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xxiv. i am love
hellooo tilda swinton speaking italian in a russian accent. and everything else. i am a sucker for films about the rich showing upstairs/downstairs interplay, how a house runs like clockwork via secret passageways and dumbwaiters. i love it just like i love watching manufacturing processes on tv and reading about childhoods. (like that show 'undercover boss', which i watch mainly for the conveyor belts). uhh so yeah this movie was pretty amazing like it was made of emotion and tilda swinton closeups.

xxv. inception
pretty good! not as confusing as everyone is saying. there is one plot hole i haven't been able to find an explanation for yet but it is relatively minor. other than that it was thrilling and had a great concept though the action sequences themselves were best when affected by and showcasing altered environments. ellen page didn't really need to wear a bandanna around her neck at least twice, she could've asked wardrobe not to pigeonhole her so much.

watermelons and books

is my subconsious wishing it were summer?

xlii. my latest grievance, elinor lipman

this was pretty good mostly because i am a sucker for books about routine during childhood and/or school life particularly in dorms or other regimented residences. however the instigator of melodrama is someone who i would hate and i was annoyed that she took up so much time, well really she took up the whole book. why not have a cool quirky sidekick? i like those.

books i have read recently:
xxxix. everything ravaged, everything burned, wells tower
such an awesome name. pretty awesome book, short stories all written in a modern 'violent' style but mostly visceral. mostly about men. some choice cuts:
'a baby pigeon stolen from its nest, mauled... looked like a half-cooked eraser with dreams of someday becoming a prostitute.'
'the moose tried to struggle upright but fell again. the effect was of a very old person trying to pitch a heavy tent.'
'the news sent him into his familiar tic, a trembling reverse yawn... the movement of his jaw behind his closed lips lent an illusion that he lacked a full set of teeth.'
'"need to go pull something out of a horse's pussy."
"what kind of a thing?" Bob asked.
"a baby horse, i hope."'
i mean COME ON.

xl. on beauty, zadie smith
ok i suppose, i almost expected more though.

xli. the end of the world, paddy o'reilly
i got it for a dollar and was pleasantly surprised, for the most part. mostly about women.

continuing with the vague non-theme, here is a baby in a watermelon.

i saw
xxii. how to train your dragon - cute, eh, etc etc
xxiii. toy story 3 - pretty awesome, 3D did not add much in my opinion. really quite an adult movie, i don't think little kids would enjoy it much, but i don't know any in the right age range to ask.
and i also saw 'up in the air' again, it was possibly better the 2nd time around.

i haven't found any good music to listen to in a while, don't know why. stuck on janelle monae but the other hyped releases of late all have some intrinsic style aspect that i don't find interesting e.g. sleigh bells, steel train, stone temple pilots, gaslight anthem, owen pallett; i find them all underwhelming. the same thing possibly happened last year, i wasn't into any of those grizzly bear/animal collective/etc best-of-09-list usual suspects. just so blah. dear sara quin, what are you listening to?

postscript to prior pronoun blowup - bookshelfporn changed their subtitle, score 1 for the 'who' revolution

i should be writing concise precise abstracts but i am doing this instead.

"Who is the interrogative/relative pronoun used to refer to human beings. Corresponding relative pronouns for non-sentient beings are that and which, sometimes used in contexts where who might be a more suitable choice.."

sometimes?!? more like much too much. i'm procrastinating but i don't even care, this is a serious issue!!! apparently i am such a fuddy-duddy THAT i have been reduced to blogging pedantically about grammar and the demise of the english language. dear the internet and all reputable newspapers (don't care so much about those in disrepute), please refer to sentient beings as they deserve!
yes that's you, bookshelfporn; pretty as your pictures are, i am a person WHO *hearts* bookshelves, get it right.