This movie has been sitting at the bottom of my Netflix queue for a year now, but my interest was piqued by last week’s discussion. It’s a fairly straightforward two and a half hour documentary about the life of Ayn Rand. While it only touches briefly on her controversies it doesn’t quite ignore them altogether. […]

Over the weekend I upgraded to a Flickr Pro account, though I’m not really sure why as so far the only clear advantages are being able to post photos directly to your blog and have more than 3 photosets. With the upgrade came 10 free Moo cards.
Worth mentioning is the confirmation email I received […]

When I bought my iPhone I’d read of other people’s woes attempting to activate it with their current GoPhone account. After some research I concluded it would be best to activate the phone, create a new account, and then call to have my old account closed with the balance transferred to my iPhone. […]

That’ll be the day when public offices are all equipped with Apple computers. Aside from being terrible all around, one particular part of this movie left a bad taste in my mouth, the notion a senior level lawyer at a powerful firm would immediately throw herself at a handsome, young new hire. Why is it […]

If I had a half star rating this would’ve received it. I was willing to put aside historical inaccuracies for dazzling visuals, but there were none. I’m not sure which was worse, the writing or the effects. Why did the vikings speak Icelandic but the Native Americans spoke English? The whole thing was like watching […]

Geeks of Doom on Good Luck Chuck
To start, this movie is so insatiably sexist that it just ASSUMES that women are so eager to enter into a life of indentured servitude, cleaning the shit stains out of dude’s drawers, and birthing their spawn that they will enter random sexual encounters on just the OFF-CHANCE that […]

Perhaps the most genuine and endearing film I’ve seen in a long time.

Lately I’ve been reading a lot about Miranda July’s work suffering the twee film backlash. I find this mostly unfair since I don’t even really consider her a filmmaker. I’ve always seen her as a performance artist, though she’s really a jack of all trades. Me and You and Everyone We Know and No One […]

This movie was a caricaturish, hipsterized vision of the South. Alana called it “if Williamsburg had a white-trash theme party.” There were approximately three minutes of film where Christina Ricci wasn’t writhing on all fours. Samuel L. Jackson isn’t much of an actor when he isn’t being type-cast as the angry swearing dude. The only […]

Rottweilers? Are you kidding me?

Zodiac was the scariest movie I’ve seen since Silence of the Lambs or Seven. I can’t believe I didn’t hear more about this when it came out. Though I don’t think Robert Downey Jr. pulls off the deadpan thing very well.

American Express comes through for their customers. They’re offering customers who purchased an iPhone before this week with their AMEX card a $200 refund. That’s great service.

I hadn’t noticed until now, but Boing Boing redesigned. The new UI is much easier to navigate, and more readable.

Over the last couple of episodes I’ve grown to appreciate Kim Saigh’s work more. While her style isn’t necessarily my favorite (always a matter of personal preference) she has good drawing skills, isn’t afraid to use a lot of color, and has very clean and sterile practices. She’s the only artist on any of the […]

So I’ve been using Simplify Media for a month now, and it’s worked out great. First, the weird tag issue I was experiencing before actually has nothing to do with Simplify Media and instead has something to do with my iTunes configuration. Though I’ve yet to figure out how to rectify this. I do, however, […]

Harptallica. Metallica songs (only the old good stuff) but the shredding is done on harps instead of guitars. I will definitely have to check them out when they’re in town.

Regular posting should resume tomorrow. I’ve been a bit lax since returning from Chicago as I’ve been out of town or had house guests for the past several weekends in a row and am only just now recovering. Not to mention Guitar Hero happens to be far more alluring most evenings than WordPress. I did […]

Last week the AG UI Team packed up our bags and headed to An Event Apart Chicago ‘07. We had a great time, learned a lot, and ate a lot of pizza. Overall, all of the talks were mostly informative and worth the trip.
My initial impressions were:

Wow there’s a lot of different kinds of […]

Rob Zombie’s Halloween was the worst movie I’ve seen all year. I thought I knew what I was getting myself into after his Texas Chainsaw Massacre rip / homage House of 1,000 Corpses. I had expected a remake, and what I got was a totally different movie than the original Halloween. A movie that took […]

Though Time Magazine tells me punk started in 1977, this masterpiece recorded in 1973 begs to differ. If you’ve never heard this classic album you’ve been living under a rock, go buy it immediately.

Alana bought the new issue of Lemon Magazine the other day. Though it only seems to appear in our local Borders once in a blue moon, it’s always worth every penny. You can’t really tell from the small cover image here, but there’s a pattern embossed over the top. It’s kind of waxy, and gives […]

Worth checking out if only for the Mr. Airplane Man connection.

Either I’m becoming a curmudgeon, or teenage humor has gotten decidedly more explicit since I was in high school. Maybe that has something to do with the movie being written by a 25 year old. It wasn’t as great as all the hype, and the story is your typical teenage boy must do X ridiculous […]