5.29.10 - She & Him @ the Fox Theatre - Oakland, CA

Went to see She & Him on Saturday night. I thought the crowd would be pretty relaxed considering who was playing, but I was surprised by the gaggles of girls screaming "I LOVE YOU ZOOOOOOEEEEEY!" Please, this is not a Britney concert circa 2000. Two girls behind me were about to start something during a very quiet, mellow number. ("JUST STOP TALKING. STOP TALKING." Something unintelligible, murmur murmur. "OH, THAT'S REALLY CLASSY. REALLY." "JUST WATCH THE SHOW AND STOP TALKING!!!")

Girls will be girls.

They put on a good show, playing songs from both albums along with a few additional covers like "Fools Rush In" and "I Put A Spell On You." It was hard to hear what ZD was saying in between songs. Kind of mumbly. She looked really pretty, though. Double encore, which was nice. I like that they do covers of songs that most of our generation would probably overlook, because hopefully it pushes people to discover the source material. But wouldn't it be hilariously ironic if ZD covered Katy Perry?!!

And I'd like M. Ward to sing me a lullaby.

A blurry pic because I'm short and have zero camera skills.

Rekindling my amor for Gael Garcia Bernal

A few nights ago I watched Mammoth (2009), a film I hadn't even heard of until Netflix recommended it to me. I've been way out of the indie loop!

It's about a wealthy young New York couple who live in a loft that looks straight out of Dwell. GGB plays the daddy, a green-eyed manchild who jets off to Thailand to sign off on some contracts relating to the social gaming empire he owns (This is the first time I've heard MySpace referenced in a film), and Michelle Williams plays stressed-out-surgeon while their spawn learns Tagalog from the nanny whose two flip-flop clad young sons mope around the Philippines without her.

It was pretty predictable, somewhat disappointing plot-wise, and left me scratching my huge head for some kind of proper resolution, but it was decent. (I'm prone to switching off intolerable cinema, Couples Retreat being the most recent case). It also made me appreciate my mother.

Anyway, I do recommend the film, despite all the negative reviews I've read. I like movies that hop from place to place geographically and deal with a lot of characters.

I ALSO LIKE MOVIES WITH GGB. Which is my point here. It's funny how I end up spending only about 10% of my posts being shallow while most of it is usually semi-substantial/non-superficial commentary. Besides his lovely mouth and his tendency to appear mildly clothed in many of his films, I love that he's so versatile, yet he always seems to play morally ambiguous characters.

Maybe it's those pensive eyes...

Is it bad that I want to see LETTERS TO JULIET?