Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers ever, died yesterday. I haven’t seen a lot of Bergman films, and those I have tend to strand me between a sense that I may be watching something incredible and my realization that I’m not understanding half of it. Reading around the film [...]

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I love it when my random code hacking actually works; my big accomplishment today was finding a MediaWiki extension that would let me embed videos over at The Frame and then modifying the code to let me embed videos from sites that weren’t originally supported by the extension. For once, I actually made PHP [...]

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Top ten! No more judges saving people! All up to America! Which actually kinda sucks, because America has not been what I’d call intelligent about who should be in the Bottom Three. And I even voted last week, so yes, I get to say that. Lauren, you better be stepping [...]

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A few weeks ago I posted a song by the Acid House Kings, and since then I’ve bought their LP and listened to it over and over. I still like the song I posted before (”This Heart Is a Stone”) the best, but the others are also good. Anyway, it turns out that [...]

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Naomi Watts may not be Narcissa after all. I hope they’re just trying to keep it quiet; I think she’d be great.

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In May I was home for a few weeks, and took advantage of the amazing St. Louis library system to knock several films off my 2007 Goal list. Then I got burned out on that and just watched some random old stuff. After the jump, reactions to Spider-Man 3, The Great Dictator, They [...]

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Naomi Watts has been cast as Narcissa Malfoy. Those Harry Potter people know how to cast; Nicole Kidman also springs to mind, but Watts will fit better with the rest of the cast, I think.

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I just started using a new (to me) statistics tracker (Pmetrics from Performancing, which I highly recommend based on the week I’ve been using it), and I’ve noticed several hits from people looking for Allison and Ivan’s umbrella dance from last year, which Nigel mentioned a week or two ago on SYTYCD, and which I [...]

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