... that Oscar’s life had been briefer and/or more wondrous?

the only bad thing about this is that I fear that it will make every other novel I read in 2008 pale by comparison.

Much worse than I expected. The acting and special effects were fine, but It’s as if they severed the book from its daemon and put the resulting dull-witted zombie script on screen.

At least the bearfight was cool.

interesting : the untitled tracks from () have names on these discs.

An advantage of having a friend living in Sweden is that he can buy mind-blowing CDs for you ahead of their U.S. release. This album from Jens Lekman is bound for my 2007 hall of fame.

A two hour chase, with only the briefest pauses for plot and dialogue. Aside from those last two minor elements (which were fine), it was astonishingly well made and incredibly fun to watch.

o.k., but you’d be better served to rewatch A Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman, or Best In Show. This one never really came together.

In the middle of the extended essay about operating systems is this riff on David Foster Wallace’s “E Unibus Pluram”

“The problem is that once you have done away with the ability ot make judgments as to right and wrong, true and false, etc. there’s no real culture left. All that remains is clog danceing and macrame. The ability to make judgments, to believe things, is the entire point of having a culture.”

I’d been wanting to see this forever and it was never in stock at any video store. Then, there it was at Target right next to a DVD I was buying from someone’s wedding registry and it was only ten dollars.

Pretty good, though its weird to own this movie, particularly since I liked Mutual Appreciation better. Still, it’s an impressive document of inarticulate awkwardness that’s both compelling to watch and often uncomfortably relatable.

too many humans, not enough robots.