At the Top of My Reading List

I'd generally describe myself as a "to each their own" kind of vegetarian but lately I feel like I'm one step away from throwing red paint on Anna Wintour...

BACK IN BLACK (and white)

Polaroid cameras and film (both black-and-white and color) are slated to be relaunched in 2010. Read about it here.

#1 Death Song

I'm fairly certain a secret meeting of television executives was held in which they debated the go-to song to be played anytime anyone dies on a tv show and they all voted for Jeff Buckley's cover of Hallelujah.

SX-70

Made for Polaroid Corporation by the office of Charles & Ray Eames.

When I Die I Hope I Remember to Say, "Julian, Take Off the Red Shoes"

After a week and a half of starring at the Orange Library's Criterion copy of The Red Shoes lying inert beside my TV, I finally watched the film. I now understand Martin Scorsese's fervor for Powell and Pressburger's creation and I can also appreciate what it means to be truly fascinated and bored by something simultaneously (see: ballet).

And also, is it just me or would The Red Shoes viewed without sound resemble a horror film?

The New Face of Blue-Eyed Soul

I'm into it. Too bad the phrase jew-eyed soul sounds kind of racist and is therefore unusable.

I Might Someday Decide to Read This

My love runs deep for David Cross, but lately he's been breaking my heart. Add to these damning facts his Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants girlfriend, the impending doom of Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, and relatively dismal book reviews and it all makes me I mourn the David Cross of my youth.