Archive for January, 2009

The highlight of the Super Bowl is already on YouTube.

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

UPDATE:

OKAY, OKAY… so the YouTube link is dead.

Who cares? Now you can see it in HD on Apple’s trailers page.

Browser: G.I. Joe. Land of the Lost. Scorsese shooting Endo’s “Silence” in New Zealand. Year One.

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

And now for something completely different…


The Browser: News & links to raise your eyebrows & furrow your brow. New headlines may be added as the day goes on. Stay tuned.

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Answering questions about Cyndere’s Midnight and more

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Jake Chism at The Christian Manifesto asked me a bunch of questions… and I answered them.

Lo and behold, here’s the conversation, chock full-o revelations about Cyndere’s Midnight, my favorite movie of 2008 (which won’t be released until 2009, if it is ever released at all),

Bruce Springsteen writes back to Walker Percy

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Did you know that Bruce Springsteen and Walker Percy almost corresponded?

Browser: Guess who’s coming to the Grammys. New Sufjan Stevens! Scott Derrickson.

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

The Browser: News & links to raise your eyebrows & furrow your brow. New headlines may be added as the day goes on. Stay tuned.

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The Class (2009): Looking Closer’s Film Forum

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

I’ll be reviewing The Class soon. But for now, let me encourage you to see it as soon as you can. It’s one of two 2009 releases I’ve seen that will probably end up in my Top 10 of 2009 next December.

Here’s a roundup of reviews at IFC Daily.

Reeling.

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

I’m still exhausted and delirious from the inspiration and nourishment I found last weekend in the company of some talented artists.

I would write about it, but I’m back into the white-water of busy-ness, so that will have to wait.

Until then, I’m grateful that my new friend David Taylor has found the time to write so eloquently about the blessings of that time with new friends and well-crafted art.

And by the way, David Taylor’s essay A Holy Longing, which was recently published in CT, is fantastic. Read the whole brilliant thing.

Fox captures “Dawn Treader,” works from a script by “Fisher King” screenwriter

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Peter Chattaway has just posted news about who picked up that Narnia hot potato – Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

The new script has been written by Richard LaGravenese, writer of The Fisher King, A Little Princess, The Horse Whisperer, and others.

Thursday at 12:30: Cyndere’s Midnight at SPU

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

On Thursday at 12:30, in the Library at Seattle Pacific University, I’ll be reading from Cyndere’s Midnight and saying a few words about the next volume in The Auralia Thread.

Copies of Auralia’s Colors and Cyndere’s Midnight will be for sale there, along with free Auralia Thread posters. And I’ll be answering your questions about the books and the upcoming volumes.

I hope to see you there!

Browser: Jordan and Gaiman. Zombies?! Orr-itated. Slumdog’s stars still in the slums?.

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

First, a trailer…


The Browser: News & links to raise your eyebrows & furrow your brow. New headlines may be added as the day goes on. Stay tuned.

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