Archive for the 'Cinema' Category
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Well maybe not, but the recent updates to my G4 aimed at bringing digital audio out to Loretta combined with my NAD receiver and Paradigm speakers is a big improvement both in volume and clarity, not that I needed the former. I still don’t have a subwoofer for 5.1 surround sound, but more pressing is [...]
Posted in Album Review, Cinema, Macintosh Computers, Music, Vancouver |
and Tagged: Apple, Daniel Lanois, digital audio, Emmylou Harris, iPhone, Lucinda Williams, Simplify Media |
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
I’d like to say it was a joyous celebration of life, OK I will say it was a joyous celebration of life, no one else will. The film is also very very clever, cunning if you will, so cunning you can brush your teeth with it. The film is called “Lady Vengence” and was made [...]
Posted in Cinema, Korea, 健美 |
and Tagged: film, movie |
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
I really do. And I was also quite pleased when I decided to rent the movie of the same name. It is from Thailand, made by a lot of the same team that brought the world Ong-bak and Tom Yum Goong. But rather than staring Tony Jaa the director and the rest of the team [...]
Posted in Cinema, 健美 |
and Tagged: Chocolate, film, martial arts, movie, stunts, Thailand |
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
I’ve been telling stories about musicians and recommending books, albums, and movies to foreign co-workers and cousins. People are starting to listen. So while doing some Googling to send a link I learn of a new book, by one of the guys behind “Have not been the same” has a book coming out about Canadian [...]
Posted in Cinema, Literature, Music |
and Tagged: Hard Core Logo, Have not been the same, Never Mind the Pollacks, Whispering Pines |
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Last weekend while reading the Georgia Straight I came across a movie review and I immediately phoned my friend Dave. Sukiyaki Western: Django is a Western staring Japanese actors speaking English. It is executive produced by Quentin Tarantino who also appears in the film and is directed by modern day shock and goremeister Takeshi Miike. [...]
Posted in Cinema, Depression |
and Tagged: cinema, Japanese, movie, Takeshi Miike |
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