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An end
They are all still there, all the lost things, all the departed friends. The world of this moment was made by all the little dilemnas and mundanities and microscopic moments of grace that we faced in the past, last Tuesday or during finals week or in the long winter of 1803. If you existed, you nudged the world. If we went out for tacos or ( Read more... ) -
AZ/NM vacation stuff
Vacation photos and tweets and whatnot, on storify. -
Time capsule: 1987
It was 1987 - Full Metal Jacket was just out, following Platoon last year. Clearly America loved grim, unflinching looks back at the US involvement in Vietnam.
It was 1987 - The A Team had just finished its run with its characters, "hunted by the government for a crime they did not commit", finally being cleared of robbing the Bank of Saigon. ( Read more... ) -
Two observations of unbearable nerdiness
1) The plot of today's Star Trek related Google doodle (doodle archive) is "Kirk fights a Gorn again." I mean, we're obviously meant to think it's a light-hearted retelling of Original Series episode "The Arena", but ( Read more... ) -
Because I am all about the box office
It is all the buzz these days about how Joss Whedon's Avengers is on track to be the third-biggest movie of all time. A certain amount of contrary-minded people are talking about how with 2012 3-D ticket prices, that number is practically meaningless. (And it's all because of marketing and comic books suck and etc.) And then some of us with a ( Read more... ) -
Mabuse, The Gambler
Things I knew about Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (1922) going in:
1) Early movie by good old Fritz Lang, who did Metropolis and M and such ( Read more... ) -
SXSW: Those other days
Uh, yes, and then there were other days, during which things happened. The Lovely D got to hang out with everyone's favorite NPR correspondent and former Miss_Allie Linda Holmes, because The Lovely D is that bad-ass. Black Pond was pretty good. And that was a long time ago, so... next! -
Dance, dance
I'm a little subdued this South by Southwest, because, no, I did not see Cabin in the Woods by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard. I am here for the second half, and the Whedon was opening night. Yes, I have heard that the heavy rain in Austin Friday meant attendance numbers were down, and most of the Whedon line got in. Yes, I have heard that everybody ( Read more... ) -
The Andrew Oldham Orchestra destroys your childhood
I have the satellite radio in my car, for good and ill. I mean, it's nice to be randomly flipping around and be confronted with some specialized-audience microlegend that you've never got around to. (Here we draw a neat line through "Captain Beefheart" on our life list.) But then yesterday, on a peaceful spring-like afternoon in the city, they ( Read more... ) -
Recently watched: Creepy Czech Alice
And now a word from Czech animator Jan Svankmajer.
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Greetings, friends! We have for you today a bajecny movie, filmed with both the stop motion and the live action, made from one of the most amazing books of our civilization: Alice in Wonderland by the revered Mister Lewis Carroll. Ah, delightful! But first, I must ask a question. Do you ( Read more... )