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3 Mar

So reports say that Winona Ryder, actress, one-time sticky fingers and groupie extraordinarie may or may not be getting married to Rilo Kiley/ The Elected guitarist Blake Sennett.

this guy.
Her reps are saying this ins’t true, but Ryder allegedly announced her engagement during the 2008 Valentino fashion show in Paris. Maybe she just got super excited/drunk on the most romantic city in the world. The pair originally met up during the filming of feature film Water Pill.
If nothing else, this episode adds to the litany of famous/semi-famous actors and musicians who have reportedly gotten down with the big brown beaver. This all star cast includes Johnny Depp (engaged for three years beginning in July 1990), Dave Pirner from Soul Asylum, Dave Grohl, Matt Damon, Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz, Helmet’s Page Hamilton, Ryan Adams and Conor Oberst. There’s probably several more. Yeah, whatever, you’d hit it too.
2 Jan

(note: Spoiler Warning. Be forewarned. And I may ramble on a bit. Again, be forewarned )
I remember how excited I was when I first heard of A Scanner Darkly’s impending release on the big screen. I, along with at least 200 other people, eagerly anticipated the film adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s drug-mired future dystopia. (The film ended up grossing $391,672 its opening weekend….not stellar numbers by any means).

While a great number of the film’s enthusiasts got on board because of their appreciation for Philip K. Dick’s writings, I was not among them. Like every nerd, science fiction holds a dear place in my heart, but over the last decade I’ve not cracked open a science fiction novel, save rereading a few classic favorites (you can’t front on Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land or Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange). My nerdliness taking a shift towards music & art rather than Dungeons & Dragons, and never being a particular fan of Dick’s writing in the first place, I was on board because of a particular name attached to the film. And this name was not a part of A Scanner Darkly’s leading cast — all in their real lives inextricably linked to delinquency and drug-usage (Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Winona Ryder) or, failing that, dumb-as-dirt-ness (Keanu Reeves) — but instead, the film’s director and screenwriter, Richard Linklater.
