Start of this month was full of Discworld goodness.
Start of October will be full of Lego goodness.
In between: amazing Flogging Molly show at the Greek, work, work, work, catching up on TV shows (Dexter, I’m not digging this Lila chick) or getting into new ones (thanks Flash Forward for giving me goosebumps), and lots of building, building, building.
30 miles away, this was the view from my neighborhood Sunday afternoon.
The fire got worse yesterday.
In the words of Robert Smith, “you stifle me infectious sense of hopelessness and prayers for rain”.
It’s been too hot for this Westside girl.
Fairy tale land. Magical. Loire Valley. France.
Posted photos from Day 4 of our trip to France. Most don’t come close to doing justice to how beautiful and spectacular everything really was. Le sigh.
Go see (500) Days of Summer. First chance you get.
Delightful. Charming. Heartbreaking. Not a love story, but a story about love.
You will fall for Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Tom. You will hate Zooey Deschanel’s Summer. You will likely recognize yourself in both characters.
Amazing soundtrack.
Plus there is a dance sequence… to a Hall & Oates song that is like no other. I could watch it over and over a million times squeeing every second. KILLS.
Go watch it. Trust me.
Duran Duran Tour ‘09 is sadly over for me… I attended two shows. One in Vegas on July 10 and the other in the OC on July 11.
Both shows lived up to the DD standard. Entertaining, polished, exciting, and full of fun and incredible music. Of course, I’m biased. I’ve been a Duranie since I was 7 years old. They make up the soundtrack of my life. We heard some rare songs like Election Day (!) and thankfully no Hungry Like The Wolf or The Reflex (two songs that are over played when you’ve been to as many DD shows as I’ve attended.)
One disappointment was that they didn’t perform any new material. They are currently working with Mark Ronson on their new album and I’ve very curious to hear the results of their collaboration. His influence was evident in their live show despite the lack of new material. Ronson’s mixing of old and new DD songs together was showcased on this mini-tour. Below is an example with their new take on on old classic – the only Bond theme to reach number 1. I took this video at the Pacific Amphitheatre show. While not the best quality and I missed the beginning of the song where they played a medley of various Bond themes over the years, this moment was really incredible.
I wasn’t sure I’d post anything about Michael Jackson’s passing… I was never really a fan. Of course, there’s no denying the impact he had on popular culture. I find the whole situation very sad but not surprising. Here’s an interesting blog response from John Taylor…
A Blog from John
June 26th, 2009Oliver Hunt from Manchester asked why there was nothing on our website about MJ. You’re absolutely right Oliver, there ought to be.
But let’s see, what can one say that hasn’t already been said, over and over and over… So Madonna has been in tears? Really.. I’ve not been in tears, but it has been an extremely sad 24 hours.
I was glad we were in rehearsals today for the summer shows and were all able to process our feelings with each other. When I heard the news my first call was Nick, then Roger.
To say he was the greatest entertainer of his generation…Well yes, perhaps he was. He made one of my favourite albums, ‘Off The Wall’, and ‘Thriller’ is pretty fucking amazing and even ‘Bad’ had a renaissance with me a month or so ago.
It’s all terribly sad. The rumours, and the court appearances. It’s been sad and depressing and frustrating for years now. I’ve been so sick of the jokes for years, but this morning? Not for me thanks.
It was a surprise to get the news, but maybe less surprising than if he had turned up at the 02 and rocked the house, played all the songs we wanted to hear and left London in one piece.
His music and his legend will live on. His life is an inspiration to us all but also a caution. I’m very very sorry he’s not with us anymore, but for my Madonna tears I’ll probably have to wait until ‘Rock With You’ catches me unawares one evening, alone on a motorway somewhere.. By then I’ll be really missing him.
