18 May 2009

julia roberts is a liar


what is more important for a child... movie magic or trust in your mommy.

julia says she doesnt want to tell her kids that she is a movie actress because she doesnt want to ruin the movie magic. additionally, she confuses them by proclaiming that the reason maria from the sound of music sounds like mary poppins is that they are both english, which isnt even true. maria is AUSTRIAN, duh.

memphis in may international BBQ festival

this past weekend hammy and company came down from nashville to play with clawson and company at the memphis in may BBQ festival held annually in memphis at tom lee park downtown on the banks of the beautiful mississippi river. here is a quick taste of what saturday was like, all photos courtesy of the hamster.


emily and dunny celebrate the entrance on riverside drive with a peek a boo shot of downtown memphis and the festival grounds in the background

we decided to take a walk around and found a lovely couple to snap a quick group shot. mississippi river in the background. the black skinny jeans were a big miscalculation. hot day + rednecks + booze.

ice carver working on the ice luge

taking a party shot off the ice luge aka swine flu buffet

party train moves on to paula raifords where they only serve 40s of beer, to my delight

here is our host and dj for the evening, raiford in all of his glory.



guess who...


designed these shoes for lacoste? ZAHA

broadway changes...

Here is an interesting article from nymag about some changes being implemented reshaping traffic and pedestrian patterns around times square, and the city's transportation commissioner championing the cause. Change never comes easy in any city, much less one with as many self important and self righteous constituents as midtown manhattan, but Janette Sadik-Kahn (seen here with JayZ) has been waging guerrila warfare on the city streets, reclaiming empty city space for pedestrians under the guise of streamlining traffic flow.
its really interesting how this feature about these specific changes to times square becomes a larger story about gender issues in new york politics, old guard vs progressive ideals, and us vs them populist issues. read it bitches.

don't read this...

...unless you think you're really tough.

Leave it to Lars von Trier to spoil a perfectly pleasant Sunday evening at Cannes with graphically depicted sexual mutilation. The director's Antichrist — starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe as a husband and wife grieving the death of their young son — made its debut at the film festival yesterday, earning loud boos and baffled reviews. Why? The movie features graphic sex and a talking fox, but most controversial, apparently, are a pair of vivid scenes in which Gainsbourg's character, who's off her meds, commits acts of unprintable violence on the couples' genitals (raves Variety: "[she] finds a way to impale him that Hollywood's leading torture-porn experts will kick themselves over not having dreamed up first"). So what does she do, exactly? Read on only if you want to skip lunch and cross your legs for the rest of the day! (nymag)

moviez

i watched several movies last night. Marley & Me about a dog less cute that Kismet, Prince Caspian that i was probably about 10 years too old to enjoy, and Enchanted, a captivating little film starring Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, and Susan Sarandon. All i knew about the film were the songs that were nominated / performed for the 2008 Oscars. The movie starts in animation, with a sleeping beauty-snow white hybrid princess waiting for her prince charming. she is banished to live action new york after being pushed in a wishing well by evil susan sarandon old hag. the new york scenes are really high energy and very cute and its fun to see the city and its denizens used as a backdrop for what is essentially a fairy tale. Amy Adams is charming without being cloying, and Susan Sarandon is a scene stealer as the wicked step mother. James Marsden also looks like he is having a blast, but Dempsey phones it in. watch this movie if youre not too cool to enjoy it.

11 biscuits

brb : outside

one week ago today, joel and i were both in middle tennessee. i've been slowly but surely reading my way through pulitzer-prize-winning biography american lion: andrew jackson in the white house (taking the appropriate twilight breaks, oc), and thought we should seize the opportunity for a little early nineteenth century tourism and visit one of tennessee's most beloved landmarks: the hermitage.

we had an enchanting visit, and i'd love to share some sights and anecdotes, if i may.

joel with the jacksons themselves! we were waiting for our oversimplified history orientation video.

i most certainly will not! that guy in the back asked us where we were from. we were like 'from tennessee but live in new york' and he goes 'ooooh! defectors! well i guess that's better than them yankees comin' down here.' how 1828 of him!

dont be jelly.

joel in a slave cabin.

there was so much wildlife to behold. here is a tulip poplar, the tennessee state tree.

a baby oreo cow! looks like jazzy!

believe it or not, these are not chickens. they're guineahens!!

here we are in the garden.

joel broke the hermitage with his hustla shoes.

if you'd like to see more pictures from our visit to the hermitage, just click right here! hope you guys had fun! we sure did.

yessssssssssss!

there's a new musical on broadway! it's about one of my favorite presidents: tennessee's own, andrew 'old hickory' jackson.

Populism. Now there’s a word that makes you want to shout and strut and do something funky with your hips. Or that’s the effect this Latinate noun has on the young and restless residents of the young and restless country portrayed with zeal in “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: The Concert Version,” the raw but tasty new musical that opened Sunday night at the Public Theater. (nytimes)

which reminds me....i still owe you all a post.

hellen keller simulator

click.

thx joey.

top 10 snl sketches

the 34th season of SNL just wrapped up this weekend, and nymag has compiled a list of the ten best sketches this season on snl:

1. weekend update : sarah palin rap
2. jizz in my pants
3. katie couric / sarah palin interview
4. mark walhberg talks to animals
5. dateline
6. madonna + angelina jolie on weekend update
7. fart face
8. two a-holes at an ad agency in the 1960's
9. clearing the air
10. easter album

what? oh you were wondering what my favorites were? oh ok, sure here you go:

bjork on weekend update
how do you not smell that peppa?!?!
justin timberlake in single ladies video
alec baldwin in wii guys
baby hands
4th hour of the today show

i'm sure i forget a bunch.

best gstatus

this link is my current best gstatus from my gchat list right now:

what's your fave (or least fave) gstatus?

thx joey!

important drinking literature

nymag compiled some interesting bartender tales in its recent nyc drinking feature. here are some highlights:

What’s the craziest drinking feat you’ve ever seen?
The homeless guys who hang out outside will drink half of an Old English 40-ounce beer, fill the remaining half with Sparks (which I guess is now illegal), and then pound it. It’s called a Sidewalk Slammer.

What are some tricks you’ve seen used to cheat customers?
Auto-grat them [hit the automatic gratuity button on the cash register], knowing they are drunk enough not to notice, and add additional tip.

What’s your least favorite type of customer?
The person who thinks he’s the only guy at the bar who needs a drink.

Is there a drink order that’ll get a customer laughed at?
Sometimes people will actually order a Fuzzy Navel or a Buttery Nipple.

What’s the best way to get a bartender’s attention?
Smile and make eye contact.

What’s the weirdest drink request you’ve ever received?
A sidecar followed by a grasshopper to a 21-year-old who had seemingly been reading a book of cocktails from 1935 in hopes of impressing his date.

look who's famous!

look very closely.

kelly bein' crazy



"HONESTLYYYyyyy....first of all i thought, like, new york was the seventh housewife...but, the real seventh housewife is 'you don't know me'.

a smarter newsweek

The 76-year-old magazine is in the midst of a dramatic overhaul — a redesigned and reorganized issue hits newsstands today; a new Newsweek.com rolled out last week; the magazine is slashing its circulation in favor of a smaller, but more engaged (and high-paying) audience; and soon, the company will move from its Midtown Manhattan headquarters to a decidedly hipper (and cheaper) location in downtown New York. (huffpost)

what's that you say?

what's that you say, president obama? it wont take 20+ years for the US to be able to adopt / enforce new emissions and mileage standards? we can just go ahead and get started now? you're going to approve an emissions standards bill for california that president bush rejected? and develop a similar national standard?

“This is a very big deal,” said Daniel Becker of the Safe Climate Campaign, a group that has pushed for tougher mileage and emissions standards with the goal of curbing the heat-trapping gases that have been linked to global warming. “This is the single biggest step the American government has ever taken to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.” (nytimes)

that's fantastic news! thx new better president!

what is oggie doing?

emily's dog oggie, getting ready to go for a bike ride in his doggles.

happy monday ;(

7.45am is a perfect time to operate 3-4 jackhammers below my bedroom window.

weekend movie round-up

hey yall. guess what i watched yesterday.



the curious case of benjamin button.
jicydak, this movie is 2 hours and 46 minutes long. and as is the case with almost every movie of this length, its nearly impossible to sustain quality and tone throughout. i thoroughly enoyed the first 1.5 - 2 hours of this film. i loved the new orleans setting and the whimsical storytelling, and was definitely impressed with the cgi technology. however, around the 2 hour mark, everything started tanking. i found myself laughing when i should've been crying, especially when b-buttz turns back into a baby. so, for this reason it gets what i like to call a 'mixed review'.

first 2 hours : 11 biscuits!!!!!
third hour : 0 biscuits. ;(

i also watched the nbc special, farrah's story, an autobiographical documentation of farrah fawcett's cancer battle. this isn't really an 11-biscuits-0-biscuits situation, but i did hear that 9 million people tuned in friday night, and farrah was awake to watch it and her weakened pulse returned to normal by the end of it. so that's something.



then i may or may not have watched most of the third season of the tudors in one sitting. that show is h2d, and i'm sure is completely based in historical fact. 11 biscuits!!!!!
 
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