A Sea of Troubles

July 29, 2007 -- Tags: Awesome, Power-Moves, Recommended-Links, Recommended-TV, Theater-/-Theatre

A lot of great and delicious things have come out of Canada. Here’s another one:

Slings and Arrows is a Canadian hour long comedy/drama about a fictional Shakespeare festival theater near Toronto. The show features Rachel McAdams and Mark McKinney (from Kids in the Hall) and is excellent if you like Shakespeare or [...]

Big Change

July 28, 2007 -- Tags: Recommended-Movies

I went to the new Landmark last night to check out Sunshine.
The Landmark is a massive indy film multiplex built on the ashes of the pretty unpopular western half of the Westside Pavilion mall on Pico. This used to be an outdoor structure with a thriving Barnes and Noble; beyond that the [...]

Bloodless

July 27, 2007 -- Tags: Impending-Doom, Recommended-Books

I gave blood the other day because 1) The Blood & Platelet center kept emailing me to give because they’re low on O+, and 2) I needed to lose weight FAST! I’m ready for the beach!
My new favorite blog: Fake Steve. Namaste, people. My favorite posts so far: Amish [...]

Album Covers

July 26, 2007 -- Tags: Awesome

So a great thing that the iPhone does is display album covers of the song you’re listening to on its screen. The screen is large, colorful and has a high DPI so the image comes out crisp and neat.
I was a kid during the CD revolution — during that time album covers shrank [...]

Giant Heads

July 24, 2007 -- Tags: Huge

The local Bruin and Fox theaters got a huge inflatable makeover in time for the Simpsons Movie:

Duelin’ Giant Homer Head and Giant Marge Head!

Attack Ships Burning Off the Shoulder of Orion

July 22, 2007 -- Tags: Recommended-Books

Currently reading:

And also finally:

The Murakami book is no surprise, but certain people have been telling me to read The Princess Bride for years now. We all loved the movie (with Andre the Giant!!!) and I am loving this book. The conversational style is like having Peter Falk tell you a story while [...]