Double Reading

I didn’t even finish compiling my SIFF Stats during 2006… Total money spent on tickets: $133 Total money spent on SIFF membership (which is why I spent less money this year than last year): $100 (benefactor level) Total time spent standing in line: 15+5+10+10 Total movies seen: … Languages: English, Icelandic, Afrikaans, Mandarin, Xhosa, French, [...]

A documentary about The Pixies that I saw during SIFF 2006.

During October 2005 I was writing reviews of every episode in the third season of one of my favorite TV shows, Millennium. Of course, I didn’t finish… Alas, I finished watching Millennium a couple of weeks ago. The ending of the series is so unrewarding, that summarizing the second half of the season (see my [...]

I was going to write a review of Sonic Youth’s album Goo. It’s one of my all-time favorite albums and was re-released in deluxe edition so I was going to express my love for it… but I only got so far as writing down the quote that appears on the cover. I stole my sister’s [...]

This was an awesome movie I saw at SIFF during the summer of 2006. Probably one of my favorite documentaries ever. I only got as far as finding a pic for it…

A pretty funny/campy midnight movie I saw during SIFF 2006.

Adding to my theory that Smallville is awesomely postmodern, I just watched the season five episode “Thirst.” The episode is about a vampire sorority headed by a girl named Buffy Sanders. Hmm… sounds a bit like my favorite vampire hunter Buffy Summers! To make things more fun and postmodern, there is a scene where Clark [...]

The thing about being privileged (be it by being white, straight, male, etc.) is that if someone ever calls you a name or treats you what you perceive to be unfair or differently, you never have to think twice about whether it’s because you’re somehow “different” than most people. This morning on The Commentators, they were [...]

Fact of the day: Bill Breeden was the only person arrested for anything having to do with the Iran-Contra Affair. Who is Bill Breeden? He’s from John Poindexter‘s home town and held a sign for a street named in Poindexter’s honor for “ransom.” He was arrested and jailed for this. None of the military or [...]

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