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Thursday, July 12, 2007

I'm constantly trying to better myself in any way that doesn't involve reading

Sorry 'bout the long break, but, for reasons I won't go into here, we took June off from our (admittedly already rather unhurried) blogging schedule. So what did we miss? Paris Hilton went to jail and Scooter Libby didn't. (Apparently, Paris doesn't have as much dirt on Cheney as Scooter--though, of course, it's hard to blame Scooter for not wanting to rat out a guy who shot an old friend in the face.) Oh yeah, did you get yourself an iPhone? Me neither. Of course, "The Sopranos" is no more. All things considered, the ending was pretty good. I'll give David Chase an A-. Summer TV now officially sucks. When the best thing on the DVR is a bunch of episodes of "The Dog Whisperer," you know you're in trouble. Anyway, in no particular order, here we go:

1. Herewith a cool clip of the Smashing Pumpkins from Wednesday night at the 9:30 Club in DC. (Via Stereogum.)

2. Lohan has been reading Machiavelli. Let me suggest that this is not a good thing--sort of like giving the car keys to the family dog.

3. I'll assume that you, like me, have always wanted to have a secret compartment hidden behind a bookcase. Well, here's how to build one. (Via Boing Boing.)

4. This may be a wee bit controversial, but I'll admit to thinking in the past that Jessica Biel was a bit mannish. Let me take this opportunity to formally retract said views.

5. Speaking of hot chicks, is there anyone alive who's hotter than Monica Belluci? I think not. Check out the trailer for "Shoot 'Em Up", also featuring Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti. It reminds one of those great Guy Ritchie shoot-em-ups, though without the funny accents. Speaking of Clive (who, come to think of it, sort of has a funny accent), have you seen "Children of Men"? Rather dark I would say, but visually really quite stunning.

6. Since we're on the topic of movies/trailers, unlike this guy, I actually think the teaser trailer for "Get Smart" is kind of funny.

7. Also, Steven Soderberg's "The Good German"--much discussed on this here blog--arrived yesterday from Netflicks. I'll file a formal report about it next week.

8. The very cute Buzzy Barry is now nine months old. I, alas, don't have any recent pics of him. (I'll try to remedy that over the weekend.) In place of a cute Buzzy pic, here is my cousin-in-law Mark Kenny walking on his hands at the opening of the Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum in NYC a few weeks ago.

UPDATE: I see I forgot to include the link for "Shoot 'Em Up". Here it is.

Posted by jwb at 8:22 AM

6 Comments:

Anonymous said:

Hey, welcome back. Maybe to keep your blog more current, you should post each one of your thoughts seperately, over the course of many days. I check it daily in any case...
at 12:17 PM

Bram said:

. . . . and in Studio 60 news, Aaron Sorkin on its demise. Just the whole nature of the article says so much about "The Industry."
at 8:39 PM

jwb said:

Thanks, Raphy. Another post coming up shortly.

On Studio 60, Jenn loved it but I thought it was a bit clunky--though I still watched it with her.
at 9:27 AM

"Everybody shut up and pay attention to me."

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