yo grandaddy and 2046

so jamie tells me to check out this band called the grandaddy's. i downloaded a few songs to check them out. all i can say, is there must be 5 different bands called grandaddy, 'cause i have never heard a more diverse spread of stylings. sounds electronica. sounds rap. sounds postal servicey. i'm enjoying this bizarre mix, but am a bit perplexed.

wait, it's okay. i'm listening to it now. it's good. it makes me wanna start a garage band.

also...2046, the new WKW film. The narrative is bizarre and makes you wish you smoked cigarettes and wore bouffant hair do's. And that you always had red nails painted perfectly, and that women drank whisky out of old, foggy tumblers. The parts I enjoyed the most were the bizzarre futuristic bits of the story which Tony Leung's character was writing. He's a writer. He's writing a story called 2046. The Japanese actor in this movie who is featured especially in these bits is one of my Mom's favorties. He's cute. He's really good at cute. He's one of four superstars that are part of this group called "smap.' They're super popular in Japan, and are all enjoying huge success. Movies, singing, tv, they do it all. And then there's the women. Beautiful Asian women, looking fabulous. They have the art of 'shedding the perfect tear' down to a science. When I cry it's like my face turns inside out. It's not pretty. My nose gets red, snot runs freely, my forehead wrinkles up like a prune. But these ladies manage to barely quiver as a diamond shaped tear forms neatly at the bottom hammock of their eye, and then as if on cue, tumbles over and spills down their porcelain cheeks. It really is quite something. Gong Li is by far the best, but you'd expect no less from her. After all those films like Raise the Red Lantern and To Live where she played the anguished woman who just couldn't get a break... Her lives in those films were so hard. Really really hard. Like we will never know how hard those lives are. I'd like to invite WKW over to my house for dinner, so we could discuss the film in detail. There were so many layers, like a crazy multi-layered dip you kept scooping nacho chips into. Now here's an olive, oh wait, what's that? Hot peppers? I didn't see that coming. Woah.

But see it. It's really beautiful.