Here's a review of Soderbergh's Solaris, which is finally out. I'm really interesting in seeing it, I can't recall a Soderbergh movie I didn't thoroughly enjoy, also from the review I gather that the visuals are spectacular in this new version. Having seen Tarkovski's epic Solaris, a 3 hour black and white meditation on space madness, this should ( Read more... )

It's not that I love being a prick at work, but it gets on my nerves how meek and insipid friendly people are every day. How refreshing it is when people openly express disgust, fear or any other unpleasant feeling. On my desktop this simple picture of a modern sculpture made every female visitor to my cube shrink in repulsion at first sight ( Read more... )

It's sad enough that campaigns meant to relax ANY sort of unfair prohibition, in this case of marijuana consumption in various forms, get defeated by a wide marginBut what's worse is that the article's writer doesn't seem to realize a most basic thing. Much is said about the effectiveness of the campaign marketing and dissemination tasks. But ( Read more... )

For the last decade I've been surfing and organizing sites by category and content. That's OK, presuming that I'll always be looking for something specific when I surf. Well, as it turns out since I often surf in a mood and not looking for anything. It would be much better to organize my links by color theme ( Read more... )

Looks like I got my ass in a bind because of a post I made on a somewhat public forum. Well, it;'s really a public forum but the only regular visitors are a bunch of people that all worked together a few years back ( Read more... )

Here we go with "another one" of those commie pinko conspiracy paranoia sites: Real Terrorists. Have fun!

Since you're one of the few (10 or so :) people that might see this page, you get to see this first!

• Acoustic Instruments for Sale
• Electric Instruments for Sale
• Recording Equipment for Sale

Or just go here and check for new items as I'm making the pages.

No, this is not about my addiction to downloading, which desrves its own journal entry to itself. It is however, about the problem that the music industry has, in adopting file sharing as a valid and profitable means of music distribution ( Read more... )

Since I'm going stir crazy every day waiting for something to happen at work, let me just remind myself of the trips I've scheduled for the upcoming months ( Read more... )

This is very bizarre, to convict someone now for a crime allegedly committed in 1975. Are we going to also find and convict culprits now for the great train robberies of 1900? Why not punish the descendants of slave owners while we're at it ( Read more... )