Fall Wish List

Fall 2009 by mrsshawnhunter featuring Furla bags

I'm leaving for South Dakota for a week and when I get back I need to get my ass in gear fall shopping wise. Above is my wish list/plan/bargain guide. I'm thinking about springing for the Alexander Wang tank, but $74 seems steep. We will see.

Fantastic Mr. Fox Trailer

Yes! The trailer for The Fantastic Mr. Fox looks great! I love the style of stop motion, it's a lot less fluid that a lot of the modern stop motion latley, which makes it look so fun and homemade and just CHARMING. The thing that really freaks me out is that every single frame screams Wes Anderson, his direction shines through the animation, and it looks so cinematic. The costumes are notable too, they're absolutley beautiful. This may be a return to form for Anderson after Darjeeling. I am worried about the cast though, George Clooney is really distracting. But I have faith, this trailer looks awesome.

The Real World Cancun: Episode 6

This season officially sucks. I ask for human drama and real emotion and this is what I get. Joey misses work because he drank all day and had sex with some random chick on the beach and is too hungover to make it to his 6 PM shift. He has a series of meetings with bosses to talk about what the consequences will be. He is rude in all of the meetings, he feels as though his time is being wasted and everyone should cut to the chase. He's got bandannas to tie, presumably. Everyone's scared that he will be fired and sent home, except no one cares because he is really a douche. In the confessional Joey reminds us what a rebel he is in case we cant tell from his lip ring, or gauged ears, or that bandanna. Ugh. "I just have such a problem with fucking authority, its just the worst". Joey actually just has a problem with having to be to work on time since he is in arrested development and can't manage a job hosting parties on the beach. Miserable. I think Ayiiia said it best when she said "he's just so low....like a piece of poop". Ayiiia is 24, using poop in a simile and she is still kind of right.

Jonna is kind of a trick and borderline cheats on her boyfriend (who is genuinely sweet and totally likeable). Miserable.

The only person in the house who ISN'T miserable is my ray of sunshine Bronne. Bronne appears in the episode for a total of 45 seconds and he still manages to say "dom" 3 times. My favortie exchange:

Boss: Bronne, how's being single?

Bronne: You know, it's pretty dom.

Boss: Look of confusion and disgust on his face

Embarassed roomate: Ugh, he means dom like, it dominates?

Boss: Mmmm.

I guess even Bronne is kind of miserable.

Leftovers

The Orphan

This may contain spoilers.

The reason I wanted to see The Orphan was for Peter Sarsgaard, who I have a huge crush on. The Orphan provided a fun creepy vehicle to watch him in for 2+ hours. The movie opens with a violent late term abortion, which ends up being a dream sequence, but is a really weird and unsettling way to open the film. After they adopt Esther from a home for girls she beings to act strange, she's always around when things go wrong. Concerns about Esther continue to escalate when someone winds up dead (we saw Esther beat her to death with a hammer) and she's weirdly attached to her adoptive father; played by my love Sarsgaard.

Things aren't too bad until you find out the twist, which is that this chick is really 33 with some rare condition that makes her look 9 and she is a serial family killer. She tries to seduce the fathers/husbands in families and when she can't (because she looks like shes 9, oh god ew) she kills them all. The scares there are pretty serious, and re-thinking scenes in the movie with the knowledge that shes 33 made me sleep with the lights on last night. There were quite a few unintentional laughs in the part where she was attempting to seduce Sarsgaard.

Orphan is by no means a great movie, but it's still kind of a fun thrill ride, worth a rental, I guess.

Still Suffering Through Entourage Season 6

Wow, so last week I was joking about Entourage being stuck in 2005 when it was relevant but this year they opened with a 5 minute bit on Knocked Up. Katherine Heigel is even over being offended by the misogny in Knocked Up because it's been out on DVD for like 3 years now. So the rest of this episode is about E and Sloan again. They go to a party as friends, but when the 17 year old girl from Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist shows up and hits on E, and he sleeps with her. Ack.

That was the entire episode really besides the running "would you sleep with Seth Rogen" gag. Remember that video "I'm Fucking Seth Rogen"? So do the writers on Entourage.

The next episode opens with Turtle's birthday. He gets two Ferraris and is really upset that hes a failure and can't get things for himself because of something 50 Cent said to him during a brief cameo. Really. Anyway I don't feel bad for Turtle with his two gifted Ferraris sleeping with the hot chick from the Sopranos and having no job but smoking weed. I'm pretty sure thats called LIVING THE DREAM. But apparently the audience is supposed to see the hidden potential in Turtle and root for him to succeed and make his own name for himself, so when he decided to go to college (studying sneakers or something?) I broke down in tears of joy.

The only other drama in this episode was what was going to happen to Lil' Bow Wow and E's pilot. If these are really the type of heartbreaking struggles people live through in Hollywood I'm dropping out of school and moving there right now.

This show is so miserable.

LOST Comic Con 2009 News--Mild Spoilers

Wow, so 815 never crashed! I know I'm in the minority but at this point this is really what I

want out of Season 6. Something entirely character focused. I would be ecstatic if the season

just focused on what would have happened to the main people had 815 never crashed, like an

alternate reality. I don't care about resolution with Dharma or the island mythology because

I've never really watched Lost for that, I just care about the characters, and speaking of characters--

Holy crap Juliet and Faraday and Charlie and Boone and Shannon?!? I am too excited for

words!

I kind of couldn't have asked for anything more from Lost this Comic Con, I am horribly excited

for Season 6 and will be starting my 1-5 re-watch soon enough!

Oh and Jacob never appeared as anyone else, which kills some cool, ultimate Jack-Locke showdown

theories but whatever! Alternate realities, you guys!

Hanne Gaby Odiele for Missoni's F/W '09 Campaign

It's kind of breathtaking really, Missoni's collection was one of my faves from this season, and Hanne is one of my new favorite girls. I have to say I really do not understand the thought behind setting the campaign on a truck, it's so disconnected from the clothes. I thought it would be more similar to the wheat field thing like we saw in Chloe's campaign this year. Anyway I'm really pleased with it, and I love the way the leggings look in the photo. I really hope people will take a cue and go for the more textured look this fall because it's absolutely beautiful..

All Good Things

Yes! Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst are filming a movie together! I absolutley cannot wait. KiKi is looking way better post rehab. The movie is called All Good Things. Both Kirsten and Ryan we're part of some of the best celebrity couples of modern times. McGosling and Gyllenhall-Dunst 4ever. The movie is a mystery type thing, but who cares about the plot really I just want to see some Dunst-Gosling chemistry.

Old 97's

OK, so first, that's Rhett Miller, frontman for the Old 97's. He is 40, that photo was taken this year. WOW, he really eases some of my fears about aging, because holy cow, he's one of the hottest men EVER. Maybe I am the only one who thinks this because the audience at last night's show was 75% male.

The Old 97's are a Texas bar band, I guess some people call them alt country, but they're hardly twangy, they're hugely authentic though which is why their shows are so fun. They don't shy away from playing all their hits, the same songs they've been forced to play since 1990. Their shows are never stale (this is my third). Rhett Milller has serious moves, he's constantly jumping, or windmilling his guitar and he totally pulls it off.

Everyone at last night's show was wasted, since they're such a p

arty band, and this led to white people party dancing, which is my favorite. There were so many ex-frat boys doing double fist pumps, and pointing to the stage conducting the band sloppily through guitar solos. I was the youngest person there by probably 10 years or so. The set was slightly less energetic than the last two times, but it was evened out by the fact that Rhett opened for his own band, so I got to hear him play his solo stuff, which is great. The high points of the show were Rollerskate Skinny, Big Brown Eyes and Timebomb. I can't figure out why this band hasn't hit it big, nearly every song they do is fabbbbbulous and 40 you guys.

Here's some tracks to try if you haven't heard the Old 97's before.

NYC Prep Is The Best

Seriously NYC Prep is my favorite show airing right now. I took the time today to catch up on the 2 episodes I missed and they were as great as I expected they would be. Mostly because of PC. PC is the best, and PC is also totally into guys.

In this episode PC is hea

ded to Mexico for the holidays with his friend whose name is also letters. JP? JP is from Mexico, PC and JP reminisce about their fondest memories from boarding school, in which JP was half naked and drunk and PC had to quickly hide him in his bed, right. I hope PC was better at hiding his friends than his sexuality. So just as you're feeling a little bad at taking pleasure in this kid's confusion, PC makes it OK by showing that he really is a monster.

A quote from his interview "People kept being like 'Gross, you're hanging out with a Mexican,' but I told them, no he's different JP is the most beautiful Mexican ever". Ugh. PC continues to be a douche at when they go out to party in Cancun. He refuses Jager Bombs because they are "ew soooo New Jersey" and opts to stick with his martini or equally feminine drinks in order to keep it classy. At Senor Frogs, which of course, everyone associates with class and good decisions. Then a hot girl approaches PC to ask him to dance with her. He threatens to break a bottle over her face, he's serious. Very straight PC, very straight. When he arrives home from his trip he meets up with Jessie to talk about everything, they hang out at the beach, to which Jessie wore suspenders. Homeboy wore combat boots to the beach. Anyway, PC informs Jessie he "basically had a big fuck off written accross his forehead" to any girls who tried to approach him. Jessie is relieved because she's in love with PC, because she is me. When asked about persuing a relationship with Jessie, PC responds "One day we could date, I could also marry a chimp." Our hearts break. Well played, PC..with friends like these.

There are actually other people on the show, and they are less entertaining, but they still kind of rock. Chief among them is womanizer Sebastian. Sebastian calls himself a womanizer a lot and says he's only in the game to "hook-up" which is, as far as I can tell means closed mouth public kisses after buying girls an expensive dinner. Anyway Sebastian plans to keep up his playboy lifestyle until he's 40, then he'd consider settling down. At the beginning of this episode hes persuing Kelli. He gets her cupcakes, this ends up being a brilliant choice because Kelli tells us in her interview that she is "OBSESSED with cupcakes, like I like them more than cake". If that is the bar that we're using as a gauge for obsession than I am obsessed with pork tenderloin, raspberries and this show. Actually Kelli is 15 and that was kind of a genuine charming thing to say in the midst of all these creepy mini-adults. Sebastian however, is no longer interested in the cupcake obsessor, he's met someone new and he's going to give up his womanizing ways for her. Abandoning his single-till-40 life plan because she told him she was thinking about being a philosopher. Falling in love over a fake career path, I love this show so much. Sebastian's friend is concerned that he is so interested in a public school girl then he says "Public school girls take facebook pictures leaning on their boyfriends in office chairs". What? Moments like this people, set your tivos. That girl proves she's a monster by saying she's "mostly interested in Sebastian because he has money and could help my social standing".

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hen there's Camille who is trying so hard to be the Blair Waldorf of the show that it hurts to look at her. Anyway Camille goes on a date and it's AWESOME. Camille is looking for someone intellectual, her date is not quite there. Camille does not approve because he's going to George Washington which is a total party school and his major is gasp undecided. Then he asks her what her hobbies are (which is admittedly a totally lame first date question) and Camille's response bought her the key to my heart. "What are my hobbies? I guess they're undecided." CONDESCENSION FOR THE WIN! Then her date asks her like 3 times if she's enjoying herself which is awkward, but still kind of endearing but not for Camille who responds with "OK, you've gone from redundant to annoying, you can stop now". I love you Camille. Anyway she totally sleeps with him despite all this. She discusses the date afterwards with her friend Maite (ugh) and calls it stagnant.

This show still rules. Seriously you're missing so much.

I think I have watched this clip close to 30 times. Seriously, it's addicting.

Have A Good Weekend

This is going to be me tommorow burrowing in food and movies all day, I may not leave bed.

NYC Prep

Gossip Girl is great, this is because of the cute clothes and the ridiculously campy dialogue where people who are supposedly 16 sip scotch and say "you're boring me, and you ruined my pants".

oh my god, I forgot how great Chuck is, listen to all these quotes, I'm annotating my Bartlett's as we speak.

NYC Prep is the GREATEST because of the ACTUAL 16 year olds ACTUALLY drinking scotch and delivering lines like "it's a real turn on when a guy's bilingual". IN A SERIOUS MANNER. At age 16. This show blows my mind, I love it so much.

This is my favorite cast member PC. He still maintains he's straight. Yes, purple scarf, faux hawk, jacket with silk piping, hands on the hips, all signs point to beer and football. Anyway in an attempt to show what a straight titty loving man he is PC went to dinner with 2 girls a grade below him. One year. When discussing how the meal went with his best friend super-bitch and my idol Jessie PC said "They're definitely younger, they have a lot of life to experience to put it lightly". A lot of life to experience in the 8 months until they are the exact same age. Then Jessie slapped PC open hand across the face, because she has had life experience and is mature enough to hang with PC etc. I love you PC, I love you Jessie, please stay you forever.

Later some chick stood PC up for a blind date, he sat at the restaurant alone for 45 min. I almost felt bad for him, but then he complained to the waiter about putting a straw in his drink (it's tacky) and asked to see the wine list. At 17.

In summation, I'm in love with this show and I'm even more in love with PC, God I hope he stays in the closet a bit longer so I have a shot at being his transition girl or something.

The Real World Cancun

I'm totally an

unapologetic Real World enthusiast. It's not my guilty pleasure because I genuinely think that its a good show. Anyone who asserts that it's just a trashy debauchery-fest I suggest you watch last season in Brooklyn, no one hooked up, they were rarely drunk. 90% of the drama last season was a result of a soldier's deployment to Iraq and doing the dishes. God, the interactions are so fascinating. Anyway, this season is not as good. The seven strangers are sequestered in a house in Cancun, and there is a fair amount of debauchery.

Emilee and Ayiiia in a happier time

Half of the cast is totally unlikeable, most obnoxious among this half is Ayiiia. With three fucking I's. So last week Ayiiia hooked up with her roomate Emilee for attention, seriously like actually said "Lessssssbiannnnnnssss, we're so hot" in the middle of their encounter. So then Emilee, the second least likeable cast member decided she hated Ayiiia, and they fought. Emilee told Ayiiia no one in the house liked her and Ayiiia came back with "AT LEAST I WASN'T ADOPTED BITCH!". What??? Ayiiia wasn't even drunk. OK so then I was team Emilee, but then Ayiiia apologized and Emilee responds with "Yeah.... it's just kinda like hot

damn dude". Is it just kind of like hot damn dude 22 year old? I don't even know what that means. These two are so miserable.

Then we have CJ the heartthrob, turns out he's not a heartthrob at ALL. He's awkward and kind of creepy. He develops this crush on the receptionist at the hotel they work with. So logically, he sends her a note, really a note. It reads "Will you go on a date with me? Check yes or no". I feel like I should say that CJ is 23. She inexplicably checks yes, CJ decides to take her (a vegitarian) to a steakhouse. Even more baffling than this decison he decides to wear a black shirt with HUGGE neon lettering that says "Cancun Mexico", and he wears this out in Cancun, Mexico, and thats not even the douchiest thing he does all night. He orders asparagus for his date and spends

probably 3-4 minutes talking about how much their pee is going to stink. On a first date. She may be the first date not to go home with a guy in the history of The Real World.

There's a bright spot in this house of misery though, and that spot is Bronne. He hooked up with a 50 year old, and some chick called him pregnant. Aces.

Lara Stone

I've never really liked Lara Stone before, but this week, between being named the girl of couture week and her beautiful cover of W, I'm kind of becoming a convert. You have to admire her diversity, I mean closing Chanel in a white frilly wedding gown, and opening JPG in a super sultry black number, not to mention totally working the Givenchy black turtleneck number all in the same week certainly deserves some snaps. And I'm kind of obsessed with her gap. It's so sultry. And Jesus her body is bangin'. I totally love that a size 6 is killing it at couture week. I haven't liked her campaigns, like ever, I think Lara looks her best in up close shots the the I-d cover, or the W cover below.

Half Blood Prince

It's probably not fair for me to comment too heavily on Half Blood Prince, as I foolishly went to a midnight screening and fell asleep during the movie. But I totally will.

First;

Emma Watson still can't act, she RUINS every scene she's in. Emma Watson really is the worst. Harry and Ron do an OK job rounding out the trio. Ron especially in this movie, played the charming, if not totally clueless buffoon well.

The direction in this movie was pretty great. Yeats delivers some beautiful shots (seriously the scene with Ginny and Harry in the cornfield was breathtaking), but his style isn't intrusive like Cuaron's was in Azkaban. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about innovation in film, but a huge franchise like HP, where I already have my ideas of what stuff looks like, is not the place for it.

I'm trying to think of memorable scenes and I'm really drawing a blank, but I suppose all HP movies leave me feeling kind of empty. I'm hoping splitting the 7th into two will help with that, because seeing minute things from the books realized is all the fun for me.

The best thing in this movie by far is Luna Lovegood. Everytime she was on screen I was totally engaged and excited. Evanna Lynch is fantastic, I mean really, look at her.

WORK.

Do The Right Thing

So in a fit of old person confusion, my dad bought me a Spike Lee box set last week, thinking
it included one of my favorite movies Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovitch. Last night I decided to break the set open, because, embarrassingly, I've never seen Do The Right Thing. And it is as good as everyone says.

I was expecting something heavy handed, I was ready with the excuse that it was revolutionary for the time, but this film needs no excuses, it's just GREAT. Everything, the variety of camera angles and filming techniques, the casual yet totally tight dialogue, the malleable message, letting you take away what you will. The juxtaposition of MLK and Malcolm X, and the water spraying from the fire hydrant and from the fire hoses.

The film refuses to villianize anyone, it doesn't make it easy for the audience to take sides, it forces the audience to confront their feelings about a totally unpleasant situation. And I'm totally in awe that Lee wrote, directed, produced and starred in this when he was so young. I lovvvvved this, and cannot wait to continue my Spike Lee marathon!

Are You Kidding, Burger King?

No, you're not, this is an actual ad, for an actual sandwich, that runs in actual magazines. This isn't even funny, it's just confusing. Are they referencing blow jobs that overtly? Who is this targeted at? Do I really have to say "I'll have the BK Super Seven Incher" when I order?

Hard to think of more obnoxious publicity than being included in a Dane Cook routine, so congrats BK Lounge, you out did yourself.

Entourage Season 6

I really do like Entourage! I think it's an intermittently funny show, with relatively likeable characters, and for the first few seasons I loved hanging out with them all. But this is season six and nothing has happened.

The show opens with Lloyd threatening to quit, or E being secretive about a girl, I don't remember, does it matter, both of these things have happened like EVERY EPISODE, for six seasons, exhausting. So I guess E is on the phone with Sloane. Are they still broken up? Why did they break up? Wasn't that like Season 2? Does anyone really care about Sloane? Where's Anna Faris? Anyway Sloane and E are getting back together.

Is E the main character of this show now? Because I'll tell you who's not. Vince. Vince's plot line this episode (the premiere, come on!) was getting his drivers license. First, I do not think anyone cares whether or not Vince movie star and millionaire can pass his driver's test at 26. Second, even if they did the show forgoes any drama they could have squeezed out because HE PASSES THE TEST. Good, what a relief. And he gets laid in the back of a car I think, even that was forgettable.

Also I guess Ari yells at Lloyd, and berates him with gay and Asian slurs, and Lloyd stays with Ari. We as an audience still like Ari and find him charming for whatever reason. Drama phones it in, like from a pay phone with no reception in the Bahamas. And Turtle smokes weed and pees in the tub. OK Entourage are we done now??

When Did Neville Longbottom Get Hot?

Eek! This really got me more excited for Harry Potter than any trailer has yet. They're both so perfectly cast and adorable. Brb wrting fan fic.

Bruno

Bruno

To say that I was excited to see Bruno is, I suppose, an exaggeration. I enjoyed Borat, but the trailers for Bruno didn't excite me. Bruno not only disapointed me, but it kind of disgusted me.

Borat relied on exposing the "hidden" widespread racism in America for its laughs, poking fun at the ignorance of hateful people. Bruno's first big laugh comes from a scene of Bruno having sex with his pygmy boyfriend with a slingshot, a champange bottle and a dildo attached to an eliptical machine. That's not exposing anyone, it's encouraging more misconceptions. The scenes where he does attempt to expose peoples homophobia don't work either. Ron Paul should get upset by being locked in a room with a man who's stripping. The hotel staff should be uncomfortable with two naked people (of any gender) handcuffed together with blood all over the walls.

Sasha Baron Cohen has built a career feeling superior to people, and I'm sick of watching his smug face beg for reactions.

Glit Groupe

I got my invite! There are some legitimately good deals. Feel free to use the link below to get yourself in. In case you're in the dark about Glit, it's an invite only website which gives its members exclusive sales on designer clothes and accessories. There's a new sale every 36 hours. As far as I can tell so far the discounts are significant and the selection is decent.

Join Glit Groupe

Beyonce

So, I know, I'm totally late to the game on this one, embarrassingly late, but I am just discovering that Beyonce totally rocks. I downloaded "I Am....Sasha Fierce" just for Halo, which is really catchy, but ended up falling in love with Diva, Radio, Sweet Dreams, Hello, basically every song on the album. A lot of the slower ballads remind me of Dangerously In Love (the Destiny's Child version) and that is still one of the most powerful songs ever.

Even now I'm having a hard time remembering why I cultivated so much disdain for Queen B. I mean, homegirl rocks Balmain (see left, one of my fave pieces from F/W '09), knocks boots with Hova, and she's not outrageously hoe-ish. She totally still looks like a slack-jawed moron in that Nintendo DS commercial though, really makes me shudder.

Weekly Movie Roundup

Away We Go

Away We Go is directed by Sam Mendes. That's really the most positive thing I can say about this film. It's so frustrating to see a talent like Mendes (Revolutionary Road, American Beauty) wasted on a painful screenplay like this. This movie really felt like what would happen if you kept filming the characters from Garden State for 5 years, any remaining affection you had for their quirk has turned into contempt and confusion as to why they can't just get their shit together and be normal people. Anyway, besides hating the characters, the humor in the mo

vie is based on little caveats that feel like SNL sketches, the most succesful is based around a new-age woman (played by Maggie Gyllenhall) fearing strollers and sharing a bed with her infant. Yes, that's the best. These scenes are filled with really silly physical gags and jokes that have become really tired.

After the film has dragged you through this road trip of wacky situations and wackier personalites it has the audacity to shove a moral down your throat and make you throat. Mild spoilers ahead. Out of nowhere the couples meet old friends who are infertile, the movie tries to make you cry as the wife does a sad strip tease in a dirty bar, and it is genuinley kind of heart wrenching, unfortunatley the movie hasn't earned it. Twenty minutes ago we were watching breast feeding jokes, and we don't know these characters that we're feeling sorry for. The script preys on our instincts and things that are just sad because theyre SAD instead of developing any sort of story or characters that we can connect with. The ending is unsatisfying, the couple, neither of which have any sort of personality besides being bearded, wearing glasses, and being pregnant respectivley, finally do find a home, and deliver painfully obvious monolouges that border on "home is where the heart is". I'll leave you with an actual quote from the movie "Let's promise to let our daughter be fat or skinny or whatever weight she wants because obsessing about weight is just too cliche for our daughter. Are you kidding me?

Final Thoughts: SKIP IT--really it's painful. "Lars And The Real Girl" achieves the intended tone much, much better! Ren

t that instead!

The Hangover

I know I'm in the minority on this one, everyone thinks it's hilarious and will be quoting the lines ad nauseum. And before I get too far into this, I'm really not a snob, I like lowbrow comedies, I own "Knocked Up" on DVD, and yet, I left "The Hangover" early. I think the difference in enjoyment from the Apatow films and The Hangover is that in Apatow comedies the humor lies in the dialogue, and in word play, even if it is word play about poop. The Hangover is really a series of visual gags, chickens in the room, a missing tooth, a baby jacking off. It's not that I was offended or that my intelligence was insulted by this, I was just bored.

The biggest disappointment for me in this film is Zach Galifinakas. All I heard before going into the theater was how deadpan and hilarious his performance was. Deadpan? This guy is seriously like a less funny version (to the extent that is conceivable) of Jack Black. The lines your saying aren't funnier because you're bearded, or chubby, or apparently playing the role as someone who is developmentally disabled. This is all to say nothing of the weird shoe-horned Top 40 soundtrack, or the cobbled together plot. Ed Helms' character gave the film its only moment of comedy, and even that was a watered down version of Andy from The Office.

Final Thoughts: Skip It! Apatow's title as the king of modern comedy is totally safe. I hope Funny People makes it clear just what a bad movie this really was, by comparison.

Food Inc

I was really wary of seeing this film. I don't like preachy docs that people jump all over as an excuse to let you know how informed and better than thou they are (Oh you haven't seen Food Inc yet, it's really important you know, it's true what they say you are what you eat. I started a vegetable garden and I always buy organic yogurt). However I was pleasantly surprised by Food Inc. It's impressive in its just-the-facts presentation, and feels a lot less like propaganda than you'd expect.

The film explores a wide range of problems with the consolidation of the food industry. It doesn't resort to scare-tactics or deceptive graphs, but rather takes the time to explain each issue in depth, the injustice towards farmers, animals, factory workers and consumers. The camera doesn't shy away from showing the brutality of the way our food is processed, even on the "good" farm, which is admirable. Perhaps the best thing about this doc is that it doesn't simply shame the audience and claim to "raise awareness" *cough cough An Inconvenient Truth*. It offers a set of real, viable solutions that can be implemented at the individual level. Totally worthwhile!

Final Thoughts: Check it out! May not change your life but it raises some issues that need to be adressed sooner than later.

New Jenny Lewis Video--See Fernando

I like it, I guess. It's cute and fun and bright, but I guess I always saw "See Fernando" as a down and dirty Western bar song, rather than a glitzy 60s feel, and there is simply not enough Jenny. I am biased as I want as much of Jenny Lewis (in my opinion the most beautiful, stylish woman living) committed to celluloid as possible. There are a few moments they really get right, like her heeled boots hitting the pavement in time with the clapping, I just wish the whole video had been like that. And as long as were wishing, I wish Blake were in it too...naked. I'm totally loving the Hitchcockian font though, very Vertigo. In closing, it's a pretty great video, just not for this song.

Alexander Wang CoCo Duffel

I'm so in love with the Alexander Wang Coco Duffel. It's one of those bags that is going to make you feel OK about leaving the house in a t-shirt and jeans

It's hard to believe it's only $850 at Barney's right now. As far as "It-Bags" go it's totally affordable, and chic. My only worry is that it's so distinct that it will spawn 100s of imitations and will lose its appeal quickly. Here's hoping I get one before then.