May 2010
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Doctor Who 5x09: Cold Blood
Ok, what the fuck.
The episode itself was pretty decent. It seemed more like it was written for David Tennant’s Doctor and adapted for Smith’s, but it was still a pretty good story, with a strong theme behind it. I liked the reversal with the Silurians, though the turn with Ambrose was more telegraphed than dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot.
And then the end of the episode...
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My Year In Movies #63: Ikiru (Kurosawa-fest.4)
This movie was pretty depressing. More upon advent of the finale.
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Some Thoughts On The Music Business
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the future of the music business, and the way artists interact with their audience and each other. I think it’s pretty much accepted knowledge that the old model of the artist/label/audience triangle is on the way out, with a straight pipe-line from artist to audience being the majority, but I wonder how far this will/can go. Radiohead & Nine...
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My Year In Movies #62: Justice League: The New...
This was my second time watching this. And honestly, it holds up. Very well. I actually LIKED Hal Jordan, and I normally kind of seriously dislike his character in comics and animation. Martian Manhunter is pretty badass as well. The only real complaint I’d have is there’s not enough Batman. Though when he is there, he is either kicking someones ass, or seriously threatening them....
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My Year In Movies #61: Macheads
If I learned anything from this documentary (and I didn’t really learn anything super-new), it’s that some Apple users are CRAZYGONUTS.
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My Year In Movies #60: Seven Samurai...
One word comes to mind: EPIC. More to come later.
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“Cupid”, a Sam Cooke cover. Please to...
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My Year In Movies #59: Yojimbo (Kurosawa-fest.2)
This movie was Bad Ass. Elaboration upon the wrap-up.
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Doctor Who 5x08: The Hungry Earth
“Are you scared of them?” “No, they’re scared of me.”
This was a pretty decent episode, if an obvious “part one”. It took a little while to get rolling, but once it did, it seemed to move pretty fast. The interrogation scene between the Doctor and the Silurian was fantastic, especially him calling her out on the “last of my species” bluff....
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My Year In Movies #58: Rashomon (Kurosawa-fest.1)
Awesome. More to come when the fest wraps up.
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Doctor Who 5x07: Amy's Choice
Toby Jones is fucking AWESOME.
Not a whole lot else to say this week. The relationship and interplay between the three leads was great, as was the “solution” to the whole dream situation. And like I said, Toby Jones was great.
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My Year In Movies #57: Jimi Hendrix
A lot of concert footage in this, and goddamn, Hendrix was seriously amazing. Not just as a guitar player, though he was both amazing and revolutionary, but as a showman. Seriously, him and Pete Townshend had the market CORNERED.
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I don’t think I’ll ever understand the mentality of someone who plays music or is in a band solely to get famous and make lots of money. I mean this entirely seriously. I’ve been playing guitar since I was 14, and in bands since I was 18, and that has never been a motivating factor for me. I play music because it is something I like to do, and I think I’m fairly good at it....
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bonus column for this week, in which I say why Iron Man 2 is awesome and all the haters can suck it.
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My Year In Movies #56: Batman Beyond: Return of...
Even as an old ass man with a cane, Batman is fucking AWESOME.
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My Year In Movies #55: Composing The Beatles...
Interesting documentary, composed of mostly talking heads talking about how awesome Lennon and McCartney were. Some vintage footage of the band is used too. It focuses on the latter half of their careers in the Beatles, from Revolver onward. Not a whole lot of new information, especially as I’ve read quite a few books on the Beatles already (because I LOVES THEM), but still fairly...
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“And you may have my precious bones on my...
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we join our story, already in progress:
“… so I suppose it’s not entirely out of the question. I mean, we can stand here debating back and forth for hours, but the situation will not change unless we put our heads together, in a staggering display of humility and brotherhood, and come up with the solution that both benefits us and doesn’t somehow screw the world into the center of the oncoming singularity. Which...
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My Year In Movies #54: Iron Man 2 (second viewing)
I liked it just as much, even if I am backing off my “better than the first” statement made previously. I’ll have a review up on The Red Circle on Monday, if not earlier. I’ll certainly link to it then.
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Green Day cover. Live at the practice of some band...
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My Year In Movies #53: Breakfast With Hunter
“Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a main era… The kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something, maybe not, in the long run. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that...
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Doctor Who 5x06: Vampires In Venice
Another solid episode, this week’s was obviously not going to be as fantastic as “Flesh & Stone”, but it was still a good one. I honestly love how Matt Smith plays the Doctor, and while David Tennant will always have a special place in my heart (just for general awesomeness), I think Smith might be becoming my favorite Doctor.
Another plus this week was Rory, Amy...
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My Year In Movies #52: Buy The Ticket, Take The...
A documentary about the life of Hunter S. Thompson, as told by those who knew him: his friends, his family, his colleagues. Narrated by Nick Nolte, and featuring many clips from various Thompson interviews, as well as from Where the Buffalo Roam and Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, this was a pretty entertaining film, though not that enlightening. Nothing really new or unusual was expressed, but...
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My Year In Movies #50 & 51: Iron Man/Iron Man 2
I’d wanted to see the first Iron Man film before seeing the new sequel, and when my theatre announced they were presenting the two films back-to-back in digital, I jumped at the chance. And let me tell you: I was not disappointed.
The first Iron Man had a lot riding on its shoulders: starting a franchise, finally establishing Robert Downey Jr. as a legitimate leading man, and leading off...
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Cover of Motion City Soundtrack “Hold Me...
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