Entries from January 2005
House of Flying Daggers
Like Shakespeare in a bamboo forest
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Increase mountain positive, Ken under village
All watched over by Elvii of loving grace
The best wedding present ever
Getting with the program
Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Delicious
The Aviator
the story of a brilliant but broken man
Shuffling along
Apple’s release of the iPod Shuffle created a lot of buzz, as would just about anything new from Apple. And it is interesting that Apple would take the interface they developed for the bigger iPods–which is one of the aspects of the iPod that really sets it apart–and rather than try to shrink it down [...]
Movies movies movies
Ocean’s Twelve, Life Aquatic, Last Days of the San Jose.
Squeaker
The weight of responsibility for such as small creature is heavy.
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Saw Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Very good. The production design showed meticulous, fantastic visual imagination (as did the closing credits, which are worth sitting through)–I noticed an Escher lizard tesselation in the floor of the herpetophiliac Uncle Monty’s place, and the movie was chock full of this sort of thing. Jim Carrey [...]
