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heather graham has a causal inference problem

June 5, 2009 David EvansLeave a comment

The star admits to dabbling with witchcraft. … She says, “I have this group of friends and we get together and we call ourselves The Goddesses and we wish for things and then a lot of amazing things have happened to all of us. …

“We did this thing where we were calling on the wind and the air and this whole storm started on my roof… It was amazing… It’s empowering.

“One of my friends, she didn’t have a lot of money and she was like, ‘I want a better apartment,’ and we were doing these spells for her and then her dad just bought her an apartment.”

And Graham feels U.S. President Barack Obama owes her and her friends a huge debt of gratitude for helping him win last year’s election. … She adds, “My friends really wanted Obama to be elected so we all did a spell… and then he got elected… It worked out good.”

from imdb.com

“how to switch bodies”?

June 4, 2009 David Evans13 Comments

I love that I’ve gotten 5 visits to my blog today from people putting “how to switch bodies” into a search engine. Unfortunately, I suspect my post wouldn’t help them, unless they want to turn their own body into a coach potato body.

movies where people switch bodies

June 4, 2009June 4, 2009 David Evans3 Comments

I just saw a funny, silly Brazilian film, Se Eu Fosse Você, in which an alienated husband and wife switch bodies and learn to appreciate each other, yada yada yada. I was thinking of how many movies have had this premise or a closely related. This is what a friend and I came up with. What are we missing?

Strict body switches

Freaky Friday (original – with Jodi Foster)
Freaky Friday (new – with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis)
Hot Chick (with Rob Schneider and Rachel McAdams)
Vice Versa (with Fred Savage and Judge Reinhold)
18 Again! (with George Burns)
Se Eu Fosse Você [If I Were You]
Se Eu Fosse Você 2
Face/Off – this is the only one I know where the switch is framed as scientific rather than just some fantastic happening
And apparently there was a TV remake of Freaky Friday with Shelley Long

Someone takes over someone else’s body – mayhem ensues

All of me (with Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin)
Heart & Souls (with Robert Downey Jr)
Ghost (briefly – with Whoopi et al)

Wow! Suddenly I’m in a big / little person’s body

Big (with Tom Hanks)
13 Going on 30 (with Jennifer Garner)
17 Again (with Matthew Perry and Zac Efron)

alcoholics and chocolate

May 29, 2009 David Evans1 Comment

All alcoholics should constantly have chocolate available.

This seems like good counsel for the alcoholic and the non-alcoholic alike. I certainly intend to follow it.

from the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book, p133-134, first published in 1939

people magazine for $16 in rio

May 21, 2009 David Evans1 Comment

I was in the Rio de Janeiro airport earlier this week and stepped into the bookstore to see People Magazine selling for 32 Brazilian reais: roughly $16.

Who on earth is buying People Magazine for $16?

you know you speak Portuguese badly when…

May 17, 2009 David Evans1 Comment

You’re standing in line for a Brazilian film and chatting – in “Portuguese” – with the guy behind you and he says, “You realize this movie is Brazilian [i.e., in Portuguese], right?”
You’re buying something in a bookstore and ask the seller to repeat one line, so she switches to Spanish and refuses to go back. (Sorry, buddy, you blew it. You have been downgraded.)

always carry earplugs when you go running in Brasilia

May 14, 2009May 15, 2009 David EvansLeave a comment

Given that Sunday night, Monday night, Tuesday night, and Friday night of this week would all be spent in airports, tonight I decided to go to a movie. So I jogged over to a local mall and saw Divã, a Brazilian movie about a middle-aged woman who has a crisis and learns to sieze the day. (Whoo-hoo. Anyway, I’m happy to support local cinema.)

There were three trailers, one American (Duplicity) and two Brazilian (Jean Charles [drama – I couldn’t figure it out trailer] and A Mulher Invisível [like Lars and the Real Girl except made as a crude comedy]). After Divã, I slipped into Wolverine – which was dubbed – and Star Trek – which was subtitled. I guess they subtitle the art films. Popcorn prices were similar to the USA.

As I jogged home around 11pm, I heard really loud music and followed it until I came to a giant fairground featuring a Festival of the Northeast. I bought some traditional literature [literatura de cordel] and then got to rock out for a couple of hours to Capitão Axé, a band from Bahia. People from age 6 to 70+ totally grooving out. Many in traditional costumes.

After that awesomeness, I take back everything I’ve said about Brasilia.