i’ll be easily bribed, you be hard to please

funny ha ha

extract from “eleutheria” by jesse escott (2003)

“9 p.m……and the night’s already over. i’ve spent the last hour listening to the most heatbreaking songs i could find in my cd collection. the real people, the velvet underground, dionne warwrick and the smiths. this isn’t how i imagined turning seventeen but unlike other people growing one year older today, i have a plan for how i can change everything.”

this year’s eye-catchers (click for links)

film

1. a serious man
2. where the wild things are
3. fantastic mr fox
4. zombieland
5. adventureland
6. moon
7. district 9
8. 500 days of summer
9. in the loop

music

1. manic street preachers – journal for plague lovers (try me and stephen hawking)
2. bill callahan – sometimes i wish we were and eagle (try jim cain)
3. god help the girl – god help the girl (try perfection as a hipster)
4. idlewild – post electric blues (try city hall)
5. the pains of being pure at heart – the pains of being pure at heart (try everything with you)
6. morrissey – years of refusal (try something is squeezing my skull)
7. bruce springsteen – working on a dream (try queen of the supermarket)
8. beirut – march of the zapotec / the real people – holland (try the concubine)
9. st vincent – actor (try the party)
10. alela diane – to be still (try dry grass and shadows)
11. grizzly bear – veckatimest (try two weeks)
12. bibio – ambivalence avenue (try lovers carvings)
13. tegan and sara – sainthood (try red belt)

television

1. in treatment
2. dexter
3. the thick of it
4. curb your enthusiasm

i have just discovered…

“Some Days are Better Than Others is a poetic, character-driven film that asks why the good times slip by so fast while the difficult times seem so sticky. The film explores ideas of abundance, emptiness, human connection and abandonment while observing an interweaving web of awkward characters who maintain hope by inventing their own forms of communication and self-fulfillment. Some Days are Better Than Others is a sad valentine to the forgotten discards of a throwaway society, and is a story about knowing when to hold on, and when to let go.”