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Archive for July, 2004

I’ll be a meta-movie critic

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

I’ve decided that rather than write reviews of movies myself, I’ll just post links to good reviews (which will probably be from FlakMag). Occasionally I may supplement these with my own comments, but in general I find that they do a much better job of saying exactly what needs to be said than I could […]

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Film Review: Anchorman

Monday, July 26th, 2004

Title: Anchorman
Grade: B
Times Viewed: 1
Date Reviewed: 07/26/04
Read Flakmag’s excellent comments here. Some minor spoilers in this review (as most reviews have). Steve Carell is awesome in this movie.

Tags: anchorman, b+ films

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In other news

Friday, July 23rd, 2004

I’m going to Yosemite in an hour, to do the half dome hike tomorrow. Should be good times. Pic of top.
More quick music recommendations:
The Avalanches
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Beulah
Bent
Ester Drang
Everything But The Girl
Hotel Costes Series
The Flaming Lips
Fourtet
Hooverphonic
James - Laid
Jedi Mind Tricks

Tags: yosemite

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How do they do it everytime?

Friday, July 23rd, 2004

Yet again, FlakMag has an amazing review of Anchorman (and a lot of praise for Ferrell). Read it here.

Tags: anchorman, flakmag, will ferrell

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Attack of the S’s

Friday, July 16th, 2004

I have listened to a lot of new (for me) music in the past few days, and there seem to be a lot of really good bands starting with ‘S’. A list, in no particular order, of some of these notable bands:
The Streets
The Shins
The Strokes
The Stills
Stereolab
Secret Machines
Among new non-S bands, I’d like to highlight the […]

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Film Review: Three Kings

Saturday, July 10th, 2004

Title: Three Kings
Grade: A
Times Viewed: 4
Date Reviewed: 07/10/04
Read Flakmag’s excellent comments on this amazing movie here.

Tags: a+ films, three kings

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Are we shooting, or what?

Saturday, July 10th, 2004

I was just watching Three Kings on tv today and I realized what an amazing movie it is. I must say that this is, without a doubt, the most relevant war movie of our time. But I found an article that explains it much better than I could ever hope to do:
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By the way, that […]

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Bullshit tax argument

Friday, July 9th, 2004

I’m sick and tired of idiotic arguments like this one about how “the top 1 percent [wealthiest people] pay about 30 percent [of the taxes].” Let’s look at this argument:
According to the same article, the cutoff for the top 1% is $208,000. So assuming very conservatively that the average taxable income is around $500,000, and […]

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Santa Clara, Part 2

Tuesday, July 6th, 2004

I figure it’s about time for an update on my summer.
It still rocks, and since my internship is only until July 31st, I’m already starting to feel like it’s almost over. In fact, work is so awesome, that I’ve generally been coming in around 11 a.m. and staying until 1:30 a.m.!
There’s a group of about […]

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