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A great reviewer reviews a great movie: Roger Ebert’s review of The Seven Samurai.
Just because.
From PickensPlan:
IT’S TIME TO STOP AMERICA’S ADDICTION TO FOREIGN OIL
America is in a hole and it’s getting deeper every day. We import 70% of our oil at a cost of $700 billion a year – four times the annual cost of the Iraq war.
I’ve been an oil man all my life, but this is one emergency we can’t drill our way out of. But if we create a new renewable energy network, we can break our addiction to foreign oil.
On January 20, 2009, a new President gets sworn in. If we’re organized, we can convince Congress to make major changes towards cleaner, cheaper and domestic energy resources.
To get this done, I need your help. Check out the plan. If you think it’s worth fighting for, please join our effort.
I appear to have messed something up in my upgrade from WordPress 2.3.3 to WordPress 2.6. Bear with me.
Edit: Hmm, no, turns out it’s a bug having to do with permalink structures. And my search form was out of date. But those two things have been fixed, I think.
Tripping with Caveh – Will Oldham does mushrooms with a filmmaker! 31 minutes, $3.99. Is satisfying my curiosity worth $3.99 and 31 minutes?
Note to self: If I think of something, do it. Don’t wait.
Check out today’s East Bay Express Brainwash writeup!
From the review:
In the ensuing years, Krzysik worked hard to ensure the cult status of Brainwash. He’s tried to perpetuate a myth that festival director Shelby Toland is actually an alien — one of a strange foreign race that have infiltrated this planet in search of movies “that are less boring than what they have abroad.” He’s given the festival a sense of ritual, in that it begins with an invocation and culminates with an awards presentation in which all honorees get bowling trophies (along with more valuable prizes such as Gorilla Film Production software).
If we’re not exactly “respected,” we’re certainly notable!