ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

The Washington Times is the conservative paper in DC (not as good as The Washington Post, in my opinion), & they've got a positive review of Humpday today. From the review : "In this way, "Humpday" is less about the blurring boundaries of male friendship than an examination of a classic alpha-male power struggle. It's impossible to believe either man actually wants to have sex with the other. Instead, they appear to be more interested in figuring out how far they can push things in order for the other guy to back down first. Setting this struggle within the world of the liberal artistic community gives it an extra freshness, if not the edgy transgressive quality some critics have assigned the picture: After all, Michael Mann has been examining alphas going toe to toe for years." Times gives it 2 & 1/2 stars, not sure what that means in their context (do they go up to 3 or 4 stars?), but the review is positive, I'd say. Check it out here . - Su

Made it to the 5th season of Stargate SG-1 (there are 10 seasons, catching up on them now on NetFlix), this season looks solid so far. Here is an intro to/ad for an episode that I have not seen yet, from Season 5, where the "real" Stargate people learn that there is a TV show about them called Wormhole X-Treme:

I'll definitely have to go see G.I. Joe even though it may suck 'cause I used to collect G.I. Joes. Humpday, not so sure, but the clips look funny, & the interview with Mr. Duplas is entertaining - check it out:

new blog featuring photos of new york city taken on an iphone, check it out ! several new photos should be added to the blog every week. * photo "parking garage near penn station" copyright 2009 sujewa ekanayake

Watch out, I have a still camera again (have been without one for more than a month now, but the iPhone I got yesterday comes with one, takes pretty decent pics for a camera phone) so, no doubt a lot of new photos from NYC & elsewhere will be showing up at this blog again. This photo was taken around 5 PM, I think this was one of the first things I did with the phone after getting it from the Apple store on Prince St (photo was taken at a restaurant a couple of blocks away from the Apple store).

While picking up an iPhone today (needed it for work :) thought for a few seconds about buying the 3GS model (shoots video) but skipped it since I have a video camera, but, these folks in the video below have 3Gs's & are using them to shoot a music video, pretty neat, check it out (also look around YouTube for the finished product, nice looking video):

Too hot in your place to focus on your DIY movie making projects? Then take a break, go to Lifehacker , & figure out how to make your own portable air conditioner . Good luck.