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Last summer, I posted this synopsis of the independent movie, Ciao, which I saw at the Castro Theatre during the gay and lesbian film festival. After a successful tour of many other film festivals, it is now in general, if limited, theatrical release. It is opening this Friday here in the San Francisco bay area, specifically [...] … GEEK OUT! New Star Trek trailer (watch trailer 2) OMG OMG OMG OMG I can’t wait I can’t wait I can’t wait I can’t wait !!!! So. Thanks to the power loss, I saw Beowulf again. This time, it made me think of one of four observations cited by J.A.C. Brown in his book Techniques of Persuasion: most people want to believe that issues are simple rather than complex. It may be off-topic, but here are the other three: * Most people want [...] Chuck F. and I went to see the fantasy movie Stardust today after work. He wanted to see it because he had read the book a few years ago, I just thought it looked fun. It was fun and funny, very well done, well cast, well executed – just a great flick. Chuck F. is one of [...] Yesterday Fuad and I saw Brokeback Mountain. We enjoyed it. End of review. We saw it at the Embarcadero theaters, which are downtown. It happens to be the same part of downtown where – yes, you knew this was coming – Chuck and I met for lunch nearly every day for three or four years [...] We went and saw King Kong last night. Well, we actually went in the afternoon but by the time it was over we were well into the evening. It was long. About 30 minutes too long. I think it would have been very easy to make it a better film without hurting the story. Jackson could [...] Last night after dinner…. “There’s a movie that I’d like to see. It’s playing at the Roxie,” Fuad said. He handed me the review. The movie is called Le Grand Voyage. In this remarkable directorial debut, the stern father of a Muslim family in France has his teenage son drive him to Mecca for the religious pilgrimage [...] I had a nice weekend. Saturday morning I made it to the gym for cardio and a decent chest and bi workout that I’m still sore from. As I left, the guy behind the counter said “I just have to tell you that I love the sound of your voice, it’s so sexy. And your [...] I’m back. It was a beautiful drive. Everything in California is so green right now, thanks to the two week deluge earlier in the month. It even snowed while I was driving through the Grapevine, which was followed by a little rain and a series of rainbows. I got back yesterday afternoon, pulling into the garage at [...] It’s 2005 and everything looks remarkably the same. The sky is grey, the ground is soaked, the corpses of tens of thousands of Christmas trees litter the city. I’m tired of rain, but this is California and it’s hard to have too much of a good thing when it comes to water. It has rained pretty [...] |
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