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talktoolooseThank you Toronto Public Library for random goodness you have brought into my life this week:
Stephen Baxter's Manifold Time which shares a lot of the themes of his book Titan which I read last year but is a lot more entertaining: Carter Catastrophe! Enhanced squid in space! Super-smart children figuring out advanced physics from first principles! The U.S. Congress trying to cope! Shit Cola™!
And three cool DVDs:
The less said about Mambo Italiano (which I also took out) the better. Actually... spirited performances by good actors, horrible offensive script that kept sabotaging itself everytime it got something good going. What can you say about a film about gay identity that is scared to show a gay kiss but gives us full-on hetero-passion? And Mary Walsh does the worst Italian accent in history. For bonus points, the film mocks the gay community and is bi-phobic.
Stephen Baxter's Manifold Time which shares a lot of the themes of his book Titan which I read last year but is a lot more entertaining: Carter Catastrophe! Enhanced squid in space! Super-smart children figuring out advanced physics from first principles! The U.S. Congress trying to cope! Shit Cola™!
And three cool DVDs:
- No Maps for These Territories: a road trip documentary with William Gibson
- National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth, hosted by Edward Norton
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: based on the bizarre autobiography of Chuck Barris, creator of the Newlywed Game and the Dating Game and host/creator of the Gong Show who swears he was also a hitman for the CIA during the height of his showbiz career. Directed by George Clooney and written by Charlie (Being John Malkovitch) Kaufman. Brilliant, funny, pathetic, odd and sure-handed. Sam Rockwell and Drew Barrymore are both astounding. Sam Rockwell's ass is also impressive.
The less said about Mambo Italiano (which I also took out) the better. Actually... spirited performances by good actors, horrible offensive script that kept sabotaging itself everytime it got something good going. What can you say about a film about gay identity that is scared to show a gay kiss but gives us full-on hetero-passion? And Mary Walsh does the worst Italian accent in history. For bonus points, the film mocks the gay community and is bi-phobic.
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Date: 2006-10-04 04:11 pm (UTC)Too many banal to the point of being loathesome personalities get to make semi-autobiographical auteur pics.
The rest of those sound sweet, though.
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Date: 2006-10-04 05:24 pm (UTC)I just did a failed Google search on "Sam Rockwell's Ass" except some whiny comments about how there was too much of it "Dangerous Mind". And what do you do at work?
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