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Woo Hoo.  It is arriving today!  (insert fabulous music here)

Netflix, 4-15 - 4-28

Much can be said about Sweet Sixteen. It is a truly emotionally raw movie about how far a boy will go to  achieve a better place in life.  I found this movie reading Interview magazine which raved highly about Martin Compston who supposedly has gone into modeling.  Which figures because his body is like a rail.  Like seriously, 8 pack.  But anyways, this movie really made me sit back and think at the end.  I'd highly recommend it.  However, I had to watch this IRISH movie with English subtitles, haha, because I seriously couldn't understand what was going on.  lol.

BBC Films review:  Opening in Greenock, a rundown town near Glasgow, "Sweet Sixteen" follows teenage scally Liam (Compston) as he struggles to prepare for the release of his ex-heroin addict mum from prison.  Desperate to try and build them a proper family home, Liam needs money. And fast. Muscling in on his mum's boyfriend's drug business, Liam and his pal Pinball (Ruane) set themselves up as dealers, displaying an entrepreneurial skill that has little other outlet on Glasgow's unemployment-ridden estates. Taking place in the shadow of the closed-down shipbuilding yards, "Sweet Sixteen" rages against the callousness of a capitalist system which abandons its workers.  As Liam works his way up through the ranks of the local underworld, director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty put an ironic spin on the Thatcherite ethos of entrepreneurial self-help. Liam's astute business sense (in one hilarious scene, he convinces the local pizza delivery boys to work as his drug couriers) is an insightful inversion of the very forces that have crushed this community.  Sparkling with wit and insight, the drama never loses sight of the social and economic factors that drive these characters towards their fate. As the film's unforeseen conclusion hits, you suddenly remember that this young man is really nothing but a boy after all. Loach's films are often shunted to the sidelines as 'political' or 'difficult'. But "Sweet Sixteen" is outstanding film making and the director's best film in years.

And if you do one thing this weekend...it should be to watch Manic which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Since after Mysterious Skin, I now have a total enfatuation with him.  The movie blew me away.  Again, I think this 3rd Rock boy is a truly unbelievably talented actor. 

Lyle (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the wisecracking teenager of ''Third Rock From the Sun'') is the newest resident of the high-security wing, having landed there after beating a schoolmate nearly to death. For all of his uncontrollable inner violence, Lyle is attracted to the painfully shy, withdrawn Tracy (the superb Zooey Deschanel). When the two begin a clandestine relationship, it proceeds more from movie star logic (the two most attractive people in any film are destined to become a couple) than it does from dramatic necessity. 

And with this review, who could pass this up?!

"While Gordon-Levitt leans hard on an overcompensatory Timberlake scowl, he's kept real by the rest of the ensemble." 

23yo Driving a Train

In Japan Crash, Time Obsession May Be Culprit.

Anywhere else in the world, a train running 90 seconds late would perhaps be considered on time. But in Japan, 90 seconds would foil commuters who depend on trains' connecting to one another with balletic precision, often with only a couple of minutes to spare.

And so to make up for a lost 90 seconds, a 23-year-old train driver, it became increasingly clear on Tuesday, was speeding when his train jumped off the tracks on Monday morning at a curve here in western Japan and hurtled into a nine-story apartment building.

Holy Fucking Shit.  A very smart Harvard friend of mine believes that I should be working full time on figuring out how to become Japanese or Mandarin because we are (Americans) about to bow down to them.  Or at least.. in my lifetime. 

Naked Comics, Ice Skaters and well.. Apple.

I found this website after spending some time in the gay bookstore in Boston, which I guess is closing because straight people have moved in.  I am praying that someone will buy it and keep it open.  But anyways, this author writes/illustrates a series of gay comic books which are super cool.  However the ones I really want weren't available in the bookstore.

Also, this speed skater boy named Kid Carpenter is our hope to win some medals in the next winter Olympics which is in forever but hey.. whatever.  My total optimism thinks that the world could end before the next Olympics but haha.. thats me ;)  Anyway, he is cute.  Check him out online. 

My new Apple TIGER upgrade for my Powerbook arrives in two days.  Can we feel the excitement?  I hope so.  I certainly can.  I have been aroused for days.  Not to mention that the new rumor is that the new Ipod (not the crap cheap ones) is coming out in June.  Woo.  I want a color screen still and no cords.  lick.

I also live in Boston so photo's or moments like this seem normal.  Yet horrifying.  And my boy is seeing his Board before heading to Italy.  Damnit.  So I am forced to LIVE in xbox world (with the new game I bought titled Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow) till he returns. 

Nude in Rio

Lack of time has left me with only one choice to keep you all entertained.
Pics of Rio and well.. nudity of boys in Rio.  But only if you follow the jump ;)

Love ya!

Mysterious Skin At IFFB

I went to the Indie Film Festival in Boston last night after a nice little walk around Somerville.  I saw Mysterious Skin which I have to admit I hated when I first left the movie.  Mainly because it was incredibly disturbing and graphic to the point that I wanted to leave at certain moments.  It PUSHED the envelope and that is before the MOST HORRIFIC gay rape scene I have ever seen.  To the point that the whole "being roughed up wild sex" seems fucking frightening to me now.  Oh, and the whole petaphile thing... NOT COOL.  The trailer is here.  Joseph Levin Levitt (3rd Rock from Sun) did an amazing job and deserves many kudos over his role. 

Mysterious Skin explores the hearts and minds of two very different boys who turn out not to be as different as they appear. Brian is a troubled 18 year-old, who grew up a scared, introverted kid in the small town of Hutchinson, Kansas. Plagued by nightmares and terrified of the dark, Brian believes that he may have been the victim of an alien abduction. Neil McCormick is the ultimate beautiful outsider, wise beyond his years and curious about his developing sexuality. Eventually, Neil's pursuit of what he thinks is love leads him to New York City, while Brian's search for what happened leads him to Neil - together, both ultimately discover the truth.

Film Festival Weekend

NYTimes about the Tribeca Film Festival.  Which I am unhappily not going to, again.  Next year! Since it is going to rain in Boston this entire weekend (after being beautiful and sunny all work week) I  am going to try to do Boston's Independent Film Festival which was fun last year but ehh.. I was hoping for Tribeca.

"Everybody's in movies." And that means everyone from the snootiest cinephile to the squarest suburban family.

That grass roots attitude may not be easy for everyone to accept in New York City, where institutions like the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art promote the notion that art films rule. The sudden appearance of the TriBeCa Film Festival in Manhattan in 2002, arriving on waves of hype, has been a classic case of a staid old neighborhood jolted by an influx of new money and brash new energy.

Naysayers still view the festival as the equivalent of a sprawling modern McMansion too large for its allotted space, an alien weed running wild in a meticulously cultivated garden.

The flashy newcomers, the old guard grumbles, give raucous celebrity parties in their own exclusive, gated enclave; because almost all of the screenings take place south of Canal Street, with many at the 11-screen Regal Cinemas Battery Park Stadium complex, Midtown moviegoers unaccustomed to venturing south of Houston Street must go out of their way to attend. Besides, they whisper, isn't the TriBeCa Film Festival really a business opportunity masquerading as civic boosterism? And doesn't its avowed goal of helping revive the economy of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 smack a little of entrepreneurial piggybacking on a catastrophe?

But as it mounts its fourth annual onslaught on Lower Manhattan (through May 1), the TriBeCa Film Festival is flexing more artistic muscle than ever before. Casual moviegoers may notice only the icing on the cake: the festival's figurehead and prime mover, Robert De Niro, popping up everywhere to promote it, and the heavy-duty glamour of its opening film, "The Interpreter."

But below the slick, star-crusted glaze is a rich, serious cake. The festival's size alone is intimidating: 250 films, including 158 features from 45 countries; divided into 11 categories that include 4 competitions.

viva italia

The restaurant Borgo San Jacopo in the Hotel Lungano in Firenze is supposed to be superb.  Granted it isn't a three-star Michelin restaurant but the overall design/food concept for it is amazing.  These are some pics of the hotel entrance and then the roof area where the restaurant is.  I picked up a Bon Appetite because it had a special issue dedicated to just Italy which is where I found this info along with a bunch of other awesome stuff.  And since I am in love with all things Italian along with knowing a good handful of people going to Italy, I felt the excitement of Italy but without the ability to go.  (but hey, at least my "boyfriend" (and by that I mean we are seriously dating but without the label) is bringing some some boy with him to the middle of nowhere Tuscany!)  that last bit is unfortunately true.  sigh.

thats hott

I have a hardon for a few hott things at the moment.  First, the boy I saw when I went to the post office for work.  It also turns out that the boy knew I said "Shit, he is hot" which was meant for Donna but instead went out the open window.  Oh well. 

Second, Kingdom of Heaven.  Ridley Scott's new movie (Director  of Gladiator) looks fabulous since I love epic films.  Which reminds me, why hasn't Alexander come out on DVD yet?  bitches.  In case the Crusade movie doesn't have you intrigued then the lead actor being Orlando Bloom should.  It probably should be good to watch because it will give us (being the human race) a refresher on the Crusades since I think our new Nazi pope might just release another version of them.  And them I mean the Crusades.  lol.

And third... OMG.. new Family Guy Season.  I am sooo the evil baby.  Woo!  And fourth, Lords of Dogtown about surfers and skaters known as the Z-boys with some hot actors.

And ! ! !  Spain's lower house of parliament has approved the right of homosexual couples to marry and adopt children.  Awesome.  I LOVE Spain!

smoking a doobie

I took part in worldwide 420 celebrations after work tonight.  Had pasta alfredo, garlic bread, and some out of the oven warm chocolate chip peanut butter cookies with Matt and Danielle while watching SATC season 1.  Aww.  I also got to see Danielle's homemade video of her trip to Hawaii where she fell in love with a hot marine.  Who had hot other marine friends, one of which is a horny fuck who constantly felt the need to pull out his snake tattooed dick which was easy since he freeballs, but only after fondling it hard.  It was some funny shit.  It felt like Frat Boys Gone Wild, ha, not that I have seen that!

It was also 85 degree's in Boston today.  Which proves my theory.  That it is either freezing cold, raining, or hot as fucking hell in this city.

My weekly Netflix review list will be a few days late since I haven't fully made it through any movie this week.  I've fell in love with 24 and I have been backtracking on this years West Wing which had a pretty good finale I thought. 

Anyways.. night.  Meesa hungry.