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More stuff in my head

They don't tell me I look like a bloated Jim Morrison. They 
don't tell me I look like the alt_rock Santa Claus. They tell 
me I look like Chris Farley. This continues to amaze me.

Forgot to mention that I saw Harry Knowles (of the Ain't-It-Cool -News website fame) at Tinseltown last week. Didn't get to say hello or meet him, but I saw him. That was cool. He came to the theater to see the "6th Sense" sneak preview.

Went to Threadgills on Thursday and got the Austin Chronicle. Lotsa stuff going on. The Alamo will be showing "Mystery Train" at midnight in August sometime. This is a Jim Jarmusch film I haven't seen so I might try to go. Jarmusch has a new film coming out called "Ghost Dog" with Forrest Whitaker as a modern day samurai or something.

"Blair Witch." Looks interesting. Cinematography by Robby Mueller

An art house I havent been to called the Village Cinema Arts is showing "2000 Seen By" this week. It is several films and short films on a program about life in the 21st century as envisioned by filmmakers. One of the pieces in the program is a Hal Hartley short film which runs 45 minutes so I hope to catch this...

CD's making numerous rounds in my CD Player currently: The Tubes "Remote Control" and The Motels "All For One" (Expanded Edition). The latter was originally going to be called "Apocalypso" but when Martha Davis and producer Val Garay submitted it to Capitol, they said they would release it, but not promote it. Garay and Davis went back into the studio, hired session musicians and re-cut most of the material. It became a big album for the Motels with "Only the Lonely" and "Take the L" included. My faves are "So L.A." and "Art Fails." Some of the unreleased "Apocalypso" is now available on the "Expanded CD" version of "All for One." It's a rocking CD.

Austin has a pirate radio station at 97.1 fm called "Radio Free Austin." Some kid must have a illegal transmitter in the center of town or on campus or something because you can only get it in the city. It fades out about the time I get to work. Oddly, they play all kinds of music, not just thrash metal and gangsta rap. I have heard a DJ who was really into the environmental thing (he thought cars should be outlawed because when he lived in Barcelona as a kid, they had a good public transport system) and a young guy who was a hobo (the National Hobo Convention is this week and he is going to fly there for the first time ever because he doesn't have time to ride the rails there). So far I surprisingly like the fact that they play retro country a lot. The other day I heard them play "East Bound and Down" by Jerry Reed. I also heard them play the "Saturday Night Live" album which contained many skits from the first year of the show.

Went to the Paramount theater on Thursday night and saw "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice" and "Shampoo" on a double bill. Only $5.50 plus they had a full bar. The Paramount is on Congress around 7th street. It is an old art deco theater and they have tried to keep it up. It's a beautiful theater. They had a velvet curtain that opened to reveal the screen when the feature started. They balcony was open and I sat in the front row up there. Haven't sat in balcony to see a movie since I was a kid in Iowa. This experience is a must for young people before theaters with balconies completely disappear like drive in's did.There were quite a few people there for the films. People even applauded at the end of B&C&T&A." Not at the end of "Shampoo" tho.

My teeth are rotting right out of my freaking head. I've got to get a job with a dental plan soon or I'll be gumming stuff. (Might make me more popular with the guys tho) he he

Maybe I should learn how to make a web page so I could post this shit for the world to see... or at least get a boyfriend who knows how to do it.

I just finished "Easy Riders Raging Bulls," a book about the 70's maverick filmmakers like Coppola, Beatty, Lucas, Spielberg, Ashby, Milius, etc. It's really worthwhile reading for film buffs.

The Paramount is having Hitchcock films in August and maybe Sept too. Hitch fans will have to let me know their favorite films and I'll find out when they'll be on the big screen. I've seen "Psycho" at a theater before but no other Hitch, I don't think. I'd have to think about which ones I want to see.

8/13 is a Friday the 13th. The Dobie is showing "Friday the 13th" at midnight. TVLand is having a "Alfred Hitchock Presents" 24 hour marathon, including the 18 episodes directed by Hitch himself.

I really thought that when I got cable here, I would watch "South Park" as my fave. But I'm starting to love the "E True Hollywood Story." I've watched 2 hours on the making of "The Brady Bunch" and today it was the 2 hour story of "Three's Company." You know, it was pretty compelling stuff.

I can't figure it out. I can't remember my new phone number but I think it spells out XXX-I-GAY-SHY

There's retrospective of Robert Altman films coming in October to the "Austin Film Festival," whatever that is. Altman may attend as he is shooting a film in Dallas with Richard Gere around that time. In addition to Altman films, they will be showing many of the TV episodes he directed in the 50's and 60's of shows like "Route 66" and "Peter Gunn.

Garth Brooks plays a pop singer in a new film called "The Lamb." His character, Chris Gaines is supposely very James Taylor-esque.

"The 6th Sense" was sold out all weekend at my theater.