The guy from Shawn of the Dead made a romantic comedy and David Schwimmer from the TV show “Friends” directed it. It had a couple good laughs and was a fairly harmless movie.

Check out the website.

A cute and clever romantic comedy from France. It had a lot of twists and turns. I really enjoyed it!

Watch the trailer.

Here’s IM conversation with Jonah (who is French)

Matt Cooper
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/priceless/
this was a fun movie I saw this weekend
if you like silly french films
Jonah
god damn she’s in everthing isn’t she
we have like 5 actors
Matt Cooper
hahhaha

Lenny “Step One” Bunn where did you go. It’s the Loaf. Shoot me an email if you ever Google yourself. It’d be fun to catch up.

(coop at coopgrafik dot com)

It’s kinda hard to get the vibe from the photo but in the theater lobby there’s a little restaurant with great food. No really it’s good and there’s the view. You’re RIGHT next to the freeway but you can’t hear the cars at all so it’s sort of surreal and beautiful. Did I mention there was a full bar?

I think this may take the award for the most beautiful Sofa of the Month ever. Just look at the way it pours out on the street in an avalanche of blue plaid. The first thing to note though is that all the cushions are here. Normally people hold onto those for some reason. Maybe they like to prop themselves up in bed to read or the family dog takes one over. Anyway, the obvious bonus of this beauty is a sleeper—SUPER RARE! This is such a hot feature that I swear to you on the body of sweet baby Jesus that I saw a fellow Van Nuys resident with a screwdriver completely strip the entire apparatus out of the loveseat for his own home use. Who wouldn’t?

This little number has already been hauled away by the city. It will be missed. But, it will also live on in the home of the guy who is now sleeping on it’s insides.

I cruised over the Laughlin’s house for a few hands of poker with the buds. it’s always nice to slow down and spend a little time with some old friends. And damn, we are getting old.

Strange thing though. When I show up I see Sean and Rick in a hot tub on his front patio. I want to make it clear that Laughlin lives in an apartment. Check out a few photos of the set up.

Maybe you remember the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer sets up a hot tub in his New York apartment. Well that was crazy right? I mean only on TV would you see something that nutty. Uhhh yeah…

It turns out the hot tub is was Valla’s and some little thing broke on it and Laughlin said he’d take it off his hands. He fixed it on the cheap and I have to say he kinda did a killer job installing it. He dropped in 220v electrical. The thing is sitting on a solid foundation of coarse gravel surrounded by pressure treated lumber. He’s also building an enclosure for some privacy or in his words, “So the titties can be free.” You’d have to hear him talk about his plans to drop in and outdoor grill and wok. I’m telling you he is living the dream.

Laughlin is following his bliss and breaking the rules. I think this is a lesson to us all. Let your titties be free.

Man when I look back I see that I started this project in April… holy shit this is taking forever. Of course I haven’t touched the back yard in months—too cold!

Remember this?

I only have a few more to do and I can finally start to throw some boards up. This is still only 50% of the area I need to cover but I’ll be glad to have this chunk done.

BAD NEWS: see all those trees? They are all going to die. We had an arborist come by to take a look as they were looking kinda sad and we had to cut one down. Turns out they all have a disease and will all have to go. Bummer. I guess I’ll just use this as a chance to envision something new. I think I might do a small grove of bamboo and maybe some little sitting area.