Terminator Salvation

At fight night, Marcello told me that they are making a Terminator 4 starring Christian Bale as John Connor! I don't know if you are aware or not, but I am OBSESSED with the Terminator movies. They like totally blow my mind. Many people were not fans of T3: Rise of the Machines starring Nick Stahl and Claire Danes, but whoa!!! Everything came together in that movie and it was JUDGEMENT DAY!!!!!!

So, T4 picks up in 2018, post Judgement Day. Christian Bale IS John Connor. Warner Bros released this synopsis:

Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor (Bale) is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

Kyle Reese also reappears in T4. I don't think Arnold has signed on, but there is a rumor that Josh Brolin will play a terminator. Charlotte Gainsbourg plays Kate Connor (nee Brewster.)

I am excited. They just started shooting.


Check out the Terminator website updated by the director, McG (of Charlie's Angels.)

extreme points

Over Memorial Day weekend, I designed a point system for outdoor extreme points. The goal by the end of the summer is to reach 20 points.

On Saturday, Sarah and I walked through Rock Creek Park to the waterfront in Georgetown. There, we rented a canoe and rowed around Roosevelt Island. For these activities, we each earned 2 points. Sarah earned an extra ½ point for breaking a nail while rowing.

We arrive at the boat house.

View of Georgetown from the Potomac.


Virginia


Monuments are beautiful!


I love watching planes take off.


Extreme Mammal!

arm wrestling

Fight night at ledo's in adelphi

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Ivy and shawn now live in portland. And they are at the gorge in wash state this weekend. I miss there cuties.

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Sarah eats strawberry short cake

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Now we are in bethesda at sarah's dad's. Having bbq

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we row.

EDITED: Update on Liz Phair

Liz Phair's website says that ticket info for the Hiro Ballroom show will be announced tomorrow. I'm buying a ticket. Does anyone want to take a Wednesday off work and go to the most amazing show ever?

EDITED:

The motherfucking tickets went onsale today at noon. They sold out so quick that they added a second night. AND that is now sold out too.

Now I am debating purchasing a $75 ticket off eBay. Oh good lord.

HOLY SHIT is RIGHT!!!!!

this just in from pitchfork

June 25, just a day after she reissues her legendary debut LP Exile in Guyville in an expanded edition on new label ATO Records, the incomparable Liz Phair will take the stage at New York City's Hiro Ballroom to run through the album's 18 nearly flawless tracks, acoustically. Dates for similar events in Chicago and San Francisco can be expected shortly.

Probably goes without saying: holy shit.

OMG OMG OMG. I have to go to this show!!!!! How on earth can I get tickets?

Kooooooks

I like the Kooks.

When I went to Portland last May with Ivy, we were having brunch at the Doug Fir and I had a moment. I went outside to have my moment. Ivy came outside to cheer me up and we saw the Kooks (who had a show there the night before) packing up their tour van. Then we saw a shirtless Kook run across the parking lot, toward the van. And my moment was over.

The kooks released their new album last month. I love the first track, See the Sun.

Here is an acoustic version of the song:

Santogold, Casablancas and Pharrell record track for Converse.

from the Guardian

In 2008, a company, let's say a shoe company, hires a big advertising firm. Executives at the ad firm call their teenage nieces in New York and London, and ask them what's cool. And then the shoe company throws money at people.

That is how we imagine Santogold, the Strokes' Julian Casablancas and Pharrell Williams from the Neptunes came to be working together on a song for Converse trainers. And Santogold - the scattershot American electro-punk who is currently one of the most talked-about artists - is fine with it. "It's like one of the main ways to get our music heard now and so it's stupid for artists to shy away from that," she said to Gigwise.




The new untitled song is “such a Pharrell track”, Santogold said. We hope this means it recalls the heights of Justin Timberlake and not the lows of Skateboard P.

A video has also been shot, in which we assume Converse trainers will feature prominently.

Finally, if anyone’s worrying that this kind of arbitrary commissioned project might somehow be lacking in a clear, creative vision, Santogold offers the following lucid insight: “Everybody on it does their own separate thing and we didn’t do it together so it ends up being just this weird long song with sort of everybody with lots of their own personalities separate.”

It’s enough to make us long for Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney on a horse-drawn wagon.

AND From Pitchfork:

Pitchfork heard the track today, and we have to say that her description is quite spot-on. Over a bouncy rhythm indebted to old school soul, the three take turns singing verses that seem to have little to do with one another, and absolutely nothing to do with Converse or shoes in general.

It sounds like a less shiny, more downtown version of the Timbaland/Justin Timberlake/Nelly Furtado jam "Give It to Me", complete with silly disses of unidentified targets ("I find your approach so adolescent / I may look young, but your game is pre-pubescent," Santogold sings.) Pharrell makes the unfortunate decision to try to sing (that has never worked out well in the past), crooning come-ons like "now thank you for coming to my drive-thru." As usual, Julian sounds like he just woke up, making the line "if you wanna be like us you better work every night" kind of comical. There's also a part near the end where everybody sings about how they "just wanna dance." (BLOGGER NOTE: AWESOME)

All in all, it should sound just fine in a TV commercial.

In other news, both Santogold and Pharrell (as part of N.E.R.D.) have plenty of dates on the docket. Julian doesn't seem to be doing much.

Okay, obviously, this is exciting for me. I need to find this video and song soon. Glad to see Julian hasn't fallen into a hole and that he is doing something.

Now enjoy Jackson and McCartney on the wagon.

i like this girl. i relate

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This is a ridiculous checking account balance. Has this person thought about investing? I mean, IRA dude!

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super heroes

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80's vector art in mt pleasant and freestyle walking

1995

This was one of my favorite albums in 1995 -
Jennifer Trynin -Cockamamie.I was 15 and I could listen to this CD over and over again. It was in heavy rotation with Liz Phair, Bjork, Tori, Bettie Serveert and the Breeders.

I declare this the song of the weekend.
Happier - Jennifer Trynin

and another one:
One Year Down - Jennifer Trynin

Check it out. It's funny how songs have totally new and different meanings 13 years later.

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Found on the metro.

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i don't think so

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Of course. I should have known

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Wow

Sequel to Donnie Darko?

Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko starts shooting May 18.
article from Screen Daily

UK-based sales company Velvet Octopus will be launching sales in Cannes for S. Darko, billed as the sequel to the 2001 cult hit Donnie Darko. Fox has already taken North American rights.

Daviegh Chase reprises her role as Donnie's younger sister. The cast for S. Darko also includes Ed Westwick (Son Of Rambow, Gossip Girl), Briana Evigan (Step Up 2) and Justin Chatwin (Dragon Ball).

Ash Shah's Silver Nitrate and Newmarket Capital are producing. Los Angeles-based Chris Fisher, who previously made Nightstalker and Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders, will direct. The budget is pegged around $10m.

The story picks up seven years after the first film (and Donnie's death) when little sister Samantha Darko and her best friend Corey are now 18 and on a roadtrip to Los Angeles when they are plagued by bizarre visions.

Fisher said in a statement: "I am a great admirer of Richard Kelly's film and hope to create a similar world of blurred fantasy and reality."

Producers have spoken to Richard Kelly about the project but he is not involved in any official capacity at this stage.

Simon Crowe of Velvet Octopus added: "I think there is a new generation of cinema-goers who will be very excited to see this film."

Crowe quipped to ScreenDaily: "Donnie's not in [the new film] but there are meteorites and rabbits."

The project starts shooting May 18.

I'm not sure how I feel about this at all.
I think we need to leave Donnie Darko alone.

The is a petition to stop the Donnie Darko sequel.
While I love petitions and don't really like sequels (unless they are parts of trilogies) this is not going to do anything. The film already has an International distributor and distribution by Fox in North America. And although Richard Kelly is not associated with this sequel, he did give the rights to the production company to use his characters and storyline.

Maybe it won't be so bad. The production company, Silver Nitrate Films, also produced Spun, which I liked. Let's give it a chance before we judge.

Let me tell you about potholes in Brooklyn.

This is my mom. She is a born and bred New Yorker.
I love her. She is hilarious!





for more from my mom - check out her blog (link on the left)

Shia makes me giggle.

especially the last clip in this video!

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This is me at graduation today. It was long. But now i'm a master.

cloverfield = scary

I finally saw Cloverfield last night and while the plot was pretty lame (boy loves girl, boy fucks girl, boy doesn't call girl cuz he's moving to Japan, girl comes to party with another boy, girl leaves party, monster arrives, boy tries to save the girl he let get away.) Oh yeah and I did I say that there is a big scary monster that has parasites that fall from it. Then the parasites eat people's bodies and then the people explode.

I would have liked to have seen more of the monster and the parasites and maybe some more gore. But I think that they did a good job with the suspense and I liked the shooting style. Overall, I was pretty freaked out. I like mass destruction movies. I feel like they are preparing me, just in case something like this were to happen.

If you see this movie, watch the special features because it is amazing how they created this film, basically all with green screens and matchmove.


These people do a good job being scared.

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Posted for liz. We saw this cutie on sunday.

Animals Talking

I am pretty obsessed with this song right now by Animals Talking.

I declare it the song of the week, unless I find something that moves me more.

I have been trying to find out about this band and all the internet tells me is that they just formed in January in London and they are all 16 and 17 yrs old!!!!!

LISTEN TO THIS SONG:



And let me know what you think (meaning comment dudes.)

and then check out their myspace page.

i am a zombie

this is me

cuteness

the jukebox predicted her songs

So, I have not had a chance to post my favorite Canada bands yet. But SLOAN is playing at the Black Cat on June 17.

And listen to this great new song from their latest album that drops on June 10.
SLOAN - Cheap Champagne

Or you can stream the entire album - HERE

loving this

this is making my day.


Chris Thile covers "Heart in a Cage" by The Strokes during his set at the Tribeca/ASCAP Music Lounge at The Canal Room in New York City on April 30, 2008.


Beautiful bluegrassy cover!!!

in love... with shoes.

New purple shoes. Weeeee!
You can't see how purple they are, but let me tell you, they are PURPLE!!!!

WORD! dsw online rocks. ordered the shoes late yesterday and they were here at noon today. and NO SHIPPING cuz I am member rewards cardholder. TRU-ble!!!!

I think I officially have a shoe problem.
I need to get one of those over the door shoes organizers that Ivy had.
Anyone want to make a trip to the Container Store?