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Saturday, August 02, 2008

Donnie Darko, Animated Clocks

“What the beginning, end or warp of time represents and means, is beyond me. In dreams, we go to a place, which runs on a different time clock. In this dreamland, time is not linear. The past, present and future are all one.”- Interpretation of "The persistence of the memory" DalĂ­'s painting by Cathy Lo. Source: interpretation.scene360.com"Richard Kelly decides to go for the surrealist, so hippy-hop onto the train folks. This one’s bound for Dahli-wood.

There are no melting clocks in Donnie Darko, but this movie’s got plenty of weirdness in its own right.
To say nothing of the movie’s constant references to metaphysics, time travel and what Joss Whedon calls “The Sky Bully.” Source: chosis.coldfusionvideo.com
"Near the end of the movie, when the clock strikes midnight, the movie claims October 30 1988 (SIX HOURS REMAIN)

Which, seems wrong. I would argue 7 hours until the end of the world, but that “Six Hours Remain” may be until the start of the end or something.
See at the beginning of the movie Frank the bunny calls Donnie out of his room, the clocks read midnight and the date given is, October 2 1988.

Frank has donnie walk to the golf course and then tells him that he has 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds left (28:06:42:12), assuming about 18 minutes to walk to the course, this places the end of the world around 7am.
So the ambiguity is that at midnight on October 30th the movie says 6 hours left when Frank and the sequence of events indicate 7 hours are left and the website says fuckall. (”I will not be afraid!”) Why does all this matter? I wanted to create a clock that gave the countdown to October 30th on the hour of the Collapse of the “tangent universe”. But since I’ve been trying to figure all this out I’m now up way later then I wanted to be and I’m probably not going to make this stupid clock tonight. I’ve found only one other site confused about this, and they didn’t care. I guess they weren’t trying to make a clock". -Francis
Source: www.roborooter.com

Darko 28 Days Wall Clock
28 days... 6 hours... 42 minutes... 12 seconds. That... is when the world... will end.
Source: www.cultclassicts.com

Friday, August 01, 2008

"Nick & Norah"'s Infinite Playlist Trailer

"This quirky comedy is about two loners who on a whim suddenly start dating as they head off on an evening adventure through New York City. Well, that's the best I can describe quickly, because it's actually about Norah asking Nick to be her boyfriend for five minutes and the ensuing adventure when they try and leave in Nick's piece of crap car. This actually looks pretty fun so I'm not going to start picking apart the story and the cast, instead, I'll just sit back and enjoy. In actuality, Michael Cera is always great and Kat Dennings looks like she'll hold her own as well, so why not? Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is directed by indie filmmaker Peter Sollett, of only Raising Victor Vargas previously, while the screenplay was written by newcomer Lorene Scafaria. The film is based on the novel of the same name written by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Sony Pictures will be releasing Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist in theaters everywhere on Octoberd 3rd". Source: www.firstshowing.net

Dreams come true

Talking about defuncted sites, you'll remember that fansite dedicated to Sarah Roemer, which was linked here with Weirdland. I hope that in the future someone constructs a new site devouted to Sarah, who thanked me personally (via email) for making my fan-videos for her.

And Sarah has not been the only actress in thanking me for my video-making skills, being Nora Zehetner

the queen of the down-to-earth stars (you know that Youtube removed some of my videos and my account twice, later my hard-drive collapsed and sadly I lost some of my most beloved videos because I hadn't made any security copy. Sigh.) Well, Nora sent me words of support (I was upset because her videos had been deleted and I had to re-upload them) but Nora was so understanding and lovely, her messages really lifted up my spirit when I was feeling so down. Thank you, Sarah and Nora!
And thank you to each musician, actor, actress, writer and director who supported me or replied me!

I hope you reach all your dreams, you know that some say "Be careful what you dream for..." but it's not applicable for me. Now I know that's is the best thing that can happen to you. You helped me when I was going through a nightmare.

"Life is never easy for those who dream”
-Robert James Waller.

Farewell to Wetforwent

Bye, Bye, WFW!!
I'm very sad after reading
this fellow site dedicated to Wentworth Miller is saying goodbye in these final days. I'll miss you, WFW!!

Wise teeth

I had my wise teeth removed, but my front teeth had already juxtaposed slightly, if you remember what Michael Cera told David Letterman about his jaw, my jaw suffered for a while, too. Anyway, this didn't affect his delightful gamosmile, before the wisdom teeth troubles:and after dental surgery:

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Jessica Biel

Jessica on the set of "Nailed". Out on Beverly Hills - 24th July.Shopping at Canyon Country in Beverley Hills - July 25th, 2008.

Show your finger

Ellen Page is not alone in the "intense temper"-"I'll give you the finger" department:
Seth Rogen in "Pineapple Express".Emile Hirsch with Amanda Seyfried and Ben Foster.Nora Zehetner in "50 Pills".