This is the end of the beginning of the end. Content isn’t King, it’s a pandemonic virus!
Hulu is good. Stay seated, try not to move, do not adjust your set.
I was bouncing around on IMDB one day adding movies to my “seen this” and “gotta see this” lists. Somehow I got to Nurse Betty (seen this) and Neil LaBute (director) and his two early films. Both “In The Company of Men” and “Your Friends and Neighbors” (not seen this) sounded at the time like cynical cultural portraits that I just didn’t need to see. Maybe I was projecting. Maybe I was living it already. Whatever. The late ’90s had so much else going on - and it felt good to dismiss them, I love feeling superior to filmmakers. They can be so wrong in such a big way. And I’m just a guy without an audience sitting in his pajamas, typing on his blog, wondering what to have for breakfast.
So anyway, then I followed a link in their list of reviews for “Your Friends” and got to a rather lengthy (500 words?) review by Roger Ebert. And I just wanted to post a little bit of that for you here… This is the kind of review I like, full of analysis, context and humor.
Continue reading ‘A Symbolic Review’
Ah, it must be Saturday morning… Listening to Kid Hops show Positive Vibrations on KEXP 90.3 in Seattle. But no matter where I roam, I listen to this show, even when I’m on timezones where it isn’t Saturday morning… ah, the wonders of on-demand listening, eh?
I believe that this “hit” was sanctioned by the US government. The proof will be when there is no withdrawal of financial support for the Pakistani military.
My biggest fear? The same thing will happen to a presidential candidate here in the US and Bush will declare a state of emergency and stay in power.
Brotherly love is a moving target.
That’s my review. See this film!
Well, I should expand… Loyalty is a theme here. And it is the loyalty as parsed out of the classic honor among thieves formula - or rather honor among the spawn of Satan.
The Proposition is set in the Australian outback and tells the story of the three Burns brothers. A British lawman, Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone) has captured two of the brothers. His proposition to Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) is to find and kill his brother Aurthur or the younger brother Mike will be hanged on Christmas day (very nice touch that).
When I discovered that this film was written by Nick Cave, I had an hipster epiphany. It just seemed so… “wrong in so many ways” that it was right.
Indonesia has called on the wealthy nations to provide incentives to save their rainforests and refrain from burning in peat swamps.
http://members.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK206844.htm
This call was made in anticipation of a U.N.-led summit in December. There a report will be delivered on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation (RED) — a new scheme that aims to make emission cuts from forest areas eligible for global carbon trading.
Indonesia wants to gain bargaining power for direct assistance by teaming up with Brazil, Cameroon, Congo, Costa Rica, Gabon, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea, which together account for the lion’s share of the world’s tropical rainforests.
“What the ‘F8′ (Forest Eight) hopes and wishes for is an incentive from developed countries, an appreciation of each one’s efforts to avoid deforestation,” Malam Sembat Kaban told Reuters during a visit to Beijing on Wednesday.
While it is easy to measure carbon emissions from a power plant for example, there is no definitive methodology for quantifying greenhouse uptake from a preserved rainforest. The priority should be to develop and experiment with methods of measuring the benefit of forests that have been not been cut down to make way for oil palm or other agriculture.
A review of The Lexus and The Olive Tree
Well this is certainly long overdue. I suppose that while this book was all the rage I was just too busy living globalization to be concerned much with “current thought” however, I have finally gotten around to reading it and wish I hadn’t have waited so long… so that I could perhaps have had some effect on the 2nd edition!
