Alida Valli: January 2011

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Hi my friends. I've gone and switched to tumblr. All the cool kids are doing it and to be honest after playing with it a bit, I can see why. It's snazzy and seamlessly works between all the various social media. So this blog will remain here for history's sake, but from now on you can find me:

HERE: http://kerryannmccombs.tumblr.com/

Andrew Garfield + The Goonies = SWOON

In the new edition of W Magazine my current crush, Andrew Garfield, says this:

"I found The Goonies very inspiring. I identified with every character: Mikey, the leader; Mouth, the trickster; Data, the inventor; and Chunk, this lovely, beautiful, sad, misunderstood, slightly larger kid. The Goonies is boys needing to be boys on their path to manhood. It’s a classic."

And my crush grows.

Saturdays with Hedy Lamarr #42

The Jay Cutler Debate

If you pay any attention to sports and the NFL, the big debate right now if over Jay Cutler and if he could have returned to play against the Packers on Sunday in the NFC Championship game after injuring his knee. During the game, very little information was given out about the severity of the injury, causing many current NFL players and those in the media to question Cutler's toughness and desire. Yesterday, a MRI revealed that Cutler had a Grade II sprain of the medial collateral ligament (MCL) of his left knee. A while back, I blogged about MCL injuries and more specifically, Troy Polamalu's MCL sprain. With a grade II MCL sprain, there is some tearing of the fibers of the ligament, which would result in a great deal of pain and loss of stability to the medial side of the knee. Since it was Cutler's left knee, and he is right handed, it would be exposed when he is throwing the ball and susceptible to further injury. The knee was also examined by the team's athletic trainers and doctors, and they determined he did not need to play. In my professional opinion, it would be very difficult for a quarterback to play after immediately sustaining a grade II MCL sprain. Some stories have come out that Drew Brees played this season with an injured MCL. One, we do not know the severity of the injury, and two, I am sure Brees received extensive treatment during the week before Sunday and was properly taped and braced for the games. I think many people do not like Jay Cutler, and they just wanted to pile on him. I have no personal like or dislike towards Cutler, but it would be difficult for any player, especially a quarterback, to play immediately after suffering a grade II MCL sprain.

The Town - Movie Review

Ok, I just don't get it. Why did this movie get so much praise? A 94% Fresh rating on rottentomatoes.com?? Did we watch the same movie? I can't even properly review this, so I'm just going to bullet point it:

Implausible plot - I'm sorry, but I just didn't believe it. There is no way that criminals that are supposed to be so good at evading the FBI could be this dumb.
Terrible acting or overacting - Seriously, what was Jon Hamm thinking? "Oh I get to NOT be Don Draper so I better chew as much scenery as possible so people can see that I CAN not be Don Draper." He was laughably bad. Blake Lively and Jeremy Renner overacted too. Ben didn't overact, but he didn't act very well. The best of the whole bunch was the late, great Pete Postlethwaite.
Cheeseball dialogue - Mainly spewed out by Jon Hamm. I guess they decided that the cheesiest actor could have the cheesiest lines like this one, "This is the not fucking around crew so get me something that looks like a print because this not fucking around thing is about to go both ways."
My favorite line in the entire movie? When Jon Hamm says to Rebecca Hall's character after the lightbulb goes off that she warned Ben Affleck away, "You know we are a NATIONAL organization." WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN??? So what, she can't fool you guys because you're a NATIONAL organization? Dumbest line EVER.

So yeah, all in all I thought this film was terrible and I am completely baffled by the attention it got last year. The seeds of a good movie were there...they just didn't pull it off.

Portlandia - Did you read?

Are you watching Portlandia on IFC??? YOU SHOULD BE!

This American Life & SNL Influencing my dreams...

I woke up this morning from the strangest dream.

In the dream I went to a party. It was at like a bookstore? There were dark, wooden bookshelves lining all the walls and nooks and crannies with tables and chairs in which to get lost. As I entered the party I found one nook where Seth Myers from SNL was hanging out with Ira Glass the host This American Life and Jonathan Goldstein, a contributor to This American Life. I walked into the nook and immediately noticed that Seth was wearing these ridiculous Ed Hardy-like, grafittied jeans. I smirked at him (because in the dream we were old friends and I was allowed to make fun of him) and said, sarcastically, "Nice pants." He rolled his eyes and said, darkly, "Thanks, Jonathan gave them to me." So I looked at Jonathan with a look that said, "Really? Really Jonathan? Those are the most ridiculous pants I've ever seen!" At that exact moment, David Rakoff, another This American Life contributor walked up to us and without missing a beat from when Seth said, "Thanks, Jonathan gave them to me," I clapped David on the shoulder and said, "Speaking of Jonathan Goldstein, has everyone read David Rakoff's new book?" This was apparently the funniest thing in the world for me to say. Like it was some kind of bizarre inside joke and Ira started busting out laughing, you know in that cute Ira Glass laugh that he has? In that moment what I had said was totally brilliant and funny and I was the hit of that party. So in the dream I of course quickly walked away from them before my brilliant and funny moment could be tainted by the next unbrilliant and unfunny moment.

Weird dream, huh? But when I woke up I felt the brilliant and funny feeling from the dream! It was good! I liked that feeling! I wished I could hold onto it, which is why I immediately scribbled down this dream so I wouldn't forget it. It sure doesn't retain it's brilliance and humor as I typed it up here. Oh well, such is the stuff of dreams....

Nokia E5 Reviews

Nokia E5, the latest addition to the Eseries stable, taking the best of the Nokia E71 and E72 and making something even better. Before we go through the raft of tasty features on board the Nokia E5, we should ponder on the battery life. 18 hours and 30 minutes talk time (in GSM mode). 29 days standby time. Yep, you read that right. The Nokia E5 is for perfect for anyone who doesn’t like charging their phone. Too often.

Packing the latest version of S60 3rd edition, the Nokia E5 boasts a suite of homescreen features including one-touch access to your favourite contacts, and your favourite social networks. It also boasts Facebook updates direct to your contacts list, so you can always see what your friends are up to and, as it packs the latest version of Nokia Messaging, you get full Instant Messaging functionality too.

Nokia E5 is one of the messaging phones released by the Nokia recently. The E5 comes with full qwerty keyboard and excellent features for the social website integration features. This will definitely attract the social networking consumers and heavy texters. The E5 features a 5 megapixel camera, 3G connectivity, Wi-Fi, MicroUSB, MicroSD card slot, a 3.5mm audio jack, and etc. The most of aspect of the Nokia E5 is its economical price. Read the full review to find out more about the E5.

The Nokia E5 somewhat resembles Nokia E63 in design. It has got an attractive sleek look. We also liked its slim profile and it is one of the compact messenger phones around. The Nokia has ensured to make E5 message friendly. It measures 115mm tall, 58.9mm wide and 12.8mm thick. It weighs around 126grams. It is available in 5 colors: Carbon Black, Sky Blue, Silver Grey, Copper Brown and chalk white.

The E5 sports 2.36inch display, which has the resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and supports 256000 colors. The screen is bright and colorful. We don’t have any gripes with it.

Below the screen you will find a navigation array that includes a four way square toggle with middle select key, two soft keys, dedicated shortcut keys for accessing favorite contacts and messages, the call and End/Power key. We liked the full qwerty keyboard. The keys are sufficiently large and tactile, which offer better feedback. The messaging on this phone is breeze. You will find a 3.5mm audio jack on the top of the device and a microUSB port on the left spine. There is a camera at the back of the device.

Somewhat similar to the Nokia E72 in terms of specification, the E5 combines business messaging with social networking, supporting corporate email systems like Exchange and Lotus Notes on one hand, and social sites such as Twitter and Facebook on the other. It is questionable if corporate customers will actually want their staff to muck about with social networking on their company phones though, but that's another matter entirely.

This is a Symbian smartphone, running S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2. As well as messaging and social networking, the E5 comes with GPS and free navigation software, a VPN client, remote wipe capabilities plus all the usual features that you would expect to find in a messaging smartphone.

Saturdays with Hedy Lamarr #41

The Best Golden Globes 2011 GIFs

Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield being all cute.

Megan Fox being all scary.

Lea Michelle being all fake.

Mila Kunis and Emma Stone being all wacky.

Chris Colfer being all shocked and kissed by girls.

And finally....RDJ smiling all smarmily at Emma Stone.

(If these don't seem to be working all on the same page, please click each one individually to see the magic.)

Nokia e71 colours Features PHotos

The Nokia E71 is optimized for messaging and e-mail with a full messaging keyboard and two customizable home screens, which let users switch easily between business and personal applications. Other features include one-touch keys, intelligent input (including auto-completion), Nokia Calendar, built-in A-GPS, Nokia Maps, 3.2-megapixel camera, music player and e-mail support, including Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email among others. Frequency’s supported depending on model and region: GSM/EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 and WCDMA 900/2100, HSDPA GSM/EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 and WCDMA 850/2100, HSDPA GSM/EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 and WCDMA 850/1900, HSDPA

Nokia e71

Saturdays with Hedy Lamarr #40

The Beauty of Mad Men #20

Season 4, Episode 2, "Christmas Comes But Once a Year"

Nokia Express Music Mobiles

XpressMusic is a brand name for a line of Nokia phones that are specially designed for music playback. The XpressMusic range of phones was launched to compete with the Walkman brand series of Sony Ericsson. All of Nokia’s XpressMusic come with expandable MicroSD memory slots, so these phones can also be used as MP3 players. There are following various series of XpressMusic

There certainly is no prize in guessing that the sound quality of this mobile is amazing and it can easily surpass other Nokia mobiles that have nothing to do with music or sound quality. The best thing is not that it can play music with some difference, but the best thing is that it can play a lot of music for you as it has the capability of supporting an 8GB SD card. It provides an amazing usability options and makes it really easy to manage your music files. Also, it comes with 3.5mm headphone jack that makes it much more interesting to hear your favorite music. An amazing feature in this regard is the feature of “Say and Play” which implies that you can now play your favorite song just by mentioning the artist name. However, it’s not all about music as it has some other features as well that makes it really a complete package to buy.

xPressMusic is catch, to say the least. It has the power to enchant anyone out there. It has 8-way navigation key along with dedicated keys for music. It weighs around 90g that makes it easy to put in your pocket and take it anywhere you want to. IT has GPRS, EDGE and 3G technology to provide the best efficiency in exploring the internet. Camera is another feature that provides a more than good result as it has 2-megapixel camera with 1600×1200 pixels which also comes with a flash light that makes it easy to use that where light may not be sufficient. In this phone, music will be the best thing as FM radio can also be used to listen to your favorite music. IT uses Li-Ion 890 mAh battery that is stated to have a talk time up to 3hour

Mobile phones are fast becoming popular and that is the reason why there have been so many evolutions in mobiles. Today, it’s all about music phone and people are really into the idea of buying mobiles that have a nice sound quality. When it comes to mobile, Nokia has a really respectable place in providing the quality. However, music has never been the plus point of Nokia phones as their main emphasis was on other features but as these music phones are really

The Nokia 5300 XpressMusic is a GSM tri-band hand portable phone supporting GSM 900/1800/1900 or GSM 850/1800/1900 bands with a 240 x 320 pixel active TFT 262k color display, integrated 1.3 Mega pixel digital camera, 3GPP video player/recorder, MicroSD card support, Bluetooth 2.0 and IrDa. The Nokia 5300 XpressMusic is also a Java-enabled phone supporting MIDP Java 2.0 and additional Java APIs.

Nokia announced the arrival of new Nokia Music Stores, more Comes with Music launches and a new music cell . The Nokia 5330 XpressMusic handset brings people's music to life with features that give music lovers around the world easy access to the music they love. By expanding the music cell phone range to different price points,

Subversia - Book Review

Subversia by D.R. Haney

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I was lucky enough to meet Duke Haney once at a party at a mutual friend's house in L.A. I remember immediately liking him and after reading this book of his personal essays I now understand why. How could you not like someone who can write about their own life with such honesty and humor and depth? There is no pretension in Duke's stories even though the life he's led would allow for some. Reading this was like talking to Duke at that party. He's just a cool guy, a nice guy, telling you a bit about himself until suddenly you find yourself completely drawn in and fascinated and you want to just let him keep talking, keep entertaining you. As I read this collection, each story I finished became my favorite story. They all feel very immediate even though some take place over twenty years ago. But if I had to choose my favorites I think they would be Cutty Sarked for it's hilarious honesty, That's What I've Been Trying to Tell You for it's tragedy, beautifully expressed and The Right Profile because I myself once had an obsession with Montgomery Clift.

So, thanks Duke. Keep telling your stories. I'll keep reading them.

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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

okia 5800 XpressMusic is a mobile phone in the bar form factor. The phone’s dimensions and weight are: 111 x 51.7 x 15.5 mm and 109g. The device is designed to operate on the following networks: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 HSDPA 2100. It is necessary to note the presence of a digital camera 3.15 MP, GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps, 3,6 Mbps, Bluetooth v1.2 with A2DP, v 2.0, WAP 2.0/xHTML, Predictive Text Input T9.

announced today that the highly anticipated is now, or soon will be,Nokia 5800 XpressMusic available in select markets globally, including Russia, Spain, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Finland, among others. The latest in Nokia’s XpressMusic range, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers an affordable music device with a touch screen interface to the mass market.announced today that the highly anticipated is now, or soon will be, available in select markets globally, including Russia, Spain, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Finland, among others. The latest in Nokia’s XpressMusic range, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers an affordable music device with a touch screen interface to the mass market.

The innovative ‘Contacts Bar’ lets people highlight four favorite contacts on their home-screen and, through a single touch, track a digital history of recent text messages, emails, phone logs, photos and blog updates.

For the best screen resolution available on a mobile phone, the 3.2″ widescreen display brings photos, video clips and web content to life in vibrant color and true clarity. With a 16 by 9 aspect ratio and 30 frames-per-second playback and recording, the device is ideal for VGA quality video recording and playback. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic also features a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and, with a single touch,

The Nokia Company announced about more than one million Nokia 5800 XpressMusic sold.

This result was achieved with the sales start in Great Britain. As the producer mentioned in press release, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is the first Nokia smartphone with sensor display oriented for mass sales.

We should remind that smartphone Nokia 5800 XpressMusic was released in Russia, Hong Kong and some other regions at the end of last year. The Great Britain sales of Nokia 5800 started recently.

The 5800 has a right camera for a start. At 3.2 megapixels it’s not the best camera phone by a long way, but it uses Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus and has a dual LED flash and leaves is the iPhone. It also has a decent video camera that can record up to 640 x 480 pixels and 30 frames per second with stereo sound. A front-mounted video camera allows you to make video calls over a 3G network.

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