holy shit.

mates of state’s latest and greatest, “re-arrange us” is coming out next tuesday. you can stream the entire album from their myspace page, or if you’re more of the visual type peep their first video:

me likey!

for those of us who don’t speak swedish, that translates to “let the right one in” and it’s the title of a fantastic film I just saw at the tribeca film festival. it’s a tender tale of a young bullied boy who falls in love with the girl next door, who happens to be a vampire.

as much as I strongly urge you to go see it, I just as strongly urge you not to watch the trailer online because it doesn’t come close to doing justice to the beauty of this film. in fact I feel it can be misleading, not to mention it giving away key scenes that’s best left for you to see for the first time on the big screen.

is it a coming of age story? is it a horror movie? there’s no categorizing this film.

the two leads appear to be in their early teens, and according to the director’s q&a after the screening they had little to no prior acting experience. that to me was mind blowing. to get such performances out of these actors must require so much skill and patience by the director. wow.

I don’t know what kind of u.s. distribution they have lined up but it needs to be seen by many people. in the meantime, if you’re in the nyc area you need to get off your ass and see it before it’s too late.

but I surprised myself with this how well do you know your world? game.

give it a whirl and see how you do.

…the end of december. and it sure as hell feels like the end of december too. brrrr.

so yeah, a few films I’m itching to see before the end of the year:

juno
I am legend

in that order but I think I’ll end up seeing I am legend first. I remember they were casting for the vampire mutants roles a while back, at first it was like “if you look like a freak, or are some sort of contortionist, please come to this audition” and then later it became “ok, if you wanna be in this movie then show up for this audition because we have to fill a huge cavernous shot with you lot.” I also remember they closed down washington square park for a weekend and had an entire row of burnt up cars lining a street north of the park.

so yeah. then january we got:

cloverfield
be kind rewind

though the last time I really looked forward to a michel gondry film I was largely disappointed. we’ll see how this one goes.

ever been to this webcomic site? it’s so good. here are my current two faves:

enjoy, peoples.

so the new season of project runway (4) kicked off tonight. after such an awesome season last year (can’t believe it’s been a year already) I wasn’t sure if I can be as into this one as I was for 3, but those clever producers over at bravo found a way to get me in.

I’m still learning the designers’ names and personalities so I’m not quite ready to pick my favorite yet… but I am trying to figure which ones they selected because their personalities make for good tv, and which ones they selected because they have an actual shot at winning.

what’s crazy is that all day I was like “there’s something important I’m forgetting about november 14… what was it?” and I almost missed it if it weren’t for kate.

damn.

my good buddy sung got me an early birthday gift.

fuckin’ hell yeah.

I’ve been looking for this music video and I can’t remember the name of the dj/group/guy. all I know is it has scenes like this:

and this

scenes from this video are used in every goddamn video mashup imagineable. someone out there’s gotta know who this is! help!

oh man, I’m so psyched for this to come out.

peep the film synopsis on their wiki page.

check out their site to see if it’ll be coming to a theater new you.