The Fever Of Phineas

Fake it May 25, 2009

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Good advice

Idea for Travel Food Show May 16, 2009

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The best Margarita in Alberta?

The best sushi in Florence?

The best Mexican food in Shanghai?

The best bacon burger in Calcutta?

Best canolli in Rio?

Best falafel in Bangkok?

Take that concept, add one obnoxious anti-social snob and you’ve got yourself a show!

Overheard on the plaza in Santa Fe April 17, 2009

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Down the old Santa Fe trail sits La Fonda Hotel.

Old lady: “Oh, look, it’s Jane Fonda’s hotel.”

Old man: “Hanoi Jane? I’m not going in there.”

Music Re-org March 30, 2009

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I’m re-organizing my music a little bit. I dropped my “Cowboy of Hope” blog and plan to just drop my tunes here as “Pages”. For now the “Music” tab above gives the playlist with everything. I’ll create a dedicated page for each song with liner notes eventually. Here’s the starter page, for my new song “Mr. Universe“. Again, I’ll add liner notes soon.

Film Peeve March 14, 2009

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Here’s a new one:

Character is in a situation that triggers a memory. Now we go with that character into the memory for a while, a minute, two 30 seconds, whatever, but it’s long enough to shift context and follow a sub-narrative. Then we return to the original context, the present, with character’s face absorbed in the memory. Another character then has to jog the first character’s attention. “Joe? Joe” Where were you?” And the first character then has to come back, pretend it’s nothing and resume the first nbarrative thread.

That whole jogging of the first character’s attention is completely unnecessary. It’s stupid to pretend that just because we in the audience experienced a time shift with the second thread that the characters in the first context also experienced it. The whole thing could have taken place in a split second for them. I don’t mind the actual context shift itself, I just hate the way they transition back. It’s so rote, total cliche, and they do it in the finest of dramas and films. Just skip it completely.