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Posted over 3 years ago




okay... In no particular order... Here's a poster (limited-edition of 100, 3-color silk screen on Green Tea paper)... of Janet Jackson (Janet Jackson? yes. Janet Jackson.) I just finished it and had it printed at this great place called Monolith Printers in Emeryville. I'm very happy with the result ...and I've decided to accompany it with a musical score consisting of British wonderband, Clinic. (Clinic, in case you don't know, wear surgical masks while performing and rule.)

I also got a sneak peek at the brand spanking new Cohen Brothers movie yesterday called "Burn After Reading"... It's really, really good. Great performances all around, but Brad Pitt steals the show with his performance of an idiot weight-trainer at the gym. Hilarious. ...and vintage Cohen Brothers. The movie is definitely worth checking out.

oh... and... parking tickets suck.

That is all.


Comments (22)

  1. ZenPop says

    Here's more medicine for what ails you... in the form of more Clinic:

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  2. annieander says

    Can you print more of these without the text and concert info?

    I would totally buy one.  I love the green(wo)man feel of it.

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  3. contrabandwidth says

    Man, can't wait to see that movie.  Love the Coens.  Whenever I'm in doubt about a film of theirs, I remember one of my friends sayings "Even a bad Coen bros. movie is better than most directors best".

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  4. annieander says

    Name me one bad Coen bros movie....

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  5. annieander says

    Just remembered "Lady Killers".  I retract that last comment.

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  6. contrabandwidth says

    Also Intolerable Cruelty didn't do anything for me.

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  7. ZenPop says

    Thanks for the kind words, Annie... unfortunately, it's janet or nothing on this piece... (It's based on a piece I did a while ago... may still have a couple of those, though...)

    Ack! Coen, not Cohen. Dammit. I hate mispelling. (did I spell dammit right?... whatever...)

    You will LOVE this movie... it's excellent!

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  8. Dale says

    Intolerable Cruelty was a Coen Bros. Movie?!? Huh. I had no idea.

    Raising Arizona is still one of my absolute fave movies.

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  9. ZenPop says

    Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing & Hudsucker Proxy. All brilliant.

    This new one is in that category... they bring back the humor in spades in this one... also a great performance by John Malkovich and Frances McDormand.... But, as I said... Brad Pitt (?!) steals the show.

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  10. contrabandwidth says

    What could be more quoteable (other than Raising Arizona) than "The Dude" Himself - The Big Lebowski!?

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  11. annieander says

    Don't forget Barton Fink..."I'll show you the life of the mind..."  I never looked at John Goodman the same after.

    There are so many good quotes in Raising Arizona...to many to quote...but the favorite going around the house right now.

    "Yeah Hi, what if you was to get runned over?"

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  12. ZenPop says

    My all-time favorite Coen Bros. line:

    As Tim Robbins shows off a piece of paper with a circle on it...

    "you know... for kids."

    — The Hudsucker Proxy

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  13. Lyrikhan says

    I watched Blood Simple somewhat recently...interesting to see the Coen bros in their infancy

    I'm amazed at how many people i have talked to that didn't like No Country For Old Men....baffles me

    looking forward to seeing this new one

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  14. contrabandwidth says

    Check out Crimewave if you can.  A bit zany, and poorly dubbed, but interesting if you really like them.  Plus, it has Bruce Campbell.

    "Hi, what about the dip-tet, huh hi?"

    "I don't know, they were jammies, they had yoda's and shit on 'em!"

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  15. annieander says

    I am one that struggled with No Country.  My complaints...

    The Cop...the plain talking no nonsence average joe cop played by T.L. Jones.  It was done before for me.  The Francis McDormand character in Fargo...there were just to many similarities in the character.

    Woody Harrelson...why was he there...that was a completely useless point in the plot...he knew the bad guy, knew the good guy, but I felt his whole character did not really contribute.  If he was edited out...what would the story line lose?

    The Mexicans & The hotel...that sequence went way too fast.  The Mexicans were in the room, he did a drive by and booked a different room, then the baddy comes and kills the Mexicans, but the goody gets away with the briefcase...It felt rushed and contrived.

    Just a couple of complaints really, that being said, I do have to see it again.

    As much as I loved the Coen's, after I saw "There Will Be Blood", I thought that should have won.

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  16. Lyrikhan says

    perhaps having read the book I felt the TL character had more depth than the movie delivers...though as far as his speech patterns, etc., id agree he seemed a fairly common type character

    and I saw the Harrelson character as giving some insight into Chigurh's character...ie the "you might say he's a man of principles" conversation...as well as showing the unpredictability factor, that was an important theme of the movie, by his sudden emergence and then being quickly and unexpectly disposed by Chigurh

    can't quite recall how the hotel scene played out, but i did feel a sense that a few scenes flew by quickly than i could comprehend them

    and i found Daniel Day Lewis in TWBB extraordinary...but the movie itself as less so... (shrug)

    anywho...my two cents.....need to see both movies again, really

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  17. annieander says

    "need to see both movies again, really"

    Agreed...I'll bring the popcorn...

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  18. annieander says

    CBW - How 'bout this one...

    "Dot and I are swingers...as in to swing"

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  19. annieander says

    Can't stop...

    "Nah...just cir-key-ler."

    "Mind you don't cut yourself, Mortichai."

    "I looooove to drive."

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  20. contrabandwidth says

    "Ya get it, cuz he was a Pollack, he's dumb!" (ooh I know I messed that one up)

    "I...want..a...baby Hi!"

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  21. annieander says

    and why did she not have a baby.

    "Her womb was a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase."

    "Ifin I was to drop, then I would be in motion."

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008
  22. Dale says

    One line for you guys, cracks me up every time:

    "Maybe it was Utah."

    Uh, maybe you hafta be Mormon to laugh at that one. :)

    Permalink posted 09/11/2008

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