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The current soundtrack o' mah life :

Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me
The Darkness - Permission To Land
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
The Long Winters - When I Pretend To Fall
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Patti Smith - Trampin'

Honorable Mention:
Morrissey - You Are The Quarry (bootleg)

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Saw "Super Size Me" and "Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling" over the weekend.

Gonna buck the trend and say that "Lipstick & Dynamite" was the better of the two.

While impressive, "Super Size Me" is the cinematic equivilent of TV's "Jackass" with the addition of a message, disturbing statistics, and the tenacity to entertain and unnerve us -- until both the audience (and director Morgan Spurlock's liver) cry uncle. But, in the end, its still a vanity project. Unlike its subject matter, the joke wears thin after awhile.

"Lipstick & Dynamite," uses interviews and archival footage to portray an era in 1950s America when city officials fought to keep women off local fight cards for being immoral and unladylike, even if they were drawing crowds.

Pulled off the farm and into the ring well before TV turned and tamed wrestling into "sports entertainment," the women, once carnival attractions, became traveling wrestling-show divas, ready to claw the eyes out of each other's heads to thrill and entertain the crowd.

More interesting than those unfamilar with wresting may assume, "Lipstick & Dynamite" is much more than a wrestling movie. It is a compelling look at an underexplored sub-culture and the obstacles climbed by those pioneering women who first stormed the "square circle."

In fact, director Ruth Leitman insists, "The film is not about wrestling," underlining the women's feminist credentials. "It's about women who persevered against adverse circumstances. It's a film about strength, about strong women."

Indeed it is. Make no mistake about it, the "First Ladies of Wrestling" are some tough old broads.

Not to be missed.



herbivore:
hey! hi!

thanks for writing. tell catherine josh from herbivore says hi, i haven't been in touch with her for a while. i publish a magazine too.
May 12, 2004
cybele:
"Hiroshima, mon amour"! YES!
May 14, 2004

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