March 3, 2008 – 11:11 am ·
I’m not a teacher. It’s not that I’m not good at it. I’ve taught things to people before, but I don’t have the long term patience for drilling stuff into people’s heads. Put me in front of a class of thirty students and I’d start the hour teaching Calculus and end up making balloon animals. […]
March 1, 2008 – 2:55 pm ·
A rare Saturday post. Came across this and had to pass it along. A fan made video for “Blue Line Swinger” by Yo La Tengo. Quirky as hell. Oddly beautiful.
February 29, 2008 – 10:06 am ·
Andrew Grant over at Like Anna Karina’s Sweater writes about movies. And he writes about them well, with the sort of inflection that comes from pure cinema passion. A week ago he posted about Transsiberian, which he caught at the European Film Market. Transsiberian is the new work by Brad Anderson. whose early film, the […]
February 27, 2008 – 7:45 pm ·
The whole staff at Sixsquare.com encourages you to drop by Rcrd Lbl and grab “Beautiful Life,” the track by Brazilian dance music flavor of the year, Gui Boratto. He’s in style for a reason. It’s a gorgeous slice of electronic pulsazione. Here’s the link. Go fetch.
February 25, 2008 – 8:03 pm ·
McG helms the newest installment of the Terminator franchise. Christian Bale stars as John Connor. Filming begins on what Variety says is “part of a planned three-picture arc” here in New Mexico starting May 5. Full article here. No snarky comment at this time because…well, I rather liked the third one.
February 25, 2008 – 10:08 am ·
The Academy Awards. This was the first Oscar telecast I’d seen in a while. I attribute that to the fact that for the first time in the past four years, I don’t live in the heart of Hollywood. For much of the world, Oscar time means glitz and glamor and movie stars (oh my). For […]
February 24, 2008 – 1:35 pm ·
You got a last minute Oscar ballot to fill out? Are you minutes away from dashing out the door to attend an Oscar party of the type I used to throw until I just got so tired of the ceremony I just couldn’t take it anymore? Here’s your salvation, Courtesy of Charles Reece over at […]
February 22, 2008 – 12:08 pm ·
This is total fluff, but I was pleased to see in Variety that KCRW DJ Jason Bentley had a crush on Erin Gray. I’d just been thinking about her recently.
February 22, 2008 – 9:05 am ·
Last year, Scott Smith’s long-awaited follow-up to A Simple Plan arrived in bookstores and proceeded to cleave readers down the middle. What I mean by that, of course, is that some people loved it, some people hated it, although judging from the caliber of some of the negative reviews on Amazon.com it might have been […]
February 20, 2008 – 11:28 am ·
Having just suffered through the embarrassing Transformers, I thought this was especially funny. From The Onion. “‘There is no way this would have been possible five years ago,’ Krajcsik said, later admitting that CGI technology is still decades away from making an Academy Award win for Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner look plausible.”
February 20, 2008 – 8:43 am ·
I generally don’t follow through on press release style emails, but I got one last night that happened to catch my eye, only because it sounds like the sort of event I’d love to attend. I can’t, because it’s happening tonight and I’m not in Los Angeles. And anyway, I’m supposed to fight a duel […]
February 19, 2008 – 7:00 pm ·
This comes by way of McSweeney’s. It’s your list for the day. Things You Can Do If You Love Jesus Other Than Honk.
February 19, 2008 – 12:04 pm ·
Though it seems to operate fine on most systems, there have been a few problems with the Yahoo Media Player I’m using for the site. It seems the problems are somewhat widespread, and are being tackled by Lucas Gonze, the developer on point for the software and are well documented over at aurgasm.us. So I’ll […]
