This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on June 24, 2009). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.
Sometime between June 12th and June 24th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!
- Michael Bay Finally Made an Art Movie: "Transformers: ROTF has mostly gotten pretty hideous reviews, but that's because people don't understand that this isn't a movie, in the conventional sense. It's an assault on the senses, a barrage of crazy imagery. Imagine that you went back in time to the late 1960s and found Terry Gilliam, fresh from doing his weird low-fi collage/animations for Monty Python. You proceeded to inject Gilliam with so many steroids his penis shrank to the size of a hair follicle, and you smushed a dozen tabs of LSD under his tongue. And then you gave him the GDP of a few sub-Saharan countries. Gilliam might have made a movie not unlike this one."
- Roger Ebert on the new Transformers film: "'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination."
- Dear Pixar, From All the Girls With Band-Aids on Their Knees: "I have nothing against princesses. I have nothing against movies with princesses. But don't the Disney princesses pretty much have us covered? If we had to wait for your thirteenth movie for you to make one with a girl at the center, couldn't you have chosen something — something — for her to be that could compete with plucky robots and adventurous space toys? Or more to the point, why couldn't your first female central character be as specifically drawn as the women and girls (and girl robots, etc.) you're already writing as secondary characters?"
- 16volt Release Entire (7 Album) Back Catalog for Free: "16volt is releasing their entire back catalog for free. You simply go to their site at www.16volt.com/downloads and grab all you want. People who think a donation is the correct way to go can donate money which the band will use for touring expenses. The reasoning behind this release is explained by the band's founder and front man, Eric Powell: 'We have decided to give our whole back catalog away for free. We wanted to open up the opportunity for anyone and everyone to hear the band. We have heard so many times for whatever reason, oh yeah we have heard of you, but we never heard you. Well now there is no reason. There is no barrier to entry.'"
- Mixxx | Free Digital DJ Software: "Free, open source DJ software for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux / MIDI controller support / Superior mixing engine with recording, vinyl control, and more / Written for DJs, by DJs" And, unfortunately, as many things are these days, Intel-only, so doesn't do me any good.