A story about "Ultimate Santana" — 33 weeks ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
Europa (Earth’s Cry, Heaven’s Smile) by Carlos Santana has to be one of the sexiest songs ever written. Prrrr.
Items Gertie consumed in…
December, 2008
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Wednesday 31
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Ultimate Santana — 2 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…The Maltese Falcon (1941) — 40 people
Finished consuming…The Darwin Awards — 24 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Once — 52 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Peep Show - Series 4 — 7 people
Not worth consumingFinished consuming…Mometasone Furoate — 3 people
Finished consuming…Driving Lessons — 31 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…It Won't Be Soon Before Long — 90 people
Finished consuming…What Is the What (Vintage) — 36 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…The Painted Veil — 158 people
Finished consuming…Music and Lyrics — 23 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Until Proven Guilty (The J.P. Beaumont Detective Series, Book 1) — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Skins — 7 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) — 99 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Pierrepoint — 7 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Lust Caution (Se Jie) — 44 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Sweeney Todd — 603 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Nothing to Lose — 5 people
Finished consuming…20th Century Ghosts CD — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Seachd — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Heartsick — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…La Vie En Rose — 149 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Ocean's Thirteen (Full-Screen Edition) — 24 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Once — 706 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…The Bourne Ultimatum — 463 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Lars and the Real Girl — 123 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Juno — 256 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…3 Minute Deep Conditioning Hair Mask — 2 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…The Moor's Last Sigh — 2 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Red Balloon (Ballon Rouge, Le) [Import, All-regions] (Dvd - 1956) — 46 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…You Kill Me (Ws) — 15 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…The Lives of Others — 237 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Trapeze (1956 , IMPORT) — 5 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Evening — 20 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Atlas Shrugged — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…The Lincoln Lawyer — 3 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…District B13 — 38 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Hidden Prey — 3 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Dear Frankie [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ] — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Brief Encounter [NON-US Format, Pal, Region2, Import] — 13 people
Finished consuming…Art of Deception, The (Lou Boldt/Daphne Matthews) — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Anthem — 1 person
Not worth consumingFinished consuming…Romance and Cigarettes — 23 people
Finished consuming…Meet Me at the Morgue (Unabridged) — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Brick — 893 people
Not worth consumingFinished consuming…Dangerous Pursuits (Rose Mcquinn Mysteries) (Rose Mcquinn Mysteries) — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Solomon Vs. Lord — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Love Songs — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…The Fox and the Hound (25th Anniversary Edition) — 644 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Rumour has it... — 17 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…The Girls — 14 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Big - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — 318 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Peep Show - Series 3 [Region 2 Import - UK] — 10 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Chess Fever (Shakhmatnaya goryachka) — 20 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…The Big Heat (Unabridged) — 1 person
Not worth consumingFinished consuming…Miami Vice (Widescreen Edition) — 50 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Down to the Bone — 7 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Turncoat — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Trailblazer West Highland Way — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Peep Show - Series 2 [Region 2 Import - UK] — 10 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Small Island — 5 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…French English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Visual Dictionaries) — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Unknown — 18 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Chicken Kiev — 20 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Guardians of the Night — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Thunder Bay — 1 person
Finished consuming…The Last Noel (audio) — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Eye of the Beholder — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…The Great Divide (Marcus Glenwood Series #1) — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Dead Connection — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Damage Control — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Beyond Reach (Grant County) (Grant County) — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Faithless — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Samantha Who — 3 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Shipbuilders — 1 person
Finished consuming…Desperate Housewives — 9 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Body Double — 3 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends — 28 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Ugly Betty — 5 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…American, The — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Dirty Martini (Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels) (Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels) — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Knocked Up (Widescreen Region 2) — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Winner Take All (Marcus Glenwood Series #3) — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Dead Run — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Live Bait — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…The Water's Edge — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Courvoisier V.S. Cognac — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Killer View — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…i heart huckabees — 6 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Monkeewrench (audiobook) — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Kiss Me While I Sleep (audiobook) — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Soundless — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Summer Hours — 1 person
Finished consuming…The Big Heat — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Cold Paradise Audio — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Breath of Scandal — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Lightning — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Killer Weekend — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…In Bruges — 235 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…O is for Outlaw — 1 person
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A story about "Skins" — 37 weeks ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
Whatver happened to Ugly Betty? That was my one show, and then around xmas break it disappeared.
Now I watch ‘Skins’. I’d call this my secret show except I’m writing an entry about it on the internet. Still, it FEELS like a guilty pleasure to enjoy this show. Thanks to 4oD I’ve been able to watch season 1 and am 3 episodes into season 2 now.
I had a similar thrill years ago when I watched 90210 and Melrose, except everyone else was watching it so it was sort of okay. So maybe this is more like that one time I bought a Justin Timberlake album.
Why I recommend "Lust Caution (Se Jie)" — 45 weeks ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
I think that Ang Lee, translated, must mean “LONG MOVIE”.
This one is 2 hours and 38 minutes and I have to tell ya, the time just flew by. I didn’t know what this film was about—all I heard was ‘Ang Lee’ and I committed to going—and I’m so glad I did.
I think this is a brilliant movie (Tony Leung Chiu Wai is fabulous, as always, and newbie Wei Tang was simply outstanding), totally worth seeing in the theatre.
Why I recommend "Sweeney Todd" — 43 weeks ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
If you like theatre, and you like to be entertained, then this is a movie for you. The singing, the dancing (only kidding, no dancing in this) drew you right into the story.
The blood was over-the-top, similarly to Sleepy Hollow, and while I may have covered my eyes for a couple of the neck slicings, the sound effects made sure I didn’t miss a thing.
I think this review gets it right: “Burton creates a maleficent world swathed in gothic gloss and cruel beauty. In his clever hands, Sondheim’s quick, syncopated music, acerbic wit and adult humor become an intimate, expository medium used to ‘explain’ character motivation—without compromising the power of Sondheim’s discordant notes and dissonant musical beauty.
Depp’s voice may not be suited for the stage but, on the silver screen, his full-bodied baritone makes Sweeney Todd’s unfortunate fate and vitriolic craving for vengeance throb with life and terror.”
A story about "Atlas Shrugged: Library Edition Part 3" — 31 weeks ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
Published in 1957, I feel the philosophical lessons in the this novel are even more relevent today. Here are excerpts from the book, where John Gault was speaking to the religious and political “leaders” of America (typed from audiobook, so may contain clerical errors):
1) Man’s reason is his moral fact. The process of reason is the process of constant choice in answer to the question true or false, right or wrong.
2) To live, man must hold three things as the supreme ruling values of his life: reason, purpose, and self-esteem.
3) Damnation is the start of your morality, destruction is its purpose, means, and end. Your code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice. Demands as its first proof of virtue that he accept his own depravity without proof, demands that he start not with the standard of value but with the standard of evil, which is himself—by means of which he then defines the good, the good that which he is not.
It does not matter the good is not for him to understand, his duty is to crawl through years of penance atoning for the guilt of his existence to any stray collector of unintelligible debts. His only concept of a value is a zero. The good is that which is non-man. The name of this monstrous absurdity is Original Sin.
A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms. That which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality. If man is evil by birth, he has no will, no power to change it. If he has no will he can be neither good nor evil. A robot is amoral.
To hold as man’s sin a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man’s nature as his sin is a mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. To destroy morality, nature, justice and reason by means of a single concept is a feat of evil hardly to be matched, yet that is the root of your code…
AWESOME BOOK. I’ve enjoyed the audiobook so thoroughly that I would love to have a copy of the printed book.
A story about "Romance and Cigarettes" — 41 weeks ago
NOT WORTH CONSUMING
that was…interesting.
I like weird movies, and I like musicals, so a weird musical should be right up my alley—especially with James Ganolfini in the lead. Now, Sweeney Todd is definitely a weird musical and that.was.AWESOME.
Romance and Cigarettes? Very far from awesome. Now I totally get why this was on super-special at hmv.
A story about "Rumour has it..." — 36 weeks ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
I was confusing this with some other Aniston flick, one I had no interest in seeing. Then this weekend I was sort of ‘tricked’ into watching this, and I found it rather entertaining. Shirley MacLaine had some of the best lines, playing a character that was a cross between the mom in Postcards from the Edge and Ouiser in Steel Magnolias…
Katherine: “Come on in, I’ll put on a pot of Bourbon.”
A story about "The Girls" — 13 weeks ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
Even though I knew this sentence was coming, somehow I had yet forgotten and the tears reached my eyes simultaneously with these words:
“How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.”
I’m going to be very tired at work tomorrow (today, actually), but this was so worth staying up for.
Why I recommend "Chess Fever (Shakhmatnaya goryachka)" — 43 weeks ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
a 1925 silent Russian comedy short (27 minutes) about a man’s obsession for sport (in this case Chess) and how it nearly ruins his love life.
this is a hoot to watch—83 years old and yet this film resonates with contemporary notions.