AMEN!!

Heck YES, I'd go to church if I was guaranteed it would be like this!!
All my single ladies say AMEN!!
Testify!!

Ode to: Samantha Morton (and 'Expired')

I spectacled the movie 'Expired' (2007) recently, starring Samantha Morton and Jason Patrick. And, may I say politely, that shit was awesome!! I've developed quite a taste for awkwardness in film and television in recent years - probably because I have a bit of a phobia about it in real life... maybe 'phobia' is taking it a bit far. I'd say I dislike awkwardness in my life about as much as the next person. But I L.O.V.E. it on screen! This movie delivers awkwardness in abundance!!

So, the basic storyline is this: Morton plays Claire, a shy, submissive, kind-hearted ticket inspector in California. The poor love is constantly overlooked by just about everyone apart from her one close female friend, played by Illeana Douglas (an underestimated talent i feel), who encourages Claire to 'get out there' and meet a man - like she did, on the Internet.

ASIDE: One fun suggestion from her friend was that she should try going to a pyjama party - a new hot craze - where everyone (strangers mostly) go to a club in their jim-jams and touch each other up. A good grope-fest, no strings attached. Innocent touching s'all ;-) Novel.

Anyway, so she's working in a thankless, lose-lose, ticket inspector job, and looking after her mute mother at home, who is wheelchair bound following a stroke. Life is pretty shite. But she doesn't complain. no no no.

Jay, a fellow ticket inspector, takes a liking to Claire and an cringe-worthy love affair ensues. You see, Jay is a complete a-hole! says all the wrong things. He's mean, arrogant, selfish, insulting and he has an ugly mo. He's a no good son-of-a-jackal. But Claire figures that something is better than nothing, right?? The thing is, Jay is just so horrible, he can't help but be hilarious! It's almost impossible to imagine anyone like him existing - maybe I should thank Allah I don't know any 'Jays'.

P.S. Expired is awesome. Morton and Patrick are awesome. Incidentally, Morton appears to be always the aforementioned 'A' word. I've never seen her in a bad movie, E.g. I HATE Tom Cruise, but Minority Report was cool - Morton was in that too! Coincidence?

P.P.S. Expired is set in the US, so check out Morton's accent - flawless! I tip my cap, fair lady.

Ode to: Katy Grannan

This is my first 'Ode to:'. This is basically a chance for me to share the people/places/inanimate objects that have inspired me in some way. I thought I'd kick start it with my favourite photographer of the moment - Katy Grannan. She's studied a bunch of arty/photography stuff at really impressive Universities in the States, blah blah. She has also taken some of my most favourite photographs. She's one for portraits, and the portraits that really stand out for me are of two visually amazing people: Dale and Gail. She's done a whole series on them and I can completely see why. I could look at them all day! They're beautiful - don't you think they're beautiful??

Lady into Fox

Dale & Frankie

Gail

Greedy Genius...

I want these kicks so bad I think I might consider foregoing food for an unidentified length of time just to be able to afford them...
I am convinced that sites like this exist to simultaneously titillate/torture me...I found them at pickyourshoes.com and haven't been able to find them in Aus anywhere so far. (Which kinda makes me lust after them even harder...).

Tonight I will dream of you, my pretties...

Tone Setter

GingerSnap's First Blog: Setting the tone...

So here I am. Here you are ('you'. elusive, anonomous, mystery-wrapped-in-a-riddle-stuffed-inside-an-emigma, 'you'), and we're both here together. It's a beautiful thing really, isn't it? sharing. caring, etc.

Ok, ok, i'll try to keep the bullshit to a minimum, lest this turn into a mere repeat of my 13 year old self's scented pink diary scribblins, that invariably got binned by my embarrassed 16 year old self. I'm 24 now, and have to bare in mind what my 30 year old self will think of this nonsense!

I'm starting this blog for a few different reasons, really. I shall list them, in no particular order:

• I have been inspired by several Kool people around who have blogs that I enjoy perusing;
• I would very much like to post photos AND words together. As one. As nature intended;
• I get very excited by music. I would like to share this;
• I have a readio show. I would enjoy talking about it in a computerised way;
• Maybe I'll have adventures and need to share them with you;
• I guess it's pretty self-indulgent, and I kinda like that aspect, frankly.

I appear to be in a Listing state of mind. What better list to make than a Music-I'm-Diggin-At-The-Moment list?! Woot!!!

• Little Dragon - Although their self-titled album came out in 2007, I only JUST discovered them. Thanks to a little help from the SoulBounce Top 20 Albums of 2008 (but it is actually listed as a 2007 release). They're another bunch of groovin Swedes! I think there must be some funkin booty sweat in the water in Sverigetown, cos Little Dragon are not the first authentic-sounding electro-groove machine to come out of that fair northern land! Freddie Gruger, AKA Red Astair, was my first intro into the veritable diamond mine that is Sweden a couple of years ago. His collabs with Soulstress, Linn, and hotter-than-hot, Anthony David, are still on rotation for me, years down the track. Freddie & Linn have released an EP last year too, for those who know that they're onto a winner... I realise I've done down a bit of a tangent-track, but it is all pointing towards Sweden being my next holiday destination.
  Back to Little Dragon's album (and the track meets back up with the road once more), it is pretty much an LP of slow jams, which often equal boring-going-to-sleep-music, but NOT in this case. I am a BIG FAN of confident vocals and interesting melodies. For me, the beat can be bangin', but if the vocaliser doesn't bring the goods to the proverbial table, I ain't sold. There are just too many people out there who can be auto-tuned to sound half-decent, but are boring as shit! Not the case, thankfully, for Little Dragon lead vox, Yukimi Nagano. Who, incidently, looks like the epitome of cool ice-cold (in a deeply good way). Favourite Track = No. 6. 'Forever'.
  
• Uh oh, I am fast running out of time! This "List" is turing into a two-bullet-point-lame-excuse-for-a list! I feel the urge to represent for my Aussie ladeez - cos lord knows they're around and they got mad skillz (I should probably give a heads-up right now that i'm about as white as they come, and I WILL be using words that probably only sound right/cool coming from an African-American... I'm so trill right now). Alright, here are some just off the top of my head. Click on their names to go to their Myspace pages... Lady Lash, Ngaiire, KillaQueenz, Ladi6(NZ), Emma Donovan,
  

GingerSnap must now run like the wind.

Until next I rant...