What if God was one of us ….Just a slob like one of us

Links I Saved Because I Didn’t Have Time To Read Them Until Now

[Burger King's Square Booty Call] I don’t have TV ,so I miss the lunacy of bad commercials. That’s what the internet is for. “Is the ad offensive, goofy, or just really effing bizarre?” I’m going to go with ,”Effing bizarre”.

[From Pro-Life Feminist to Pro-Choice ] Cate Nelson shares how her views as a Pro-Life feminist who shifted her views to the Pro-Choice angle. Sensible,articulate and much appreciated by myself, a feminist who values and respects life but holds choice as a sacred right.

[The Feminist Summer Reading List] If nothing else, I will make a point to read Mrs Dalloway this summer. I have 3 copies of the book,taunting me,unread. My intention was to read that and then The Hours by Michael Cunnngham. We’ll see what happens.

[Modern Hooker comics] online comic about..well, duh…a Modern Hooker.

[Fuck Yeah Cilantro] “IF YOU DON’T LOVE CILANTRO WITH ALL YOUR HEART I WILL FIGHT YOU.NO JOKE” . I’m down with that.  My apologies to Cilantro Haters who get that soapy taste in their mouth whenever they eat this rather swell herb. Maybe if you didn’t have such a dirty fucking mouth, Mother Nature wouldn’t feel the need to punish you.Ever think of that?

[Rainn Wilson bongos with Rivers Cuomo] covering Joan Osbourne’s “What if God Was One of Us”

[The Printz Project] I swore off  reading challenges but I’m  joining  this one. It’s a perpetual challenge so no time constraints…and they’re  books I’d probably want to read anyway. Meh,why not?

["My Mother's Garden"] Interview & video clip with documentary filmmaker Cynthia Lester about her new documentary about her mother’s hoarding disorder and mental illness. SO heart-wrenching & mind-boggling.

[blog title from "One of Us", Joan Osbourne]

Oh, what’ll you do now, my blue-eyed son? Oh, what’ll you do now, my darling young one?

10 songs from the weekend

I wish I had time to do the links for all of them but I don’t have much time this morning. Just did this quick like.

1. “Hard Rain is Gonna Fall”, Bob Dylan -I used to sing this to my son when he was a baby. This weekend he turned 19 and this morning left for that whole bicycling across the country shenanigans . It seemed like a good song to be replaying.
2. “Teach your Children Well” , Crosby Still Nash you,who are on the road….
3. “Hard-Headed Woman”, Wanda Jackson – my poor dear husband puts up with so much nonsense from me
4. “Hard Headed Woman”, Cat Stevens – aforementioned husband must fall into this category, gods and goddesses bless him ….Im looking for a hard headed woman,
   One who will make me feel so good,
   And if I find my hard headed woman,
   I know my life will be as it should
   
5. “Sex Bomb” , Spinnerette I can’t mention nearly enough how much I want to have Brody Dalle’s baby
6. ‘Song for Bob Dylan” ,David Bowie Oh, hear this Robert Zimmerman
   I wrote a song for you
   About a strange young man
   called Dylan
   With a voice like sand and glue
   His words of truthful vengeance
   They could pin us to the floor
   Brought a few more people on
   And put the fear in a whole lot more
   
7. “Queen Bee”, Devendra Banhart And I’m blessed, she treats me so damn kind
   She’s grown every seed I’ve grown
   She’s known everything I’ve known
   And my dreams they always coincide
   And bows always float in time
   And oh queen bee, I’m always happy to see
8. “This Is How You Spell. “HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics”, Los Campesinos
   
9. “Danger,High Voltage!, Electric Six - Fire in the disco, fire in the…Taco Bell! (my kids….they think I’m insane when I yell this out randomly. “No,Mom…it’s PANIC at the Disco,duh. “. I’m gonna start a band and call it Panic! @ The Taco Bell (Because it’s on Fire!) . Just because I can.
10. “Darling Nikki”, Foo Fighters

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Monday Movie Meme

This week: Documentaries. Favorites. List ‘em.

1. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2. Be Good ,Smile Pretty
3. Be Here To Love Me- Townes van Zandt documentary.
4. Heavy Metal in Baghdad – I wonder how those guys are doing sometimes….
5. Nanking
6. Sierra Leonne All-Stars – proff that there’s a lot of healing power in music
7. What Would Jesus Buy? – yeah, he wouldn’t shop at Wal-mart but that’s kind of common sense.
8. Winged Migration – beautiful movie to veg to
9. Helvetica – because I’m a dork
10. Born into Brothels
11. Wal-mart: The High Cost of Low Price
12. King Corn

…and my time is up.

[blog title from #1 on the list]

Jupiter doesn’t have cable or satellite….

….but she has a library card and a Netflix account.

Netflix

Margot at the Wedding

Kid 1:Mom,I forbid you to watch this movie.It is way too weird.

Me:What’s wrong with it? Why is it weird?

Kid 1: It’s just…weird. It’s really….weird. It has all this weird stuff in it and weird things. It’s weird.

(Maybe this isn’t a good time to mention this but Kid #1 is an English major in college.)

He really should have known that once I’m “forbidden” to do something,than I MUST do it. That’s how I roll.

After watching it, I can honestly say, he was right…it is weird. For me to say something is weird, that’s saying something.Margot (Nicole Kidman) is visiting her sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) ,who is marrying Jack Black. The acting was wonderful, with Nicole Kidman doing wonderfully as the kind of meddlesome know-it-all bitch we all know in real life and can’t stand. The movie is riddled with tons of sexual tension in places it doesn’t seem to belong and there’s awkward unexplained events that aren’t funny,just weird. Margot and her sister are chatting about a non-present sister “Becky” and say “Poor Becky..she had it the worst. of it…and then raped by the horse trainer!” Then Margot and Pauline both laugh hysterically,like it’s the funniest thing ever. I expected that the reason this is funny to be explained to some degree at some point in the movie and it never was. I still can’t figure out why that was so funny.

Also during this chat, Pauline tells Margot’s son Claude that Margot was so cool n college and used to send her cool music,.like X.Sorry,but there is no way Margot was ever into listening to X.

And what is with Margot’skid’s random statement to her in the middle of a parking lot,”I masturbated last night.” Okie dokie then.

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Charlie Bartlett – If I were to make this movie,i’d take away the shine and polish and give it a “Pump Up The Volume” edge (which i thinks it was kind of trying to be) and maybe throw in some “Heathers” flair.

“Holy crap…THAT’S Tyler Hilton? He’s hot.” -Me

Sometimes it takes a fauxhawk and some leather to help see hotness factor.

“THAT girl….that’s who should be playing Bella! Not the other girl! I should do casting” -Kid#3

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Heavy Metal in Baghdad – Those kids down the street who play mediocre music need to watch this. They don’t know how good they got it, practicing in a heated carriage house in back of the guitar player’s rich daddy doctor’s house. No worries about rockets coming through the side and flattening your practice space (or them) or bombs falling on one of your shows or a slew of other things they completely take for granted when they cover Metallica.

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Shark Week! Season 1! Disc ! – with follow up trip to Wegmans to see a real Mako shark!

“What is this? This is boring.I don’t want to hear about some shipwreck.I want to see sharks!Eating people.”-Kid 1

Narrator: The Phillipine Sea is home to some of the world’s most dangerous sharks

Kid #3: Dang.I was thinking of going on vacation there.

Library Card

The Munsters,Season 1,Disc 1:

The pilot episode is included and starts out the disc. In color and no Yvonne DeCarlo, the original treatment lacked a lot .Favorite Episode: Rock-a-bye Munster ,where Lily custom orders the hearse-dragster combo that becomes The Munster Coach and eavesdrops on Lily and Marilyn and misunderstands the snipets heard and thinks there’s a new baby arriving,not a car. Herman’s reaction to what he think is his new son – hysterical.

“Hey,the little boy Elmer was played by Peter Robbins,who also was the voice of Charlie Brown. ” – Me, asserting my title as Queen of Useless Trivia.The children were unimpressed

“Mom,it isn’t THAT funny” – Kid #2

(It was. What does she know. She thinks Pete Wentz is like,the best bass player ever.)

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True-ish enough story about kids at MIT who go to Vegas to count cards and take home lots of money. Like Rainman ,but with Kevin Spacey masterminding instead of Tom Cruise and non-autistic kids who were smart enough to get into MIT. I am easily annoyed by over-voiced narration that sounds like it was written by a scripwriter who also writes college commencement speeches “It was the time of our lives…blah blah blah”

Kate Bosworth is so damn cute. It’s really ridiculous. Enough  with that already.

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Finding Nemo- The littlest one had never seen it.That had to be remedied.

Kid:#2″Mom,why does Dorrie remind me of you.”

Me:”Um. Who are you again?”

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Eddie Izzard: Definite Article- Eddie Izzard is the cure for menstrual cramps and general malaise.

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The Mist

The most exciting moment of this movie is when it opens. David Drayton is an artist who paints movie posters for studios. On his easel is a work in progress…a movie poster for The Dark Tower. The idea of even the slightest possibility of a Dark Tower movie makes me squee with delight.

I fell alseep before the end and missed the religious nutcase getting killed. A damn shame.