Tribeca Film Festival Plans

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 25
8:15PM - Sita Sings the Blues

Saturday Apr 26
1:00PM - Bitter & Twisted
5:30PM - Man On Wire
11:59PM - Baghead

Sunday Apr 27
1:30PM - Chevolution
4:00PM - Terra
6:00PM - Trucker
9:30PM - Idiots and Angels

Wednesday Apr 30
9:00PM - Milky Way Liberation Front

Thursday May 1
10:30PM - Hotel Gramercy Park

Friday May 2
6:00PM - War, Inc.
8:15PM - Let the Right One In

Saturday May 3
12:00PM - Theater of War
6:00PM - Shorts: Identity Crisis

Sunday May 04
1:45PM - "Made in NY" Narrative Competition Award Winner
5:00PM - Playing

Neglecting my blog

And my scrapbook, too...

Movie Review Haiku: I Am Legend

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 believe
in Jesus, then the zombies
have 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 it's going to take some old school HTML juggling to do that, and I don't have time at the moment. I'll update the page someday!)

Junoverse

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!

Sex with Robots

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.

My inner child is a teenage boy

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.

New Livingroom for a New Year

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 had to do with work - mostly it was comics, toys, and games that had been sent to me because I used to occasionally write about that kind of stuff. I gave a lot of them away at the time, but kept some of my favorites.

The other thing I did was rearrange the furniture in my living room. I had this trunk/coffee table in the middle of the room, but I never used it as a table, it's pretty much just a place for me to pile books on. As a result, it just sat in the middle of the room, taking up a lot of space and making the various seating options seem distant and uninviting. I finally owned up to the reality of the situation and moved the trunk off to the corner of the room (where it can continue to serve it's function as a place to put books). I also moved the chair and loveseat to new locations. The room is much more open now, and I think I'm much more likely to sit in the chairs.

I'll post a photo soon. Still have to sort through some of the clutter that resulted from all the rearranging.