I never promised you a rose garden.

what is it with me and fantastically maudlin or crap songs?

Anyway, it started raining tonight, I pulled out the old pencils and paper, and actually finished part of a drawing - this is going to be a group portrait eventually, but for now here's...

ETA: Absolutely nothing. Isn't it tragic? Yes, the Hermione goodness was the first casualty of the great big server divorce.

*howls*

Rob Sheffield (a journalist for the sad Rolling Stone) -- on Angelina Jolie

"She is perfect. She is wicked and beautiful and lost, a bride of Dracula with bullet-proof lips and a straight-to-video soul, lounging through an increasingly bad barrage of Hollywood crap because she wants to show that no mere movie can touch the bang-a-gong glory of her sneer."

I agree, btw. I used the Angelina quote to segue into a mini rant about the American film industry and the shit that passes through the executive boards -
I mean, KANGAROO JACK. The Jungle Book 2. The Santa Clause 2. Hmmm...it seems to be a big anti-Disney spin right about now - but to make things short, I call it my Kevin Williamson theory. Where you take a good idea and then beat it into the ground over and over again, and even if you leave the sinking ship, it still goes on without you, festering in its own appalling stew of mediocrity and washed up never-beens. The video store is a graveyard of such efforts.

I'm not talking about guilty pleasure cinema either (Gen X, Y Cops), but truly gross, bloated examples of the sheer disregard for human brain cells (Look. Our president is a moron, I accept that, but that does not mean America as a whole is a nation of idiots.) - often aimed at the young. The Skulls 2? Cruel Intentions 2? Urban Legend 4 1/2? What the hell are you people thinking? It's not as if you're telling an old story in an effective or entertaining way! Also, the films on serial killers? Dahmer, Bundy, what's next?

I am not immune to the pretty, as most of you know. I willingly troll the waters of shallow from time to time, coming back with eyecandy to paint the walls with. But hey - if you don't have a personality or a sense of humor and you're just pretty? Then honey, get the hell out of my way, because you bore me.

things that don't bore me...

"How old are you? Old enough."

-- that bit came from Another Day in Paradise a Larry Clark film, starring Vincent Kartheiser and James Woods. I watched half of it, but I was pressed for time, so I didn't get to finish. After watching the joyful naturalness of Y Tu Mama Tambien, the sex and the themes explored in ADiP just was ...dark, dark, dark and depressing. Vincent gets beaten up in the first ten minutes of the film and it's just appalling, the blood and mirror imagery. I also felt slightly uneasy during the part I did watch - like a voyeur. I liked Crime and Punishment in Suburbia, interestingly enough, but that could have just been the title...

herself_nyc's travelogue.

..my beautiful Diego Luna is allegedly going to be in Dirty Dancing 2. Oh, the horrors.