This season’s third episode, “JUGHEAD,” aired this evening and definitely laid the ground work for an exciting story arc this year. Some highlights for me:
– Locke asking Juliet “exactly how old” Richard Alpert is… her reply: “Old.”
– The quick moment where it’s apparent that Faraday is not only AWARE of Miles’ psychic abilities, but that he trusts it enough to mine him for details after Miles informs him they just passed a fresh gravesite.
I was a bit worried about the relationship of Penny and Des after watching him struggle to explain his “new memories” of Faraday visiting him in the hatch. You’d think after three years together, he would’ve gotten the point across that The Island, everything about it, and everyone who’s ever been there or even heard of it is involved in some pretty BIZZARRE SH*T!!! (more…)
Pitchfork.tv is an all-FLASH video site from Pitchforkmedia.com and in addition to hosting new videos and interviews, they have been making a series of feature-length programming available for one-week windows. The time limit encourages you to take advantage of the opportunities and if you have a HTPC (Home Theater PC) or the means to send video from your computer to a TV, this is the perfect reason to pull out some cables and hook your ‘puter up to some bigger speakers. Previous “One Week Only” offerings have included feature documentaries and concert films from The PIXIES, DAFT PUNK, and others, but this week you can feast on KRAFTWERK‘s Concert Film MINIMUM – MAXIMUM : The MAN-MACHINE. Released in 2005, it features footage from their 2004 concert tour. Watch for FREE below courtesy of Pitchfork.tv(more…)
Brooks Barnes at the New York Times has the rare economically-optimistic piece up today; check it out HERE. I found this on the excellent ProVideoCoalition.com
I watched APPALOOSA last night and was quite dismayed to find that the commercials showing intense confrontations between Ed Harris (who directed and co-wrote this film), Viggo Mortensen, and Jeremy Irons had sold me on a completely different film. The destinies of this trio of gunslingers revolved entirely too much around an even shallower character played by RENE ZELWEGlemonbitterface. There were definitely some themes explored that I’ve never seen in a western before and it seemed that there was an effort for the characters to speak in a more modern parlance, perhaps to encourage us to view these wannabe-archetypes in a new light. Acting was my reason for staying awake and the characters of Virgil Cole and Mr. Hitch, two death-dealing peacemakers whose only trade is violence, were played convincingly by Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen. The territory covered by the story was far from what I expected, however, and I spent much of the film wondering if there had been some BrokebackMountain-action in the history of Harris and Mortensen’s “partnership” and that was BEFORE there was a scene where Ed Harris was choosing drapes for his new home. Perhaps if I had been attracted in the least to Ms. Zelwenschwarzenegger, I would have understood why her character had all the alpha males around here completely flustered. The gunslingers in this film had much more to say than THE MAN WITH NO NAMEand basically, I didn’t want to hear it…
Today while searching for a new job, I stumbled across a post that turned out to be recruiting camera operators for COPS. There were some requirements that made me realize how serious of a gig that would be. Hours later I turn on a television and come across an episode entitled ‘COPS: TAZED and CONFUSED’ and I remember that few things on television are COMPLETELY serious…
This season’s third episode, “JUGHEAD,” aired this evening and definitely laid the ground work for an exciting story arc this year. Some highlights for me:
If you’re trying to grasp the phenomenon called ANIMAL COLLECTIVE that is causing mania in the independent music scene, I can offer this guidance:
I watched APPALOOSA last night and was quite dismayed to find that the commercials showing intense confrontations between Ed Harris (who directed and co-wrote this film), Viggo Mortensen, and Jeremy Irons had sold me on a completely different film. The destinies of this trio of gunslingers revolved entirely too much around an even shallower character played by RENE ZELWEGlemonbitterface. There were definitely some themes explored that I’ve never seen in a western before and it seemed that there was an effort for the characters to speak in a more modern parlance, perhaps to encourage us to view these wannabe-archetypes in a new light. Acting was my reason for staying awake and the characters of Virgil Cole and Mr. Hitch, two death-dealing peacemakers whose only trade is violence, were played convincingly by Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen. The territory covered by the story was far from what I expected, however, and I spent much of the film wondering if there had been some BrokebackMountain-action in the history of Harris and Mortensen’s “partnership” and that was BEFORE there was a scene where Ed Harris was choosing drapes for his new home. Perhaps if I had been attracted in the least to Ms. Zelwenschwarzenegger, I would have understood why her character had all the alpha males around here completely flustered. The gunslingers in this film had much more to say than 
