Jandy’s Meanderings

The official Tab Mix Plus extension doesn’t work with Firefox 3 yet. Boo! But this developer’s build does. Yay! I missed it.

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Tagged:extensions, Firefox 3, Tab Mix Plus

David Edelstein on Sydney Pollack, who died last weekend. Lots of other good obits around, I just liked this one.

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If you aren’t at least a little bit charmed by The Young Girls of Rochefort, you are a hopeless cynic.

(Sorry, couldn’t find any good clips with English subtitles, and not even this trailer has them, but trust me, whatever they’re saying isn’t important. The first ten minutes of music and dancing and almost no talking [...]

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Tagged:Jacques Demy, The Young Girls of Rochefort

Final trailer for Joss Whedon’s new fall show, “Dollhouse,” starring Eliza Dushku. I’m really excited about this, which of course means it’s going to be canceled within eight episodes. Hopefully I’m wrong. I only lost one show I cared about last year (”Journeyman”), so maybe the TV climate is moving more toward my tastes? One [...]

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Tagged:Dollhouse, Eliza Dushku, Joss Whedon

The schedule for the Bonnaroo Music Festival is posted. Good stuff: Vampire Weekend, Tegan & Sara, Raconteurs, Rilo Kiley, Broken Social Scene, Swell Season, Cat Power, Sigur Rós, Death Cab, many others.

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Tagged:concerts, festivals, music

I LOVE SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE!!! I have missed it. You may have been able to discern a creeping apathy towards American Idol over the past few months, what with the lack of posting and all. Some of that was due to busyness, yes, but some of it was also I didn’t feel [...]

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Tagged:SYTYCD

I replaced the normal WordPress comment system with comments powered by Disqus. Disqus is a centralized comment management service that keeps track of all the comments you make on Disqus-enabled blogs - basically providing you an identity that follows you to different sites, making it easy for you to comment and keep up with the [...]

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Is it just me, or were they REALLY pushing Archuleta for the win? I pretty much picked Cook over Archuleta every round, and then Simon did the opposite. Not that the judges and I usually agree, it just seemed like both Simon and Randy were giving Archuleta more praise than he deserved. His first song [...]

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Tagged:American Idol, David Archuleta, David Cook