Exile in Myville

What I've been watching lately

2009-10-31T20:19:00.000-07:00

I've been watching a ton of movies both on netflix streaming and dvd, so many that I'm gonna forget some. But I'll try and list them and maybe tommorrow get a short writeup about at least some of them.

Sweet and Lowdown

Everyone Says I Love you- Had already seen this, but I enjoy it anyway.

Criminal

Jarhead

Somewhere in the City

Brick

Antz

Edmond

Siberia

Naked - A Mike Leigh film

A Hole In My Heart (Ett hål i mitt hjärta ) directed by Lukas Moodysson

Also as another note all the Hal Hartley films that I uploaded to youtube have been taken down at his request.

Guest Blog

2009-10-30T16:42:00.000-07:00

I wrote a guest blog on this site http://www.bombit-themovie.com/ the site of a great documentary about graffiti worldwide. It talks about my friend BUKET and how I'd like to make a documentary myself on the subject. It can be read here http://bombit-themovie.com/blog/.

Graffiti Artist BUKET sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison

2009-10-03T13:14:00.000-07:00

Please support my friend by visiting his website and reading his story. It can be found here BUKET'S Story

Hal Hartley Heads Up

2009-06-25T22:44:00.001-07:00

Most of his early stuff is relatively hard to find but Netflix currently has 5 of his films available to watch instantly. Henry Fool and its sequel along with earlier stuff such as Simple Men and my favorite, Trust.

As far as upcoming projects IMDB lists him as working on a film Moving the Arts, a collaboration with Atom Egoyan and others.

I'm tired of stars

2009-06-05T18:06:00.000-07:00

With regards to rating movies. There's just not enough room with stars. Some people use a 4 Star system some people use a 5 star system but they're both bullshit because you clearly need more than 5 reference points to judge the merits of a movie. Netflix has a 5 star system which is what spurred this little diatribe 5 stars? What a load of shit so if I rate it 5 stars its a perfect film. I don't know that I've seen a perfect film and only a small few would I even consider anything close to a perfect film, so I'm introducing the 0-100 rating system. If it makes you feel better you can call them stars but there will be a lot of shitty films with 40 Stars. I'm going to list a few reference points and give my ratings but I reserve the right to change my rating at anytime if I feel I have misjudged the system or not adjusted properly for certain things etc. Going out to smoke now, be back with a list.

For fucks sake eh?

2009-05-18T15:13:00.000-07:00

The only writing of mine that I was able to find was written during a time with a girl that ended quite poorly, it depresses me to re read it now and unfortunately it was the only thing I could find.
It started as a cute little scene when she was in a bad mood, I thought it would cheer gher up, and it did, so I kept writing them, it turned into a bit of a serial and I'd send her sections every few days as I wrote about the adventres we were going to have together. Now looking back on it makes me feel depressed because I failed at all those things I wanted to do. We didn't really do any of them and the woman is no longer involved in my life, which of course of itself is sad and depressing.
So basically now I don't know what to write about.

When it happened, I'm not sure

2009-05-17T17:35:00.001-07:00

But at some point I stopped writing fiction. I use to spend a lot of time writing short stories and now probably haven't written anything other than this blog in five, maybe more years. Worst part is that two desktops and two laptops later means I no longer even have the stories I wrote in the past. I may be able to track one or two down in old emails but I would be very lucky to do so. Anyway, I think I'll take a shot at writing another starting tonight so hopefully I'll have some more original material to put on this blog.

While I don't necessarily condone vandalism...

2009-05-15T15:01:00.000-07:00

I do appreciate art in all of it's forms, here is a quick slideshow I put together featuring the work of street artist BUKET and original music by my good friend Pedi Talai.

Leave it to Hal Hartley...

2009-05-12T19:58:00.000-07:00

To create a dialogue driven science fiction film, The Girl From Monday stars Hartley regular Bill Sage and Sabrina LLoyd!! I fuckin love Sabrina LLoyd as she was a key character in my favorite TV series of all time Sports Night. Hartley personally scored the film as he often does but then doesn't score with the film that should have been another 30 minute short film which he does so well. It's worth watching but I didn't think it was anywhere near on par with Hartley's other stuff.

The Nines

2009-05-11T15:58:00.000-07:00

The Nines is a great film that I just watched on Netflix streaming combining aspects of Charlie Kaufman, digital video, science fiction and metaphysical questions all rolled up into one well wrapped package. The Nines stars Ryan Reynolds and Hope Davis and directed by the screenwriter John August. Watch it now on Netflix The Nines.

A Perfect Sonnet

2009-04-17T14:32:00.000-07:00

This video is practically perfect. Meet Conor Oberst and Bright Eyes with some of the best love story clips of recent movie history.

Urban Dictionary

2009-03-23T10:01:00.000-07:00

I submitted this to UD for my friend, please visit and "thumbs up" it http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=WANFA.
I'm also trying to fix dead links today so if something has been down it should come back up later (music mostly). I was asked by Mr Hal Hartley himself to remove his videos so I respectfully obliged.

This Blog is About to Change

2009-03-21T01:28:00.000-07:00

As any regular reader would have noticed this blog has been very sporadically updated and it's about to change. Not completely, it will still be mainly based on film and the music that influence my life, but I had what many people would call a mental break recently and was finally hospitalized and officially diagnosed as having bi-polar disorder. I had felt that I had the disorder for a while and have been seeing a psychiatrist but because the vast majority of my symptoms were depressive rather than manic it has been hard to get a sure diagnosis. This time I was able to go to the hospital while manic and was still diagnosed as having a major depressive diagnoss whle simulataneously being treated with mood stabilizers consistent with the treatment of bi-polar disorder (formerly known as manic-depression.) My personal psychaitrist is has now officially diagnosed me as bi-polar but only after this last episode. It's hard to disagnose until symptoms arrive and for me the symptoms of the mania, the non depressive side of bi-polar just weren't showing themselves. But I'm on the right medication now and I feel better than I ever have, so I think that things worked out as best they could.
This blog will remain as it has been only hopefully updated much more frequently. If my personal issues begin to take center stage I'll start another blog to tackle them by themselves. I honestly don't know if that will happen or not. We'll see.
In the meantime please watch Prozac Nation starring one of my favorite actresses Christina Ricci in the most accurate display of bi-polar disorder I've ever seen on film. It was directed by the guy who directed the original Swedish (I think) version of Insomnia.

EDIT: 4/18/09 There is now a new blog for this information Depakote Nation

Top 5 Songs I want played at my funeral

2009-03-04T15:17:00.001-08:00

5. Seeing Other People - Belle & Sebastian (My favorite song ever) But I want the non original "slow version" Featuring Isobel singing one of the verses.
4. Landslide- Billy Corgan covering Fleetwood Mac
3. It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career - Belle & Sebastian
2. Needle In The Hey - Elliot Smith
1. I Don't Blame You - Cat Power

DVD Ideas

2009-03-01T16:00:00.000-08:00

Saved!, Good dark comedy, the director went on to do a few episodes of Weeds which is arguably the best thing on TV at the moment if you ask me. Saved is similar in tone to The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys which I also recommend. Not too much else to say other than the highly underrated Jacob's Ladder starring Tim Robbins.

Jon Luke

Amateur Hour

2009-02-22T22:14:00.000-08:00

Some friends made a 4 minute movie in about 6 minutes, its an exercise in web traffic as far as i'm concerned. So check it out, it at least proves all you need is a guy who can improv cry and a camera that can make whatthey call video. I told them I could double their views in a week, I have money on this so help me out and I promise to blog about whatever you guys want at least three times a week. Just check out the video, and comment on this blog post about what you'd like me to write about, or expand on, 90's indies, independent voices / auteurs of today etc... Please. I need the motivation, help me out.

Comments on the youtube page earn extra points.

edit: and congrats to Danny Boyle for both being a badass and killing the oscars with Slumdog Millionaire

J.L.

The Death of Mitch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH67IdN5Hjk

Blog is back bitches

2009-01-26T22:09:00.000-08:00

May have a new theme, will still have many of the same shit, will start updating regularly, with the intention of being much, much more personal about what has happened since the last post as well as keeping up with the movie stuff as to the best of my abilities.

Look for regular content beginning late this week, monday for sure, 3+ posts a week. I'm sorry if anyone actually checked this blog more than twice since July and I'll make i up to you.

J.L.

Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django

2008-07-03T18:39:00.000-07:00

Just got a call from a friend of mine that I used to work with who gave me the heads up about a press screening tomorrow for the new Takashi Miike film, Sukiyaki Western Django featuring Quentin Tarantino.

My friend actually has the exact same job that I used to have and one of the duties is to run private screenings for the members of the local press so that the movies get reviewed before opening day, which in this case is not anytime soon that I know of. Luckily for me she knows how much I love Miike and has offered to sneak me in, pretty excited actually.

From what I understand, and I've avoided reading too much about it, is that it's either a samurai influenced spaghetti western or a spaghetti western influenced samurai film, which may or may not (I've heard both) be influenced by both Django and Django's own inspiration Yojimbo.

I just have a few thoughts before watching it and then I'll write more after I see the film tomorrow...

Firstly, Takashi Miike is,without a doubt, the busiest filmmaker in the world. He has directed upwards of five films a year for the last 5 years, and averaged around 3 a year for more than a decade prior to that. Production of that volume is unheard of, and for it to come out not only watchable but captivating and original each time is nothing short of amazing. If you're unfamiliar with his work you should check him out. I mentioned him in an earlier post Takashi Miike and the best trailer ever? Audition is probably his most well known film in the states.

The Spaghetti Western is an interesting genre that doesn't get as much respect from most as I feel it should. Loosely, a Spaghetti Western is a western film shot by an Italian Studio / Production Team in Italy with sets, themes, and influences, all mimicking the America Southwest western films made during the American Studio system.

The qualities that separate Spaghetti Westerns and their mostly American counterparts, were however, quite significant. Probably the most defining characteristics of the Spaghetti Western are the fact that they often replaced the typical American Hero with a more 'modernized' almost existentialist anti-hero.
When we think of typical western films we think of films like Rio Bravo, High Noon, or the masterpieces of John Ford. Each of these films, as per standard of the genres had a hero who was 'good at heart.' Usually ranchers or otherwise 'common folk' who, through no fault of their own, are forced to take matters into their own hands in often extreme circumstances. Icon of the genre, John Wayne obviously.

Alternately, when we think about or discuss the biggest names of the Spaghetti Western genre we realize those same things aren't always the case. Using the "Man with no name" trilogy as an example, the "heroes" of the new style of western were far more jaded and conflicted than the simple men of the past. Eastwood's man with no name character, or "Blondie" as he's sometimes referred to is the ultimate example of the movement. Blondie is not here to rescue a helpless village from thieves or to attempt to save the yearly crop for the townspeople. Blondie is out for money, he's a bounty hunter, a gunman for hire, and a man very obviously struggling with some sort of personal demons and angst not present in the more classical westerns.
In some circles ALL Spaghetti's would be considered "B-Films," according to others only the Sergio Leone films, (Fistful of Dollars, The Good the bad and the Ugly) were worthy of being referred to as anything other than cheap imitations. To others still, and I count myself in this group, the Spaghetti was the true precursor to the postmodern gangster film.

In the same way that the classical films of John Ford influenced the classical gangster films of The Godfather series, or even to a lesser degree, The Untouchables. The films of Leone and Sergio Corbucci ushered in and influenced everything we take for granted in gangster film today, most importantly Hong Kong action films which would probably be considered the biggest influence to the action and gangster films of today....

Ok, I'm rambling so going to stop now. I'll write more tomorrow.

Flirt, A Film by Hal Hartley

2008-06-30T20:48:00.000-07:00

So while I was uploading the shorts from yesterday I figured I may as well put Flirt up also after the comments made about it and Trust never making it to DVD in America. Trust is on youtube already, right here, has been for a while, so here's Flirt. Due to stupid size restrictions it's in nine parts, here's part one and links to the rest afterwards. I promise to write a real post about Hal in the next few days. Enjoy.

Flirt -1995 (Hal Hartley) 1/9 (This is the same as the clip above)
Flirt -1995 2/9
Flirt -1995 3/9
Flirt -1995 4/9
Flirt -1995 5/9
Flirt -1995 6/9
Flirt -1995 7/9
Flirt -1995 8/9
Flirt -1995 9/9

Hal Hartley, in short form

2008-06-29T23:14:00.000-07:00

So, I got a hold of the DVD Possible Films: Short Works by Hal Hartley 1994-2004, and seeing as I had struggled to find it for years I thought I would put some of them up on youtube. I probably wouldn't put them up if I didn't know his feelings on youtube and distribution of his films, but I do.

Of the 7 shorts that were on the DVD, many featured actors who had previously worked with Hal on other projects. Dwight Ewell was in Flirt along Hartley's now wife Miho Nikaido. Of course Parker Posey and Adrienne Shelly are staples of his films, but it's interesting to see them share the frame as they inspired very different characters and until now hadn't both been on screen together. James Urbaniak of Hartley's opus Henry Fool appears in more than one of them as well.

Of the seven shorts on the DVD these four were my favorites, but I'll try to get the rest of them up soon. Enjoy.

NYC 394 With Dwight Ewell

Sisters of Mercy 1/2 Starring Parker Posey and Sabrina Lloyd
Sisters of Mercy 2/2

Opera No.1 (Hal Hartley) with Parker Posey

And the beautiful Kimono starring Miho Nikaido
Kimono- Hal Hartley 1/3
Kimono - Hal Hartley 2/3
Kimono - Hal Hartley 3/3

What I've been watching part deux:

2008-06-22T19:24:00.000-07:00

I was on a bit of a documentary binge last week and saw a couple that I had put off seeing for one reason or another.

Cocaine Cowboys was good, but not quite as good as its hype.

Feast of Death follows crime novelist James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia) as he investigates the unsolved murder of his mother from his childhood. I found it very interesting but really only because Ellroy is a very charismatic speaker and subject, the film itself was mediocre at best.

Serial Killers: The Real Life Hannibal Lecters profiles multiple serial killers including Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Fisher and others, all in all it was nothing special.

Another movie I watched which wasn't exactly a documentary but may as well have been. Downtown 81 (a.k.a New York Beat Movie.) A 'non-documentary' starring young New York street/pop culture artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The film is a day in the life of Jean-Michel, played by himself, as he walks the streets trying to sell a painting of his to avoid being evicted. The film was considered lost sometime during the 80's, presumably before it was ever finished. It was then returned to in 1999 and completed after Michel's death, the soundtrack and the vocal track however, were never recovered. Vincent Gallo, friend of Basquiat composed original music for the new soundrtack, as did a few others, and spoken word performer/poet/MC/ actor Saul Williams looped Jean-Michels dialogue and voice-over narration. It works as a documentary, a biopic and both an art film and a film about artists. Anyone interested in Basquiat or the New York art scene of the 80s and early 90's should really enjoy it.

Weekend DVD ideas again

2008-06-22T01:24:00.001-07:00

By genre (which is a term I use rather loosely)

Hong Kong Action- The Killer, John Woo's hitman with a conscience masterpiece is, as far as I'm concerned the best action film ever made. I know a lot of people would argue that Woo's Hard Boiled is a better action film, well more action does not a better action film make. The Killer has everything an action film should have, bad ass lead, highly choreographed action sequences, beautiful camerawork, and doves- lots of doves, and of course, Chow Yun-Fat. Possibly the most influential action film ever and the seminal film of the Hong Kong Action genre.

Coming of Age- Igby Goes Down, Kieran Culkin stars as Igby in a rough but sharply written modernization of The Catcher in the Rye.

Screwball Comedy- Flirting With Disaster, David O. Russell followed up his brilliant debut film Spanking the Monkey, with this gem starring Ben Stiller. Stiller's character Mel was adopted and many years later he has decided to track down his birth family. Awesomeness ensues. With Patricia Arquette, Tea Leoni, Alan Alda and Lily Tomlin.

Dark Comedy - Henry Fool, Hal Hartley's 1997 award winning script is probably his most realized film to date. Simon Grim works as a garbageman in Long Island and lives with his mentally ill mother and slutty sister. When mysterious stranger Henry Fools rolls into town with his 'life's work in 14 notepads' he inspires Simon to begin writing poetry of his own. On the run from something, Henry hides out at the Grims home while attempting to complete his 'confessions.'

Meetin' WA : A documentary by Jean-Luc Godard on Woody Allen

2008-06-16T18:39:00.000-07:00

Woody Allen is a world class paranoid, claustraphobe, hypochondriac and filmmaker. Very little exists on his life apart from his films, which despite being quite autobiographical don't delve too deeply into his personal life which he does his best to keep private. I've only seen two documentaries based on Woody's life, the first, Wild Man Blues chronicles Woody as he tours with his jazz band through Europe. The second, Meetin' WA. Is an intimate video interview by one of the greatest filmic minds in history, Jean-Luc Godard.

Considered lost for years, this is a pretty good print, er well copy I guess, it was video so there was no print, but whatever.

The first worry when approaching someone who is known for being extremely neurotic is the idea that maybe they won't be comfortable enough to tell their real story. It's not an easy thing to divulge your thoughts knowing that thousands of people will be watching it later. This fear is unwarranted though as the film is in the hands of one of the most skilled directors of all time and more importantly, a friend of Allen's whom he trusts and is comfortable being candid with.
Check it out.

Meetin' WA (1986)

Independent voices, the auteurs of today: Lodge Kerrigan

2008-06-16T15:12:00.000-07:00

Sometimes a filmmaker comes along with such a powerful and thorough understanding of their craft that it really makes me upset that more people are unable to experience their work. One such director, Irish-American Lodge Kerrigan, is someone I've had on this unofficial list for some time but I had yet to see his latest film. Well I just finished watching Keane, his most recent film from 2004 my appreciation of him has been slightly rekindled.

A few thoughts on how I came upon the filmmakers work originally, which is actually a rather interesting story. About 7 or 8 years ago, when I was 17 I was working in a video rental chain. It was not Blockbuster, but I won't give anymore details. Anyway this was a time when I was just discovering a lot of new stuff with regards to movies. Like many guys my age, I was thoroughly entranced by the return of the ultra-cool crime movie genre that had resurrected itself after the success of Pulp Fiction.

During a conversation with a coworker we began discussing some of the character actors that has shown up in a number of these films during this period, the most obvious is Buscemi, but for this post we'll concentrate on Mr. Peter Greene, best known to most as Zed, the torture rapist from Pulp Fiction and keeper of the gimp.
I thought the actor was awesome, and we discussed a few of his other, more memorable roles such as Redfoot from the Usual Suspects and Gus the drug dealer from the Nick Stahl biopic Permanent Midnight. It was at this time I was recommended a film called Clean, Shaven. A low-key, small budget psychological drama staring Peter Greene as a schizophrenic father desperately trying to regain custody of his daughter from her new adopted family.
Recently released from an institution, we follow Peter's character on his quest while his hallucinations begin to take over his life.

The film is dark. Well, not so much dark as cold. The palette was drab, dull greens and blues colored the frame. Auditory hallucinations begin to torment Peter as he becomes less and less able to handle the symptoms of his illness or discern between his versions of reality. A powerful and disturbing portrait of mental illness and the attempt to deal with something that we, both as viewers and as a society don't quite understand.

His second feature, Claire Dolan was released a few years later - after Kerrigan had received some acclaim for his rarely seen but strong debut. Starring English actress
Katrin Cartlidge (RIP), Claire Dolan relates the story of Claire, an Irish American immigrant paying her bills (and her debts ) as a high class call girl in Manhattan.
Going through life on auto-pilot is probably a great way for Claire to distance herself from her work. Though unhappy with her life she gets something out of each of her Johns as well. Using as she's being used, she gets a feeling of importance, a sense of control when with the men, if only for a few minutes. Like Clean, Shaven, our protagonist is desperately searching for something to give her life meaning but she's not sure what she's looking for.

His latest film, Keane, is his most polished film to date. Exploring similar feelings of loneliness, loss and mental illness it revolves around a man named William Keane, a thirtyish single father who's daughter was abducted from the train station in NY. Haunted by his regrets and second guesses of how he could have allowed this to happen he spends his days retracing steps and interviewing strangers in the station in an attempt to find his daughter.

Staying in a weekly motel he meets a mother and daughter staying in the room below them. Overhearing a discussion of money problems William takes the opportunity to introduce himself to the woman and offer her some cash to help her out of her quandary. At first apprehensive of his charity he insists she take the money. His strangely detached, calm demeanor seems to comfort the woman Lynn and the two become friends.

The next day, Lynn asks William if he could pick up her daughter Kira from school the next day and watch her for a few hours while she takes care of some things. She's very secretive but it seems important and William quickly agrees. The next night, a few hours after school had let out the a phone message is delivered to William from the front desk explaining that Lynn wouldn't be back that night and she would see him tomorrow.

During their two days together William bonds with the child as she's about the same age that his own daughter would be. They go ice skating, have dinner and overall have a good day until a sudden paranoid episode prompts William to scream "Stop looking at me!! Stop!, Stop Looking at me, why are you looking at me?" While all the people in the ice rink turn to him and look terrified, Kira walks across the room to him, asks him if he's OK and holds his hand when he explains that he's sorry and doesn't feel well.

Up until this point we feel that William is suffering from some form of mental illness. He seems out of touch with reality, he's unsure of the order of certain events, he has trouble interacting socially and is on disability with no apparent physical injury. This breaking point that we witness puts a new spin on the mutual relationship that Kira and William create for themselves.

We also begin to question some of he things we know of William. Did his daughter really disappear? Did he ever have a daughter? How out of touch with reality is he? Does he realize that he's sick? All these questions are implied through a spectacular introverted performance by Damien Lewis as William Keane.

I don't believe its a stretch to speculate that someone close to Kerrigan has had issues with mental illness and schizophrenia, or that he'll continue to make daring character studies that most filmmakers wouldn't touch. While this film is much less 'in your face' than Clean, Shaven, it follows a lot of the same structure points down to the very synopsis of a suffering man trying to rescue his daughter. This is a theme very personal to Kerrigan and one that he will almost surely continue to explore.

His films show maturity as well as social responsibility. It seems clear that he is unhappy with the societal stigma related to schizophrenia and seeks to change peoples perceptions of it. Confident and aware of what he wants, Lodge Kerrigan is emerging as one of the more important, 'unheard of' filmmakers in America or overseas.

Human Rights PSA: Inhuman Traffic

2008-06-13T00:44:00.000-07:00

So after watching the films I did recently, Lilja 4-Ever, Not Angels, But Angels

and Body Without Soul, and learning more of the young woman Dangoule Rasalaite, who Lilja was loosely based on, and of whom has little (from what I could find) written of her, I was driven to read up a bit more on some of the problems faced in Europe with regards to child prostitution, exploitation, and human trafficking, all of which have become more and more of a problem worldwide.

I landed on this blog discussing the problem of trafficking along with the MTV and Angelina Jolie backed documentary Inhuman Traffic. After that I found another MTV documentary featuring Lucy Liu simply called Traffic. They're both only about thirty minutes long and are quite eye opening. Please take a look at them and encourage your friends to do the same

Inhuman Traffic

Traffic: An MTV EXIT Special

The Early documentaries of Wiktor Grodecki

2008-06-08T18:34:00.000-07:00

On the recommendation of a friend I watched two documentaries by Wiktor Grodecki the other day. The first, called Not Angels, But Angels followed by it's unofficial sequel/followup Body Without Soul both deal with teenage male prostitutes/street hustlers in Prague in the early nineties. The first Not Angels, But Angels interviews a group of boys aged 15-17 who make their living selling themselves in the gay discos and train stations in the former communist state for around 35$ U.S. a pop.

The stories of how they ended up doing what they did varied slightly,(one boys parents had been killed in a car accident and he had nowhere to go, others were kicked out of their house or chose to leave an abusive home life) as did their places of origin, (Slovakia, Estonia among other nearby countries.) But their temperament, at least by now was pretty consistent. They were depressed, they were unhealthy and naive to many of the real dangers of their profession. Some were homosexual, others straight and many were bi-sexual; but they all survive by sleeping with men for money.

Some of their friends are dead from aids, some from overdoses. Others just disappeared one day; possibly kidnapped or killed. Most of them claim to want to get out of the life, but being under 18 with no permanent residence makes it hard for them to find work. Interesting stories from a life and culture and industry that I know very little about.

The second film Body Without Soul picks up basically where the first one left off- focusing on a group of hustlers who have begun work in the underground gay porn world in Prague. We're told that the gay porn industry of the time was very very popular particularly in the Czech Republic, Germany and the former countries of Yugoslavia.

Two men produced nearly every gay porn film in Prague and in the film we focus on one of them, a Mr. Pavel Rousek, who recruits young male hookers from the streets to star in his films. Rousek, who writes, photographs, and directs all his own films shoots many of the interior scenes in his own home after asking his wife and child to leave the house for the afternoon.

Weekend drinking binges with his underage actors often featured 'rehearsals' wherein the boys would be ask to perform any myriad of sexual acts on each other or on Rousek himself. At the end of these binge rehearsals would come a short shoot where a roughly 75-90 minute film would be shot in around 2.5 days.
It's hard to find any redeeming qualities in a man who exploits children for profit, but none of the kids had anything particularly bad to say of Rousek other than their dislike for the whole process. We're told the reasons that they aren't allowed to wear condoms in most films, which countries are drawn to which fetishes and where the bulk of their videos are sold.

While also intriguing the movie is handled with less gentleness than the first film. We spend less time getting to know about the characters individually and more time viewing them as cattle, or pawns in the career of Rousek or even Wiktor Grodecki, the films director himself. Of course that could be the whole point of the film. The boys are being exploited, there's no reason for him to portray it differently, they're not being treated as humans, why pretend they are? To me it felt a little bit like the film was made to be easily marketed as the followup to Not Angels, and less like it was meant to get the story out, as was the feeling I got from the Not Angels.

Weekend dvd ideas

2008-06-08T03:01:00.001-07:00

Films to rent when you're feeling:

Nostalgic- Reality Bites. The quinessential generation X comedy. Not even a whole lot to say about it really. Good dialogue, great characters, enough quotes to drive your friends nuts and it made Lisa Loeb a star, so yea.

Like you had too much coffee/drugs- Dead or Alive trailer Takashi Miike and the best trailer ever? all I have to say about that.

Pretentious- Amateur. I certainly don't mean to discredit Hal Hartley or his strange mystery/ black comedy 'thing', afterall he's probably my favorite filmmaker, top five at least. B this film is not for everyone. An amnesia sufferer tries to uncover his past while staying in the home of a virgin, nymphomaniacal ex-nun. Quirky and self conscious and I mean that with the utmost respect.

Conflicted- Crimes and Misdemeanors. One of Woody Allen's masterpieces of the 80's deftly deals with love, loss, infidelity, murder, and betayal in a way only Woody can.

thoughts on "our song" and how it relates to the magic of the movies edit: that was the third title I had to make after this thing changed four times

2008-06-06T00:26:00.000-07:00

I often wonder to myself what sets me off on a particular train of thought. What is it that ensures another sleepless night? Why is it that the viewing of a film or listening to a song can change so much more than just my mood? I've been thinking about this a lot lately and I couldn't quite put my finger on it until just now when a particular song, played at random, gave me a glimpse of what it was.
This song, the title of which is irrelevant, means a lot to me and immediately brings up memories of a special person from my past.This friend and I bonded over a song and in whatever way it is that songs become "my song" or "your song" this one did and it will always be remembered by me as our song.
I think the phenomenon of this comes down to the same principle that says children learn better after hearing AND seeing the information in a textbook. I have a knack for bonding images and sounds in my head. The times and the things I was dealing with along with this friend are the only things that come to mind while hearing the song. The meaning, even the original lyrics took a back seat as soon as it became our song.
I've mentioned before to people how I tend to imagine things. My dreams, my hopes, my romanticised (for better and for worse) views of the world, of people, of pain and happiness play out as a movie in my mind. My memories are smoothly edited and beautifully shot while my plans for the future are self-conscious and loosely structured.
I will never, ever, be able to hear the classic "Stuck in the middle with you" again without visualizing and cringing at the thought of Michael Madsen mercilessly torturing and ear-adicating a poor police officer from Reservoir Dogs. I beleive this idea, the one where I will never again be able to dissociate the ear from the song is the single most important factor in the popularity of film.
Film means many things to many people. To Godard, "Cinema was truth - 24 times per second." To a documentarian like Nick Broomfield film is simply a filter to be able to see the world as he sees it. To my mother, film is nothing more than an excuse to get my dad to watch something other than the Giants game.
It's long been said, and I would agree, that film is not the most efficient medium to tell a story. Prose or even casual conversation can usually portray a story with more detail than a film could. Not to mention of course the actual financial hardship that a film would pose as opposed to a novel. The one thing that only film can produce is that extra interpretive step that the viewer must make themselves.
In the early 1920's a Russian filmmaker named Sergei Eisenstein and his colleague Lev Kuleshov began theorizing and experimenting on different aspects of film editing, primarily montage, and the effect that the actual "collision of images" could have on the viewer. Among other breakthroughs the most important idea that they came up with is officially credited to Kuleshov and is called "the theory of dialectical montage", sometimes also referred to as the Kuleshov Effect.
In broad terms the theory states that when shown two images one after another the viewers natural reaction is to assume a final idea or image to succeed the first two. To demonstrate this theory he filmed an experiment where a stone faced actor stared straight ahead for several seconds. This shot was then intercut with the image of a bowl of soup, a coffin, and a child playing. After each image the audience claimed to have seen a slight look of satisfaction after the soup bowl., sadness after the coffin and happiness after the child.
This natural reaction that we as an audience have, to take it one step further, is one of the many things that makes the medium what it is. So I guess what it comes down to is that I'm captivated by movies because of my natural tendency to take things one step further
and I'm doomed to a life of disappointment and dissatisfaction for the same reasons.

Lilja, I'm sorry but I'm going to have to be that guy

2008-06-05T20:35:00.000-07:00

I hate the guy that walks out of every movie saying it's the best movie he's ever seen, or that constantly raves how the last movie he saw is always the best film of the year etc. But holy shit I just saw an incredible film that makes me have to be that guy. Lilja 4-Ever, which I just finished has me practically speechless. I think I'll have to come back to this in a bit because I'm still going over a lot of it in my head but I had to take a few minutes to talk about this.
Swedish director Lukas Moodyson (Together) tells the story of Lilja, a 16 year old, recently orphaned girl living in the former Soviet Union whose desperate need for something more coupled with her naivety leads her to begin a life of prostitution. Originally appalled by her friend Natascha's willingness to sleep with men for money she eventually runs out of other options and sets up shop in the nightclubs surrounding her dilapidated apartment.
After a particularly brutal encounter with a client Lilja meets a young man who offers her a ride home. At first weary of the stranger, Lilja eventually accepts the ride and begins a romance with the mysterious businessman from Sweden despite her best friends insistence that all he wanted was to sleep with her. Eventually the man convinces her to go back to Sweden with him under the guise that he would set her up with a new agricultural job. Lilja is too sweet and naive to realize the siginificance of her new passport- complete with new name and birthdate, but we as viewers can sense what she is getting herself into.
After doing a bit of light research I found that the film was loosely inspired by the events of the life of Dangoule Rasalaite "a 16-year-old from Lithuania who threw herself from a Swedish apartment block, has been used in campaigns to warn young women in Eastern Europe of the dangers of a sex trade which the United Nations reports involves 700,000 women and children." Source

I'll likely write more about this after I've had some time to think about it a little bit more, but it hit me pretty hard and it's becoming increasingly rare when a movie has such a strong and sudden effect on me, all the way down to physical feelings of nausea at some points I was blown away from both an artistic standpoint and a social issue angle. I'm sorry I took so long to see this and I hope others take the time to watch it as well.

What I've been watching

2008-06-05T18:15:00.000-07:00

So I'll add to this every once in a while when I can. Watched two movies this week that I hadn't seen before. The first, Be Kind Rewind, I don't really even know what to say about. Somewhere in a super ambitious, super quirky script writer/director Michel Gondry forgot that the point wasn't to be super quirky and super ambitious, but to make films for a purpose. Uneven doesn't begin to describe it, I had high expectations for the film due to Gondry's prior work but with the exception of a dynamite performance by Mos Def I was extremely disappointed and will be lowering my expectations for his next venture unless he wises up and again enlists the help of Hollywood wunderkind Charlie Kaufman to help turn his fractured eccentric ideas into a workable script.
The second film I watched, the Scottish production Morvern Callar, was fucking amazing. Celebrated young British filmmaker Lynne Ramsey follows up her acclaimed film Ratcatcher with an even more personal film in Morvern Callar. Samantha Morton stars as the title character who after awakening Christmas morning to find her boyfriend dead of a suicide, embarks on a literal and metaphorical journey full of self discovery.
Anyone familiar with my taste will not be surprised at all at how much I loved this film. Beautifully bleak atmosphere and surroundings lead way to powerful, understated performances in this story of self identity as Morvern replaces the authors name on her boyfriends manuscript with her own and sets off to publish "her" first novel.
After lying to her best friend Lanna and claiming that her boyfriend had left her with no explanation, the two set off on an impromptu holiday in Spain filled with ecstasy pills and short lived love affairs as Morvern tries to push the thoughts of her recent past out of her mind.
Whatever star or thumb-scale you use, Morvern Callar aces it, seriously, see it soon.

DVD Ideas for a Saturday Night

2008-05-31T17:41:00.000-07:00

Back to the 90's indies. Films to rent with your:

Boys- Red Rock West. Nic Cage, Dennis Hopper and the late great J.T. Walsh star in John Dahl's second feature. A dark, small town film-noir posing as a modern western is true to it's roots while still being unique and unexpected.

Significant Other- Before Sunrise. Richard Linklater's (Slacker, Dazed and Confused) witty and beautiful story of love at first sight stars Julie Delpy and gen-x's James Dean Ethan Hawke.

Girlfriends- Walking and Talking. The film debut of writer/director Nicole Holofcener who would go on to direct much of the first season of Sex and the City. Story of life-long best friends, played by Catherine Keener and Anne Heche and the effect that ones upcoming wedding has on the stability of the other. Witty and intelligent - if the Sex and the City movie turns out half this good I'll be very impressed.

New Coen Brothers- Burn After Reading

2008-05-31T00:59:00.000-07:00

The newest Coen Brother film, Burn After Reading, Pretty excited, they rarely disappoint except for that weird Catherine Zeta-Jones/ George Clooney movie.

Top 5 Coen Brothers films is a tough one.

Fargo
Barton Fink
Big Lebowski
No Country for Old Men
Miller's Crossing

For the record, #5 could easily be Blood Simple, O Brother, Where Art Thou? or Raising Arizona and the list would still be legit.

More on Minimalism

2008-05-29T19:00:00.000-07:00

I wanted to talk a little more about the new minimalism using the films I posted trailers to yesterday.

Tsai Ming-Laing's What Time is it There?, on the surface, is a love story, except that the love story is more implied than shown, and it's really a film about people. About people searching for people and about people searching for themselves and a way to feel something new, or something at all.

Everyday we meet and cross paths with people who we rarely think of as more than atmosphere, so what is it about someone that makes us pick them out of a crowd? What makes us wonder about some and forget the others? I don't pretend to know the answers to this, and neither does this film, but I am interested in exploring it, and so is this film.

The story revolves around a character named Hsiao-kang, a shy, lonely street vendor who spends his days peddling watches on the streets of Taipei. The first we see of Hsia is a scene in the backseat of a cab as he consoles the spirit of his dead father who rests in an urn on his lap. "We're going through a tunnel now father, you must follow." He says directed at the urn, they then have a ceremony where the urn is laid to rest in a collection of others in some cross between a cemetery and safe deposit boxes.

A short time later Hsai is approached by a young woman looking for a 'dual-time watch' after showing her a few she notices his own personal watch on his wrist and takes an immediate interest despite his insistence that it is not for sale and would be bad luck anyway since someone in his family had just died,"I promise you, I'm Christian, that doesn't matter" she claims and after much pleading and an explanation that she was going abroad the following day Hsai agrees to sell his watch to her. As a token of her appreciation she gives Hsai a cake as she leaves and thanks him again. This moment, after receiving the cake and watching her walk away is the first sight of interest in Hsai's eyes, it's the first time we see him with an expression change, and though he doesn't smile, there's something optimistic in his face, he seems intrigued and that he may indeed want something more in his life.

Back at home he is busy consoling his grieving mother over the sudden loss of his father. She was a little unstable before this but her husbands death seems to have pushed her a bit over the edge. After capturing a cockroach in the kitchen Hsai's hysterical mother protests not to kill it as it "may be a reincarnation of your father"
As he begins thinking more and more about the girl who bought his watch he begins wondering how he can forge some type of connection with this woman who he can't find when all he knows is that she's in Paris. He decides to do what he can to surround himself with Paris culture. Starting with his own watches from his case he begins setting all the clocks in Taipei to Paris time. After that he visit a classic video store looking for films about Paris and settles on 400 Blows which he goes home and watches alone. The rest of the film revolves around his objective to get all the clocks in sight to Paris time while dealing with his mentally deteriorating mother who insists on waking up in the middle of the night an cooking more duck for her dead husband. Meanwhile the young woman in Paris experiences similar feelings of alienation as she lives her life alone and as an outsider - seen going out to eat and sight-seeing by herself.

Stylistically the film is beautiful yet bare. The scenes within the home are dark and claustrophobic, the shots outside are long and isolating.Long, slowly moving or static shots tell the story from a slightly removed, almost voyeuristic lens, though it never feels exploitative or invasive. From a cinematography perspective the film is striking both with its uses of color and lighting and its confident, assured framing, a sign of a a cinematographer and director having a firm grasp on the story they want to tell and bein in perfect synch with eachother. Any frame could be cut out at random and developed into a photograph worthy of discussion in its own right.

Using complicated Mise-en-scène the film progresses the story through movement, expressions and understated action rather than relying on fancy editing work, quick cuts or dialogue to advance and explain the characters thoughts and feelings.

I encourage anyone that hasn't had a chance to experience the magic of this film and others by Tsai Ming-Laing to give them a chance. A deeply personal, poetic exploration of hope and opportunities lost, What Time is it There? is a remarkable film and proof that Tsai Ming-laing is one of the most important directors in international cinema today. If you do get a chance to see it and enjoy it as I expect you will, you may also like the films The River and Rebels of the Neon God, also by Tsai.

The New Minimalism

2008-05-28T22:15:00.000-07:00

So lately I've been watching a lot of newer minimalist films which is a style/genre that I don't really know a lot about. I mean, of course I've seen The Bicycle Thief, but much more than that was over my head. A few years ago I saw a film called What Time is it There?, a Taiwanese film directed by a man named Tsai Ming-liang. I had seen the trailer for a few weeks leading up to the opening of the film but had heard very little of the film apart from that. The trailer was very intriguing to me and a bit of quick research at the time showed it had been quite the festival favorite in Europe and Taiwan and I became even more interested.
When I finally saw the film I saw it with three others who I would describe as being film-lovers for sure. That is to say they knew what they were getting into, I didn't tell them we were going to see an action film or something like that and within half an hour all three of them had left the movie. Not for a cigarette, they left. Lucky I had my car. These people were not the type to walk out on movies and to this day, where I've seen no less than 100 movies combined with the three of them and I'm not sure exactly what it was that made them all leave in this particular movie. Anyway, for a while the rest of Tsai's films, which wasn't very many at the time, were hard to find and I was unable to see any of his others. I recently found some time to watch a few films I had been putting off for a while and two of Tsai's films, The River, and Rebels of the Neon God really proved to me again how amazingly he's able to work the rarely uttered phrase of 'less is more' in film.
It should be pointed out that minimalist, at least in this sense, has nothing to do with guerrilla film making. It's not an exclusively indie thing or a budgetary thing or anything like that, it's simply a style. This is something that hasn't really been particularly successful or even explored much in American film, though I guess you could make a case for a few of Jarmusch's earlier films - Stranger Than Paradise, or possibly even Linklater's Slacker, but apart from that they only person who is really even exploring the idea in America at the moment is Gus Van Sant.
Gus went pretty mainstream in the mid 90s with Good Will Hunting, Psycho, Finding Forrester etc, but has, over the last few years, gone back to some more personal films which have proven critically successful but not nearly as much commercially. My favorite of his recent string of films is Gerry. I'm going to leave you with two trailers after all this which I think do a decent job showcasing how beautiful both these films are, inasmuch as a two minute trailer can anyway.I'll be talking more about both of them though as they should be seen for sure and truly are incredible.Sadly I can't figure out how to embed from here.

What Time is it There?

Gerry

edit: and also Top 5 Gus van Sant films.

Drugstore Cowboy
Gerry
Good Will Hunting
My Own Private Idaho
Elephant

goodnight

Top 5 lists

2008-05-28T02:31:00.000-07:00

Taking a cue from High Fidelity, in the film it's "Top 5 Side One, Track ones"

Top 5 Side Ones. Track Ones

"Janie Jones" by The Clash from The Clash
"Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye from Let's Get It On
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana from Nevermind
"White Light/White Heat" by Velvet Underground from White Light/White Heat
"Radiation Ruling the Nation" by Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor off No Protection

but we don't have sides in this digital world, so my version is Top 5 track ones.

"I Don't Blame You" Cat Power from You Are Free
"The Stars of Track and Field" by Belle and Sebastian from If You're Feeling Sinister
"Needle in the hay" by Elliot Smith from Elliot Smith
"Everything in it's right place" by Radiohead from Kid A
"Ambitionz Az A Ridah" by Tupac from All Eyez on Me

Bonus List:

Top 5 Woody Allen Films

Manhattan
Hannah and Her Sisters
Annie Hall
Husbands and Wives
Crimes and Misdemeanors

Sydney Pollack (1934-2008)

2008-05-27T03:47:00.000-07:00

Sydney Pollack (1934-2008) - Director, Producer, Actor, and true member of the Hollywood elite Sydney Pollack passed away Monday at the age of 74. As a director and producer he brought us such classics as Tootsie, Out of Africa, They shoot horses don't they?, as well as newer hits such as The Firm and The Interpreter. As an actor he's best known for his smaller roles in Eyes Wide Shut, Husbands and Wives and The Player -often appearing in the films of his peers in roles that would be considered cameos for a lesser talent. Most recently he played Will's father in a recurring role on Will and Grace.
Despite his sitcom activity lately Sydney really was one of the most important members of the American studio system in the 60's and until now, American film has truly lost a legend, R.I.P. Sydney.

Sunday Night

2008-05-26T01:56:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I wonder if it's all the dark, moody music that I listen to that makes me such a morose malcontent or if I'm drawn to the music because that's just how I am. Clearly it doesn't matter as it's obviously cyclical anyway and starting with either one would lead to the other in due time anyway, still it makes me wonder what originally came first and contrary to what most of my friends would think I believe I was depressed first and the music came after.
Like most everyone else when they're young a lot of my musical tastes had more to do with what was popular at the time, (or even cooler of course was the stuff that wasn't yet popular... the beginnings of an elitist lifestyle for sure) or based on what my friends or people that I looked up to enjoyed more than what I actually liked to listen to or respected/appreciated. The first time I became extremely depressed I withdrew almost entirely from my relatively busy social life, temporarily dropped out of high school, lost/broke contact with all of my friends for about 5 or 6 months. I found two things during that time, for better or for worse, had a profound effect on the shaping of my life during very impressionable years.
The film thing came about because I was no longer in school. I had basically no friends, I had stopped answering calls, stopped seeing anyone, I had a lot of free time. I had independent study assignments from my school which allowed me to continue receiving credits without going to class so I had an abundance of free time on my hands. Movie became the number one filler of that time. After a few months when I was becoming more and more comfortable being me again started working at a small movie theater with a group of college artsy kids. This group became a sort of community older sibling to me, they were just old enough to have been able to overcome some of the terrible teenage angst and yet young enough to remember exactly what I was going through and be able to relate. I romanticise this a lot because the experience and the people I met because of it really did mean an awful lot to me. At this theater was a small cafe/coffee shop. At this coffee shop I got my first taste of Belle & Sebastian and sad bastard indie music and- unlike Barry - was hooked for life.

I'll be the first to admit that they're not for everyone. There's something about the strange combination of brutally honest, dark and introspective lyrics sung over beautifully constructed pop verses that makes it hard for everyone to get into. For me though I was fascinated. In the same way that Tupac and Biggie, Cobain and others had created a world where their songs and lifestyles took place B&S had created a new universe. Somewhere between fairy tale and tragedy lies the world of Belle and Sebastian. As I dealt with the world around me, the chaos and utter pointlessness that I was dealing with for the first time in my life, I found solace in the fact that not only was I not alone, but that sometimes the suffering itself was beautiful. Nearly everyday I'm reminded of something terrible; love lost, death, war- any number of things, and if I'm lucky it will make me think of a B&S song. If I'm not lucky it's usually a bad day.

	Belle & Sebastian - Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying

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Intro to 90's American Film- as told by me

2008-05-24T23:25:00.000-07:00

So recently I've had a couple people ask me how I first got interested in film. What sort of movies I'm drawn to, what's my favorite movie etc.. I don't do well with favorites but I will try and work on some lists. Another friend of mine asked me to "turn him into a film critic." He was joking, for the most part anyway, but he wanted me to help turn him onto some stuff he wouldn't normally have seen. I gave him and his roommate a list of about a dozen crime/gangster films that I thought they would enjoy that they likely hadn't seen. The response was positive and I decided to take it a little further while still keeping somewhat of a focus so I don't get too sidetracked. Add all those things together; and we come up with my unofficial take on nineties film.
I'm of the opinion that the nineties was a much more important decade for film than most people seem to acknowledge. I know there's this idea with popular art, movies more than others, that it has to have aged a certain amount of time before it's given true credit, worthy of being discussed, learned from, critiqued etc. In a sense that idea has weight, too often I walk out of a movie and I hear multiple people talking about how it was the best movie they'd ever seen.
-Bullshit. Seriously, I'm tired of this shit people have the fucking attention span of four year olds, the only statement I hate more than this while exiting a theater is "That was the worst movie I've ever seen."
So I do agree that a certain ripening period has to occur to separate its long-term merit from fad, but the idea that film schools aren't taking this time more seriously and creating more specialized courses discussing its influence pisses me off- Therefore I'm gonna do it myself, and because the studio films of the late 80's sucked ass we get to start with the early 90's American independents- tomorrow, not tonight.
This little pseudo-lesson plan that I have will surely change but as of now some major points of focus are; the early indies, the 'second wave indies' aka How Pulp Fiction Changed the World of film forever, music videos and MTV's influence on film, select foreign directors/movements (HK action, Dogme, WKW, Boyle,Juenet and others), and whatever the fuck else I feel like mentioning. So, for now, I'm going to finish watching Trust (1990)which is likely what led to me making this post to begin with.
Chapter one will feature discussion on Linklater, Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley, Harmony Korine and others which I feel were most important to the resurgence of the american indie film.

Takashi Miike and the best trailer ever?

2008-05-23T03:54:00.000-07:00

Actually no, but it is fuckin badass. A few years ago a theater that I worked at was lucky enough to have this film for a short run. The trailer that we showed prior to opening the film was unrated, which is very rare for films, because it can only screen in front of an unrated or NC-17 film, is the best trailer ever. It was more graphic and if I can find it I'll post it later. You know the green screen that shows on trailers? "The following preview has beena approved for all audiences..." Well this one had that screen except it was red. The rating section said "UR" and said "The following film has been rated NC-17 for the following reasons; sex, drugs, violence, violent sex, violence perpetrated by clowns and violent sex involving clowns." I am admittedly paraphrasing but those were all in there especially the clown line, I remember that one vividly. I stole the 35mm trailer from work and have it in my closet but obv I don't have a 35mm projector, I'll find the trailer online at some point, it really is worth it. The film itself amazingly keeps up the energy displayed in the trailer for a full 90+ minutes which is quite unbelievable if you ask me. It's also my favorite film by Takashi Miike, followed closely by Audition, Ichi the Killer and then the rest of the DOA series. Many people I know claim that Audition is the best of his films, i've even heard from people that he's 'washed up' and won't make another good movie for years. To those people I have only one thing to say, nobody - nobody can eat 50 eggs.

Quick intro

2008-05-22T17:25:00.000-07:00

My name is Daniel Brown and this is going to be my new blog. It is my attempt to stop living so much of my life in my own head and share my world with others. It will, hopefully at least, allow a glimpse into what makes me tick which will be useful to both myself and maybe even others.
The title of the blog comes from the album "Exile in Guyville" by Liz Phair, I always felt it was a great title (itself taken from the Rolling Stones album Exile on Main Street) and I feel it sums up the concept of this blog as well as anything else could. The sharply written, semi-autobiographical debut by Liz concerns a young woman searching for love, sabotaging herself and her relationships while trying to find her place in the world. The endless romanticism displayed, despite the constant struggle, heartbreak, and the overwhelming thought that it will just blow up again in her face, is both inspiring and depressing. The songs I'll leave you with today are the two that best portray the overall feel of the album. It has a sense of impending doom about it, one that Liz's character seems hyper-aware of yet can do next to nothing about. I will be trying to update this regularly, we'll see how that goes but it's a bit up in the air because "I didn't think this would happen again, with or without my best intentions."

	Phair, Liz - Fuck and Run

	Found at skreemr.com

	Liz Phair - Divorce Song

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