The look the site has been sporting the past few weeks was never intended to be permanent, so I figured I’d best be demonstrating that fact by shaking things up. So I’m in the process of looking for a theme that I like, that works with the various site elements (like the movie reviews side…
Author: Eric, your haikuist
David Lynch’s Goofy Movie
Apparently, there’s a whole subculture of amateur editors making David Lynch mashup parodies, but this is the only one I’ve seen that really captures what makes Lynch so damn creepy and effective (hint: it’s not backwards-talking weirdos and 1950s music).
trees like pink popcorn
trees like pink popcorn, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. East 23rd Avenue at dusk, in cherry blossom season.
summer films
I’m not usually a huge summer movie fan, but last year two of my favourite three movies were big-budget studio summer fare (Dark Knight and WALL-E for those keeping track at home, with My Winnipeg filling out the trifecta). So as the hype machine rolls into gear, I figured I’d better get psyched up for…
Crank: High Voltage (2009)
How’s this for a premise? Jason Statham falls about a mile from a helicopter and is literally shovelled off the asphalt by Chinese organ thieves who steal his heart for their 100-year-old boss (David Carradine). He wakes up to find he’s been fitted with an artificial heart, and proceeds to tear apart the Los Angeles…