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May 2011
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“Wild One” by Wig Wam. Hooky!
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From Tarkovsky’s Solaris. Soundtrack by...
March 2011
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Yutaka Minobe’s “Backbiting,”...
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August 2010
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“Heroes,” a demo by the English rock...
March 2010
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More Sonic CD music, believe it or not. This one...
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Sonic CD: Stardust Speedway Zone’s Bad...
February 2010
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Apropos of the Final Fantasy VII boss theme from...
January 2010
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Listening to the Final Fantasy XIII battle theme...
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I’m a big fan of seamless song-to-song...
October 2009
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May 2009
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Criterion Forum.org :: Worst DVD Covers...ever!... →
Comes after “Part Deux”.
PhD Comics :: The Science News Cycle →
David Bordwell :: Pierced by poetry →
The terrific film author and educator writes about Shimizu Hiroshi, a Japanese filmmaker who is credited to some 163 films within 35 years. Bordwell’s essay focuses on releases from the recent Eclipse release, Travels with Shimizu Hiroshi, likely to be my next Eclipse purchase.
Neurologica Blog :: Medical Neglect →
13-year-old rejects chemotherapy treatment because of religion — judge tells him to visit an oncologist. The state’s in the right on this one.
Jean Painlevé: Going Beneath the Surface →
Worth visiting just for the header photograph.
Who Watches the Watchman? →
The watchclock system watches the watchman, as seen, for example, in Fritz Lang’s movie M.
April 2009
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Photographers Denied the Freedom To Choose What... →
A woman photographer is fined under New Mexico anti-discrimination law after refusing to shoot a same-sex couple’s wedding. That’s New Mexico, of the United States, not a recent part of Mexico. I make the distinction because the story seemed so outlandish that at first I didn’t believe it took place in the USA.
Reading the comments is essential for insights into the possible...
The Escapist :: Love Triangle, by Samantha Xu →
I’m a Pyramid Head fan, but not that kind of fan.
Ebert's Journal :: Parrot asks, "What'd the frozen... →
On jokes, bad jokes, and joke-telling. Lots of jokes in the comments.
“Given the extreme pace of Survival Mode, the number of zombies killed in a...”
– Regarding Left 4 Dead’s new Survival Mode, released next Tuesday.
An hour-and-some-long campaign racked up a zombie kill count usually over a thousand bodies. Survival Mode rounds are supposed to last, at most, ten minutes. Extreme pace indeed.
Braid Soundtrack →
Music from the game, by a choice few excellent musicians. All tracks (and musicians, and musicians’ albums) are recommended, except perhaps the remixes.
The Official Walkthrough of Braid →
The real tips are located on the second page of the walkthrough.
Shadow the Colossus movie in development →
Script by Justin Marks, writer of the recent game movie Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, which currently has an aggregate rating of 17 out of 100 on Metacritic. Now we just get to see what director will take the helm and plow this sucker straight into the rocks.
Aspects of game include long sequences of silence, isolation, despair, and giant, multi-story, hulking monsters made out of...
Good Math, Bad Math :: More Deceptive Graphs:... →
A particularly odious case of misrepresenting data.
Silent Hill Wii: No Combat, Just Chase Sequences
So says GoNintendo about the just-announced Silent Hill game. Quite a shift from the last game, Silent Hill Homecoming, which has an increased focus on combat and confrontation.
March 2009
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xkcd:: Alternative Energy Revolution →
I’m not as big a fan of xkcd as I used to be (which isn’t saying a lot), but today’s wind-turbine-themed comic is definitely one of my favorites.
Actually, if the comic wasn’t anything more than the first panel, it’d still be high on my list.
Dodes’ka-den: True Colors →
Essay on the latest Kurosawa release by Stephen Prince, who has commentated several Criterion releases of Kurosawa’s films and written a book on the writer-director-editor.
Ran on Blu-ray: May 12th →
And just a year and four days after I kindled a hope. Kagemusha next, please.
Actually, I don’t own a Blu-ray player, but it’s nice news, player or no.
Gateway games
Puzzle-adventure games Gateway and Gateway II: excellent stuff. A few clever puzzles, a little bit of suspense, an unsettling atmosphere (including sound effects and music from the creepy Thief games and System Shock 2) and a solid 45 minutes of gaming on a fine Saturday afternoon felt just right.
But if puzzle-solving robots aren’t exciting enough, Killer Japanese Seizure Robots robots...
February 2009
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Respectful Insolence: The beginning of a very,... →
Excellent, source-laden recap of the rise and current fall of the anti-vaccine movement.