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It’s New Year’s Eve and, so far, most …

It’s New Year’s Eve and, so far, most of our conversation has been about snowflakes. It’s a long story.

We’re about to watch 9. We had a couple plans for tonight – one was to watch episodes from our favorite TV shows that take place during New Year’s Eve. That is a fine idea until you endeavor to figure out which episodes those might be. IMDB plot searches proved fruitless.

The next plan was to watch a movie that takes place, at least in part, during New Year’s Eve. This, too, was largely fruitless for the same reasons. Also, I couldn’t recall a single movie we own taking place (in whole or part) during New Year’s Eve.

Our final plan was to rent something from iTunes. We enacted this same plan over Christmas at the Gregg household. There we purchased “Four Christmases”, which took about sixty minutes to download (and produced about three minutes of laughter). Tonight we’ve purchased “9”, which took about twelve minutes to download. Thank you, MidcoNet high-speed broadband internet.

So far I’m enjoying “9”. Check it out. As Holli put it, it’s kinda fitting that we’re watching “9” on the last day of 2009. That’s totally what we meant to do, yo.

Dumb post.

UPDATE: After discovering that Hulu’s ball drop was truly a livestream (and not being re-broadcast for Central Time), we rung in the new year with a fireworks display in the city of Funchal in Madeira, Portugal. Thank you, Ustream. The action starts about 3:00 into it.

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Ramona Falls – I Say Fever

Ramona Falls “I Say Fever” from Barsuk Records on Vimeo.

“I Say Fever” – the first video from the Ramona Falls debut album Intuit. Directed by the ridiculously talented Stefan Nadelman, winner of a 2003 Sundance prize for his 22 minute film ‘Terminal Bar’, a prolific animator in the commericial field and the mastermind behind the Menomena Evil Bee video.

Ramona Falls is Brent Knopf’s first solo venture, but he has an extensive musical resume as part of trio Menomena (an indie rock band from Portland, OR, that’s snagged plaudits from such tastemakers as Pitchfork Media and the New York Times.)

Directed and Animated by Stefan Nadelman
Produced by Tourist Pictures
www.touristpictures.com

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You know you’re wife is perfect for you…

You know your wife is perfect for you when she calls you at work to tell you that the Christmas present she got for you came a little damaged, and she wonders if she should rip the DVDs before she sends it back.

Of course, that’s illegal, so I told her “Absolutely not.” And I’m sticking to that.

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ON TIME

ON TIME from Bianca Bodmer on Vimeo.

A travelling salesman selling the future in his suitcase.

Project developed for Berlinale Talent Campus 2008.
Shot and edited in 48h.

Screenplay by David Bradley Halls, directed by Ted Chung. cinematography by Bianca Bodmer, music by Elena Titova and edited by Vincent Schmitt.

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Newsbleep Ponders…

In the spirit of NaNoWriMo, Newsbleep has started a NaNewPonMo campaign for the month of November. The goal is to put out the same number of NaNewPonMo posts as equals the number of days in November. Some days will have none. Some days will have some. And one day will have thirty. It all depends on if I forget or whatever.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE.

Read the introductory post or browse the Ponders category to read all of them. Or maybe wait until December and make the trip worth it.