- Bright Lights Film Journal | Before the Green Door
(tags: pornography cinema theater history sanfrancisco)
Nov 072007
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Nov 062007
- Weed It and Reap – New York Times
(tags: food agriculture policy law government subsidy pollan omnivoresdilemma oped nytimes)
Nov 052007
In what’s becoming an annual tradition, I once again scored some free tickets to Fun Fun Fun Fest this weekend in Waterloo Park (Thanks, Austinist!). I went last year and enjoyed myself despite the cold temperatures. By moving the festival a month earlier, the organizers were rewarded with near perfect weather. In fact, it was a bit on the warm side with temperatures reaching the low to mid 80s in the afternoon. As with last year, I completely neglected the third stage which features mostly DJs and dance music, not really my cup of tea…
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City of Austin Tech News: E-cycling and New Site
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Nov 022007
Two bits of tech-related news from the city on this Friday afternoon:
- The city along with Dell (among others) is sponsoring an e-cycling on the north side of Highland Mall tomorrow from 10am to 3pm. You can drop off computers and related accessories and small household electronics (things like cell phones, radios and DVD players, not TVs or microwaves).
- The city is also taking input in a redesign of their web site. The survey can be found here (espanol) and you can get more information about the redesign project here. As a side note, the city’s library online catalog recently underwent an update. The Austinist has a review.
Nov 022007
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Markos of DailyKos and insurance woes. Blue Shield is my health insurance provider. Luckily, I haven’t made a major claim with them…yet. We all know someone who’s had problems even though they were “covered”. This is THE biggest domestic issue by far.
Nov 022007
A childhood friend of mine, Carl Greenblatt, who’s worked on Spongebob Squarepants and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, has a new show premiering tonight on Cartoon Network
at 6:30pm CDT. It’ll re-run again at 8:30pm as well. If you like either of those shows, you should check this one out. Carl also created and voiced the character Fred Fredburger from Billy and Mandy.
Be careful visiting the Cartoon Network homepage if you use Firefox. The flash animation promoting Chowder has caused Firefox to lock up and peg one of my processors both times that I’ve visited the page today. I’ve had to kill Firefox to get it to stop.
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I’ve been following this case since first seeing Paradise Lost at SXSW in 1996. The new evidence implicates one of the other fathers. Mark Byers was suspected by the filmmakers in the follow-up to Paradise Lost.
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Mostly interested in this for the tests they’re using. AISD seems to be a hodge podge as well. Everybody has different opinons on what it’s for and who should be in it. We’ve had wildly differing atitudes from parents, teachers and administrators.
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The Onion AV Club got Eli Roth to program 24 hours of horror. He’s got some pretty good taste.
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I know Stephen Fry from The Young Ones. Cool to see he’s got a tech column with the Guardian now.
Helmet at Red 7
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Oct 302007
I found at the last minute yesterday that Helmet was playing Red 7. I’ve been a fan since 1991 or so and don’t miss a chance to see them if I can help it. If I’m remembering correctly, this is the fourth or fifth time I’ve seen them. Granted, the only original member left is Page Hamilton, but it’s still worth checking out. Page’s old bandmate, John Stanier, will be in town this coming weekend for Fun Fun Fun Fest with one of his current bands, Battles. I took a ton of pictures, including this one at the end of the set. You can check out the rest by clicking the photo.
Helmet kicked off the set with the first 5 tracks from Aftertaste in the same order as the record without stopping. They stuck with older material for the rest of the set, only playing one track from last year’s Monochrome, “Swallowing Everything” and “See You Dead” from 2004’s Size Matters. They pulled several off of Strap It On, including “Blacktop” and “Sinatra”, which they apparently haven’t played live in quite a while. Hamilton filled in some back story on the song, inadvertently mentioning the name of the girlfriend who inspired it. He swore us to secrecy. I’ve seen Page take requests from the audience before and he did that last night. There were at least 4 tracks from Betty, including “Wilma’s Rainbow”, “I Know”, “Milquetoast”, and “Tic”. They finished with “In the Meantime” and also played “Unsung”. They had good energy and the club was pretty full. I’m wondering if they’re going to stick with an older set list for most of the tour?
Page clearly likes Austin. He mentioned that they arrived in town on Sunday night and spent some time at Sidebar. They’re headed to Corpus Christi today. You can find the rest of the dates for this tour here.
Oct 282007