Monday, November 11th, 2002

A Plan Fiendishly Clever In Its Intricacy

This is the sort of thing that no one ever taught me to do in engineering school.

np – Ryan Adams / Demolition

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Sunday, November 10th, 2002

Rain Parade

The city’s in the middle of one of the more impressive thunder and lightning storms in recent months. I can’t see the sky on account of the night and being indoors, but I can hear it. The lightning is steady enough that I question the wisdom of sitting on my computer in the midst of it all. I actually find the flash and crash very relaxing. The city needs a good dousing every now and again, it’ll be good and washed clean for the start of the week tomorrow. This’ll probably be the last thunderstorm of the year – after this, the skies will decide to just cover up that which it finds displeasing instead of trying to wash it away.

np – Guided By Voices / Bee Thousand

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Sunday, November 10th, 2002

Bildungsroman

Main Entry: bil·dungs·ro·man
Pronunciation: ‘bil-du[ng](k)s-rO-“män, -du[ng]z-
Function: noun
Etymology: German, from Bildung education + Roman novel
Date: 1910
: a novel about the moral and psychological growth of the main character

np – Superchunk / Incidental Music : 1991-95

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Sunday, November 10th, 2002

Shaolin Soccer

By far one of the nuttiest movies I’ve seen in a while. This one had it all – good versus evil, martial arts, betrayal, redepmtion, familial duty, yellow cards… Basic plot summary – a family of Shaolin-trained brothers enters a soccer tournament to gain family honour and win cash. Hijinks ensue.

The subtitling was dubious at best and some of the effects delightfully cheesy (Industrial Light & Magic it wasn’t) but the sheer energy and enthusiasm of everyone in the film made those quirks endearing rather than annoying. The signature over-the-top-ness of Hong Kong cinema is very much in evidence here… If you’re not scratching your head wondering, ‘what the hell?’ you’re laughing your ass off. Recommended.

…In other news, the Leafs and Raptors suck. I need a new city.

np – Ryan Adams / Demolition

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Sunday, November 10th, 2002

I’ll Be Back

Found a link to the functioning part of the website for the new Terminator 3 film.

Neat.

np – Tobin Sprout / Carnival Boy

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