I’m a stickler for sound in movies. I’ll sit through a movie shot by a colorblind cinematographer but I’ll walk out of a movie with just kind of shitty sound. Sync problems - flubby lips - are the worse. On a short I directed, I slaved for a week tinkering on a 30-second dialogue scene to get the raw sound, ADR and effects to match. The missus would attribute it to my OCD but it’s really that bad sound is unforgivable.
After seeing Food Inc., I stumbled onto this 105-minute French documentary called “The World According to Monsanto” on Google Video. Whoever uploaded it screwed up the audio rate and the entire movie is about 10-15 frames out of sync but still I watched all of it. It is riveting, terrifying and an absolute must-see.
Wow - the last time I updated was right before the wedding. I’m not sure why I’m blogging again. I don’t really think I am (even though longtime readers will note that the layout and look of the blog as changed…again), it’s just that I can’t fit the following into 140 characters.
Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court. Unless Obama’s vetting disabilities continue, Sotomayor figures to be an easy confirmation and will likely preserve the ideological balance of the court, with Anthony Kennedy being the crucial tiebreaker in “difficult” decisions.
Rather than the classic and inevitable debate on whether Sotomayor is a liberal activist judge or a conservative activist judge, I propose we plot her, and the rest of the Supreme Court Justices, on a Cartesian plane where the X-axis represents Intellect (in addition to smarts, the general wisdom and righteousness of past decisions) and the Y-axis represents being fucked up (as in crazy).
For example, Clarence Thomas is criminally low on the X-axis and high on the Y-axis. Ideal Justices should be the complete opposite - very high on the X and very low on the Y. Scalia is off the Y-axis.
I wonder about Obama’s timing in announcing his nomination considering that in related Supreme Court news that is off the Y-axis, the California Supreme Court upheld Prop. 8. Stupid. I saw the “Marriage is for fags” t-shirt in public for the first time yesterday at Lee-Roy and Jamie’s BBQ and Bocce Ball Tourney. It is the best t-shirt ever.
Hey, look at me, I’m John McCain, I understand change because before I was a P.O.W., I was an asshole and the P.O.W. experience helped me understand true change because it changed me; I know the America people want change so vote for me, I’m changier.
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
Here’s mine (red = things I’ve eaten, blue = things I haven’t. If it kind of looks bold, too, that means there’s a link to wikipedia about the food item):
I am reminded that I’ve never had frog legs or any version of a lassi.
Who the hell even makes Lobster thermidor anymore?
In addition to kaolin, I was tempted to 86 roadkill and snake. Here are the reasons why I didn’t: if the roadkill is defined as something killed on the road and that something happened to be deer, I would certainly eat it if properly cleaned and cooked. Though I’m terribly afraid of snakes, I feel like maybe ingesting it will help me get over my fear. The reason I would cross snake off though is that any place that is serving snakes must have live snakes nearby and that is not any place I want to be.
I know I’ve been remiss in posting but this was too good to pass up:
As the concerned citizen he is, Ricky Tokio checked out Sarah Palin’s wikipedia page this morning upon learning of her selection as McCain’s VP. What he found was that Sarah Palin is the emodiment of Hulkamania running wild. Literally (click photo for a bigger version).
Thankfully, in all of Rickey Tokio’s interweb surfing wisdom, he had the presence of mind to make a screen grab because it was quickly deleted and now just shows her in a turqouise fleece and pearls. So boring.
