Pencils Down, Close Your Tune Test Books

Tune Test answers all completed. Overall not bad...for the two people I knew would get most if not all.

Shape of a 2 DVD set! Form of a new blog entry!

Music at the moment: Michael Bublé - Feeling Good

YAY, Volume Two!!!




It took long enough dammit. Short entry today as I head out...

Meanwhile, downstairs in the living room...


to watch an episode while working out.

Happy Birthday Pete!

Again with the jumbled dates in the head! This blog entry is late by 2 days unfortunately.

A very happy *62nd birthday to my dear friend Pete! Sorry I mixed up 12th and 15th. I'm hard pressed to block this small section of June from memory since it encompasses another birthday that is better left forgotten. I'll try harder to replace June 13th birthday alert with the 12th.



* Just kidding folks. I think he's closer to 43 or something.

Music at the moment: Backstreet Boys - My Beautiful Woman

Michael Jackson acquitted across the board. What-thefuck-ever. Again we see the immunity celebrity affords iniquitous scoundrels. Feh and double feh.

One Of The Few Christians I Genuinely Like!

I love Christian Bale.

It's no secret. Any of my friends know he's quite high on the Phred top [insert number here] list of "Men That make Phred Swoon." It doesn't hurt that he's an Aquarius that shares the same birthday with me. (Yay!)

I remember seeing him in Empire of the Sun when he was like 13 and then a little later that movie Newsies. It wasn't until Swing Kids, another one of my favorite old movies, that I began to really get into him. Sexy, talented and fun to watch, Christian always struck me as a real actor. By real I mean not some hollywood construct that's prefabricated and packaged prefectly for public consumption. Too many "actors" these days are simply assembly line products rather than bona fide craftsmen.

Continuing on through his career, one of the sexiest cartoon characters in Pocahontas (Yes cartoon characters can be sexy.) was voiced by him much to my titillation. I love Thomas. He beats John Smith any day of the week.

Portrait of a Lady, Metroland (Love this film and Emily Watson as well!), Velvet Goldmine (One of my favorite movies), A Midsummer Night's Dream, American Psycho (Yay Brett Easton Ellis!), Captain Corelli's mandolin, Reign of Fire (The movie itself was a let down but he was nice to look at), Equilibrium (Vastly underrated movie. Love this film), Howl's voice in the english version of Howl's Moving Castle, Batman Begins (Rrrrrrow) and coming up as John Rolfe in The New World.

Last night I watched another of his movies. The Machinist. Wow.

This movie was a return to the creepy movies that used to make one get nervous as if one was the main character in the movie. 106 minutes of Hitchcockian Twilight Zone calibre film that kept me watching the screen. All the performances were great, Jennifer Jason Leigh (Who's always fantastic) and Christian, of course, at the top of the list. The most disturbing thing about the movie is how well you're sucked into the movie's setting. You want immersion? Nothing immerses you better than feeling like you really are watching a guilt-stricken man fighting with sleeplessness and slow, steady disintegration than seeing an actor who usually looks like this:



turn into someone who looks like this:



It's surreal. I've seen other performers take similar action for films, Ben Kingsley in Gandhi, Oprah Winfrey in The Color Purple, but never to the level Christian did for The Machinist. He was unnervingly gaunt and his waistline alone made me wince.

The movie is superb. I recommend it to anyone who likes a good scary thrill-ride.

Phred Phun Phactor: 8.5 out of 10

In summary:

I love Christian Bale MORE.

Stuff

Came across this today and nearly piddled. Must share!

Love is...

******

My wait for this movie has been way too long!

Mirrormask

Music at the moment: Juliette and the Licks - Got Love To Kill (Remix)

H

Finally found this movie to watch and snatched it up. This was another Tartan film that I'd read about when i first heard about A Tale of Two Sisters. This one was good, but rather slow. It's never a good sign when you find yourself looking at the time to see how far you are into a film. The movie begins feeling a bit like some Korean rendition of a Hannibal film. (Sirence of the Rambs). Eventually it moves past that association. The characters were decent and the plot interesting. I guessed at the title early on and laughed when it turned out to be right. Were it not for the slow pace, this would definitely be among my Asian Horror collection. Extreme bonus to this film? Jin-hee Ji. I don't know what the word for Hot is in Korean, but he's all that and a bowl of Kimchi. Mmm!



Phred Phun Phactor: 5 out of 10

Here's To You Mrs. Robinson

Well damn. Today was going so nicely until I saw the news. Between stand-offs in California and the Jackson trial I was lambasted by the news that one of my favorite actors was gone. I guess now i'll watch Torch Song Trilogy and some of the other Bancroft movies I'd thought about a couple weeks ago. All the good ones are moving on. Sigh.

Anne Bancroft
September 17, 1931 - June 6, 2005

47 Years, 26 Making Art

Music at the moment: Prince - The Greatest Romance Ever Sold

Another year rolls around and June 7th hits us again.
Just want to send a sincere "Thanks!" to a man who has
single-handedly kept me dancing since I was nine.

REAL NAME: Prince Rogers Nelson
BIRTHDAY: June 7, 1958
ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE: 2004
"Peace and B wild." - Prince, 1997

Tune Test

A spot of phun from Pete. I hope someone other than Bryan and Josh do these. I have no doubt they could hit most of them without trying. If no one gets them and Josh and Bryan don't eventually fill in the answers I'll post them later. In some I put a hefty chunk of lyrics because the smaller lines are pretty vague. Some are simple, some are obscure, all are on my huge playlist. Have Phun!

1. Put your iPod on "Shuffle Songs". (Or if you defy iPod and use an alternative)
2. Take the first 20 songs and write a line of lyrics from each.
3. Strike out the song every time someone guesses correctly.
4. NO CHEATING! It's no phun!

Okay all the answers in Red no one got. The ones in Purple are credited to those that answered them first.

Our winner is:


Panamabry!

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1) Guess I left you shell shocked baby, I didn't mean to cry so hard (Wendy & Lisa - Turn Me Inside Out)

2) 7-month-old baby died in her sleep, The parents went crazy and cried for a week , They swore they heard her laugh in the crib by the wall, They're convinced she's with us if she's anything at all (Others Here With Us - Prince: Panamabry)

3) Limousine, Diamond Ring, Caviar, Make it with a star (Madame X - Just That Type Of Girl)

4) ...this ain't revenge, it's puttin' the past on the shelf, 'cause bitch means being in total control of herself. (Tairrie B - Ruthless Bitch)

5) It may seem to other people like we've come from outer space, but we're really just two nurses on the staff. (I had to include this one just to make Bryan pee a little) (Dykes Are We - The Frogs: Panamabry)

6)I'm in heaven with the maven of funk mutation (Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club: Panamabry)

7) Confusion heads a lonely game, nothing answered things left the same, if I still don't understand myself, how can I explain to someone else? (Jean Beauvoir - Feel The Heat)

8) ...can't be trusted, good for nothing type of brotha, everything you claimed to be was a lie (Why'd You Lie To Me - Anastacia: Panamabry)

9) Can you ride the rhythm of this human wave, Caught up in the music and the space you save, Caught up in the magic of it, Caught up in the madness (Device - Hanging On A Heart Attack)

10) And I don't want no other to play my stupid games, you were the one for me and I feel I'm losing my soul (Jocelyn Enriquez - Everything I need, Shame shame Bryan! I knew you'd get this one.)

11) sell us ersatz dressed up and real fake (Marilyn Manson - Rock Is Dead)

12 Made your acquaintance late one night, You were floating around, You know you gave me quite a fright (Supernatural - Madonna: Panamabry)

13) No me digas cuanto es que me amas (Falsas Esperanzas - Christina Aguilera: Panamabry)

14) I cant go on, stop rocking the tune, 'cause I get down, 'cause I get down (Don't Stop - Freestylers: Joshua)

15) Just before 2:15 in the morning, Josie was doin the hustle with a ruffneck named James (Tuesday Afternoon - Jennifer Brown: Panamabry)

16) What could he do? Should have been a rock star, but he didn’t have the money for a guitar (Army Dreamers - Kate Bush: Panamabry)

17) Alabaster moon, incandescent power, Kunda flower. She is white as snow, gleaming, pure, divine ivory ascending, I am calling (Sarasvati - Jane Child: Panamabry)

18) The owner is this mean old bitch who degrades him every day (I've Committed Murder - Macy Gray: Panamabry)

19) The bed's on fire, your fate is sealed and you're so tired and the reason is camille (Shockadelica - Prince: Panamabry)

20) A delectable dimension undetectable by sight (The World Exploded Into Love - Bob Schneider: Panamabry)