One Republican. One Democrat. A Fair and Balanced Love Story.
Posted on September 12, 2006 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Movies | Leave a Comment
Please see this movie if you happen to be in New York from October 20 through 22.
Read More..>>Monday, Monday
Posted on September 11, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Movies, Music | Leave a Comment
Friend o mine Ed Champion reviews Haruki Murakami’s Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman @ Philly.com. Last night I caught the Silver Jews in my first trip to the Mezzanine. Awesome, Awesome, Awesome … despite a boorish antic-laden performance by the opening bands singer (who came off as Iggy Pop as played by Ben Stiller — and [...]
Read More..>>Well, There Was a Popular Singer Named Frank Stallone
Posted on July 19, 2006 - Filed Under Movies, Robot Brains, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Number of Google News articles currently using the phrase “Rocky VI” : 45 Number of Google News articles currently using the phrase “Rambo IV“: 13
Read More..>>Gore Vidal Index
Posted on May 8, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Movies, Politics | Leave a Comment
Sal Pizarro at the Merc’s blog has a brief account of Gore Vidal’s appearance at San Jose State. Meanwhile, Tod Goldberg ponders getting a prostrate exam from Mr. Vidal in lieu of watching Sharon Stone.
Read More..>>Streaming Coachella
Posted on April 25, 2006 - Filed Under Movies, Sports | Leave a Comment
If you can’t (or don’t want to) go to the desert for Coachella this weekend, it looks like AT&T will be streaming the proceedings at blueroom.att.com where you can also stream featured content of the Goo Goo Dolls and Toby Keith. In the meantime, check out the Rake breaking down the supposedly Top 5 musically [...]
Read More..>>Noisepop Videos on YouTube.com
Posted on March 29, 2006 - Filed Under Movies | Leave a Comment
For those who weren’t there, or those would like to go there again…people are loading videos from Noisepop on youtube.com. {via foghorn}
Read More..>>Oh, and Condoms
Posted on March 7, 2006 - Filed Under Movies, Religion, Sex, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Nirmala George of the AP reports that the Catholic church has produced a Bollywood-style movie for an HIV-prevention campaign in India. Increasingly concerned about changing values in Indian society, especially among young people, the Catholic Church is hoping to reinforce the message that long-term relationships and commitment can curb the spread of HIV. Thrown in [...]
Read More..>>Hollywood Lies?
Posted on February 8, 2006 - Filed Under Movies, Time Travel and The Intergalactic | 1 Comment
Back To The Future possibly not possible. THE laws of physics seem to permit time travel, and with it, paradoxical situations such as the possibility that people could go back in time to prevent their own birth. But it turns out that such paradoxes may be ruled out by the weirdness inherent in laws of [...]
Read More..>>Less work more rock
Posted on January 4, 2006 - Filed Under Movies, Music | Leave a Comment
Videos…
Read More..>>Shoot Me Now
Posted on December 20, 2005 - Filed Under Movies, Music, Pain, Sex, Theology | Leave a Comment
I just got back from Sanjuro, and turned on the television to be greeted by Barbara Walters asking “Could heaven be a myth? …made up to give our lives meaning?” Should have stayed for the second half of the double feature. I now hear them playing Eric Clapton’s Tears in Heaven, followed immediately by Mariah [...]
Read More..>>Double-True
Posted on December 19, 2005 - Filed Under Movies, Music | 1 Comment
Via everywhere: The Chronic-WHAT-les of Narnia. As I live in San Francisco and don’t fork over for cable or dish, NBC is not to be had1 in my house. Luckily, the interweb stepped up to bat beaming this goodness to my desktop. 1 “Because of the Bay Area’s rocky terrain, some 200,000 households in San [...]
Read More..>>Things I learned this weekend
Posted on December 5, 2005 - Filed Under Drinking, Movies, Music, On The Road Again | 1 Comment
> Without MosDef, it’s just another lychee martini techno void > Ann Coulter and I had different reactions to Good Night and Good Luck > Helmet bassist Henry Bogdan now fronts an old-timey Hawaiian jazz band > Woody Allen is a picky shopper > I’ll soon be sent off to France on business
Read More..>>David Foster Wallace / Rick Moody
Posted on November 29, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Charity, Movies, Politics | 14 Comments
It was a dark and stormy night… I was the rag part of a ragtag crew that braved the San Francisco weather for a conversation between David Foster Wallace & Rick Moody as a fundraiser for 826 Valencia, hosted by the local City Arts organization. My only previous foray into the world of City Arts [...]
Read More..>>Hustler of Culture*
Posted on October 19, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Movies, Music | Leave a Comment
SF Weekly brainstorms possible “Indie” schemes in the TV works: “Devendra Banhart guest stars on Lost when the cast happens upon another heretofore undiscovered part of the island inhabited by yet another crazy, muttering hermit. Asked about his performance later, Banhart responds, “Performance? What performance?” “Two words: CSI: Omaha.” Maybe not truly “indie”, but given [...]
Read More..>>Can You Dig It?
Posted on October 11, 2005 - Filed Under Movies, Music | Leave a Comment
Welcome news via Chekhov’s Misstress: a new version of BMK fave The Warriors is coming to a DVD near me. Though, I am not sure if the changes are going to be for the better, I can only hope that this also means the soundtrack will be coming out. To date, all I’ve found is [...]
Read More..>>Were-Rabbits
Posted on October 7, 2005 - Filed Under Movies | 1 Comment
I’ve long been a fan of Nick Park’s work, ever since I saw the animals in Creature Comforts describing life in the zoo. So it was with great excitement that I’ve anticipated the new Wallace & Gromit feature. Idling my time in the office, I came across the following Yahoo! user review which made some [...]
Read More..>>SWIFT
Posted on September 30, 2005 - Filed Under Movies | Comments Off
Is it today already? The San Francisco World Film Festival is underway. (September 29 – October 2).
Read More..>>I personally liked Fredo
Posted on August 5, 2005 - Filed Under Movies | 2 Comments
Speaking of lame lists, Jeff Bridges gets his comeuppance at 55 and I count at least three Jack Nicholson appearances. But no room for Seymour, Carl Showalter, or even Mr. Pink? Well, as they say… Does Premiere recognize your favorite movie character?
Read More..>>Film Streams Update
Posted on August 3, 2005 - Filed Under Movies | Comments Off
Tim McMahan at lazy-i talks to the Rachel Jacobson, head of the non-profit Film Streams. Film Streams has teamed up with Saddle-Creek to include 2 movie screens as part of the Slowdown club/office space in downtown Omaha. What can Omaha film-goers expect? "I’m not going to show what’s showing at the Dundee Theater or at [...]
Read More..>>Oh, dear bokonon…
Posted on July 6, 2005 - Filed Under Movies | 1 Comment
All of the true things that I am about to tell you are shameless lies. Grab the members of your local karass and hide. Leonardo DiCaprio is starring in a Hollywood rendition of Vonnegut classic Cat’s Cradle.
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