Also written on July 17, 2005
News: I would like to answer a filmmaker's questionaire I found on the Net.
1. How many DVDs , Laserdiscs, and VHSs do you own?
About 200 or so DVDs, No laserdiscs to my knowledge, and 800-1000 VHS tapes (Note: I still have no intention of downsizing.)
2. What was the last film you saw?
In theatres: Dukes of Hazzard (2005) OK.
On tape/DVD: Back to School (1986), which I am watching right now and am 15 minutes into.
3. What was the last film you bought?
No Direction Home (2005) Bob Dylan's life story from 1942-1966, includes performances from the famous Newport concert. (Note: They were not booing his electric guitar [Muddy Waters and The Chambers Brothers also performed with electric instruments in previous years] , they were booing his leaving the stage after 3 songs.)
4. Name five films close to you.
Annie Hall (1977)
Seventh Seal (Sweden, 1957)
Sixth Sense (1999)
Blood of the Poet (French, 1932 or 1930)
O Brother Where Art Thou (2000)
5. What character would you play in a film?
Someone like me. (ie Pretentious and proud, Filmmaker/writer, makes pop culture refs very few people understand, eccentric.)
Band Name of the Day: The Exploding Circus. This came from an episoe of the Brak Show. In that episode, Brak meets a man who kidnaps his Mother. After reading about how he kidnaps women and puts them in Cocoons, his father sees an ad for the Exploding Circus.
Film Idea of the Day: Untitled: 4 people are interviewed: A man who does photoshop constantly, A man who plays Quilty in a production of Lolita in the middle of an open freeway, the head of a Church of Marilyn Monroe [note: it's a reference to Tommy] and a Jazz Bassist.
Review of the Day: Errol Morris Blowout:
Fast Cheap and Out of control: Like my idea above, but different people and it's real: A topiary artist, a lion tamer, a naked mole rat expert, and a robot scientist. Brilliant.
Thin Blue Line: You are a detective investigating a murder of a cop. Yuo have two suspects, a teenager with a criminal record who went back to town bragging he killed a cop, and a drifter twice the teenager's age without a criminal record. Who do you pick? If you're like those in the film, you pick the latter. In this film, Morris argues that they had the wrong guy.
Mr. Death: The story of how an electric chair technician falls into holocaust denial after he took 60-plus-year-old, powdered-to-the-point-of-dilution, samples from the walls of Auschwitz, tested them for cyanide (which usually clings to a wall 6-10 microns new) with negative results.
Fog of War: Robert MacNamara talks about his years with Kennedy to Morris, although he never wants to talk about the Vietnam war.
Quote of the Day: "Life is wasted on the Living"
________________Douglas Adams.
Link of the Day: www.thislife.org
the Home on the Web of the radio show This American life. It is a show about how a distant cousin of Phillip Glass takes a topic and makes several "acts" that are like short documentaries for radio.
1. How many DVDs , Laserdiscs, and VHSs do you own?
About 200 or so DVDs, No laserdiscs to my knowledge, and 800-1000 VHS tapes (Note: I still have no intention of downsizing.)
2. What was the last film you saw?
In theatres: Dukes of Hazzard (2005) OK.
On tape/DVD: Back to School (1986), which I am watching right now and am 15 minutes into.
3. What was the last film you bought?
No Direction Home (2005) Bob Dylan's life story from 1942-1966, includes performances from the famous Newport concert. (Note: They were not booing his electric guitar [Muddy Waters and The Chambers Brothers also performed with electric instruments in previous years] , they were booing his leaving the stage after 3 songs.)
4. Name five films close to you.
Annie Hall (1977)
Seventh Seal (Sweden, 1957)
Sixth Sense (1999)
Blood of the Poet (French, 1932 or 1930)
O Brother Where Art Thou (2000)
5. What character would you play in a film?
Someone like me. (ie Pretentious and proud, Filmmaker/writer, makes pop culture refs very few people understand, eccentric.)
Band Name of the Day: The Exploding Circus. This came from an episoe of the Brak Show. In that episode, Brak meets a man who kidnaps his Mother. After reading about how he kidnaps women and puts them in Cocoons, his father sees an ad for the Exploding Circus.
Film Idea of the Day: Untitled: 4 people are interviewed: A man who does photoshop constantly, A man who plays Quilty in a production of Lolita in the middle of an open freeway, the head of a Church of Marilyn Monroe [note: it's a reference to Tommy] and a Jazz Bassist.
Review of the Day: Errol Morris Blowout:
Fast Cheap and Out of control: Like my idea above, but different people and it's real: A topiary artist, a lion tamer, a naked mole rat expert, and a robot scientist. Brilliant.
Thin Blue Line: You are a detective investigating a murder of a cop. Yuo have two suspects, a teenager with a criminal record who went back to town bragging he killed a cop, and a drifter twice the teenager's age without a criminal record. Who do you pick? If you're like those in the film, you pick the latter. In this film, Morris argues that they had the wrong guy.
Mr. Death: The story of how an electric chair technician falls into holocaust denial after he took 60-plus-year-old, powdered-to-the-point-of-dilution, samples from the walls of Auschwitz, tested them for cyanide (which usually clings to a wall 6-10 microns new) with negative results.
Fog of War: Robert MacNamara talks about his years with Kennedy to Morris, although he never wants to talk about the Vietnam war.
Quote of the Day: "Life is wasted on the Living"
________________Douglas Adams.
Link of the Day: www.thislife.org
the Home on the Web of the radio show This American life. It is a show about how a distant cousin of Phillip Glass takes a topic and makes several "acts" that are like short documentaries for radio.
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