INTO: Green tea, music,, Wicca, pain, cuddling, bright colors, boys, looking at girls, System of a Down, getting bitten and biting, the gorgon Medusa, mohawks, men with tattoos and piercings, the taste of envelope glue, back rubs, wearing jeans with no undies, lollypops, bluntness, sleeping naked, AIM, exclamation marks!!!
NOT INTO: Tommy the green Power Ranger, ignorant people, diets, girly girls, being bladder shy, the sound of sex, bad Chinese food, feet, jealousy, waking up before noon, apple sauce, people who play the sympathy card, kids having kids, headaches, rap and country music, people who can’t sing but think they can, mustard, paper cuts, poorly done tattoos and your mom.
MAKES ME HAPPY: Rainbows, Columbus, Vinton County, musicals, my itty bitty group of friends, watching people break bones, homo milk, Tsutar’s art, sleeping naked, my Xbox LIVE friends, sound of scissors cutting construction paper, sitting at home and cuddling up with someone, watching local shows, my bed, sunshine, sunshine on my bed, Rubik’s Cubes.
MAKES ME SAD: Bad music, bright lights, annoying sounds, trees being marked for cutting, assholes on Xbox LIVE, losing my puppy dog, snow and ice, winter, septum ring infections, my big bed being so big and empty.
HOBBIES: Downloading DOS games, wasting time, singing obnoxiously, buying things off the internet, drawing, solving Rubik’s Cubes, wasting more time.
5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My friends, green tea, music, hugs and love.
I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Playing ’round on the web, doin’ art, dancing around in my undies, walking around the many malls of Columbus.
You film minions are a voracious breed. I gave you a Horror Top 10 in October, which you greedily devoured. Unsatiated, you tore open another vein with the Holiday Top 10 in November, and now you want more. So I bring you The Film Strain’s Top 10 Tragically Underrated or Ignored Films of 2010. As with my previous lists, it is impossible to be 100% definitive and catalog all the films that got created this past year. Some of the films that I’ve included are big names, but considered failures by the studios. Many of them were tragically ignored by the masses and quietly slinked into DVD/Blu-Ray releases. Some may be completely unknown to many film lovers, so write them down. Here are 10 from 2010 that just did not get the respect and viewer love that they should have, but all of them actually got released in theaters somewhere.
“Darren and Mickey and I all decided that we were going to keep our distance…”
– Evan Rachel Wood
Evan Rachel Wood has a lot to say about a little role in The Wrestler. She only appears in two scenes in the movie, but they are pivotal. She plays the estranged daughter of Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke), a professional wrestler who continues to prove hes an unreliable dad as he has flings with strippers and groupies on the road. Off the set, rumors were that Rourke and Wood were having a fling of their own.
Every other Friday night, T.J. Byrnes Restaurant and Bar in Manhattan’s Financial District hosts a modestly produced karaoke night. The small, unassuming Irish pub is tucked away behind a towering housing project, and on any such night, nearby residents might hear the echoes of drunken laughter or the faint opening bass notes of The Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me.” For Rutgers professor Fred Solinger and bookstore manager George Carmona, though, this is not just about getting plastered and mumbling through a semi-coherent rendition of “Copacabana”— it’s turf warfare.
