Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Monday, January 14, 2008
Watch It Now
If you are not a Netflix subscriber, you can rent these great movies and watch them later. If you are a subscriber, you can bypass all that and totally WATCH THEM NOW.
Ok, not right now, this second, but maybe later, after work. Look, you can pick up these great TV-watching glasses and you don't even need to lift your head. Amazing.
In no particular order, goodies from a recent watchitnow binge:
1. Street Fight
2. Primer
3. Gideon's Daughter
(Apparantly you can watchitnow on youtube if you have the patience.)
4. Broadway: The American Musical
5. Conversations with Other Women
6. Palindromes
You can also watchitnow some not very good documentaries, including 80 wasted minutes about Helvetica the font, and Netflix will kick you off after 24 hours or so with a gentle reminder that your minutes are up, your life is passing you by, and you should really take a shower because you are starting to smell.
Ok, not right now, this second, but maybe later, after work. Look, you can pick up these great TV-watching glasses and you don't even need to lift your head. Amazing.
In no particular order, goodies from a recent watchitnow binge:
1. Street Fight
2. Primer
3. Gideon's Daughter
(Apparantly you can watchitnow on youtube if you have the patience.)
4. Broadway: The American Musical
5. Conversations with Other Women
6. Palindromes
You can also watchitnow some not very good documentaries, including 80 wasted minutes about Helvetica the font, and Netflix will kick you off after 24 hours or so with a gentle reminder that your minutes are up, your life is passing you by, and you should really take a shower because you are starting to smell.
We Say Hello in the Night
My recent road trips have been soundtracked by a variety of talk shows, interviews, concerts & albums loaded onto the pod and broadcast to my car radio. I have found one radio station that picks up a good signal consistently from Houston to Dallas. If you don't know what it is, I'm not going to tell you.
Occasionally, I will pass a car and the signal goes momentarily to static. My theory is that other people are playing pirate radio in their cars with the same station, and for a moment our radios pick up both signals and cannot comprehend. In a ten mile stretch, it is not unusual to pass, be passed by, pass again the same car--each time the same interruption cementing my hypothesis.
In these moments there is a joyous recognition, like when you pass someone driving the same type of car as you--make, model, color--or displaying the same bumper sticker of a band you both like. I am always tempted to wave or honk: I Validate You! You are doing terrific! Keep it up!
It's a nice moment, but the truth is that our radio broadcast is a bubble that once popped, makes Ira Glass go wonky, or the Magnetic Fields sound even more distorted than intended. This cannot be a sustained conversation. You are fantastic, but please just pass me and go on your way.
Occasionally, I will pass a car and the signal goes momentarily to static. My theory is that other people are playing pirate radio in their cars with the same station, and for a moment our radios pick up both signals and cannot comprehend. In a ten mile stretch, it is not unusual to pass, be passed by, pass again the same car--each time the same interruption cementing my hypothesis.
In these moments there is a joyous recognition, like when you pass someone driving the same type of car as you--make, model, color--or displaying the same bumper sticker of a band you both like. I am always tempted to wave or honk: I Validate You! You are doing terrific! Keep it up!
It's a nice moment, but the truth is that our radio broadcast is a bubble that once popped, makes Ira Glass go wonky, or the Magnetic Fields sound even more distorted than intended. This cannot be a sustained conversation. You are fantastic, but please just pass me and go on your way.
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