This is HORRIBLE:

A woman goes into her local hospital for routine minor surgery to remove a tiny lesion on her labia. But just before the anaesthetic is administered, her doctor leans over her - out of earshot of the operating theatre staff.
“I’m going to take your clitoris too,” he whispers

And that's not all! He's removed sexual organs for no reason, ignored cancer growing inside of a woman's cervix, and in 1996 he withheld antibiotics from a dying mother. She eventually died. You'd sort of think that after doing all this, he'd be in jail or something...wrong! Nothing has happened to him, and no action has been taken against him. How Australia, how??? You're breaking my heart here.

Wristcutters: A Love Story

Maybe this makes me horribly biased, but I love the idea of this movie because it reminds me so much of 'Bröderna Lejonhjärta,' one of my favorite movies as a child.

I LOVE that the soundtrack is composed mostly of Joy Division.

Patrick Fugit is perfection. Why is he not in more?

Everytime I see Shannyn Sossamon, I wonder how many good movies she'll have to make before I forget about how abysmal she was in 'A Knight's Tale.' I didn't see 'One Missed Call,' but I'm guessing that pushed her back a bit.

Tom Waits? Hell to the yes! Figures that he'd do miracles and crap...Tom Waits = Magic. It's that simple.

It's really too bad that this film floated around in its own limbo for so long...it definitely deserved far more fanfare than it received.

The dialog is fantastic:
"I'm not going out tonight. It just makes me depressed."
"So, what you gonna do? Kill yourself?"

OMG WILL ARNETT!

'Gloomy Sunday' in the soundtrack? Je l'aime!

I wish all romantic comedies were this original, beautiful, and entertaining.





Unrelated:
According to IMDB, there's an Arrested Development movie coming out in 2009...IS THIS TRUE???
Edit: There is indeed a movie in the works, I found a yahoo article about it. I feel almost overwhelmingly happy now!

Valentine's Day has a soundtrack.

Lovefool - The Cardigans
My Love - Justin Timberlake
Love Stinks - The J. Geils Band
Fiona - The Low Life
What I'm Trying To Say - Stars
Digital Love - Daft Punk
Crazy Love, Vol. II - Paul Simon
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen
All You Need Is Love - The Beatles
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Love Is Only A Feeling - The Darkness
Still In Love Song - The Stills
I Want You - Fiona Apple & Elvis Costello
I Know It's Over - The Smiths
I Want Your Love - The Chromatics
I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton
Love - Building On Fire - Talking Heads
The Origin of Love - John Cameron Mitchell
I'm The Man Who Loves You - Wilco
Prove My Love - Violent Femmes
Crown of Love - Arcade Fire
Fistful of Love - Antony and the Johnsons (f. Lou Reed)

Elderly Hero of the Week: Diana Athill, British literary editor, novelist, and memoirist

"Any time anyone fell in love with me, it was very funny -- I used to instantly despise them. I felt like Groucho Marx saying he wouldn't want to join a club that would have him."

"I was lacking for most of my life in maternal instinct, but there was a short time when I got pregnant and wanted to have the baby. But I was amazed by how quickly I recovered from not having it. I was quite sad, but not unduly sad and I've thought about it very little since. I feel a little bit ashamed of that."

via 'Men? Oh gosh, there a lot of them...confessions of a promiscuous 90-year-old woman'

Valentine's Day is right around the corner, so I thought I'd honor it with some of the truly terrible pick-up lines that I've heard:

Do you have a map? I keep getting lost in your eyes.

Are you free tonight, or will it cost me?

If I could rearrange the alphabet, I would put 'U' and 'I' together.

Ya know what would look good on you? Me.

Hey babe, wanna get lucky?

You must be a hell of a thief, because you just stole my heart from across the room.

Was your father a thief? Someone stole the stars and hung them in your eyes.

Did you wash your pants in Windex? I can really see myself in them.

I'd like to name a multiple orgasm after you.

I'd like to swap bodily fluids with you.

Keep it classy, folks. Happy V-Day.

Kids - they can be so cruel, and sometimes, so right.

"Since you really have no chance at winning the Academy Award, do you still have fun being nominated?"
Well said, well said.

I especially love the part at the end where Jason Reitman stomps off.

Where do they find the fans for these segments, and do they give them ecstasy prior to taping? How hard did they have to work to find a roomful of people whose reaction to this was anything better than "Huh...eh"? It's a mystery to me.

This really requires no explanation. LOVE Sarah Silverman.

Juno: The feel-good movie for people who would like to think that they are above liking feel-good movies.

And, that soundtrack? God-awful. If I ever have to listen to the Moldy Peaches again, my metaphorical soul might just curl up and die.

I felt sorry for Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner every time they struggled to make their soulless, barren, despicable/shrewish characters relatable or likable.

Re the Asian girl outside the clinic: Was it just me, or was it slightly racist? She could barely speak English. The whole scene made me sad.

How could a girl as intelligent as Juno not know the origin of her own name? Juno was Jupiter's wife, not Zeus' wife. You're looking for the Roman version, not the Greek version, Diablo Cody.

15 minutes into the film, and I was already sick of the running gag of the boys in short running shorts.

Why are all the characters charictures? They're certainly all very quirky and odd, but Cody and Reitman seem to mistake quirkiness for character development. NOT EQUAL.

My thoughts after watching 'Southland Tales':


God, I will never get Elbow's 'Forget Myself' out of my head.

Wait, Amy Poehler is in this?

Wait, Amy Poehler died already?

It's cute that Kelly thinks he's David Lynch.

Wallace Shawn: now doing the Sicilian on crack.

I can't believe they gave Justin Timberlake a musical number that he didn't dance OR sing in.

Present self. Future self. What?

What the hell just happened? (A question I asked myself frequently while I was watching Southland Tales)

I cannot take anyone from 'American Pie' seriously as a "Savior."

I'm a pimp, and pimps don't commit suicide.


I actually sort of liked most of it. And clocking in at nearly 2 1/2 hours, that's quite nearly a feat. It's a lot of sound and noise signifying nothing, but it's oddly entertaining in a bizarre, utterly meaningless way. It's completely ridiculous, but I forgive it, on the basis of being so very, very unintentionally hilarious. Folks, it's so bad that it's good.