things change
June 1st, 2003. Live365 is gone. Going to look into cheaper streaming audio alternatives. The state of the flooz is pretty good. June begins the summer madness expansion. What will occur in June? Lots. Everything from more work, and its coming to new projects, people, places you name it. Kinda makes me want to go to Vegas. I miss Vegas. Course its 110 degrees there, maybe i should wait till October or something.
Videos
Hmmm what have I been watching lately? Ok lets see, I finally saw Auto Focus, the story of Bob Crane, Mr. Hogan from Hogan's Heroes. Good flick, probably not for everyone but still a good movie. I love the set design, character, ya know anything retro catches me pretty easily. Its also a movie for Mike. I mean heck the main character keeps a photo-album of breasts, thats Mike material for sure. Great acting from Greg Kinnear, and Willem Dafoe is down right scary. I cant help but see him as the green goblin though everytime i see him on camera. --- Audiences interested in mental disease and addiction, and the unrestrained depiction of womanizing and philandering, will find it fascinating.---
I also saw Miniority Report again and ya know, jet packs in movies just dont look right. I dont think anyone has gotten jet packs down correctly since say.. the Rocketeer. First and formost, Jennifer Connelly.. secondly, its just a good concept, it works, the jet pack.. the rocket that is just works better for me. Anything else.. is just.. lame.
She, The Ultimate Weapon. Typical japanese anime name, they always do that.. "Barry, the Thing!" and thats a cool descriptive name. A production from Gonzo studios in Japan. Ok the pirated DVD was cheap. I got the first 5 eps for a few bucks and whats it like? Strange. Its really more of a Brad show, and if yer reading this Brad, theres a great line in the first 10 mins about history... you'll love it! But ya its yer typical man meets girl, girl gets taken for goverment experiment, guy loves girl, girl is ultimate weapon, girl is nervous around guy, guy is nervous around girl, girl destroyes city, guy gets it on with girls friend, feels bad, ultimate weapon forgives him, destroyes another city... typical!
I also saw Hero reccently, and what the hell is going on in that flick?!!? I was so confused. Ok I didnt have subtitles but you should still be able to get a bit of the story ya know, i mean come on.. but that movie was odd. Pretty, but odd. Ok really pretty.. very stunning visually, just no idea what was happening other than some kind of 3 color theme, red guy kills all the yellow people, then red kills the green people that looked just like the yellow people but dress in green, then kills the white people etc.. Pretty but lost me.
Max is back in first season box set of Dark Angel. I picked that up the other day. I was "this" close to getting the first season of Buffy as well. I know, it'd make Bob proud.
Mags
I've also had my share of strange mags come by desk. Magazines are bad for me, I collect them, constantly looking for "new" in something, anything. Ready Made is a neat little quarterly mag focusing on the DIY aspect of living. Make yer own stuff basically. Cool ideas in this issue.. i like the bush couch, and theres always some unique idea on making lamps etc. Kinda leads me to Dwell a mag i picked up on subscription. Back when we did a project for Pepsi i found a copy of Dwell in the war room (a room filled with images, wals covered just to get people to come up with ideas...) i picked up Dwell and could not put it down. Its another modern living mag but filled with cool houses and tech, and people, ikea like living etc. Lots of ideas, very fresh. That mag led me to Metropolis, a design meets architecture meets culture magazine. Of course that all led me to Interior Design, yer basic thick as a brick mag. I always find some of my greatest inspiration from interior design. People creating enviroments, very cool stuff. Course at Lextant we run into product design alot which leads us in to the realm of interior desin on occasion as well. Product design doesnt grab me as much as the whole picture thing i get from interior design.
Up next.. what new in tunes..
Gotta jet, party to go to... enjoy June 1st!