[youtube]XjnxiEvKEIo[/youtube] At times, blogging feels exactly like the marathon dancing competition in Sidney Pollack’s 1969 They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? It’s cruel, unnatural, never-ending, and of questionable worth. Some are driven mad by it, somewhere behind the scenes an uncaring MC is counting his money, and the pregnant woman and the aging sailor never [...]
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Seetha’s Dance
In 1921, hot off Die Spinnen, Fritz Lang was set to direct an adaptation of Thea von Harbou’s novel The Indian Tomb. But producer Joe May was convinced the two-part melodrama would be huge, so he decided to direct it himself. Almost forty years later, when he had a hard time finding work in Hollywood, [...]
Project Logic
It wasn’t easy getting out of the house after 11 on a freezing December night, but the Project Logic late set at Blue Note was worth the effort. DJ Logic had a bunch of swingin’ cats sit in who gave the groove a distinctly New Orleanean flavor. The beats chugged on till 3:30am, and [...]