Month: September 2003

Couldn’t Live Without – Couldn’t Care Less

Doug Orleans is attempting to spread a meme about, and well I’ll let him explain it:

Okay, I’ve never done an intentional LiveJournal meme before, and hadn’t really intended to, but this one seems sort of interesting. Is the object to see whether it eventually shows up in your friends list but not directly from you (or someone else on your friends list)? Anyway, I got it from elthar [I changed “band” to “artist” to account for Bowie]:

Your meme, should you choose to accept it, is to rank the following artists in order, from COULDN’T LIVE WITHOUT to COULDN’T CARE LESS. To add value to this process, you must also add one artist to the list, and remove one artist from the list, before passing the meme on (including these instructions).

The original list is back on Doug’s site. I’m deleting Jethro Tull, adding Pink Floyd, and ordering it as follows:

Pink Floyd
REM
Led Zeppelin
David Bowie
Sex Pistols
Duran Duran
Fleetwood Mac
Queen
The Pixies
The Beatles
Nirvana
Oasis

X-rated Giant Squid talk

From the “they’re getting grant money to do this?” file comes a great article from the BBC.

“Because the animals are migrating into New Zealand waters to breed, they are very randy,” the Auckland University of Technology researcher said.

“The freezer bag at home – to my wife’s disgust – is actually full of giant squid gonad samples. We’re going to grind all of this up, and we’re going to have this puree coming out from the camera, squirting into the water.

“Hopefully the male giant squid, absolutely driven into a frenzy, is going to come up and try to mate with the camera.

“This is the dream – we’re going to get this sensational footage of the giant squid trying to do obscene things with the camera.”

Read further for info on how giant squids, well, get it on…

Movie gimmick weekend part 1

LA area film fans should not miss this week’s run of How The West Was Won at the Cinedome. The movie itself is mostly hokey Americana (except for John Ford’s intense Civil War battle scene) with a big ensemble cast. However the real reason to go is to see the film in its original three-strip Cinerama projection. Just breathtaking. You really can’t go wrong with Cinerama views of the eastern Sierras, Monument Valley, and downtown Los Angeles in 1962.

Also showing at the dome this week is the documentary Cinerama Adventure which details the history of Cinerama. I suppose it’s all rather quaint compared to the typical IMAX movie, but there a certain earnest artistry to the Cinerama films that’s lacking now. Again, not the first time I’ve said something similar to that.

Fun Cinerama fact: The Soviet Union was so taken aback by the success of Cinerama and it’s potential as a propaganda tool, especially when the State Department talked about building a Cinerama theater in a retired aircraft carrier and going on tour with it. So naturally, they had to build one for themselves.

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