Monica and I saw Avatar the other day, and had divergent reactions to it. I expected a special-effects bonanza that would leave me with a wet spot on the front of my jeans, and a plot so idiotic it would induce localized brain damage. My reaction, to either, was not so extreme. The special effects [...]
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I hadn’t really decided whether or not to see the new Transformers movie. On the plus side, it’s a spectacle, and I love spectacle. On the minus side, it’s bound to be at about the right dramatic level for someone who’s had a pencil stabbed into his brain, or else anyone who likes Nascar. But [...]
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Rushkoff, from a post on Boing Boing today: But the notion that enterprise and production starts with banking is just another artifact of Renaissance-era currency monopolies. Back before the first central banks, production and yield actually created money. (That’s what all this hoopla about complementary currency is about.) Money was not lent into existence by [...]
Friday, December 12, 2008
Extended trailer here. Coming out in May 2009 starring Christian Bale as John Connor. I can’t wait.
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Among my many issues is the one-two punch of my unwillingness to start things, and my inability to finish things. These traits, more than anything else in my life, have brought me to the sorry condition in which you find me. But at least I’m still fighting. As evidence of this last I offer this: [...]
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
I found this cool interview with Christopher Nolan, director of the current incarnation of the Batman movie franchise. He talks about both films, Heath, and his favorite scene from The Dark Knight – surprisingly it is not the disappearing pencil scene. He also mentions that he has no idea if there will be a third movie [...]
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The question has been: if I have proven, in various environments, that I can excel, then why can’t I excel in other environments? If I go to Clarion and kick a whole bunch of ass, then come home and kick no ass whatsoever, what happened? Well, of course life now is radically different than life [...]
Peaches has been raving about The Wire for a while now, which has made me pay attention to when other people rave about it. A while ago I read an interview from David Simon, the producer, and was blown away by his thoughtfulness and deep grounding in the history of narrative. For instance: he pointed [...]
Friday, September 12, 2008
My posts are generally a bit scattershot and I’m currently obsessed with the election but here are a couple of non-political, geek-related entertainment items: George RR Martin shares encouraging news on his “Not a Blog”, stating that HBO has exercised its option and has bought the full television rights for the proposed A Song of [...]