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If Fridays are meant for made-up time-wasting office dance-offs, Mondays require a very different but no less specific soundtrack.
May I highly recommend Fergie and Charlotte Church belting out "9 to 5," the ultimate Screw The Man anthem of working girls and guys? They use an honest to God typewriter to do the Dolly Parton classic's opening notes justice. I was totally skeptical about it at first, too, because Dolly and this song in particular are pretty much the queens of my world. But go give it a try -- it got my blood pumping this gray, cold morning.
Speaking of Fergie, I'd been tipped off that she had a lesbianish role in the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino gore, guns and girls double-feature, Grindhouse. That was true but turned out to be only about one-twelfth the total dyke drama of the two flicks, which are not for the faint of heart or fiercely serious.
You get Marley Shelton as Fergie-Ferg's doctor girlfriend, Rose McGowan playing both a smokin'-hot go-go girl with the best prosthetic leg in the history of cinema (eat your heart out, Heather Mills!) and a bottle blonde bar girl, and Sydney Tamiia Poitier as a mouthy morning DJ.
The last half-hour in particular is a terrifyingly brilliant car chase, featuring a demonic Kurt Russell versus two gearheads (Traci Thoms and Zoe Bell), with Rosario Dawson playing cheerleader/backseat driver. It's a gleeful, gruesome race all built around Bell -- who did the dirty work as stunt double for Xena and Uma Thurman in the Kill Bill movies -- and her seeming indestructibility.
Find a theatre full of hipster types determined to let loose and enjoy themselves -- preferably a venue that serves alcohol or has a good bar across the street. Did I mention there are zombies?
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