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Fran/Cis/co

Come and rub upon my belly like guava jelly.

About Me


I love movies. I love food. So check out me blog Butter Flavored Topping for movie reviews, food adventures, and rapier wit.

I am also a lean, mean, fat-reducing grilling machine, except for all the sugar and carbs and fat. My magic fingers can do anything and by that, I mean 70 words per minute and marathon sessions of Half-Life/Madden. I appeared on NBC's critically-acclaimed hit The West Wing, too!

My Interests

Food and movies and eating and video games and cooking and television and eating food. Occasionally drinking while consuming food. Also, watching football (Go Trojans and Niners!) and basketball (Go Clips!) and occasionally playing them when I'm not terribly fat from sitting on my ass watching movies and playing video games. All the aforementioned things are a means of procrastinating en route to writing. I am very good at procrastinating.

I'd like to meet:

Whoever invented bendy straws and people who use the word "gangsta" as an adjective -- holla!


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Music:

U2. Gorillaz.

Movies:

Where do I begin? Steven Speilberg, James Cameron, David Fincher, Terry Gilliam, Luc Besson, The Coen Bros, Wong Kar-Wai, Zhang Yimou, Cameron Crowe, Alfred Hitchcock. Leon, The Empire Strikes Back, Gattaca, The Usual Suspects, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, Aliens, T2, Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love, 2046, Notorious, Rear Window, Hard Boiled, Face/Off, Matrix, A Few Good Men, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, Pulp Fiction, Princess Bride, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, House of Flying Daggers, Spirited Away, Delicatessen, Amelie, Wayne's World and Wayne's World 2. Top Secret. Ferris Beuller's Day Off. Glory. The Hunt for Red October. Indiana Jones films. Die Hard. Aliens. Gremlins. Swingers. Braveheart. The Godfather. The Hudsucker Proxy. Fargo. Too many, I can't think.

Television:

Channel surfing goes as follows: ESPN, ESPNews, Food Network, The History Channel, TiVo List, repeat. Battlestar Galactica, Grey's Anatomy = good stuff.

Books:

Philip K. Dick. William Gibson. Graham Greene. Dr. Seuss. Whoever wrote the children's book about the racoons playing baseball.

My Blog

Juno, Bacon, & Bulalo

If you're down for dinner and a movie tonight, but you just don't know what to do, check out me blog Butter Flavored Topping to learn about the stewed bone marrow beauty that is the Filipino dish bula...
Posted by Fran/Cis/co on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:04:00 PST

Amen

For all you Hip-Hop fans (B-Boys and B-Girls if you're that old), check out this really interesting, really long (nearly 20 minute) YouTube video detailing a 6-second drum beat sample taken from a lat...
Posted by Fran/Cis/co on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:41:00 PST

Gloriously Bad Movies: Bloodsport

I'm at it again. When venturing into non-Myspace region of the Information Superhighway, check out the latest entry of my blog, Butter Flavored Topping.www.butterflavoredtopping.blogspot.comIn it, I ...
Posted by Fran/Cis/co on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:33:00 PST

Chicago food blog

You COULD read old posts of my MySpace blog.  Or you could read the newest post of my new, fantastic, incredible movie/food blog Butter Flavored Topping.Part one of my Chicago trip is now up for ...
Posted by Fran/Cis/co on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:34:00 PST

Blogs, blogs everywhere

Hello, dear readers.If all five of you could redirect your web browser to my new movie/food blog, read it, and drop me a line, it would be greatly appreciated.  It is in its infancy and could use...
Posted by Fran/Cis/co on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:44:00 PST

Gloriously bad movies

I need your help, dear readers (all three of you).  My cousin asked what the best bad movies are and, to our surprise, we came up with very little.The bulk of our conversation was defining what a...
Posted by Fran/Cis/co on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:26:00 PST

Notes on Notes on a Scandal

Dear Diary,I am put off by the film Notes on a Scandal. It is an engrossing, sharply constructed drama that uses a lot of classic thriller/suspense elements and bold performances from top to bottom. ...
Posted by Fran/Cis/co on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:36:00 PST

Osama Bin Ladens Humpin Around

IMDb news presents the funniest thing I've seen in a while...."R&B star Bobby Brown is still convinced Osama Bin Laden wants him dead so he can marry Whitney Houston - 11 months after the singers offi...
Posted by Fran/Cis/co on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:28:00 PST

Tonight! We dine! In desaturated awesomeness!

Say what you will about the mild parallels to contemporary politics in 300 (if you have a television, you know it's out on DVD) or the antiquated depiction of Persia.  You're missing the point.&n...
Posted by Fran/Cis/co on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:41:00 PST

Shawshank 2: Electric Boogaloo

You know the scene in The Shawshank Redemption where Andy finally gets his used books and related sundries after writing a letter a day for several years, and he pirates the prison PA system and plays...
Posted by Fran/Cis/co on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:00:00 PST