What’s up with the super chick-flicky trailer??
[SPOILERY rant if you haven’t read the book]
I wouldn’t say The Time Traveler’s Wife was a masterpiece, but I liked it because it was about a very complicated sort of love — deeply flawed, steeped with obstacles, and simultaneously everlasting yet doomed. The ending was messy and a bit heartbreaking, much like the way real life often goes. Yet in the trailer, it looks like the promo monkeys have decided to sell it as a magical sort of fairy tale, which I feel cheapens the whole thing.
Then again, my area’s not marketing, so hey, maybe this is just the kind of thing that gets people to want to see a movie.
pilnick:
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Official Trailer
This looks like it should be really good. Despite being a rookie effort, the book is definitely worth reading.
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The Gossip is finally coming out with a new album next week, titled Music for Men, and I’m quite in love with this track right now (“For Keeps”), which starts off a bit slow and then soon picks up thanks to Beth Ditto’s powerful vocals.
It’s…Hammertime! Just has to be watched…
Because
Matt joked earlier that the (now annual)
WordCamp Genius Bar would be available for dating advice throughout the day, I decided to run with the idea and compile a list of terrible…
HAH! Merlin Mann, how I adore your
wit.
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I just stumbled onto this Nina Persson (The Cardigans) cover of the White Stripes recently and despite the arrangement not being significantly different, there’s something about her singing “Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground” that I quite enjoy.
Story of my life
Me: do you ever find that going back to [chat] logs
Me: you sound much less witty than you recall?
J: yeah
J: totally
Me: because that's how i often feel upon reading what i said
Showed this to my mother and she couldn’t stop laughing at the uncanniness.
New artist discovery of the day: Victoria Hesketh, aka Little Boots, featured here doing a neat cover of Hot Chip’s “Ready for the Floor.”
No cellphone?” Houston cannot fathom a relationship like this. He would never, for example, date someone who refused to text. And someone who was still on MySpace instead of Facebook? “Oh, that would be an automatic reject,” Houston says. “It’s kind of like a unibrow.” He pauses. “Maybe that’s why I’m single.
