Good Film adaptations of Good Books

1.  The Ice Storm

2.  The Age of Innocence

3.  Wonder Boys (Really Crappy Trailer)

4.  The End of the Affair

5.  Never Let Me Go

6.  Little Children

7.  Zodiac

8.  Howards End

9.  Watership Down

10.  Rosemary's Baby

Top 10 Films of 2011

Here's my list!

1.  Tree of Life

2.  Take Shelter

3.  Project Nim

4.  Shame

5.  We Need to Talk About Kevin

6.  Tyrannosaur

7.  Drive

8.  Cave of Forgotten Dreams

9.  Jane Eyre

10.  Melancholia

I thought everybody knew who Morrissey was

I guess I was wrong.  I go through phases with The Smiths and then when he went solo.  Currently, I've been digging his melodramatics.

Nick Cave

In a Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds kind of mood tonight.

Basket Case

I used to love this movie when I was a kid...not sure why parents let me rent over and over.

Shame

I was a huge film of Steve McQueens first film Hunger.

His new film Shame looks pretty damn good too!

Take Shelter...See it.

Just got hom from seeing Take Shelter at the Charles.   Wow, what a great movie.  Michael Shannon is pretty damn amazing in this and Jessica Chastain is continues to blow me away.  I hope this movie gets some award consideration, it definitely deserves it. 

The Songs that We Sing

Neil Hannon and Charlotte Gainsbourg...this is pretty perfect

Neil Hannon - Lady of a certain age

I spend so much time with the woman Neil Hannon is singing about.

Top 10 Bands/Musicians

1.  The Divine Comedy/Neil Hannon

2.  Bowie

3.  Pulp

4.  PJ Harvey

5.  Kris Kristofferson

6.  Tom Waits

7.  Scott Walker

8.  Marianne Faithfull

9.  Bauhaus

10.  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

My Day

1.  Wake up smoke a cigarette
2.  Get a coffee
3.  Get in my car on the passenger side because drivers side door doesn't open
4.  Get to work read gross emails asking me to do things that aren't in my job description
5.  Listen to people complain

Top 10 TV Series

Isn't she Lovely

If I was a Moose

If I was Moose I wouldn't understand all the worthless crap coming out everyones mouth.  I think I'd be much happier.

RIP Cy Twombly

http://www.cytwombly.info/index.html

Balimore Hills

I don't understand why so many neighborhoods in Baltimore City are either a hill or a mount.  It's stupid.

Bolton Hill

Brwers Hill

Butchers Hill

Druid Hill

Federal Hill

Mt. Vernon

Mt. Washington

Reservoir Hill

Seton Hill

TV Hill

Washington Hill

Palindromes

Keeping with the Jennifer Jason Leigh post, here's the trailer for Palindromes.

Jennifer Jason Leigh is underrated

Top 10 of Jennifer Jason Leigh, I could have put a lot more on this list.  So honorable mentions are eXistenz, Miami Blues, The Big Picture, Rush, Kansas City and Delores Claiborne.

1.  Mrs. Parker and The Vicious Circle (1995) by Alan Rudolph

2.  Georgia (1995) by Ulu Grosbard

3.  Margot at the Wedding (2007) by Noah Baumbach

4.  Bastard out of Carolina (1996) by Angelica Huston

5.  The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) by the Coen Brothers

6.  Short Cuts (1993) by Robert Altman

7.  Washington Square (1997) by Agneiszka Holland

8.  Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) by Uli Edel

9.  Single White Female (1992) by Barbet Schroeder

10.  Palindromes (2004) by Todd Solandz

Advice

These are terrifying

I hate planes, however I seem to always read about plane crashes.  These are the 10 worst crashes in history.  I found this online, but I forgot where.


1. March 27, 1977. Two Boeing 747s, operated by KLM and Pan Am, collide on a foggy runway at Tenerife, in Spain’s Canary Islands killing 583 people. The KLM jet departed without permission and struck the Pan Am jet as it taxied along the same runway. Confusion over instructions and a blockage of radio transmissions contributed to the crash.






2. August 12, 1985. A Japan Air Lines 747 crashes near Mt. Fuji after takeoff from Tokyo on a domestic flight killing 520. The rupture of an aft bulkhead, which had undergone faulty repairs following a mishap seven years earlier, caused destruction of part of the airplane’s tail and rendered the jet uncontrollable. A JAL maintenance supervisor later committed suicide, while the president of the airline resigned, accepting full, formal responsibility for the crash and visiting victims’ families to offer a personal apology.




3. November 12, 1996. An Ilyushin IL-76 cargo plane from Kazakhstan collides in midair with a Saudia 747 near Delhi; all 349 aboard both planes are killed. The Kazakh crew had disobeyed instructions, and neither airplane was equipped with collision-avoidance technology.




4. March 3, 1974. In one of the most notorious and gruesome crashes ever, a THY (Turkish Airlines) DC-10 crashes near Orly airport killing all 346 passengers and crew. A poorly designed cargo door had burst from its latches, and the subsequent depressurization caused failure of the cabin floor and impairment of cables to the rudders and elevators. Out of control, the plane slammed into the woods northeast of Paris. McDonnell Douglas, maker of the DC-10, which would see even more controversy later, was forced to redesign its cargo door system.




5. June 23, 1985. A bomb planted by a Sikh extremist blows up an Air India 747 enroute between Toronto and Bombay (with stops in Montreal and London). The airplane fell into the sea east of Ireland killing 329. Investigators in Canada cited shortcomings in baggage screening procedures, screening equipment, and employee training. A second bomb, intended to blow up another Air India 747 on the same day, detonated prematurely in a luggage facility in Tokyo before being loaded aboard.




6. August 19, 1980. A Saudia L-1011 bound for Karachi returns to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, following an in-flight fire that broke out just after departure. For reasons never understood, the crew takes its time after a safe touchdown and rolls to the far end of the runway before finally stopping. No evacuation is commenced, and the airplane then sits with its engines running for more than three minutes. Before any doors can be opened by the inadequately-equipped rescue workers at Riyadh, all 301 people on the widebody die as the passenger cabin is consumed by a flash-fire.


7. July 3, 1988. An Airbus A300 operated by Iran Air is shot down over the Straits of Hormuz by the US Navy destroyer Vincennes. The crew of the Vincennes, distracted by an ongoing gunbattle, mistakes the A300 for a hostile military aircraft and destroys it with two surface-to-air missiles. None of the 290 occupants survived.


8. May 25, 1979. As an American Airlines DC-10 lifts from the runway at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, an engine detaches and seriously damages a wing. Before its crew can make sense of the situation, the airplane rolls 90 degrees and disintegrates in a huge fireball about a mile beyond the runway. With 273 fatalities, this remains the worst-ever crash on US soil. Both the engine pylon design and airline maintenance procedures were faulted by NTSB investigators, and all DC-10s were temporarily grounded.


9. December 21, 1988. Two Libyan agents are later held responsible (one is convicted) for planting a bomb aboard Pan American flight 103, which blows up in the night sky over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 270 people, including 11 on the ground.


10. September 1, 1983. Korean Air Lines flight KL007, a 747 carrying 269 passengers and crew from New York to Seoul (with a technical stop in Anchorage) is shot down by a Soviet fighter after drifting off course — and into Soviet airspace — near Sakhalin Island in the North Pacific. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) later attributes the mysterious deviation to “A considerable degree of lack of alertness and attentiveness on the part of the flight crew.”