A really stupid piece of legislation, based on David Horowitz’s academic bill of rights, that makes it easier to harass professors for their political views. Michael Berube has a good blog entry on the topic. I doubt the bill will make it into law, but even so, how lame is it that the house of …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
