Jul 03 2009
Seraphim Falls could be titled 101 Things to Do With a Knife (watch the movie to get that joke). The first 15 minutes play like a Grizzly Adams version of 24. It’s brutal.
Pierce Brosnan’s performance as a man on the run — who knows how to fight back — is outstanding.
The movie is mostly [...]
Jul 03 2009
Canadian Senators hard at work.
It gets good around the 2 minute mark.
Jul 02 2009
I’m just copying the code from J-Walk’s HTML 5 Audio Test. If you have Firefox 3.5, this should work. It might also work with the latest version of some other browsers, too.
Your
browser does not support the audio tag.
It uses a very simple HTML 5 AUDIO tag. Unfortunately, it works only with WAV and Ogg files.
The [...]
Jul 02 2009
A friend of a friend posted this photo on her Facebook account. I think it’s from San Francisco. The caption for the photos reads: “Bus shelter sign in Haight Ashbury.”
Jul 01 2009
Anyone see In Bruges? What do you think of it?
I saw it last night and it’s not what I expected. It’s about hired killers who are told to hide out in a nowhere town in Belgium after a hit goes bad. It didn’t grab me at first because I was annoyed by the presence Colin [...]
Jun 28 2009
According to NPR, Greg Brown has a couple new records.
A 5-song live set from June 24th, 2009, can be streamed from the page.
…just released is Dream City: Essential recordings vol 2, 1997-2006, which features previously unreleased studio and live tracks, in addition to a retrospective collection of his earlier albums.
Photo by Brian Blauser.
Jun 25 2009
Gone Baby Gone is Ben Affleck’s directorial debut and it’s pretty damn good. It’s the story of a private investigator looking for a little girl who has gone missing in his neighbourhood, and brother does he get messed up in some serious shit. And just when you think you know what’s going on, you [...]
Jun 25 2009
Anything directed by Jim Jarmusch is worth watching, even though his movies don’t always do much for me (Dead Man and Coffee and Cigarettes). His camera quietly observes people in an unobtrusive way that brings out the subtleties of character and has us feeling for them because they’re just so unremarkable. Broken Flowers, a [...]
Jun 23 2009
We have a garden gnome!
It’s difficult to see in the photo, but he’s holding an axe in his right hand. But Obi-wan has his light sabre, so I guess that makes it an even fight.
In other news, I now have 50 Facebook “friends.” I’ve decided that’s my limit. If I accept any more friend requests, [...]
Jun 18 2009
The rest of the album isn’t like this, but this one is purty darn cool.
Jun 18 2009
No Country for Old Men is the best movie I’ve seen from the Coen Brothers. Naturally, it’s about a psychotic killer with a high-pressure air gun looking for stolen money, and another guy who stole the money running from the guy with the air gun. I normally don’t care much for the way the [...]
Jun 14 2009
I like this song by The Deep Dark Woods.
Reminds me of Bruce Cockburn’s “Lovers in a Dangerous Time.”
Jun 13 2009
I don’t often read books because they make my brain hurt. Here are 3 books I’ve read recently that didn’t hurt my brain too much.
The Music of Chance by Paul Auster (8/10) — Another hypnotic and fantastic narrative by Paul Auster. If I told you the story you might ask, “How is that a [...]
Jun 10 2009
In Quest for Fire, a group of Paleolithic humanoids travel across dangerous country in search of fire. Along the way they meet up with a sabre-toothed tiger, woolly mammoths, cannibals and a more technologically advanced species (homo sapiens). The story is compelling and entertaining — and probably the most accurate depiction of early humans [...]
