from an associated press article a few days ago:
A founder of the country band Sugarland is suing the two current members of the popular group for $1.5 million.
According to a lawsuit filed late last month in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, Kristen Hall was to get a cut of the group’s profits even after she [...]
via daring fireball, roger ebert says goodbye [to the old] and hello [to the new]. wonderfully written, with a moving comment section.
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more often than not (especially as i get older) my criteria for going to an actual movie theater to see a movie is: “is it something i must see on the big screen?”
“trumbo” the movie opened this past weekend. i saw the play several times, starting from workshop performances. kirk’s former boss at [...]
» versions of “gypsy” i have seen/heard prior to last night:
— the rosalind russell movie version
— the bette midler tv version
— the bernadette peters broadway version
— the ethel merman broadway cast recording
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this is a must-watch video clip — ellen hands john mccain his head on a plate, logic-wise.
here’s my favorite part:
“Blacks and women did not have the right to vote. I mean, women just got the right to vote in 1920. Blacks didn’t have the right to vote until 1870. And it just feels [...]
kirk and i have an hdtv, but it’s an older model and doesn’t have a built-in tuner. it’s just a monitor. so without paying for cable, we’ve never been able to get a television signal. no cable, no signal, no tv. and since we dropped cable about a year ago, the [...]
jonny greenwood for “there will be blood”?
um, no.
i know. let’s give the oscar to the most cloying and obvious score in recent memory.
honestly. i didn’t think much of atonement. the young girl (saorise ronan) was phenomenal, but the movie itself was badly in need of some editing. i nearly fell asleep while [...]
no not women’s breasts, you boob. i mean twin peaks, the tv show.
kirk is a huge fan of the series, which i missed the first time around. but we’re both big david lynch fans, so i got him the dvd box set at amazon.com. the first season has been available in the [...]
the new yorker’s alex ross writes intelligently and movingly about “popcorn superhet receiver” and jonny greenwood’s score for “there will be blood”.
it’s a subject i’ve been droning on about a lot lately.
if you haven’t seen the movie to hear the score in context, at least buy the soundtrack.
trust me. both are incredible.
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jonny greenwood’s score for “there will be blood”, which i discussed in my previous post, has been disqualified from consideration for an oscar this year.
when the nominations came out this morning and he wasn’t on the list, i assumed that he had just been overlooked for his amazing work, which was in my estimation not [...]
kirk and i saw “there will be blood” recently and came out raving about the score, which was by jonny greenwood of radiohead. i thought it was the best thing about the movie, daniel day-lewis included. kirk didn’t go that far, but that’s what makes the phone book.
so when i got a ny [...]
via kottke, a story about an artist whose project illustrates our disconnect with the terrorism that so many other countries live with every day.
from alyssa wright’s site:
The project starts in a backpack outfitted with a small microcontroller and a GPS unit. Recent news of bombings in Iraq are downloaded to the unit every night, and [...]
reading the sunday new york times (which is huge and very sensibly comes on saturday to give you additional time to read it) i ran across a blurb about riskay, a rapper from bartow, florida.
my dad lived in bartow, so it caught my eye. also, riskay looks like a drag queen, so [...]
with the holidays upon us, it’s been a while since i posted. here’s what’s been going on:
» we had a holiday/housewarming party. tremendous fun, attended by ~30 of our friends at one point or another. we had it on saturday 12/1 from 5pm until ???. the ??? turned out to [...]
via daring fireball, a tour of the creation museum, from just the right perspective.
here’s a sample:
Let me say this much: I have to admit admiration for the pure balls-out, high-octane creationism that’s on offer here. Not for the Creation Museum that mamby-pamby weak sauce known as “Intelligent Design,” which tries to slip God by as [...]
the world of entertainment is on strike. and how is it affecting me?
not much, i have to say. at least not directly.
first there’s the writer’s strike in hollywood. i guess that if you were a big tv watcher, you’d be upset about this. no new episodes of csi or lost or letterman [...]
i’ve seen this enough recently that i think it’s a trend-in-waiting.
after years and years of everyone wearing headphones and listening to their own music in their own world, i’m seeing a growing number of younguns going headphoneless on the subway. not with big boom boxes, but with small devices with a small external speaker.
i [...]
from a news article about the school shootings in cleveland:
Coon, who was white, stood out in the predominantly black school for dressing in a goth style, wearing a black trench coat, black boots, a dog collar and chains, she said….Police believe Coon, wearing a Marilyn Manson shirt, black jeans and black nail polish, targeted the [...]
another in a series of andy samberg shorts for saturday night live, in case you missed it. this one’s called “i ran”, and imagines a love story between samberg and mahmoud ahmadinejad of iran, where by ahmadinejad’s account there are no homosexuals.
hilarious stuff, and i love how samberg does this without a trace of [...]
via kottke, the “secret site” for the upcoming new movie “wall-e” from pixar.
i generally hate it when companies do crap like trying to make me “discover” their site to accomplish their guerilla/word-of-mouth marketing campaign objectives, but this site is exceedingly well done and a riot to click through.
it interests me that the movie will have [...]
