Thighs Wide Shut

we take it back
cause as soon as Ben Franklin left the series
it all went down/snooze hill from there

spank the lord all the complaining and kvetching is finally over
but long may the theme song live [d]

don’t forget to buy all yer John Adams goodies
before it sells out like Alexander Hamilton!!!

pee es – PASSOVER BLOWS WITHOUT CHARLTON!!!!!!

sorta related: Movies With Male Bondage

Paul Simon & Friends
Under African Skies
BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music
April 11th

Paul Simon’s Graceland is without question one of the greatesteiststest albums of balls thyme. We’ve been jamming out to it ever since we gots the cassette tape for our 9th birthday, while we were having a sugar overload fest at Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour in Wheaton Plaza. We were beyond obsessed with ‘You Can Call Me Al’ that we made a homemade recording of it, with help from the the 45 record single (if we every find that recording, we’ll mp3 it like the wind). The video for ‘Al’ was tres best, although at that early age, the role reversal in the video led us to believe that Chevy Chase was also Paul Simon. Anywho, his follow-up, Rhythm of the Saints aint nearly as thumcredible, but it’s mos certainly toecredible to say the least. And with that in mind, it was the biggest no-brainer to snag tickets to a show where Paul would be rockin both of these albums with a little help from his friends, including Ladysmith Black Mambazo (duh), David Byrne, Kaïssa, Vusi Mahlasela, Luciana Souza and Cyro Baptista. Sounds like a dream come true, right? Edward james ALMOST!

Apparently it was his friends who were doing the rocking with a little help from Simon. Paul only sang about 5 of the songs, and decided to let the others do the rest of the work. While the stand-ins played the part of Paul Simon quite well (David Byrne nailed ‘I Know What I Know’, although we didn’t go ga-ga for his rendition of ‘You Can Call Me Al’), it was still a huge disappointment that Edie Brickell‘s husband took a backseat pretty much the entire night. It felt like a wasted opportunity, especially since we were too young to see the Graceland tour in ’87 and thus have waited an eternity to hear PS play the entire album. For the love of dog, he spankfully joined Ladysmith BM on ‘Diamonds On The Soles of Her Shoes’. If he didn’t they may have been a riot. Who knows if Paul will ever play the album live again, so we’ll take this over nothing, even if in our hearts we knew the show coulda better than it turned out to be

Bye the gay, we’ve never seen a more white crowd in all our lives. Why do Asians, blacks, Hispanics and Eskimos hate Paul Simon so much? Is it cause he’s so short and created some of the bestestestest tunes mt EVERest? We don’t know, but what we do know, we know, and we’ll sing what we said, and who are we to blow against the wind?

further bleeding:

mo pics from judester1213
paulfournier’s pics
NY Times review
Variety review
PradaShoppeNYC’s review

bestest show we did ever see: Simon & Garfunkel, MSG, 12/4/03 (pre-TWS daze)

join the princes of parties on tour this may

Flight of the Conchords’ full length album drops on April 22nd

update: season two to air in January of the ‘009

schlappy 169th b-day
to

which made its very first
appearance in print
on this very day
[CBS Sunday Morn]

+
happy 40th
to
Damon Albarn

Love Songs
(Les Chansons d’Amour)
Hits All The Right Notes
Trailers & Mo

It’s pretty fitting that lauded French director Christophe Honoré has the word ‘honor’ in his surname, cause this homme certainly loves celebrating his country’s rich cinema past in noveau modern ways. We weren’t fully enamored with his last love letter to the New Wave, Dans Paris [TWS review], but there was definitely something there to give em another go. Love Songs is his quasi-homage to Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, where the characters break into song, in a normal conversational manner rather than a Alan Menken Disney cheese fest kinda way. Honoré’s collaborating composer Alex Beaupain penned all the ditties and the actors sing them in a recitative style that results in one of the bestest film scores we’ve heard since Michael Nyman’s score for Michael Winterbottom’s Wonderland. We haven’t stopped listening to it since we saw the screening and it has only wroked to enhance our love for the film as the days have passed. Yeah, there’s actually a movie in between the sweet sounds that explores love, love lost, love found again and even a ménage à trois (gawd bless the French!). And sure, the film may have a few flaws, like the early exit of Ludivine Sagnier and thus, no chance of her usual cinema NSFWness, but the songs not only carry a tune, they carry the film as well

Listening Booth: hear a couple of the fab songs fo yoself… ‘Delta Charlie Delta’ [d] and ‘La Bastille’ [d]

Ma Mère: Umbrellas of Cherbourg starred Catherine Deneuve and Loves Songs co-stars her daughter Chiara Mastroianni. The hottie mum and daughter have 9 joint ventures (according to IMDB’s nifty tool) between them, and most recently they lent their voices as a mum and a daughter in Persepolis [TWS review]

John Grisham’s Jizzum (aka Verdict): Breast In Show(tunes)

Boarding Gate
Bumpy In-Flight Entertainment
Trailers & Mo

Look at this snap of Asia Argento above. Have you seen anything more delicious in all your life, well besides these German meat creations? Tis a crying shame then that the stateside marketing folks decided against using it, unlike our less Puritanical European brethren, cause this film is mess, an enjoyable one at that, and you’d think they wouldn’t want to hold back on selling the film’s main attraction, Asia’s sexiness, hispecially since, like Ludivine Sagnier, she’s not so shy when it comes to movie NSFNess. Olivier Assayas’ latest lady in peril flick (we totally dug the last one, Clean [TWS review]) was shot on the quick and cheap and it certainly feels like it. It has no consistency, and the first half coulda been easily condensed into 15 minutes (probably has something to do with Michael Madsen and his overplayed since 1992 tough guy schtick). When the action shifts to Hong Kong in the second half, it fares a lot better, but it too lacks any clear focus (and having Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon thrown in for no reason doesn’t help matters). Luckily for us all Asia keeps this puppy moving, juss like her fingers near that smokin’ crotch

Photo Shoot Your Load: peep this NSFW spread with Asia and Adrien Brody

John Grisham’s Jizzum (aka Verdict): despite all its sloppy joeness, we still say Jeepers Worth The Peepers

both flicks open in limited release today

until next thyme the balcony is clothed…