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October 27, 2007
Update...And Someone Please Kill Me
I have just finished a project that has consumed the past few weeks for me: an NIH R01 grant proposal. Jeez, these things are getting hard to do. The technical proposal isn't the problem: its all of the other stuff (15 pages on Human Subjects?!?!?!).
In other news, I am asking some faithful reader to kill me. This week I made the colossal error of watching Hotel Chevalier on iTunes. This short by Wes Anderson starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman is supposed to serve as a kind of prequel to his new film, The Darjeeling Limited. The short is garnering rave reviews. I'm not really sure why. Yes, it is interesting. But Oscar worthy (as some critics have suggested)?? I am convinced that the main reason it has proven so popular with the peasants is that is contains Natalie Portman's first nude scene (for those drawn to such things, I can report that it is a big snooze not worth the effort it takes to download the thing). I'll probably go see The Darjeeling Limited as well, but based on what I've seen and read of it, I am, in the wake of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, beginning to wonder if Anderson's whole game plan is to keep making Rushmore and The Royal Tenanbaums over and over (just spliced and diced a little differently each time).
Anyway, back to killing me: there is a song in Hotel Chevalier which I just cannot get out of my head: Peter Sarstedt's Where Do You Go To (My Lovely). Please kill me and make the insipid voice stop. This has happened once before (with Abba's Dancing Queen) and the nightmare only ended then when the Good Rabbi staged an intervention to force me back onto drugs.
Posted by dag at October 27, 2007 10:11 AM
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I remember that intervention...
That was a great party, wasn't it?
Posted by: The Good Rabbi at October 27, 2007 11:09 AM