i can no longer think what i want to think; my thoughts have been replaced by moving images

the audience’s identification with the actor is really an identification with the camera
i saw new moon the monday after it opened — packed theater, screaming preteen girls and all that. it was pretty great (except for the running time).

actually, the movie theater wasn’t mostly preteens; rather, it was mostly postteens.  like whitney’s thoughts on the [...]

katherine hepburn is my favorite author

i mean, after mary shelley
said in disgust: we’re not pioneering, we’re repairing!
then: hey, are you the fella that fired a couple of shots at billy the kid?

our government is nothing but a ganster’s joke.  the petrified forest reminds me of now.  super-exploitation of labo(u)r and, thanks to the pony express and the telegraph and cars [...]

all the guys think you’re really spaced

you know this is frog week
so invaders from mars (1986) is a remake of invaders from mars (1953) but there’s this great et (1982) scene early in the movie.  david goes to school to slice up frogs but ends up getting sliced himself.  “i hope you need a tetanus shot,” is his teachers reply.  like [...]

song + video

if you love high sierra, or if you dont, or if you’ve never seen it, check out this promo video made by my friend gael summers-gavin:
high sierra
(you have to scroll down a bit to get to the video.)

custom made for freshness tm (trademark or trade-mark)

a new geometry
last friday, i attended a lecture by the guy who stole the moon rocks from nasa and tried to sell them on the black market.  during his five-plus years in prison, he invented a new theoretical frame-work for understanding both space and the space between space using an eleven dimensional reference points.
this is [...]

all she thinks about is ham

i saw ponyo with my 3 year old niece who has  (up until three weeks ago) only lived in japan.  my sister told me that it costs like 40 (american) dollars to go to the movie theater in japan, so not only was this her (my niece not my sister) first time in an american [...]

i think it’s called hyper-real

one of my friends (who, for the purpose of protecting his identity, i will call choi) saw bruno yesterday and claimed it was “the most offensive movie [he's] ever seen”.  this didnt surprise me.  what did surprise me was that he didnt love the movie.
some background:
i’ve seen a lot of movies/tv with choi over the [...]

birds+amphibians+reptiles=dinosaurs?

i’ve read a couple books by steven powers.  one was about computers, the early internet and the computational theory of the mind and how they all function using a similar language, namely binary (or 1/0 or presence/absence).  in my brain, all the signifiers are confused, but it’s like neurons either firing or not firing (binary) [...]

the bottom of the ocean: where things can’t see or be seen

remember the past?  i do.  sometimes.  misremember, that is.   specifically, i (mis)remember that i use to watch a lot more movies than i currently do.  there was this one winter, maybe two years ago, where i was watching 7(0) to 10(0) movies a week.  it was winter.  i didnt want to leave the house.  [...]

how’s that for civilization?

tarzan and his mate (or tarzan finds a mate) is incredible.  to quote a friend, “it’s the best jungle movie ever made.”  i couldnt agree more.

tarzan and his mate is a lot like herzog’s jungle movies — fitzcarraldo, cobra verde, etc.  it’s a bunch of europeans heading off into the middle of the jungle to [...]