It’s late, so this is gonna be quick, but I wanted to say two things. The first is about the previously-viewed Bowling For Columbine DVD I bought two days ago from Blockbuster: tonight I watched both sides of it, and the scuffs I feared would cause a playback problem, didn’t.
The second thing is about the Bowling for Columbine DVD. If you watched this movie in theatres like I did, and haven’t seen the DVD yet, go rent it. The special features are great. Michael Moore returns to Denver/Littleton six months after the release of Bowling, and gave a great speech to a packed house of 6000 about the film, and the intent he had with it. And although the Academy wouldn’t give him the rights to show the footage from the 2002 Oscars, he describes the whole experience to DVD viewers in wonderful detail. In response to the criticism for his non-traditional (some say “inappropriate”) Oscar acceptance speech — where he publicly criticizes president George W. Bush — Michael Moore explains why he thinks his speech was entirely appropriate.
Oh, and there’s a bonus thing, and it’s something I haven’t fully explored yet: you know how DVDs usually have an audio commentary track you can lay over the film while it’s playing? And how those commentaries are typically done by the director, or an actor, or a costume designer, or someone like that? Well, on the DVD for Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore gets the folks on the lowest rungs of the ladder in the film production — the interns, the secretaries, the box-movers — to do the narration. I’ve only listened to about 20 minutes of it so far, but I’m really looking forward hearing the rest. I think a big reason I find the commentary so interesting is because these are people around my age, and — although this may be oversimplifying things — I think most people in my age group feel a degree of apathy about their ability to effect change. I know I’ve been there before. So I’m curious to see if there are hints of that in there. Are you twenty-something? Are you apathetic about politics? Is it just me? What causes violence in America?
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Happy Thursday
I’m alive, not to worry! Though I have doubts that Hallowe’en gallery will get posted tonight. Ultimate tonight is versus my team’s arch-rivals, “Dos Manos” (who we beat last year to take the league championship).
Went to the video store last night. I’m kinda disappointed; it doesn’t look like it’ll be possible to catch up on the first three seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer through rentals. Ah well…. I’ll probably end up buying the box sets anyway. 🙂
Also last night, I picked up previously-viewed copies of Bowling for Columbine and Chicago. $20! Hopefully they’re in good condition. I’ve only got 10 days to find out (Blockbuster’s return policy), so I’ll probably be watching them both again soon.
Now, Cam and I off to kick some frisbee butt (hopefully). Wish me luck! -
Site Update
So, after a year and a half, I’ve finally put a form of navigation on my blog! See over on the right-hand column, the section labelled “Navigation”?
Well, in there are three fancy-schpants links:Home takes you back to my main page, http://davin.ws/krishenblog (probably what you’re looking at now); Pictures takes you to my photo gallery, graciously hosted by Davin as a sub-album of his main gallery (hence the “Davin” banner across the top). I assure you though, all the photos there are mine. 🙂 And finally, Contact points you to a page with all sorts of ways to get a hold of me. Hopefully this will help some of you out there.
In other news: I got a new machine at work today, wewt!! Swapped my dual G4-800 for a dual G4-1GHz! I’ve only had a few minutes to play around on it, but it already feels much faster: there is no delay when minimizing large windows into the Dock with the Genie effect (unlike on my previous machine). Nice!
Anyhow, I’ve got a few pics from Hallowe’en night I’ve got to post yet; look for a new gallery in the next day or two 🙂
