I've been blogging "continuously" since 2003. That's how long I've had this livejournal. A few days ago I imported it all over to wordpress. This journal is now junorhane.wordpress.com. It's probably not all good writing, but 7 years of it is a lot to lose and wordpress makes it much more likely that I won't lose it ( Read more... )

- Exit Through The Gift Shop
- My Cousin Vinny
- Prince of Persia

Exit Through The Gift Shop This is the movie by the street artist Banksy about the street artist Banksy. Sort of. It's actually the movie by the street artist Banksy about the artist (who might not exist) Mr. Brainwash (who might not, if he does exist, be an artist). It's a ( Read more... )

- Crazy Heart
- Children of Men
- Ironman 2

Crazy Heart was about what I expected. Jeff Bridges won an oscar for it, and Maggie Gyllenhaal is just as good as he is. It's about an old and aging country star, who is drunk all the time, finding his muse (a young pretty girl, naturally) and as a result changing his life for the better. In other ( Read more... )

Yes, I spent some time thinking about this while bored at work. Why do you ask, doesn't everyone think about this when bored at work?

As a follow up to a previous entry on how I wish the fundamental approach to writing the prequels had been different, here are a few ideas I’d throw out there for consideration:

1. The presentation of the Jedi. ( Read more... )

First of all, what an awful name. Of all the rumored and possible names for this thing… iPad? Seriously? (My favorite name was "Canvas" but that doesn't fit what the device turned out to be.)

Second of all, initially it's underwhelming, because it seems to just be a big iPodTouch. I have an iPodTouch. It's an amazing thing. A bigger one ( Read more... )

[Previous With Eyes Unclouded: Into The Wild, Dangerous MindsDeep Impact ( Read more... )

Obama saw Brown’s victory as a mirror-image of his own: “The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office. People are angry, and they're frustrated, not just because of what's happened in the last year or two years, but what's happened over the last eight years ( Read more... )

In Massachusetts, a state where gay marriage is legal, the representatives of the state ought to believe that gay marriage being legal is a good thing, right? Joe Kennedy is sort of for gay marriage, but only in that the government shouldn't really have a say and that churches ought to be allowed to decide for themselves. Scott Brown believes ( Read more... )

So I was catching up with “My So-Called Life” on hulu (what a great opening, huh? Reminds me of “I was just sitting in the U-bend thinking about death”) and the main character (15 in 1994, which makes her thirty now) said something about how all of the older generation knew exactly where they were when Kennedy was shot but my generation has ( Read more... )

Filmmaking has really turned a corner this decade. Special effects are truly at the point where absolutely anything is possible. The first movie on the list attests to this amazing fact. While being able to produce any imagined image can be freeing, the story is still king. Several new directions were explored in this arena as well, from ( Read more... )