June 2011
1 post
All I wanted to do was 'Unfollow' them...
Most people who know me, know that I really enjoy keeping abreast of whats going on in the world of Technology news, be it watching TWiT netcasts, browsing various blogs (such as Engadget, Gizmodo, BGR, AppleInsider, CultofMac, 9to5Mac, Techcrunch, ThisIsMyNext) subscribing to ConsumerReports, etc…I love knowing what’s coming next, Apple Rumors, etc. So I was really excited when Ryan...
May 2011
1 post
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-jNbSr3Yw0&t=3m14s →
I read was reading this quote from Zach Galifianakis in an interview he did here: www.shortlist.com/entertainment/films/the-hangover-part-ii-interview
I had a talk show [2002’s Late [World] With Zach]. We had this actor come in and we were like, “Let’s just put one person in the audience and act as if nobody wants to come to our show.” The actor got so p*ssed. The interview had happened and...
November 2010
1 post
“On The True Authorship of Hearts of Darkness:
“I think the more...”
– George Hickenlooper (1963 - 2010), http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/10/hickenlooper_in.php
I was really bummed to read about the death of George Hickenlooper this weekend. I will always credit HIS and Fax Behr’s documentary, “Hearts of Darkness,” with opening my eyes to the...
October 2010
1 post
iTunes Genius Mix Craziness!
I am trying to figure out the logic for the Genius mix that iTunes created today based on Lindsey Buckingham’s Big Love:
Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac (makes sense) ->
The Royal Scam by Steely Dan (ok, same time period) ->
Band on the Run by Paul McCartney and Wings (hmm?) ->
You Only Live Twice by Nancy Sinatra (maybe because Wings did a Bond theme, too?) ->
...
June 2010
4 posts
DVD Purging - DONE!!!!
As I previously mentioned, here is the list of DVDs I was considering purging and links to the reviews I wrote:
Storytelling (d. Todd Solondz) DISCARD
Good Night, and Good Luck (d. George Clooney) DISCARD
Punch-Drunk Love (d. Paul Thomas Anderson) DISCARD
Timecode (d. Mike Figgis) DISCARD
The Fountain (d. Darren Aronofsky) DISCARD
American Splendor (d. Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer...
Amores Perros (d. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
Watching ‘Amores Perros’ is like watching a ticking time bomb. You know how it will end, but you delude yourself into thinking there might be a happy ending. Then *BOOM!*
The bomb in this film is a car crash that ties three different stories together into one tragic opera about life in Mexico City. It’s as if you are watching a documentary unfold. Several times while viewing...
One More to Go! (Another DVD Purging Update)
As I previously mentioned, here is the list of DVDs I am considering purging and links to what I have reviewed so far:
Storytelling (d. Todd Solondz) DISCARD
Good Night, and Good Luck (d. George Clooney) DISCARD
Punch-Drunk Love (d. Paul Thomas Anderson) DISCARD
Timecode (d. Mike Figgis) DISCARD
The Fountain (d. Darren Aronofsky) DISCARD
American Splendor (d. Robert Pulcini & Shari...
Der Krieger und die Kaiserin [The Princess and the...
‘The Princess and the Warrior’ was German writer/director Tom Tykwer’s follow-up to his international smash-hit ‘Lola rennt’ (Run Lola Run). Unlike his prior film, it has a much more conventional story-line and linear narrative structure. It stars Franka Potente as Sissi, a nurse in a Psychiatric Hospital, who, through either fate or her own personal decisions,...
April 2010
8 posts
Almost Done (Another DVD Purging Update)
As I previously mentioned, here is the list of DVDs I am considering purging and links to what I have reviewed so far:
Storytelling (d. Todd Solondz) DISCARD
Good Night, and Good Luck (d. George Clooney) DISCARD
Punch-Drunk Love (d. Paul Thomas Anderson) DISCARD
Timecode (d. Mike Figgis) DISCARD
The Fountain (d. Darren Aronofsky) DISCARD
American Splendor (d. Robert Pulcini & Shari...
American Beauty (d. Sam Mendes)
American Beauty, is one of those films that seems to exist perfectly at its point in time. It is a snapshot of the late 1990s, yet doesn’t feel dated. You watch it and are instantly transported into that year of events that is happening on screen, yet it feels like it could be happening today, tomorrow, or even 20 years from now. It just feels right! There are so many stories and ideas on...
More DVD Purging? Sure!
As I previously mentioned, here is the list of DVDs I am considering purging and links to what I have reviewed so far:
Storytelling (d. Todd Solondz) DISCARD
Good Night, and Good Luck (d. George Clooney) DISCARD
Punch-Drunk Love (d. Paul Thomas Anderson) DISCARD
Timecode (d. Mike Figgis) DISCARD
The Fountain (d. Darren Aronofsky) DISCARD
American Splendor (d. Robert Pulcini & Shari...
Way of the Gun (d. Christopher McQuarrie)
Honey honey. She’s got a big mouth but she’s not kidding. I’m gonna whip you silly and I’m gonna fuck you stupid. You wanna do the man dance? First dance is yours.
I’ll start with the plot summary: Two criminals (Benicio Del Toro and Ryan Philippe) looking for a quick buck kidnap a pregnant surrogate mother (Julliette Lewis), who is being paid to carry a...
Coconut Curried Tofu!
Coconut Curried Tofu with Green Beans and Coconut Rice
I needed an excuse to get the Double Down off the top of my blog, so I figured I would mention this great recipe I made last night. I substituted low-fat coconut milk and it still tasted great. I highly recommend if you are looking for a nice, fresh, recipe to use up some Tofu on!
DVD Purging (still going strong...)
As I previously mentioned, here is the list of DVDs I am considering purging and links to what I have reviewed so far:
Storytelling (d. Todd Solondz) DISCARD
Good Night, and Good Luck (d. George Clooney) DISCARD
Punch-Drunk Love (d. Paul Thomas Anderson) DISCARD
Timecode (d. Mike Figgis) DISCARD
The Fountain (d. Darren Aronofsky) DISCARD
American Splendor (d. Robert Pulcini & Shari...
Wonder Boys (d. Curtis Hanson)
Stop looking so smug!!!
She was a junkie for the printed word. Lucky for me, I manufactured her drug of choice. ~ Grady Tripp
Wonder Boys is a pleasant film. But, I am not really using ‘pleasant’ as a compliment, more like an apathetic desciption. It sort of floats around from one nice scene to another. Everyone in it does a good job and seems to be having fun and then it’s...
March 2010
8 posts
DVD Purging (et al.)
As I previously mentioned, here is the list of DVDs I am considering purging and links to what I have reviewed so far:
Storytelling (d. Todd Solondz) DISCARD
Good Night, and Good Luck (d. George Clooney) DISCARD
Punch-Drunk Love (d. Paul Thomas Anderson) DISCARD
Timecode (d. Mike Figgis) DISCARD
The Fountain (d. Darren Aronofsky) DISCARD
American Splendor (d. Robert Pulcini & Shari...
Your Friends & Neighbors (d. Neil LaBute)
Mary: Life is complicated. It’s a funny world. People can’t communicate. And you couldn’t keep your erection.
I came away from my viewing of Neil LaBute’s ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ with a few observations:
Ben Stiller looks like David Mamet’s twin (and I really wish he had written this movie).
This movie reaffirms my belief that Catherine Keener...
DVD Purging (still going strong...)
Here is the list so far (you can read my thoughts in the entries below:
Storytelling (d. Todd Solondz) DISCARD
Good Night, and Good Luck (d. George Clooney) DISCARD
Punch-Drunk Love (d. Paul Thomas Anderson) DISCARD
Timecode (d. Mike Figgis) DISCARD
The Fountain (d. Darren Aronofsky) DISCARD
American Splendor (d. Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman) KEEP
Your Friends &...
American Splendor (d. Robert Pulcini & Shari...
“I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I’d feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All I did was think about Jennie Gerhardt and Alice Quinn and all the decades of people I had known. The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day is a brand new...
DVD Purging (still going...)
Here is the list so far (you can read my thoughts in the entries below:
Storytelling (d. Todd Solondz) DISCARD
Good Night, and Good Luck (d. George Clooney) DISCARD
Punch-Drunk Love (d. Paul Thomas Anderson) DISCARD
Timecode (d. Mike Figgis) DISCARD
The Fountain (d. Darren Aronofsky) DISCARD
American Splendor (d. Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman)
Your Friends & Neighbors...
The Fountain (d. Darren Aronofsky)
I watched ‘The Fountain’ the first time on plane, coming home from a trip to Europe in the Summer of 2007. If I recall correctly, I watched it on one of those little seat-back screens on a Virgin Atlantic flight. I remember being really moved by the story and really wanting to see it on a bigger screen. So I am not sure why that after buying the film on disc, it stayed sealed in...
DVD Purging (cont...)
Here is the list so far (you can read my thoughts in the entries below:
Storytelling (d. Todd Solondz) DISCARD
Good Night, and Good Luck (d. George Clooney) DISCARD
Punch-Drunk Love (d. Paul Thomas Anderson) DISCARD
Timecode (d. Mike Figgis) DISCARD
The Fountain (d. Darren Aronofsky)
American Splendor (d. Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman)
Your Friends & Neighbors (d. Neil...
Punch-Drunk Love (d. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Alright, after a brief respite for the Olympics, I am back with some more quick notes on my DVD purging.
Last night, I attempted to watch Punch-Drunk Love. Firstly, I want to say that this movie is really good at making you feel really uncomfortable. I will be honest; I was not able to make it all the way through the movie last night. Just thinking about this movie right now, makes me feel...
February 2010
6 posts
DVD Purging (cont...)
Here is the list so far (you can read my thoughts in the entries below:
Storytelling (d. Todd Solondz) DISCARD
Good Night, and Good Luck (d. George Clooney) DISCARD
Punch-Drunk Love (d. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Timecode (d. Mike Figgis) DISCARD
The Fountain (d. Darren Aronofsky)
American Splendor (d. Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman)
Your Friends & Neighbors (d. Neil LaBute)
...
Good Night, and Good Luck (d. George Clooney)
“We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too...
DVD Purging (so far...)
Here is the list so far (you can read my thoughts in the entries below:
Storytelling (d. Todd Solondz) DISCARD
Good Night, and Good Luck (d. George Clooney)
Punch-Drunk Love (d. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Timecode (d. Mike Figgis) DISCARD
The Fountain (d. Darren Aronofsky)
American Splendor (d. Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman)
Your Friends & Neighbors (d. Neil LaBute)
Wonder...
Timecode (d. Mike Figgis)
I skipped ahead in my list, so I could watch a film that I remember being so excited about 10 years ago; I was curious to see if I would still find the film as exciting as I remembered. Timecode is Mike Figgis’ grand experiment in digital filmaking, utilizing 4 hand-held cameras, we are simultaneously shown (via a 4-way split screen) the events taking place one afternoon in and around a LA...
Storytelling (d. Todd Solondz)
“I don’t know about what happened… because once you start writing, it ALL becomes fiction.”
I had forgotten about how interesting this film was. It is a more approachable film, than Happiness (Todd Solondz’s excellent, but very disturbing, previous film), but that is not saying much.
This film is really 2 short films that are explorations of “fiction”...
Some DVD Purging
In anticipation of some reorganizing in the house, I think its time to whittle down my DVD collection. In the past, the idea of getting rid-of some of my DVDs would have been unthinkable, but with Netflix and other means of digital distribution, I feel that I can watch any movie I want to, sometimes within a few minute, and at worst, within a day or two.
I put about 12 discs in the ‘get...
January 2010
3 posts
WatchI can’t stop watching this clip of Conan’s newest (and maybe one of his last) character on The Tonight Show - The Bugatti Veyron Mouse. I really hope he lands at Fox @ 11PM.
December 2009
1 post
In 2009...
I gained pre-hypertension and a new doctor. I lost 8 lbs (and counting!). I stopped eating sweets and/or desserts. I started riding my exercise bike (at least a few times a week). I was hugely satisfied by my company’s recent stock valuation. And frustrated by my raise. I am so embarrassed that I am now using a Blackberry. Once again, I am a hypocrite towards a new annoying technology. Once again,...
November 2009
2 posts
“The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to...”
– Jules Renard (via bunkercomplex)
August 2009
1 post
bunkercomplex:
wepostmusic:
Radiohead — Harry...
June 2009
2 posts
copycats:
I Want You Back by Discovery originally...
April 2009
6 posts
carinaavila:
insidethebox:
Ryan Adams -...
annamarie:
Blood Bank - Bon Iver
I have heard...
March 2009
3 posts
Lost WTF Moment of the Week (3.18.09)
mattedits:
twilightnews:
“Hi Ben” is the obvious way to go here, but a close runner up is “I’m sorry, but you have a bit of a journey ahead of you”.
However, the true WHAT THE F*CK comes courtesy of Sawyer’s line:
“Where’s my baggy hoodie with the bulldog on it?”
Your telling me Sawyer has a “baggy” hoodie so “baggy” it would fit Hurley? Really?!?! That is the hardest pill to swallow from a...
21.5/100
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen () 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien () 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte () 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X) (This should count as 7!) 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (X) 6 The Bible () 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (1/2 X) 8...
February 2009
2 posts
I have been a casual fan of The Smiths but never a...
“Stupid iTunes and there DRM”
– Jonathan Reeve
*twitch* *twitch* grammar fail *twitch* (but the content of the message is right on)
(via 102828)
What I meant to say was “Stupid iTunes and that there DRM” - See, I really ain’t not that ignorant!