Beastie Boys new concert film at Sundance: Awesome! I fuckin' shot that!:
But as the Beastie Boys set out to commemorate a concert at Madison Square Garden, the hip-hop group had a different idea. Why not smash the model?I saw the Beasties once at the Garden and I can safely say that no camera would have survived on the floor during Paul Revere. Maybe they didn't play that song this time.
They decided to lend hand-held video cameras to 50 fans, told them to shoot at will, and then presented the end result in movie theaters in all its primitive, kaleidoscopic glory.
The result of this brainstorm is "Awesome ... ," which will be shown Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, before being released by ThinkFilm in late March. The movie is more than a new twist on an old form. "Awesome" - its full title praising the fans' involvement in the final film cannot be printed in this newspaper - plugs into some of the currents surging through the media and entertainment worlds.
linklater directs A Scanner Darkly. quite a rogues gallery of stars including: robert downey, woody harrelson and winona ryder along with keanu reeves.
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imdb is blogging sundance which opens today.
dogs can detect cancer on peoples breath.
sf chronicles podcast interview with stephen colbert
i always feel like somebodys watching me.
vincent price fright night on tcm
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My new breakfast of champions: egg, speck, and cheese piada from Piada, 3 Clinton Street. $4.06. Yum.
anybody want to give this meme a go? im working on mine.
You have to explain America to someone from not here, but you can only use ten movies to do it. Which ten do you choose?
(Now, these do not have to be history movies, they can illustrate something unique about American values or character or “the American experience”.)
Not sure if it's art, but it makes for a pretty cool paint job: Notes on the Denial of Perspective 02 - Felice Varini.
new flip this house on a and e now
"The first push to delve into the mystery of beer flavor occurred in the mid-1970s, when a team of flavor chemists from 40 countries identified 800 chemical compounds in the beverage. These compounds—some individually, most in combination—contribute nearly 125 distinct flavors to beer. Brewers use the word flavor broadly, to include tastes, odors, and mouthfeel."
beer pairing with food.
burger blogging
some people were unfamiliar with beer pong. now youre too familiar.
tasting menu: focused on food
ratebeers best
92y blog
frappr - group mapping utility
portland Or brewpub scene
nobu 57
the magnificent seven on thirteen now
Until now, it had been widely assumed by geneticists that the Ashkenazi communities of Northern and Central Europe were founded by men who came from the Middle East, perhaps as traders, and by the women from each local population whom they took as wives and converted to Judaism.
But the new study, published online this week in The American Journal of Human Genetics, suggests that the men and their wives migrated to Europe together.
schrager on bond st.
