www.friendster.com  is spreading like wild fire.  I am connected to some three-hundred people.
todd haynes's 'far from heaven'.  the story is typical of the genre, but for me the production is superb; the palette of autumnal burnt ambers, greens, mauves and blues.  haynes made many references to douglas sirk and particula to sirk's all that heaven allows.
there is this nice artist/hipster/unemployed-punk-who-just-sit-on-their-fundament-all-day
 diagram on gawker. 
 
