You’re probably the only person in America trying to decide between seeing ‘The Red Shoes’ and ‘2012.’”
— I saw the former; it was great! Nothing blew up though. EXCEPT DANCE.
You’re probably the only person in America trying to decide between seeing ‘The Red Shoes’ and ‘2012.’
Because I am scared of the legal implications of putting MP3s on Tumblr, I’m outsourcing the burden!
Finally, a neologism that "works"!
“emocialite”
Analogy
American Funny Games is to The Dark Knight as Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” video is to Britney Spears’s “3” video: the former is a self-conscious deconstruction of the form (and the viewer’s reaction to it) that reveals how sinisterly vacuous / vacuously sinister its contemporary, the latter, truly is.
Imperfect, but I’m going with it!
Next column idea: "Are We Snobs?" »
MEANWHILE, CHARLOTTE REALIZED, ACROSS TOWN, SAMANTHA WAS DISCOVERING, I HAD TO WONDER, ETC.
Coachella
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 4pm, Saturday.
Girl, holding pink sparkly Coach monogram bag: This bag is kiiiind of expensive, so if it gets damaged, are you guys liable?
Coat-check worker: Um.
Security worker: What do you have inside it that’s expensive?
Related to previous
Today in Barnes and Noble [fifty percent off all Criterion, got some Sweetie, bang bang], I wondered why several songs I generally like [among them “Don’t Stop Believing” and “Gold Digger”] as well as at least one I don’t [“Take a Bow,” the Rihanna one] suddenly sounded so saccharine and irritating.
Then I realized the store was playing the Glee soundtrack.
The one comment further I will make: it’s amazing that a show about, I guess, a cappella performers can sound so Autotuned? Do actual adults like this show?
I want to go to Connecticut for Thanksgiving via Budapest - if my plane makes that kawaii butterfly pattern! “Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high,” etc.
