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May 30, 2006

instantly circa

I feel as though gradients and drop shadows are becoming the mauve bricks and glass blocks of current web design.

sound of one hand not clapping

Freehand I could care less about, But I actually use(d) GoLive. Bummer.

May 29, 2006

getting realtime

"It was a very conscious decision to head in this particular direction. Looking at the landscape of next-generation games being developed it was clear that there were a gluttony of titles that featured bald, buff space marines wearing body armor and fighting aliens. Fortunately for us, we didn't have much interest in heading in that direction and we felt that we could work in a style that really excited us and stand out from the crowd at the same time."

still summoning

Spoon's I Summon You still Van-de-Graaffs my hair, it's so good.

all socks go to heaven

"Animal, from The Muppet Movie, 1979: Dead." Heh.

the hot one

They actually more or less named their kid "messiah"? I guess they've been reading their own press.

May 28, 2006

mnemonic vices

I can often remember the small-talk long after I've forgotten who I made the small-talk with.

May 27, 2006

gag me with

Wendy's: There's already a term for what a Frosty is (besides chocolate-malted slurry): soft-serve. "Soquid" merely recalls benthic organisms, a prospect even more unappetizing than your late-night pick-up menu. And then there's "fpoon," which is not only derivative of "spork," but also a speech impediment. Your ads are as dumb as Donald Trump's apprentices. But since I was suitably bored/incensed to blurb them, well done.

May 26, 2006

phobia clusterfuck

The horror, the horror.

May 25, 2006

too much television

Call me a nerd, but the electromagnetic hijinks on last night's Lost season finale rocked my termination shock. A much better capper than last year's.

Alias' rushed-yet-protracted series finale, on the other hand, was unfortunately as lame as a sigh, although the high body count was just a bit ballsy. Or a copout.

And maybe let's talk about Mischa Barton's final exit on The TiVo-makes-me-watch-it O.C. Has anyone expired on television in recent memory with less conviction? Her amateurish fade had all the hallmarks of a small child feigning sickness so his mommy doesn't make him go to school. Bleh. At this rate, bring back Oliver.

May 23, 2006

full steam ahead

Hey look! It's a steaming pile of Full Throttle-meets-Daredevil. Marvel might wanna throttle back (oh!) on turning every last one of its stinking properties into a B movie.

al gorge

Poor Al Gore (I'm cereal):

"Since 2000, Gore has taken constant ribbing about his weight, to the point that he's apparently become self-conscious about it. A friend of mine describes attending a party at an apartment in the city and finding Gore in the hallway, facing the wall, furtively wolfing down an ice-cream sundae."

May 22, 2006

post facto

I had the comment spam threshold configured a bit overzealously. More comments should actually post through now. Assuming you fuggers post comments. Fuggers.

May 21, 2006

jpiss

God, Douglas Coupland's new novel sucks. When did his voice become so curdled? It's like Bret Easton Ellis tried to go down on Don DeLillo and threw up. I realize Shampoo Planet and Microserfs were an internet age ago but Coupland's creative decline hurts me afresh with his every new misbegotten work.

May 16, 2006

housekeeping

Updated to Flickr Photos v0.80. Hopefully nothing will break.

May 12, 2006

pastiche parfait

There's something sweetly adolescent about the latest trailer for Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. Hopefully the movie will channel that energy (emphasis on energy) and not descend into languorous camp.

lost 'world'

Things that make me admire The New World all the more: it was shot on 65mm; filmed almost entirely in available light; and cut around a completed score rather than scored upon completion. Rapturous, haunting filmmaking—the kind of movie that Legends of the Fall wanted to be. It's easily the best release of 2005 and hardly anyone got to see it. Sad. (Grade A, incidentally; I don't mention DVDs in the sidebar.)

May 08, 2006

excessive forced

A possible explanation for the psychotically enthused behavior of a dude sitting a couple of rows behind us at the ArcLight Friday night. He was literally cheering, applauding and generally masturbating to even the slightest, dimly suggested dialog beats and reaction shots in the movie as though he were attending, say, a midnight screening of Showgirls. He stopped about a quarter of the way through, as mechanically as he had begun, presumably having exhausted his niacin reserves.

May 04, 2006

long walks off short cliffs

Last night's Alias plus Lost equals bloodbath. Holy cow.

May 01, 2006

the nightlight of truth

"'Kids can't understand irony or sarcasm, and I don't want them to perceive me as insincere,' Colbert explained. 'Because one night, I'll be putting them to bed and I'll say ... "I love you, honey." And they'll say, "I get it. Very dry, Dad. That's good stuff."'"