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I love her singing its great, when your down she picks you up especially this album The Reminder, like right now cant help feeling better after hearing it. this video of her as well cant help but feel like a kid after watching it

How My Heart Behaves
What grew
What grew
What grew and inside who
First so simple was the vow
Then the chorus sang about
Your shoulder
The mooring for me
Like water lost in the sea

The cold heart will burst
If mistrusted first
And a calm heart will break
When given a shake

I’m a stem now
Pushing the drought aside
Opening up
Fanning my yellow eye
On the ferry
That’s making the waves wave
Illumination
This is how my heart behaves

The cold heart will burst
If mistrusted first
And a calm heart will break when given a shake

(How her heart behaves)
The rain rain making me cry
(How her heart behaves)
Then the wind comes
Fanning my yellow eye
(How her heart behaves)
The waves wave the waves wave
This is how my heart behaves

A cold heart will burst
If mistrusted first
And a calm heart will break
When given a shake
The cold heart will burst
If mistrusted first
And a calm heart will break
When given a shake

What grew
What grew
What grew and inside who

In my sociology class we normally have discussion groups once a week.

today me and the other guys in my group had to come up with 10 reasons why its better being a woman then a male, and the females of the group had to come up the same but for being male.

so basically the group I got I was kind of embarrassed by some of the things they came up with since in my opinion some where unimportant and others where just stupid.

a good example someone said is its easier for women to marry into money. (I don't think anything else should).

well anyway I mentioned childbirth as a neutral one because we still could not decide whether it was a good one or a bad one, and well we read our reasons we actually missed 1 we couldn't come up with stuff, and he stands up and goes childbirth and all the women in the class go against him because its like complicated and your body goes through changes and having to deal with a period and everything.

then hes like but you get to have life grow inside you and so on defending it so much I believe he even tried to do like a pose of having a big belly or something I dunno hes a pretty cool guy anyway yeah then I did support the guy somewhat since I did propose it as a good one but just wasn't sure, I did say it would be interesting to experience childbirth and to have a life grow inside of you and all that but I don't know I still cant decide, what do you people

have some weird dreams now and then but this one is certainly special I can totally see a movie based on this dream, in my dream cars turn evil and they want to run people over but when they do they take your brain from you, so imagine seeing a car filled with as many brains as it can and it, with sort of an evil face thats how the cars looked.

So here I am in this world running for my life from cars looking for small places where they wont be able to run me over, I am running into houses and cars are crashing into them chasing me and other people and I am seeing some get run over and lying there with broken arms broken feet and with they're brain sucked out and I am running for my life.

not very exciting on writing but imagine in my dream whats going through my head is AGGGGG KILLER BRAIN SUCKING CARS GOT TO RUN!!!

But the Dream was going to get interesting one of the houses I broke into was packed with guns so I got as many as I could and in the garage there was this motorcycle so now I have weapons and transportation that is not going to try and run me over and suck my brain im ready to kill!!!.

And then RINGGGGGG RINGGGGGG RINGGGGGG!!! the phone woke me up. it had to be when I was finally going to go on a killing spree not when I was running for my life. but yeah wake up pick it up and thats it dream over.

basically the tittle says it all, today I was wasting time at the school library and I was playing pacman on the computer, I was wearing my big headphones so I was basically not paying attention to anything else, and well I was doing really good in the game, I had broken my record, and I am like dodging those damm things that are trying to eat me eating those balls wuaka wuaka wauka is echoing through my head I am all concentrating left right up down, and then I die and its game over I scream CRAP at the top of my lounges and I sudenly realize where the hell I am, so I go crap but in a lower voice to myself then I get all these looks and i say sorry pacman died, and most people make a weird face and go back to what they where doing but not the girl sitting next to me she starts laughing really loud nearly drops on the floor and rolls I was waiting for her to do that, so then I say well im glad someone enjoyed my outburst and go back to pacman.

Michel Gondry’s current exhibition at Deitch Projects in SoHo is more than an extravagant promotion for the new movie he wrote and directed, “Be Kind Rewind.” This project, also called “Be Kind Rewind,” is a serious but flawed effort to carry over into the real world the film’s idealistic, anti-commercial fantasy of do-it-yourself creativity.

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Participants in “Be Kind Rewind” creating their movies.

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The films range from 5 to 15 minutes and can be viewed by visitors.

In the film, which opened nationwide last Friday, a couple of dopey fellows played by Mos Def and Jack Black create their own wacky remakes of mainstream movies. (The tapes in the neighborhood video store, where Mos Def’s character is temporarily in charge, have been erased by the magnetized body of Mr. Black’s character.) Naturally, their remakes turn out to be a hit with the local customers.

For Deitch Projects, Mr. Gondry has built a system in which people can make their own communal movies in the cheerfully amateurish style personified by his cinematic heroes. In the gallery’s garage-size industrial space, behind a painted exterior replicating the film’s decrepit storefront, is a miniature version of a Hollywood back lot. Different sections mimic a doctor’s office, a restaurant, a junkyard and so on.

Groups of 5 to 15 people, who must register in advance, follow a structured program to complete a short movie in two hours. Mr. Gondry’s written step-by-step instructions direct the group first to appoint a leader and a camera person, then decide on the film’s genre, define its characters and determine the plot. Next, group members chart the action scene by scene and create signs for the titles and credits. Then they select props and costumes from a motley assortment on hand. Finally, using a small video camera provided by the gallery, they shoot their movie, editing as they go. Finished movies are added to the stock in the imitation video store at the front of the gallery, where they can be viewed by visitors on a widescreen television.

How are the movies? So far not so good. Ranging in length from 5 to 15 minutes, they are intermittently amusing but mostly woefully inept and tediously clichéd imitations of standard genres like horror and science fiction, or mixed genres like a Bollywood musical stalker movie.

But the quality of the finished movies is beside the point for Mr. Gondry, who is instead concerned with the experience of making the films.

His big idea is to foment a popular rebellion against the passive consumption of corporate entertainment. Once people discover how much fun it is to get together, make their own movies and present them in their own community theaters, he imagines, a flourishing cinematic folk culture will put Hollywood and its morally and creatively bankrupt star system out of business. (YouTube, being less conducive to communal experience, is not what Mr. Gondry has in mind.)

It is an exciting vision — until you realize how disingenuous it is. Mr. Gondry himself does not practice what he is preaching. The remakes that his two characters create in “Be Kind Rewind” are interesting only because of the way they are filmed by Mr. Gondry, a highly accomplished professional artist. Also, the attraction of his films has much to do with the professionals involved, including, in his earlier work, actors like Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, and the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman.

The interactive populism on display at Deitch Projects disguises the mandarin nature of the enterprise. Mr. Gondry’s project is, in fact, a big, ambitious work of conceptual art, in the vein of what the French critic and theorist Nicolas Bourriaud has called “relational aesthetics.”

The idea in relational aesthetics is to abandon making objects for sale in favor of creating situations in which all comers participate in creative social processes. When Rirkrit Tiravanija cooks and serves Thai food to visitors, as he has done in galleries and museums around the world, or when Tino Sehgal has performers engage visitors in discussions about art, technology and society, as he did recently at Marian Goodman Gallery, the hope is that artist and artwork will be catalysts for sociability, communality and a more humane world.

Could moviemaking become such a socially transformative activity? Imagine a sequel to “Be Kind Rewind” in which guerrilla filmmaking groups sweep the nation, creating a grass-roots cinema by and for the people that raises the collective self-consciousness. That seems about as probable as community theater replacing Broadway.

So Mr. Gondry is trying to have it both ways. On the one hand he can enjoy being a celebrity auteur and a visionary conceptual artist; on the other, in theory at least, he can be seen as a populist champion.

It doesn’t add up. Mr. Gondry comes off seeming confused and conflicted — if not condescending, self-serving and intellectually slippery. Given how inventive an artist he has proven to be, it would be interesting to see him try to realize his fantasies outside the magic bubbles of high-end moviemaking and the high-brow art world.

I saw this video and I loved it the concept is great, I like that it doesnt feel like a music video but instead fills like a short movie, the acting is good I like how he goes from desesesperation to acceptance of his fate, the only thing I would have changed is the explosion if you cant make it look natural you shouldnt put it if I would have done it id have moves past him and into the sky and then just make the explosio sound but all in all this is great, great music great band defenitly going to hear them more

fuck to make my life feel even more crappy my glasses broke now I need a new pair I was intending to buy a new one but I still wanted to keep my oldset or to throw them away after I had the new ones now ill be blind for a few weeks or just use the contacts

I don't like the things you don't say
Leaving it for such a long long time
Why do you show me those sad sad eyes
Each time you decide to pass on by

And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still

Autumns you know sad eyes
Makes me laugh and laugh and more
I'll have a bath or make the dinner and then I'll go wait for a long long time
But still you haven't passed my door

And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still

I can tell that you're lonely
But it seems now
There's nothing you want me to do
So I won't try to take the sadness from those eyes that I love
Leave it open for someone else to

And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still

Trying to hold it together
Keep my love as light as a feather
Sad eyes baby it's been such a long time
Keep my heart breaking in the dark
Come and spend the day

Trying to hold it together
Keep my love as light as a feather
Sad eyes baby it's been such a long time
Keep my heart breaking in the dark
Come and spend the day