Category: tivo + movies + music

Well, seems this is the 200th post on this site since I’ve put wordpress to use. Amazing at what started as a simple test of WP for work ended up…

“It’s been eight years since Ben Gibbard recorded Death Cab For Cutie’s debut cassette, You Can Play These Songs With Chords, during which time the solo project has turned into…

“NerdTV is a new weekly online TV show from PBS.org technology columnist Robert X. Cringely. NerdTV is essentially Charlie Rose for geeks – a one-hour interview show with a single…

“In some ways, then, the iPod revolution is a Rock Snob’s dream. Now, nearly all rock music is easily and almost instantly attainable, either via our friends’ computers or through…

Jason Lee has always been a hero of mine … since the days of Blind Skateboards, his artwork, his involvement later on with WE and his company Stereo Skateboards ……

“Chumbawamba sold a lot of records, and every single one of them ended up in a milkcrate at a yard sale, six months after it was purchased. And what we…

“Exactly 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by…

“The C-list glitterati try their hand at scenes from HBO’s Entourage” — this one with wrestling’s greatest heroes of yesterday. Scene follows originally aired version. http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/1858 * UPDATED * 3…

A short film made frame-by-frame from Canon EOS 20D 35mm SLR photographs. http://patrykrebisz.com/stills/FINAL_movie.html

Death Cab For Cutie has a new album coming out in late August title “Plans” under a much larger label (Atlantic). Highlights include “Someday You Will Be Loved”, “I Will…

I’ve enjoyed much of his music … sad to hear he passed away. BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer dies

“The Aristocrats” is – how shall I put it? – an essay film, a work of painstaking and penetrating scholarship, and, as such, one of the most original and rigorous…

“The idea behind this was a simple one – collect enough mp3s of indie bands covering top 40 hits to fill up a cd. After I had been putting this…

We watched this Michael Mann movie from 2004 last night. Not being a huge fans of Tom Cruise – we were wary at best – but hopeful as we’d heard…

Is Owen Wilson the mastermind ? “Once upon a time, a young filmmaker from Houston, Texas, put together a yellow submarine of sorts—an enclosed cinematic world with a style and…