By "Drive-by Truckers"

 

Once upon a time, my advice to you would have been go out and find yourself a whore
But I guess I've grown up, because I don't give that kind of advice anymore

Gonna be a world of hurt

I was 27 when I figured out that blowing my brains wasn't the answer
So I decided, maybe I should find a way to make this world work out for me
And my good friend Paul was 83 when he told me; that "To love is to feel pain"
And I thought about that then and I've thought about that again and again

Gonna be a world of hurt

"To love is to feel pain" there ain't no way around it
The very nature of love is to grieve when it is over
The secret to a happy ending is knowing when to role the credits
Better role them now before something else goes wrong
No, it's a wonderful world, if you can put aside the sadness
And hang on to every ounce of beauty upon you
Better take the time to know it there ain't no way around it
If you feel anything at all

Gonna be a world of hurt

So if what you have is working for you, or you think that it can stand a reasonable chance, and whatever's broken seems fixable and nothing's beyond repair
If you still think about each other and smile before you remember how screwed up it's gotten or maybe dream of a time less rotten
Remember, it ain't too late to take a deep breath and throw yourself into it with everything you got

It's great to be alive

"A world of hurt" is included on their excelent "A Blessing And A Curse" (2006)

 

Volver, the new Pedro Almodóvar film already won several awards including best actress (awarded for the first time to the entire female cast as a special award), best screen play (by Almodóvar himself) at Cannes, and it got nominated as well for the Palme d'Or.

 

Pedro Almodóvar is one of those really few filmmakers that create their own world on the screen. And he only seems to be getting better.

 

 

 

Interviews, live and TV performances…we waited a long time for this one but its worth every minute.

 

 

Stewart Copeland bought a Super 8 camera with the money he got from their first gigs with the police. Since then he recorded absolutely everything. Then he put all the tapes in a box for more than 20 years until he figured out what he wanted to do. Now we have this movie narrated, filmed and edited by Stewart.

The sound and image are really crappy, but who cares? This is The Police by The Police, and you can see them in their first US visit staying at cheap hotels until the very end of their career.

 

R.E.M. - When the Light is Mine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 Video Collection

 

R.E.M. probably became a much more interesting live act after their IRS years, but here you can definitely see them when they were still that cult band that every music lover liked so much. The videos are really cheesy, but the music is still amazing, and this is a good record of how they were before they turn into the dark side of mainstream.

 

 

He already directed one of my favourite movie of this year (A Scanner Darkly) and now with another really good movie, Fast Food Nation, Richard Linklater has become definitely one of my favorite filmmakers.

 

The movie was not enough to stop me from going to McDonalds, but at least it made think about what we all know but we decide to ignore. As they say in the movie, “there is a reason why it costs 99 cents”.

 

(By the way, tonight I'm going to the Company's Christmas party and I've already chosen beef when I got the tickets).

 

 

Meat is murder (By The Smiths)

 

Heifer whines could be human cries
Closer comes the screaming knife
This beautiful creature must die
This beautiful creature must die
A death for no reason
And death for no reason is murder

 

And the flesh you so fancifully fry
Is not succulent, tasty or kind
Its death for no reason
And death for no reason is murder

 

And the calf that you carve with a smile
Is murder
And the turkey you festively slice
Is murder
Do you know how animals die?

 

Kitchen aromas arent very homely
Its not comforting, cheery or kind
Its sizzling blood and the unholy stench
Of murder

 

Its not natural, normal or kind
The flesh you so fancifully fry
The meat in your mouth
As you savour the flavour
Of murder

 

No, no, no, its murder
No, no, no, its murder
Oh ... and who hears when animals cry?

 

 

TVNewser

A blog about television news run by a 21-year-old college student has become a virtual bulletin board for the industry.

"When people in the television news business want to find out what’s going on in their industry, they turn to a blog called TVNewser. But while the executives obsessively checking TVNewser are mostly high powered and highly paid, the person who creates it is not: he is Brian Stelter, a baby-faced 21-year-old at Towson University here, a few miles north of Baltimore."

 

 

The Argentine director Fabián Bielinsky died after a heart attack in June, at 47, leaving behind a small but potent body of work. His first feature film, “Nine Queens” (2000), a gritty, twisting crime story, holds a special place in the recent wave of innovative filmmaking to come out of Argentina (and not only because it was pointlessly remade in Hollywood a few years later under the unintentionally apt title “Criminal”).

And the movie, even when it bends toward convention, never loses sight of its hero’s haunted, desperate perception of the world. For his part, Mr. Bielinsky, in what would sadly be his last film, demonstrates a mastery of the form that is downright scary.

Taken from the New York Times review by A. O. Scott of the film "The Aura".

 

 

 

 

"Even the meanest-spirited, most Sean-Connery-nostalgic critics in Britain seem to have been charmed out of their bad attitudes by Mr. Craig’s performance as a gritty, steely James Bond in the latest Bond film."

 

Quoted from SARAH LYALL from the NY-Times.

 

 

"Terrible things happen in “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.” Mr. Downey warns at the beginning that some of the people we meet in the movie will die before it’s over, and the nostrum that time heals all wounds is shown to be a lie. But though the picture is wrenching, at times devastating, it leaves you with that buoyant feeling of having encountered a raw, authentic work of art. All those howls of pain are its way of telling you that it is madly, defiantly, uncontrollably alive."

Read the full review by A. O. Scott

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