links for 2008-10-31

  • "A Smith production is always noisy, shambling, and liberally smutty on the outside while conservatively gooey on the inside (and always, proudly, a visual eyesore, as if compositional coherence signifies selling out to the Man)."

    Ms. Lisa Schwarzbaum apparently isn’t a big fan of Kevin Smith movies in general. I’m not a cinematographer myself, but I’ve never been bounced out of a Kevin Smith movie by the cinematography myself. Looking forward to forming my own opinion of the movie tomorrow evening.

links for 2008-10-30

  • "The comedy stars Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks as roommates and longtime friends who decide that the solution to their money problems is to make a porn film."

    Planning to go see this flick with some friends on Saturday. Kevin Smith movies are (almost) always a great time, so I’m looking forward to it.

  • "For several months. Delta executives, who are now running what used to be Northwest Airlines, say they will make a gradual and orderly transition to the Delta name. Delta said it will begin using Delta signs at ticket counters and gates next year. It could take as long as two years for some of Northwest’s planes to be painted in Delta colors."

    What a bummer. I love being able to identify an NWA plane overhead from the red tail.