Burn After Reading

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Mike Moore: When Roosevelt came in ...(he) said to General Motors and Ford, you're not going to build cars anymore. You're going to build airplanes and tanks and guns and the things that we need for this war...

King: What do you want them to do now?

Moore: President-Elect Obama has to say to them, yes, we're going to use this money to save these jobs, but we're not going to build these gas-guzzling, unsafe vehicles any longer....

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Burn After Reading
Tuesday, Sep 16, 2008 10:00PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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Burn After Reading. I recommend it. Brad Pitt was great in this movie. I don't think I ever thought he was a good actor until now. This is a really light, fun, silly movie.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMWu6i7l5ec

Whew. I'm getting back into watching comedy. If you have a tendency to like/do comedy, there is a certain brand of filmmaker who doesn't take you seriously. Well, I think I've already done my time on the other side... no guilt... ever again. Good to have a balance, though.

Hmm... Dax's photo album of places he'd like to go or revisit makes me want to do a list of my own.

Here goes (just a handful):

Wisconsin log cabin. (Reading so much of the "Little House" series as a kid makes me nostalgic for Wisconsin, keeping venison in the winter without a fridge. Plus, Wisconsin has the best cheese and sausage in the States, and fresh maple syrup)

Search for abstract sculpture of John Coltrane in the Carpathian Mountains. I remember seeing a pic of it once, which I can't find on the web, and thinking it would be a good excuse to trek through the Carpathian Mountains to find it.

The Palazzo Davanzanti in Florence. 'Nuff said about Florence.

Macchu Piccu in Peru.

Jiuzhaigou in Sichuan.

Cuba. Cuba. Cuba.

Just found these pix off the web.
Where would you go if you only had one choice left in your lifetime?

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Ivy Lam
posted on Thursday, Oct 2, 2008 12:02PM [Report]

Ooh Jiuzhaigou is definitely on my list of places to visit!
Dax Phelan
posted on Tuesday, Sep 23, 2008 1:27AM [Report]

I'm dying to see "Burn After Reading." That and "Man On A Wire." Nothing else looks that good to me right now.
JediJean
posted on Sunday, Sep 21, 2008 1:13PM [Report]

If I only had one choice left in my lifetime... I would probably want to go to Disney World in Orlando, Florida... then I can pass on with a big kiddy grin on my face... haha! :-D
Henry Chung
posted on Saturday, Sep 20, 2008 7:12AM [Report]

What about Ankor Wat? do u like that too?
elle75
posted on Saturday, Sep 20, 2008 3:20AM [Report]

Never a fan of Pitt but might drag someone to go see with me :) Thanks for the quick review...
elle75
posted on Saturday, Sep 20, 2008 3:18AM [Report]

I'm still looking for my photo of Havana but will share soon...It's one of the best place to visit...especially if you have a soft spot for Hemingway's work!!!
elle75
posted on Saturday, Sep 20, 2008 3:16AM [Report]

I want a log cabin too...have been a dream of mine ever since I was young. I never been to Wisconsin but now maybe I will...I hear sausage...someone mentioned best sausage :-)
Please do a blog Wen...Dax started a good blog trend...
Yes_Tom
posted on Thursday, Sep 18, 2008 4:27PM [Report]

Always Always wanted to visit this. Second on my list of architectural feats.
butter
posted on Thursday, Sep 18, 2008 5:51AM [Report]

I can't just pick one. This would be on my list though.
butter
posted on Thursday, Sep 18, 2008 5:50AM [Report]

The commercials for this movie look funny. I think BP's acting skills shine more when he plays off-kilter characters. It's good he's willing to accept such roles.
AsianChick100
posted on Thursday, Sep 18, 2008 2:03AM [Report]

i'm TOO greedy. i still want to travel around the world... =/
Dreamy
posted on Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008 10:57PM [Report]

THIS IS my next vacation!!!!!!
JoanneSanderson
posted on Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008 8:36PM [Report]

if I had only one choice, I'd desire to see Kyoto.

The film does look very funny, I like George Clooney and john Malkovich, big cast for it.
JoanneSanderson
posted on Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008 8:33PM [Report]

I want to go here too.
RenRen
posted on Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008 11:26AM [Report]

I've been there. It's beautiful.
Flagday
posted on Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008 8:57AM [Report]

Yes, Cuba, before it's modernized. It would be like stepping back in time. I could go there now on an exchange program but, alas, no dough.
Flagday
posted on Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008 8:56AM [Report]

I loved Florence. I had better polenta there than my Italian grandmother ever made. I made my apologies to her for thinking that as I dug into my second lucious steaming hot spoonful of that cheesy bubbling cauldron of polenta.
Flagday
posted on Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008 8:54AM [Report]

My maternal grandparents were from the Carpathian mountains, a now lost village in southern Poland. My cousin just visited there last year and took a ream of pictures. It looked like Pennsylvania, no kidding.
luna16
posted on Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008 8:01AM [Report]

i have the same love for "little house in the big woods" and have always wanted to play with a pig's bladder. (please tell me you know what i'm talking about cuz right now, i sound like a freak!).

but of your choices, i would have to go with cuba. i'd like to go there once before it "opens up" and gets developed and commercialized.....assuming that will be the case when castro n' friends die out.
luna16
posted on Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008 7:53AM [Report]

i died watching that movie! i can't look at either brad pitt or george clooney the same way ever again! nor easy chairs or wedges.....

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