Friday, January 23, 2004

New background color, easier on the eyes.
A friend has pointed me to a journal that may address some of the questions The Battle of Algiers raises.
Fans of outsider music will have a hoot and a holler with Show and Tell Music. There's all kinds of crazy cover-art here, and some wacko mp3s. Kenneth Higney's "Look at the River" from his album Attic Demonstration is so harrowing I had to turn it off the first time through.

Wednesday, January 21, 2004

More on The Battle of Algiers at Filmjourney.

Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Google shares a building in Santa Monica with Project Greenlight, Ben Affleck's production company. Sometimes he steals Google's parking spaces with his stupid car.

Tuesday, January 06, 2004

Memorial to 9/11 Victims Is Selected

Anthony Gardner, a brother of one of the victims of September 11th, is upset with the winning memorial design:

This is minimalism, and you can't minimalize the impact and the enormity of Sept. 11. You can't minimalize the deaths. You can't minimalize the response of New Yorkers.

Perhaps he wants an ostentatious architecture?