5.15.2004
So these are things that I'm sure people have heard about already, but I post anyway - if you haven't seen The Fog of War, do it now. Same goes for episodes of the late great "Freaks and Geeks", now out on DVD. NBC canceled this show about high school kids in 1980 Michigan after only 18 episodes, and it's fantastic. It has Biff from Back to the Future as a gym teacher and Linda Cardellini as an ex-mathlete.
Songs I can't stop hearing in my head lately: "Gone For Good" by the Shins, "She's An Angel" by They Might Be Giants, "It's Only Time" by The Magnetic Fields. Pop continues to rule the earth. And speaking of They Might Be Giants, the documentary Gigantic about them is awesome.
I have a Watergate obsession lately and I can't explain it.
Songs I can't stop hearing in my head lately: "Gone For Good" by the Shins, "She's An Angel" by They Might Be Giants, "It's Only Time" by The Magnetic Fields. Pop continues to rule the earth. And speaking of They Might Be Giants, the documentary Gigantic about them is awesome.
I have a Watergate obsession lately and I can't explain it.
5.09.2004
Maybe FG is ‘done.’ I thought, though, that music.for-robots would be everyone’s outlet for music and this for everything else.
If anyone’s reading this, here’s my recommendation to see Monsieur Ibrahim. Beautifully filmed and starring Omar Sarif as Ibrahim, it is the story of a young Jewish Parisian boy who, abandoned by his family, befriends the local shop keeper (Ibrahim) and learns through life experiences in that coming-of-age sort of way. It’s better than I may have just made it sound. I just saw it with a bunch of old ladies on mother’s day. You don’t have to take an old lady with you to see this film, just take your girl friend or boy friend.
If anyone’s reading this, here’s my recommendation to see Monsieur Ibrahim. Beautifully filmed and starring Omar Sarif as Ibrahim, it is the story of a young Jewish Parisian boy who, abandoned by his family, befriends the local shop keeper (Ibrahim) and learns through life experiences in that coming-of-age sort of way. It’s better than I may have just made it sound. I just saw it with a bunch of old ladies on mother’s day. You don’t have to take an old lady with you to see this film, just take your girl friend or boy friend.
4.24.2004
no one has posted in a while, so i thought i might as well step up.
today i have the D-12 song "My Band" stuck in my head. good beats, crap lyrics. oh well.
i want to mention some weird things that i've experience at work recently.
one funny thing happened late last night at work when i was sitting in the office where i am now reading about the biblical antiquities market. i could hear this guard walking down the hall (they're pretty hard to miss, with all the hardware strapped to their bodies and their radios on). she entered the office and was startled upon seeing me. "oh, shit. you scared me," she said. i chortled, "and you're the one with the assault rifle." she didn't find as funny as i did.
another weird occurance is that in two of the three nuclear power plants that i've worked at i could swear that i see ghosts on a regular basis. always in the same spots. never in plain site, but one of those out-of-the-corner-of-my-eye sort of things. i'll look back, but of course nothing.
at the job site where i am now, i have to go into this one really noisy pump room to get one of my water grab samples for analysis. i always wear earplugs. and this is difficult to explain, but while i'm there it seems like i'm hearing modem tones. maybe you know what i'm talking about? dunno.
well, enjoy your weekend everyone.
today i have the D-12 song "My Band" stuck in my head. good beats, crap lyrics. oh well.
i want to mention some weird things that i've experience at work recently.
one funny thing happened late last night at work when i was sitting in the office where i am now reading about the biblical antiquities market. i could hear this guard walking down the hall (they're pretty hard to miss, with all the hardware strapped to their bodies and their radios on). she entered the office and was startled upon seeing me. "oh, shit. you scared me," she said. i chortled, "and you're the one with the assault rifle." she didn't find as funny as i did.
another weird occurance is that in two of the three nuclear power plants that i've worked at i could swear that i see ghosts on a regular basis. always in the same spots. never in plain site, but one of those out-of-the-corner-of-my-eye sort of things. i'll look back, but of course nothing.
at the job site where i am now, i have to go into this one really noisy pump room to get one of my water grab samples for analysis. i always wear earplugs. and this is difficult to explain, but while i'm there it seems like i'm hearing modem tones. maybe you know what i'm talking about? dunno.
well, enjoy your weekend everyone.
4.18.2004
so, are we moving this forum more or less to the new site? should we terminate this or put up a redirect page?
thoughts?
thoughts?
4.13.2004
Scandinavia is tasty
Thanks to Salon's Wednesday Morning Download for this awesome track by Norwegian wunderkind (no, the OTHER Norwegian wunderkind!) Jens Lekman. So catchy you'll kick yourself for singing it so often.
Thanks to Salon's Wednesday Morning Download for this awesome track by Norwegian wunderkind (no, the OTHER Norwegian wunderkind!) Jens Lekman. So catchy you'll kick yourself for singing it so often.
4.12.2004
and yet another
Maybe this one isn't new to any of you.. there is yet another mash-up, The Slack Album - "Black Album" accapellas blended with instrumental tracks from Pavement's "Slanted and Enchanted." There will be no end to this. wtf
Maybe this one isn't new to any of you.. there is yet another mash-up, The Slack Album - "Black Album" accapellas blended with instrumental tracks from Pavement's "Slanted and Enchanted." There will be no end to this. wtf
for those of you camera kids/film makers, here's directions for a $14 Steadycam that you can make at home. It's pretty cool. He's got samples of it in action. Not bad.
4.11.2004
This past weekend marked the start of the 13th annual Philadelphia Film Festival. Yeserday I went to two screenings.
The first, The Park, was a Chinese horror movie shot in Hong Kong, filmed in 3D! It was really bad - just as good as you might expect. Replete with evil clowns the premise of the movie followed the story of a girl and a crew of friends who go to an abandonned amusement park in search of the girl's brother. It just so happens that the amusement park was built on the site of an ancient burial ground, and was shut down after a young girl was thrown ffrom the ferris wheel. Unfortunately bullshit familial sentimentality (did I mention that the girl's mother is an exocist? and captures spirits by photographing them on Polaroids and burning the film?) and teenage crushes are written into this otherwise hilarious slasher. The best parts were (1) the decapitation of this one macho jerk-off with a high-tension wire and (2) when he earlier said, in response to whether or not he believes in ghosts, "I believe in God, E.T. and Michael Jackson." I gave it a D.
The second movie was Lightning Bug, in its world premiere. The movie starring Laura Prepon (That ?70?s Show) and Hal Sparks (Queer as Folk) was directed by Robert Hall who is maybe best known for makeup and constum design on shows like Buffy and Angel. The follow-up Q&A was wierd for me since I felt like I was in a theatre full of Buffy fans and I had never even heard of this show Angel. Anyway, the film is somewhat autobiographical. Written and directed by Hall, it draws on his experiences growing up in a dysfunctional and often abusive household in Alabama and his eventual escape to Hollywood to pursue his dreams in makeup artistry. I gave it a C.
Tomorrow I'm going to see Deep Breath: "Two slackers aimlessly roam the Tehran streets in search of the meaning of life in this wry, honest portrait of disaffected Iranian youth." I'll let you know.
The first, The Park, was a Chinese horror movie shot in Hong Kong, filmed in 3D! It was really bad - just as good as you might expect. Replete with evil clowns the premise of the movie followed the story of a girl and a crew of friends who go to an abandonned amusement park in search of the girl's brother. It just so happens that the amusement park was built on the site of an ancient burial ground, and was shut down after a young girl was thrown ffrom the ferris wheel. Unfortunately bullshit familial sentimentality (did I mention that the girl's mother is an exocist? and captures spirits by photographing them on Polaroids and burning the film?) and teenage crushes are written into this otherwise hilarious slasher. The best parts were (1) the decapitation of this one macho jerk-off with a high-tension wire and (2) when he earlier said, in response to whether or not he believes in ghosts, "I believe in God, E.T. and Michael Jackson." I gave it a D.
The second movie was Lightning Bug, in its world premiere. The movie starring Laura Prepon (That ?70?s Show) and Hal Sparks (Queer as Folk) was directed by Robert Hall who is maybe best known for makeup and constum design on shows like Buffy and Angel. The follow-up Q&A was wierd for me since I felt like I was in a theatre full of Buffy fans and I had never even heard of this show Angel. Anyway, the film is somewhat autobiographical. Written and directed by Hall, it draws on his experiences growing up in a dysfunctional and often abusive household in Alabama and his eventual escape to Hollywood to pursue his dreams in makeup artistry. I gave it a C.
Tomorrow I'm going to see Deep Breath: "Two slackers aimlessly roam the Tehran streets in search of the meaning of life in this wry, honest portrait of disaffected Iranian youth." I'll let you know.
