September 1st, 2007 |
I was trolling around the internet yesterday looking for a puzzle game I used to play a few years ago. I have no idea why this game popped into my head yesterday, but I got a huge craving to play it again, only I couldn’t remember what it was called or where it was, [...]
August 23rd, 2007 |
I wish that book resources on the internet were as easy to find as film and music resources. Now, maybe I’m just better at looking for film and music information than book information, but I find it odd that for each type of book-related website I’d like to find, I can name an exact [...]
June 25th, 2007 |
I am not skipping Music Monday this week; it’s just going to be late on account of the presentation I’m writing for tomorrow. Hopefully there shall be musics up tomorrow sometime.
Also, on the subject of movie list responses to AFI’s new Top 100, Eddie Copeland’s got a great one. He doesn’t follow AFI’s [...]
March 8th, 2007 |
Well, I think my presentation of my Langston Hughes paper went pretty well yesterday, so I’m going to go ahead and post it. And also plug a new site that just opened from private beta, called Scribd. It’s basically a site for you to upload documents, and it displays them in Flashpaper, and [...]
January 16th, 2007 |
So Netflix doesn’t have a set-top box yet for downloading rented movies and playing them on your TV screen, but this is the next best thing. They’ve started rolling out a WatchNow feature, where subscribers can watch movies on their computers. That is, the movies stream, you have full fast-forward and rewind capability, [...]
December 4th, 2006 |
As of today, my to-do list had 108 school-related tasks completed, two open. I just reached 20 pages on the adaptation paper, after throwing in intertextualism and “literature as resourse” and “film as critical reading” and the auteur theory and populism and statistics on the Indian film industry and descriptions and analysis of Bollywood [...]
November 4th, 2006 |
I just found the best film blog ever. Okay, I found it with the help of Professor Henry Jenkins’ blog. Gotta give credit where it’s due–I’d give credit further back, but I can’t remember where I first found Dr. Jenkins’ blog. Anyway. This is the joint blog of David Bordwell and [...]