She Said What?!?: June 2007

Movies In The Park Dark

You haven't lived life to the fullest in Los Angeles until you have attended one of the now infamous cemetary screenings at Hollywood Forever Cemetary. Better known as Movies In The Cemetary.

Some of you may think it's morbid to have a picnic (with a couple thousand others) in the middle of a cemetary and then follow it up with an eclectic, retro film that is shown upon the side of a mausoleum. In reality, it's one of the coolest things I've ever done on a Saturday night. A couple of weeks ago I went to the screening of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, but this week's Harold & Maude blew Vertigo away.

Everything about the night was awesome. Thanks to MSV's wild driving, Wes, Siobhan, the boyfriend and myself practically had front row seats and beat out the hundreds that were turned away. Wine, cheese and crackers, pizza rolls, sushi...we had the works. Some of us even did a photo shoot at Johnny Ramone's gravesite. It's a fancy one so there's alot to work with.

Just after 9:00p, the temperature dropped and the movie began. Little did we know it was going to be one of the best movies we had seen in a LONG time. Not to mention the soundtrack. Cat Stevens (now known as Yusuf Islam) shows us how it's done. It's one of the best "soundtracks done by one artist" I've heard. Actually, it got us talking about what other ones even came close. Here are a few examples that we came up with:

Purple Rain by Prince

She's The One by Tom Petty

The Graduate by Simon & Garfunkel

Good Will Hunting by Elliot Smith

A Hard Day's Night by The Beatles

What other ones can you think of?

Men's Needs Vs. Women's Needs

Possibly the best video I've seen this year...face licking and all.

The Cribs "Men's Needs"

Icky Leak

This is a good one from Stereogum. What sort of DJ thinks it's okay to play a new record in it's entirety three weeks before street date?!? And The White Stripes', Icky Thump, at that. Apparently, DJ Electra does. Hello, radio promotion 101. Duh.