While You Can!

And the review up top is: All her recent films were rubbish, god bless america.

I'm in America for the first time in two years, and it *IS* weird and scary and patriotic in a downright frightening way. So shoot her for saying the obvious.

God, the American media is frightening. I've been looking for evidence of this left wing liberal media conspiracy, but American liberalism is further right of British Tories.

you've been there too long already!! Coooommmeeee bbbaaaaaccckkkkk!

at 2 dollar a minute? no thanks

okay, somebody's going to die for this one...

*groans*
*laughs*
*groans again*

I see these sorts of comments and I know they are made to inflate yor sense of self-worth, a couragous and knowing dissident in a land of boobs but then I begin to wonder which USA you are actually in.

http://welfarewarriors.org/images/seattle--wto%20protest.jpg
http://fornits.com/renegade/images/seattle.gif

When was the last time that you LEFT the USA? Honestly, I really am curious. I lived in the US for 20 years, it's not like I'm some tourist making snotty remarks to make myself feel better. Maybe it's not the country that's changed, maybe it's me. But the atmosphere here is notably different even from two years ago - heck, it's notably different from five years ago, even before 9/11 though that's the excuse everyone uses.

Sometimes you need to step away from something in order to see it as it really is. It's called perspective.

Anyway. To Eisbar - it used to be that you were only guaranteed UK citizenship if your father was a UK citizen, but I think that's changed now.

I wanna give you a place to release your feelings, A starbeat rhythm with a standard meaning
A word and a message with a lot of emotion, With total dedication and a lot of devotion
And a lot of devotion, I wanna give you devotion

Well let's start here at the beginning of my lyric, To be too bad to rhyme is not a merit
To rock to roll for soul is what I aim for, Wait till I hit the goal and that's a top score
Some tunes are long others with an ease, To write my rhyme in line when there's a cool breeze
Keepin' on and on and on and on till you get the job son, job's nearly done

Hooh-hooh-ooh-hooh-ooh-hooh-ooh-ooh...
I wanna give you devotion, I wanna give you devotion
Total dedication and a lot of devotion, Hooh-hooh-ooh-hooh-ooh-hooh-ooh-ooh...

Well magical moments, moments are magical, Starcall, mystical, logical, lyrical
Magical moments are meant to be kept, Don't erase them from your brain I need to inject
I have a dream, but there's a nightmare inside, It's getting me uptight for the sight is a fright
'Cause the night creeps in, creepin', creepin', Slowly gassin', frightnin', spooky
'Cause a frightnin' nightmare can terrorise, Poll tax came and up went the rise
Open your eyes and realise I'm a truly disguise, Like hawk the slayer he came and caught me
Maggie came but now she's slaughtered

I wanna give you devotion
So don't use abuse or lose you're like flotex, Rock the mike to the disc and don't get upset
Rhyme in time to the finest quality, That's the time when you know that you're a MC
M I K double E, Takin' it down now Mikee
M I K double E, I wanna give you devotion

You got to
Takin' it down and takin' it down and takin' it down Mikee
Takin' it down and takin' it down and takin' it down Mikee
Takin' it down and takin' it down and takin' it down Mikee, Mikee
Takin' it down and takin' it down, Mikee
Hooh-hooh-ooh-hooh-hooh-ooh-ooh, M I K double, double E

I wanna give you devotion, I wanna give you devotion
I wanna give you devotion, Hooh-hooh-ooh-hooh-hooh-ooh-ooh

Why don't you come for me, come for me, Come for me, come for me now
Are you confident enough, ladies or am I singin' it for the sound, for the sound for me
Why don't you come for me, Why don't you come for me
Come for me, come for me, because I I'm an entertainer, I'm an entertainer, come for me
I'm an entertainer, I'm an entertainer, I'm an entertainer, I'm an entertainer
Come for me, I'm an entertainer, I'm an entertainer
Some of the lyrics, some of the lyrics are black some are the heart attack
Well some of the lyric, Some are fast and some are like that
The best of them, best of them, some of them might be easy, Come to the microphone
I'm just another cool breeze, I'm just another cool breeze
Hooh-hooh-ooh-hooh-hooh-ooh-ooh

I wanna give you a place to release your feelings, A starbeat rhythm with a standard meaning
A word with a message with a lot of emotion, With total dedication and a lot of devotion
And a lot of devotion, I wanna give you devotion (fade)

and some of that has died down a little, absolutely. but i saw A LOT of the US this summer, and it is a weird atmosphere. i'm not a huge gwyneth fan or anything, but i don't disagree with anything she said. i think a lot of it is fixable if the administration changed. but there are certain things that give me the creeps.

Thank you.

heck!

Maggie, the poll tax, all that in that tune?

Boy, did I miss that one.

Fair sent me back to the red wedge that did..

(Also, major props for making me spit coffee at my monitor this early in the morning)

NEW YORK (AP) - Gwyneth Paltrow speaks almost perfect Spanish - and she does it with an Iberian accent.

The Oscar-winning actress says she traveled to Spain as a teenager, fell in love with the country, and embraces the culture to the point that she visits at least once a year and makes sure her young children, Apple and Moses, also speak the language.

"When I was 15, I went to a small town outside Talavera de la Reina and I had the most wonderful experience. It really changed my life," Paltrow said in fluent Spanish during a recent interview.

Paltrow said Spain "became a second home."

"It is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible," she said.

"Also, the way people live over there. They seem to enjoy life a little bit more. They aren't running around as much as in New York. They enjoy time with the family. They don't always have their Blackberries on."

Paltrow remains close to the family she lived with in Spain, calling them "my Spanish mother" and "my brothers" from Spain. Her success as an actress, she says, hasn't impressed them.

The 36-year-old actress, who is married to Coldplay's Chris Martin, says she talks to her children in Spanish.

"Moses speaks a little bit, but understands everything. Apple speaks a lot," she says.

Paltrow shot "Spain ... on the Road Again" with chef Mario Batali, cooking expert Mark Bittman and actress Claudia Bassols. They traveled throughout the country, sampling traditional foods and praising the virtues of Spain, its people and cuisine.

She's also writing a book on U.S. cuisine with Spanish influence that is due out next year.

" ... I love food, I love to eat," she says. "I can't go on diets. I have to do a lot of exercise."

She also enjoys Mexican, Italian and Japanese food.

"I'm always playing with different flavors. If I remember a phenomenal meal I had in a country, I think of its ingredients, and how I can make it in my own kitchen."

Paltrow recently launched a Spanish-language version of her Web site, GOOP.com, a weekly bulletin in which she writes on topics ranging from health advice and travel to fashion and cooking. Contributors include Madonna, Steven Spielberg and Deepak Chopra.

Has she considered acting in Spanish?

"I would love to. I haven't found the script yet, but the first (movie) would have to be a small role, not very important, because I imagine I would have to get used to acting in Spanish," she says.

Paltrow says she'd like to work with Spanish directors Pedro Almodovar and Alejandro Amenabar and Mexico's Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. And she says she would like to work again with Mexico's Alfonso Cuaron, who directed her in 1998's "Great Expectations."

She is now shooting "Iron Man 2," in which she reprises her role as Pepper Potts.

"We're all back together: Robert Downey, Jon Favreau, the director. And Scarlett Johansson is with us, Mickey Rourke. ... It's a phenomenal group, we are having a great time."

Paltrow remains close to the family she lived with in Spain, calling them "my Spanish mother" and "my brothers" from Spain. Her success as an actress, she says, hasn't impressed them.

Never impressed me, either.

I keep copying different lines from that article but the whole thing is so WTF. I wonder if she renames their kids. Manzana has a certain ring to it.

those are some extremely original insights into spanish culture

Hang on, Alfonso Cuaron directed Great Expectations?! Is it worth watching at all?

"It is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible," she said.

I find this one to be just plain hilarious.

ahahaha manzana

...goop.com?

if you have never checked out goop.com you're in for a treat

Hang on, Alfonso Cuaron directed Great Expectations?! Is it worth watching at all?

It's very pretty, but not great cinema.

xp Goop is amazing!

William Joel

i get the weekly emails for the lols.

Manzana y Moises.

I am not checking out any site with Deepak Chopra as a regular contributor.

You are only hurting yourself, Ned.

But can quantum healing TRULY help that...

John Favreau, the director

"Nourish the inner aspect"? That made me want to reach through the monitor screen and strangle the butterfly.

strangle the butterfly

Weirdest euphemism for wanking I've heard in a long time.

Jon Favreau, the director

tbf, this distinguishes him from Obama's speechwriter

x-post -- It's a brave new world.

She always writes like that, though.