A Grab Bag of Goodies and Beat-downs

Yeah, yeah, I'm a "bum." I "don't have a lot of posts lately." I "haven't been keeping up with my blog." Well, I think that you should "appreciate the good work that I do and get excited for the return of a long-gone 'regular feature', A Grab Bag of Goodies.'" Yo Chris, Mr. English Professor, did I use the right amount of punctuation? Or spell my words correctly? Or are you too busy starting flame wars on the IMDb message boards? That's what I thought.

The Science of Sleep
Oh no you DIDN'T, Chris. You just created confusion among the Blogulator masses by thoroughly picking apart the delightfully whimsical and not-at-all-sappy The Science of Sleep, not long after I dedicated a post to the excitement I feel over Michel Gondry's past, present, and future work. May I refer to your prior post, in which you stated that writer/director Gondry "fleshed out all these visual ideas without concentrating on story or characterization". Hmm, story? Characterization? What are the musical equivalents of those? Oh yeah, WORDS, instrumental rock boy. 'Nuff said. And Gael Garcia Bernal's performance was pitch-perfect as a Mexican-born man struggling with French and English. Plus, it took place in freaking Paris, the greatest city in the world. And all Chris can say is "I did not enjoy this film while on my luxurious snow day." Hmm, somebody doesn't enjoy the goodness of things, who is it? CHRIS! It's about time we stopped being so damn Richard Roeper-and-Ebert and more Siskel and Ebert. Bam, there it is.

Avril Lavigne's new song ("Girlfriend")
I had a hard time explaining to my co-workers at my financial place of work how I actually could really like Avril Lavigne and her new song. At first, I tried explaining that I didn't really like it, that I was joking. Then I started being honest with myself, and admitted it was a guilty pleasure. Then, with the integrity of the public financial industry in mind, I showed my business ethics and admitted, no, I do not feel guilty about loving Avril's music. I love it. Look at how angsty she is. And LISTEN to how hard those guitars are and how multi-tracked her vocals are. It's over, Avril, you're the winner.

The New Arcade Fire Album (Neon Bible)
So I was all excited about, after taking a seven-something-year sabbatical on actually physically buying a new album on the day it came out, I was all primed to go to the local music store and physically buy the new Arcade Fire album, because I physically also own their first album, Funeral. So I almost was about to do that today until, last night, I found that I could "buy" it from iTunes. And, like a sucker, I did. And all I can say is, yeah, it's alright. Whew, what an underwhelming experience.

There, there's your grab bag. Shake it up and chew on it, ya jerks. And I end you with the imagination of Brigitte, giggling to "Will and Grace" and saying "Oh Jack...you can't help it...you're so gay!" It's true...it's happening RIGHT NOW.

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