Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation [Complete Movie] →
So here’s the one shabby stream of the Rhythm Nation 1814 short film I was able to quickly find. If you’ve got a half hour, it’s a half hour well spent.
Nasty →
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=347
Kate Beaton did a Janet Jackson comic at some point, and i just saw it, and it’s terrific. The drawings of Janet dancing are worth the price of admission all by themselves.
2013 Real Shit →
the ol’ 2013 Real Shit playlist is kind of getting some jams on it if you are in the mood for some 2013 jams.
soft-scrambled eggs recipe from 221 Troutman Country Brunch number 1
Put on the last Pistol Annies album; melt some butter over low heat in a non-stick skillet; break a bunch of eggs into a bowl and beat ‘em; throw in a good amount of dill and a pinch of salt and pepper; pour into skillet; stir constantly and take off heat for a sec if any large curds start to form; they should be done round about when the album finishes and you can put on the Band Perry album and eat.
Best thing you’ll hear today 99.9%.
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I had a delicious dinner of braised lamb neck and dumplings at Dear Bushwick last night, and while I was deciding whether or not to order a second cocktail or not, I noticed a bottle of white rum that said “New York City” on it. Of course I ordered a daiquiri made with it, and it was delicious.
It turns out there’s rum being distilled a few blocks from my house! The distillery is called The Noble Experiment, the rum is called Owney’s, and we should really get over there for a tasting and tour soon, yeah?
TOVE LO MANIA
Miami Sound Machine, “I Need a Man” (1984)
There’s a specific kind of chugging mid-80s pop song, with rock antecedents but synthpop embellishments, and very often an alto sax getting sweaty, that aims at a kind of hyperreal romanticism. The kind of thing the Drive soundtrack aimed to emulate but was too twenty-first-century cool to allow the sweat to form.
Anyway, I wasn’t exactly surprised to hear Gloria Estefan making it on her first crossover English-language album — there’s a lot of stuff being thrown at a lot of different walls here — but I did like hearing something from her that bears a relation to Pat Benatar, Quarterflash, and latter-day Blondie.
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Movie Log 2013
28. Spring Breakers (dir. Harmony Korine, 2013) (Regal City North 14, Chicago)
- I dunno how much of Spring Breakers works on a “real” emotional level other than giddy, but Faith’s pre-exit call to grandma genuinely works for me on some on a trip with your friends feeling like things are really different out here bliss shit.
- obviously, the “Everytime” scene, fucking obviously. Christ I was so happy I almost fell out of my seat.
- Harmony’s up to a little something about suburban appropriation of inner-city African American culture resulting in fear (Faith) or total destruction (Brit and Candy). Maybe.
- I loved it. Is that clear? I loved it.
29. The Lady Eve (dir. Preston Sturgess, 1941) (Netflix Instant)
Will I one day find out that “they don’t make romantic comedies like they used to” is a boring, lazy opinion like every other “they don’t make _____ like they used to” opinion and a lot of current rom coms are really awesome and I should be watching them more? Barbara Stanwyck is virtuosic, and Fonda is somehow a hilarious straight man, but Sturgess and his editor Stuart Gilmore are perfect, too. There’s a cut to Charles Coburn that almost made me do a spit take and I wasn’t even drinking anything.
Movie Log 2013
27. L’amore (dir. Roberto Rossellini, 1948) (DVR’d from TCM)
Friday night TCM aired 4 Rossellini movies, 3 of which aren’t available on Region 1 DVD as far as I can tell, so I taped them before leaving the house. L’amore is actually two short films: “Una voce umana”, based on a play by Jean Cocteau and “Il miracolo”, written by Fellini. Importantly, both of these shorts star Anna Magnani and Anna Magnani is a fantastically good actress. “Una voce umana” is half an hour of Magnani as a woman being broken up with by a man who is getting married, alternately talking on the phone and waiting for the phone to ring.
Magnani’s character deals with a kind of desperation that stems from having to decide what emotions to present to someone whose reaction to your emotions you really give a shit about, and I think she does an awesome job of splitting hysteria with a sense of purpose, even if she doesn’t always have a firm grasp on what that purpose is going to be from moment to moment.
“Il miracolo” is about Nanni, a woman (I think Mankiewicz said “mentally-disabled” in his TCM intro, though I’m not sure how Fellini and Rossellini would categorize that exactly) who sees a gentleman roaming the countryside and assumes he’s St. Joseph. St. Joseph then gets her drunk and she passes out and then she’s pregnant with what she thinks is a miracle baby. This isn’t a movie about religion to me, though, but rather about how we treat people at the margins of society (Nanni spends a lot of time just outside of town).
More Rossellini to come; that dude’s the best. If you haven’t seen his war trilogy, you should see his war trilogy.
Professional Wrestling.
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