago so [...]

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Mac Commercial in Japan

Seems like some ad campaigns are universal. Click here to watch the video.

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