Hoy, buena música. "A Certain Trigger”, por Maxïmo Park.

Me pone Jim Carrey. No lo voy a negar. Lo descubrí en Ace Ventura, una peli tontorrona y demasiado ochentera para ser de los noventa(s), pero cuya segunda parte tiene una escena que sigue consiguiendo que me funda en lágrimas. Ya sé que es limitadito y que hace (casi) siempre lo mismo. Qué más da.

Tal vez me gusten los histriones. Tal vez sea por eso que me gusten Maxïmo Park. Un frontman resultón suele ser suficiente. Seguir la última ola suele ser suficiente. Tener una canción molona suele ser suficiente. Pero a veces tienes todo eso y tu grupo es una mierda. No es el caso.

"A Certain Trigger" se sitúa temporalmente antes que el segundo de los Ferdinand y después de "Silent Alarm", de Bloc Party, y geográficamente en Billingham, Newcastle. Un disco sin apenas desperdicio donde Paul Smith lo mismo juega a ser Michael Stipe que a figurín de neo-post-punk y acierta con una frecuencia preocupante.

Estribillos cantables, guitarras trotonas, bajos saltarines y baterías divertidas se conjugan con la ligeramente desafinante voz para conformar un disco que lleva entre mis favoritos desde mediados de 2005 (para una vez que me acierta la Mondo...)

Pero seguramente no es por eso que me gusten los Park, al fin y al cabo, no lo he visto nunca. Después de un año jugando conmigo al gato y al ratón por medio mundo, el viernes saldaremos cuentas usted y yo, mr. Smith. Qué ganas de ponerme pulseras...

All I need is a certain trigger.

MASSIMO PORK!!!

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En otro orden de cosas, después de mucho buscarla ahí estaba la lavadora. Lo que no encuentro ahora son los perretes. Me queda siempre la misma jodida sensación de vacío, la misma cara de estúpido cuando alguien entra al portal y giro la cabeza para recriminar a Luna que no ladre, las mismas horas vacías preguntándome qué hacer si no tengo a quién pasear.

Queremos lo que no tenemos.

Lord Only Knows.

Número de familiares en el extranjero: 1. Te reto al Super Smash Brawl, bro.

Ο Jim Carrey για να κάνει την πλάκα του και να την σπάσει στους paparazzi έβαλε το μαγιώ της καλής του, Jenny McCarthy, και έκανε μαζί της μια βόλτα στην παραλία...

[via the grumpiest]

Tot slot Jim Carrey in de zwempak van Jenny McCarthy's. Het staat hem enig!

The main reason is that when he was younger his mother was very sick in bed and would take a lot of pills for her pain, Jim would do everything necessary to make his mother laugh. Even if it meant throwing himself down the stairs or doing the most ridiculous of faces. When he was younger he was many times depressed and mad with the world because poverty forced hard labor upon his family, he did eventually go through it and now loves life with a passion without drugs or alcohol.

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"Mimi's been unofficially placed on a paparazzi blacklist after breaking unwritten fame game rules at a CD signing event last week. After Mariah showed up two hours late (bad), sprinted down the red carpet (even badder), and wore sunglasses on the red carpet (huge no-no), paparazzi nation decided to unofficially boycott the singer -- that means no pictures, no coverage, no love. Surely, she will plummet into obscurity."

First, I love that the paps think stars owe them a certain level of cooperation - unless they're just a drug-addled, drunken mess, in which case they can behave any way they please and the paps will be there en masse.

Second, I think this is a fantastic opportunity for all those average Joes and Janes to cash in - go get pictures and video of Mariah!  Do it now!  The paps might not care about her but the American public will not be denied!  With the paps blacklisting Mariah there will be almost no competition and a higher-than-ever demand.

If the paps blacklist a few more stars they might just put themselves completely out of business.

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Rating: 4/5

Info:

Director: Michel Gondry

Running Time: 103 minutes

Original Release: 2004

Certificate: 15

Genre: Offbeat RomCom

Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood

Plot:

After brief relationship, Jim Carrey finds out that his kooky ex-girlfriend Kate Winslet has had all memory of him wiped from her mind and in surprise and anger decides to do the same, only to realise half way through the process that he still loves her.

Review:

Jim Carrey is to often portrayed as a screwball actor who often takes it a bit too over the top when, as this film clearly shows, he actually can do serious acting quite well. Put that together with the colourful Kate Winslet as his screwball girlfriend and you've got an endearingly sweet tale of love and loss.

Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo and Elijah Wood are also on hand as the guys wiping there minds and giving equally intriguing performances in the process.

Eternal Sunshine boast an excellent plot with lots of twists and turns along the way, although I'll give a word of warning that it's a film that needs to be watched twice in order to get all of the plot particularly due to its fractured narrative that will be making you say “Ahh! I get it!” by the time the credits roll.

Summing up, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is perhaps one of the most original and clever romances of modern times that will make you wan to watch it again and again.

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Jim Carrey, convertido, o mejor dicho, poseido por "La Máscara", escapa de la policia, y nos ofrece una de las escenas cómico-musicales más brillantes de la historia del cine. Un tema muy apropiado para un dia festivo como el de hoy, para empezar con buen pié el 2.008. Feliz año nuevo a todos.

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Jim Carrey, transformé ou plûtot, possédé par "La Masque", échappe de la police, et nous offre une des scénes comique-musicals plus brillantes de l'histoire du cinéma. Un thème très adapté a un jour de fête comme aujourd'hui, pour commencer du bon humeur le 2.008. Joyeux nouvel an pour tout le monde.

Jim Carrey plays a lawyer named Fletcher Reede that can't stop lying. He is constantly lying to his son and his son made a wish on his birthday that he couldn't lie for just one day. Watching him try not to lie for one day is cry out loud hilarious. This scene your about to watch is Jim Carrey being lead into a briefing by one of the senior partners in the firm to tell the chairman on the board what he thinks of him.

Mix in two of the biggest actors of the last half-decade (Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet) and you ought to have one heck of a movie.

Brain Damage

At its core, Eternal Sunshine is a romance

A new medical procedure has become available. You can selectively erase a person from your memories. Joel (Carrey), applies to have the procedure done, and he asks if the side effects could include brain damage. Dr. Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson) replies “technically speaking, the procedure is brain damage.”

Joel had learned that his ex-girlfriend Clementine (Winslet) had him erased from her memories. He knew Clementine could be rash, but the severity of not just being dumped but being erased devastated him.

He decides to erase Clementine, not for revenge, but because he couldn’t bear the pain of having lost, in a manner more cruel than simple death, the first girl he’d really loved. (It’s actually a bit similar to 50 First Dates, but where that film was silly and nice, Eternal Sunshine is painful and dark).

So now Joel is having his memory swept clean. Dr. Mierzwiak conducts the initial interviews, and his technicians (Mark Ruffalo and Elijah Wood) prepare to perform the procedure.

Playing with Surrealism

The bulk of Eternal Sunshine takes place inside the mind of Joel during the process of erasing. This subjective landscape gives Kaufman and Gondry free rein to play with surreal images and notions.

Gondry uses visual gimmicks to create an interior world. In memories of Clementine at work in the bookstore, the books are turned spine-inward so that you can’t read the titles, and the signs hanging in the store fade before our very eyes. In another scene, Joel chases Clementine from one corner to the next, only to discover he’s back where he started.

Reliving his memories of Clementine just before they are destroyed, Joel realizes he doesn’t want to lose them after all, even if they pain and haunt him. He tries to wake himself from the procedure, but he can’t. In desperation, he and his Clementine figments decide to hide out in cells of memory where they don’t belong, hoping to foil the technicians. This drives them into disturbing memories of childhood and shame. One wonders what Freud or Dali would say about a boy being dared to smash a dead dove with a hammer.

One scene in particular stands out as a gorgeous example of filmed surrealism. The lovers have reached the end of land, a beach house, at night, filled with sand, and crumbling slowly into dust as the tide comes in. Defeated, they hold each other in heartbreaking farewell as the dark world rips their love out of existence.

Love Story

This behind-the-scenes talent is a boon to any film, but it’s also, frankly, a bit of a distraction. When you’re appreciating a movie’s filmmaking technique, you’re not necessarily relating to the characters. That need not be a criticism — that could be the point of a movie — but in the case of Eternal Sunshine, getting past the process and seeing into the characters and their stories would probably reveal even more interesting truths.

At its core, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a romance. Just as Being John Malkovich revealed the nature of celebrity, Eternal Sunshine has a lot to say about love. Walking through Joel’s head is like walking through Dante’s (or Matt Groening’s) rings of relationship hell. Even the title comes from a passionate poem, referring to those lucky people whose minds are unclouded with love.

Amazingly, Kaufman is able to bring this sad, chaotic mindstorm to a succinct close. With a single word, “Okay,” Kaufman writes the perfect ending. It is a simple, sweet affirmation that I assumed Kaufman was too cynical to be capable of.

Tastes

As with last week’s Spartan, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is not for all tastes. Eight people walked out of my screening, possibly believing this would be a Jim Carrey movie. It isn’t. It’s a Charlie Kaufman movie. It is very good, but it’s also very unconventional.

Years from now, it may be recognized as a classic, but this weekend, it may disappoint Jim Carrey’s fan base. Just keep in mind whose talent is really on display, and enjoy the sunshine.