Grey's Anatomy: i know, i know... it's the chick show that jumped the shark about 2 seasons ago and will never make it back. well, i've kept up because i believe in good girly tv/movies (you should see my dvd collection... I need the escape). and it's proven to be worth the wait; last thursday's episode of grey's anatomy was, hands down, the best one i've ever seen. i am not alone in believing this. you must watch. if you haven't kept up, here's what you need to know:
isobel stevens has bad, bad cancer, and is starting treatment now.
karev and stevens are dating and in love.
owen hunt is an army doc who just got back from iraq and is all messed up...and happens to be dating cristina yang.
mcdreamy ran away into the woods for a little while because he had a nervous breakdown after killing a pregnant patient on the operating table.
i love it when a short film gets it right. every minute, cut, word counts--there's no room for anything else.
got my hands on this from my buddy amaya (she's been a blogging inspiration for me lately) and it's a beautiful little love story, likely to awaken the starry eyed girl in all of us (males included...oh you know you love this stuff)
just wanted to give you all a little heads up: i've been in contact with julian smith, of 25 things i hate about facebook fame, and i think we're going to try to make time to sit down and talk in the near future. i'm very excited about it-- i'll keep you posted!
Also, one more thing... can someone translate this for me? "Many films appearing in this year’s New Directors/New Films festival reaffirm social realism’s validity as humanistic art with an educational frisson." Thank you, Stephen Holden... But you just scared me away from reading your article
Here's a great little blog post that my dear friend Carrie Goldberg wrote about her. Talk about hitting it big without doing anything. She's an Los Angelean socialite-- what Tinsley Mortimer is to Manhattan, she is to LA. Fascinating.
It's been far too long since I posted. I'm sorry. Currently, I'm in sunny California, in the suburbs of Los Angeles embracing the ability to carpool, eat in and out, and listen to live music at some of my favorite venues. Here in la, the music scene is pretty phenomenal. Despite being the capital of the film industry, Hollywood is home to some of the most impressive musicians there are right now. You know how Laurel Canyon was home to the singer-songwriter generation of the '60s and '70's? Well there's a whole new breed of Joni Mitchells and Frank Zappas just sprouting up like poppies in the southern california sun.
Just last night I went out to Hermosa Beach to listen to some pretty amazing ladies/friends, Laura Jansen and Meiko. Tonight, I'm off to a little venue that grew me up when i was just a high schooler in la la land: Hotel Cafe. I can't wait to go back to my second LA home. With that, I leave you with a quote from another member of the Hotel Cafe family, Gary Jules:
"All a club is, is a room with music in it. The magical part is defined by the people that come there – by the things that happen there – and all the magic stuff that gets left behind. That's what people will talk about years later, and that's what makes a place really endure."
this young filmmaker, Julian Smith, started a blog about 6 months ago. he posts smart, quirky short films in HD and uses every major social networking site to get his work and energy out into cyberspace: myspace, twitter, wordpress, flickr, youtube, and facebook.
speaking of facebook...
he made a little spoof video blog in response to a chain note that has been going around on facebook, "25 things about me" (i'm sure you've all been tagged to do it at some point) . his version, "25 things i hate about facebook" has become a youtube sensation: it's been up since feb. 13 and has had over 134,000 views. in its first week, it surpassed 40,000. talk about going viral. youtube, being a smart, progressive, media-savvy company, has contacted him about becoming a "Partner," whatever that means. Did I mention he's 21? Yea. 21.
he's literally becoming a viral celebrity... and judging by his charismatic work, it looks like he deserves the attention he's getting. Check it out:
Monday, March 2, 2009
Let's talk oscars. I know, I'm a week late. But I wanted to take some time and sit to think about it. Slumdog Millionaire. Like I said in my previous post, Slumdog just makes me proud to be Indian. But the success of Slumdog makes me cool to be Indian, which is even better. Other things that make me cool to be Indian? M.I.A (who's actually Sri Lankan, but close enough), bhangra, pierced noses, henna tattoos, tandoori chicken...the list goes on. I wonder if we'll see changes in Hollywood relationship with Bollywood, or how either make movies. Will Bollywood start looking like a more serious or viable option for major American studios? Will Bollywood start making more western-friendly movies that are-- gasp-- made in English or--GASP-- made by American directors? The possibilities are endless.
Crossovers are inevitable, even necessary. I think Kwame Anthony Appiah wrote about how cosmopolitanism is just a jumble of cultures contaminating and re-contaminating one another...that's not a bad thing. contamination has such negative connotations, but it's actually the thing that keeps us connected to one other, despite being different. it keeps us moving, changing. And i think films are beginning to reflect that part of our ever-mutating, globalizing world.
another great moment of contamination-- the acceptance speech of the precious Kunio Kato:
a young, curious and excitable writer, reader, lover-not-fighter, who wants to see and remember and share as much as her eyes, mind and fingers can handle
