I love the holiday season. December makes the homebody in me yearn to be inside, doing crafty projects. Since I'm a grad student living on a tight budget, I'm also on the lookout for cheap, easy-to-execute projects that I can give to my friends. So far, my system of cheap 'n' easy craft creation has worked both to satisfy my crafty-gurl yearnings and to please the recipients of … [Read more...] about PopGurls Guide to Crafty Holiday Gifts
Everything’s Just Fine
Listening to Beck sing about the tears he's crying, the lies he's living, and the loss he's feeling on "Guess I'm Doing Fine" (the second song on his new album), one would doubt that he's anywhere near fine. On his latest release, Sea Change, Beck steps back from the 808 that rocked his pelvis and his mic on Midnite Vultures to deliver a collection of finely crafted meditations … [Read more...] about Everything’s Just Fine
The Big Jim Jarmusch Event
5:00 p.m.: Leave work, but not before changing into outfit for the Big Event (that being “A Conversation with Jim Jarmusch and Jonathan Rosenbaum,” which I have chosen to interpret as “My Conversation with Jim Jarmusch”). Want to look gurly yet sophisticated. To achieve this, put on glittery pink sweater, black miniskirt, black hose, beige fishnets, black knee-high pleather … [Read more...] about The Big Jim Jarmusch Event
Crushing on Jim Jarmusch
It all started innocently enough. I was a good independent film fan. I went to all the free art films screened at my college. I appreciated movies with unusual narrative structure, innovative cinematography and unusual characters. I read issues of Film Comment and Sight and Sound on my lunch break. I talked the talk, mostly with college boys and male hipster video clerks, … [Read more...] about Crushing on Jim Jarmusch