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iam(still)kevin. » Blog Archive » waiting.

waiting.

i’m at work right now, waiting for… a thing… to finish synchronizing so i can take it home and play around with it some more.

work’s been pretty busy so i haven’t been doing much, although now that i think about it, i’ve done more in the last couple weeks than i had been doing before. I guess it’s cause i got to thinking how i wans’t doing anything and i should really get off my ass so i don’t feel like i just go to work and come home and sleep and repeat.

I watched This Film Is Not Yet Rated a week ago with the Jim. It’s a documentary, basically about how the MPAA ratings system sucks. The MPAA ratings board is made up of 8 “typical parents” but it is a secret board whose members are not made public. They technically do not censor movies, however they make it so that movies that don’t censor themselves can often not be profitable, as a movie that receives an NC-17 rating will a) get no money for marketing from major studios, b) not get shown in regular theaters, and c) not get sold in retail stores like walmart or target.
They interviewed a number of filmmakers who had released movies that originally got NC-17 ratings and had to fight to edit them so that they would be able to be released at large. Matt Stone (of south park fame) talked about the differences between being an independant film maker (when he released Orgazmo) and a big-bucks movie maker (for South Park: The Movie & Team America). When he and Trey Parker got an NC-17 rating for Orgazmo, they were told that there was no way to tell them what to change, since that would be censorship, but when South Park got its rating, they were specifically told what could be removed to make it more likely that an R rating would be given.
The film was pretty entertaining even as a documentary, and it shows how the MPAA ratings affect movie makers and how we’d be better off without them.

Last Tuesday i watched The Science of Sleep, Michel Gondry’s newest movie. Michel Gondry is one of my favorite directors, he also did Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and a bunch of amazing music videos like Foo Fighters’ - Everlong, a bunch of White Stripes videos, bjork, and i don’t remember who else, but they’re typically all very creative and dreamlike and just awesome. The Science of Sleep is about a guy (Gael Garcia Bernal) who can’t distinguish between dreams and reality, and it’s quite good, although very strange too. It feels very much like a Gondry film with very “childlike” special effects and stop motion animation mixed with regular filming, and a very innocent feel to it. It’s rather confusing at times, since you don’t know whether what is happening is a dream or not, but by the end you know what happened, even if you don’t know how you got to that point.

Last Saturday i went to see Scorpiknox play at the Crocodile Cafe, down the street from my condo. It was a really good show. Excluding the opening band who we all thought were pretty bad, the other 3 bands were great. I saw Scorpiknox at their first show when i went to see the Hell’s Belles, and Jim and his roommate are friends with Devon, the guitarist, who i’ve hung out with a few times too. This was their 4th show and they did a great job, with a lot of positive response from the crowd. After them were La Plebe, a ska-rock band from SF who were cool too, and the headliners were Kultur Shock a “Balkan punk rock gypsy metal wedding-meets-riot music from Bulgaria, the US, Japan, and Bosnia.” They’re hard to describe, essentially Balkan folk music but “rocked up” as one guy put it, and they are excellent. Check out their stuff on the ubiquitous myspace, although they are better in concert.

On Wed. i went to see Muse at the Paramount, and that was a lot of fun. The Like opened for them, who are a cute all-girl band playing some pretty decent rock music, and nobody knew who they were. they’re probably worth checking out again, i think they just released an album. Muse was awesome, i really like their music which is kinda radiohead + rocking guitars, kinda operatic rock. Probably my favorite band that i’ve heard of in the last couple years.

Well I’m going home now.

One Response to “waiting.”

  1. Bapan's Father Says:

    You must have gotten much more busy, because I haven’t seen a posting in over a month. Give us something, if only to say, you’re still alive.

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