Leadership
The voice of a hugely important project is clearly not always coated with sugar.
And for me, to bed with me.
The voice of a hugely important project is clearly not always coated with sugar.
And for me, to bed with me.
I think the song on the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack that sounds most like The Fountain’s soundtrack is called “Ghosts of Things to Come.”
Garden State exceeded my relatively lofty expectations. It was a pretty awesome concept, especially since it managed to feature some Lynch/Tarantino characteristics while maintaining a fairly mainstream bent throughout.
I got a kick out of having a Nick Drake song on the soundtrack, as I recall saying to myself early in the movie, “This movie needs a Nick Drake song.”
The “medicated” front portion of the movie, strangely enough, had a Dumbland characteristic. This begs clarification, as EZ-E (most likely the only other person in the world to have seen that weird little nugget of Lynch) has probably jettisoned coffee all over his monitor at the thought that something could bear resemblance to Dumbland. But, it had a forced quality (by design, of course) to the dialog that really felt like Dumbland, or perhaps the dinner scene in Eraserhead.
I would liken the thematic (English III/IV GT: thumbatic, as I recall) curve to that of an alternative Requiem for a Dream that ended a good bit better, with people having learned from their mistakes instead of being utterly destroyed by them.
The camera work on faces, especially the grave digger friend, had a definite Tarantino style to it that I love, sort of too-low-to-the-ground and askew.
They should just put Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Dazed and Confused in the same box.
I hit a MySpace page virtually on accident, and the annoying background music actually synced up with Ben Folds’ “Rockin’ the Suburbs” for a brief while, which was kind of cool, in a horrible way.
So, I had my little, hacked-together woogie.py script that served music over my network.
Then, I got a real server.
Now, I have mp3act, which is completely awesome. When I’m not behind a NAT firewall, I will have my music (password-protected) available from any location through a web browser and media player.
This is going to be acronym- and technical-term-bingo, but here is the state of my network, at present:
Ah… It’s occasionally good to be bored. I’m pushing 802.11g to the max.
I have to thank McDonald’s for running the “Dollar Menunaires” commercials, because now I have one more reason, beyond their food, to avoid eating at McDonald’s.
This looks nice. Not a good replacement for what I just built, but it marks a great trend toward power- and space-efficient media center and light server hardware.
I had one of those weird experiences last night and this morning, where I was all hyped up last night about getting my work done, then I slept in this morning and am already ahead of schedule.
It takes me a while to get back into the school mode, especially when my time commitments this semester are so deceptively small.
I think I just enjoyed a homework assignment.
