April 29th, 2008 |
I know I’ve been lax on the old blog lately. I claim a combination of schoolwork, socializing, nearing-graduation stress, returning television shows, and generally not much interesting going on. Oh, and also the part where I’ve gotten in Twitter a lot more and am post one-off thoughts there instead of collecting them together into a [...]
April 24th, 2008 |
It’s been rumored for a while, but Guillermo Del Toro is now definitely signed to direct The Hobbit! It is going to be awesome.
April 22nd, 2008 |
Roger Ebert has started blogging! Lots of major film critics are now, and I’m glad he’s joining them. His health still isn’t good; send good vibes his way.
April 22nd, 2008 |
Pretty cool video showing the process of transforming the animated Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit? into a photo-realistic version, with the help of PhotoShop and several real-life actresses. It’s not hard to guess who the model is for Jessica’s face, but I was off on my prediction that it was Amy Adams’ hair. [...]
April 17th, 2008 |
Update: I passed!
I have my oral examination tomorrow, which decides whether or not I, you know, graduate. It’s really hard to study two and a half years of coursework, especially those parts you didn’t really care for and weren’t planning to need to know again. *fingers crossed* the old memory holds up. My mind is [...]
April 16th, 2008 |
Oh, joy, an entire night of singing Mariah Carey songs. *eyeroll* And most of the singers aren’t really Mariah-style singers - which I think actually turned out well. It meant they had to come up with their own takes on the songs because they didn’t have a chance of singing her version.
David Archuleta - "When [...]
April 16th, 2008 |
So my newest procrastination technique is watching videoblogs, like Mahalo Daily. Found this one, which is ostensibly about Veronica Belmont learning to speak French, but is really an imitation of New Wave techniques. The tracking shot at the end is obviously a recreation of the opening of Contempt (and the music is very Contempt-esque as [...]
April 15th, 2008 |
The Austin City Limits lineup is posted. LOTS of tempting bands there. Nearly tempting enough to come back for.