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 [...]
sometimes you get little reminders that your brain ain’t what it used to be.
kirk and i had a fantastically fun time last night at joe’s pub in the park. joe is joseph papp, the guy who started doing the shakespeare in central park thing, and his public theater has an adjacent performance space [...]
tickets for a 6:00pm showing of “into the wild”, the sean penn movie about the guy who starved to death in the wilderness of alaska. that shorthand version of the story, of course, does it no justice whatsoever.
i vaguely recall reading a long piece about this guy, maybe in the new yorker, and being [...]
it’s been several months since kirk and i decided to drop digital cable, and stop watching television. there was some apprehension, and some trepidation (would we miss watching baseball?). it was a financial savings, to be sure — our cable bill went from $120 per month with time warner cable before the move [...]
one of the great things about the internet is that by goofing around you can stumble across the most interesting things.
and yesterday, via boing boing, during my lunch hour i learned about joybubbles.
joybubbles was the adopted name of joe engrassia, a blind man who was one of the first phone phreakers. phone phreakers predate [...]
“God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.”
but then who made steve?
here’s the brilliant answer
an excerpt:
This oft-quoted text presents a mystery. If God did not make Steve, then where did this uncreature come from? How did Steve come to be?
God did not make Steve, therefore we must also assume that Steve was never born. [...]
