PJ Harvey, Miss Havisham called…

Once again my beloved Independent Film Channel delivers.  I was watching Music Blast and they played a live performance of PJ Harvey singing “White Chalk”.  This album is a year old and I am a little late in the commentary on this, but then again NONE OF YOU TOLD ME ABOUT HER OUTFIT EITHER.

PJ, I love you.  I’ve loved you back when I was very young and still unknown to man.  So for a whole three weeks I’ve loved you. That being said, why are you trying to scare me?  You look like you came out of Turn of the Screw.  And you know what?  That book scared the shit out of me!  

I know you’re pushing 40 and reinvention is the key to longevity in the business of show but could you please go back to your riot girl-sad-coffee-shop-grunge-but-with-sassy-red-lipstick ‘tude that made me so jealous of you in high school.  Singing sad songs in a wedding dress is just about as good a model for feminism as Sarah Palin.  Ah, I’m just kidding.  I don’t think it’s that severe.  I just wanted to make a hack joke about Palin.  Friends?  K.

So I bought your album anyway because it’s awesome.

“The Piano” is tres chilling as well.

Curiouser and Curiouser

A very merry unbirthday to me!  I am a little late in finding this out…I think like a year late.  Tim Burton is directing a live action film version of “Alice in Wonderland”.  I am thrilled!  I love Tim Burton movies and “Alice in Wonderland” is my favorite Disney production.  I haven’t read the book but it’s on the list.   I wore out the tape on my VHS when I was little by playing back the part where she’s in the garden and the little rose “Bud” peaks out and says, “I think she’s pretty.”  Twenty years later, I continue to work on the impression.

And of course the Walrus and the Carpenter scene kills me. 

“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”