tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15960916015031136082011-11-27T18:55:29.478-05:00Musings on the things I do in New York City and in my travels. Plus, geeking out about pop culture. That sort of thing.Mirka23http://www.blogger.com/profile/08799015806196862313noreply@blogger.comBlogger1071100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1596091601503113608.post-79705144885736540842009-05-02T03:01:00.004-04:002009-05-02T04:02:40.885-04:00

I haven't been keeping up with writing every day, so I'm going to sum up my first half of the festival in one post. Last weekend I saw the following films:My Last Five Girlfriends was a British movie about one guy's perspective on his recent love affairs. It's a very stylized film, with some fantastical storytelling elements. Most of them work pretty well, but there's a carnival metaphor that

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Individual tickets went on sale this morning for the Tribeca Film Festival (for American Express cardmembers only). Here's what I'm going to see:Thursday Apr 2310:00 PM - My Last Five GirlfriendsFriday Apr 248:30 PM - Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGBSaturday Apr 2512:00 PM - Stay Cool6:45 PM - Blank CitySunday Apr 263:00 PM - Serious Moonlight9:00 PM - TiMERFriday May 112:15 AM -

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Hot TubOriginally uploaded by Mirka23I decided to take a relaxation day, and spent the day hanging around the townhouse. This included catching up on some stuff, and then taking a dip in the hot tub while looking at the snow covered mountains. Fantastic!In the evening we went to theater right nearby that's also playing Sundance films. We saw Spring Breakdown, starring Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch

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Charlyne YiOriginally uploaded by Mirka23My second attempt to get into a movie by way of the waitlist was successful. I went to the World Premiere of Paper Heart, a movie by Nick Jasenovec and Chalyne Yi.It's sort of a documentary, sort of a narrative. The lines are blurred by the structure, which includes portions where Yi is interviewing real people and experts about the notion of what love is,

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LBP crewOriginally uploaded by Mirka23Ok, so the reason I'm here at Sundance is to hang out with my friends from Low Budget Pictures, who are here to meet folks and spread the word about LBP. Officially I should be helping them, but my help has mostly taken the form of having been here once before, so I could show them where things are and how to get around. They're the ones that are really

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Ok, it's been a long time since I've posted here, and I'm not going to bother playing catch up. But now I'm at the Sundance Film Festival for the next week, and some interesting things are bound to happen. I'll post about them here when they do.

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I recently connected up with an old friend from high school on Facebook. After a couple reintroductory messages back and forth, he posed this question: "Take me on a brief tour of your life these past 20 years?" What follows is my attempt to answer that question...OK, let's see. What's salient and interesting from the past 20 years of my life?In 1988, without a lot of forethought, I went off to

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Tonight's film was Milky Way Liberation Front. I was super tired, and I don't feel like I can say that much about this odd Korean movie. There were definitely some funny moments, but I guess I expected it to be more absurd wackiness, and less surreal romantic comedy.

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I saw a single film on Tuesday - Guest of Cindy Sherman. The thing that it's important to know about this documentary is that it's not primarily about Cindy Sherman. It's mainly about a guy named Paul H-O (also the co-director) who used to have a public access TV show about the NY art scene. He met Cindy and for some reason the notoriously private and press-shy artist agreed to let him tape a

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The third film I saw on Sunday was called Trucker. It stars Michelle Monaghan as a truck driver whose 11-year-old son from a very early marriage pops back into her life. She's used to being kind of solitary, and really isn't prepared for this. The director, James Mottern, told us beforehand that Michelle couldn't be here, but she really wanted us to know that she did drive the trucks herself. She

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This was my most ambitious day at the film fest. I saw 4 films!The first film I saw was Chevolution, a documentary about the iconography of Che Guevara. The first section was about Che himself, and the events in Cuba leading up to the taking of the photo, perhaps the most widely recognized portrait in the world. Next there was some discussion of how the culture, politics, and aesthetics of the

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I saw three films today, plus some shorts. First up was Bitter & Twisted - the first film by writer/director Christopher Weekes, who also stars in the film. I had mixed feelings about this one. The film starts with the death of a young man, and picks up three years later to see what impact this has had on his family and ex-girlfriend. It was more of a mood and character study, and it has some

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This evening I saw my first film of TFF 2008, Sita Sings the Blues, by Nina Paley. It was a very cool animated feature about the story of Sita and Rama. The story was told in four different ways, with a variety of styles of animation. The basic story of Sita is that she was kidnapped by an evil king from the forest where she lived with her husband, Rama. She was so tremendously devoted to Rama,

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Several people have been asking me what I'm going to see at TFF this year, so I figured I should probably just post it one place, with links and all kinds of bloggy goodness. Also, this can serve as a reminder that I'll be posting reviews, photos and other interested tidbits throughout the festival. So here's what I'm planning to see (and yes, this schedule is a little bit mad):Friday Apr 258:

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And my scrapbook, too...

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I was talking with my friend Robert tonight, and his comments about the movie I Am Legend inspired the creation of this Movie Review Haiku:If you don't believein Jesus, then the zombieshave already won.It's not the best I've ever done, but it's been a while since I wrote many movie review haikus. And besides, it cracked us up.(Eventually I'll add this haiku to the page with the rest of them, but

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Been watching these videos of Jason Bateman and Michael Cera promoting Juno. I love the movie, but seeing the videos really makes me miss Arrested Development!

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It's been a while since I've mentioned anything about uncanny valley, but Stephen Colbert has instigated the conversation a bit with this interview of David Levy, author of Love and Sex With Robots.

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I've suspected that for a while, but tonight (while watching Anton Corbijn's Control), it also occurred to me that he's a gangly British mod-punk-glam-rocker. He's also angsty, of course, and (unlike me) he probably smokes.

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Yesterday I finally got around to two things I've been meaning to do for a while. First I unpacked some boxes of things from my office at my last job. I left that job almost 2 years ago! Clearly I didn't really need anything that was in there, but I was tired of these boxes taking up so much space in my home office. I was amused when I unpacked them and discovered that there was very little that

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Seth sandwichOriginally uploaded by Mirka23 I can't decide if it's amusing or creepy when someone who clearly has a fetish marks one of my photos as a favorite on flickr. Let me point out that the photos in question are all definitely non-sexual. The first time I noticed this was with this photo I took at a friend's magic show. Three people added this as a favorite, and when I looked at other

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Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™

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I am pissed off at Geek Monthly magazine. For some reason they think it's ok to punish their early adopter readers.See, I bought the first two issues of the magazine. It wasn't brilliant literature, but it covered a lot of the kinds of things that I like, and it looked pretty slick. So I bought a subscription - $39.95 for a year, which was six isues (see, despite being called Geek Monthly, the

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This evening I went out with some friends from work. Someone mentioned that we were seeing a lot of really weird people out, doing weird things. What I saw when I was on my way home topped all the others.On my block, there was a group of about 6 drunk chicks, standing around what looked like a discarded bar stool. Two of them had taken off their jackets and shirts and were posing together, in

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This evening at my mom's we were sitting around talking when the topic turned to TV. My sister's boyfriend, Luke, admitted that he kind of enjoyed The O.C., having recently watched an entire season on DVD with Carla. For some reason I can't recall I mentioned the bagel cutter a few times and Luke asked me why I was talking about that. Carla was mystified as well. I said something along the lines

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InterviewOriginally uploaded by Mirka23 My friend Aaron Lemay is an art director for Bungie, the game development company responsible for Halo 3. He's in NYC for a big launch event here in town, and I figured the best way to get to see him was to head over there and check it out.People were lined up outside the Best Buy on 45th & 5th, waiting for the game to go on sale at midnight. Several

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I was searching for a co-worker on LinkedIn and one of the results that popped up presumed to be Kevin Bacon's LinkedIn page. I suppose, in some sense, it makes sense. The actor who inspired a game called "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" should probably be represented on every networking site. Still, I somehow don't believe that it's him.

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As I perused the Toronto Film Festival schedule, one of the films I considered seeing was Alan Ball's directorial debut. After reading this review of Nothing is Private from The Reeler, I'm really glad that I didn't.Don't read the review if you're easily offended. And definitely don't see the movie.

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On Sunday, September 9th, I saw two films. The first was Ang Lee's Lust, Caution. I had been trying to get a ticket to see this ever since tickets went on sale, but they were never available. When I picked up my other tickets the guy advised me to go online at 7am, because any unclaimed industry tickets would become available then. I did, and I got one, which was a huge relief because it meant I

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One thing I failed to disclose about the Brad & Angelina red carpet madness in my posting yesterday: When I came out of the No Country screening and saw the huge crowd there, I couldn't help myself. I got a little swept away in the excitement.I stuck around for a few minutes, and the couple soon arrived, to much shrieking and cheering. They walked up and down the barricades on both sides of the

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Today was my second day at TIFF. On Saturday morning I saw Chacun son Cinema - a collection of 3-minute shorts by a range of celebrated directors, on the topic of cinema, originally created to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Cannes.Later in the day I saw the new Coen brothers film, No Country for Old Men. Pretty good stuff. Very violent & mysterious. Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem were both

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A few years ago I had the thrilling opportunity to conduct a brief interveiw with Joss Whedon. One of the questions I was obliged to ask him was about his favorite pop culture guilty pleasures. He mentioned a musical called Newsies. I couldn't really understand how it could be that I had never heard of this film, but for some reason I didn't look into it any further. In today's Entertainment

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Walking around Greenwich Village I saw a preppy guy riding a skateboard, with a bag of golf clubs in one hand, and in the other hand he had a Sephora bag and was talking on a cell phone.

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I finally finished posting all my photos from this year's comic-con. Click on the photo to see them all. This year I was only there for 2 and a half days, but still saw and did plenty of interesting things. I have to say, it's getting so crowded, I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to be able to put up the fight to attend the convention!

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William Gibson signs booksOriginally uploaded by Mirka23 This afternoon I went to a book reading/signing by William Gibson, for his new book Spook Country. Very cool - I didn't even know he did such things! It's hard to imagine the "grandfather of cuberpunk" appearing in public.He read a chapter from the new book, and then took some questions. The questions seemed kind of uninspired, but it was

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The Police Originally uploaded by Mirka23 A couple weeks ago I went to see the Police. Twice. The first show was at Madison Square Garden - relatively intimate, I suppose. I wasn't sure what to expect, because there's been so much hype and everything. But they were actually quite fabulous.From my perspective, it took a little while for the show to get warmed up. There were some good songs at

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Tonight I saw the Beastie Boys at Summerstage in Central Park. Totally amazing. It was definitely worth braving the heat to see these guys do such a small, intimate show in their home town. Last time I saw them was at Madison Square Garden, the show that was made into the movie Awesome... I fuckin' shot that! It was an epic show, of course, with lots of costume changes, smoke machines, and hours

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I've been totally neglecting this blog. It's not because I have nothing to say, and it's not because I'm too busy to jot down a couple words about the things I've been doing in the past few weeks. It's because I haven't had time to post all my photos from my recent cross-country road trip, and the weekend I spent at the San Diego Comic-con.So, I was waiting to finish that before I write about the

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Oh, I just noticed that I posted my top 10 (plus) movies from the 5 previous years, but I forgot to post my favorite films from 2006. So, here they are:Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull StoryCleanAn Inconvenient TruthThe DepartedStranger Than FictionCasino RoyaleLittle Miss SunshineMarie AntoinetteBrickThe QueenPlus a few that deserve honorable mention:Half NelsonNotes on a ScandalLast King of

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I love this site: The Speech Accents ArchiveYou can listen to people from all over the world read the same paragraph in English, and here what different accents sound like. It's such a simple concept for a site, but so very engaging - it's hard to tear myself away from it!

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My friend Matt created a video showing his comedy routine. He seamlessly edited together bits of jokes from different performances, and it's kinda hilarious to see how it does or doesn't diverge from one night to the next. Check out Matt Parker's Routine on YouTube.

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Roadtrip 1: JFKOriginally uploaded by Mirka23 I'm on a cross country road trip with my sister, Carla, who's moving to California. We're about half way there, maybe a little more. I've been taking pictures here and there, though we don't really get out of the car all that much so a lot of the photos are blurry pictures of highway signs. Until I get home and can get them off my camera, I've been

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What a strange day. It was bound to be a little unusual, if only because I am heading off on vacation tomorrow, and that always means there's a lot to do to get ready.But this morning started out extra weird when I was woken up by incredibly loud thunder, really close to the apartment. It was one of those feelings where you wake up and you don't really know what just happened. Was it a dream? Did

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I had to buy some 41 cent stamps today. The coolest looking ones at the USPS truck near my office where these stamps called "Pollination." But I asked the guy for "the stamps with the... birds and the bees" and midway through asking for them I decided this was really funny and weird. The guy in the truck didn't seem all that amused. Maybe he had heard that one too many times already.

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Kwik-E-MartOriginally uploaded by Mirka23 The other night some friends and I went by the 7-Eleven on 42nd Street. It's been converted into a Kwik-E-Mart to promote the upcoming release of The Simpsons movie.We had Squishees and everything. See some of my other Kwik-E-Mart photos on flickr.

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Sportscasters tend to be prone to hyperbole, I guess.I happened to watch the Hot Dog eating contest today (on TV, not in person), and I have to admit that I was curious to watch the eating contest, what with Joey Chestnut poised to break Takeru Kobayashi's 6 year winning streak, not to mention a few records.And it did get pretty exciting towards the end, when they both broke the previous records

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This past Sunday I went to the MoCCA Arts Festvial in the Puck Building. Such a cool event. I saw some familiar faces - the Dumbrella guys, the good folks at Top Shelf, and the power couple of the NY comix scene - Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer.There was so much amazing art, comix, stickers, t-shirts - very cool stuff. I got a few books, a print, a t-shirt from Squidfire, some stickers and a bunch of

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Street TheaterOriginally uploaded by Mirka23 I left my apartment this evening and saw a crowd of people with umbrellas standing on the corner, watching a perfermonance by two people wrapped in cellophane. Someone actaully told me that this has been a regular occurance on that corner for a while now, but I forget who it is that's behind this street show.I was actually on my way to the Upright

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Coney Island MermaidsOriginally uploaded by Mirka23 On Saturday I went to the Mermaid Parade at Coney Island. For nearly 7 years I have been saying that I would go. And finally I did! It was a beautiful day for it, not too hot. I got there two hours late, but the parade was still going on. When I first got to the boardwalk, I ran into two guys who I had played poker with the night before! Pretty

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Me and ChrisOriginally uploaded by Mirka23 I've started to add my photos from Hack Day to Flickr. The photo at right shows me and Chris, trying to continue our hack after being evacuated from the West Hall into the adjacent Palm Court (where there were no power cords, and no wifi). See the rest of the photo set here.

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Today, at the first day of Hack Day, as I was listening to the conclusion of a very interesting talk about new Geo mobile APIs from Yahoo, there was a dramatic booming sound, the ceiling opened and it started raining inside the building.See the video for a further explanation of what happened.

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I'm heading to London this evening. This will be somewhat new for me, because even though I've been to London 4 times in the past 6-7 years, I've only ever gone in late Fall or Winter. I'll write more about what I've been up to when I get back.

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On Sunday I went to see Romeo & Juliet, at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. This is an annual summer tradition. My friends and I pick a weekend day, go to the park at an absurdly early hour, and wait for free tickets. We bring blankets, food, games and books and the time usually flies by.This time we got the best seats we've ever had - second row! Lauren Ambrose was Juliet and the role of

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Saturday I was playing in a video scavenger hunt. Early on we were running around at Coney Island and I attempted to do a weird little dance routine. Somehow, in the course of doing a high kick, I found both my legs flying out from under me. I landed on my butt, and broke my fall with my left hand. Much to the detriment of my left elbow.It was swollen for a couple days, but I figured it would be

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Tonight I went to BAM to see Chasing Ghosts, another Sundance film that I didn't get to see out in Park City. The film was really good: a documentary about video game champions from the '80s (think "Dogtown and Z-boys" with Pac-man). But I was kind of tired and not in a great mood. After about 40 minutes I started feeling like it was too long. If it had been an hour-long special on TV, it would

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PipettesOriginally uploaded by Mirka23 Tonight I went to see The Pipettes at the Highline Ballroom. I got their CD last fall, on a trip to London. They're just now releasing the EP here. They were pretty damn bubbly and fun.Part-way through the show I noticed that their drummer is Joe Van Moyland, who plays the composer Thomas Tallis on Showtime's The Tudors. That was a little surreal.

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Before TelevisionWithoutPity there was the 90210 Weekly Wrapup. I don't think Daniel Drennan official had anything to do with TWoP (which was actually called Mighty Big TV when it first launched), but they definitely were inspired by him and his brilliant, hilarious, sometimes rambling recaps of Beverly Hills 90210. Here's one of their writers that even acknowledged it.I watched Bev9 until the

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I intended to watch the MTV Movie Awards the other day, mainly because I think Sarah Silverman is hilarious. I made the mistake of putting on the pre-show beforehand. It was truly awful.When it wasn't a 30-minute commercial for The Transformers, they were making awkward comments about Lindsay Lohan's latest bout of self-destructive behavior ("We've all heard the rumors."), or awkwardly

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Baby PigeonsOriginally uploaded by Mirka23 Last weekend I discovered that my air conditioner no longer works. I've had it for 4 years, so it wasn't that big a deal, I suppose. Yesterday I was measuring the window, with a mind to get a new AC, and I realized that the pigeon that likes to hang out on the thing had made a nest. Which was housing two baby pigeons.Um. Luckily I had already decided to

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My favorite films from 2005, in no particular order:Kung Fu HustleCzech DreamHowl’s Moving CastleMarch of the PenguinsThe 40 Year-Old VirginEverything is IlluminatedGood Night, and Good LuckBrokeback MountainThe Squid and the WhaleWalk the LineAnd a few that deserve honorable mention:Me and You and Everyone We Know2046Serenity

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My favorite movies of 2004, in no particular order:Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindChoking HazardSuper-size MeHarry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanNapoleon DynamiteGarden StateHarold & Kumar go to White CastleI Heart HuckabeesShaun of the DeadSidewaysAnd a few that deserve honorable mention:Last Life in the UniverseHouse of Flying DaggersThe Incredibles

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Over at BAM they're showing a series of films that played at Sundance this year. This is great because it means I get to see some of the films I wanted to see, but didn't get the chance. The opening night film was Son of Ranbow, which got a lot of good buzz when it screened in Park City.So, I was expecting to like the film. What I didn't expect was Robert Redford introducing the mini-fest. It

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R2 Mailbox Originally uploaded by Mirka23 I read about these a while ago, but this is the first one I saw. I love the fact that Neckface tagged it, but as a Jedi!

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My favorite movies of 2003, in no particular order:Kill Bill Vol 1Lord of the Rings: Return of the KingShattered GlassElfFinding Nemo28 Days LaterSpellboundBig FishSchool of RockAmerican SplendorAnd, honorable mention goes to:Lost in Translation

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Kiefer Sutherland gives $600.23Originally uploaded by the1secondfilm.com Sort of. A while ago I became an executive producer of The 1 Second Film. Anyone can participate, just by donating money to a worthy cause. Become a part of film history!

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Here're my favorite movies from 2002, again in no particular order:Lord of the Rings: The Two TowersY Tu Mamá TambiénMonsoon WeddingDangerous Lives of Altar BoysThe ChâteauIgby Goes Down8 WomenPunch-Drunk LoveConfessions of a Dangerous Mind25th HourThere were a lot of amazing films that year, so here are a few more that deserve honorable mention:Spider-Man24 Hour Party PeopleSpirited Away

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A few years ago, when I was working as a web developer at EW.com, I started making my own list of favorite movies of the year, along with a few other non-journalist movie enthusiast. This seems a good place to post those lists (and future lists, when the time comes). Without further ado, here are my 10 favorite films from 2001 (in no particular order): In the Mood for Love The Royal Tenenbaums

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I've been staying in a hotel the past couple days, and in my room there were a whole bunch of mirrors in and around the bathroom. They were set up in such a way that when I walked out of the bathroom, just after passing the threshold, there was a reflection of a reflection of a reflection that made it look like someone was behind me, walking in the opposite direction. Of course, it was me, but

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Hooray, it took a while, but the blog seems to have sorted itself out. To be more specific than I was in my previous post - Sprint Picture Mail broke my blog. I tried to email a photo from my Treo directly to the blog. Flickr handles that really well, but Blogger doesn't. So, the post included the whole ridiculous HTML email from Sprint, instead of just the photo with title and description. Not

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I think I broke my blog.

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Bubble Tea Originally uploaded by Mirka23. Drinking Peach Rose Tea with litchi jelly, shortly before the beginning of the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose.

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Very early this morning, I was at the the airport in Raleigh/Durham, heading back to New York. Aside from the fact that I had gotten up obscenely early, I was also kind of cranky because I had waited on the security line for half an hour (who knew it was going to be that crowded at 6am!) and I tend to find the whole airport security situation kind of demoralizing. The longer I stand there, the

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Tonight I went to see the play Frost/Nixon, and it was great despite numerous logistical problems with the production. At first I thought they were just making some weird lighting choices, but then they stopped the play and announced that there were technical problems. Michael Sheen did an amazing job of picking the scene back up again several minutes later, but the spell was broken a little and

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Well, I've been avoiding posting about the last day of the film festival. I went to see two of the festivals award winning films. First I saw the winner of the World Narrative Award - My Father My Lord. This film really annoyed me. It's slow and laborious, and the basic premise seems to be that people who are completely dedicated to their religion (in this case, the person in question is an

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I was in a deli this evening, and took part in the following conversation with a frantic girl who had some kind of British accent (or possibly Australian, it was hard to tell because the conversation was so brief and rushed):Girl: (to clerk) Are these corn chips?(he doesn't respond)Girl: (to me) Are these corn chips?(she waves the package in my face)me: Those are flour.Girl: Are they corn chips?

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Benson LeeOriginally uploaded by Mirka23. Went to the theater early this morning to see Planet B-boy, a documentary about an international breakdancing competition. See, breakdancing didn't disappear when we forgot about it in the mid-80s. It spread around the world and evolved. You can still see evidence of it in American pop culture, but this film is probably the most awe-inspiring you've seen

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When I was waiting on line to get into Rise last night, two women behind me were having the most ridiculous conversation. They kept bringing things up and then saying "that's what's wrong with this society." These included:1. A "small" soda at the movie theater is actually quite large.2. Going to the dentist and paying someone to scrape your teeth.3. People drinking bottled water. But, right

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West 32nd posterOriginally uploaded by Mirka23. Tonight I saw two tense movies. The first was West 32nd, a Korean-American crime drama starring John Cho and Grace Park. John plays a a young lawyer who's trying to help out a family whose teenage boy seems to be wrapped up in a gang-related murder. Grace plays the sister of the boy. There was a wide range of Korean-American experiences on display

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Saw Kevin Connelly's film Gardener of Eden last night. Lukas Haas plays a New Jersey slacker who inadvertently becomes a local hero and decides that it's his mission in life. It's like the anti-spiderman.I'm not even sure if this was a comedy or a drama, a dark comedy, maybe a funny drama? It's kind of different and interesting, but sometimes the pacing was way too slow.Tomorrow I'm taking a day

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This morning I remembered something odd from the Suburban Girl screening last night. There's a theme about Blackberries running through the movie. The communications device, not the fruit. At the risk of making it sound deeper than it is, I would say that there are some key points in the script where the device symbolizes both the large age gap between Alec Baldwin's character and the young women

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Watching The Detectives Q&AOriginally uploaded by Mirka23. Tonight I saw two films. The first was Watching the Detectives, a quirky, wonderful comedy written and directed by Paul Soter (sitting on the left in the photo). It stars Cillian Murphy as a video store owner and movie enthusiast, and Lucy Liu (standing on the far right in the photo) as his eccentric love interest. I'm not even sure what

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Saw Zak Penn's movie The Grand and I loved it. It's a mockumentary in the world of professional poker. Woody Harrelson plays a guy who has to win a major winner-take-all tournament in order to save his grandfather's casino. The cast of the improvised film includes actors and comedians (some of whom are well known for playing poker in real life), some popular professional poker players, and some

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Saw three films. Blue State was the first narrative that I've seen this year. It's about a liberal guy, played by Breckin Meyer, who moves to Canada when GWB wins the 2004 election. Anna Paquin joins him on his road trip, and they proceed to have a wacky romantic-comedy adventure, with politics. Now, I wouldn't have minded that so much, if the politics were expressed through the course of the

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PezOriginally uploaded by Bomb It - The Movie. Tonight I saw a film called Bomb It, a documentary about international graffiti art.It started out with Philadelphia and New York, but the most interesting parts were about graffiti artists around the world. Some people do street art primarily because it's dangerous and illegal, but a lot of people do it because they have something to express, and

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Heckler Q&AOriginally uploaded by Mirka23. On the first full day of the Tribeca Film Festival, I saw two films.The first was Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist and I loved it. It's amazing to see how much this one man did for the medium of comics, which is now a pretty major player in the entertainment industry. Not only did he invent the graphic novel (which I kind of already knew),

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Oops, I completely forgot to mention that I had a second reason for following Craig Ferguson around last week (aside from the fact that I think he's hilarious). See, my friend Scott Phillips made a movie called The Stink of Flesh, and a few months ago he asked me to give a copy of it to Ferguson (for reasons that are explained below). I have to say, this seemed like a strange request, since I

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Craig FergusonOriginally uploaded by Mirka23. Last week there was a lot of Craig Ferguson in NYC. First I saw him perform at Comix on Friday, April 13th. The show was hilarious - very autobiographical, very personal, much like his monologues on The Late, Late Show, but with more swearing! He cracks me up.Some women came to the show in full-on kilts and gear. The following Wednesday, Craig was

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It's the first day tickets are on sale for the Tribeca Film Festival. I went down to the box office and, after 3 hours of waiting (2.5 of which were outside in the freezing cold) I got almost all of the ones that I wanted. In honor of this, I brought over all my posts from 2005 from some other long-neglected blog. Most of them are about the films that I saw at the Tribeca Film festival that

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Checkered cabOriginally uploaded by Mirka23. Today I was at the New York Auto Show. Saw lots of cool stuff, but I don't think I can talk about it yet.At the end, Rohanna and I wandered into the "Future of the Taxi" exhibit. Lots of cool taxi models. I think some of them were historical vehicles, some were new models, and some were prototypes or proposed designs. Pretty cool.There was a bar, and

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Grindhouse at the comic book storeOriginally uploaded by Mirka23. Yesterday someone asked me if I'm going to see Grindhouse. I said I felt like I had already been totally overexposed to it, so probably not. It seems like they're promoting it on every show on every channel. Not just with ads. Every show I watch seems to be leading into commercials with little snippets of Quentin Tarantino talking

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This morning before work I stopped by the new Whole Foods that just opened a few blocks from my apartment. It had only be open for an hour, and everything was bright and shiny.It was pretty empty, but I have a feeling the crowds will be forming soon.I got a pumpkin muffin for breakfast.

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Vox seemed really easy and handy at first. After a couple weeks the charm has worn off. It looks busy. The things that they make easy to do are things I can work around (or do without). And the things it can't do (though they know about them) are really just too frustrating.Blogger's looking pretty good. Got some other things to try too.

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My old school pal, Ted, is in town to play a show at the Rodeo Bar tomorrow. So tonight we had dinner and caught up. This is the first time we've seen each other in...damn, 15 years? We both felt that, although we had grown up (somewhat), we were also both very much the same. Pretty cool to see old friends after so long.Today I got a check from a certain entertainment company for certain work

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My sister, Wendy, and I saw Tim Gunn when we were going to an ATM near Parsons. His ATM wasn't working, so he left. But before he did, he announced, "There's no cash in that one." He sounded so Tim Gunn-like!

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Tonight I noticed a new feature of flickr - you can now make collections of sets. As an organization junkie, I can't tell you how happy this makes me!To celebrate, here's a recent photo from my flickr photostream. The Red Dragon is from the comic Bone, by Jeff Smith, and Kurt Cobain is my favorite unlikely action figure.

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So, I'm test driving two blog platforms at once. Is that wrong? So far, what I've found is that:They're both pretty easy to set up and edit. Both support moblogging (although, setting it up on blogger was so counter-intuitive, I almost didn't do it).Blogger lets me add lists of links ("blogroll"), but Vox doesn't have that capability yet (!!)Vox lets me directly integrate my flickr account. Not

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Or not. This is a test to see if I really want to do this. It's not like I don't already spend way too many hours a day working and recreating on the Internet.Here's what happened. I was reading an article and came across the phrase "Uncanny Valley." I find this idea fascinting. Basically, it's a theory that says that the more humanoid and life-like a robot or other non-human thing is, the more

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On my first day attending the New York Film Festival, I saw two films. The first was a Czech film called Something Like Happiness (in Czech: Štěstí). Directed by Bohdan Sláma, it's a sort of bittersweet story about people in a small industrial town who all make a lot of compromises and don't get exactly what they want out of life, but somehow that's kind of ok. It's hard to explain, but there's

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First film of the day (very early - 11am) was the Narrative Competition Winner: Stolen Life. A Chinese film, directed by Li Shaohong, about a girl who tries to escape her unsatisfying family life by going to University, only to fall into a relationship with a young man who, it turns out, is manipulating and using her. After he basically ruins her life, and she figures out what's going on, she

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First I saw most of an interesting documentary called Bowery Dish. I actually really wanted to see this one, because it's about the changes going on in my neighborhood. I know that my living here is a product of those changes. And I'm not one of those people who thinks that change is a bad thing. I was just curious about it. I think the film also took a fairly moderate stance. Obviously they

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