music meme

"Name your six current favorite songs, tag six friends to do the same" (from thette's journal). Though, I'm going to pass on the tagging and throw out a general invite to any and all to do this.

1. I Never Will - Barenaked Ladies
2. Sick and Tired - Anastacia
3. She Will be Loved - Maroon 5
4. We Used to be Friends - Dandy Warhols
5. Tangled - Maroon 5
6. See You When You're 40 - Dido

grr arggh and yay

I just read in my copy of last week's EW that Melissa Banks has FINALLY written another book. She's the instant-hit author of Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, which is one of my all-time favorite books and I've loaned it out to someone and don't know who and thus can't quote my favorite passage. Meh.

Anyhow, she's just written another book (called Wonder Spot), and the review was glowing (though I didn't read it all the way through because I hate being spoiled for stuff like this and bad reviews overly spoil).

I'm going to buy it right this minute. Well, order it from Amazon rightthisminute at least.

In other upcoming "FINALLYs" --Jodi Foster is finally coming out with another movie. A plane-based thriller. And I don't care that the entire movie is going to make me tense, I would watch Jodi Foster in an infomercial. Or even a movie about football.

Also, the new John Cusak/Diane Lane movie looks cute. For I am a chick and torture myself with romantic comedies. But no, it really looks cute. Diane Lane is unbelievably beautiful. And I love John Cusak. Even when he's playing a complete fuckup (see: High Fidelity), I still love him. Even when he's in a movie whose premise I seethingly hate on principle (see: Serendipity), I still watch and coo helplessly. And of course Lloyd Dobler is the fantasy against which all real men fail.

I am now looking forward to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (thanks to a great review by Dawn Taylor) next weekend during Stace's visit. And Batman Begins should be exciting.

Though, last night in the movie theatre I was reminded about the growing hatred many of us feel about seeing movies in theatres. Namely, I felt like I was sitting in the home of the couple behind me that kept loud-whispering inane things to each other. I wanted to club them. Shut. The Fuck. Up. Please. Now. It's lovely that you understand what's happening on screen. But as I am not retarded, and able to figure out things for myself, I don't need your commentary.

Sometimes I feel like I should just calm down, because it's kind of common and getting all frothed up about it doesn't do me any good. Unless I am willing to actually turn around and tell them to shut up (which would make me as annoyingly distracting to others as they are), I just have to suck it up, and try to tune them out. And normally I can, but they went beyond my threshold. One of these days I'm going to break down and buy these.