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"Kid Charlemagne (live)" - Steely Dan

2009-07-31T08:00:00.000-04:00

"Ever Present Past" - Paul McCartney

2009-07-30T08:00:00.000-04:00

"Challengers" - The New Pornographers

2009-07-29T08:00:00.000-04:00

"Angry Charlie" - The Generationals

2009-07-28T08:00:00.000-04:00

"All I Want" -- Toad the Wet Sprocket

2009-07-27T10:51:00.001-04:00

"Union of the Snake" - Duran Duran

2009-07-24T08:00:00.001-04:00

"Union of the Snake" - Duran Duran
Embedding is disabled on this one, but I couldn't leave it out.

"Skipper Dan" -- Weird Al Yankovic

2009-07-23T08:00:00.000-04:00

"Shot in the Back of the Head" - Moby

2009-07-22T08:00:00.000-04:00

dir. David Lynch

"Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe" - Okkervil River

2009-07-21T08:00:00.001-04:00

(semi-not safe for workish)

"Vincent" - Joanna Wang

2009-07-20T08:00:00.000-04:00

"1,000 Reasons (live)" - Kris Delmhorst

2009-07-17T08:00:00.000-04:00

"16 Military Wives" - The Decemberists

2009-07-16T08:00:00.000-04:00

"Sax Rohmer #1" - The Mountain Goats

2009-07-15T08:00:00.000-04:00

"I Feel Better" - Frightened Rabbit

2009-07-14T08:00:00.000-04:00

"Apartment Story" - The National

2009-07-13T08:00:00.000-04:00

Joss Whedon News

2009-06-12T15:43:00.002-04:00

I'm probably pretty late to the party on at least one half of this post, but I'm betting my readers (if there are any) are even less informed than I am. Joss Whedon wrote a horror movie to be released early next year called The Cabin in the Woods, starring The West Wing's Bradley Whitford, of all people. It is being directed by a guy named Drew Goddard, who has worked on several Whedon TV projects. Now, it has been scheduled for February, which has always been a dumping ground for crap films, so I'm not getting my hopes up or anything. It'll be cool to hear Whitford's take on Whedon's notoriously stylized dialogue, and hear how it compares to his take on Aaron Sorkin's notoriously stylized dialogue. Also, here's a link to a bunch of news about Season Two of Dollhouse, which includes, as an aside, the revelation that Alan Tudyk will be in the remake of V this fall.

Scribblenauts

2009-06-08T08:52:00.002-04:00

Scribblenauts is an upcoming game for the Nintendo DS with an audacious game mechanic. To help your character solve puzzles, you can summon any object simply by writing the name on the DS's touch-sensitive screen. Eurogamer has the first article I've seen that goes into how they do that on a technical level. It is actually a pretty cool extension of traditional object-oriented coding theory, in that they define qualities, like "flammable" and assign those to types, like "wood" and then assign those types to various objects, so they don't have to code every different interaction between objects in their universe. There is still a tone of grunt work that they have to do, besides defining every noun in the dictionary in this manner, they have to create art assets for all this stuff. It is a pretty cool undertaking, and they seem incredibly confident about it.

8Tracks: Astronauts

2009-05-21T22:06:00.000-04:00

Eyes on the Road

2009-05-15T08:00:00.000-04:00

Watching people drive on TV or in movies, I often find myself consciously trying to figure out if this is the kind of show where they don't need to watch the road because the magic of television will guide them, or if they are about to plow into a oncoming truck.

Mutual Canadian Admiration Society

2009-05-13T08:00:00.000-04:00

I'd pay money to hear William Shatner cover "Red Barchetta" by Rush. "A gleaming Red Barchetta... from a better... vanished time." In the meantime, here's Shatner doing Harry Chapin's "Taxi," which I can't believe I've never heard before.

Star Trek

2009-05-12T08:00:00.000-04:00

Definitely in my top 3 Star Trek movies. I don't think it surpasses Khan, but it is probably better than First Contact. As my wife just said, it is difficult to compare across the different branches of the franchise. Flashy and cinematic, but with a solid grasp of the characters and a serviceable plot underneath. I look forward to more like this one.

8Tracks: Water

2009-05-11T08:00:00.000-04:00

Lovecraftian

2009-05-06T22:16:00.003-04:00

Created with Painter IX on my new Lenovo X61T tablet PC.

8Tracks: Western Expansion

2009-05-03T15:35:00.001-04:00

Eight tracks On Manifest Destiny including music by 10,000 Maniacs, David Bowie and Cowboy Junkies.

Test YouTube Embedding

2009-01-12T14:31:00.002-05:00