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tillsammans (together) (dir. lukas moodysson, 2000 sweden)

this is in my top tier of all-time favorite movies.

we're all connected.

shivers (aka, they came from within) (1975). david cronenberg's 1st feature film.

brrrrr...

i had a few words to say about this film, 'round about this time of year a couple of years ago; and had the pleasure of seeing david cronenberg in person at an event at ucsb just this weekend.

i'm also embedding a segment from filmfour in the uk with cronenberg talking about shivers himself.


(and, btw: the reason i'm posting all of this here is that the video interface on the buzz isn't working for url's or embed codes this morning. for some reason... like a lot of other things...)

 


b) 2 hot, revolutionary bass/guitar-playing mod women: michelle mae (the make-up & weird war)



& the swedish sara almgren (the [international] noise conspiracy &, currently, in the vicious).



that's right: pretty. mod. politicized. musicians. need i say any more?  (sooooo dreamy...siiiiggghhhh...)

c) christian bale, ewan mcgregor, jonathan rhys meyers in todd haynes' velvet goldmine.



(pictured, l-r: haynes, meyers, mcgregor, &, i think, eddie izzard)

make of this what you will. velvet goldmine is arguably my favorite movie of all time. & to quote 2 characters in wes anderson's the life aquatic with steve zissou:

alistair hennessey (jeff goldblum): "i have an excuse, i'm part gay."
steve zissou (bill murray): "supposedly, we all are."

d) that said, it's their co-star, toni colette, who i'd really like to go on a date with.



e) los angeles musician carla bozulich.



f) author & radical international activist arundhati roy.




she's amazing. seriously so. so strong, centered, eloquent. & i'll let the photo speak for itself.

g) kathleen hannah (bikini kill, julie ruin, le tigre).



she kicks it.

h) nina hartley.


i believe that paxgitmo once commented that porn-star & sex-educator nina hartley could be seen as the equivalent of an ancient "temple courtesan." take that however you might...

i) julie christie.




have met her. love her. have a hunch that she'll be up for another "best actress" oscar, for sarah polley's "away from her." that is so cool.

i've always admired the activist-oriented actor/director polley too. and she also has a zombie movie under her belt. so add her to the list (j)...



k) maggie gyllenhaal.

she had me with the line, "satan says you need more color," in cecil b. demented.



& i've still yet to see secretary!  :P''




l) oh my, i guess i'm just about done!

actor & chinese pop singer faye wong. ever since i saw wong kar-wai's chungking express... she's the sorta girl you just wanna snuggle with...








m) all the funny hottties! (probably my most "realistic" crushes!  ;)

kerri kenney-silver (the state, reno 911!, viva variety)



janeane garofalo



amy poehler (of upright citizens brigade, wet hot american summer, & saturday night live - pictured with janeane [far left], & the very talented tina fey [middle])



& the humor queen from my adolescence, sctv's catherine o'hara.



ok: more amy poehler...




so... that's all. how's that for compulsively thorough?!

n) awwww... sheeeit... just one more.

catherine keener.  ever since living in oblivion.



ttfn!

♥

freaky the fanboy.

i had a great time last night in los angeles hanging with sonyargazza at her l.a. going-away party -- @ a place called "the mandrake"* no less! -- and managed to find some time to visit with desiree the dvl too.

it was well worth the drive to & from los angeles. on top of all the obvious bonuses to the evening, sonya's collection of friends were all super-nice & cool to boot!

i'm really glad that she

 

& dvl

 

managed to get some photos...

this is all i have for y'all right now, though.



(i cannot manage to locate my usb cable that goes with my camera!!! =(     )

i got zapped by a stingray on sunday afternoon.

on the inside of my left ankle. that fuck'n hurt!

an interesting adventure, that one. baywatch lifeguard-types, a visit to the e.r.  $50 co-pay.

i cannot find my camera's patchcord. more news at 11!

Here are the rules:

1) Only list 8 facts.
2) You must then list 8 TAGS at the end of the post. This means you must name 8 people on Buzznet who now must do the same blog.***
3) Go comment on their profile and tell them to come read yours! Mark demands participation.

1. The first movie I can remember seeing was “Ice Station Zebra.” I believe I was about 2 years old (tagging along with the ’rents at the drive-in).  A submarine trapped under the ice!  All star cast (Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown!). Claustrophic! Unforgettable!  :P

2. I’ve been obsessed with vampires since I was very little. I couldn’t really watch the soap opera Dark Shadows (when i was 5) because it scared me too much.  Only a few months before my 6th birthday, I did make it through a good chunk of the TV horror movie The Night Stalker before I had to go to bed – but asked the next morning if the hero Carl Kolchak killed the story’s vampire, for fear he’d come for me next, otherwise. I graduated to the Night Stalker tv series later (at age 8), but watched it with a rosary at the ready. And I readily appreciated Christopher Lee over Bela Lugosi, although I have nothing against Lugosi. Lee was lucky enough to be in sexier movies, to boot.

3. I was raised Catholic and tried to practice the faith until my early-to-mid 20s.  See #2.

4. I possibly knew more about Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal than any other 7 year-old in the country, thanks in large part to this record album produced by Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber – The Watergate Comedy Hour. I also dragged a neighbor kid to see All the President’s Men when I was only 10.  And Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972 turned me into a Hunter S. Thompson fan in college, not Las Vegas (that came later).

5. High school started to seem like a nightmare during my junior year: glasses, braces, AND bad bad skin made me a bit of a shut-in for a span.

6. I was de facto “president” of the College Democrats at St. Mary’s College during the 1987-88 school year. Fuck the Democrats. Wimps.

7. I didn’t really get into punk rock until I was pushing 30. Repo Man had a big impact on me, though, in 1984, and I clearly remember being blown away by the Replacements “Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out” a year later. But immersion didn’t come until much later. My ex got into Green Day, which is a terrific band, especially live (but responsible for a lot of shitty copycat acts!), but she also discovered all of their supatalented peers that never moved up to major labels – Operation Ivy, Tilt, Pansy Division, the Hi-Fives, all these Lookout! Records groups, etcetera. At the same time, I was getting into the whole zine thing, in part through my friend Dishwasher Pete. Oh, yeah, and she discovered the great maximumrocknroll fanzine: there was a whole, huge world out there that I had no idea about. I was so excited by the discovery, and will always appreciate her central role in that in such a big way.

8. For various reasons, I feel like a late bloomer. And blogging helped me get over some nasty mental blocks & traumas. That’s one big reason I value the community I’ve found here. That, plus the camaraderie, global network, humor, friendship, and peer support for my ideas, writing, photography, interests.  I also like sharing myself reciprocally. Plus I like wasting time and being lazy... (I can do without the [Jeffree] Starr-fucking that eventually crept into this site, I know far more about AFI, MCR, “Blacq Audio,” and Pete Wentz than I care to [actually wish I could delete some of their images from my head, I do]).  But it’s been worth it, regardless...

i've been "tagged" several times.  Now I aim for some real big fish! (including some prodigal chilluns! ;)

found the patch cord for my digital camera just this morning.

i'm starting to get my sea legs again after nearly 3 weeks away: have been jet-laggin' & recuperating from a summer cold, too.

a lot of photos to weed through & post. & a lot of catching up to do with y'all! i'm excited!

=D

btw... my load should be lightening up as of...just about...  now!

w00t!

and, yes, fuck these hoodlums.

freak power

latimes.com

The LAPD owes the city some answers

John Mack of the Los Angeles Police Commission summed it up neatly Wednesday afternoon at City Hall when he said: "This was not a pretty picture."

He was referring to videos of LAPD riot cops in action Tuesday evening in MacArthur Park. Once again, a small number of officers appears to have created another PR nightmare for the department. Even their boss, Chief William J. Bratton, said he was disturbed by what he called inappropriate behavior.

I wasn't there, so I'm not sure exactly how this ugly chapter unfolded at the end of a long day of peaceful demonstrations by immigrant and workers' rights advocates. Bratton said that 50 to 100 agitators, as he called them, got into a skirmish with police. Witnesses said the knuckleheads were throwing bottles at cops, several of whom were injured.

But what followed, much of it captured by news crews, raises more than a few questions.

Video shot that evening shows police moving in on MacArthur Park like they were taking Iwo Jima. They ordered people involved in peaceful demonstrations to move out. There was confusion, with some people leaving and others lingering as the drama played out.

Then we see officers aiming rifles to fire foam bullets.

We see civilians go down.

We see fear and panic.

We see a man holding a child and running for cover.

We see a nasty bruise on the belly of a man hit with a foam bullet.

We see police wielding batons, ordering reporters to scram, shoving two television cameramen, tussling with another member of the media and pushing Fox 11 news reporter Christina Gonzales away as she tries to help her fallen videographer.

Gonzalez reported that police had ordered her to get into her van and "shut the door." But the reporter, whose husband is a retired LAPD cop, didn't want to be sealed off like that, unable to "videotape some of the other people" who were "getting roughed up, to put it mildly."

She was later taken to the hospital with what she thought was a dislocated shoulder, but she turned out to be OK. She said her videographer was treated for a wrist injury.

"I have never seen anything like this," Gonzalez said on Fox 11 early Wednesday. She said that while police were trying to herd reporters and others out of the way, she heard them laughing and saying: "Double time, it's tussle time."

Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, was in the park for a peaceful rally that suddenly turned chaotic.

"I started hearing gunshots, people started screaming, people with children started running, hiding behind bushes and under trees," Salas said. "I couldn't understand what was happening, but I saw a man get up after a big old rubber bullet hit him in the side."

Salas tried to escort families out of the area, but it was unclear what directions might be safe, and more shots could still be heard. "My biggest concern was that the police weren't discerning between" agitators and "the vast majority of people who were there peacefully."

I'd like to know what commanders were in charge and what they were thinking. I'd like to know if police aimed rifles at specific targets or into the crowd. I'd like to know why police thought it was OK to rough up or muzzle reporters who were simply doing their jobs. And I'd like to know how this will be avoided in the future.

A lot to ask, maybe. But Bratton promised several investigations, and the public deserves answers in double time.

*

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steve.lopez@latimes.com

so, so busy!

:P

i have someone i need to thank for a birfday gift (nina!!).

more on that soon too.

& i have some picatures to post/comments to make.

bear with!

back in a jiffy!

t.

from santabarbaranewsroom.com

i suspect dear ol' buzznet has been contacted by some music-industry attorneys, perhaps?!

down...down...down go the audio files.

which is a bummer.  what are us audophiles to do?!?

(get it?! "audio-files/philes!" hahaha)

thud...

nite y'all!

xo

for this radio conference.

i feel both excitement & trepidation.

i'm sure that it'll be a blast. but, still... it'll never be the same. 

the stories i could tell...

once i got sick a few weeks back, i got into some really stoopid patterns -- crazy-ass busy & increasingly disorganized, i started driving to work every day. i even left my bike chained up outside our office for a few weeks: it weathered a couple rainstorms, in fact.

well, last night, i ended up leaving my car on campus overnight, & biked home from work.

had intended to take the bus in today, but missed it, so i biked back to work instead.

i'm going to feel like i'm getting my act together if i keep this up!

:P




(this is a photo from a couple months ago, now, but this was what the view was like, pretty much, on the way into campus this morning.  that helps too, for sure.)

TODAY'S PROGRAM IS NOW POSTED FIRST IN MY BUZZNET PLAYLIST!!!  (IN 2 PARTS)

the freak power ticket - monday, january 22nd, 2007

*** - denotes new releases

1) alice donut  - "demonologist" dry humping the cash cow (alternative tentacles)

2) julie london - "cry me a river" v for vendetta (original motion picture soundtrack)  (astralwerks/emd)  (music bed for voice over)

3) *** agent ribbons - "birds and bees"  on time travel and romance (self-released)



4) *** oso "G8 breakdown"  lonesome tunnel hum these strong arm drones (self-released)



5) *** anton barbeau - "the bane of your existence is my name" in the village of the apple sun (four way records)

6) *** anton barbeau - "seeds of space"  in the village of the apple sun (four way records)  (music bed for voice over)



7) *** robyn hitchcock & the venus 3 - "olé! tarantula"  olé! tarantula (yep roc records)

8) pilot scott tracy - "run run run" we cut loose! (alternative tentacles records)

9) tamar kali - "boot"  geechee goddess hardcore warrior soul (oya warrior records)




10)  the bouncing souls - "hopeless romantic" (epitaph records)

11) the haints - "zombie crush"  (an unreleased version of an old groovie ghoulies song, from the haints myspace page -- the haints are a ghoulies side-project)

12) gary glitter - "do you wanna touch me? (oh yeah!) rock and roll: gary glitter greatest hits (rhino records/bell records)

13) jello biafra & the melvins - "halo of flies"  sieg howdy! (alternative tentacles)  (cover of an alice cooper song)

14) neil young (with johnny depp) - theme to "dead man" (a film by jim jarmusch) (unreleased; words by william blake) (music bed for playlist recap)

15) *** anton barbeau - "when i was 46 in the year 13" in the village of the apple sun (four way records)



16) peter gabriel - "the feeling begins" passion: music from the last temptation [of christ] (geffen) (music bed for show outro)

January 20/21 2007
First Bomb Carter; Then Nuke Iran!
The Israel Lobby Trips and Tilts

[from CounterPunch]

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

Suppose the movers and shakers in the Israel lobby here -- Abe Foxman, Alan Dershowitz and the rest of the crew -- had simply decided to leave Jimmy Carter’s Palestine Peace Not Apartheid alone. How long before the book would have been gathering dust on the remainder shelves? Suppose even that Dershowitz had rounded up his unacknowledged co-authors in all their tens of thousands and sallied forth to buy up every copy of Carter’s book and toss each one into the Charles River, would not that have been a more successful suppressor than the blitzkrieg strategy they did adopt?



Of course it would. For weeks now the lobby has hurled its legions into battle against Carter. He has been stigmatized as an anti-Semite, a Holocaust denier, a patron of former concentration camp killers, a Christian madman, a pawn of the Arabs who “flatly condones mass murder” of Israeli Jews. (This last was from Murdoch’s New York Post editorial, relayed to its mailing list by the Zionist Organization of America.)

Any day now I expect some janitors at the Carter Center to resign, declaring that they can no longer in all conscience mop bathrooms that might have been used by the former President, their letter of protest duly front-paged by the New York Times, just like the famous fourteen members of the Carter Center’s Board of Councilors. Actually there were, at the time of resignations, 224 people on this board, where membership is mostly a thank you for a financial donation to the center. So the headlines could be saying, “Nearly 95 per cent of Carter Center Board Members Back Former President.”

But the assault on Carter is all to no avail. With each gust of abuse, Carter’s book soars higher and higher on the bestseller lists, reaching number 4 on Amazon itself. This doesn’t prove the lobby has no power. It proves the lobby can be dumb. Adroit lobbying consists in preventing unpleasing material reaching the light of day. Lobbying thrives in furtive darkness: slipping language into a bill at the last moment, threatening to back a campaign opponent, making quiet phone calls to the Polish embassy. Pressure is now being exerted on Farrar, Straus and Giroux to abandon its impending publication of Mearsheimer and Walt’s attack on the lobby.

The Israel lobby retains its grip inside the Beltway, but it’s starting to lose its hold on the broader public debate. Why? You can’t brutalize the Palestinian people in the full light of day, decade after decade, without claims that Israel is a light among the nations getting more than a few serious dents. In the old days, Mearsheimer and Walt’s tract would have been deep-sixed by the University of Chicago and the Kennedy School long before it reached its final draft, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux wouldn’t have considered offering a six-figure advance for it. Simon & Schuster would have told President Carter that his manuscript had run into insurmountable objections from a distinguished board of internal reviewers. But once a book by a former president with weighty humanitarian credentials makes it into bookstores, it’s hard to shoot it down with volleys of wild abuse.

The trouble with the lobby and the Christian zealots who act as its echo chamber is that they believe their own propaganda about Israel’s equitable social arrangements and immaculate political and legal record in its relations with the Palestinians. Use the word apartheid and they howl with indignation. The shock is about thirty years out of date. Israeli writers have used the word apartheid to describe arrangements in the occupied territories for years. Hundreds of prominent South African Jews issued a statement six years ago making the same link.

As in so many things, conventional elite opinion lives in a bubble, believing mere assertion and ranting about anti-Semitism will carry the day. The New York Times featured a spectacularly disingenuous hatchet job by its deputy foreign editor, Ethan Bronner, and another assault by former Clinton-era Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross. The latter rolled out the ritual accusations about Arafat’s rejection of Clinton’s proposals in December 2000, which is nonsense, as Ross surely knows. Clinton himself acknowledged in 2001 what later historians have substantiated, that both sides accepted his proposals in principle, while filing reservations. (Israel’s amounted to 20 single-spaced pages.)

The Times’ attacks were matched in the Washington Post by Jeffrey Goldberg, formerly of the IDF and a notorious trafficker in fictions, such as the supposed terror ties between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Amazon ran his vulgar ravings under the “Editorial Reviews” heading—a space usually reserved for short blurbs from Publishers Weekly and the like.

But if the lobby is fighting rearguard and increasingly futile actions to suppress all discussion here of what Israel is doing to Palestinians, it continues to exercise very serious clout in such enclaves of timidity as the U.S. Congress. Bush was not foolish in singling out Iran for threats in his January 10 address. The Democratic reaction to Bush’s escalation against Iraq and Iran has mostly been confined to nervous talk of “symbolic votes.” This temperate posture is surely not unconnected to the fact that the lobby’s prime foreign policy task, joined by Israeli hawks like Bibi Netanyahu, has been to rally support for an assault on Iran.

What an irony! Desperate for an end to the war, the voters hand Congress to the Democrats. Barely more than two months later Bush is kidnapping Iranian diplomats from in their consulate in Irbil, Iraq -- a calculated provocation arousing scant tumult here. Bush is also deploying a larger naval force to the Persian Gulf, as Israel plants stories about its possible recourse to nuclear weapons. Some provocation, maybe a seizure by the U.S. of an Iranian tanker, is easy to imagine in February. In the Congress, there’s barely a whimper out of the Democrats amid these terrifying prospects. It may have made a mess of its war against Carter’s book, but as a ferryman across the Styx toward Armageddon the lobby is doing a competent job.

there's a chance i may get to meet writer/animator/director mike judge tonight.



frickin' Office Space!!!!



we shall see...

:)

my amazingly-talented cartoonist friend molly recently joined buzznet! it's so cool!

            


she goes by "mollycules." molly is the artist i blogged about last night.




tell her i sentcha! it'll be worth it, i can guarantee it!



werd.

freakay pantalones

i just ate a pb&j sammich & it tastered sorta funny.

just looked inside the strawberry preserves jar & it turned out to be mouldy.

do y'all think i'm gonna hallucinate now?!?

(um... please, god...)