Archive for the 'media' Category

Two films that couldn’t be more different.

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

It looks to be a movie weekend. I feel like crap, so I hurried through the necessary errands this morning and came home with some of that throat-numbing spray and some extra Sprite. On today’s (and last night’s) docket: the recent release Children of Men and, straight from Netflix, Eternal sunshine of […]

QotD

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

From a neat blog, Shakespeare’s Sister, an intriguing question of the day:

What 5 television characters (not the actors, but the characters) would you want to have over for a dinner? Bonus: What would you serve?

Man, that’s tough. ‘Cause they have to all get… along… somehow. I mean, dinner with Mulder together with the […]

This is what they call music, no… really.

Monday, February 12th, 2007

Recent events have led to a renewed interest in the music of my youth (and, I suppose, music in general, though I’m not sure how much one can renew something that, when alone, is the soundtrack to life), and before tonight’s Grammys, I found myself watching the 80’s classic Purple Rain.
Wow. I know I remember […]

24: season 6, hour 7

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Another week, another episode. You might have noticed that I’m behind a day. Ah, the joys of TiVo. It allowed me to keep a nearly-forgotten sushi date and say bon vonyage to a dear pal. (Bon Voyage, dear pal. And thank you. And good luck. And, damn, but I’m going […]

Damned disturbing statistics.

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
57 percent of […]

24: season 6, hour 6

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Coarse commentary on this season’s 24. Again, not for the not completely-caught-up.

Yay, McBeal. I hope he and Karen get to whip out their sharp tongues more often.
OMG, I think that was a Lowe brother. Of the less-famous variety. Chad! Glad to see you’re getting work after Hilary.
Oh, c’mon Romano. Don’t be such […]

24: season 6, hour 5

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Same as the others–if you’re avoiding 24, this isn’t the place to be.

Bye-bye Valencia. 12,000 dead. Though, really, a bomb has exploded on 24 soil before. Ok, so it was in the desert. Whatever. But they’re all acting like it’s the first time.
President Palmer’s heading to the bunker. That’s a really sweet bunker they […]

The Figurehead (post 2)

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Same song, entirely different era. Robert here is probably younger than we are now, and so so sad. Simply so charming, it breaks your heart.

Also, I want to know how exactly I missed this web comic.

24: season 6, hours 3 and 4

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Again, if you ever plan on watching 24 and not knowing what happens, go away.

hour 3:
Chloe, he doesn’t have a lot of time. He never has a lot of time. Get on with it.
I really do like this Dr. Bashir. But I still feel he is likely to be incredibly short-lived. As […]

The Figurehead

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Ah, an old friend. So achingly beautiful, for what it is, and where it fits in my life with the Cure. Robert Smith says it is about a figurine from a set they used for a video shoot. It is also about what I remember it for–a time, a place, certain people, absolutes of experience. […]