watch and listen: romance and cigarettes the is the strangest movie i've seen in a very long time and everyone is in it: susan sarandon, james gandalfino, kate winslet, amy sedaris (!!!), mary-louise parker, christopher walken, mandy moore, john turturro (who wrote and directed it), aida turturro, steve buscemi, eddie izzard, elaine stritch. it's musical of sorts and the music is ridiculous: tom jones's 'delilah', bruce springsteen's 'red headed woman', cindy lauper's 'prisoner of love' and more oddities... anyway, there's no way to explain this. just watch it. i'm not sayin' you'll like it (though i love bizarre film and this...is) so don't come back here and tell me to give you your two hours back. (read andrew o'hehir's review in salon - google it if it won't open).
read: david sedaris's when you are engulfed in flames it's by david sedaris. 'nuff said. hilarity ensues.
'If I was a child and saw something creeping out of a hole in my mother’s leg, I would march to the nearest orphanage and put myself up for adoption. I would burn all pictures of her, destroy anything she had ever given me, and start all over because that is simply disgusting. A dad can be crawling with parasites and somehow it’s OK, but on a mom, or any woman, really, it’s unforgivable.'