Performance

Last night my boyfriend and I rented "Performance". Directed by Donald Cammell and Nicholas Roeg, it's one of those films you've always heard about but probably never got around to renting. Overall it was certainly worth staying in to watch. It is bizarre, it is clever, and Anita Pallenberg looks amazing.

bigfoot

A policeman and former corrections officer from north Georgia claim to have found and frozen the large, hairy bipedal hominoid known as Bigfoot. The discovery was made in Palo Alto, California, in conjunction with a group called "Searching for Bigfoot Inc". They waited to release their HUGE find on the internet radio show, "Squatch Detective"...because everyone listens to that. DNA tests on the body have begun, and "extensive scientific studies" will be done on the body by scientists, including a molecular biologist, an anthropologist and a paleontologist. Come on, chupacabras! Go suck a ton of goat blood soon. I want to see you guys in the news, too!

XXIX

The Olympics kind of suck, and so does the Chinese government. However, NBC spent $894 million on broadcasting rights, so I had to tune in! What have I learned?

1. Michael Phelps is deformed. He has an abnormally long torso and freakishly short legs. Probably has fins, too. And seriously, who would sleep with a guy who has Olympic rings tattooed on his hip? I wouldn't. I don't care how many gold medals you have.

2. A panda bear that is scratching its feet and eating bamboo is really adorable. This scene was used as the background to a short word from the sponsors during the men's gymnastics high bar competition, which brings me to my next observation...

3. The USA men's gymnastics team refers to one another as "baby".

chicago cabbie alert!

Reports claim that Obama's national trip director Marvin Nicholson left Obama's birthday present- and his suitecase- in a Chicago taxi cab last Sunday night. You'd think a "national trip director" would know to memorize his cab's number- something most of us learned to do when we were fourteen.

"Clues: The cab was yellow, the driver was playing 70's songs."

air questo

Apparently Ahmir Thompson(Questlove) of the Roots has a new sneaker line coming out for Nike & some desperate losers in Philly have been camping out since Saturday morning in hopes of being the first in line. Why are people always waiting in hell lines for things they really don't need? Playstations, iPhones, Jonas brother tickets, and now sneakers.

lollapalooza

Like (more than?) about 80,000 others, I spent my weekend getting sore and crispy at Lollapalooza. Last summer I blew my $190 bucks on a pair of boots that didn't even last until Christmas, so I figured it was time to blow out my eardrums with damage that will last forever. In the end, I'm glad I did. Even though I prefer smaller venues and bands that have been dead for years, it felt great to be surrounded by such an enormous collection of fresh acts. But really, the most fun I had all weekend was spent sitting in the shade with my painfully handsome boyfriend and a drink; something I probably won't be paying nearly $200 for ever again.

on this day

One of the most influential jazz performers of all time, Louis Armstrong, was born on this day in 1901. On this day in 1914, Britain declared war on Germany in World War I. Anne Frank's twenty-five months of seclusion ended with the arrival of the Nazi Gestapo on this day in 1944.

BUT WHO CARES, RIGHT? People magazine just realeased the first images of Angelina Jolie's twin girls!