It was 1987 - Full Metal Jacket was just out, following Platoon last year. Clearly America loved grim, unflinching looks back at the US involvement in Vietnam.

It was 1987 - The A Team had just finished its run with its characters, "hunted by the government for a crime they did not commit", finally being cleared of robbing the Bank of Saigon. ( Read more... )

Y'all were expecting clever seasonal rhymes full of wordplay and such. Pardon, I was preparing for, entertaining, and recovering from a visitor. You should still have jaw-dropping nerdly rhymes, though ( Read more... )

Have just been reading up on El Bulli, the insanely exclusive, hautest- of haute-cuisine restaurant in a tiny village up the coast from Barcelona. Restaurant Magazine's "Greatest Restaurant on Earth" 2006-2009 running; cradle of molecular gastronomy; chef Ferran Adria's dishes like "foamed essence of tomato" alternately praised as revolutionary ( Read more... )

Another week? More content? Um... this guy is proud of the BBC?

Two quick video reports from the ongoing cultural exchange between America and the mysterious Orient.

West -> East

Some Japanese reminders why that one brand is for nerdy losers in Mac-u des, PC des.

West -> East -> West

The national sport of South Korea, now being rebroadcast with English-language commentary and analysis. In fact, they have ( Read more... )

I know I am pretty much alone here in my affection for a) elaborate music videos and b) random techno remixes, but... I gotta be me? Anyway, the Kleptones (previously seen screwing around with the Flaming Lips oeuvre) one day decided the hell with it: "Come Together" + "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" vs. every musical ever.

So I was watching the Portugese-subtitled version of the new Scott Pilgrim trailer on Youtube, and I notice the third comment is "Parece uma imitacao de kick ass". Which I am not even going to dignify with a response. Boy's probably from west-central Brazil, if you know what I'm saying.

Spike Jonze is in town tomorrow for the kickoff of DeadCenter Film. It may seem really, really odd, that the big-noise Where The Wild Things Are director guy is bothering to attend Oklahoma City's crappy little film festival, but... you have to trace these things back, Momento-style.

2003 Sofia Coppola, daughter of famous director Francis Ford ( Read more... )

For Brenna and assorted others:

David Tennant, feat. the Proclaimers

Incidentally, I have been here.

You haven't seen My Neighbor Totoro? Why not?