Last Days Here Official Trailer - HD Movie (2012)

Saw this documentary the other night and immediately regretted not listening to Pentagram for a long time....I never knew anything about the lead singer. It's a great documentary, total emotional comeback territory. There are a lot of crazy elements to it. Bobby Liebling is the subject, has major struggles with drugs and just functioning at all basically. It's an interesting story about one guy, and in a way helped me see again that people can come back from serious substance use disorders (I mean he looked almost dead at the start)--in my line of work I kind of need to be reminded about that now and then.
This guy had unbelievable support and co-dependence from his parents who are incredibly loving and supportive. You really don't see this much, at least I don't. I'm glad I remembered that there are parents and families like that.
There's also interesting stuff about the music industry, and one of those strange cases where a band just missed one opportunity after another, some by chance, some by stupidity/ego etc. There is also an insane love story that made me want another updated doc about his wife and family.


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Halcoholic video #1 from Hallie Liebling on Vimeo.
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It's hard to really get a sense of either of their personalities from the documentary. It's hard to be really cynical about them (well why would you?) aside from the age difference/looks disparity, and as she says in the doc she has nothing financial to gain from the relationship. I guess we're so used to the money for youth/beauty exchange that it's hard to see beyond that.
Let's just say it makes AMAZING video!
And, she has a style blog!  I guess Pentagram lovers hate her. OBVS.

GRUNGE MAKE-UP TUTORIAL LIKE BRODY DALLE

You don't actually have to pick.

Why do people say this like someone had to pick one over the other?

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Late to the Lana fan club

I'm very late to the Lana Del Rey fan club. The only things I knew about her were the phoney backstory, the plastic surgery and the embarrassing SNL appearance (what she seemed like she was on quaaludes or something? I didn't even see it). ANYHOO I'm not sure what made me finally listen to the album, I think my sister told me she runs to it and then I saw the beauty tutorial on xojane (linked below)....well, I love her now.

I like skillful presentation. I think it's an important of being a pop star, maybe one of the most important parts. I really admire the cohesiveness of her whole look, plus the videos, plus the music is amazing. It makes me wonder what other pop music is out there that I would like.

Hate to see the haughty grovel, or, KStew + RPattz for NEVER???

Of course I hate myself for using the paparazzi endorsed nicknames, what do you take me for?

I always kind of loved how this couple greeted the press/media/paparazzi with what seemed like naked scorn. I'm not even being sarcastic, I don't think this woman can act AT ALL, him I have no idea but I just like the way they seemed to kind of bite the hand that feeds them in the press. Man, talk about bitchface. And there's a whole tumblr about just that!
http://kstewbitchface.tumblr.com/

I say she can't act because I SAW her, not acting, in the Snow White film for which I had high hopes. It was aesthetically beautiful (and Charlize Theron was awesome as always--looking terrifyingly like Madonna at times), yes, beautiful but BORING. Also, while I couldn't sit through the Twilight movies at home, I did happily watch Breaking Dawn in the theatre and totally enjoyed it. Her acting is best described as leaden and there are about a million problematic things in the movie (a pervasive pro-life thing, a strangely unexplored domestic violence situation--she winds up battered after her losing her virginity to vampire Edward; completely weird).

And I don't care about this cheating story really, except to note how deeply unfortunate it would be to have to play out the vagaries of relationship strife under hot klieg lights, not that I have any sympathy for celebrities stalked by the press either. But like I say, I noticed this couple mostly because they seem to hate the press and it struck me a little funny (haha).

So how gross was it that Kristen gave this weepy PUBLIC statement, I can't even imagine why she would think she had to do that, I guess an army of 'handlers' tell these twits when to move their bowels.

The good news is the 'scorned wife' is taking the high road, on twitter, where we do these things.

http://jezebel.com/5929366/scorned-wife-of-director-that-kristen-stewart-humped-takes-sadness-to-social-media-outlets

Too bad for them and too bad for us, that their dirty laundry is flapping in the collective breeze....
And I do hate to see the haughty grovel.

We're still talking about women "having it all"?

Kind of seems like not having kids is having a moment or something. I hadn't seen the original piece in the Atlantic "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" until after seeing the response piece on Jezebel. 

I guess it depends on what having it all means to you. I think most people just want to be happy, but even on that score it seems like not having kids wins out (according to the stats on the Jezebel piece). And I've talked to lots of parents who say that there is a huge tradeoff of leisure etc (the etc might mean 'being happy day to day'?), but that the pleasure of childrearing are intense. I'm sure that's true. My own father has told me many times that he thinks the point of living is to have kids--and for sure that level of hyperbole has made me a little skeptical. Almost sounds a little 'silk purse sow's ear' or perhaps he's trying to sell me something.

And hey, Dolly agrees with the no kids option! And since she is my spirit animal, she's probably on to something.

Jessica Valenti, who's written other things I've liked, has a book coming out in the fall: Why Have Kids? 

As much as I hate when people refer to their pets as 'fur babies' (barf), it all kind of makes me appreciate these knuckleheads.