Vox Elkit

Happy Earth Day, everybody!

That's because I mostly blog at Elkit in Wonderland, my main squeeze.

I did just update my "theme". Nice how many there are.

I know, I know, I'm not in Austin. But I am going to attend South by Southwest in March, and I can hardly wait, so this Austin cityscape banner is a baby step towards getting there. See you downtown?

Sneak Peek

Originally uploaded by elkit.

Hey, now I can blog from flickr directly to vox too! Isn't that nice? Thusly, I am double-posting.

Here's a sneak peek at my "Best of 2006" mix. I love that iTunes lets you import artwork easily, and that you can print covers for a playlist with different view options. I used the "mosaic" option for this one, but I cropped out the song list so you don't know yet which songs I've picked. Like last year, I won't post my song list until after we've done the swap.

Since I just mentioned it in my Unconscious Mutterings for the week, and because I like it otherwise, and because I've neglected this blog for a while (not that one though), here is a fresh song of the week:

Marilyn Manson's "Speed of Pain", from "Mechanical Animals"

Lost in Time, and Lost in Space, and In Meaning

Originally uploaded by elkit.

[Mea-hea-ning.]

Friday was my last day at Apple, so I turned in my badge, my VPN token, and my bestickered PowerBook. Uploaded this from the MacBook Pro I got on the new gig, and promptly made a desktop version, so I can still admire my "Republicans for Voldemort" sticker.

[Cross-posted from over here - it was just so great, I've got to note it here too.]

A couple of weeks ago, my friend Jason forbid me to go see "Stranger Than Fiction" without him. He knows I am doing NaNoWriMo, and was willing to wait into December, but I could not hold out that long, the movie sounded just too great - and like the perfect NaNoWriMo movie, actually: a man starts hearing a voice narrating his life, and eventually figures out that he is a character in a novelist's new book. And she is about to kill him.

Sounds absurd, doesn't it? And yet, all the characters were entirely believable. I think this may well have been the best movie I've seen all year. I loved it right from the opening credits, with the overlaid diagrams. The visuals were great - for example, almost all the architecture throughout the film was very angular and straight and sparse and unforgiving. The characters were GREAT, and the plot moved forward relentlessly, and I was anxious to find out how it would be resolved - and the ending of the movie mimicks, of course, the ending of the book.

But what has stuck with me overnight is one scene with one gesture. (I am not surprised. It's usually something smallish that makes the largest impression on me.)

Will Ferrell's character, Harold Crick, makes a gesture so sweet and romantic that I find myself reminded of John Cusack with a boombox over his head. No, I won't tell you what it was, because that would spoil one of the finest moments in the film for you. Let me just say that it took me about four seconds to comprehend. When I got it, I laughed, because I was so delighted by it.

If you like Will Ferrell, go see this movie.
If you like Emma Thompson, go see this movie.
If you like Dustin Hoffman, go see this movie.
If you like Maggie Gyllenhaal, go see this movie.
If you like Queen Latifah, go see this movie.
If you are a writer, go see this movie.
If you are a reader, go see this movie.

Oh, what am I saying - just go see this movie! (And check out the movie's web site - I'm going back there tonight, to replay a couple of scenes, get a podcast, and play a game there.)

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