The Moviegoers Episode 8 - Cloud Atlas

We're talking Cloud Atlas, Skyfall, some Holy Motors, Romanian cinema, and the delightful drunken antics of Dudley Moore.

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Hope

Officer gives boots to homeless man.

The Thanksgiving Album

Wednesday night:
Crossfire Hurricane - the new documentary on the Rolling Stones. Surprisingly well done. Focused on the great period of the Stones, later '60s/early '70s. A lot of unseen footage and capturing a little of the fiery intensity of the band. Fun watch.

Thanksgiving:
Head over to Brower's with Tracey, Chaffee, and Kat. Play some records in the afternoon.Put on American Beauty. Feast & dessert, then musical Ipod trivia.

Friday:
Take the Santa Monica bus to my car. A depressed day. See Silver Linings Playbook with Tatiana in Culver City.

Saturday:
Head out apple pickin' to riley farms. Some pics.

Liz & Dick

Finished the Thanksgiving weekend by going over to a friend's house for a group get together of Lifetime's big event, Liz & Dick. It is Lindsay Lohan after all. And Lohan can make an ABC family film like Labor Pains charming and watchable. But not so for this t.v. movie of the week. Not as salacious as it needed to be, not as cheesy as it needed to be. Sleeping for two hours would have been better time served.
(On the favorable side, I did have two slices of pie a la mode.)

An excerpt from this review which chronicles Lohan's exile period.

"She is so unwatchable, the film doesn't even have camp value...Lindsay just doesn't work hard enough, and the whole world watched the hyped-up post-ironic Happening for the sake of schadenfreude."

Happy Thanksgiving

Make sure you don't forget "some girl meat" to bring to your feast. And I hear bath salts are the perfect addition to any cranberry sauce recipe.

The Rolling Stones - Cocksucker Blues (1972)

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War on Dogs

Bit by a big dog this morning. Ripped pants. Owner became catatonic. Fun times. #NewCatPerson

War on Dogs. They must be put down. #MayorOfSantaMonica 

I've got a fever for dog meat. #DogBiteVictim

Quentin Tarantino

The Playboy interview. Didn't think I could get any more excited for Django Unchained. I was wrong.

David Simon

I just discovered that he has a blog/website called "The Audacity of Despair." A lot of content. He even writes an in memoriam to Levon Helm.

Oliver Sacks

His new book is about  Hallucinations. 
Excerpt:

"I had been reading about the color indigo, how it had been introduced into the spectrum by [Isaac] Newton rather late, and it seemed no two people quite agreed as to what indigo was, and I thought I would like to have an experience of indigo. And I built up a sort of pharmacological launchpad with amphetamines and LSD, and a little cannabis on top of that, and when I was really stoned I said, 'I want to see indigo now.' And as if thrown by a paintbrush, a huge pear-shaped blob of the purest indigo appeared on the wall.

"Again it had this luminous, numinous quality; I leaped toward it in a sort of ecstasy. I thought, 'This is the color of heaven.' ... I thought maybe this is not a color which actually exists on the Earth, or maybe it used to exist or no longer exists. All this went through my mind in 4 or 5 seconds, and then the blob disappeared, giving me a strong sense of loss and heartbrokenness, and I was haunted a little bit when I came down, wondering whether indigo did exist in the real world.

"I would turn over little stones. I once went to a museum to look at azurite, a copper mineral which is maybe the nearest [to] indigo, but that was disappointing. I did in fact have that experience again, but when I had it the second time, it was not with a drug, it was with music — and I think music can take one to the heights in a way comparable with drugs."

Record Club Volume.15

Hosted at 507 Hill St., Santa Monica CA.

Record Club/Vol.15/11-10-12
aka 'Brower Birthday Bash'

6:41pm
Patton - "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" - Side 1 - The House
Allah-La's - Self Titled - Side 1 - Brower
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy - Side 1 - Chaffee
The Bud & Travis - Latin Album - Side 1 - Greg J.
Jerry Lee Lewis - I'm On Fire - Side 1 -Tarik
Billy Joel - The Stranger - Side 1 - Schuchinski
Guns & Roses - London 1987 - Jake
Supersuckers - Motherf#$%ers be Trippin' - Side 1 - Tarik
Huey Lewis & the News - Sports - Side 1 - Tracey
Lilacs & Champagne - Self Titled - Side 1 - Clay
Lonerism - Tame Impala - Zoe
The Quick - Mondo Deco - Zoe
The Replacements - Tim - Side 1 - Pia
The Donkeys - Living on the Other Side - Side 1 - Phil
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound - Matt
Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin' - Hannah
Gene Simmons - Kiss - Side 1 - Charlene
Whitney Houston - Whitney - Side 1 - Becky Chaffee
The Four Doorsmen - Barbershop Ballads - Bob
Gary Stewart - Out of Hand - Side 2 - Phil ("Happy B-day, Brower")
Hank Jr. - Hank Jr. & Friends - Side 1 - Brower
Gary Higgins - Red Hash - Side 1 - Clay
Donovan - The Hurdy Gurdy Man - Side 1 - Pia
Shuggie Otis - Freedom Flight - Zoe
Al Green - Call Me - Side A - Brie (Cindy Gardner) ("first time played in 25 years")
Randy Newman - Good Old Boys - Side 2 - Phil
Rolling Stones - Tattoo You - Side 1 - Brower
Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning - Zoe
Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup - Side B - Charlene
Neil Diamond - Hot August Nights - Side 4 - Chaffee
...
Sunday, 11am
Bob Dylan - New Morning - Side 2 - Chaffee

The Best Fans in the World

I've never been prouder to be able to call myself a Chicago Bears fan.

Holy Motors - Leos Carax

AFI Fest in Hollywood. Egyptian theater. Wild French film. A love letter to the cinema and also about the death of cinema. Carax introduces the film. And like the l'enfant terrible of his reputation, walks on stage with sunglasses and sporting a moustache and says : "I hope you like my film. Or not." Then drops the mic, and walks off. Brilliant.

Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill

The opening track Driftin' Back is almost a complete album unto itself. That could be Side A, with Walk Like A Giant Side B. Good album to listen to while hiking.

Wake In Fright

Checked out this 1970s Australian movie at the Cinefamily with Jake and Tarik. The outback as a drunken wasteland. Hits a delirium state halfway through seldom experienced in the cinema. But still can't say I liked the experience.

The Donkeys

Hit up the Satellite on a Thursday night to see this band from San Diego. And that is exactly what they are...a band. No more, no less. Just a bunch a guys who play music. A bar band. Like "Louie, Louie" It was refreshing. A straight-up good time rock and roll.
They didn't play their great song "Dolphin Center" despite numerous howls from the audience when returning for the encore. Their normal bass player was out. So they launched into a raucous version of "Gloria."
The type of band that has one great record and aren't heard from, and years later you pull out the record from the dust bin and remember how good it is.