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chip pope

Watching the telly and thinking bout your holidays

About Me

Desperately holding onto my youth.

My Interests

See Friendster profile, or profile on whatever site is the next cool My Space. Facebook? I'm not 18 anymore...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone whose MySpace page takes 5 minutes to load. I love that. I wanna hear that Flo Rida song again!

Music:

Graham Parker.

Movies:

The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, ET, What's up, doc?, After Hours, Some Kind of Wonderful, The Aviator(So fookin' amazing!), Sideways (except when he grabs the grapes in the vineyard and stares dreamily at them), Amarcord, Love and Death, Hope And Glory, Small Change, The King Of Comedy, Punch-drunk love, Linklater movies, Stripes, Footloose, Los Angeles Plays Itself (a masterpiece) Crooklyn, Night Shift, Diner, The Graduate, Ikiru, High and Low, Ghost World, and many more ("many more" isn't a movie title).

Television:

Get a Life, SCTV, Mr. Show, Ben Stiller Show, Jeopardy! The Larry Sanders Show, It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, Degrassi, Strangers With Candy, Eerie, Indiana, SNL (one sketch out of every show, usually), Headline News, Square Pegs, Ali G., Little Britain, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Young Ones, Sopranos, Arrested Development, Wonder Showzen, Catherine Tate, Shameless, Alan Partridge, Hit Me Baby, One More Time!, Colbert Report, That’s So Raven! Look Around You, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (1st season, especially, but still has its moments), Dog Bites Man, Pants Off Dance Off, Garth Marengi’s Dark Place, Moonlighting, Police Squad!, Can’t Get A Date, Noah’s Arc, Extras, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman (best show ever about Los Angeles)

Books:

Einstein's Dreams, A Walker In The City, Invisible Man, Lost in The Cosmos, Call It Sleep, Goodbye, Columbus, Fast Food Nation, Without Feathers, The Player, You'll never Eat Lunch In This Town Again, The Kid Stays In The Picture, What Makes Sammy Run? Love, Love, and Love...Side Effects, The Glamour Chase (the story of the lead singer of The Associates), Hollywood Animal

Heroes:

My dad, mom, Spielberg, Peter Bogdanovich, Joni Mitchell, Bob and David, Dragon Boy Suede, Richard Wright, Joe Meek, Anne Sexton, Tom Dowd,Chris Rock, Chris Elliott, Sandra Bernhard, Beastie Boys, Prince, Michel Gondry,Martin Fry, Michael Mcdonald, Steven Drozd, David Letterman, Richard Linklater, Spike Lee,Leonard Cohen, Diane Keaton, Alan Lightman, Wes Anderson, Catherine Keener, David Webb Peoples, Ralph Ellison, Walker Percy, Brick Tamland, Marty Shonson, Green Gartside

My Blog

Chippies Movie Awards for 2007

It was slim pickins for movies this year, but I thought I'd jot down a few thoughts for the three people who read this blog:Masterpieces that, despite their clear artistry, made me think "but what's t...
Posted by chip pope on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:19:00 PST

My Favorite Music of 2007, According To "ITunes" Plays

Queens of the Stone Age "Era Vulgaris" (Most plays.) If you haven't gotten this, you're a dope. Oh, yeah. I said it. While not a flat-out masterpiece like "Songs For The Deaf," they regain some of the...
Posted by chip pope on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:37:00 PST

The Kingdumb

Saudi Night Lights.
Posted by chip pope on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:00:00 PST

Across The Universe

Jesus. The hippies were right. All you need IS love. If you want to shit flowers and have rainbows shoot out of your gaping jaw, go see this one.
Posted by chip pope on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:59:00 PST

Michael Clayton

If you like kick ass movies, run, don't walk!
Posted by chip pope on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:00:00 PST

Sleuth

Remake of the 70's film with Michael Caine in the Olivier role. PAUSE.Jude Law in the erstwhile Caine role.PAUSE.He's in quite a few old Caine roles these days.PAUSE.Great acting.PAUSE.Great direction...
Posted by chip pope on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:14:00 PST

Darjeeling Limited

SPOILER? Worth the trip. Just get off before the final stop.
Posted by chip pope on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:07:00 PST

Nu Shooz

The highz and lowz of one of my favorite one hit wonderz (although their second hit was an awezome song), 'Nu Shooz.' (Okay, they had about two highz: "I Can't Wait" and a Grammy nod.)http://www.nusho...
Posted by chip pope on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:07:00 PST

Into The Wild

Rated "R" for intense images of sweaty hippie sex, silly white upper-middle class kid 'finding yourself' shenanigans, Jewish actor tramping, excessive second unit footage, deranged combine operators, ...
Posted by chip pope on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:34:00 PST

Death Sentence

Since you're a person with things to do besides watch Kevin Bacon vigilante movies, that makes you like most of the country, a country who last week wanted nothing to do with the film "Death Sentence....
Posted by chip pope on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:27:00 PST