Posts by Danielle
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Bullion Pet Sounds, In The Key Of Dee
Thanks for letting me know about this earlier in the year during my J Dilla discovery phase, because it's wonderful.
Also, there will be no giving-you-shit about Lily Allen from my corner.
I never catch up on one year's music until the next year (or even after that) because I have omnivorous-back-catalogue-devouring issues which mean that I'm constantly behind on everything. I'll let you all know my 2009 list in about 2012. :)
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And then we check in with them annually thereafter -- sometimes alone, sometimes together -- every year, for twenty years, on the same date, July 15.
Isn't that the plot of an Alan Alda film?
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honest to the point of horrendously rude
My maternal side of the family always goes on about this (they're transplanted Southlanders in Auckland) and I've always thought that they were full of crap and it's just that they themselves are strikingly direct (and, erm, slightly mad). But apparently it's a 'thing'? Huh.
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Pages with pagers?
What's a 'pager'? :)
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Sam, your Friends in America will help you out here, I'm sure.
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It wont have the same immediacy- it's not often the direct helping, but the sheer *being there*
Yes, this.
I want to write something about my mother, in this context, but I'm not sure how to say it yet.
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I liked Where the Wild Things Are, for example, because it is not a children's film, but an adult discourse about childhood. It is also rather sad, and without a pat resolution.
I just wanted to agree with this, because I just saw WTWTA on Saturday and came out of it thinking 'you'd have to be a very particular type of kid to enjoy that'. I felt as if it was more made for me than it was for the littlies in the audience. (Then again, I'm not sure why I assume that children's things have to be simple and brightly coloured and wrapped up with a storytelling bow at the end.)
My film-per-year numbers vary wildly (and I imagine 2010 will be pretty low, given my condition). I've probably gone as high as 100 in Film Society/heavy-Festival years, but sometimes life intervenes. Our recent Fatso membership is a concession to 'sometimes-I-can't-be-arsed'-ism, I suppose.
I will be seeing Avatar in 3D, because I am down with Big Spectacle.
ETA: Jeez, RIP Brittany Murphy. You will live on in my heart as the voice of Luanne Platter on King of the Hill...
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Really, what was with rockstars in those days thinking they could sing in other languages?
Oh, god, this is one of my minor obsessions. I have Toni Basil's 'Mickey' in Spanish, and Gene Pitney's 'A Town Without Pity' in Italian, and some ABBA in various tongues. I'm not sure why, but I totally dig that stuff.
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We think we were the first to fly
And we're stuck with P to get us high
We must always blow on the piiiiiiiiiiie...
Hamilton has Geoff Lea-ea-landOr something.
ETA Good point, Paul. How many nations have to share this van? Do we all get in it at once, or is there a rota system? Australia gets the van on alternate Thursdays, something like that.
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Hell is a disorganized library.
No, hell is a library *conference*.