Category: tivo + movies + music

Venerable ‘Cinema Du Parc’ finally has a new owner, a new web site and once again I here people saying… ‘I’m going to go see it at parc’. They are…

Gus Van Sant’s ‘Paranoid Park‘ is looking like it might have some potential. So many movies ‘do skating’ badly and miss the reason/feeling/culture of skateboarders, when trying to use it…

Surely many of my surf inclined readers have seen this; “Sliding Liberia”. Funny thing, when I told some I was going on a surf trip last fall and that I…

I’ve been on a James Bond kick lately, slowly watching my way back to the very first bond movie (1962; Dr. No with Sean Connery) The opening struck me right…

Some great HD video (except for the terrible music) on VIMEO made using a Canon 20D to shoot time lapse night shots. Here’s the authors checklist on how to do…

Feeling a bit under the weather (somehow I only get a cold at Christmas), TIVO caught Ghostbusters on one of our ‘movie wish-lists’, that brightened up my day. Stands up…

We were talking about this story/NFB animation last night at the Company holiday Dinner. It amazing how many people consider this to a be a quintessential piece of Quebecois/Canadian identity….

We watched the last of the Bourne Movies last night – The Bourne Ultimatum. As much as I don’t want to like like Matt Damon – I do. He’s a…

The video and song are great; Ratatat preforming ‘Wildcat’. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8QrLB8xj5c&e

Watched a great TIVO’ed episode of NOVA last night that centered around the debacle of teaching ‘intelligent design (ID)’ (creationism) as science. It’s available online in 12 parts online. It…

Allen Singing with The Police Love this shot of Allen, a fellow Planker, singing onstage with the Police, during a benefit pre-concert event (1st to the left of Sting) More…

We watched the new 2007 Miami Vice movie tonight. Not terrible, nothing really worth writing about, but it did remind me of the clip above from the Pilot to the…

Really digging this video from “Bat For Lashes — What’s a Girl To Do” (thanks J and MG) Watch on Youtube | Bat For Lashes Site

A great ‘B’ movie to C? Sorry; had to throw in that groaner of a pun. “Planet Terror” is great. The art direction that adds the classic ‘B movie’ elements…

I can’t tell you how happy this makes me. One of my favourite books of all time and one of my favourite directors (Spike). I, along with many other kids,…