when u were just a stranger, & i was at yr feet

[concretekiss]

We waded into the sea up to our shoulders
made shallow talk for show, while waves
hummed white noise like wind shook trees
It was when I felt your foot slide
a stone to mine that I knew we
were secret agents. Geodes turned
between us & alibi spelled themselves
by touch in a braille of goosebumps

All dreams are poems if you tell them right



I may have thrown a tantrum at Circuit Shitty & kind of laughed maniacally at a "Customers 1st" sign & then tossed my USB drive into a random bin & exclaimed loudly I ain't buyin' shit heer! before stomping out, maybe, but the cashiers were acting like apathetic high-fivin' congregatin' no-good punkasses & I have been keeping it v. real lately.

In grooming my list of obligatory

Movies to See Before I Die - V6

~Blues Brothers (comedy)**** the scene with John getting the holy spirit is a sight to behold.
~Reuben and Ed (comedy) I cannot find this GD movie!
~Apocalypse Now (war drama)***** everyone is very sweaty & intense in this movie & needs a moist towlette.
~The Last Temptation of Christ (religious drama)* psssht
~Sunset Blvd. (showbiz drama)**** chilling, almost hilarious but kind of not
~Cabaret (drama) **** see it. 4 Liza's makeup alone.
~City of Lost Children (fairy tale) ***** YES. All Time Favorite! a magnificent cast & new fable.
~The Deer Hunter (war drama) **** Who knew Walken was once so endearing, innocent & broken.
~Elizabeth (historical/biographical drama)**** right up my skivvy clad castle lovin' alley
~Casablanca (war drama)*** notable; Ingrid you whore
~Lady Sings the Blues (biographical drama)**** Dianna Ross & Richard Pryor were superb.
~Hat Full of Rain (drug addiction drama) can’t find! :( ((((((((((((
~Panic in Needle Park (drug addiction drama- Al Pacino) *** bad recording may not've done it justice.
~Times Square (drama) *** very Legend of Billy Jean. Good punk soundtrack
~Valley Girl (comedy) * what was i thinking?
~Valley of the Dolls (showbiz drama) **** Sharon Tate & awesome Patty Duke 1-liners.
~Raising Arizona (comedy) ***** everyone was perfect in this movie. genius casting.
~Harold and Maude (?) *** meh
~Days of Wine and Roses (drug addiction drama)
~Godfather (mafia drama) **** "This is the last time you will be allowed to ask about my personal affairs"...oooooo
~Happiness (drama?)** gave me the creeps. I can't seem to see the amazingness of this that everyone speaks of.
~Gladiator (historical drama) ** like billiards, but with heads.
~I Shot Andy Warhol (biographical drama) **** grl crush on Lili Taylor.
~Disco Pigs (drama)*** Cillian makes bad decisions here. weirdness.
~Surviving Picasso (biographical drama)
~Boxing Helena (drama) * crappy softcore porn, could not finish
~Rosemary's Baby (drama) **** this is TOTALLY a comedy. someone lied to me.
~Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (drama, i've only seen parts of this) **** Bette Davis is a dream haunting genius
~Philadelphia (drama) **** back when cell-phones were bigger than bananas
~All About My Mother (foreign drama) **** hard to watch, cry cry cry
~One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (drama) ***** LOVED Nicholson here more than ever. So triumphant in some places & lead me to research.
~Freaks (?)
~It’s a Wonderful Life (drama) *** see Mr. Potter 4 classic villainry.
~Wild @ Heart (drama, black comedy) OMG Crispin! ***** I can't believe I missed this movie.
~Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (comedy) **** interesting! Don't drink wine while watching this or you'll have to keep rewinding.
~Four Rooms (comedy) *** Tim Roth was too twitchy.
~Noises Off (comedy) **** amazing physical comedy, line memorization, team work, awesome casting
~On the Town (classic) *** see it at least 4 Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra's tight sailor panted asses.
~Hair (musical) *** this is definitely an interesting movie to see now for how it addressed war, sexism & racism.
~Serpent and the Rainbow (horror) **** saw it alone. Screamed a little, maybe. Voodoo references too close to the bone for this Creole grl.
~Delicatessen (comedy/drama) **** charming, as Jean Pierre Jeunet's work always is.
~Palindromes
~Withnail & I (comedy) *** over-hyped. though now I know where the line "Even a stopped clock keeps the right time twice a day" comes from.
~Gone With the Goddamned Wind (I really don't care to see this, but feel I have to)
~Rocky (if only to prove I am not a terrorist)
~Airwolf
~Being There (comedy) ** they did a remake of this called Forrest Gump
~Winter Passing (drama) ** could not finish. too much staring. too many long pauses. the grl was pretty.
~Kung-Fu Hustle
~Orlando
~Corpse Bride **** charming. story of my life.
~Jacob's Ladder
~Hedwig & the Angry Inch (musical) **** love it like Rocky Horror
~The Sting ***** young Paul Newman. period.

In Addition:
~Citizen Kane
~Philadelphia Story
~Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
~Conan the Barbarian
~Waiting for Guffman
~Dr. Strangelove
~My Neighbor Totoro
~Pan's Labyrinth
~Welcome to the Dollhouse
~This is Spinal Tap
~Rock n Roll High School
~Everything is Illuminated
~Moonstruck
~The Diving Bell & the Butterfly
~Safe
~My Life Without Me
~Curse of the Golden Flower
~All About Eve
~The Red Violin
~Groundhog day
~The Graduate
~Brazil
~Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
~Wings of Desire
~Blazing Saddles (this BETTER be funny so help god)
~Stir Crazy
~Adam's Rib


I can't believe I'm watching Rocky 2nite. What a DickFlick. Suggestions are welcome as always, esp. comedy, with which I am hard to please. One day I will be able to say "I have seen every movie that was ever important," & I won't be lying like last time.


You know what it feels good to say? Chakra

...chakrachakrachakra

Comments

[primroseport.livejournal.com]

Speaking of DickFlicks, last night the group and I watched all three Rambo movies. We became much more manly for a few hours, but by morning it has worn off.

Comedy is a tough one. Few movies make me laugh a lot. My all-time favorite comedy is still This Is Spinal Tap, though I can imagine that some wouldn't see what the big fuss is. I just think it's brilliant. made by those A Mighty Wind and Best in Show guys.

Also Idiocracy was funny, though the first time I watched it I laughed grudgingly. The second time was lots of laffs

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

i've never seen a Rambo movie. tho i'd imagine it puts hair on the chest.
the Mighty Wind/Best in Show type movies are cute, but don't get me laughing very hard.

& delayed hilarity is an interesting phenomenon. when i first saw Zoolander i was SO angry at everyone who told me it was funny. but the 2nd time i saw it, i was with a friend & strangely, the film had me rolling. i still hate Ben Stiller tho. 4ever & always.

fack! yr Spinal Tap reference reminds me I need to add "Rock n Roll High School" to my list. :)

[donttouchmyhat.livejournal.com]

Tap into America!

[donttouchmyhat.livejournal.com]

Is that poem brand new? It's really damn good.

The first Rocky is good. And it doesn't end like you'd expect. Comedies...you've seen Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show, yes?

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

yes, it is. frm an interesting dream i had.

haven't seen Waiting for Guffman. adding & thank you. :)

[primroseport.livejournal.com]

PS, I'm not joking about this: Conan the Barbarian. (not Conan the Destroyer--that one is family friendly, very stupid.)

You may very well hate it, but if someone offers, I say--accept! Try it. It's possibly the most DickFlick there is, but also, in the face of all the shit it gets from movie critics, I think it's a great film. Probably my favorite ever.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

i've been referred to this one a few times. adding. thanks!

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

I agree, love the script and the soundtrack of C the B!

[pangea-tongue.livejournal.com]

Damn right. I've been keepin' it real, too.

Bitches don't believe in PMS? I'll convince your dumb ass.

Movies Stacie must watch:

The Cat Returns (It's a studio Ghibli just like 'My Neighbour Totoro' which...if you haven't seen by now, you haven't lived.)

Everything is Illuminated

Children of Men

North By Northwest

Vertigo

(I luff Hitchcock)

Pan's Labyrinth

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

i really regret not seeing Pan's Labyrinth in theatres. i heard there is lots of eye-candy.

& shit, i haven't seen My Neighbour Totoro. i'm a monstar don't look at meeeeee.

i've seen Vertigo & am adding the rest. thank you sexay.

[popartagenda.livejournal.com]

steer clear of Palindromes. just from what i know of you. i loved Welcome to the Dollhouse, was lukewarm about Happiness. Hated this. i guess i am stupid i just dont think Paedophilia can be made funny. in any form.

sorry, i'm a downer.

glad you liked Valley of the Dolls. i loooove it. & also, i really went "meh" @ harold & maud too. shhh! everyone i adore likes this film loads, so i'm shocked & thrilled to see you "meh" also.

CHAKRA CHAKRA CHAKRA.

[popartagenda.livejournal.com]

lol typo re: PAEDophilia. i went all classics dork.
oh well.

Happiness.

[flavorpacket.livejournal.com]

You are SHIT! I am champagne!
One of the best lines evar.

Boxing Helena: Possibly the WORST movie ever made. It made me wonder why I ever found Julian Sands sexy. HelEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENAAAA! Oh. shut. UP!

Comedy recommendation: Scenes From The Class Struggle In Beverly Hills: I don't even know if it's on DVD or not. Notable partly because it would've been a launchpad for Rebecca Schaeffer's career, had she not been murdered shortly after completion. It is WICKEDLY funny, IMO. If you like Wallace Shawn, he's worth the rental alone. The first time I saw it with my friend John, we SCREAMED with laughter through the whole thing.

Re: Happiness.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

i can't remember how in the hell Boxing Helena made it onto my list. it was horrible!

hahaaa. i like how Scenes frm Class Struggle In BH has a plot keyword tag "male rear nudity." adding.

[liquid-siftings.livejournal.com]

Rocky's not a bad movie -- much better than any of the sequels. Were it to be released today, it would be considered more of an Indy/Art film, with it's focus on character and it's storyline choices. Of course, that says as much about filmmaking today as it does about this film.

Glad to see The Philadelphia Story on your list -- one of the best comedies of all time.

You may have seen some of these, but let me add:

- Jump Tomorrow (feather-light, but delightful & quirky romantic comedy)
- Dr. Strangelove (one of the blackest - and funniest - comedies ever made)
- Chasing Amy (comedy, my favorite of Kevin Smith's movies. While not without flaws, it's smart, observant and funny)

and for non-comedies
- The Lion in Winter (incredibly acted & written historical drama with K. Hepburn, O'Toole, Hopkins, and a delicious young Timothy Dalton)
- The Conformist (try to get it subtitled - I don't think they dubbed it well)

There are so many others... you have a worthy, if herculean, task in front of you.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

seen Chasing Amy (cute) & Lion in Winter (amazing & Hepburn is phenomenal)

adding the otherz. forgot about Dr. Strangelove! thanks

[quiet-flame.livejournal.com]

I loled at "Gladiator: like billiards, but with heads."

I was dreaded watching Gone With The Wind too, and I finally made myself (all sulky on the couch muttering under my breath) and to my surprise I really loved it. All, like, 17 hours of it.

What movie did you like most from that list?

[quiet-flame.livejournal.com]

Also, both Tim and I disliked Harold and Maude.

HOT CHICK THREATENS TO PLUG USB IN CASHIER'S...

[browniegirl322.livejournal.com]

someone's got to have that on youtube, right??

Re: HOT CHICK THREATENS TO PLUG USB IN CASHIER'S...

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

hahahaaaa.
my chakras were all jacked up. i was like Nicole Richie up that shiz.

i mean it wasn't like i had entered some posh new uptown restaurant. i was in circuit fuckin' city & they were just standin around like a bunch of jerks! angela, plz beat them up for me.

[blind-clouds.livejournal.com]

kung fu hustle is not to be missed.

i'd suggest:
fido, northfork, dreamland, or the last supper.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

thank you & lol to yr icon.

[igferatu.livejournal.com]

No, no, Harold and Maude is great because there was no such thing as a goth kid in 1971, especially in American movies. I think it's hard to see it now for what it was because of how ridiculously influential it it is to indie cinema and how accessible cult movies are since the video age. For years after it came out, it was still far ahead of mainstream Hollywood fare. I can't really think of another example of counterculture ideas being expressed that early outside of safely hippie-ized settings.

Dr. Strangelove only gets better as time goes on.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

Lolita? Clockwork Orange?
she bedded that naive little kid & then killed herself & film glamourized it. that's what i saw. & Maude was totally hippie-fied too. i saw daisies & a hookah in that movie! ;)

& since i was born in 76, i guess i couldn't really appreciate the risk it took.

[kosmokos.livejournal.com]

movie recommend: Curse of the Golden Flower

best movie, evar.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

added.
come oooon BIG MONEY

[planet-amy.livejournal.com]

Have you seen All About Eve? Bette Davis is.

I just bought Moonstruck yesterday at Tarjay for $5...I watch it every time it's on TV :)

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

no i haven't, thought ridiculously i have seen a (magnificent) foreign film called All About My Mother which riffs on that movie.

adding. :) thanks.

[cowboyjesus.livejournal.com]

Sunset photograph is beautiful!


Comedy:

"Take the Money And Run" (early Woody Allen)

"Duck Soup" (Marx Bros.)

"Uptown Saturday Night" (Bill Cosby Sidney Poitier - 1974)

"Blazing Saddles" ( Mel Brooks )

"Adam's Rib" (Hepburn and Tracy, the chemistry was something palpable.)

"Caddyshack" (written by Bill Murray and Brian Doyle Murray?)

"Catch - 22" (just for Bob Newhart's appearance alone!)

"The Big Lebowsky" (skip directly to this one first if I make any sense at all here.)

"Stir Crazy"

"The Odd Couple" (Lemmon and Matthau) (I love this movie. Just hearing the music introduction it makes me nostaligic or something.)

"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex" (Woody Allen)


Drama:

Neville Shute's "A Town Called Alice" was made into a pretty good drama.

I presume that you have seen "To Kill A Mockingbird"

(trailing off here...hard day. Photograph was really nice. Thanks!)

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

i can't watch Woody the Perverted Infidel Allen movies anymore, the way Michael Jackson songs all sound different now that "i know"
oh god. i wish you wouldn't have reminded me about Blazing Saddles. now i'm locked in.
adding the Hepburn one. :) i'm glad you liked the petchar. & thanks for the suggestions!

My Root Chakra Is Vibrating

[tom-sizemore.livejournal.com]

Dr. Strangelove, Spinal Tap, and Waiting for Guffman are all great comedies, that need to seen.

I think it confirms my atheism that the funniest movie ever made was Airplane. And the least funny movie ever made was Airplane 2.

I'm a big fan of Moonstruck. Did you know it was written by the writer/director of Joe Versus The Volcano? I don't care what America thinks; Joe Versus The Volcano was beautiful. Three Meg Ryans! Before she looked weird!

I second the Ducksoup suggestion above, and also found your list lacking in Woody Allen. What about Annie freakin' Hall? Hello? Is this thing on? Though my favorite Woody Allen is quite likely Love & Death. From that same period, you've got Bananas and Sleeper, which are highly watchable. Sweet & Lowdown and Everybody Says I Love You were his best ones lately (from the 90's). Regarding Bill Murray, I'm sure we've all seen Groundhog Day, right?

Regarding Dick Flicks, everyone I know with a dick is in love with the movie Fletch. Also, Glengarry Glen Ross could grow a dick on a kitchen sponge. Also, Carlitos Way is my favorite DePalma, and Casino is my favorite Scorsese.

Suggested Bill Macy triple feature:

Pleasantville

Fargo

State & Main.

Re: My Root Chakra Is Vibrating

[tom-sizemore.livejournal.com]

In other movie news, the Oscar nominations just came out.

funny but not funny

[rambert.livejournal.com]

I just re-watched Terry Gilliam's flick 'Brazil.' Still great. Weirdly funny, satire on government bureaucracies (since Tom Stoppard was co-writer, prolly socialism, though I've read interviews where Stoppard says even he doesn't know what it's about). Telling fact: Bobby Deniro plays a renegade appliance repairman, marked for death by the authorities.

'Blue Velvet' made me laugh like a fool and repeat lines of dialogue while disgusted theater-goers gaped in disbelief. It also taught me that yelling, "Mommy," and "Baby wants to fuck," works much better in absurdist film than during actual sex.

'A Clockwork Orange' had me on the hurl/howl line a lot, too. Reading that the rape scene was taken from an actual incident in writer Anthony Burgess' life, where soldiers during the London black-out beat him nearly to death and raped his wife, made me realize my impulse was appropriate. I just wish Kubrick had kept the ending of the original novel, where Alex learns the error of his ways. It's corny, but as is, he's just another scumbag/victim of society.

Speaking of Kubrick, same goes for 'strangelove.' If you like it, you might like Terry Southern, who wrote a lot of the film's comedic 'bits.' Blue Movie and Red Dirt Marijuana are two I liked (novel&short stories, respectvly).

jimmy you are a good man for many reasons

[lostcosmonaut.livejournal.com]

i really like Brazil, too, and always hear that song in my head

--mza.

[grammarfight.livejournal.com]

Partly because I am on a Hitchcock jag, but partly because they're unbelievable movies, I'd submit the likes of North by Northwest (possibly my favorite movie, in a three-way tie with City of Lost Children and Wings of Desire), as well as The Birds, Notorious (Ingrid, you trollop) and Vertigo.

[grammarfight.livejournal.com]

Sometimes before I go to bed at night, I pray that I will dream like poetry. I don't believe in God, but I believe in something. Wash your hands, bite you nails, dress in pajamas that the right person thinks you look amazing in although everyone else secretly says in their pettyheads you are slobbysloppy. Earlydark mornings are the best for dreaming poetry. I don't do enough of it. My heart is hungry but my brain is full.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

adding Wings of Desire even tho the title is impossibly cheesy.
i have oscar the grouch pjs that say 'scram' all over them. don't be jealous.
have you seen Science of Sleep? it's v. interesting & sweet.

Unrelated

[browniegirl322.livejournal.com]

I was looking through some randomness on Flickr and this made me think of you:

http://flickr.com/photos/kellydewdrop/2116888099/

is that weird?

Re: Unrelated

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

hahaha, cuuute. he needs a little cloud of mustard ink.

[cowboyjesus.livejournal.com]

Does that make me lucky to laugh at his stuff before all the bad shit went down? I stopped being interested after "Hannah And Her Sisters".
Some hip-hop artist recently made a "mix-tape" interview with snippets of stuff Michael Jackson has said at one time or another. I don't know if he was mocking him or trying to "re-habilitate" him like David Frost tried to do with Richard Nixon. I caught it on this program out of Chicago called "Sound Opinions".

Anyway, Blazing Saddles has something for everybody. I got to re-watch once it with my prudish ex father-in-law one time visiting over at his house. He collected western movies and had somehow never seen it. It was damn-well worth it because he was one of those southern white supremacists. I merely kept at him with "...but it has Slim Pickens in it!" And Slim was in "The Cowboys" with John Wayne, grew up around Wimberley, TX. It was weird to watch him deal with Cleavon Little as the black sheriff leading the town in a battle against Hedley Lamar (not Heddie Lamar). I dunno. Was that evil of me? He was real quiet when Cleavon's character a.) got the (white) girl, Madelline Kahn. b.) was not made to look like a fool. c.) did not get killed.

If you love Gene Wilder you'll have to see this movie, and the one where he plays a Rabbi making his way across America on horseback, all the way to San Francisco (with Harrison Ford) in "The Frisco Kid".