Archive for the 'film and arts' Category

un homme qui dort review

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

nice intro to the dvd released last year of this amazing film. nice stills too!

youtube links!

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

Davy Graham Trocchi

gregorys girl and interview with Bill forsyth
La Notte

the passenger

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

This re-released european version was just shown in LA, with Jack Nicholson and Michelangelo Antonioni in attendance. I can’t wait to see this in UK.
Quote from someone who attended the screening:
“…The film was indeed beautiful. It is EXACTLY the
European version (which has been available as an Asian
DVD made from a laser disc). […]

a iou

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

ntry for Gadsby in wikipdia.

Being English in Scotland

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

Being English in Scotland, by Murray Watson. An Edinburgh Uni release. One of my next book purchases, hopefully. Tom Devine of History of Scotland and Strathclyde Uni fame rates it (blurb wise!).

cat flap install

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

this made me larf, (quoted as being from a Big Issue, by David Sklar)

“One of the primary reasons cat flaps are called cat flaps is that
they’re flaps specifically designed for cats, as opposed to dogs, or
giraffes, or humans. All of this became abundantly clear to teenager
Jason Evans, of Eastleigh, Hampshire, when he recently spent six […]

Ellis Island Perec videos

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005

Wow! Excerpts from the TV film about Ellis Island by Bob Bober and Pere Perec QT, WMV and Real formats.

elsewhere

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

David ‘Elsewhere’ Bernal was interviewed a while back, but I missed it, so I thought I’d post this. An eloquent guy, although he sounds a little disenamoured with dancing, which surprised me. The images are not really safe for work down the side of the magazine’s pages (scantily clad ‘latino babes’)
http://www.oyemag.com/elsewhere.html
The detours web site […]

love these stencilopolises

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

GHOSTBUSTERS!

Wiki Pie

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005

where do i submit Oeufs a la micro-onde?