Hello Dear Readers! Yes, it has again been quite a long time since I updated this littleblog of mine. Needless to say, I have been rather busy. Directing two plays at the moment,(ok co directing one, thankfully) while acting in both. So, there is that. Two weeks ago (or something like that) exams were in full swing and stress was all over the place. Now I have new classes, work, plays, and life to deal with. Anyhow, here is what I have been doing between all that.
Identity
So I finally saw this John Cusack thriller after the universe seemingly not wanting me to. It felt very short, maybe thats just because it was so engaging. I dont want to give you too much detail on the thing because its a bit of a mind fuck. Its a murder mystery, with quite a twist. Looking for a good intense kind of movie? Check this thing out.
Zombieland
One of those movies everyone is surprised to hear I have not seen. Or at least, they told me to check it out. So I finally did. And yeah, quite fun. Obviously, Jesse Eisenberg was great. I dont know how you cant like that guy. And Woody Harrelson. I feel as if I have never seen the guy before, and within the last 2 months I have seen like, 4 movies with the guy in them. I also find Emma Stone horribly charming. Really looking forward to seeing her in the new Spiderman Reboot. Which also has Andrew Garfield. Both of whom have worked with Jesse Eisenburg. Woooah. Six degrees up in here.
Nick Hornby
Obviously you can see I am a fan of the guys work, but as of late I have been really into it. I go through phases with authors. In grade nine I was really into Douglas Coupland, last year it was Terry Pratchett, and I can feel a full on Hornby kick coming on.
The New Decemberists Album
So folksy. So good. I was sort of worried when I heard they were channeling some country music vibes for this one. But its really more of a modern folk sort of thing. And its super epic.
MGMT
Psychedelic love, their two albums are fantastic dancey epics you should really check out. I am more partial to their first album, Orracular Spectacular. Every tack on it is so intensely listenable.
The National
They just came out with their last album last year I believe, High Violet. While the first few tracks are just alright, everything past them is really beautiful. "Lemon World" is becoming one of my top songs at the moment. I found this album took more than one listen to really get into. The lead singers voice takes some getting used to. I find it sort of a Bob Dylan Lou Reed combination. My friend Hugh doesnt see it, but its what I think of when I hear him.
Community
Everyone should watch this show. I kid you not. Probably the best comedy on the air right now. I have been obsessed with it since it started, so this is really more for a list of top fives or top tv, but still. Its airing weekly at the moment so I am on a full on community trip as of late.
The Shins
When am I not into the Shins?
ok so I should get off the internet, see you next time I can!
Saturday, February 12, 2011
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2011 here we come
Happy New Year! Life in High Fidelity has been lacking in updates and songs of the week this past month or so. Mainly because my life has been filled with some hard core christmasing, shopping, script editing, rehearsals, self hair cutting, partying and work work work. So, in the spirit of the new year, here is my list of things to look forward to in 2011.
The Walking Dead.
Fellow blogger and frequent best friend Hugh Lobb have begun to watch the AMC hit series The Walking Dead, which, in case you have not heard, follows a zombie-pocolapse and a group of people trying to survive it. At the moment we are only into the second episode. The first episode was among the best pilot episodes I have ever seen. Season two continues this year, meaning I will be puuuumped for it once we finish the first.
Weeds
The show will be going into its seventh season, I do believe. At the moment my other fellow blogger and other best friend Scarlett of "BAMFB" are on the fourth season. During the Christmas break we marathoned Weeds, burning through the complete third season in two sittings. By the time the show is back on I may just be caught up.
If you dont watch weeds, you should. Every season just keeps getting more and more intense. Shit goes down on that show, trust me.
The continuing epic that is Fringe.
Fox has pulled a Firefly and moved their brilliant cult hit sci fi show to Friday night. Which, as we have seen with the before mentioned show and the other Whedon show Dollhouse, usually means cancellation. I really need this not to be the case. I may lose all hope in television if this happens. I at least want this show to reach its own conclusion, with at least a full running fourth season. Fox should at least give it that. You should really check out Fringe, its the best sci fi show on tv right now, trust me. And it needs your help.
John Cusack's Edgar Allan Poe movie.
Apparently its a combination of Cusack, Poe creepiness, and murder mystery. Oh hells yes.
Continuing news on the roller coaster ride of a production that is Peter Jacksons The Hobbit.
Seriously, this movie has gone through hell and back. And it needs to get made. Life in High Fidelity demands it so.
The New Tintin Movie
Spielberg directed performance capture animated Tintin. Check out the movie stills online right now, they look pretty cool.
Parks and Recreation being being put back on the air.
One of NBC's best shows, featuring the always brilliant Amy Pohler. They never gave it the respect it deserved, and took them off the air for nearly a year, replacing it with the lackluster and kind of offensive Outsourced. The show made use of that for a stellar season finale, however. Hopefully they will be back and compensate for the lack of show and be as funny as ever.
New Decemberists Album
It seems they have dropped the rock opera theme and gone with a more poppy feeling this time around. Which should be cool, however I still really love their concept albums and it would be cool to see more of them in the future.
Scream 4.
Considering how self aware these movies are, it will be very cool to see a re boot with the original cast, and see them make use of the new kinds of horror slasher movies for some entertaining commentary. Screw you, nay sayers. Scream is classic, and I will definitely be checking this one out.
more to come!
The Walking Dead.
Fellow blogger and frequent best friend Hugh Lobb have begun to watch the AMC hit series The Walking Dead, which, in case you have not heard, follows a zombie-pocolapse and a group of people trying to survive it. At the moment we are only into the second episode. The first episode was among the best pilot episodes I have ever seen. Season two continues this year, meaning I will be puuuumped for it once we finish the first.
Weeds
The show will be going into its seventh season, I do believe. At the moment my other fellow blogger and other best friend Scarlett of "BAMFB" are on the fourth season. During the Christmas break we marathoned Weeds, burning through the complete third season in two sittings. By the time the show is back on I may just be caught up.
If you dont watch weeds, you should. Every season just keeps getting more and more intense. Shit goes down on that show, trust me.
The continuing epic that is Fringe.
Fox has pulled a Firefly and moved their brilliant cult hit sci fi show to Friday night. Which, as we have seen with the before mentioned show and the other Whedon show Dollhouse, usually means cancellation. I really need this not to be the case. I may lose all hope in television if this happens. I at least want this show to reach its own conclusion, with at least a full running fourth season. Fox should at least give it that. You should really check out Fringe, its the best sci fi show on tv right now, trust me. And it needs your help.
John Cusack's Edgar Allan Poe movie.
Apparently its a combination of Cusack, Poe creepiness, and murder mystery. Oh hells yes.
Continuing news on the roller coaster ride of a production that is Peter Jacksons The Hobbit.
Seriously, this movie has gone through hell and back. And it needs to get made. Life in High Fidelity demands it so.
The New Tintin Movie
Spielberg directed performance capture animated Tintin. Check out the movie stills online right now, they look pretty cool.
Parks and Recreation being being put back on the air.
One of NBC's best shows, featuring the always brilliant Amy Pohler. They never gave it the respect it deserved, and took them off the air for nearly a year, replacing it with the lackluster and kind of offensive Outsourced. The show made use of that for a stellar season finale, however. Hopefully they will be back and compensate for the lack of show and be as funny as ever.
New Decemberists Album
It seems they have dropped the rock opera theme and gone with a more poppy feeling this time around. Which should be cool, however I still really love their concept albums and it would be cool to see more of them in the future.
Scream 4.
Considering how self aware these movies are, it will be very cool to see a re boot with the original cast, and see them make use of the new kinds of horror slasher movies for some entertaining commentary. Screw you, nay sayers. Scream is classic, and I will definitely be checking this one out.
more to come!
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer was actually filled with assholes.
Everyone has seen the ancient stop motion Christmas special "Rudolph the red nose Reindeer." 'Its a nice story about a special little flying reindeer that went on an adventure and saved Christmas. Good old fasioned family fun, right?
Not so much. Watching this movie as an adult, I have realized just how messed right up this story is.
Point the first.
After he is born and his super awesome lazer nose is seen for the first time, Donner, (who is Rudolph's father in this epic) gets super pissed and smacks him in the nose with some soot to cover up his fatherly shame. Not exactly father of the year.
I mean, getting hysterical over a personal oddity of a newborn child and blaming it is pretty ignorant and fucked up.
Great start, movie.
Meanwhile, Hermy the elf gets bitched at because he does aspires to be a dentist. For some reason the elves dont have health care. Considering the amount of candy all over the north pole, I am pretty sure the elves could have used some decent dental care.
Those elves are going to have some brittish ass teeth going on over there.
On a related note, the elves work in a little shanty while Santa Clause lives in a giant castle, working his elves like slaves.
When Rudolph shows up at flying practice he totally kicks ass. When his weird nose thing gets knocked off and his glowey red nose goes all WHUM WHUM WHUM. like a freaking lighsaber. The instructor freaks his shit and tells all the deer to exclude Rudolph from any of their reindeer related activities. Call me crazy, but I want my people in charge a little more objective, you know? Outright telling everyone to shun someone based on some nose glow is pretty mean. Santa himself shows his true dickish colors and tells Donner that he should be ashamed of himself. Your damn alien sperm, Donner. Giving everyone a weird red glow. Santa does not approve.
Rudolph runs away, and when his parents go to find him, Donner tells his wife "no...this is mans work."
Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick move.
Later when they do find him and that prospector guy kicks the bucket the narrator gets pretty sexist.
"They all agreed the best thing to do was get the women home."
It seems the women are able to locate rudolph but not anything else. Its true. Women reindeer are fragile creatures, its common knowledge. They really should get home to make pie and babies. If they dont, who will?
Then Santa shows up again, this time to convince Rudolph to lead the sleigh in a deadly Christmas eve gift giving spree. Only for his light.
He may hate you for your ungodly Satan nose, but doesnt mind using you in a near death winter expedition.
Winder wonderland creatures are assholes. Lesson learned.
yay Christmas!
Not so much. Watching this movie as an adult, I have realized just how messed right up this story is.
Point the first.
After he is born and his super awesome lazer nose is seen for the first time, Donner, (who is Rudolph's father in this epic) gets super pissed and smacks him in the nose with some soot to cover up his fatherly shame. Not exactly father of the year.
I mean, getting hysterical over a personal oddity of a newborn child and blaming it is pretty ignorant and fucked up.
Great start, movie.
Meanwhile, Hermy the elf gets bitched at because he does aspires to be a dentist. For some reason the elves dont have health care. Considering the amount of candy all over the north pole, I am pretty sure the elves could have used some decent dental care.
Those elves are going to have some brittish ass teeth going on over there.
On a related note, the elves work in a little shanty while Santa Clause lives in a giant castle, working his elves like slaves.
When Rudolph shows up at flying practice he totally kicks ass. When his weird nose thing gets knocked off and his glowey red nose goes all WHUM WHUM WHUM. like a freaking lighsaber. The instructor freaks his shit and tells all the deer to exclude Rudolph from any of their reindeer related activities. Call me crazy, but I want my people in charge a little more objective, you know? Outright telling everyone to shun someone based on some nose glow is pretty mean. Santa himself shows his true dickish colors and tells Donner that he should be ashamed of himself. Your damn alien sperm, Donner. Giving everyone a weird red glow. Santa does not approve.
Rudolph runs away, and when his parents go to find him, Donner tells his wife "no...this is mans work."
Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick move.
Later when they do find him and that prospector guy kicks the bucket the narrator gets pretty sexist.
"They all agreed the best thing to do was get the women home."
It seems the women are able to locate rudolph but not anything else. Its true. Women reindeer are fragile creatures, its common knowledge. They really should get home to make pie and babies. If they dont, who will?
Then Santa shows up again, this time to convince Rudolph to lead the sleigh in a deadly Christmas eve gift giving spree. Only for his light.
He may hate you for your ungodly Satan nose, but doesnt mind using you in a near death winter expedition.
Winder wonderland creatures are assholes. Lesson learned.
yay Christmas!
Friday, December 10, 2010
2010 in Movies
So this may not be the most original kind of posting, but i find it necessary. This is my list of the past year in movies. Maybe not all new releases, but the ones that made an impression on me.
Inception
Obvious choice, I know. This movie blew everyones minds. What was so great was how unexpected it was. I made a point to avoid the trailer, and even the stuff that was released was super vague and mysterious, as I found out later. I had high expectations for Nolan's newest work, and they were so way exceeded.
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1
This one was really satisfying, as both a life long Potter fan and a film goer. The action was great, and even the performances (very lacking in previous entries) were fantastic. It showed some things not seen in the original story, and tweaked and added things to stuff that did happen. Both of these were actually really cool to see. The most different of the whole franchise, very lord of the rings.
Kick Ass
Another movie that took me by surprise. Currently watching it for the second time this week, showing my dad its epicness. I had no idea just how insane this movie was going to be. The action is probably some of the best and most engaging I have ever seen. When the guns start going and the fists start flying, its not in a typical action movie sort of way. This is not a car chase sort of action movie. I didn't even want to blink when I was watching this. Its clever, funny, and so much fun to watch.
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
This movie is a geek's wet dream. The whole thing is shot like a video game/ comic book. The soundtrack was just delightful and obsessively listenable. I have never sat in a movie theater and just smiled in delight and anticipation for a whole movie. With this one, I so did. Even the opening credits were brilliant. I have seen it only once and I am really itching for another viewing. I can see this one being on heavy rotation in my dvd player.
The Social Network
Already did a posting about this, but I found this movie cool to see when I saw it because of the fact that was produced in the midst of the social networking craze.
more to come, trust me.
Inception
Obvious choice, I know. This movie blew everyones minds. What was so great was how unexpected it was. I made a point to avoid the trailer, and even the stuff that was released was super vague and mysterious, as I found out later. I had high expectations for Nolan's newest work, and they were so way exceeded.
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1
This one was really satisfying, as both a life long Potter fan and a film goer. The action was great, and even the performances (very lacking in previous entries) were fantastic. It showed some things not seen in the original story, and tweaked and added things to stuff that did happen. Both of these were actually really cool to see. The most different of the whole franchise, very lord of the rings.
Kick Ass
Another movie that took me by surprise. Currently watching it for the second time this week, showing my dad its epicness. I had no idea just how insane this movie was going to be. The action is probably some of the best and most engaging I have ever seen. When the guns start going and the fists start flying, its not in a typical action movie sort of way. This is not a car chase sort of action movie. I didn't even want to blink when I was watching this. Its clever, funny, and so much fun to watch.
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
This movie is a geek's wet dream. The whole thing is shot like a video game/ comic book. The soundtrack was just delightful and obsessively listenable. I have never sat in a movie theater and just smiled in delight and anticipation for a whole movie. With this one, I so did. Even the opening credits were brilliant. I have seen it only once and I am really itching for another viewing. I can see this one being on heavy rotation in my dvd player.
The Social Network
Already did a posting about this, but I found this movie cool to see when I saw it because of the fact that was produced in the midst of the social networking craze.
more to come, trust me.
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