Friday Five
This is a cool thing that Heather does. I really should read her blog more often, since I enjoy her journal so much.
1. Do you eat breakfast? What did you have today? I always eat breakfast. I usually eat something bready with something proteiny. Today I had blueberry & bran waffles with lingonberry jam & a dollop of peanut butter, and a little serving of homemade applesauce. I drank a glass of juice & a big cup of tea.

2. What beverages do you usually have in a typical day? Lots of water, about 2L each day. Several cups of tea or just one big cup of coffee. A glass or two of juice.

3. White bread or wheat bread? Generally wheat, the grainier, the better, but my housemate has been baking up a storm of luscious potato bread lately, and inviting us all to share. Who am I to say no?

4. What's your favourite kind & flavour of chip? Oh, these are such my junk food downfall. Pretty much anything (Tostitos, Fritos, even Pringles), but lately my favourite is Miss Vickie's salt & vinegar kettle potato chips. So tasty & tangy!

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend? We're starting early: today, Marcus & I will go to a matinee of The Man Who Wasn't There, and then have dinner at a friend's house. Tomorrow, we'll food shop (modified rapture), then probably see a late show of Monsters, Inc. (to avoid loud children), and Sunday, will be reserved for intensive lounging and probably some reconciling myself to the fact that school starts again on Monday. Ew.
Friday, November 2, 2001 11:35 a.m.

Method Studios
Welcome to an all-Marcus edition of kerplink. He found all these links, because I was "busy" reading some book about antebellum print culture. What the hell is this responsible student crap, anyway? Anyway, on with the show. Oooh, all kinds of video-y goodness here. Beck, Lauryn Hill, Garbage, Madonna (including the non-controversial controversial "What it Feels Like For a Girl" video), and a bunch of commercials worth seeing, too. Go to the main page, click "Portfolio" , and then "Title", and you'll be presented with a long list of things to see, in alpha order. Only the links with the QT symbol will have movies to watch, though.
Friday, November 2, 2001 11:30 a.m.

Girlfriend, You Shouldn't Let Him Treat You So Bad
File Under: Too dumb to be in a relationship. UK student goes to Vegas, gets trashed, loses at the tables, proposes to some girl from his hostel, gets married, and cracks wise about it to his girlfriend. Who then breaks up with him. You have to read the erstwhile boyfriend's quotes, though, so check the article out. Oh, man. Again, thanks to Marcus for the link.
Friday, November 2, 2001 11:25 a.m.

Big Lebowski Script
Because there's never, ever too much of The Dude. Via Drew's Script-o-Rama, and, uh, Marcus, who is clearly doing all the work for me today.
Friday, November 2, 2001 11:23 a.m.

Hella Weenie
I know I posted this last year, but it's a classic, and I can't resist. Happy Halloween!
Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:04 p.m.

Obsessed!
I live with some people who think that an all-singing, all-dancing episode of Buffy is a bad idea. These people are wrong, wrong, wrong. Just watch this 2-minute trailer for next week's episode and see if your toes don't start a-tappin'.
Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:00 p.m.

Halloween Trauma
I like Matt's tales of thwarted spookiness. I bet you will, too.
Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:58 a.m.

Like, Fucking WOW.
So the Beastie Boys had these benefit concerts, which apparently rocked the party that rocked the partaaay. Not only were the shows the absolute number one place(s) to be in Manhattan in the last week, but Michael Stipe, Moby, and Bono all strolled on stage unannounced, did three kick-ass numbers (including a version of "All Tomorrow's Parties" that I would give my eyeteeth to have seen in person), and strolled off. Aieeee!
Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:05 p.m.

McSweeney.com?
Gentle Readers, you may remember the "it started funny but quickly became strangely off-putting" escapades of McSweeneys.net and McSweeneys.com. Does anyone out there really & truly know what happened? Why McSweeneys.com, allegedly the website of the supposedly existing McSweeney family, is still up, and looking suspiciously like McSweeneys.net? Jokes that you have to have written in order to get aren't that funny, I'm thinking.
Tuesday, October 30, 2001 09:59 p.m.

California Center for the Book
Oh, these people are doing cool things, among them, hosting interesting authors for interview events. Oooh, looky, there's a Michael Chabon event archived here!
Tuesday, October 30, 2001 09:55 p.m.

Weekend Movie Review

So this weekend, Marcus & I watched Get Carter on DVD. It was great, and gritty, and all that you'd hope for in a British gangster movie. The two best special features of the DVD were 1) a 5-minute film showing composer Roy Budd playing the main sections of theme music scored to bits of the film shown on a screen behind him; and 2) the American trailer for the film. I can't do justice to the pure, unintentional hilarity of this trailer. It gave away almost the entire movie and was incredibly repetitive. The voice-over (obviously done by the guy who was the Grandaddy of the "In a World" guy of today's grandiose trailers) went something like this: "Jack Carter, professional killer. He's just learned his brother is dead. Now, he's a professional killer full of hate. Hate for the killers of his brother. And now he's out for vengeance. A professional killer full of hate is a hunter. And his prey are the killers of his brother. They have just one rule: Get Carter, before Carter gets you. When a professional killer is full of hate, he's like an animal. Get Carter, before he gets you." It went on like this for a good four minutes. We learned so much from the trailer: 1) Carter is a professional killer; 2) he's full of hate; 3) he's like both a hunter and an animal; 4) we should get him before he gets us. They just don't make trailers like they used to.
Monday, October 29, 2001 08:39 p.m.

Buffy: The Musical
Clips from the production of the all singing, all dancing episode of Buffy, set to air November 6. Nothin' fancy here -- it's all a bunch of rehearsal stuff, but it looks, um, interesting.
Monday, October 29, 2001 08:30 p.m.

Snippets from The Big Lebowski
Face it, man, you need mp3s of dialogue from the Coen Brothers' best movie. The best quote that's not on this page is Philip Seymour Hoffman's "Mr. Lebowski is in seclusion in the West Wing." You can't have everything. Via Listen Missy.
Monday, October 29, 2001 08:29 p.m.

Aaron Sorkin: Crackhead Genius
On the one hand, I'm impressed that Sorkin is so upfront about his continued drug use. On the other, I can't imagine that his bosses at NBC were altogether happy with this article, in which Sorkin's drug use (note that it's not his battles with drug use) is a major theme. Also interesting in this piece: apparently, there's a big old rivalry between The West Wing and The Sopranos, in which Sorkin's show is the populist, crowd-pleasing hero doing battle with the more serious, carefully plotted Goliath of HBO. I would never think to compare the two shows, so I found that a little surprising.
Monday, October 29, 2001 08:23 p.m.