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Fist of Legend (My Art for The Brattle Art House Auction)

rob — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:34:41 +0000

You're going to go and bid on a bunch of stuff, right?

I'll Have Art in the 8th Annual Art House Auction to Benefit the Brattle Film Foundation – Wednesday, October 5, 2011

rob — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:24:13 +0000

you should go!

Charles Trenet x Goodfellas x Lost

rob — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:36:16 +0000

This song follows me around.

Charles Trenet Wrote and Recorded the Song La Mer

He wrote it in 1943 and then recorded it in 1946.

For those of you keeping track, Charles Trenet also sang Boum, which was used in Toto the Hero to great effect:

Trenet performing it…

Bobby Darin Sang it in English as "Beyond the Sea" and it Made it's Way into Goodfellas

In the flow of the movie

And Then it Came Back, In French, on Lost

Modestly inspired by James Burke's Connections.

Movies 2011 #7 Resident Evil: Afterlife

rob — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:48:27 +0000

I can honestly say I have no idea what happened in Resident Evil: Afterlife. there was one point, about twenty minutes in where I lost the plot almost completely.

Of course, who cares? I watch these movies because I've played all of these games from end to end religiously for a couple of decades. All they need to do is show me characters and monsters from the game and toss in an Umbrella logo every once in a while and I'm happy.

Sometimes, I'm easy to please.

Movies 2011 #6 The Two Towers

rob — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:46:22 +0000

After having seen all three films several times now, I think I'm zeroing in on The Two Towers as my favorite. The action is massive in a way that Fellowship lacks and it doesn't have any of the weird additions like the scrubbing bubbles army of the dead in the Return of the King.

Ask me again in five years, of course.