Thighs Wide Shut

Lily Allen
Hiro Ballroom
October 10th
¡AMERICAN DEBUT!
(North American debut was in Toronto)

Awfully short, but awfully sweet, which not only describes Lily Allen as a human being, but also her 8 song 30-minuted set complete with a horn section that was more of a showcase than a concert, considerin her album doesn’t even drop here until early ’07. But what do I care about runtimes when seeing her in the flesh and hearing her rock harder than John Tesh is a great honor all tits own. We’ve been gushing over the sassy songstress since late April (first we JOed to her myspace bkgrnd and then discovered the girl hactually had chops worth porking), hell, she wouldn’t even have a career on this side of the pond without us, and so it was with great pleasure that her liveynessness master blastered our eggspectations. This girl’s got something special. Even more special than Corky’s band, for she’s no flash in the pan, although she did flash her pancake titties ages ago (i tried to find a link for em, but methinks they’ve been wiped off the internets for good)

LDN
Nan, You’re A Window Shopper
Shame For You
Knock ‘Em Out
Littlest Things
Friday Night
Smile
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Alfie

+Brooklyn Vegan, would eat her meat
+Ms Mod, sounds a lot like me, cept not really buying into the hype
+supposedly in attendance: Alex Kapranos, Eleanor Friedberger, and Mark Cobrasnake
+recent Lily TWS.org madness

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Anything Released By Bagatov Films
Is Juss As Exggsplosvice As A Molotov Cocktail
Trailers

While it’s too darn early to declare it (B:CLoAfMBGNoK) the funniest movie of balls thyme, I will not rule out that pastability entirely. In the meanwhile, while we d’bate and m’bate that matter, I can safely declare B:CLoAfMBGNoK the funniest movie of this year, last year, and every year since 1998, when the The Big Lebowski was dropped on an unsuckspecting werld (all dough much respeck to Wes Anderson pics, Nap Dyna, Kung Pow!, and a slew of others me not remembering at the moment). I wasn’t even that taken (not in a Steven Spielberg produced kinda way) aback after my first theater viewing of Lebowski, but 6 years on, I was not only quothing the raven and the lines in my sleep, but attending the 3rd festival in its honor

So what does it all mean? The great comedies all require multiple screenings. The first is to get past the hype and eggspectations and to let out the biggie-sized guffaws. The second is discover new bits you missed the first time and to let the film as a whole secure tits place in to yer pop-rocked psyche. And by the third and every subsequent viewing thereafter, it’s memorization and regurgitating time, so later you can ‘impress’ yer fellow screening cronies with how much you love the movie, until you find another movie (not starring Vince Vaughn) to take its place

Well, like I said, B:CLoAfMBGNoK is certified Drew Brees’ knees redonk(e kong jr math) bestness, but I don’t even think I have yet to fully appreciate its genius that is more real than Chris Knight, Mitch Taylor (aka Horseface), and Lazlo Hollyfeld combined. Imagine if Jackass had a plot, was leader ringed by Mahir, and was as socially relevant as say, Jesus Camp [TWS’ take], and you can maybe begin to grasp the magnitude of magnificence that is B:CLoAfMBGNoK. My record for seeing a film in theaters is 7, wit Pulp Fiction, but like all records, they must be played on record players they were meant to be broken

Unsatisfied with this?: Netflix the thighly underrated Ali G Indahouse [trailers]

More Duped Than Mark Duper: feminist Linda Stein

Apt MPupil3: The Borat Theme Song [d] which is more widely known as ‘Korobeiniki‘ [d] or ‘The Pedlars‘, and to you and me, ‘Music A‘ from the Game Boy version of Tetris [midi]

Deleted Scene But Not Heard: Borat, a supermarket, and a sheetlode of cheese

John Grisham’s Jizzum (aka Verdict): Breast In Show AND Breast In Grant Show

juss to get ya toby gowin this mornin…

Retired S1Ws Recalled To Active Duty

Last King of Scotland screenings [Thighly Recommended!]

the meat cake, no relation to Hats of Meat

and Heather Graham NSFW who?

extra PUNitentiary ass-is-taintense from Spaxman