1) My iPod appears to have died. It keeps switching itself off and on but won't connect to my computer or give me the menu screen, just the endless black and white apple screen of doom. Those of you who know me know that this is heartbreak in electronic form. I had 76GB on there of lovely, lovely stuff.
I can't be without an iPod and I gave my previous one to a friend. :::verklempt:::
2) Iran's missiles are pastede on, yay!
3) David Gray is angry that interrogators are using his music to extract information from prisoners in Iraq.
I was wondering what kind of music would make me beg for release and I think for me it would be gangsta rap. I could stand Celine Dion, for the singalong factor but if someone played me Ani Di Franco over and over I would cheerfully lose my hearing.
What would be the music that would make you crack?
4) I love this song: The Quest Bryn Christopher. It sounds like Amy Winehouse by way of David McAlmont and Motown.
5) Pop quiz, hotshots: can you think of a movie in the past five years featuring a female leading character who was not defined solely by her reproductive system or relationship to the male hero?
Cos all I've got is Pan's Labyrinth
ETA 6) BRADLEY WHITFORD AND RUPERT PENRY-JONES IN A THING ON TELLY! Burn Up It also has Neve Campbell in it, but you can't have everything. It's written by Simon Beaufoy, which may or may not be a good thing.
I also watched Bonekickers on Tuesday, which is Da Vinci Code meets Time Team meets Indiana Jones. I am not sure whether it is magnificent cack, or just cack.
I can't be without an iPod and I gave my previous one to a friend. :::verklempt:::
2) Iran's missiles are pastede on, yay!
3) David Gray is angry that interrogators are using his music to extract information from prisoners in Iraq.
I was wondering what kind of music would make me beg for release and I think for me it would be gangsta rap. I could stand Celine Dion, for the singalong factor but if someone played me Ani Di Franco over and over I would cheerfully lose my hearing.
What would be the music that would make you crack?
4) I love this song: The Quest Bryn Christopher. It sounds like Amy Winehouse by way of David McAlmont and Motown.
5) Pop quiz, hotshots: can you think of a movie in the past five years featuring a female leading character who was not defined solely by her reproductive system or relationship to the male hero?
A film with an interesting female protagonist is...
Cos all I've got is Pan's Labyrinth
ETA 6) BRADLEY WHITFORD AND RUPERT PENRY-JONES IN A THING ON TELLY! Burn Up It also has Neve Campbell in it, but you can't have everything. It's written by Simon Beaufoy, which may or may not be a good thing.
I also watched Bonekickers on Tuesday, which is Da Vinci Code meets Time Team meets Indiana Jones. I am not sure whether it is magnificent cack, or just cack.
- Current Mood:
melancholy
- Current Music:Ára bátur - Sigur Rós
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Comments
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I can think of several but I don't know if I can recommend them all:
There is "The Queen", of course. And the one with the other Elizabeth, with Cate Blanchett. "Golden Age" or some such. I didn't watch the latter.
"Million Dollar Baby" with Hilary Swank, which dislike for its heavy-handedness, at least meets your criteria. (Except for the part where the heroine is completely bedridden and helpless in the second half of the movie.)
"La Vie en Rose", the Edith Piaf biopic for which Marianne Cotillard won the best actress Oscar this year.
"Notes on the Scandal" with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett - again, I haven't seen it.
"Persepolis", which is animation and on my list to see, and I've been told it is AWESOME.
The one with the Indian girl and the soccer -- erm. "Bend It Like Beckham", I think. That might have been more than 5 years ago.
I guess "Atonement", if you consider Briony your main character.
Yeah, that came to my mind as well, but I haven't seen it either.
"Million Dollar Baby" with Hilary Swank, which dislike for its heavy-handedness, at least meets your criteria. (Except for the part where the heroine is completely bedridden and helpless in the second half of the movie.)
Yeah, thumbs down on that one from me too.
I love Pan's Labyrinth.
Edited at 2008-07-10 10:48 pm (UTC)
I have a fairly low tolerance for gore (even though I like psychological horror -- go figure) so I didn't think I could watch The Descent. I've heard that it was very well made.
I suppose I was thinking of big shiny blockbusters which are almost always about the [whiny, entitled, white] male. Have there been any of those? I can't think of any
You've got a point in the biopic front. Hmmm. Big shiny Hollywood blockbuster with a female heroine that wasn't about babies or dudes (and didn't suck)... *scratches head* There was that Nicole Kidman/Sean Penn film, "The Interpreter", which was kind of slow, but a decent flick; They were co-leads and it wasn't about romantic relationship between the two. What else... Jodie Foster in that thriller on the airplane -- "Flightplan." Well, OK, that was all about Jodie being all mama-bear about her offspring in peril, so I guess reproductive system was somewhat involved. Er, at least the offspring was a daughter? She basically did the same movie except set in a tiny room, in "Panic Room." Oh! And there is "Devil Wears Prada." That qualifies, and I think it was a pretty big hit.
Man, there aren't really that many of these in the Hollywood system.
I wanted to say Pitch Black, but it's too old to meet K's criteria.
I feel vaguely nauseous even typing it.
TY for alerting me to 6, I knew it was coming (but not when) and frankly BW love would be much appreciated. Anything to stop me thinking about THAT right now would be useful...
I appear to have lost my iPod :( You have my sympathies.
Oh, and Transamerica with Felicity Huffman, currently doing the rounds on Sky (I believe) I hope a woman playing a man who's about to be a woman gets into the definition...
Was I the person you were talking about in your music post this morning. I only ask because I was embarrassed to answer if it wasn't then I felt embarrassed not to answer and oh, god, to NOT BE SO DAMNED ENGLISH.
I loved Transamerica but I want a big damned action movie with a female lead who is not a misogynists self-satisfied nightmare, and Hollywood does not want me to have one, the bastards