Manji (Yasuzo Masumura, 1964) [imdb.com]
La Noia (Damiano Damiani, 1963) [imdb.com]
...compare and contrast.
Note: any synopsis you may read concerning Manji will be superficial as the film goes beyond any sensational orientations. Far beyond.
Funny...whereas any synopsis regarding La Noia will give that film more depth...!
01 February 2011
31 January 2011
John Barry, R.I.P.
John Barry passed away yesterday (courtesy Reuters) from a fatal heart attack at age 77 in New York. (courtesy BBC)
My condolensces to the surviving family. Maximum respect for one of the greats.
My condolensces to the surviving family. Maximum respect for one of the greats.
30 January 2011
Booklist 2011
Books devoured for 2011 so far...
I also loved Black Hole, but it's Charles Burns and i've always been a sucker for Burns. Hey, does a comic boo...err, graphic novel count as a book?
Working on Damp Squids: The English Language Baid Bare by Jeremy Butterfield. This book was on my Christmas list because i was under the impression from the description it was more about the etymology of English language words and phrases but it's actually more about the English language as a living entity, its corpus: where it's been and where it's going. It surprised me that for an offering from Oxford University Press there are typographic errors and an error i wonder if it is typographical: Edgar J. Hoover! The other thing that put me off, being an non-British speaker of English, is that it is more from a British English point of view. Somewhat disappointed, all in all. Finishing it up just to get it out of the way.
I had started Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged during my flight to Detroit, but that got put off (almost happily) when i received the other books. Oh my God, i'm in only 50ish pages and i find Rand extremely melodramatic and two-dimensional. "Who is John Galt?" I almost wanna say "Who cares who is John Galt?!" I've read Archie comics with more depth. Maybe i'm jumping to conclusions...? I'm also trying to factor in when it was written...but...
- Please Kill Me, tenth anniversary edition, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
- Black Hole, Charles Burns
I also loved Black Hole, but it's Charles Burns and i've always been a sucker for Burns. Hey, does a comic boo...err, graphic novel count as a book?
Working on Damp Squids: The English Language Baid Bare by Jeremy Butterfield. This book was on my Christmas list because i was under the impression from the description it was more about the etymology of English language words and phrases but it's actually more about the English language as a living entity, its corpus: where it's been and where it's going. It surprised me that for an offering from Oxford University Press there are typographic errors and an error i wonder if it is typographical: Edgar J. Hoover! The other thing that put me off, being an non-British speaker of English, is that it is more from a British English point of view. Somewhat disappointed, all in all. Finishing it up just to get it out of the way.
I had started Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged during my flight to Detroit, but that got put off (almost happily) when i received the other books. Oh my God, i'm in only 50ish pages and i find Rand extremely melodramatic and two-dimensional. "Who is John Galt?" I almost wanna say "Who cares who is John Galt?!" I've read Archie comics with more depth. Maybe i'm jumping to conclusions...? I'm also trying to factor in when it was written...but...
29 January 2011
Waitaminutesomethingswrong
Goldman Sachs has tripled the base salary of chief executive Lloyd Blankfein to $2m (courtesy BBC).
I especially like the article's last paragraph.
27 January 2011
Like
NY Times - Turbine-Free Wind Power from Antfood on Vimeo.
Smart Car - Against Dumb from Buck on Vimeo.
Same agency: Buck. Thumbs up -- i 
!
26 January 2011
Modern-day Pharoahs, Part III
From my various RSS subscriptions comes this interesting tidbit/rant about our modern-day Pharoahs from, surprisingly enough of all places, the animation-news site, Cartoon Brew, entitled...
The Obscene Pay of Viacom Execs
Here's a teaser: three men alone earned a total last year of $164,200,000 (Philippe Dauman, chief executive: $84.5 million, Tom Dooley, chief operating officer: $64.7 million, Sumner Redstone, chairman/controlling shareholder: $15 million). Earned...what exactly does one do in a similar position to earn that kind of money?
Equally interesting are some of the comments on the article.
In other unrelated news, i discovered using Back In Time backup software for GNU/Linux takes roughly two-and-a-half hours to back up the netbook's 64GB HD to an external 320GB USB2 HD. That's a long time, doncha think? No, it's not the first snapshot. And it's only 16GB backup, the rest of the disc being free. I can only compare against my Core2 Duo iMac and Time Machine: a 350-odd-GB backup doesn't take half that long...but i will document the time next backup.
EDIT: reflecting on that slow backup situation...could it be that the drive is formatted NTFS is slowing things down?
The Obscene Pay of Viacom Execs
Here's a teaser: three men alone earned a total last year of $164,200,000 (Philippe Dauman, chief executive: $84.5 million, Tom Dooley, chief operating officer: $64.7 million, Sumner Redstone, chairman/controlling shareholder: $15 million). Earned...what exactly does one do in a similar position to earn that kind of money?
Equally interesting are some of the comments on the article.
In other unrelated news, i discovered using Back In Time backup software for GNU/Linux takes roughly two-and-a-half hours to back up the netbook's 64GB HD to an external 320GB USB2 HD. That's a long time, doncha think? No, it's not the first snapshot. And it's only 16GB backup, the rest of the disc being free. I can only compare against my Core2 Duo iMac and Time Machine: a 350-odd-GB backup doesn't take half that long...but i will document the time next backup.
EDIT: reflecting on that slow backup situation...could it be that the drive is formatted NTFS is slowing things down?
24 January 2011
22 January 2011
Nostalgia moment
Awwww...it's my first bass guitar!
I paid $20 when i was 16 years old (money obviously given to me by my parents), bought from a high school friend. I immediately set out to compose songs on it! I and my brother (who plays guitar) immediately put a group together. Oh, that bass guitar was just the beginning of the chaotic adult life i call mine.
But it was/is a crap guitar. I'm snickering to myself that they're asking $895 for it. It sucked so bad i don't even remember gigging with it. I remember finding my first real love, a modified Vox Bill Wyman bass, at the Sunday flea market at Martin and Frazho. But now i'm just repeating myself...
Anyway, i personally wouldn't hand over more than $100 for it...but what do i know?
I paid $20 when i was 16 years old (money obviously given to me by my parents), bought from a high school friend. I immediately set out to compose songs on it! I and my brother (who plays guitar) immediately put a group together. Oh, that bass guitar was just the beginning of the chaotic adult life i call mine.
But it was/is a crap guitar. I'm snickering to myself that they're asking $895 for it. It sucked so bad i don't even remember gigging with it. I remember finding my first real love, a modified Vox Bill Wyman bass, at the Sunday flea market at Martin and Frazho. But now i'm just repeating myself...
Anyway, i personally wouldn't hand over more than $100 for it...but what do i know?
19 January 2011
Pecking order
Moron: IQ of 51-70
Imbecile: IQ of 26-50
Idiot: IQ of 0-25
(Courtesy of Wikipedia.org)
In case you were wondering...
17 January 2011
29 October 2010
At the risk of becoming repetitive...
Superenalotto concorso 129: €18,50. Move over, Paperone!
Last night on TG1, they reported on that the italians are getting fed up with Superenalotto because no one was winning. Which i find a bit...strange. I mean, the way Superenalotto works is that you have to hit six out 90 randomly-drawn numbers to win the Superenalotto Jackpot. Well, if no one is hitting, and the jackpot is at a record high (as of this writing, €180.837.209,85, italian notation), i'd think everyone would be happy as it shows that nothing is rigged. I myself would think that if people were winning less-than-€10M jackpots regularly, something's fishy. But what do i know?
Remember, it's all random.
Last night on TG1, they reported on that the italians are getting fed up with Superenalotto because no one was winning. Which i find a bit...strange. I mean, the way Superenalotto works is that you have to hit six out 90 randomly-drawn numbers to win the Superenalotto Jackpot. Well, if no one is hitting, and the jackpot is at a record high (as of this writing, €180.837.209,85, italian notation), i'd think everyone would be happy as it shows that nothing is rigged. I myself would think that if people were winning less-than-€10M jackpots regularly, something's fishy. But what do i know?
Remember, it's all random.
21 October 2010
Once again...BINGO!
Superenalotto concorso 125 (19 ottobre 2010): €20,18!
Still working on €176.000.000...
(Note: these posts are using italian notation -- i.e.: one dollar and ninety-nine cents = $1,99; four thousand, three hundred = 4.300)
Still working on €176.000.000...
(Note: these posts are using italian notation -- i.e.: one dollar and ninety-nine cents = $1,99; four thousand, three hundred = 4.300)
17 October 2010
http://4cp.posterous.com/
This bloggish site covers one of the reasons i fell in love at an early age with graphic art and print, simultaneously with comic books and the Sunday Funnies. And i thought i was the only one in love with 65-line screens off-register...
12 October 2010
Death to Helvetica
...the typeface “designers” without a clue or just plain lazy always resort to. It always looks good because it says absolutely nothing.
Gap reverts back to its old logo after only one week (via BBC)...guess what typeface was used on the new logo...?
Gahhhhh...
Gap reverts back to its old logo after only one week (via BBC)...guess what typeface was used on the new logo...?
Gahhhhh...
06 October 2010
Fender Evil Twin
I love this! And i'm shocked no one has ever thought of this before...the Fender Evil Twin!
What? Too guitar geek?
What? Too guitar geek?
04 October 2010
Way cool
A Brooklyn father and son send a homemade “spacecraft,” complete with a HD videocam and a GPS-enabled cellphone, 19 miles into outer space! (thanks, Slashdot!)
“Pics or it ain’t true,” you say? Well...here ya go!
Forget about what you might have done on your summer vacation...this is way cool.
And is Brooklyn now the center of the universe or what? So it has seemed for the last year or so.
“Pics or it ain’t true,” you say? Well...here ya go!
Forget about what you might have done on your summer vacation...this is way cool.
And is Brooklyn now the center of the universe or what? So it has seemed for the last year or so.
25 September 2010
More on our modern-day Pharoahs
If you are earning more than a million dollars a year and are complaining about a 3.6% tax increase, then you are by definition a greedy asshole. (Courtesy The Huffington Post, via Boing Boing)
I have to say while i don't necessarily agree with how Bill Maher put his point across (yes, i realize first and foremost he's a comedian with a TV show, and that his show caters to a certain demographic), his point is valid and rock solid.
Boing Boing commenters #4 and #19 stuck out in my mind.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos have contributed $100,000 each to an effort to defeat an income tax on individuals in Washington state making more than $200,000. (via Slashdot)
In other news, TV Mania. I can say no more.
I have to say while i don't necessarily agree with how Bill Maher put his point across (yes, i realize first and foremost he's a comedian with a TV show, and that his show caters to a certain demographic), his point is valid and rock solid.
Boing Boing commenters #4 and #19 stuck out in my mind.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos have contributed $100,000 each to an effort to defeat an income tax on individuals in Washington state making more than $200,000. (via Slashdot)
In other news, TV Mania. I can say no more.
23 September 2010
Lightning strikes twice!
Superenalotto Concorso 113...BINGO! €22,13!
In other equally exciting news, Voyager. I will say no more.
In other equally exciting news, Voyager. I will say no more.
10 September 2010
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