| Monday, February 12, 2007 |
| Random notes |
This woman who wrote into Salon.com's advice columnist feels guilty because she prefers name-brand dishwashing detergent to the "good-for-the-planet, all-natural, nontoxic" variety. Personally, I've never felt any guilt about using Cascade or Palmolive, but I do feel guilty about my rampant, out-of-control Kleenex purchasing. Greenpeace's "Kleerkut" campaign states that "every time you use a Kleenex tissue, you are blowing away ancient forests." The trouble is that as a person with allergies, facial tissues are an important part of my life, and the recycled-paper brands tear my sensitive little nose to shreds. I suppose I could start using cotton handkerchiefs, but the thought of having to carry used hankies around until I can throw them in the washing machine is quite unappealing. I try to make up for this lapse by always buying the super-environmental, unbleached, recycled paper towels and toilet paper.
The newspaper ads for the movie "Factory Girl" feature the screaming tag line "EVERYTHING YOU'VE HEARD IS TRUE!" Uh... the main thing I keep hearing about "Factory Girl" is the widely disseminated rumor that stars Sienna Miller and Hayden Christensen really "did it" on camera. Surely the movie studio ad folks aren't insinuating anything, are they now?
I'm starting a new occasional feature called Really Old Stuff On My Hard Drive. A couple days ago, I remembered a photo I used to have up on my very first interbridge.com web page back in the mid-90s. I've been through at least three computers since then; did I still have it? Indeed I did. Along with lots of other digital detritus. Let's dig it up! Here, in honor of yellojkt's YouTube video of himself singing Foreigner's "Hot Blooded," is 30 seconds of me singing. (Some of my readership will already be familiar with this recording, but I'll bet no one's listened to it in ages.) Date: Jan. 4, 1997.
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l still listen to that CD from time to time! It's excellent in so many ways. Makes me wistful for a community that once was capable of such a project. Ah well, communities just get smaller and closer-knit sometimes. It's good.
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You actually have a bit of a Liz Phair vibe going there. Unlike my off-key cat strangling.
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At the time I actually described myself as a poor man's Liz Phair.
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The publicists behind FACTORY GIRL are using an old, old tactic. I remember Bruce Dern telling reporters that he and Maud Adams had actually copulated on camera while filming the rape scenes in the abysmal 1981 melodrama TATTOO, in which he played a guy who disinfected pay phone during the day and did elaborate body art in his spare time. After quite a bit of drooling over her, he finally gets his grubby hands on model Adams and turns her willowy body into his personal canvas. She hates the result, but not as much as I hated having to sit through this "erotic thriller," which was about as arousing as a heavily used, unwashed cotton hankie and found a lofty perch on my "worst of the year" list. By the way, Adams adamantly denied Dern's claims.
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heh-heh - she said "disseminated"...
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l still listen to that CD from time to time! It's excellent in so many ways. Makes me wistful for a community that once was capable of such a project. Ah well, communities just get smaller and closer-knit sometimes. It's good.