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Month: November 2013

  • Return of the Codex

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    A heads-up that over the past couple of weeks, following a hiatus of quite a few months, I’ve released three new episodes of my Codex podcast — 65, 66, and 67. I also created mixes for last month’s PechaKucha Night at Tokyo Designer’s Week and this month’s PechaKucha Night Vol. 108 — music to play…

  • Steve Jackson’s Sorcery!

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    A sequel to this game recently came out, which reminded me that I had bought the first one, but hadn’t really gotten around to playing it much. I have now done just that, and wow, this game is really well done. Yes, it’s based on the old choose-your-own-adventure books, but the presentation and interactive elements…

  • Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia

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    I’m a huge fan of the books – grew up reading them – and I did like the second film they did  (Asterix and Obelix Meet Cleopatra), but I just didn’t get into this one. It should be silly fun, but I didn’t find myself laughing at all, and found that the soundtrack was especially…

  • The World’s End

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    As expected, this was so damn fun to watch – and what a killer soundtrack (my early 90s represented). I’d say it only becomes a bit less interesting during the last half hour, when there’s less laughs and too much action – didn’t find much joy in watching extended brawls with the “invaders.” In fact,…

  • Frances Ha

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    What is it with black and white films shot in NYC? As cringe-inducing as the main character can be – I winced my way through the dinner scene – there’s so much to like here. My favorite sequences are the tracking scenes where the camera is following a character walking or running for an extended…

  • The Wolverine

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    I just didn’t like this. I wanted to like it, and thought that the Japan setting would make for an interesting film, but I didn’t like the story, and the action sequences did absolutely nothing for me (except for the fight on top of the Shinkansen). You can tell it was shot here, and most…

  • November Spawned Monster

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    This post has nothing to do with Morrissey. Does my last update date back to the summer? Oh my. You can probably guess that it’s been some busy times, first with the big PechaKucha Global Night we did back in September, and then this past week’s design festivities, which saw us do 3 PechaKucha events…

  • Savages

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    I’d sort of been avoiding this movie because I hadn’t heard great things about it, but found myself in a mood for something like it a couple of weeks ago, and you know what, I had a pretty good time watching it. I’m sure going in with low expectations helped, but I did like how…

  • Silver Linings Playbook

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    Well, everything that has been said about how good a film this is is deserved. Enjoyed the fuck out of this – although, yes, I’ll admit that I’ll watch pretty much anything with Jennifer Lawrence. Definitely not your average romcom – it’s too weird for that, and too interesting.

  • Orange Is the New Black

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    I’d been wanting to watch this since it first came out, and I’ve finally gotten around to it and I’m really loving it – definitely one of my favorite shows this year. I’m about halfway through the season, and it just feels like it keeps getting better and better. Can’t recommend it enough, and I…