Quick ILXor.com update — just in case anyone’s been wondering (I’ve received a slew of e-mails asking!), Andrew G., who oversees the machine in Melbourne, Australia, is aware of the machine shutdown but won’t be able to invest[…]

FEMALE TROUBLE
dir. John Waters
The last few days I’ve been on a bit of a John Waters kick, one of those happy phases with just about anything where you want to step back and take the plunge through someone’s work again when it’s so[…]

LOSERS
by Michael Lewis
Lewis is one of those guys who has inadvertantly become — I would never call him a favorite author per se of mine, in that I rarely read him or think about him. Instead I just keep stumbling across him, often by chance […]

Who is Alexander Kowalski? — well, actually I don’t need to ask that because first I found this Discogs.com bit and that led me to his homepage and now I have the basics. But I only just heard him today, specifically the Progress and Res[…]

“Incredible, Mr. Incredible” — Pixar’s latest is a smash American hit and very good fun and etc., so no surprise there. This is the first Pixar film I’ve been sufficiently interested in to go see in the theater on first[…]

Ol’ Dirty Bastard and John Balance, RIP
Not that much connects them in an immediate sense. Seemingly the only reason to think of them both off-hand would simply appear to be the accidental timing of their deaths on Saturday. ODB = famous, sco[…]

“I HAVE KILLED” — Part 2 of 2
(Continued from The Brown Wedge)
Currently, a slew of my fellow citizens are fighting a whole bunch of folks in a far away city that, by all accounts, is little more than a bloody mess now. I can&#8217[…]

“I HAVE KILLED” — Part 1 of 2

A NERVOUS SPLENDOR
by Frederic Morton
My love for history being well-documented, no surprise that this would have caught my attention. By chance at that, but that’s why working at a library is g[…]

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Dir. Jonathan Demme
I actually feel somewhat reticent about posting this because I have a slight hunch this is appearing in the FT Top 50 list (or else it already has and I’ve missed it), and it seems sorta gauche for m[…]

When ‘Mexican’ means atmosphere more than food — the thing about the seventy-year-old-plus El Coyote Cafe in Los Angeles is not that the food’s great. It isn’t. Not necessarily HORRIBLE, mind you, but you are not going t[…]