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Vancouverite Sunday Styles Vol. 2

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THE GIFT OF SCARLETT

Scarlett Johansson looks both naughty and nice in this week's New York Times with photographs by Raymond Meier and talking about how great cashmere socks are. "The perfect gift," Johanson tells the Times. "Is cashmere socks. They are the greatest thing ever. A pair of thick cashmere socks will make anyone happy. I learned this when I bought a pair for myself. Now I give them to everybody." What we can't wait for is the first of two Woody Allen-Scarlett Johansson films, Match Point, which opens early January.

STUFF
Woot. We just like saying that word. But in this case, Boing Boing points us to a site, woot.com, which offers one, and only one, product every day at a pretty low price.

Or how about an air powered USB Dart launcher? Yes! There are endless people at our day job that could use the hell fire of darts hitting them. In fact, maybe we could kick it up with a predator drone too.

MUSIC
The 1-click download feature on iTunes will be the death of us. It's completely unfair. This week we took the plunge with:
*James Blunt (after seeing him on SNL - yes we watched it, sorry.) and it's great.
*Page France's first album "Come, I'm a Lion!" (a pick from Vancouverite Art Director Graham).
*Levy and their Rotten Love debut album (after hearing about their very hot music video) - we especially like the song "On the Dance Floor".
*Imogen Heap's latest effor (because there isn't new Frou Frou out).
* Oh and how could we resist the new Seu Jorge "The Life Aquactic Studio Sessions".

Taken together, they could make a pretty decent soundtrack basis for a movie. Scratch that. A totally great soundtrack. A nice week for music.

FUNNY
Hilarious Will Ferrell as George W. Bush at the ranch, growing out his soul patch, playing some frisbee golf with Condie Rice and Dick Cheney (Thanks to News Today)

Starting December 5th The Guardian will have weekly podcast shows by Ricky Gervais:

Each week, award-winning comedians Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant rummage around in the mind of Karl Pilkington to prove he's not just the village idiot, he's beaten off all competition to take the national title. Join Ricky and Steve as they help Karl wrestle with such burning issues as: "Jellyfish - do we need them?" "How could an infinite number of monkeys type the complete works of Shakespeare if they've never read it?" "Why do you never see an old bloke eating a Twix?"

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Posted by: Graham

December 4, 2005 01:29 PM

A couple more musical suggestions for the week. Gemma Hayes new little beauty "The Roads Don't Love You" and the very french Keren Ann's newest "Not Going Anywhere", also check out "La Biographie De Luka Philipsen" (en francais)

Posted by: Danno

December 4, 2005 03:35 PM

I went on an iTunes buying spree last night. God bless apple.

I highly recommend M.I.A - hit that and hit it hard. Ok? Ok.

By the way Jackson, where's the weather blogging man, there's huge news out there. It's Snowing! At times it's even sleet! I think I turned around at one point today and it had turned into RAIN!

God I love Scarlett - the sooner she realizes I will sire her children and she will love me undyingly for time immemorial the better. I have no idea how she lives within such positively astounding levels of denial.

Posted by: Jackson Murphy

December 4, 2005 04:58 PM

Danno. About the M.I.A.? Are you just joking around or are you serious? I kid. Bu perhaps along with the weather blogging I should throw down some cat blogging too? Please advise.

Oh, and leave my Scarlett alone.

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