the wonder of freckles
Jenny of Frecklewonder has done it again: a revamped website and the best of vintage clothes and handmade jewelry. Super cute! Her taste is delicious and pop-arty and colorful and too many more adjectives to add. Mosey on down to her newly-stocked website before it's all gone...
On another note, i heard yet one more interview with the Readymade magazine lady on NPR today--this time on Talk of the Nation. But it was totally horrible since the interviewer woman was sort of coming off as snide and snickering over the idea of crafts and insinuating it's just for girls, etc. Whatever! Damn philistines! ;p
Earlier tonight as i was sitting in front of the tellie sewing buttons onto Anti-factory items i caught the first half of a horribly lame movie starring Claire Danes called Brokedown Palace. The only thing i knew about it before tonite was that ms. Danes was quoted in a Filipino newspaper that she absolutely hated the Philippines and thought it was a nasty nasty place (the Philippines doubling as Thailand in the movie). Because of that comment alone I have skirted a wide berth around this movie, until boredom got the best of me tonite. And I have to say, it gave me a bit of glee to see the story unfold of two over-privileged squeaky clean white American teenage girls who get thrown into a nasty rat-infested Thai prison when they get framed for drug smuggling. Ms. Danes gets beaten by a screaming female Thai prison guard and has to befriend all sorts of "unsavory" prison types, all the while whining "but I'm an American! I deserve a lawyer!". Take that, all you people who think Thailand is just a tourist playground! Basically, it was one of those moralistic tales of middle-class innocence meeting up with the big bad Third World. It could have almost been directed by John Waters, only it wasn't nearly as good as that. I never got to finish it because my boyfriend came home and promptly said, "oh lord, is there anything better on?" Click. Goodbye, Ms. Danes. I don't think the Philippines likes you much, either.
the ladies in prison: "but I'm an American!"
ms. danes holding up her hands to get whacked by a surly female Thai prison guard. i'm mean, i know.
posted by anti-factory @ 12:33 AM
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This one is a LMN (Lifetime Movie Network) classic. It took me two times to cover it from beginning to end because it's so long and boring. It is indeed delightful in that Danes is whiny almost throughout. I'd be curious to hear your opinion of the ending.
ha! yeah, one of these days i have to finish watching it so i can see for myself how it ends...but then again, oh my lord, what an ordeal :)
This is why one shouldn't travel to third world countries if you can't handle it.
I'm a Filipino and I know how she must have felt seeing a totally different scene. Imagine living in a place where lawns are well-manicured and living is for the rich and everything is beautiful and safe for all your life then you are thrown into a place like the Philippines.
Sure we have beautiful places like the Makati business district but we can't hide the fact that the rest of the Philippines is poverty stricken.
Filipinos should just learn to be less touchy and accept the truth. Don't waste their time changing a rich girl's perspective.
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