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WHAT I'VE SEEN LATELY:

MOVIES
(r) = re-viewing

God Told Me To (1976, Cohen)

Whispering City (1947, Otsep)

Times and Winds (2006, Erdem)

Dirty Money (Un flic) (1972, Melville)

10th District Court (2004, Depardon)

RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy (2007, O'Sullivan)

The Furies (1950, Mann)

In a Lonely Place (1950, Ray)(r)

The Adjuster (1991, Egoyan)(r)



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Mad Men
The Buddha of Suburbia
Intelligence (2006, Haddock)
Family Guy




SUGGESTED VIEWING:
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (2004, Curtis) [available for streaming/download here]





READING NOW:
(r) = re-reading

The Blonde - Duane Swierczynski

Swansea Terminal - Robert Lewis







LISTENING

vaccine - v/a [hot flush]

skin diagram - david tagg

microcastle - deerhunter

saturdays=youth - m83

the serpent in quicksilver - harold budd

index of metal - fausto romitelli

Rocket to Russia - Ramones

and then one day it was over - elian

monsoon point - amelia cuni & ali gromer khan

set or performance - richard chartier

the world that was surrounded by a deep forest and warm light - ryonkt

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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Back specialists claim that as many as four in five patients have chronic nerve damage caused by working on laptops

Susan told me about this item, and it bears study if you're a laptop user.

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Monday, May 28, 2007

Cannes results

Been trying to see a Naomi Kawase film since I read about her in The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film.

Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly & the Coens' No Country for Old Men are on my list to see, though I'll probably catch most of the films mentioned eventually.

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Sweet Home Alabama

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R.I.P. Charles Nelson Reilly

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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Chicago Reader review of Sarah Polley's Away From Her
As the public's understanding of Alzheimer's has increased, the disease has made its way into movies that range from tragedy (Richard Eyre's British drama Iris, about the slow deterioration of fiction writer Iris Murdoch) to schmaltz (Nick Cassavetes's three-hanky hit The Notebook). But Alice Munro is a tough-minded storyteller, and the twist that occurs midway through Away From Her precludes any sentiment.
The review tells too much of the plot for me, so I just scanned it, but I have such a good fore-feeling about this film I wanted to post this anyway.

Also from the Reader, Rosenbaum on The Hoax & The Cats of Mirikitani, the latter which I taped off PBS' Independent Lens showing a week ago or so, but haven't watched yet.

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Saturday, May 26, 2007

i guess i'm not the only one who gets a charge out of the geico cavemen ads -- ABC is developing a series [pop candy]

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i grew up 14 miles form the beach in jersey, in case you were wondering where i get my sense of humor from

N.J. beach rules target seagulls, camels, dirty pictures
Many of the beach towns on Long Beach Island, one of New Jersey's most popular summer vacation spots, have laws prohibiting people from digging deeper than 12 inches in the sand. They stem from an accident several years ago in which a teenager died when a deep hole he was digging collapsed, burying him.

This year, the prohibition is for a different reason: More than 1,000 pieces of unexploded World War I-era military munitions were unwittingly pumped ashore during a winter beach replenishment project decades after being dumped at sea. Authorities say they've removed everything they could, but can't guarantee more munitions don't remain hidden.
of course, being canadian helps (mike myers, david cronenberg, jim carrey, barbara gowdy, dan ackroyd, eugene levy, tom green, phil hartman, rich little, martin short and catherine o'hara are all canadian).

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time to take 3 deep breaths and take 2 steps back

"A bomb technician discovered that a suspicious package that forced more than 300 workers to evacuate a state building contained a bobblehead doll awarded to public officials for perceived errors"

Do people in places like Tumwater WA really think they're a target of terrorism?

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Friday, May 25, 2007

UK teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims [same link as below]

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"It really allows you to feel like your mind is just not working well."

ok, this is really creepy [frolix_8]

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Sunday, May 20, 2007

Hilarious though considerate review of Apocalypto (out on disc now) from the SF Chronicle's Mick LaSalle, which I stumbled upon figuring I'd give Mel a chance and look for a review untainted by anti-Mel hype
By now, it's fair to say that Mel Gibson does not make boring movies. He does, however, make movies that make you a little worried about him, and Apocalypto might be the ultimate exemplar of the Gibson style. It's a bloodbath, of course, but to say that isn't enough. Scorsese movies can be a bloodbath, but would Scorsese ever show you a man eating the raw testicles of a wild boar within the first five minutes of screen time? And what about the running motif of beating hearts yanked from living bodies? No, for those excesses one can only turn to Mel.
Think I'll pass, which is too bad because this could have been interesting sans Mr Gibson's uh issues.

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Peter Weir's film of Gibson's Pattern Recognition not happening

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Friday, May 18, 2007

Anton Corbijn's debut feature about Ian Curtis draws rave reviews at Cannes -- and from his old bandmates

I never could get into Joy Division, but I'm sure this'll be worth seeing anyway.

Especially with Samantha Morton playing his wife.

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Thursday, May 17, 2007

a friend says goodbye to the reverend

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the bastard fairies have done the best job of getting to bill o'reilly i've seen

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

boy would i love one of these (the handheld one)

just email me with the invoice and i'll give you my address.

i don't think they're legal in the u.s., but you could use it inconspicuously.

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Sunday, May 13, 2007

An appreciation by Julia Rubiner of Talking Heads' "Revolver," Fear of Music
Fear Of Music, despite several downright gorgeous turns of melody, can be scary. Songs like "Animals," "Drugs," "Air" and especially the majestic/menacing "Memories Can't Wait" engender a profound sense of foreboding. Testified Robert A. Hull in a November 1979 Creem piece, "At any moment, the words 'helter skelter' could be carved into one's flesh."


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Inland Empire will be out on disc in North America on August 14th, on Rhino/Ryko

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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Japan's homeless find uneasy refuge in cybercafes
At about 1,400 to 2,400 yen ($12-$20) for a night in a central Internet cafe -- free soft drinks, TV, comics and Internet access included -- prices beat those of Japan's famous "capsule hotels", where guests sleep in plastic cells.

This means that on a Friday night in Shibuya, one of Tokyo's main entertainment districts, the dimly lit cafes are packed.


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Canadian cameras cutting into popcorn sales

Because filming inside a theatre is not a criminal offense in Canada, Warner Bros is cancelling summer movie previews there
"In the last three years we've created the technology that puts a watermark on every movie print that's sent out of Hollywood," Douglas Frith, of the Canadian Motion Pictures Distributors Association, told CTV's Mike Duffy Live.

"So when you find a pirated version anywhere on the Internet, from that watermark we can determine where it was camcorded. And for 20 to 25 per cent of the cases worldwide in 2005, it was camcorded in Canada. That number, compared to the size of our population, is astronomical."


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jeph is performing at The Trunk Space in Phoenix on the 19th

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Monday, May 07, 2007

reverse shot's interview with the remarkable sarah polley, as her directorial debut Away From Her hits theatres, well, somewhere i'm sure

hard to believe she's only 28.

another canadian cinephile. you go girl.

a good issue of reverse shot too -- check out the other articles.

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Sunday, May 06, 2007

got my sony walkman from woot on friday, and this is how i filled it (half-filled actually, it's 2GB):
odd nosdam - burner
stephen mathieu & douglas benford - reciprocess & vs
wire - document and eyewitness
nurse with wound - soliloquy for lilith (disc 1)
githead - artpop
david bowie - "station to station"
leo abrahams - scene memory
kode 9 and spaceape - memories of the future
jan jelinek - tierbeobachtungen
harold budd - perhaps
growing - color wheel
battles - mirrored
devo - hot potatoes
deerhunter - cryptograms
coelacanth with keith evans - wrack light in copper ruins
i actually still have an old rio i won from a now defunct music site in 2000, but it uses a parallel port connection, and holds only 128MB (!).

i'll review the sony soon.

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Saturday, May 05, 2007

The art of Phyllis Bramson [neurastenia]

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US firms finance death squads in Colombia

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Friday, May 04, 2007

apologies to those of you using explorer -- the javascript for the rhizome syndication whacked the template viewed with your browser

for some reason i can't insert javascript.

oh well.

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Thursday, May 03, 2007

a bit late, but i've been distracted by a great cup of coffee

R.I.P. David Halberstam

Nope, never read any of his books either, but he did make a difference, particularly re the Vietnam War.

What I did read was William Prochnau's account of the US journos who covered the early years of the war, Once Upon a Distant War, which I heartily recommend for its insight, readability, and as a great story.

And here is a reprise of the hilarious Doonesbury tribute from '79.

Hard to imagine the embedded poodle divas of today's media standing up to an administration.

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