ejp626

On Sat. I saw a late Naruse film called Daughters, Wives and a Mother, which I thought was very interesting. Today I managed to get out (between shifts of shovelling snow) and saw One Battle After Another. I didn't care for this at all, for multiple reasons, which I'd rather not get into now. Assuming the city is moving and not shut down, I'm planning on seeing Belle du Jour on Tues. TIFF is hosting a Bunuel retrospective, in Jan/Feb, though this screening isn't part of it. I'll see about getting to a few of them, but TIFF actually makes it quite hard for non-members to get tickets to the classics. And planning seeing Galaxy Quest on Wed, which will be fun!

About a foot or more of snow and the drifts are up to my knees. I've shovelled twice and you can barely tell. It's still coming down hard, so it's definitely going to be work from home tomorrow...

Just saw that the Bad Plus is doing a farewell tour where they are exploring the music of Keith Jarrett. They have one Toronto date in early March up in North York. I don't think there any other Canadian dates, though there is a Montreal gig with their current line-up (not the special guests). I'm not sure I would have gone but then I heard they were adding Chris Potter and Craig Taborn to the mix, and I thought that would be worth checking out. This super group is playing Oakland, Los Angeles and a lot of European dates, but not as many US dates as I would have expected.

Should be able to get out to see Mike Murley in a week or two at Hirut. I am excited to find out that Gary Smulyan is coming back to The Rex in mid Feb., so I'll try to catch one night for sure and possibly a second.

This looks like something I would order, though probably the digital version. It isn't clear if the liner notes would come with the digital download, though I would hope they would.

Just saw Lynch's Mulholland Drive for the first time. What a mind-bender that is. I'm still trying to get my head around what actually happened and what was a dream and/or some parallel universe formed when some event happened one way in one universe and the reverse happened in the other.

I do not have that album (New Life). It looks like the library up here has a copy but it doesn't circulate, so I would need to book some time to listen to it there. I do have Re:Action on CD. I've seen him play a couple of times fairly recently, mostly at the Jazz Bistro, but I think he also plays Hirut, and I'll try to catch him the next time he pops up.

It's going to be a Godard weekend. I'll be watching Breathless a bit later tonight (at home, however) and then Contempt (Le Mepris) tomorrow in a theatre.

RIP. I saw them (the Dead) a few times back in the day, including one show after Brent passed away and Bruce Hornsby was filling in! I didn't see any of the shows after Garcia had died, however.

Two nights ago, The Truman Show. Last night, Network. Possibly The Thing (1982) tonight.

>>Nowhere near as sexy as rail — but in the right circumstances, it can be incredibly efficient — especially in this formerly freight-rail-only valley that never had vehicular traffic on it before in the first place. I'm sure it can be. I don't have anything against busways in general, but my ride in from the airport to University of Pittsburgh was surprisingly slow and quite crowded. Maybe they need some express buses on that route.

I think there was a thread once upon a time on how people came across the board, if they weren't part of the original exodus.

Congrats and good luck with the move. I only visited once (and didn't make it to the Warhol Museum), but it seemed nice. I liked the many Art Deco or Art Deco-inspired skyscrapers in the downtown. I was also on campus and saw a bunch of sidewalk delivery robots. I did find the transit system a bit underwhelming.

I have the opposite reaction. I thought I joined a lot later, but apparently it was Jan 30, 2004, so tail end of the second wave? I wasn't a member of BNBB, however...

Yes, I was just as annoyed by Japanese reissues that omitted bonus material that had come out elsewhere, and I don't buy them, though I usually don't moan about it either. Maybe I consider there is nothing to be done about the way things are done in Japan, but if US/EU producers constantly deal with complaints about material being left out, then they will change their ways or do better with the d/ls or something.