is a movie about time travel. I love movies that mess with time, either in a science fiction way or even just in their narrative presentation. Primer is one of the best in the genre, and to top it all off, it was made for $7000 (of course, that figure doesn’t include the cost of …
Monthly Archives: July 2005
Leaving Out the Important Things
Or maybe just not blogging enough. After my big declarations about being a full time audio engineer, I’ve been back at work for “the man” for the past couple days to catch up with some promises I’d made long ago. Such is my lot. Mixing will resume on Thursday or Friday, by which time my …
Food is Industrial
Not that we didn’t all know that, but as Carrie and I were driving east along the southern beltway today, we passed a train that had huge cars for transporting liquid — you know, the kind they use for oil — all labelled “corn syrup” or “corn sweetener.” The train just went on and on …
DoMakeSayThink
Last night was my first foray to the jazzfest, to listen to the “jazz” of Toronto’s DoMakeSayThink. They put on a great show, playing mostly their rockers. It hit me at one point, when they had 10 people onstage at once, that the whole “huge band with hangersabout and friends” thing which has gotten so …
A Few Thoughts on War of the Worlds
1. The thing that makes it so much better than all the other disaster movies is that the disaster just keeps coming and coming until the end of the movie. Which means, practically speaking, that stuff keeps blowing up for the entire film. That’s so much better than the disaster movies where stuff only blows …
Film and Music:
the title of Will Straw’s fall seminar, also sums up my weekend. Three nights of movies (tonight will be War of the Worlds) , and many hours logged in the studio. One thing tthat sucks about doing it as a hobby is that you have to do all the maintenance stuff yourself. I’d been putting …
For the Hat Trick
It’s Canada Day. And Moving Day. Carrie just looked out the window and exclaimed “Look! There are people moving!”