12 Jun 08
Don’t particularly love the song; it’s not bad, but not great. But it’s always fun seeing Tricia Helfer. It’s making me excited to catch up on Battlestar!
14 May 08
Video comments
Not sure how I feel about the whole video comments thing; I may be on the side arguing for the skimming ease of print over the time-consuming nature of video, despite my affinity for things audio-visual. In any case, Disqus just enabled video commenting through Seesmic with a click of a button, so I figured I’d turn it on. What the heck. It’s not as if anyone ever comments here anyway (probably because most people don’t know it exists, ah well), so I still might not get any data on whether or not I actually like it. :)08 May 08
If things keep going like this, there are going to be a lot of really smart drunk girls here.— Lee, the karaoke DJ at the local bar. And he was not particularly wrong. Large group of us out tonight. Also, maybe it was funnier when you were there. And one of the not-yet-drunk smart girls.
06 May 08
Those who dislike Godard’s films may well find the works’ resistance to large-scale coherence incredibly frustrating; those who admire the films have probably learned to savor a movie as a string of vivid, somewhat isolated effects.— David Bordwell, Narration in the Fiction Film
06 May 08
The Screengrab - Unwatchable →
Watching the IMDb Bottom 100 and blogging about the worst films ever made. I’ve set myself a lot of list-watching goals, but I’m not sure I’d be prepared to tackle that one!
03 May 08
This frivolous lawsuit puts at serious risk the entire tradition of commentary on fiction. Any student writing a paper about the Harry Potter books, any scholarly treatise about it, will certainly do everything she’s complaining about. Once you publish fiction, Ms. Rowling, anybody is free to write about it, to comment on it, and to quote liberally from it, as long as the source is cited…. She let herself be talked into being outraged over a perfectly normal publishing activity, one that she had actually made use of herself during its web incarnation. Now she is suing somebody who has devoted years to promoting her work and making no money from his efforts — which actually helped her make some of her bazillions of dollars. Talent does not excuse Rowling’s ingratitude, her vanity, her greed, her bullying of the little guy, and her pathetic claims of emotional distress— Techdirt: Orson Scott Card Rips Apart JK Rowling For The Lexicon Lawsuit (via markhorne)
03 May 08
The Etch-A-Sketchist: Grand Theft Auto IV. Pretty incredible rending of the GTA IV box art. My Etch-A-Sketchings always fell into the categoy of extremely abstract art. Yes.