Month: May 2005

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Lost, Season 1.

Only a few of the program’s many, many major questions were answered, and without fail, they were answered with more questions.

Making a living for a change.

I’ve picked up a contract with American Public Media to do some grunt work on their web site, slicing up a few HTML pages and putting them back together again.

Desperate Housewives, Season 1.

It went from being a weird, campy, semi-satirical look at suburban life to being a ludicrous, kitschy, not-at-all-satirical soap opera.

The Animation Show.

Some brief thoughts on each of the shorts (and not-so-shorts) of the films I saw at Judge & Hertzfeldt’s touring festival of animation.

Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

When the only convincing performance in a film comes from a backwards-talking, computer-animated muppet, you know you’re in trouble.

Gilmore Girls, Season 5.

After watching the last couple of episodes, I’m wondering: was Rory always this much of a spineless weasel?

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

The whole affair is a wonderful play (pun intended) on identity, reality, and langugage.

Walker Reloaded: Still Closed Mondays.

A month late, I finally get to see the renovated Walker Art Center. And I take pictures.

Kung Fu Hustle.

Kung Fu Hustle doesn’t inspire deep analysis so much as a feeling of sheer elation.

Lynx 66, Sun 91: Relax, it’s just the preseason.

Late in the game, Nicole Ohlde finally realized that there was no way that Margo “Shawn Bradley” Dydek could keep up with her, and started spinning around her at will.

Vanity Fair (the movie, not the magazine).

How much do I love Reese Witherspoon? Enough to sit all the way through this movie.

Veronica Mars, Season 1.

Characters and plot points that seem like walk-ons and macguffins turn out to be incredibly important, sometimes months after they’re introduced.

Three-penny take-home test.

I really didn’t dislike my film theory class as much as you’d think from reading this weblog.

Bible Blaster?

Just a couple of weeks after the New York Times ran a long feature on the rise in popularity of Christian-themed videogames, we see a press release announcing the development of a Bible-themed trivia game.

My friends are cooler than your friends.

It seems like the Huffington Post is banking on the idea that if they get enough famous people to write for them, people will have no choice but to read at least some of their posts.

There’s more to life than bitching about mainstream media.

The whole “bloggers vs. journalists” debate feels insanely remote to me, but it’s not hard to understand why it often seems to be the only topic of discussion.

Joan of Arcadia, Season 2.

The tone of the show has shifted from a nondenominational vagueness that permitted the viewer a range of readings to an ever-more doctrinaire line that starts to read like “Liberal Catholicism for Dummies.”

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

The film makes the transition to a more visual medium by replacing some of the novels’ logorrheic verbal digressions with arch visual gags.

Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

It’s two hours of drug jokes, fart jokes, boob jokes, gay jokes, and generally tiresome bad behavior. On the other hand, it’s Asians engaging in this bad behavior.