Yes, compact discs. America’s new obsession. And now I’VE GOT ONE.
What you’ll see in the pictures below is the last full CD of junk I made way back in the wayback of 2003 called ‘Speed = Distance / Time’. I’ve set this thing up at Createspace.com, which is sort of an offshoot [...]

A new and much shorter month, though plenty of movies to watch.
Like last time, stuff with an asterisk (*) is stuff I watched for the DVD Lounge. Except that this month I got ‘The Crazies’ on Blu-ray! That was pretty awesome.
Okay, here we go:

Boy it seems like it took me twelve years to finally sit down and watch ‘The House of the Devil’, a modest little horror movie that has sort of been lurking in the fringes since sometime last year, quietly asking to be seen. There’s nothing really outstanding about the film on the surface – no [...]

The release day for the remake of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ is steadily approaching and that there to the left is the new poster. Interesting – though predictably – they’re starting off with an image of Freddy. Let’s face it – you don’t know anyone else in the movie. And by [...]

I just saw this show Yank! in NYC at the York Theater. If you’re up that way, you need to go check it out. It’s about two soldiers who fall in love during World War II and basically what that atmosphere was like, trying to not be gay in the army back then. [...]

photo by Fritz Hoffmann
So Nat Geo’s Top 10 Photos just premiered in Australia and New Zealand this past Sunday and our next stop seems to be in Africa on February 28th at 8pm.
It also seems to have already been airing in Germany? Maybe someone who sprechens the Deutsches can fill me in [...]

photo by Amy Toensing
This show of ours – Nat Geo’s Top 10 Photos of 2009 – an hour-long bit on which I performed editing duties, just got a cool review out of Australia, where it will premiere Sunday night at 8:30.
Among several nice things that they had to say, there’s this:
This excellent documentary features Chris [...]

Via Bill Cunningham’s Pulp 2.0, found this archive of cool photos of miniatures, all of which pretty much blow my mind. I love this kind of trickery. This is all work by a dude named Michael Paul Smith.

This is just genius stuff. I’d love to make something that requires miniatures some day. [...]

Here’s a great poster for ‘House of the Devil’, a movie I cannot wait to see:

That is almost as good as the original poster:

Or the second one:

Is there any chance this movie can live up to all this cool design?

In thinking about listing every single movie I watch all year, the resulting final post seemed impossibly long. So instead, I’m going to list all the movies I watch each month in order from worst to best, then at the end of the year take the top three of each month and figure out [...]

Acquaintance of the blog Matthew Silver was just called an asshole by The Village Voice. It’s hard to imagine a purer assurance that you are indeed living a good and worthy life.
And in case you need assurance that Mr. Silver is worth your time, here’s the same example the Village Voice used:

Below are the first three panels of a pretty great strip by Kate Beaton.

You can find the rest of it here.
You can thank me later.

As you know, the year isn’t over until I’ve had my say on the movies. Or at least the ones that I’ve seen. I still haven’t managed to avoid the real dregs of the year. Maybe it’s just that they are easier to see. G.I. Joe, The Taking of Pelham 123, [...]

I was searching out a clip from ‘Aliens’ tonight when I came across this fan made trailer for ‘Alien 5′.

Pretty bad. And that’s what’s kind of cool about YouTube, is that there are no standards, so you’ll get some weird junk like that. While high quality is a good thing, it can also [...]

Now at first you may expect that ‘The House on Sorority Row’ and ‘Ghost Machine’ are two movies with absolutely nothing in common, but you’d be mistaken. Because I’ve reviewed them both. BAM! Expectations totally exceeded.

‘The House on Sorority Row’ (review) barely squeaks by as the winner in this particular face off, [...]

Well by golly, if that last season of ‘Lost’ (which me and K finally poured through over the last couple of weeks) was a humdinger. Really – it pretty much made up for all the blah blah blah going nowhere plots from the 2nd – 4th seasons. And a very strong finish. I [...]

Man – bad DVD cover art. What’s the deal? First we had the bad DVD cover art of the Friday the 13th series, a jump from the simple if not spectacular theatrical posters to some generic ‘jazzy’ type junk.
But our example today is even stronger, my friends. Today we look at ‘The Stepfather’, [...]

I ain’t tryin’ to backlash on a movie I haven’t seen. Especially one that I want to see. But people are getting a little too excited about this a-here movie. So if you feel like you might be one of them, herewith – a de-hype-ing:
People – Avatar can only be so good, [...]

Well, okay – so it’s not so special. But as long as you’re out shopping, why not treat yourself to something that costs less than anything you’ll buy today? How could a deal be better than that? You want I should pay you to download it?
Here’s the deal – over [...]

More good news about ‘Stripper Music!’ to impart – today only, November 19th, ‘The Bottom Of It’ will be featured over at that Garage Band site as a Track of the Day in the Indie Rock section. Be sure to head on over there and give it a listen. It’s been getting some [...]

Because Craig Moorhead frontman Craig Moorhead is attracted to new, shiny things, when he finds a place he can upload songs and put them in contests, he does. And well – he has done it again.
On the Our Stage site, Craig has entered himself into something called the Converse “Get Out of the Garage” [...]

I like scary kid movies. Even the bad ones, if that’s not redundant. Kids should always be good, innocent, sweet, and cute. So when they turn all murderous – as all kids always do – it’s especially sickening. That’s the built-in goodness of all scary kid movies, whether it’s The Bad [...]

Yes, it’s true! ‘The Bottom of It’, a song from the ‘Stripper Music!’ e.p., is in competition with 205 other songs on a site called GarageBand.com and has hit the halfway mark thanks to 9 blind reviews by other Garage Band members. It’s not an open voting situation and you can’t search out [...]

That’s right – I’m about to watch Wrong Turn 3 which, if you’re keeping count, is the third installment in the Wrong Turn series. Most people didn’t like the first movie. Loads more never even saw the second. And now here comes the third and, since it hasn’t been released yet, even [...]