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Brynn

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About Me

A visit to Disneyland, only your father owns all the rides. An evening in the medicine cabinet of Edgar Allen Poe's mother. A trip on Superman's cape and you are too frightened to look down for fear you'll discover your real identity. A Sousa march and the phallic cymbals are playing melody. A plastic palace where all that glitters is gold. A Las Vegas stage, sitting on a two-dollar stool in front of a fifty-two-piece orchestra, next to a lady in a five thousand-dollar gown; you're singing a little flat and wondering if the fly is open on your eight-dollar 'jeans'. Beauty and the Beast selling a 'fix' to the Mickey Mouse People. Frustrating, foolish, Falstaffian, freaky, fucked-up and fun. (- lee hazlewood.)

My Interests

metaphysical conceits. zelda fitzgerald. double features. lavendar infusions. female rockabilly. champagne cocktails. the blank generation. twin peaks (its more than just a tv show). art deco. thom yorke's eye. ear muffs and fur hats. celebrity gossip. having manhattans in the upper east side. kentucky pride. learning to play the accoridan (but I'd settle for banjo). yerba mahte lattes. music with anachronistic atmosphere. crazy german/austrian expressionists. polysyllabic words. french new wave and francophilia in general. absurdism. fresh perfume. typewriters. andy warhol's factory scene. multiple course meals. writing a screenplay about zelda fitzgerald with woody allen.

I'd like to meet:

flappers and philosophers.premature greys please apply. You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

Music:

currently: any version of "blue moon of kentucky." rose maddox. THEM. marty robbins. lee hazlewood. loretta lynn. dean martin. mimi and richard farina. the small faces. elvis presley's sun days...and the country days near the end (10,000 years old). richard and linda thompson. nancy sinatra. neil young. karen dalton. mama cass. hank williams. pp arnold. neutral milk hotel. wanda jackson. chet baker. ella mae morse. rod stewart. robert mitchum calypso. the dinning sisters. will oldham. betty harris. screamin' jay hawkins. billie holiday. always in my heart: velvet underground. the replacements. david bowie. tom waits. the zombies. a whole lotta bob dylan. echo and the bunnymen. the magnetic fields. the rolling stones. the nerves. the kinks. jacques dutronc and francoise hardy and more 60s french pop. the faces. donovan. the only ones. van morrison. the pretenders. syd barrett. early roxy music. led zepplin. t-rex. the modern lovers. the raincoats. richard hell. the stooges. the pretty things. sam cooke. x. (the strokes)

Movies:

i can only narrow such cosmic questions into a "currently" category: the furies, rio bravo, the last sunset, the life and death of colonel blimp, the misfits, ninotchka, duel in the sun, in a lonely place, bringing up baby (w/ peter bogdanovich commentary), altman's 3 women and california split, seven men from now, beau travail, the thin man, lord love a duck, the big red one: reconstructed and sam fuller in general, rivette's l'amour fou, trouble in paradise, ball of fire, let's get lost, shampoo, that obscure object of desire, leos carax, holiday, barry lyndon, love streams, l'atalante, a place in the sun and raintree county, tashlin's artists and models, siegel's the killers, anything + judy holliday, charting the world of wes anderson. these days most anything with maurice chevalier, gloria grahame, jack palance, charlie ruggles, barbara stanwyck, richard widmark, dorothy malone or kirk douglas.

Television:

freaks and geeks. six feet under (nothing seems to fill the hole in my heart since). project runway. seinfeld. arrested development. and I have finally come to terms with myself and am able to admit that I am hopelessly addicted to LOST. It is gonna be a damn long wait until February 2008.

Books:

walker percy's the moviegoer. dawn powell's the golden spur. the love of the last tycoon. jd salinger. my good friend roland (barthes). dean and me by jerry lewis. henry james's "the figure in the carpet". mary mccarthy's the company she keeps. zelda's save me the waltz. film criticism by pauline kael, jonathan rosenbaum, andrew sarris and especially manny farber. roald dahl. joan didion's play it as it lays. luis bunuel's my last sigh. the subterraneans. the philosophy of andy warhol. patricia bosworth's montgomery clift biography. a moveable feast. the lovesong of j. alfred prufrock. tender is the night.

Heroes:

the noble failures:

My Blog

shameless self-promotion

So after a near-year of hype and mention, my "lyrical ode to a presence" (that is, LEE MARVIN's) is finally hitting newstands. Check out the May/June issue of Film Comment for my oft-dreamed of, but ...
Posted by Brynn on Mon, 07 May 2007 08:31:00 PST

festival fever

I love film festivals, they come along and conveniently justify my year-round existance of obsessive moviegoing in lieu of eating at regular hours, sleeping, or properly nursing hangovers.So far, even...
Posted by Brynn on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:47:00 PST

we're in the money...

...well, almost-- some part-time cash.  at least my parents are being understanding. I got a job as Administration Assistant today with Film Forum, meaning I do intern-esque bullshit every morni...
Posted by Brynn on Fri, 19 May 2006 06:27:00 PST

Athens...

...so behind us. (literally)
Posted by Brynn on Fri, 12 May 2006 07:50:00 PST

going underground.

the subway has partially cured my neurosis over how much time I "waste" getting from place to place. since moving I've gotten to read: the last picture show. larry mcmurtry tender is the night. f. s...
Posted by Brynn on Thu, 04 May 2006 09:28:00 PST

coz i luv you

obsessions since moving to the city:luis bunuel.eel skin.yogurt parfaits.passing another subway train while deep in the tunnels.the zombies 'odyssey and oracle'.the dumpling man and gray's papaya dogs...
Posted by Brynn on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:20:00 PST

hustle & flow

i really want my lava lamp back now. all in one week we get the scott stapp/kid rock sex tape and now this.  brace yourself for american pop culture's latest crime against humanity: that's ri...
Posted by Brynn on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:03:00 PST

its not too late

gotta love my louisville crew.  only we can play drinking games and interrupt the intoxication to enjoy a brief carole king dance party interlude. i love us: sigh, i will miss them....
Posted by Brynn on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 02:56:00 PST

hot hot new year

so about two minutes before midnight i realized that i had done little real reflection on the transition to what may be the most significant year thus far in my life (I did afterall just buy my first ...
Posted by Brynn on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 04:07:00 PST

get carter.

its a good movie. but that's about the only thought i can coherently form, now officially released from 16 years of school and on the verge of cutting the athens strings.  all that tricky poigna...
Posted by Brynn on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 12:23:00 PST