07.14.10
okay, maybe one more
this one via digital urban
RenkeBot Lives- part2! from Matt Moses on Vimeo.
i am such a sucker for tiltshift
via urbantick
Small Streetlife from Christoph Schaarschmidt on Vimeo.
175th
words and music by brian hawkins, john dimeglio, and the a-train player
down beneath broadway and 175th
there exists a man who only knows one riff
and he sing: whoaa oh oh oh oh
whoaa oh oh oh oh
bouncing down the a-train to that song from before
and johnny tell me bout it
but now i can be sure
that he sing: whoaa oh oh oh
and it’s a symphony that writes itself;
it’s these symphonies -
here’s to your health!
-with some help from the soulmen
you can never tell baby
or ever ask why:
sometimes it’s sitting on a beach reading
that bukowski guy;
sometimes it’s on and on and on without end
because it’s all about love
and starting again,
and it’s that symphony that writes itself;
it’s these street symphonies -
here’s to your health!
-with some help from the soulmen
(whoa oh oh oh oh)
yeah i’ll bring the ukulele if you bring the kazoo -
i’m on a downtown V and it brings me to you
dance between flakes that fall to pavement in a city that’s yours;
scarred hearts and flasks in pockets warm
to the one, two, three, four
05.23.10
some lost predictions
the enchantment under the sea ending: i think this one was pretty obvious. in the alternate 1985, i mean alternate 2005, everybody is going to some sort of event / concert. desmond jumps on stage and plays chuck berry songs until everybody’s split-existential crises are cured?
and
jack sacrifices himself to save the island / stop the smoke monster: it completes the tragic messanic-hero epic arc while simultaneously putting some resolution to the J/S/K triangle.
and
jack’s baby momma = . . . . . . ? the obvious answer here is juliet. almost a little . . . tooo obvious, no? so i’m hoping they throw us something random and sweet here
OR
scooby-doo ending? we haven’t seen that doggie for a few seasons have we?
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lost has always been such a great show because it’s format allows it to rip off the essentials of just about every other show ever and act out those glommed melodrama nuggets within the uber-lush context of incredibly good looking geography and people. over the more recent seasons they have had to reach and hit (and miss) with buddy-cops, korean soap operas, quasi-real-time 24-ish bomb defusing, obvious and not so obvious sci-fi homages, and so on.
so whatever happens during the last episode – i hope they choose to ‘pay tribute to’ the finer and more elegant cinematic resolution tricks. maybe jack does the surgery on locke at the concert hall where his kid is playing frenetic classical music intercut with everything else happening all at once and everything get’s all fast and nutty a la Aronofsky or Lynch
or perhaps the Martin Scorsese classic-rock ultra-violent music montage: a paranoid freaked out hurley, smoke monster starts whacking everyone, the feds come and close down the island. all set to a stones or clapton song.
or we could get the seinfeld ending.
02.22.10
curling, eh
curling might be the ultimate (sport or game?) to watch will socializing in a bar or small house-gathering setting:
- the timing is just right. it’s rhythm is complementary to that of usual bar / twelve-pack banter.
- it has everyman appeal. like bowling, it can be played while smoking tobacco and/or drinking cans of molson. (and it doesn’t seem half as difficult as golf)
- there’s a good amount of excitement (especially on the last rolls [or pushes? what do you call them exactly]) but not too much where you have to be on your feet and freaking out and on seats edge like the end of a wild football or basketball game. -back to that timing thing-
- there are four characters to each squad. each fellow at the bar can choose his or her own winner, like bob from minnesota
- rocks on ice. with brooms! need we say more!
i’m completely serious. curling is great. and i’d like to play
time travel in tv and film [via information is beautiful]
Time Travel In TV and Film (Process) | Information Is Beautiful
i wonder if wormholes fall into the category of ‘mystery force’?
