03 January 2010
Invictus (2009)
HORRIBLE SOUNDTRACK!!!!!!! what the hell were they thinking????? they should've yanked the vocals out of most of the songs.
it started out good but it got reeeeeeeally cheesy. way too much cheese for me.
29 November 2009
Pirate Radio (2009)
With Bill Nighy & Philip Seymour Hoffman. Can't go wrong with those two. Particularly the latter.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
I watched it! I loved it! Hehe. Cute guys & gals. Though Pattinson had some seriously red lips in this one. Wasn't lookin' quite as good as in the first one.
Factory Girl (2006)
Warhol was just weird. But not Bjork weird, ya know? Sorta annoying weird.
Dedication (2007)
Billy Crudup is so awesome in this. Sorta reminded me of my high school boyfriend...
Krups
15 November 2009
The last thing this world needs is another erection.
14 November 2009
Gardens of the Night (2008)
08 November 2009
REJECT FREE MARKET IDEOLOGY!!!!!!!!!!! It's your duty as a human being. =D
Excerpt from All of Them Must Go by Naomi Klein
from The Nation, Feb. 4, 2009
Perhaps the sturdiest thread connecting this global backlash is a rejection of the logic of "extraordinary politics"--the phrase coined by Polish politician Leszek Balcerowicz to describe how, in a crisis, politicians can ignore legislative rules and rush through unpopular "reforms." That trick is getting tired, as South Korea's government recently discovered. In December, the ruling party tried to use the crisis to ram through a highly controversial free trade agreement with the United States. Taking closed-door politics to new extremes, legislators locked themselves in the chamber so they could vote in private, barricading the door with desks, chairs and couches.
Opposition politicians were having none of it: with sledgehammers and an electric saw, they broke in and staged a twelve-day sit-in of Parliament. The vote was delayed, allowing for more debate--a victory for a new kind of "extraordinary politics."
Here in Canada, politics is markedly less YouTube-friendly--but it has still been surprisingly eventful. In October the Conservative Party won national elections on an unambitious platform. Six weeks later, our Tory prime minister found his inner ideologue, presenting a budget bill that stripped public sector workers of the right to strike, canceled public funding for political parties and contained no economic stimulus. Opposition parties responded by forming a historic coalition that was only prevented from taking power by an abrupt suspension of Parliament. The Tories have just come back with a revised budget: the pet right-wing policies have disappeared, and it is packed with economic stimulus.
The pattern is clear: governments that respond to a crisis created by free-market ideology with an acceleration of that same discredited agenda will not survive to tell the tale. As Italy's students have taken to shouting in the streets: "We won't pay for your crisis!"
The Damned United (2009)
I heart soccer. Or as the rest of the world knows it, football. The name makes sense, no? Naming the so-called "American" (i.e., U.S.) football as such is preposterous. The foot makes contact with the ball how often?
In The Loop (2009)
By far the funniest movie this year. One of the funniest I've ever seen!
In the Loop is an uncommonly funny political satire that blends Dr. Strangelove with Spinal Tap for the Iraq war era. -from Rotten Tomatos; 95% rating!
Inconceivable (2008)
Whoa. Funny movie. Sappy ending. 2.4 rating on IMDB. Yikes.
Polytechnique (2009)
"A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist." from IMDB synopsis
Is there such a thing as a STABLE misogynist????
On December 6, 1989, Marc Lepine wrapped his Ruger Mini-14 semi automatic rifle in a plastic garbage bag, filled the pockets of his coat with ammunition, and headed off to class at the Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, the engineering branch of the University of Montreal. By the time he was through, fourteen women lay dead, and another ten women and four men were in critical condition. Lepine culminated his misogynistic rampage and wretched existence with a bullet to his head, leaving behind a rambling three page letter railing against feminists who had turned society against him and ruined his life and everything good that had been created by man. -Craig McPherson