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This is actually more a response - a dissent, if you will - to the extraordinarily smart and beautiful, poetically inclined maven of Brown Rabbit Tanning , Marjorie. Marjorie and I worked at Davis-Kidd together, we started on the same day (to walk into the breakroom and see her certainly made me feel better about working for $8/hr), and I typically agree with her on things film and political, although she once steered me to an insane Turkish movie, which I have fortunately forgotten the name of, although I did like the music. I will have to say that her disinterest in The Queen disappoints me greatly. I, not being an Anglophile wasn't interested in The Queen but when the lights went down I became enthralled and entranced by Dame Helen Mirren (who joins other silver-haired beauties, Raquel Welch - I know she's not silver haired but you know what I mean - and  Emmylou Harris , on my hottie list). Here performance was all encompassing, she is one of the few who truly and absol...

I've never done a meme b4 but this one was in my inbox (credit to The Life Of a Wife and Teacher ): IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE? So, here's how it works: 1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc) 2. Put it on shuffle 3. Press play 4. For every question, type the song that's playing 5. When you go to a new question, press the next button 6. Don't lie and try to pretend your cool... 7. When you're finished tag some other people to do it! Here are the areas that you need to fill out: Opening credits: Waking up: First day of school: Falling in love: First song: Breaking up: Prom: Life: Mental Breakdown: Driving: Flashback: Getting back together: Wedding: Birth of Child: Final Battle: Death Scene: Funeral song: End Credits: Here's Mine!!! Opening credits: Joe Hill by Paul Robeson Waking up: South Heading by Groundthruter ( DJ Logic version) First day of school: Nowadayze by Georgia Ann Muldrow Falling in love: She Bel...

This started as a comment on Marjorie's blog, Brown Bunny Tanning , but it was getting long so I figured I'd flesh it out over here. The Queen was a good movie, we saw it back in Oct or so (sneak peak), and Helen Mirren made me fall in love with the Queen. I was completely entranced I am not an Anglophile (I do love British soccer and the pub culture), I never understood the Diana thing, but this was such a well-written and well-acted movie I am smitten with Helen Mirren. We (Marjorie And I) are on the same tip with Dreamgirls . This was a schlocky Hollywood bombast of a perfectly good (from what I hear) Brdwy production . The problem I had (other than hating musicals) is that the off-stage characters (except Jamie Foxx ) had no story. I didn't care about any of them, I just wanted to get to the next on-stage scene, which they ALL did great jobs with. After Jamie Foxx, J-Hu 's character and Eddie Murphy 's character had the most depth but they had so little it...

Interesting that they share initials. Thanks to some audioblog out there, I have now heard both versions of " And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going ", the emotional linchpin of the musical. I saw the movie but not the play . I was not impressed by the movie. The stage performances were very good but the off stage stuff was weak. Everything off stage had me asking for the next stage performance...that doesn't make a good movie, which is why I am not surprised that it wasn't nominated for an Oscar . The other thing was that this reinforced my hatred for most musicals ! I can't stand those damn things. This song is a prime example. The music in so many musicals is such a bombastic mess. This is one where you can sorta compare the source material ( Motown ) with the stage/screen production and you can see that even the most emotional song in the entire production lacks the substance, the subtleties and breath of a truly emotional ballad. Part of it is that fucking ...

I'm starting with the end of this article because I think it's the most interesting theory. It's going to be fun watching what happens with the 2008 presidential election. I don't think it's Al's time. I just don't know if people are ready for President Gore. I think he should continue to do what he's doing for another 4 years, if not 8. Barring most situations I will vote for him based on his environmental policies alone but I just don't think most Americans give a shit about global warming...it's too theoretical, especially in the christian fundamentalist realm, which seems to be a predominant ideology right now. Oscars are in Jan or Feb so we'll see. An Inconvenient Truth will probably be nominated for an Oscar . It's the third highest grossing documentary in history and the most successful documentary of 2006. It will probably win. If you see a chubby, happy Al Gore standing next to the producer and director, celebrating the win at...