Losing my religion

"I made you a leaving gift"
"What is it?"
"A stick with some orange peel glued to it"
(or something along the lines of that...)

So last night after a weekend of unexpected partying, expected partying and recording I took a solo trip to the cinema to see Wanderlust. Very weirdly the cinema seemed to be full of people doing the very same thing, I guess a solo cinema trip is the perfect activity for a rainy Sunday afternoon in North London.

I don't want to give too much of the plot but basically George and Linda buy a tiny flat in NYC, lose their jobs, end up losing their flat (I don't understand why they didn't rent it out, I guess that would be less dramatic) and drive to Atlanta, on the way stay overnight at a commune and have an awesome night, then go to stay in Atlanta, hate it and end up back in the commune, where of course hilarity ensues, there is a money grabbing hippy, a nudist author and yep we get to see Jennifer Anniston tripping out on iowaska.

Watching the movie you spend a lot of time cringing at Paul Rudd embarrassing himself, doing his sexy talk and attempting to play the Spin Doctors. Paul Rudd is awesome as ever, but I think I would have liked to seen writer Ken Marino do the George part instead, he was so good as the cringworthy Ron in Party Down, that I think that would have really worked.  Ken Marino was awesome as George's brother Rick and deffo one of the highlights, though seeing as he wrote it, you think he would make sure he got a good part! Michaela Watkins did a great job as Rick's bored wife too.

I think my favourite bits were with Ken's ex-"The State" buddies David Wain, Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black (GO BUY HIS BOOK, mine is in the post!) who play news readers, and yeah, when they parody the Atlanta Grape Lady that kinda made me chuckle.  I also liked all the jokes about hippies, my brother's a bit of a hippy and has hung out with Shamen (but not Mr C), and I do tease him about drum circles and hippy stuff, I think I'd like to watch it again with him!

There are not really any indie references in the movie, but I think I heard an REM song being played, I guess any movie which is set in Georgia should have at least one REM song in it somewhere?  There were more references throughout this movie to "I Believe I Can Fly" than really necessary too, what was that about? 90's tastic!

I was so excited about the prospect of this movie, with so many awesome people being involved, but yeah something lacked a bit in it, still I do think laughing at hippy jokes is a fun way to spend a rainy day in North London.

I leave you with a song...a video from the best band from Atlanta, ExcaliBrah!!!



Official movie site

How to Tie a Tie

I recently discovered that in the last year eight people discovered this blog through googling "Joseph Gordon Levitt Cardigan", therefore to celebrate this, here is a picture of him rocking the great look.

Slightly weirder is that 35 people discovered this blog by searching "alice hubley blog", ok guys admit it, who has been googling me?

This video recently made the rounds on Facebook, it's a rather long Australian advert for Yellow Pages starring none other than indiepop superstar Tali White from Aussie favourites The Lucksmiths. Watch if you must, but it is a tad boring, basically Yellow Pages are good cause they are carbon neutral and a lot of people recycle them (cause they probably use the internet instead?).



Anyway, it's pretty cool that Tali is keeping busy whilst he's not making music, but wouldn't we rather be watching The Lucksmiths? Well in this current climate it's probably not long until the band will get back together right? Meanwhile, fellow ex Lucksmiths and Margarita expert Mark Monnone has been keeping very busy, running Australia's premier indiepop label Lost and Lonesome, playing shows all around the globe with Monnone Alone and also playing bass with TSWCOL favourites Still Flyin', listen and download their new jam now.





Anyway, I'll leave you with a trailer for a film I am so excited about seeing this weekend. It's the new Ken Marino written, Judd Apatow produced, Paul Rudd starring, David Wain directed Wanderlust (phew that was exhausting, but what a line up!). I don't think I've ever been so excited about seeing a movie with Jennifer Anniston in it ever! Anyway, I'll write more about it once I've seen it
See ya
Alicexx