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About This Candle Know those days when you're in a bad mood and frankly intend to stay that way? When everyone's on your nerves, including yourself? Well, next time you feel like this, here's what you do: call in sick, light this candle, stomp around the house and let yourself be pissy ALL DAMN DAY! It's unrealistic to keep an even temper and be nice/fair/virtuous/good all the time. (And if you think you ought to be, our screw perfection candle is for you.) Our crankiness always carries a deeper message--like, we need downtime, or a giant triple cheese pizza, or to watch the massage scene in Living Out Loud thirty-five times in a row, or to speak our truth to someone. Being pissy is often a gateway to powerful changes in our lives. This candle was inspired by Mindy, the original Little Miss Pissy Pants, and is dedicated to LMPP's everywhere. Three cheers for the power of chick angst: Harrumph, Harrumph, Harrumph! —Carla Blazek, creator, zena moon |
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Our Recommended Books, Music & Movies for Little Miss Pissy Pants zena moon sells books, CDs and DVDs in association with Amazon.com. To order, click on the item's title or image, then add it to your Amazon shopping cart. Orders are then filled and shipped by Amazon. Send us your recommendations for this page--we may post them here.
Last updated 4/4/2005
1. A Dame to Kill For (Sin City, Book 2: Second Edition)
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From Amazon.com: It's one of those hot nights, dry and windless. The kind that makes people do sweaty, secret things. Dwight's thinking of all the ways he's screwed up and what he'd give for one clear chance to wipe the slate clean, to dig his way out of the numb gray hell that is his life. And he'd give anything. Just to cut loose. Just to feel the fire. One more time. And then Ava calls.
Because of a shocking ending to the first Sin City book, many people wondered how successful Frank Miller could be with future tales of his no-holds-barred city noir. Enter Dwight McCarthy, a clean-living photographer who tries to avoid trouble because he knows what he's capable of. His tactics don't do him much good when a girl from his past (who he can't say no to) shows up and professes her love for him. When he finds out she's in way over her head, it looks as though trouble has found him. What's going to happen? You guessed it: people get hurt.
2. Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories
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From Amazon.com: First published in 1987, this debut collection of morbidly funny stories has been given a well-deserved second life. Willett is a marvelous philosopher and humanist, even when writing about subjects that beg for a knee-jerk reaction. In "Resume," a run-of-the-mill man gives God a quick rundown of his life. He cheated on his wife once, but notes that he "cried once on someone else's account" while watching a televised unfolding of American POWs returning to Washington and asks God to consider granting immortality in return for nothing, just as "a fresh approach." "Under the Bed" is narrated by a woman who was beaten and raped in her own home. She says the rapist "measurably improved the quality of my life," because she no longer lives in fear of the unknown. In "Mr. Lazenbee," a sixth grader manipulates her school's new campaign to teach children about "touches that feel good" and "touches that feel funny" by pointing fingers at an easy neighborhood target. Willett is alive to the absurd in American culture and the tragicomic struggle for dignity that we often lose. "My mother is dying. My husband's mistress has myasthenia gravis. My younger daughter just gave all of her trust money to the Church of the Famous Maker.... I can't sleep, and I'm not so much depressed as humiliated, both by slapstick catastrophe and by the minute tragedy of my wasted talents," laments Willett's funniest subject, an advice columnist who has an existential crisis in epistolary form. Though some of Willett's observations are predictable, the best of these stories still seem ahead of their time.
3. In the Cut
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From Amazon.com: Several stunning shocks await Moore's longtime readers in her fourth novel. First, there is the change of genre and locale. Her previous books (My Old Sweetheart; The Whiteness of Bones) have been lush, sensitive explorations of coming of age in a dysfunctional family in Hawaii, in an atmosphere permeated by island spirits and traditions. Here, Moore has honed her prose with knife-like precision to construct an edgy, intense, erotic thriller set in bohemian Manhattan. Her protagonist and narrator, Franny, is a divorced NYU professor deliberately closed off from emotional entanglements. She teaches a class for ghetto youth, meanwhile pursuing her obsession with language; she is writing a book recording the street vernacular and the black lingo of New York's seedier neighborhoods. Though on the surface her life seems circumscribed, she is a woman who takes risks, especially sexual risks. One night, she observes a man with a tattoo on his wrist in an act of sexual congress; though she does not see his face, she remembers the red-haired woman who had performed fellatio when she becomes a murder victim. Questioned as a possible witness by homicide detectives James Mallory and his partner Richard Rodriguez, she enjoys the frisson of danger when she takes Mallory as a lover, in spite of the fact that his wrist bears the same tattoo as that of the probable killer. The predatory, slightly corrupt Mallory is a coolly skillful lover, forcing Franny to push beyond sexual barriers into areas she has never explored. But in testing those erotic boundaries, she puts herself in mortal danger. Moore's control of her material is impressive: as she sweeps toward a knockout ending, she employs the gritty vernacular, red-herring clues and cold-blooded brutality of a bona-fide thriller without sacrificing the integrity of her narrative.
1. Golden Ocean
Original Release Date: 2005
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From Amazon.com: Golden Ocean is Kristin Hersh's always-magical songwriting and lyrics all rolled up into an explosive wrapper, courtesy of drumming monster Rob Ahlers and longtime fellow Throwing Muse, Bernard Georges. From start to finish, its all rock n' roll all the time. The ultrafast album openers "Long Painting" and "Bone China" set the stage well, then "Pneuma" comes along, with its instantly memorable Zepellinesque guitar riff and its opening line "Did I just hear you try / to lemon scent the sky?", and that's the exact moment you just know this is going to be a classic album, right up there with the best things Kristin has ever done (and that's saying a lot!). That amazing song alone is worth buying Golden Ocean. But after that, the great songs just keep on coming, from the catchy punk pop song "Clara Bow" to the bluesy dirginess and sad lyrics of "Petal" ("I remember you / Seventeen in the dark outside a party / Crying in the dark, I'm sorry"), all the way through to the melodic Throwing Muses-like "Diving" and the album's epic closer, "Golden Ocean"; With its infectious metal-style chords and complex structure, it's possibly the heaviest, most headbang-able song ever to emerge from Kristin's guitar.
As with all of Kristin's other albums, this one is a showcase for her amazing lyrical ability (though maybe not quite to the extent as the sparser lyric-driven songs on her solo albums). Many of the words seem fuzzy and impressionistic at first ("Your baby joins your party / kicks you out the door / Your baby is your Mardi Gras / in glitter and confetti"). But upon further listens, it all seems to get clear. Sheer brilliance.
Original Release Date: 1992
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From Amazon.com: Emotionally and musically intense, Little Earthquakes shows that the piano is as much a rock & roll instrument as the guitar. Tori Amos's debut (if one disregards Y Kant Tori Read, as one would be well advised to do) is at once listenable and challenging; she takes on every topic, from sex to gender to religion, in an uncompromising manner. Her music appears gentle at first, but this appearance is deceiving, as one quickly learns upon listening to the wrenching "Crucify" or the almost violent "Precious Things." By the time the album gets around to "Me and a Gun," sung hauntingly by Amos without accompaniment from her piano, the juxtaposition of Amos' sweet voice and the emotional complexity of her lyrics is both familiar and shocking. Sandman fans should listen for a reference to author Neil Gaiman in "Tear in Your Hand."
3. Uh Huh Her [EXPLICIT LYRICS]
Original Release Date: 2004
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From Amazon.com: How can someone so unpredictable behave so
predictably? Every time PJ Harvey releases something sophisticated and clean
like 2000's Mercury Music Prize tipped
Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea,
it just about guarantees a contradictory follow-up album is around the bend.
Her ambitious 1992 debut,
Dry, inspired the bitter death rattle of
Rid of Me. Her third offering, 1995's
elegant To Bring You My Love, gave way to the stormy
Is This Desire?. Harvey's sixth solo
album,
Uh Huh Her, doesn't disappoint. It's a nasty riposte to
the success of its predecessor, built on grubby blues-punk riffs and the
brooding, primal howl that Harvey uses when she wants to impersonate a
she-wolf. Some of it seems disappointingly remedial ("The Letter," "Cat on the
Wall"), but the best material ("The Desperate Kingdom of Love," "Who the
Fuck?") just reconfirms that no matter how raw the British songwriter serves
it up, the beauty of her work is undeniable.
1. Swimming Pool (Unrated Version)
(2003) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: In terms of alluring female nudity, Swimming Pool shows a lot, but it's what remains concealed that gives this erotic thriller a potent, voyeuristic charge. With his Hitchcockian handling of secrets and lies, prolific French director François Ozon reunites with his Under the Sand star, Charlotte Rampling, to tell a seductive tale of murder and complicity, beginning when British mystery novelist Sarah Morton (Rampling) seeks peace and relaxation at her publisher's French villa, only to find his brash, sexually liberated daughter Julie (Ludivine Sagnier) arriving shortly thereafter to disrupt her solitary reverie. What begins as mutual annoyance turns into something more sinister and duplicitous, alternating between Julie's predatory sex with men and Sarah's observant, perhaps jealous fascination. These two women, generations apart, share in Ozon's delicate dance of trust, curiosity, and gradual understanding, until a twist ending that forces you to reevaluate everything you've seen. Only then will the mysteries of Swimming Pool be fully and tantalizingly revealed. (Note: The unrated version contains full-frontal nudity that's been edited from the R-rated version. In both versions, the overall plot is not affected.)
(2002) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: Despite the success of My Best Friend's Wedding, Aussie director P.J. Hogan certainly hasn't gone Hollywood. Unconditional Love, co-written with his wife and fellow filmmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse, is a deeply eccentric concoction that ranges from campy comedy to murder mystery. If the whole thing doesn't really come off, it does have much that is funny, giddy, or simply weirder than all-get-out. Kathy Bates enjoys herself as a discarded wife who impulsively flies to England to attend the funeral of her idol, a beloved singer--Jonathan Pryce, in glorious sequined form. Meeting his "valet" (read: secret gay lover), Rupert Everett, she determines to find the dead man's murderer. It's hard to get the tone right on this kind of movie, but it's also easy to like a film that finds time for tributes to Barry Manilow (hey, Hogan rehabilitated ABBA in Muriel's Wedding) and the reassuring spirit of Julie Andrews.
(1994) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: A starkly original film-going experience based on a true life story, this film from New Zealand director Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings) is a stirring drama that offers up the unexpected. The story concerns two girls, outcasts who become best friends, whose bizarre fantasy life becomes more intense as their bond becomes increasingly more obsessive. When the mother of one of the girls tries to intervene and split the girls apart, they kill her and stand trial for murder in what is to this day still a celebrated and controversial case. Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey create two sympathetic and yet uncomfortably eerie characters in riveting portrayals. Featuring some startling and unique moments of visual brilliance as well as a disturbing love story between the two girls, Heavenly Creatures is at once both unsettling and beautiful to behold. | ||||||||
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