Okay, so I have just manually loaded all the posts from my old blog to here. So that blog will dies very soon. It’s all here. I still need to clean up the entries I made on this site. That will be done over Thanksgiving.
Halfway there
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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Testing ecto
Testing my old ecto client for the new blog. I’ll still live blog via the net at work and such, but otherwise i’ll probably work off ecto at home.
I take offense
High-Def Digest’s review of Oldboy
It’s a great flick. It’s challenging on any number of levels. It’s visually impactful. I’m not bothering to post my issues with the review at HDD’s site because they are all video/audiophiles and my issues aren’t with that.
In his review, Kenneth S. Brown writes:
Even “ordinary” scenes contain bizarre and often disturbing imagery, including swarming ants, gouged eyes, stark nudity, a nightmarish hotel room, incest, and the actual consumption of a living octopus.
I agree with almost EVERYTHING in that statement, but one part I don’t. Consumption of live octopus isn’t anything strange in Korea. Hell I’ve had it here in the States. Okay, hey, I get it. This is the United States. What is normal to a lot of other places is weird and strange, and I guess disturbing, here. And the scene in question was played for visual impact. But visually impactful doesn’t mean disturbing. And even in the context of the movie, I’d not classify that particular scene as disturbing. I do admit that how the scene plays out in the movie isn’t the traditional method of eating live octopus. So maybe that’s the disturbing part.
It’s so tasty though!
from the movie, a behind the scenes:
Max Power!
Hmm, I guess technically did your parents sabotage you? Hmm, from here on out, please call me Abel Max Power (to half steal Homer Simpson’s other name). Though do I really need A’s anymore? I wonder if Eugene subconsciously made people think “excellent” or perhaps the sound, so “unsatisfactory”?
Oh yeah, blog is back kids… But I’m going to revamp. So categories (once I figure out my schema) will be overarching and tags will be the new categories!