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If your state’s governor was having marital problems, do you think it would be weird if the governor moved out of the governor’s mansion and the first lady remained? That’s exactly what Governor Gibbons did here in Nevada.
(24) #4/26/2008
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If you missed The Daily Show last night, you missed some of the sharpest political commentary Jon Stewart has made in a long while, about the justifications the Clinton campaign is making for staying in the race. You can watch it here.
(27) #4/24/2008
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Dmitri Nabokov has finally decided to posthumously publish The Original of Laura , despite the wishes written in the last will of his father, Vladimir Nabokov. I guess that means one more installment from Ron Rosenbaum over at Slate.
(0) #4/24/2008
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Bob Odenkirk has his own short-form show on Super Deluxe, Derek & Simon: The Show. Why did I have to find this out from Wired magazine?
(0) #4/24/2008
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Dmitri Nabokov has finally decided to posthumously publish The Original of Laura, despite the wishes written in the last will of his father, Vladimir Nabokov. I guess that means one more installment from Ron Rosenbaum over at Slate.
(4) #4/24/2008
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Trailer for Glass: a Portrait of Philip In 12 Parts, a documentary about the famous contemporary composer (who is often mislabeled as “minimalist”). I first heard the name Philip Glass when he was mocked in a South Park episode in 1997. Soon afterwards, I saw Martin Scorsese’s Kundun and bought its excellent soundtrack. This led to his Errol Morris scores, Koyaanisqatsi , his Bowie/Eno symphonies, and much of the rest of his back catalog. I’m a fan.
(3) #4/20/2008
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Releases for the Wii have been stagnant recently, but next month Nintendo is offering “WiiWare,” digital downloads of original games. Here are several reviews of some upcoming games. Puzzle games! Homestar Runner! Dr. Mario! This is my kind of thing.
(0) #4/20/2008
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A Reno man has filed a lawsuit to keep Hillary Clinton off the Nevada ballot (assuming she’s the nominee), because he believes the U.S. Constitution prohibits women from the presidency due to its consistent use of the male pronoun.
Wallace, who describes himself as a civil rights fighter, said his lawsuit, filed Friday in Washoe District Court against the secretary of state, is meant to force changes so that “women can legally be U.S. president.”
Despite his “good intentions,” the article cites some clearly skeptical legal scholars. But my favorite part of the article is this:
He is a retired engineer and a Democrat, who once ran for the Sparks City Council. During his campaign, he advocated that a snowshed be built over Interstate 80 from Donner Pass to Kingvale, Calif.
That would be awesome.
(6) #4/11/2008
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The trailer for The Fall is one of the most promising (and beautiful) trailers I’ve seen in awhile. I have reservations because it’s directed by Tarsem – who helmed the pretty but dead-inside serial killer thriller The Cell -- but the vast change of subject matter and positive early raves I’ve seen make me optimistic.
(5) #4/10/2008
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NME is reporting that Guns & Roses have finally delivered a final version of Chinese Democracy to their label. If it’s released this year, free Dr. Pepper for everyone! (via fimoculous)
(0) #4/10/2008
Play Time and 70mm
A brief recommendation. This weekend, I saw Jacques Tati’s Play Time for the first time. (Alas, not on the big screen in 70mm, but the Criterion DVD.) Despite being a two-hour movie without a traditional plot and with Altmanesque dialog mixed into the background noise, I was continually entertained by its endless inventiveness, stark cinematography, carefully choreographed structure, and its humor, both slapstick and subtle. Not having seen any Tati before, my reference points for the film would be Michel Gondry and Terry Gilliam mixed with The Sims. The whole film is like a socially critical Rube Goldberg device designed to beautifully break down. It also reminded me of the existence of 70mm film in general, which I haven’t thought of in awhile due to my living in 70mm-free Nevada and to its replacement in mainstream theaters by IMAX. Let alone that no major film has been shot fully in 70mm since 1996 (Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet , and it was actually 65mm). But I remember fondly seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey and Lawrence of Arabia -- in Hartford and Boston, respectively – in all of their 70mm glory. I hope I get the chance to catch Play Time projected in 70mm, as its wide shots filled with multitudes of people demand detailed viewing.
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Quantum suicide. (thx, lunessense)
(1) #4/4/2008
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David Lynch’s Lost Highway is finally on DVD, and Slate has an interesting piece on looking at the movie’s influence -- it is generally more highly regarded in hindsight, and marks a turning point in Lynch’s career. It’s also one of my favorite films; I saw it at least three times in the theater and it blew my high school mind.
(3) #4/4/2008
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An interview with John Krasinski of NBC’s The Office on the release of Leatherheads. But more interestingly, the interview touches upon his first directorial effort: making David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men :
[A]ll of a sudden I got “The Office,” and right after we shot the pilot, I took pretty much all the money that I had made on that and bought the rights for a film. His agent said no at first, so I flew out to L.A. and sat with her, and said: “I know that I’m young, and I haven’t really done anything, but your client, he wrote an incredible book. I just wanted more people to know about David Foster Wallace.”
(thx, bill)
(0) #4/4/2008
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YouTube plants the best April Fools Day prank ever: every one of their featured videos is a rickroll.
(2) #4/1/2008
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The Ninth Circuit recently ruled on a case with the best name in the history of American law: United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins.
(0) #3/24/2008
