Elise LeGrow with her Prince Valiant look singing “Evan” … I dig it.
Movies Watched -- Desert Hearts (1985)
96 minute running time .. a lesbian love story set in 1959, made in 1985, you know, the Dark Ages… both of the women are hot, but the story wasn’t very well done, you couldn’t really understand how or why they fell in love … I guess it’s just remarkable that this movie was made in 1985 (the Reagan years after all), so it has some lesbian movie cred, er, respectability (based on age). You can give it a miss.
Because she reached in and put a string of barbed wire right around my heart.
Movies Watched -- Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
In Spanish. 98 minute running time. Sort of an interesting look at post-revolution Cuba from the vantage point of a gorgeous layabout named Sergio … his wife and parents have fled to Miami but he stays in Havana loafing around … I like when the Party people come to “register” his apartment and list his job as “ex-landlord.” After he’s accused of rape, his trial is amusing (“Once I would've been the respectable person and they the offenders.”) … he’s just so disconnected from reality. If you’re interested in Cuban history you should see it, otherwise skip it.
Did you take her to your apartment and have sexual intercourse with her?
Higher Than I Could Forgive You
Georgia “Pip” Millett singing “Heavenly Mother” … I dig it.
Movies Watched -- Breaking the Waves (1996)
159 minute running time which I’d normally say is way too long, but I LOVED this movie … Emily Watson’s performance is … astounding. The first half of the movie is perfect and in the second half things get dark. You have to be a tough guy to watch this, but it’s all good. I have John Farr to thank for recommending this one, as well as Mike Portnoy. This isn’t just a green-go, this goes on my must-see list, the Top 500 list, etc. This is the best movie I’ve seen in a long time.
I’m touching your prick.
All Across The Nation Such A Strange Vibration
Great cover of the old John Phillips song … love the brass band backing … Michael Marshall has a great voice:
Go All The Way Out Of Your Head Again
Wes Reeve singing Honey, I … I dig it.
We Can Be Worry-Free
Melody Gardot singing Morning Sun live … talented and has a good band behind her…
Movies Watched -- The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
95 minute running time … stars Tatiana Samoilova, who is beautiful, she must have some Central Asian blood, no, I see now that her mother was Jewish … there is a lot of heavy-handed propaganda from the Soviet era, but it’s really well shot and well made, I can see why it won the Palm d’Or, though I wouldn’t give it a green-go. Farr recommended it.
You have your whole life before you, Veronika.
Movies Watched -- Student Services (2010)
108 minute running time but felt longer and I watched it mainly at 4x fast forward … sort of a pervy French movie (a movie made for TV), ostensibly about a college student who turns to prostitution to pay the bills, but it makes no sense in this girl’s case. She’s pretty and has perfect hair and skin and teeth and bones … I really didn’t buy into the prostitution angle in her case. The movie features lots of creepy 50-year-old guys who are either fat or short or bald and all of them are ugly … but she never once has a violent experience, it’s just generally awful, which was sort of far-fetched. Give it a miss.
