Great: TV: Nip/Tuck
Maybe I've been living under a rock, but I hadn't watched this show until recently (like last week recently). Simply put, the FX drama is really, really good. It's chock-full of sex, amorality, and shallow materialism--which I hate--but amidst all this Sodom and Gomarrah, the characters are wonderfully alive--wonderfully real. Real people with real desires and real complexities. This past weekend FX was airing a Nip/Tuck marathon and I watched three episodes in a row and when it was done, still wanted more, more, more. You gotta love these guys--especially Christian.
Good: Music: Belle and Sebastian Push Barman to Open Old Wounds
Their recently released 2-CD album is great--well, at least the first CD is. If you haven't heard of this eclectic indie rock/pop band from the UK, you should check them out, seriously. I'm not really sure how to describe them other than they'd be perfect on the soundtrack of a Nick Hornby adaptation or a Wes Anderson film. The album is a compilation of the band's first EP's off Jeepster and Matador Records, including the EP's Lazy Line Painter Jane and 3...6...9 Seconds of Light. Still, it's "discount priced"--I got the two CDs for only $13.99 new--and so damn good that one good CD is worth that much, in my opinion.
Film: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Another nice surprise. I thought it was quite good, aside from the fact that George Lucas writes some of the most laugh-out loud dialogue for romance scenes. (One particularly disgusting moment when Natalie Portman says, "I miss when there was nothing but our love.")
Not as bad as it looks: Film: Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Now I know what you're going to say: "James, do we really need another spy movie?!" No, we do not. However, that said, it wasn't as bad as I'd expected it to be. Not terribly original, but semi-amusing. I don't know how many of you have seen it, but there were two scenes that, to me, seemed eerily coincidental to Robert Redford-Paul Newman movies: the poker scene in The Sting and the last stand scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
This is a bit of a stretch, but for some reason, I made the connection. So cheer up, emo kid! It's not the end of the world--yet.
Nip/Tuck's Julian McMahon.
4 comments:
waddup james...it's jessi, just checking out ur site, ur still cute as can be. sounds wierd, but i was rearranging my room the other week and found yearbooks and old notebooks out the ass and had my own nostalgic look into my own time capsule - per se. well, hope ur humbled and blessed by what u find outside of sc - late
oops, guess i posted that under the wrong post........oh well, get over it
Other decent TV, from someone who hasn't had even basic access programming for 3 years:
The Sopranos
Arrested Development
and of course, The Office
And although this doesn't quite fall under the category of recent programming, Krzysztof Kieslowski made a series of ten short films for Polish television in the 80s that are stunning. Get your hands on a copy of The Decalogue at any price.
I have the B&S eps except "This Is A Modern Rock Song" already, so I avoided buying this, but I may have to get it anyway. My poseur friends would never forgive me.
Oh, and I concur with AD and The Office being good stuff on TV. Add to that MXC and you have Trevor's Viewing Habits for the 2004-2005 season. Why you would want to know what I watch, I don't know why.
Nip/Tuck is good, but I got tired of it into the second season. If that makes me a bad person, I hope to be forgiven in the next life.
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