Movies I’m watching
Eleya and I watched Chanwook Park’s fabulously twisted and sumptuously shot revenge epic Oldboy last night. It’s not hard to see why this film garnered the Grand Prix at Cannes, since it is gripping from start to finish and features incredible acting, some tense action scenes, and a story with …
Studio madness, part 1.5. My next date at the studio is on Thursday, to help Leah complete vocals. We have all the rhythm tracks in the can, and this week Tom is finishing the guitars, banjo, and lap steel, while Okorie lays down the cello madness. (By the way, never …
It’s been a very hectic week between work, finishing preparations for a teaching gig in D.C. last week, and trying to complete rough mixes for the band’s preproduction demo that wouldn’t embarrass me in front of our producer. Thankfully, I got to see a lot of the kids this weekend …
So I took my grandmother to see “War of the Worlds” this evening, and I have the pleasure to report that Spielberg apparently got those “Terminal” doldrums out of his system. Beautifully shot by (once again) Janusz Kaminski, with unbelievable special effects which, while maybe not pushing the envelope necessarily, …
My hell week at work ended on Thursday night, but I spent pretty much the whole day Friday with a couple of my friends who were attending. We went sightseeing down the Civil War Trails, visiting the battlefields of Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Courthouse, with a side trip to downtown …
Data Recovery After the catastrophe, I was able to recover most of my important information. I would classify as “important” the following things: * Taxes (backed up) * Digital pictures of the kids * Web site data Unfortunately, “most” in this case means all of the top two categories, and …
Eleya and I went to see Star Wars Episode III Friday night. I can’t give a review without first mentioning that the sound was terrible in our local THX theater. So bad, in fact, that I actually contacted the THX company and lodged a complaint. I hate to be that …
Dave, I hadn’t checked on your blog in a while and this post caught my eye. I’m glad your PT is progressing and that you are out of Das Boot. (Clever eyes will find more than one stupid joke in the last sentence.) I have to disagree with you, though, …
I did a huge amount of work this weekend for the Docs Project: Outlined the next-gen Documentation Guide; Outlined part of a new hands-on example tutorial section; Read oodles of archived messages and bugs in Bugzilla to gather dangling inputs for the Guide and our other process docs; and Even …
Well, you could make an amazing movie like The Incredibles, which Eleya and I saw in the theaters and just bought on DVD yesterday. And somehow in between, I managed to forget just how darned great this movie really is. You have to love a movie that bucks the going …