Comments on: Films from my trip to San Francisco http://pers.picacio.us/jem/2006/06/22/films-from-my-trip-to-san-francisco/ A site for insights Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:26:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Spango Dips » Blog Archive » Actually Using This Thing http://pers.picacio.us/jem/2006/06/22/films-from-my-trip-to-san-francisco/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Spango Dips » Blog Archive » Actually Using This Thing Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:47:37 +0000 http://pers.picacio.us/jem/2006/06/22/films-from-my-trip-to-san-francisco/#comment-16 [...] • I’m at a point where teaching drum lessons full time is profitable enough that I no longer need to supplement my income with the emasculating nightmare-generator that is a minimum-wage job. Yahoo. • Things being as they gloriously are, I’m quitting Movie Madness in two weeks. • I will be celebrating this emancipation with a trip to LA, to commence virtually the moment I clock out of my last shift. I’ll be there from August 31 to September 12. • I’m writing a lot of songs. At Dusk is on a brief vacation, what with Cary in MontefreakingNegro and all, and I’m meanwhile getting a good stack of acoustic tunes together on my own, and also rekindling the 2delicious fires with my friend and engineer extraordinaire Chris Anderson. 2delicious, for those of you not in the know, is a hip-hop/dance fusion project that Chris and got moving on about a year ago, and then had to abandon entirely in order to focus on energies on You Can Know Danger, and Chris’s other major time-abyss of 2005/06/04, the Strength album (which, for my money, is the best album of 2006 so far, and by dint of greatness has retroactively nullified all of the grief that I gave those guys about their perfectionism during the Hundred Years Recording Process that it seemed to require). I like making music, on a computer, that is purpose-engineered to move butts, at the very least because it’s such a far cry from how I normally operate in terms of priorities. • A little off-topic, but: Chris and I refer to 2delicious as 2del, just for private shorthand, and… well, check out what www.2del.com currently is. I guess we won’t be able to register that domain after all. • I’ve seen many movies recently. I’m back up to an average that approaches the voluminous input I was enjoying back in the Video West days. I think I might follow Jem’s lead and do a capsule review post soon, but I’m comfortable revealing now that the best of them was, uh… either The Wicker Man (which was totally captivating though I only really watched it in the first place because I’m going to need to substantiate all the animadversion I’ll be directing at the remake even though I probably won’t see it), or The Wages of Fear. • I am still reading a very, very long book. [...] [...] • I’m at a point where teaching drum lessons full time is profitable enough that I no longer need to supplement my income with the emasculating nightmare-generator that is a minimum-wage job. Yahoo. • Things being as they gloriously are, I’m quitting Movie Madness in two weeks. • I will be celebrating this emancipation with a trip to LA, to commence virtually the moment I clock out of my last shift. I’ll be there from August 31 to September 12. • I’m writing a lot of songs. At Dusk is on a brief vacation, what with Cary in MontefreakingNegro and all, and I’m meanwhile getting a good stack of acoustic tunes together on my own, and also rekindling the 2delicious fires with my friend and engineer extraordinaire Chris Anderson. 2delicious, for those of you not in the know, is a hip-hop/dance fusion project that Chris and got moving on about a year ago, and then had to abandon entirely in order to focus on energies on You Can Know Danger, and Chris’s other major time-abyss of 2005/06/04, the Strength album (which, for my money, is the best album of 2006 so far, and by dint of greatness has retroactively nullified all of the grief that I gave those guys about their perfectionism during the Hundred Years Recording Process that it seemed to require). I like making music, on a computer, that is purpose-engineered to move butts, at the very least because it’s such a far cry from how I normally operate in terms of priorities. • A little off-topic, but: Chris and I refer to 2delicious as 2del, just for private shorthand, and… well, check out what http://www.2del.com currently is. I guess we won’t be able to register that domain after all. • I’ve seen many movies recently. I’m back up to an average that approaches the voluminous input I was enjoying back in the Video West days. I think I might follow Jem’s lead and do a capsule review post soon, but I’m comfortable revealing now that the best of them was, uh… either The Wicker Man (which was totally captivating though I only really watched it in the first place because I’m going to need to substantiate all the animadversion I’ll be directing at the remake even though I probably won’t see it), or The Wages of Fear. • I am still reading a very, very long book. [...]

]]> By: Jem http://pers.picacio.us/jem/2006/06/22/films-from-my-trip-to-san-francisco/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Jem Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:56:34 +0000 http://pers.picacio.us/jem/2006/06/22/films-from-my-trip-to-san-francisco/#comment-8 3 - Will, you're right on both grammatical points! I thought the abjure() function in English worked like abstain(), but instead it works like renounce(). I grade with letters because that normalizes my random cultural thoughts to my serious professional life as a teacher... Thanks for the compliments and I look forward to welcoming your aboard in your own venue! 3 – Will, you’re right on both grammatical points! I thought the abjure() function in English worked like abstain(), but instead it works like renounce(). I grade with letters because that normalizes my random cultural thoughts to my serious professional life as a teacher… Thanks for the compliments and I look forward to welcoming your aboard in your own venue!

]]> By: Will http://pers.picacio.us/jem/2006/06/22/films-from-my-trip-to-san-francisco/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Will Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:58:05 +0000 http://pers.picacio.us/jem/2006/06/22/films-from-my-trip-to-san-francisco/#comment-7 God bless you, Jem, for publishing your capsule movie reviews on here, for now I won't feel quite so much like El Dorko Supreme when I do likewise. I'm glad to know I'm not the only amateur critic who actually puts his thoughts into writing (I've been penning capsule reviews since ninth grade; don't tell any girls; just kidding; no I'm not). Though I've always preferred the classic "star" rating system à la Roger Ebert to the EW letter grades. Also, I'm not typically inclined (well, not anymore) to correct people's spelling and grammar, but I know YOU'VE delighted in said practice from time to time, so I feel justified doing it here: to the best of my knowledge, propAgandistic is the spelling you're looking for (caps for effect), and abjure is a transitive verb (i.e. you ought to remove the preposition "from" that follows in the interest of syntax). Please note: this is pure deep-seated boiling anal-retentiveness at work here and not even remotely a criticism of your writing, which I continue to enjoy fervently. I look forward to my imminent initiation into the pers.piciacio.us fam-o. God bless you, Jem, for publishing your capsule movie reviews on here, for now I won’t feel quite so much like El Dorko Supreme when I do likewise. I’m glad to know I’m not the only amateur critic who actually puts his thoughts into writing (I’ve been penning capsule reviews since ninth grade; don’t tell any girls; just kidding; no I’m not). Though I’ve always preferred the classic “star” rating system à la Roger Ebert to the EW letter grades.

Also, I’m not typically inclined (well, not anymore) to correct people’s spelling and grammar, but I know YOU’VE delighted in said practice from time to time, so I feel justified doing it here: to the best of my knowledge, propAgandistic is the spelling you’re looking for (caps for effect), and abjure is a transitive verb (i.e. you ought to remove the preposition “from” that follows in the interest of syntax). Please note: this is pure deep-seated boiling anal-retentiveness at work here and not even remotely a criticism of your writing, which I continue to enjoy fervently.

I look forward to my imminent initiation into the pers.piciacio.us fam-o.

]]> By: Jem http://pers.picacio.us/jem/2006/06/22/films-from-my-trip-to-san-francisco/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Jem Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:29:35 +0000 http://pers.picacio.us/jem/2006/06/22/films-from-my-trip-to-san-francisco/#comment-6 1 - Ah, intellectual propriety! I assume your share of our conversation the other day at Merkie\'s house was <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/license/\" rel=\"nofollow\" rel="nofollow">Creative Commons</a> Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5... I have made the attribution correction above - my apologies! (I\'d hate to be a test case on damages on an implied CC Attribution license.) 1 – Ah, intellectual propriety! I assume your share of our conversation the other day at Merkie\’s house was Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5… I have made the attribution correction above – my apologies! (I\’d hate to be a test case on damages on an implied CC Attribution license.)

]]> By: Greg http://pers.picacio.us/jem/2006/06/22/films-from-my-trip-to-san-francisco/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Greg Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:14:39 +0000 http://pers.picacio.us/jem/2006/06/22/films-from-my-trip-to-san-francisco/#comment-5 I hate to play the credit hound, but I think it might have been my two cents that got you to Vegemite Western. . . I hate to play the credit hound, but I think it might have been my two cents that got you to Vegemite Western. . .

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