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Roger, Roger

Avary's place is back.
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What would Dziga Vertov buy?

Free (and legal) movie torrents & streams from Molotov Digital. (via WW)
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Paging Ellie Arroway

Rejoice, ye scatalogical number theory aficionados, for the Prime Number Shitting Bear has returned! Let the search for terrestrial intelligence continue...
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Things to be thankful for

After an ill-advised stint as Land Rover shill, The Beverly Center returns to its true calling as my pervy Forbidden Planet id-monster.
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The New Privacy encounters a minor setback

Congress refusing the telcos blanket immunity for invading the privacy of their customers on behalf of the NSA: potentially millions in lawsuits. Blogging the news on an AT&T-monopolized iPhone: priceless.
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Did I say Evening Mass?

Or Black Mass, as the case may be. I know I sat through Ghostbusters II once before when it first came out, but it just hurt too much tonight so I had to walk out on it. More of a sprint, actually.

Beowulf was much more interesting, though, especially as I was finishing up Mr. Welch's book going into it. There's a strange alchemical reaction when you mix the two together, but I'm still sorting through the product. Try it for yourself -- you'll see what I mean.
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Daily Tarot Reading

Love: Jean-Luc Godard
Touchstone: Vincent Gallo
Career: Cat
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The Church of Cinema (with apologies to Annie Savoy)

Like Andrew Sullivan, I was against George Bush before and after I was for him. Well, I don't think Sullivan was against him at first but then he's a conservative and he didn't have liberal ex-lovers to get back at. Completely at odds with the good doctor, however, is my philosophy regarding going out to the movies -- or as I like to call it, Evening Mass. Stay at home? Sacrilege. It's like going to a concert, or the opera -- you can study or analyze or meditate upon recordings, but nothing compares to bathing in the shared emotional energy of a packed house on opening night. Cinema happens only happens at the cinema.
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Phoning it in

Sorry, Crid, but it was just too cool -- plus it allows me to squeeze in a little extra rock-breaking as CD30-East Data Manager for Obama '08 in between double features at the Cinematheque. Sure beats sitting in my car all night, chained to some dreary, droppy T-Mobile Hotspot, clicking together voter search lists when I should be out getting some of that new Beaujolais.
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I can finally show my face around Thom Andersen again

Killer of Sheep is finally released on DVD.
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The Mark of McCain

As promised, Matt Welch's just-published McCain critique kept me company as I waited in the rush line for AFI's tribute to Catherine Deneuve on level 7 of the ArcLight parking structure for a chilly three hours. It was, ironically, an unfashionably early distaste for George Bush that drove me to quit my job in '99 and volunteer for the McCain 2000 campaign, (and then the Gore-Lieberman campaign after McCain's Super Tuesday implosion) even though I was a registered Libertarian at the time -- which was one of the topics of the conversation I was having with Mr. Welch in late post-flip flop-flip flop 2005 when we were interrupted by a strange turn of events:


That's Matt's wife, Emmanuelle -- renowned journalist for French and Swiss media -- snapping a photo that curiously has never appeared on her Buzznet page, demonstrating that journalistic discretion is alive and well in spite of everything the pissers and moaners say.

Unfortunately I only got about a third of the way through before it got too dark to read, but I did eventually get in to the show.



And, of course, after just this morning dropping some apt but unappreciated 2 Days in Paris references in the comments of Amy Alkon's post on womens' pubic "formatting", Fate decided to rub it in tonight by sitting a late-arriving Julie Delpy directly in front of me, forcing me to reconsider the wisdom of making that stalker crack the other day. Oh well. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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Interview with the Oracle

But of course my cinemautistic soul sister is a New Beverly fan. But then I guess I already knew that since I spied her sneaking in to see Notre Musique the last time it played. Hey, it's not stalking if I was already there.
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Champagne Supernova

Ooo... my STARmeter reading is up 16% since last week. Why, indeed.
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After two marathon visits to my poor dusty clavinova during the day, last night I suddenly had an overwhelming urge to again bang on the piano, but couldn't for obvious reasons. I take this as a sign.
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Day 274

And after nine months in my rolling womb of glass and steel, an ode to my 400W Husky power inverter as the subject of 115VAC options for fashionably homeless computer scientists has recently surfaced. I know I dissed the venerable Husky line mere months ago, but unlike that flaky Kensington crap I have to admit the only time Huskies have blown up on me (and quite spectacularly, I might add) have been when I've accidentally hooked them up backwards because I didn't have my coffee yet or (perhaps) intentionally overloaded them just a wee bit (what could be the harm?) while, say, trying to pull a copy of my Subversion repository off of my mothballed power-sponge of a file server gathering dust up in my storage space. Anyway, let's just chalk it up to youthful indiscretion and move on with the black coffee and soft-serve Taylor machine lunches.
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