Sunday, September 12, 2010

the lamest "hot" movie ever

Last night I dreamt about a "hot", NSFW movie. Except that aside from the subject matter, it was perfectly safe for work, and also the most boring adult movie ever. It was about a librarian (I know!) who favors one sort of adult film - one that is very detailed and good, I guess, but also with a more limited audience. Or just a more discerning one? Anyway, in my dream - and apparently, also in this made-up movie - she argues with an attractive librarian whom she sees only at conferences. He is an advocate for adult movies that yeah, might not be as good, but they'd be more accessible. I swear, they were arguing (ultimately) about digital rights management! In what purported to be an adult movie!
So in other words, this supposedly NSFW movie was about two librarians who see each other occasionally (but don't hook up, though I gather they would have wound up together in the end?) and argue about access to adult movies. Basically, she wants the controlled, library-database version (harder for users to figure out and access, more expensive, but with better results), while he wants Google (free, and anyone can access it on any device, but the content might not be as good).
I usually don't have dreams that need censoring, and this one doesn't either, except that the fictitious librarians mention adult movies. But wow, that would have been the lamest adult movie ever.

Friday, July 9, 2010

effortlessly elegant

Over the last few days, there's been a fascinating ad on my Facebook page - on the right, with the paid ads. It reads as follows:

Burberry Beauty
[photo of red lipstick with a grey, subtly plaid box]
Exclusively at NORDSTROM. Get the stormy eyes and sun-dappled skin that define the effortlessly elegant Burberry look.

I'd like to mark this up and comment on it:
Burberry Beauty (um, okay)
[photo of red lipstick with a grey, subtly plaid box] (I like the box, though it's a bit gloomy. London fog, as it were)
Exclusively at NORDSTROM. (Well, no, that's not true; it's easily bought online on Burberry's website...)
Get the stormy eyes (...which includes plenty of pastels, but only a few that would make one's eyes look stormy.)
and sun-dappled skin (What? Burberry sells foundation, but how on earth does one achieve a "sun-dappled look" with it?)
that define the effortlessly elegant Burberry look. (This strikes me as hilarious - the "effortlessly elegant Burberry look" is so clunky as a phrase! It's like something out of Danielle Steel. Also, despite their best attempts, I still associate Burberry with raincoats and scarves. Nice ones, but not "effortlessly elegant" - and if it's effortless, does one really need makeup?)

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Relapse

I'm listening to Eminem's Relapse and just realized that he made a concept album, complete with a bombastic last track that Styx or Muse would be proud to own as theirs.

Friday, April 30, 2010

most American album

I can't decide which is more American: Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell or any one Bruce Springsteen album from the 1970s or 1980s. The SO suggested John Cougar, but we agreed his work might be too self-consciously American. Thoughts?