this alien: August 2011

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annabel lamb

annabel lamb - sacraments of love

in the days of record shops, i used to go over the used / markdown bins frequently, and annabel lamb’s the flame was always there. one day i finally broke down and paid $3 for the album…and seriously loved it.

i’ve recently rediscovered it online…and am reloving it.

2011/08/25

2011/08/21

san diego summer sunset

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another earth

i dragged the husband to see another earth at our local non-multiplex today. i came out thinking, "he hated it", because i loved it.

turns out, he liked it a lot, too. this isn't something that happens often.

the story: people of earth come to find that there's another planet earth...and it's an exact copy of ours, same continents, cities, people. so a richard branson-type entrepreneur sets up a contest for someone to join his crew to visit "earth 2".

but this isn't really what the movie is about. kind of like sliding doors, it's more about, how would your life be different if you could change just one action from your recent history? almost every bit of this movie follows rhoda from a traumatic car accident, in which she kills a mother and child, through her attempt at getting herself, and the surviving widower, through it.

the whole time, i was dreading, but wanting to watch, her revelation to the widower, hoping his reaction wouldn't be awful, but knowing it had to be.

toward the end, i almost thought, they're wasting the terrific premise of "earth 2" counterparts...but that thought disappeared fairly quickly. in now way is the premise wasted.

best movie i've seen in AGES. definitely a recommendation.

waiting for SECOND EARTH

Taken at Landmark Theatres - Hillcrest Cinemas

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bodeans

i recently reconnected with an album from my past, the bodeans “love & hope & sex & dreams”, that i somehow fell for at a time in my life when countryrockpop wasn’t well represented in my collection. terribly, terribly romantic record.

2011/08/16

kubrick's "the shining"

http://youtu.be/o8QCuxNsMyw

click here for the first of a four-part "making of" documentary, filmed by the director's daughter. one of the best half hours of your life can be spent watching this. (sorry, cannot embed...follow the link above.)

2011/08/02

80's boy

the song, "boy", by book of love, makes me want to be in the 80's again, standing out in the "sidewalk sale" at the sweaty finish of a club night.

(sidewalk sale = that 10 or 20 minutes after the club closes its doors, and you're delaying the walk back to your car, hoping that one of these guys is also delaying the walk back to his car because you're still here.)

(and about being in the 80's: only momentarily. not relive them again.)

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