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Dec
26
2005
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Monday, 26 December 2005 |
... In Corduroy and Jeans. David Sedaris's 2004 book continues the
series of stories from the author's family, including early childhood
memories and recent memories of life in France with his partner, Hugh.
I find it astonishing how the same man can write 5 books on his family
life and still have more to say. I guess everyone else would run out of
things to tell, but Sedaris's family can be counted on for one more
little funny story every single time. Or maybe the commentator on the
jacket is right: even when given the phone book as material, David
Sedaris would know how to make that sound funny.
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Dec
21
2005
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Wednesday, 21 December 2005 |
Dance versions of pop songs are DJ Sammy's specialty, and with Heaven he gets quite a few right. I first heard about him when watching a few kids play Dance Dance Revolution on a Playstation 2 (at the Metreon in the City). The dance version of the Bryan Adams hit "Heaven" is included in the game.
Aside from accelerating the old pace of songs of the sixties and seventies, DJ Sammy adds a lot of riffs and beats, and makes the sound overall more danceable. It's fun to listen to a new reading of "California Dreaming", and the old "The Boys of Summer" sounds amazing with a bit of beat behind it.
Waiting for more!
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Dec
21
2005
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Wednesday, 21 December 2005 |
Some movies are just not meant for you. Brokeback Mountain was certainly not meant for me, and I had a hard time separating the movie's impact on me from the movie itself.
My friend J. and I went together to this remote theater, one of only two showings in the whole city of San Francisco. Stonestown Galleria is a suburban shopping mall, and the tiny theater on its edges seemed to be an unlikely place for what was hailed as a groundbreaking movie.
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Dec
21
2005
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Wednesday, 21 December 2005 |
Short story: lame.
I confess I kept the movie as a particular treat in my Netflix list, and I was looking forward to a funny movie. "Meet the Parents" was stuck in my brain as an incredibly laugh-worthy movie, and I though that Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand would just be a hoot together.
Not so. Amazing. I don't know what happened. Even Robert de Niro lost all his funny bones in this sequel. The only one that still stands out is Blythe Danner, who has the same charming ditzyness that made her so vital to the success of the first movie.
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Nov
29
2005
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Tuesday, 29 November 2005 |
Well, what did I expect? A bunch of teenage rowdies crowds to the opening game of the season, gets stranded in a back country hole and all hell breaks loose. Predictable to the point that my main activity during the movie was hitting fast forward on the remote, and the whole experience shrank down to possibly 30 minutes.
Someone had told me this was the best horror thriller they had seen in years, so I thought it can't hurt if I watch it. Wrong! I should have read my IMDB before renting it: turns out the whole cast was chosen around the firmament star Paris Hilton. If that wouldn't have been the clue, then seeing Chad Michael Murray play the bad hero would.
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