Talking About Stuff #146
I scored an awesome deal on the Deadwood DVD box sets
The crappy way that HBO cancelled Deadwood
What has Ian McShane been up to?
-Voice of bad guy in Kung Fu Panda
-New Death Race movie
New Death Race could be very cool
Madonna is pitching a remake of Casablanca
The original Casablanca was lightning in a bottle
A discussion of Film Remakes in general
The shot-by-shot remake of Psycho
The films of Gus Van Sant
Good Will Hunting
Elephant
Gerry
Nike’s new serialized Soccer Commercial
(If you’re looking at this link, WATCH IT!)
I got some “Nike Free” sneakers
Mike’s “brownies won’t let you cobble” joke referrs to this: Shallow Thought #55 – Cobbling
Theories of shoe design
Feedback from Nobilis on economics of taking the bus
Talking About Stuff #145
Christiana is done traveling!
Adjusting to a new office environment
A reminder to listen to Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts (Or listen to the Shallow Thoughts Only feed)
Rule of Thumb: Do not act on your 2:30AM ideas without daylight consideration
Devaluing hell
Christiana loves Wall-E
Talking About Stuff #138 in which we discussed Ratatouille
Dancing in the movies:
–Napoleon Dynamite
–Bend it Like Beckham
–A Knight’s Tale
Hey, Want to Watch a Movie? Commentary for “A Knight’s Tale”
–Pulp Fiction
–Spiderman 3
–The Full Monty
–Billy Elliot
–Footloose
Dancing by myself
The World Ends With You (The DS Game)(The Soundtrack on iTunes)
A call for feedback… What are your favorite movie dance scenes?
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More movie dance scenes
–Shaun of the Dead
–The Addams Family
–The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Video of me doing the Haruhi dance
Talking About Stuff #144
A host of miscellany…
Brief thoughts on Speed Racer
Mike is re-reading “The Beach”
The book and movie of “The Ruins”
Different kinds of learning: Auditory vs. visual, etc.
Save the planet, listen to podcasts
Some discussion of my fiction plans
I put the pressure on Mike
More about “The Beach” – Videogames as a metaphor for life and death
Mike has decided to irrationally hate the Wii
Waving your arms around Versus wrist flicks
Rum and Coke and Wii
Talking About Stuff #143
This time, Christiana and Mike talk about…
The Scifi channel and how it hates scifi
The appeal(?) of Ghost Hunters
“Deal or No Deal” = Otterpops
Then, a serious(!) discussion about the future of television and advertising.
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Talking About Stuff #142
Christiana and Mike discuss Mike’s long overdue discovery of the awsomnimity that is Firefly. (Contains a teensy bit of bad language)
