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"Spiders... the spiders... they want me to tap-dance. And I don't want to tap-dance!"
Modern movie ad campaigns have several stages, and as a result produce several trailers. I find that the one that they pick to put on the DVDs are invariably the ones I like the least. To illustrate, I present the following two trailers, both of which were shown theatrically, but whose lamer cousins were instead chosen to be included, in the case ( Read more... ) -
Apologies for the Incommunicado
There was a large portion of yesterday during which it was impossible to reach me. My phone has stopped keeping a charge. In the past, I used to be able to have marathon conversations with waystone and suitboyskin on this thing, now it dies before the day is over. I have just ordered a new one (for dirt cheap, ain't the internet amazing?), but I spent much of last ( Read more... ) -
July Potter Bonanza
Chocolate apparently has 97% appeal. Of the remaining 3%, 2% are allergic, and 1% are just weird enough to not like it... um... and that would be jenvargas.
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"Very odd, what happens in a world without children's voices."
One of the things that made Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban such an effective and entertaining film is the very experiential quality that Alfonso Cuarón imparted to the material; that is to say, everything that occurs in the film does so within Harry's range of perception, using the visual and aural qualities of the medium to emphasize his ( Read more... ) -
Back to the Well... Damn It...
Alas... can one be proud of the results of actions one is not proud of? I recently revisited an older mix with Sensations; that was, in fact, the third revision of an older disc called The Philosopher. Now, two previous versions of The Philosopher had been lost (although I recently recovered the older edition), so recreating that album wasn't ( Read more... ) -
So turns a wheel, so turns a galaxy. Or words to that effect.
Raz called. A local theater has a midnight showing of X3.
I'm going to go take a nap.
* * *There are some times when I really wish that the Cruciatus Curse was legal. Some people just really need to be tortured into insanity. Many of them work for the Metropolitan Transit Authority ( Read more... )
