Grey Gardens

Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale were the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. The two women lived together at Grey Gardens for decades with limited funds, resulting in squalor and almost total isolation.

I started watching this when I was half asleep, and was so intrigued by it. I was really disappointed I didn't get to see more of it, the relationships between the two women was documented in such a raw, unaltered way that you couldn't help but be intrigued by them. I will watch this again.

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus

Things that are bad (good) about this film:

- Debbie Gibson and her cheeks
- a shark that jumps out of the water to eat a jet
- food colouring liquid cures
- interracial scientist love
- over-use of the same shots to 'set the scene'
- grainy stock footage
- amazing CGI
- sunset speeches covered in cheese
- flashwipes
- 'advanced underwater technology' (sonar noises)
- shark eats the Golden Gate Bridge
- 'I am against nukes, but if we make them kill each other that is okay i guess.'
- 'intersection' as a euphamism for fucking

March of the Penguins

Basement Jaxx - Scars

It's ALL about Chipmunk.

Distance, it grows now

You don't, reach for me

All I got, all I got

Is my scars

Save me, give me wings to fly

Make me your reason to fight

Sign my name across your heart

Remember me into the night

Kiss me then I'll wake up

Kiss me then I'll wake up

Kiss me then I'll wake up

Fairy tales make up

Headlight, black demons

Peering in my hollow core

Grudges they're strangling

and splinters and dry skin

Streetlights they see me

The whole world will reach for me

All I got, all I got

Is my scars

I'll kiss then you'll wake up

Don't want you to meet your maker

And you don't believe in fairy tales

Well today I'm gonna make ya

Cause I've come here to save ya

Fear none of that miss, I'ma take ya

I can rap I can rhyme like karma

Be your night in shining armor

Oh no I aint got no Porsche

Just give me a shield and a sword and a horse

And I'll come ridin' ridin' ridin'

Give me a little one on the back

I'ma tell a lie and get you on back

I'ma tell a lie and get you on back

It's gone right from fiction to fact

I'm gonna take you out this world

Britney Spears for Elle

'I was born to make you happy.'

Alicia Keys - The Element of Freedom

And the day came
When the risk it took
To remain tight and closed in the bud
Was more painful
Than the risk it took to grow.
This is the element of freedom.

I always liked her... but recently she's faded in and out of obscurity after releasing the first single from any campaign. Not sure what made me download this... but I'm so glad I did. It's really good.

Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart

'even if you were a million miles away

I can still feel you in my bed

near me, touch me, feel me.

And even at the bottom of the sea

I can still hear you in my head

near me, touch me, feel me.'

Un-thinkable

'A moment of honesty
Someone's gotta take the lead tonight
Whose it gonna be?
I'm gonna sit right here
And tell you all that comes to me
If you have something to say
You should say it right now
You give me a feeling that I never felt before
And I deserve it, I think I deserve it
It's becoming something that's impossible to ignore
And I can't take it'

Love is my Disease

'When you're gone it feel like

My whole world leaves with you

I though love would be my cure

But now it's my disease

I try to act mature, but I'm a baby when you leave.'

Lindsay Lohan for Muse

Bristol

Something amazing has happened.

Weird Things (or 'An Unshamed Dramatic Vomit')

Things are socially horrible at the moment. And through no fault of my own. Observe.

1. Chris

The obvious. I still feel totally powerless to do anything about this, even though it is overtaking my thoughts and is without doubt the most important thing in my life at the moment, which is so ridiculous considering the amount of work I should be concentrating on. This is nothing like I've ever felt before, I am fine to get on everyday and do what I need to, but I feel physically changed inside, like something is definitely gone. I've had awful breakups in the past, but I now know that they were so awful because there was so much bad blood surrounding them. There is nothing wrong with this one, and I'm not sure if that's what makes it harder, or if I just can't admit the truth yet. I think I might have been in love.

2. Darryl and Matt

This one is shortlived, I'll be over it in a couple of days. But I can't help feeling a bit disgusted by it. I can hide behind the 'you're a weird childsnatcher' stance, which does have it's own truths and merits, as there is a large 6 year age gap, even though the social and moral ages are probably quite similar. I don't know what it is with Darryl that gets to me so much, maybe it's because of his age that I feel a little responsible. Maybe it's the fact that, while I know I'm not really that interested, I still feel a bit put out that we've had so many opportunities, but nothing has ever happened between us. Then I think... maybe this will be the thing that will bring them both into the real world, properly. No more messing around, an actual real relationship and emotion from the both of them. I know I can feel nothing but pity for Matt, but I can't help but want something good for him, even if it finally makes him grow up and accept responsibility for what an awful, awful person he's been to me. We have to let it go though, don't we?

3. Russell Hayward

I don't know if I'm ready. The attention is nice, but I feel awful when he flirts. I can't give him anything back, and I think he is quite aware. I will go, and I will be good company and I will try to be 100% and act like I'm together and would be an amazing boyfriend. But I don't think I can put my heart in it. Plus... he's Darryl's best mate. All kinds of sick double dating scenarios are rolling around in my head, and I don't want to be tarred with the same brush I know so many people have painted with. Fuck. Not even one date and I'm already thinking of reasons to back out. Man up.

4. 'Everybody text J weekend'

David. Jack. Scott. John. Shaun.

And ALL of them without any prompting or conversation. Since I have vowed to 'forgive and forget, but leave the past in the past', I have found it so much easier to let these people go. Yeah, I have the blips where I  scrounge around to try and find some kind of link between us, but when I find there isn't I'm usually quite satisfied. In these people's heads though, I'm still that person that always leaves the door open, and always has a smile for them. And that person ALWAYS ends up getting the door slammed in their face pretty soon after. I text 3 of 5 back. Which is pretty much a fail.

5. Thom and Stuart

I got confirmation that it actually happened. I still think about Thom all the time, he is the literal definition of 'the one that got away', and probably always will be. The way Thom explained the situation to me really shocked me though... I never realised Stuart has made anyone else feel that trapped before. In my head, I know it was just a one night stand between them (and not even that, Stuart would still never actually have sex with anyone), but with talk of drugging and not remembering what went on from Thom, I really don't know. I hate that I have to admit that I don't really know Stuart, and probably never did. That I relied on someone for so much, without really knowing them at all. I don't think any of us do. I don't think he even does. What I do know, is that Thom will be in my life no matter what he does. He's fit, and he's funny, and I'm okay with having him consistently fuck up in front of me, but still come back every now and again and tell me how much of a good, yet brief boyfriend I was. One day, eh?

6. Nathan Rutherford

WHY DID I HAVE A SEX DREAM ABOUT NATHAN RUTHERFORD?!

=(

Mr Tourette

Chivalry Required

Do You Want The Truth or Something Beautiful?

This video is perfect.

Brilliantly acted.

So simple, but incredibly effective.

Edit: (24th January 2010)
I have just re-watched this for the first time in a couple of weeks.
There are a few shots where she actually looks directly at the camera, and this in my opinion blows the whole video wide open. There is a narrative to the video, and the camerawork is scripted in a way that we are just onlookers, but the fact that she looks at us suggests she knows we are there, and knows that we know exactly what she does, despite the 'audience' thinking differently.
Another really intriguing layer to an already fascinating video.

Katsushika Hokusai

'The Ghost Kohada Koheiji'

'The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife'

'Great Wave'

Fan Death

Limbo

'Please don't say we're done,
 when I'm not finished

because I could give
so much more.'

- The xx

Penguins

Are amazing.

Nancy Sinatra

Paris Je T'aime

Soon.

Mexican Sugar Skulls

Luke Worrall

While I was looking at pictures of him

I realised I only found him so attractive

Because he reminded me of my boyfriend.

Where The Wild Things Are

Not going to write anything properly about this until I see it.

I already know it will be incredible though.

I pitch with a grenade

Swing away if you're feeling brave.

I'm such a fucking lady.

The time in now

And now

The wait is over.

A Make-Believe Summer

Make-believe summer lasts for a minute or two as kindergarten children in sunless Lovozero bathe in ultraviolet light. Brief exposure to UV radiation provides the children with vitamin D, normally supplied by sunlight. The "sunshine vitamin" strengthens young bones.

Confessions

Annie - Don't Stop

My twitter-review of the new Annie album.

On Ben's request.

1. Hey Annie - Very good. Lovely melody in the chorus. Don't like the chanting. 8/10.

2. My Love Is Better - Alright. Too Xenomania. Clearly an 'Out of Control' reject, seems a tad dated. 5/10.

3. Bad Times - This is quite nice. Pleasant all the way through, easy. The last minute or so is very very good. 6/10.

4. Don't Stop - Well funky! And a really cool unexpected echoey-synth breakdown. Grower, I feel. Tentative 6/10.

5. I Don't Like Your Band - AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING VERY GOOD AMAZING AMAZING. 9/10.

6. Songs Remind Me of You - Lyrically the best so far, and also the most instant. Reminds me of 'The Clothes Show'. 9/10.

7. Marie Cherie - You were right, I do like this. It's like a big tragic-romance film! Love the dramz! 8/10.

8. Take You Home - This is really brooding and moody. Like it a lot. And unshamedly slutty for Annie! 8/10 for whoryness.

9. The Breakfast Song - Sounds like it could literally be lifted out of an episode of 'High 5'. Therefore amazing. 6/10.

10. Loco - 'Long Hot Summer'?! Don't like it very much. Bit dated and done, again. No more Xeno ploise. 4/10.

11. When The Night - This is like a Phil Collins song! A really brilliant Phil Collins song! WIN. 6/10.

12. Heaven And Hell - A bit too saccharine for me, I feel. Also a bit of an odd point to end the album on? Not sure. 4/10.

'Anthonio' from the bonus EP is by far the best though.            

Lady Gaga - Alejando

I know that we are young.
And I know you may love me.
But I just can't be with you like this anymore.
Alejandro.

She's got both hands
in her pockets.
And she wont look at you,
Won't look at you

She hides trough love.
Su bolsito
She got a halo around her finger.
Around you.

You know that I love you boy.
Hot like Mexico, rejoice.
At this point I gotta choose,
How can you loose.

Don't call my name.
Don't call my name, Alejandro.
I'm not your babe.
I'm not your babe, Fernando.

Don't wanna kiss, don't wanna touch.
Just smoke one cigarette more.
Don't call my name.
Don't call my name, Roberto.

Alejandro.

Just stop.

Please.

Just let me go.

Alejandro.

Just let me go.

She's not broken,
She's just a baby.
But her boyfriend's like a dad, just like a dad.
Draw those flames that burn before him.
Now he's gonna find a fight, gonna fool the dad.

You know that I love you boy.
Hot like Mexico, rejoice.
At this point I gotta choose,
How can you loose.

I'm not your babe.
I'm not your babe, Alejandro.

Epic Mickey

I AM TOO EXCITED ABOUT THIS.

Love

'In Love the story is not something that is "Pre-scripted" but something that is organically created while you play. By using Procedural algorithms the game can constantly generate new events and content for you to explore. By being generated while you play, the experience can be tailored to your play style and respond to your actions. This is not a game where you are being lead down a path, this is a game where you decide the direction of the story.'