Congrats man. Some classic stuff you got there.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Cute-Kid-says-Whatever
http://www.videosift.com/video/What-About-Bob-Fay-this-is-delicious
http://www.videosift.com/video/Jack-Burton-Saves-the-Frickin-Day
http://www.videosift.com/video/UHF-Supplies
http://www.videosift.com/video/Tis-the-season-to-be-Jorry

i'm not liking the new stuff without Carah Faye as much.... but this is tight.

Glad to hear that you're doing good! Hopefully the recession doesn't last for too long.

I'm actually in the Canadaian Naval Reserve so most of my income comes from that and teaching piano lessons. Most of my friends who gig for money are still getting work up here so it must mean that people still want to go out and have a good time. Although, the recession might be a bit different up here in Canada. It seems like there's a lot of hope and change in the US right now so that can't be bad. Are you happy with your new Pres? His speech was pretty powerful.

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oh, I'm hangin' in there...
teenagers.
That's all I have to say about that.
Other than that, pretty good. Health is good, attitude staying on the sunny side of the fence... Money is starting to dry up around here, though...slowly...but surely. Seems like more people I talk to lately are really starting to feel it too. Have you been seeing any trickle-down effect from this 'crisis' as a musician?

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Wow! Thank you so much Laura! How are you doing anyway?

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*promote, my friend. big fat promote.

oh, I'm hangin' in there...
teenagers.
That's all I have to say about that.
Other than that, pretty good. Health is good, attitude staying on the sunny side of the fence... Money is starting to dry up around here, though...slowly...but surely. Seems like more people I talk to lately are really starting to feel it too. Have you been seeing any trickle-down effect from this 'crisis' as a musician?

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Wow! Thank you so much Laura! How are you doing anyway?

In reply to this comment by laura:
*promote, my friend. big fat promote.

Wow! Thank you so much Laura! How are you doing anyway?

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*promote, my friend. big fat promote.

If you get around to watching it, lemme know what'cha think. You may get a kick out of Jullianne Moore's role.

Sam Rockwell is the shit! Anyone that plays Zaphod Beeblebrox is cool in my book. Though my favorite role of his has gotta be Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind -- Love that movie sooo much. Which brings to mind a genius writer (Charlie Kaufman) and an actor/director who is both over and underrated: George Clooney. I love half of his work (inevitably the underrated stuff) and the other half I could do without.

Diane Keaton, Nicholas Cage, Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, etc. etc. Don't do it for me either. Though Cage Occasionally gets it right. (Or maybe it's the writers.) Mel, Mel, Mel -- what scares me about him is that his true personality may be Martin Riggs, but with a touch of the religious zealot. Definitely not a good combination. I would be careful not to harm his dog.

Favorite actors... Oh my, where to begin. So many decades of cinema to recall! To avoid a carbon copy of your list -- all noteworthy thesbians -- I'll fill in some of the missing pieces: The Marx Brothers (I love them all equally), Hepburn's flame, Spencer Tracy, the other Hepburn, Audrey (mostly because of those eyes), Cary Grant, Humprey Bogart (Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon are films that I can watch from any point and be satisfied completely for every second the films goes by), Lauren Bacall (Ze Big Sleep; dear lordy, more top ten material), Clark Gable, Gary Oldman (You said it, but he's too good and far too underappreciated to not mention), Helena Bonham Carter (another one I CANNOT avoid mentioning -- a dark favorite of mine: Morgan le Fay, Elizabeth Frankenstein, Ophelia, Anne Boleyn -- dear GOD, she's a even a freakin' death eater. She has to be a reader.), Elliot Gould (More noir favorites), Michael Gambon (brilliant), Alan Rickman, Edward Norton, Tim Roth, Brad Pitt, lil' Dakota Fanning, Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, and Dennis Hopper -- I think that's the cast of Blue Velvet, another potential top ten movie with top ten actors lol. Maybe we should make lists of the people we DON'T like... on second thought... (Sorry, this got long.)

Yes! Mothersbaugh, of course. Wes Anderson's pocket composer and devolution advocate. Don't forget Sigur Ros, either. That's the part of the movie where yer supposed to cry. I heart those Icelanders. A Bowie fan too. David Bowie is my best friend's father.

Make up a top 5 real quick. (No pressure.)

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You're right. I have about 15 or so that are floating around in my favorites list. My top movies are not neccesarily the best ones I've seen. Like you said, they are the ones that I have an emotional connection to.

Wes Anderson is awesome but I haven't seen all of his films yet. My favorite so far is also The Life Aquatic. I love those covers. The Mark Mothersbaugh numbers are awesome, too. The scene where Steve introduces his boat and crew, accompanied by Mothersbaugh's "Let Me Tell You About My Boat" is one of my favorite scenes. I also really liked The Royal Tenenbaums.

Oh, underappreciated and overrated actors. It is relatively easy for me to rattle off some of my favorite actors. Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, and Ingrid Bergman are definitely in the top 5. Other actors I love off of the top of my head: Gary Oldman, Anjelica Huston, Gregory Peck, Katharine Hepburn, Bruce Willis (most people love him for the wrong reasons), Bill Murray, Charlie Chaplin, Helena Bonham Carter (I love how much her older stuff contrasts with her more recent roles. She's great.), John Goodman (I have always had a thing for this guy. He is a pleasure to watch.), James Stewart, Topol (I've only seen him in Fiddler but it is one of my favorite performances EVAR), Henry Fonda, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Oliver Reed. This list was about 5 times as long before I cut it down. You're welcome.

I'm sure you're the same way that I am with actors. Sometimes I love them because they are truly great actors and sometimes I love them because they are good actors and you just enjoy watching them for whatever reason. I admit that one of the reasons that I love Newman, Brando, and Bergman is because they are all incredibly sexy. They also happen to be exceptional actors. Who are your favorites?

Severely overrated: Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton (used to be okay, now I can't stand her), Nicolas Cage (liked him in Matchstick Men...which reminds me that I love Sam Rockwell), Keira Knightly, and there is something about Mel Gibson's acting that seems...is it insincere? Affected? All I know is that something is off with him and I'm not a fan.

I'll rent The Big Lebowski one of these days.

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It was the singer's voice that had me convinced. I guessed Five Iron Frenzy was obscure enough no one else would recognize it. Thanks for the info =)

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Yup - Far, Fay away.

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That music at the end, was that Five Iron Frenzy?!?

Yup - Far, Fay away.

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That music at the end, was that Five Iron Frenzy?!?

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Believe it or not,
I'm walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free-.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me.


Awesome. Makes me think of:

Believe it or not,
George isn't at home.
Please leave a message at the beep...

Also, it's very easy to let go when you don't go kite boarding during a potential hurricane. But I guess that takes brains. Yummy, delicious brains.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Believe it or not,
I'm walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free-.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me.


Wow, and here I was thinking I was the only person who remembered Greatest American Hero...

Ukkin-fay dude....Sign me the flock up!!!...totally down with the one-time agent thing....

*fay

"Faye Dunaway has said that during the filming, she felt Joan's presence on the set many times.

During Faye Dunaway's interview on Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio, James Lipton saved the topic of "Mommie Dearest" for the end of the interview, being as how Dunaway credits the film for ruining her career. When he comments on her appearance in the film as Joan, Dunaway says that she and the make-up artist worked for hours trying to get the "Crawford look". Finally Faye says she discovered that Joan looked the way she did because of the way she purposely held her facial muscles, thus explaining why Joan looked different in her very early career. Faye says "It was chilling.""

From the Wikipedia article on Mommie Dearest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mommie_Dearest_%28film%29

Uck-fay E-N-N-say.

I find it quite amusing to see how common it is for people to attack generalizations with specifics.

Such as:
"Women are overall less funny than men." (Hitch's point)
"No way, omg, Tina Fay/Whoever is SO much funnier than people like Robin Williams/Blah blah blah. And I know tons of women that also are!"

That would be like saying:
"Men are generally stronger than women"
"No way! I know this one bodybuilding chick that could squat you to death!"

Or better yet, so that it won't offend anyone but monkeys:
"Primates have around 5 times the upper body strength of a human male."
"Bah, I once arm wrestled a young monkey that had been in a coma for 2 years and totally beat him!"

Seriously, people, not all generalizations are wrong, generalizations are human nature. Think they're not? What's your general opinion of someone who is jobless? Or lawyers? Yeah, I'm sure none of you have any opinion of either based on past experiences.

It's only when we allow our generalizations to force upon us a way of treating someone that it becomes bad. Such as pre-judging the lawyer as a jerk and not being nice to him, or pre-judging women comedians by not going to a comedy club on an all ladies night.

Don't deny your nature, accommodate it. I guarantee you that there are differences in both the nature and nurture of EVERYONE, and some of it can even be generalized! #shocker#