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ScarJo and DaveBo doing Tom Waits

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Here we have Scarlett Johannson and David Bowie covering Tom Wait’ “Falling Down”, from Ms. Johannson’s new album Anywhere I Lay My Head, which is an entire album (minus one original) of Tom Waits songs.
I’m personally not interested in the debate about actors making music. Waits is a musician who acts in movies. Nick […]

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Wristcutters

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Wristcutters: A Love Story is, as of tonight, one of my new favorite films. It’s about a guy named Zia (Patrick Fugit) who commits suicide because his girlfriend left him. He finds himself in a sort of Purgatory, a broke-down, trashy afterlife for suicides. He makes friends with Eugene (Shea Whigham), a Russian singer who […]

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Sweeney Todd

Monday, April 7, 2008

Capsule review: I fuckin’ hate musicals, but I really liked this one. Reminded me of Brecht. Helena Bonham Carter is still goth hot after all these years. Johnny Depp singing in a Cockney accent is rad. Extremely bloody. Worth watching.

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My First After Effects Compositing Experiment

Sunday, April 6, 2008

My First After Effects Compositing Experiment from jzellis on Vimeo.
Shot with my iSight at Starbucks and composited in a few minutes. Not perfect, but a good first try, I think.

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Chuck Heston died!

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Sigh. I was never a fan of Heston’s politics — the exact opposite, actually — but dude, he was fucking Moses.
I met Heston in high school. He was supporting the governor of Wyoming’s re-election campaign. i was writing about it for my high school newspaper. Dude was a total right-wing fascist.
But afterwards, when I was […]

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Why Didn’t I See Any Of The Oscar Movies…

Monday, February 25, 2008

…or much of anything at all in the theater last year or this year, for that matter? (God, I know I saw something other than Cloverfield. I must have.)
This guy rants about how nobody saw these movies because people are saps who just want happy, happy, joy, joy all the time. I tend to agree […]

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Didn’t Watch The Oscars

Monday, February 25, 2008

…and don’t really care. I haven’t seen any of the movies that everybody got boners over, like No Country For Old Men or There Will Be Blood. (I despise Paul Thomas Anderson’s movies, as a rule. And No Country just looked fucking depressing. Oh, and you’d be more likely to catch me at a screening […]

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