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Hi all; Just got off work at 130 in the am on Wed nite/Thursday
morning and thought I'd update everyone on what's in my head.
I'm eating the new Margatita Chicken from Taco Cabana -
it's really just a overly grilled chicken breast with lime
juice sprinkled on it, but I like it...
I'm also drinking Mt. Dew even tho I shouldn't cause the
caffine will keep me up til 6am but I'm off tomorrow so F
it! I don't have to get up before noon until Sunday morning!
Has anyone seen the preview trailer for "American
Beauty?" It's a Dreamworks film with Kevin Spacey
and Anette Benning - this looks like the film to look for
in the fall - freaking awesome. It looks like it has something
to do with the sterility and the angst involved with white,
middle class, suburbanite living. A rocker! Spacey and Benning
look at the top of their form and the teens in the cast seem
great too. There's a scene where a father hits his son hard
in the face and then says "There are rules in life, son..."
then the kid is shown lying on the floor and he says "Yes
sir... don't give up on me Dad." I get goose bumps. The
majority of the trialer uses the Who's "Baba O'Riely"
(hot off of it's primordial usage in Spike Lee's "Summer
of Sam") to awesome effect. I'm telling you - this gets
my vote for trailer of the year!
I'm starting to soften on my opinions of "Eyes
Wide Shut" and "Blair
Witch." I see that both films may have something
to offer. Kubrick just jams a door stop into his film in the
orgy scene and that really spoils all the goodness in it for
me. While it ruins the film, we can't let that negate from
the awesome work of Nicole Kidman and the incredible chances
taken by her and Cruise in this film. Like many good films,
it may need time to gel and age in ones brain... even though
I still feel it has many flaws.
"Blair Witch" is a good film in many ways. The
humor of the film, especially in the beginning and the psychological
tension of the character development also gets better with
each viewing.
I'm just sorry I knew so much about the film. There's also
way too much footage of jittery trees.
Many people who see the film at my theater (and it still
sells out on two screens every night even week nights here
at Tinseltown), are vomiting due to the shaky camera work
of the film. We probably have 3-5 pukers per day per screen.
It's starting to get funny. People really must be into the
film to have it affect them so physically. That says something.
And many people still are visably disturbed after leaving
the film. It does affect people... although many people find
it lame as well.
Hey - What about a film about a group of girls who get burned
by the same guy in different relationships and they meet up
and all agree that he claims that it is one of his prior relationships
gone bad that has made him such a pain in the ass. When he went
to Ware college, he dated a girl who was a real cunt and she
made him hate women. This affects all of his future relationships.
His ex's decide to meet this woman from his Ware college days
and find out how bad she really is. One of them is a student
filmmaker so she takes along a camera to make a documentary
about this former love... We can call it "The Ware Bitch
Project!" he he he
I'm off Thursday so I'm thinking of louging during the day
and then going to see a double feature of "Bob
and Carol and Ted and Alice" and "Shampoo"
at the Paramount theater tomorrow night! Also, the Austin
Chronicle come out tomorrow so I better get a copy! Friday
afternoon my plan is to lounge around the pool and do laundry
before I go to work that night... Friday we get "the
Iron Giant," "Mystery
Men" and "6th
Sense" - we don't get "Dick" (he he) and
"Thomas Crowne Afair."
BTW - the "6th Sense" trailer looked bad at first,
with that damn kid whispering all the time, but it's on the
trailer loop we show on the video monitors at Tinseltown and
I've seen it maybe 100 times and now it just creeps me out!
I've got to see it.
A Trailer that tells the whole film - "Double
Jeopardy."
I wanted to go to the Alamo Draft House either Friday or
Saturday for the midnight show. They are showing "Wizard
of Oz" and playing Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the
Moon" as the soundtrack. Apparently if you start that
CD on the MGM Lion's 3rd roar, all sorts of synchronicity
happens. Unfortunately I have to work nights both days so
no luck.
The Alamo is a local 1 screen cinema where you sit in theater
chairs with a table like counter in front of you and they
have food, and beers and desserts and stuff.... Me and my
friend Tim went over the weekend and saw "Escape from
New York." There were also some cool trailers and stuff
shown as well. They even showed this student video/film that
mixed "Star Wars" footage with "Titanic"
footage that was really funny - the Star Wars spaceships came
in and blew up the Titanic - it was cool and I know my friend
Obi would have loved this!!! They also showed about 5 or 10
minutes of an 80's video production with Arnold Scwarzenegger
and kids and he's telling them how to turn their schools into
gymnasiums or something... There was a preview for a local
video looking film called "Rock
Opera" that looks interesting and a video presentation
to promote a Cannibal Film Festival coming up at the Alamo...
plus some 35mm trailers for some really bad looking 70's films
including "Shoot" with Cliff Robertson and Ernest
Borgnine (a bad "Deliverence" rip-off) and "Shadow
of the Hawk" with Jan-Michael Vincent and Chief Dan George.
Well... guess I better get along...
peace and chicken grease
lodger/williams/dongy/donn
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