gorey

portland has a store dedicated to edward gorey.

I'm ambivalent about huckabees

So I saw I heart huckabees on Ben's raving review. I think I would have liked this film had it not had an all star cast + mark walburg is mark walburg and I tend to not like dustin hoffman and lily tomlin. I can see the point that the movie was trying to make, but I don't think it sold it. Also, I kept thinking, "oh, they're trying to do that surreal michael gondry thing" which they don't do as well. Ben did say he had really low expectations going in.
I give it a middle grade.

So, what's the opposite of nihilism anyways?

[PD] keep studying

[PD] personal demons

[PD] fight

Film idea 2

Film a cross profile of people in an interview setting. Ask them their job, background and level of education. Ideally, this would be from older, well-to-do to younger less well-to-do. This should show a correlation between education level and success. Ask them at what point they decided to go as far through school as they did. How fully this will show that kids early on decide if they will go to college or not.
Kids aren't dumb, they know what their chances of going to a good school are and whether or not they can afford it. They know long before they're college age. If they know they're not going to go far, why put in any effort? Sure, there are exeptions that the right will bring out. But those are the few that are willing to swim against the current. On the flip side, you can't convince me that if Quayle and W. weren't privileged like they are, that they would have gotten as far as they have.
A long time ago, this was suppose to be the education administration. People talk about how to improve academic scores and get kids to do better. No one has bothered to ask the kids.
I don't think you should try to push kids, you should entice them with the benefits of education and the assurance that anyone that has the grades to attend a good school has the money to back it up.

Flim idea 1

Take all the drawings from an art studio class and film them in order to get a rotating camera effect ala Matrix.

Rx Dr Seuss

Last week NPR had a report by Richard Knox about COx in hibitors like Vioxx being pulled from the market. My question is, "was it sold in a box?"

5/5

I'm 5/5 in the pepsi/itunes cap game.

[PD] Sandy Brain

Worst Movie

The worst movie i ever saw was Up Close and Personal. I'm not talking about a low budget movie with bad actors, this movie starred Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Redford. This movie went through something like 12 rewrites. Someone ended up writing a book about it. The movie was based on a real person, but they couldn't even stick to that. Instead of having Pfeiffer's character die, like she really did, they kill off her lover. I kept waiting for the movie to end. I kept thinking it was over, but it kept on going. I should have just left, but as of yet, i've never walked out of a movie.

SNL

SNL has gotten really bad. It got bad when Will Ferrell left, it got worst when Jimmy Fallon left. I can't believe how bad the jokes have gotten. I've always thought that Weekend Update was the best part of the show. Even when it was bad before, i would be content to just watch Weekend Update but Amy isn't working out. It's too bad becuase i always liked her as Andy's Sister on Conan O'Brien and i was hoping she would do great stuff on SNL.
I watched a skit last week that was so lame, i resented the time lost. I kept watching, i kept waiting for the payoff. It never came.

Sin City Review

Ok, here's my take on it. It's a little long and the pacing is kinda flat. Maybe it's just because I already know what's going to happen or maybe it's because the comics are mostly dialog and not allot of action. Maybe the pace is flat because there was allot material, as it is they cut some of the material from the That Yellow Bastard. When they realize that they killed a hero cop and everything was fucked, the movie just kept going along, no dramatic pause.
In any case, there was allot of tits and ass to look at, more than I would have expected. Seems the script called for it.

[PD] ernie?

I thought this was a pretty good drawing. It kinda has a New Yorker feel to it i think.

list 2, favorite movies

1. Rushmore. I could have watched this movie for hours. The characters were great and believable even if it was a fantasy. Scott has a theory that any movie with the idea of "if i knew then when i know now" has an instant appeal. Peggy Sue got Married, Ferris Bueller's Day Off...
2. Fight Club. I saw this on a trip to Seattle when i was planning to got to Ikea...
I didn't know anything about the movie except that i had the impression that it was about machismo, that may been a big part of why it made such an impression. You might think it's dark, i think it's hilarous.
3. Henry Fool. Another movie with great characters. You might know people like those in the film but it's not about mundane characters. It's the only Hal Hartly movie i really like (sorry ben) although i have to admit that i haven't seen any of the films he's made since this one.

animated videos

yeah for animated music videos. The Shouty Track (ra) by Lemon Jelly or via iTunes,
Move Your Feet by Junior Senior, and Go With the Flow by Queens of the Stone Age, which i can't find anywhere but iTunes.
If anyone knows where to find a downloadable version, let me know.

circular reference, the start of lists as a theme

now that ben is in another state and i'm on the far side of this one i can talk about how devil's food donuts are one of my favorite foods. Any other donut i can take or leave but there's something about deep fried dough and the crust it forms that awakens all of the flavor of chocolate. Chocolate ice cream, on the other hand, i don't like. (how many people can say that?) It just seems gritty and bitter and wrong. Chocolate is best warm.

Amelia Approved.

Well, it seems that I've found another "Amelia Approved" game, Burnout 3. The point of this game is to crash other cars, and who can't do that? It made allot of end of year lists, including Time's (right along with Katamari Damacy) although most of the lists mention the xbox version. The game seems to have allot load times so i wonder if that's not an issue with the xbox since it has more memory. Amelia hates to admit that she likes it and that she wants to keep playing it. I think she even said that this might be the most fun game ever, but she won't repeat it.

Speaking of Katamari, have you seen all the Katamari links on memepool for Feb. 25th?

[PD] A is for Annie

so, this is different from the way i drew it, but this is what i originally intended.
It's worded badly. It should say something more like "why do so many cute girls have names that start with vowels?" and list more than "A" names.

[PD] Monster Draw