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My eyebrows tried similar things in college, but had more success with Merrill Bainbridge's "Mouth." Would it be my fault if I could turn you on? Would I be so bad if I could turn you on? When I kiss your mouth I want to taste it Turn you upside down, don't want to waste it I jump on you, you jump on me

This would be incredible good luck... I'm booked solid from October 19-29 [Milwaukee International Film Festival], but would be free on the 31st. If this happens, I'll be there.

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu / Cristi Puia / Romania / 2005 Viewers accompany an ailing, aging widower as he travels between four Bucharest hospitals that refuse to seriously regard his claims of head and stomach pains, mostly because those complaints are drenched in the smell of alcohol. His full name is Dante Remus Lazarescu, and that moniker, pregnant with not one but three symbolic meanings, suggests a grim odyssey top-heavy with self-importance, but quite the reverse is true: While the movie does swing for the fences in its hellish, sometimes funny indictment of inefficient medical syst

The set in Milwaukee seemed short as well.

HAPP BIRTHDAY to one of VC's most generous people!

The Good Life - Album of the Year I've never liked Cursive, but this side project by Tim Kasher sounds pretty good. Big thanks to the former student who sent it to me.

Matchbox Twenty?

Started watching this last night but fell asleep within 30 minutes. I'll reserve judgment until I actually finish it, but my first impression was that it's pretty damn silly.

The Rave/Eagles Club building contains five concert halls: The Rave Bar, The Rave Vibe Room, The Rave Hall, The Eagles Hall--and the Eagles Ballroom, which is the large auditorium upstairs. And I'll take the Riverside or the Pabst over all of them.

I've been to the Riverside in Milwaukee, most recently for Belle & Sebastian/New Pornos. It's a very nice venue, far classier than, say, the Eagles Ballroom. It also has a massive balcony.

This looks promising

Say what you will about the disposable Transporter movies, but I would trade all of Crash for how Transporter 2 cleverly choreographs a water hose into an effective weapon. Speaking of bad movies and the MST3K treatment... one of my favorite filmgoing experiences ever was seeing Solo--you know, Mario Van Peebles as a killer android--at a budget theater with a couple of college pals, and turning the auditorium into our own MST3K show. (No one else was there, and rightly so.)

Listen, one afternoon I paid to see, in consecutive order, Booty Call, The Sixth Man and McHale's Navy. I have no regrets.

Okay, that's it. We are so over.

Guster typically mentions how "now is the time we're supposed to leave and then come back," so they dispense with the artificiality. They just stay on stage and start what would, I guess, normally be the "encore." They certainly poke fun at how the encore has become an expected convention rather than a special event.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JEN!

I've been Netflixing for 6 years, and so haven't rented a movie in a store for 6 years. And yet I go into Blockbuster nearly every week or so, to peruse the used DVDs. Today I picked up Inside Man and the South African Yesterday. They also had Mon Oncle D'Amerique, but I'm sure it'll still be there when I go back.

That's how I feel about me and NBC, about the day I first saw Punky Brewster.

The one that aired in January? I could send it to you on DVD.

He's a sharp one.

I imagine so. There are 14 songs listed--surely they didn't air 14 songs?

Tristram Shandy cracked me up. I thought it was great. And I really loved The Virgin Suicides--maybe even more than Lost In Translation. I think it has something to do with how everything I liked about LIT was fairly conventional, while everything I loved about VS was fairly unconventional. Its flaws were easier to disregard.

Huh. I pre-ordered yesterday, and my account still lists it, along with the Neko DVD, as an open order.

I'll pre-order the Tweedy and MMJ discs, but this one too.

I missed it, too. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Tracy!