The Eagle & Child

I’m a fan of the movie…mashup? re-edit? re-cut? A particularly good one was the Mary Poppins re-cut into a trailer which made it look like it would be a horror film.  I have to say, though, that I think this Seinfeld recut may be my favourite so far, because it works on so many levels: [...]

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I’ve started a couple of posts reflecting on the school year, but every time I get a paragraph or two in I realize that I don’t like the post.  It’ll get out one of these days. In the meantime, here’s a video of a wonderful gypsy jazz band.  Some great guitar work there. (via Boing [...]

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I didn’t realize that Project Grizzly, one of my favourite documentaries, was a National Film Board production.  It is, and it’s available in full, for free, online.  In fact, here it is: It’s just over 70 minutes long. It’s a documentary about one man’s mission to build a bear-proof suit (for the purposes of study [...]

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I handed in a paper today, one which has been looming over my semester, bogging me down, for several weeks now. Contrary to what I had expected, the “loominosity” hasn’t lifted.  This might be because the paper was fairly open-ended, so I had to set boundaries to it which seemed somewhat arbitrary to me.  It [...]

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I went with some friends to see Avatar on Friday.  I had been pretty annoyed that it got so many Academy Award nominations, but I had not actually seen the film, so my annoyance was based on absolutely nothing.  I no longer feel that way.  It is an absolutely stunning film, in terms of immersive [...]

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Around junior high, The Three Amigos was one of my favourite movies (along with Uncle Buck and The Great Outdoors).  It’s a classic slapstick comedy starring Martin Short, Chevy Chase and Steve Martin (who, Dixie notes, would have been the Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell of that day).  I could quote it nearly [...]

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Over the years I’ve mentioned one or two contenders for the saddest song ever.  The song “The Living Years” by Mike and the Mechanics was mentioned in a book I was reading today.  It’s a pretty good contender.  So here’s are my nominations for saddest song ever: 1. “Tomorrow is a Long Time” – Bob [...]

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Dixie didn’t think this was funny, but for some reason it made me laugh.  It might be because this scene near the end of Return of the King (the film) has always annoyed me: Somehow I wound up watching this–”How Lord of the Rings Should have Ended“: If you go to the YouTube page for [...]

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