Superman Returns - Good Only if Born After 1975

Having read many reviews of the newly released Superman Returns, i wasn’t expecting much from film when i entered the theater. Two and a half hours later, i left feeling completely entertained and fulfilled. Feeling misled by many critics, i began to wonder why the movie was being panned by critics i generally trusted. [...]

Elizabethtown - The Real Story

I saw Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown last year in the theater and although i love Crowe’s movies, i left the theater thinking that it was one of his worst films to date. I also thought that that Orlando Bloom completely ruined the movie. He had no depth, was not interesting and had no redeeming value [...]

Rita Rudner Quotes

Some good quotes by Rita:

Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Marriages don’t last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask [...]

TED Presentations, Dean Kamen & Majora Carter

I once had the priviledge to go to the TED conference (thanks to Jules) and saw the best speech i had ever seen by Dean Kamen and his quest to fix many of the problems of the world using technology.
Now TED is broadcasting their videos on their site. I recently watched another great speech [...]

The Big Green Bus

12 Dartmouth students are driving their “Big Green Bus” from California to Hanover (NH) and back on nothing by Vegetable Oil and solar power. Awesome.
This story will tell you more about how these guys will grab vegetable oil from restaurants along the way to power “the bus” and the solar power is keeping the [...]

Love, John Cusak, & Woody Allen

All according to Chuck Klosterman.
Coldplay and John Cusak are screwing us….
Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanted that feeling for real. They want men to adore them like Lloyd Dobbler, and men want women to think like Aimee Mann, and everyone [...]

Monkey-Mind Story Telling

Just finished the book “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City” which is a great memoir about a guy who works in a homeless shelter where his dad takes refuge. Their paths cross, the author confesses to doing some pretty crazy things and barely keeps himself from living on the streets as well. The book, written [...]

Graduate II

Taken from (here) - thought it was worth reposting…..
There's nothing like an eviction notice to make a man resort to desperate measures. Charles Webb, author of the original novel that was made into The Graduate, was facing homelessness when he decided to sell his unfinished sequel to Random House, which plans to publish the novel [...]

Klosterman’s Thoughts on NY

Just finished Chuck Klosterman's "Fargo Rock City" which was great. I love it anytime someone deconstructs or discusses GNR. I found an interview Chuck gave to Spin magazine where he discusses NY city. 

Living in New York makes you younger and older at the same time. It makes you younger because everyone who lives here is [...]

Halo Update

Halo is blowing up! I have some news on both the game and the movie.
Arguably the best game (both 1 and 2) in the past 5 years is being made into a movie. Last year Peter Jackson signed on as executive producer for "Halo: The Movie," and the project was tentatively scheduled for summer [...]