M O V I E S


• David Fincher brings to The Social Network the same sense of history unfolding that he established with perfection in Zodiac with the psychological deconstruction of Fight Club. It isn't as flashy a film as the latter, nor as intense as the former, but like Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' music design, zips along with a kinetic energy ( Read more... )

…does that make me pretentious…?

• OUT WITH DAD
  
  Out With Dad, heybishop's web series, debuted this week with its premiere episode! Check it out and show your support!
• HEAT KNAVEIt is damn hot out there. Temperatures are reaching record highs in New York, and the stifling heat is a major topic of conversation for small talk (a surprisingly prominent aspect of ( Read more... )

A few weeks (and a lifetime ago) I made a post about the then-upcoming Criterion release of Nicholas Roeg's Walkabout. The film, lensed by the director himself, is visual and aural poetry, and I have to say that even though I had seen it several times, I was struck dumb by how amazing it looks on the new Blu-ray edition. The image is extremely ( Read more... )

• EXCELSIOR!
  
  I locked myself out of my own apartment yesterday. Not the new one, but the old: I dropped off my keys and bid farewell once and for all to a place that had been my home and safe haven for nine years. It is done; the future has taken root in the present. "Home" for me has a new definition.


• SMOKELESS ACESToday marks the eighth ( Read more... )

POINTS BY POINT:

• SAIDAGIVE!?!
  My family and I are going to see a matinée of Young Frankenstein this afternoon! I'm quite excited as we had a very good time at Spamalot, and Young Frankenstein is another favorite that we can all quote the entirety of. I have not heard the cast recording, I only hope that Mel Brooks preserved John Morris' ( Read more... )

It's interesting that I've had not one but two ideas kind of spring forth at once. Since the inexplicable explosion of mix-making I had earlier this year, the only project that I'd really been working on since was the Alex North epic set. Then Varèse Sarabande had the unmitigated gall¹ to release the long-thought lost score from Les Misérables, ( Read more... )

WORK SAFE

I'm bored. There's no work out there.
I'm thinking about laserdiscs for some reason.


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This really happend to Alice Cooper - NOT WORK SAFE
I had borrowed the laserdisc of This is Spinal Tap from Marty, my manager at Tower. It came with a Spinal Tap guitar pick. I never picked up the DVD when it was out, instead getting the better looking and sounding MGM release, but the original commentaries were much more interesting. I have to ( Read more... )

While my room had been redesigned and most of it put together in the proper place, I had thus far refrained from the doing the exhaustive work required in hooking the entire home theater up. The DVD changer was hooked up to the TV and the amplifier, and the phonograph was plugged into the amp. That was it ( Read more... )

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