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December 25, 2005
And now, the feast!
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Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanzaa, Festive Festivus ...
Wishing everyone peace, warmth, friendship, and plenty of long winter naps!
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December 20, 2005
KMCC (Kitty’s Modern Christmas Classics)
Top ten holiday movies:
1 Scrooged
2 Trading Places
3 Die Hard
4 The Ref
5 The Nightmare Before Christmas
6 Metropolitan
7 Hannah and Her Sisters
8 Crimes and Misdemeanors
9 Bridget Jones’ Diary
10 National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Plus an old favorite: Pocket Full of Miracles – watch for a terrific (and totally cross-eyed) performance by Peter Falk
OK, OK, so most of these are not traditional Christmas movies and I’m probably the only person on the planet who considers Hannah and Her Sisters a holiday classic. What can I say? Major scenes in all these movies take place at holiday time! And what could be funnier than seeing Dan Ackroyd in a dirty Santa suit, stealing a smoked salmon from the Duke's Christmas party, or (normally) suave Colin Firth wearing that ridiculous reindeer sweater, or that moment in Die Hard when Argyle turns on the car radio and we hear Run DMC's "Christmas in Hollis"? These movies make me laugh. A lot. And as far as Woody is concerned, the themes of reassessing your life, and realizing the importance of family and friends that runs through Hannah and Crimes make this one of my favorite holiday double features. Call me crazy, but I think Woody makes excellent holiday movies.
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December 14, 2005
Hollywood gets a facelift ...
Well, not all of Hollywood, just the sign. I meant to post this last week but got caught up with actual work.
Next time maybe they will take a page from Ed's book and re-do the sign in chocolate:
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December 11, 2005
Quote of the day
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
– Sir Winston Churchill
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December 09, 2005
At the Getty
I’m off to the G today for some culcha, culcha, culcha!
First time I’ve been this year!
I’m excited to see this:
Julius Shulman, Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, 1960
Pierre Koenig, Architect
And also this:
Weegee, Lovers with 3-D glasses at the Palace Theatre (Infra-red), 1943
Weegee, Cop Killer negative, January 16, 1941; print, about 1950
(every time I see this pic I think it’s Marlon Brando. Weird)
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December 07, 2005
New works at Carlagirl
Carla Williams, from the series other people's clothes (2005)
Carlagirl has been making new work and updating her site! Not everything is up yet but her new project (see image above) looks interesting. And Beautiful. Can't wait to see and read more about it. In the meantime, check out "Mother and Daughter". It's a really thoughtful text/image piece. It takes a minute to load up but it's so worth it.
We all need encouragement and support, especially this time of year. You know, when it's visions of failure, overdue bills and cold weather that start dancing in our heads (I never have dreamt of a sugar plums in December, even when I was a kid). So to all you artists and creative types out there my message is: KEEP WORKING. Keep putting it out there! We need you to make us think, and smile, and get angry, and to help us clarify our positions. We need you to show us the beauty in the world and to also help us look at what's not so great in the worlds that we have created. Christmas is coming folks - so let's try to support the arts in some way.
OK. End of PSA. But seriously, it’s important. Check out some art and if you can’t send $, at least send a comment. Let folks know what you think☺
Rebecca Campbell
Albert Chong
Elizabethe Thremante
Myra Greene
Mark Wyse
Artists represented by Charles Guice
Here is another image from Carla's new series:
Check her blog entry, late freight form December 01, for more background on the project.
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December 06, 2005
Happy Birthday Nick Park!
I love, love, love Curse of the Were-Rabbit Chicken Run and Creature Comforts (which btw, was on BBC America just last week and had me laughing my head off. My fave? The Brazilian lion, of course. “I need E-SPACE!” Yea, me too!). These movies are great. Are you listening, Santa? Dvds priced to own from Amazon or in store pick up at Tower. Christmas is just around the … Oops sorry. Topic? Right. Nick Park. He’s amazing and today was his BDay. So if it’s still playing and you still haven’t seen it- go, go, go, see Were-Rabbit! Right Now. Go. That first scene where we see how the lads have their breakfast it a riot. I’m totally down for buying some “middle aged spread” for my morning toast. Just as soon as they start carrying it at Trader Joe’s I’m all over it.
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December 05, 2005
Top 5 funny Holiday Songs:
Enchanted World of Rankin/Bass!
1. Christmas in Hollis (Run DMC)
2. The Chanukah Song Part I (Adam Sandler)
3. The Chanukah Song Part II (Actually, this part is funnier. 1⁄2 Lenny Kravits + 1⁄2 Courtney Love= A Fucking Bad-Ass Jew, indeed!)
4. The Chipmunk Christmas Song (Alvin & the gang)
5. That “Heat Miser” song from “Year Without a Santa Clause”. (“I'm Mister Green Christmas, I'm Mister Sun, I'm Mister Heat Blister, I'm Mister Hundred and One. – Now that’s a great lyric!)
Last week it seemed like everyone I knew was jetting off to Miami for the art fairs but being as I am officially two stops past broke, I was home trying to finish up a project. Over the course of the week I also managed to get appointed Christmas Foreman (Forewoman?). Basically this meant that since I made some off-hand remark about how B did the X-Mas decorations LAST year, I have to do them all THIS year. Actually, it turned out to be pretty fun. I spent all day yesterday pulling boxes out of storage, assembling our artificial (but very tasteful ☺) tree, and arranging various Santas, snow people and putting together a tableau of Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer figurines. My cuz just has scads of this stuff! B left for his weekend job so it was just us cousins for most of the afternoon. She typed away on the computer and played a stunning variety of holiday songs on her itunes while I put up the tree. Fun!
Unfortunately yesterday’s fun has turned into this morning’s nightmare. My back is killing me! I guess I have been too sedentary this fall. Crawling around in storage, and hauling and lifting the stuff for the tree, now feels like the equivalent of completing a triathlon. But at least the house looks nice.
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December 01, 2005
It's a Girl
Congrats, Jen! Even though your hubby is a bad actor - not to mention a big headed, show killing, blow hard - STILL, a healthy birth is always cause for celebration. A baby girl! That’s nice.
This headline from Defamer kind of cracks me up though.
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