January 2009
8 posts
condensing a long novel into a 4 hour film, are you inspired to add tangential scenes and lifeless dialog found nowhere in the original?
“Dune” (2000): a “Doctor Who” budget pumped into a “Barney & Friends” color-scheme drizzled over middle school theatre. unwatchable.
watching “Lost” (season 1) in sequence (for the 1st time) is addictive — dangerously irresistible, with the entire season on hand.
returning to productive endeavors. (while “Lost” season 2 downloads.)
brainstorming ideas for “getting the music out there” with Mark Casale.
“They Live by Night”: 1948, when criminals were dark haired moods in a monochrome landscape who made widows of their bighearted wives.
the “Kaiji” series departs from both the drawing style and action/fantasy subject matter we so much associate with television anime.
the 2007 anime “Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji” may be the most breathlessly narrated story of Rock-Paper-Scissors a logical mind can imagine.