floating on
Posted on January 23, 2009 - Filed Under Crime, Deformities, Language, Movies, Music, Television | Leave a Comment
Screening at Noisepop this year: Seven Signs: Music, Myth and the American South. I think I’m passing on buying the festival badget this year, but I’ll try and check this one out.
I’m with Kristina Keyton on this one.
Move over William Safire: The Mysterious Origins of “Oh Snap!”
“Law & Order officials would neither confirm nor deny [...]
super disco’ breakin’
Posted on December 18, 2008 - Filed Under Dance, Movies | Leave a Comment
Of course the Bollywood classic “I am a disco dancer“:
How bout the 1979 UK Disco dancer finals (featuring pre-MTV Downtown Julie Brown? {via amoeba}:
Read More..>>Degrees
Posted on August 19, 2008 - Filed Under Contests, Movies, Music | Leave a Comment
Things get wrapped up in Six Degrees of Separation with the assertion that we — we being Manhattan’s one percenters who sell million-dollar art and have dinner parties – have experiences primarily so that we have something to share at dinner parties. I suppose a blogorati search might reveal 792 people who have said [...]
Read More..>>looking back/forward
Posted on August 1, 2008 - Filed Under Movies, Music, Sports | Leave a Comment
a few highlights looking back
Sunday: at the Lucero show (awesome), I got much happiness from hearing Ben drop some El Guapo referencesfrom one of my favorite cowboy movies. “For some people, lack of education may be their El Guapo. For me, Scott is my El Guapo”
Monday: Greinke + Soria getting it done. Good for real. [...]
Let’s All go to the Movies
Posted on July 11, 2008 - Filed Under Film, Mark Your Calendars, Movies | Leave a Comment
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival kicks off tonight.
The full schedule:
FRIDAY, JULY 11
The Kid Brother 7:00PM
Opening Night Party 9:15PM
SATURDAY, JULY 12
Amazing Tales from the Archives 10:00AM
The Soul of Youth 11:40AM
Les Deux Timides (Two Timid Souls) 2:15PM
Mikaël (Michael) 4:15PM
The Man Who Laughs 7:45PM
The Unknown 10:45PM
SUNDAY, JULY 13
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 10:30AM
The [...]
great questions
Posted on July 11, 2008 - Filed Under Movies, Music, Vagaries of the Heart | Leave a Comment
JoPo getting me ready to ponder this weekend:
Best Springsteen love song?
Who is worse: Costner or Cruise?
And that’s what makes them intriguing … if you have someone you have never liked in anything, say someone like Pauly Shore, then there’s really nothing to argue about. But Costner and Cruise are interesting and worth arguing about [...]
Next thing, they’ll want to bet on games
Posted on March 25, 2008 - Filed Under Drinking, Movies, Sports | Leave a Comment
NFL & Drinking? Nah.
Read More..>>Word Nerds
Posted on February 7, 2008 - Filed Under Language, Movies, Music, Television | Leave a Comment
May be interested in this article in the January 31, 2008 issue of New Scientist.
Another amateur site that the pros turn to is the Wordlustitude blog, written by Mark Peters (see “How Wordlustitude feeds my obsession”). He has tracked the use of infixes – words inserted into the middle of other words. Some of the [...]
election
Posted on January 20, 2008 - Filed Under Movies, Politics | Leave a Comment
{via LawGeek}
Read More..>>Violation of the 4th Geneva Convention
Posted on September 7, 2007 - Filed Under Movies | Leave a Comment
Arrested Development inspired a strong fondness for Will Arnett. And the A-Holes for Kristen Wiig. So after reading an unflattering review in the Times this morning, I posed the question: what would it take for me not to see The Brothers Solomon. Well, weighing in at 6% at Rotten Tomatoes comes mighty [...]
Read More..>>I’m Not There (yet)
Posted on August 10, 2007 - Filed Under Movies, Music | Leave a Comment
So here is the soundtrack to get it would seem….
All Along The Watchtower –Eddie Vedder & The Million Dollar Bashers
As I Went Out One Morning–Mira Billotte
Ballad Of A Thin Man–Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers
Billy–Los Lobos
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window–The Hold Steady
Can’t Leave Her Behind–Stephen Malkmus & Lee Ranaldo
Cold Irons Bound–Tom Verlaine [...]
flight school
Posted on April 12, 2007 - Filed Under Movies, Music, On The Road Again | Leave a Comment
youtube & free association lead me from indian superman to 18wheel porn in 3 moves. checkmate!
Read More..>>Breaking Down Crash
Posted on March 22, 2007 - Filed Under Movies, Sports | Leave a Comment
Joe Posnanski tries to figure who’d be the ‘real-world’ Crash Davis (dismissing Buck Rogers as an unlikely Pynchon reader). Some good analysis in the comments, too, from Devin:
Crash was probably caught in a numbers game. I think he would have been in his prime around the time teams stopped carrying three catchers and during the [...]
Rollin’ Wit The Lynch Mob
Posted on March 9, 2007 - Filed Under Movies | Leave a Comment
Bat Segundo marks his 100th podcast with an interview with David Lynch.
Subjects Discussed: Transcendental Meditation, true happiness, contending with stress, fear and anxiety, anger, the relationship between filmmaking and TM, inner happiness, walking vs. TM, Knut Hamsun, Einstein’s Theory of Everything, Dostoevsky’s 1866 publishing deal, on coming up with ideas, the art life vs. the [...]
First Things First
Posted on December 19, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Look Away! It's My Brain, Movies, Music, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Reading Jeff’s Death Alert, I was reminded that the first book I read myself was Tom and Jerry Have A Party. So I thought I’d put together a list of my “firsts” as best I can. This will likely be a work-in-progress as I continue to remember things.
First Book Read: Tom and Jerry Have A [...]
Read More..>>hold em’ bond?
Posted on November 19, 2006 - Filed Under Movies | Leave a Comment
We saw Casino Royale and unanimously agree it is a large step in the right direction for a long lost franchise. But what’s with the Texas Hold ‘Em? We like poker and all, but isn’t hold ‘em a little tooooo ESPN2 for double-oh-seven?
Read More..>>I’m In Love With The Living And The Dead
Posted on November 16, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Crime, Death, Language, Movies, Sex | Leave a Comment
Dave Eggers next book: How We Have Very Low Food Security?
George Bush’s next book: How I Might Have Killed Thousands of Iraqis?
The new Bond, Daniel Craig … a British Steve McQueen?
The Tom Green / Bill Clinton defense? Prosecution of a case involving alleged sexual contact with a dead deer may hinge on the legal definition [...]
Read More..>>Friday tunes for November
Posted on November 3, 2006 - Filed Under Movies, Music | Leave a Comment
Here’s a little playlist that suits me. Maybe you’ll like it, too.
1. Erich Bachmann – Man O War [MP3]. From a record that gets better with each listen – highly recommended. This is probably my single favorite song of the ‘06.
like the moon doesn’t mind
if the sun doesn’t shine
the sea doesn’t care
if you’re lonesome tonight
2. [...]
Top Movie Music
Posted on October 16, 2006 - Filed Under Movies, Music | 1 Comment
This listing of the top 40 use of songs in movies, via Stereogum, has got me working on my own top 10. I expect this list to change. Off the top, I am not including any Cameron Crowe or Wes Anderson because I said so.
Goodfellas – Layla (Derek and the Dominoes). Also, often a handy [...]
Read More..>>Posted on October 10, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Movies, Music, Television | Leave a Comment
The Hollywood Librarian
The Hollywood Librarian: Librarians in Cinema and Society, now in production, will be the first full-length film to focus on the work and lives of librarians in the entertaining and appealing context of American movies.
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Pete (of Lit fame), happens upon Ambrose Bierce street in San Francisco.
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At the AV Club, Weird Al on Courtney [...]
