Review of movie that I didn't see all the way through

Primer (2004)
I started watching about halfway through. If I'd just been flipping around I would've instantly recognized it an IFC movie. I don't mean a movie made by IFC, though it might've been. I just mean it has that look. I've seen a lot of movies on IFC, some good, some bad; I'll watch any channel that plays uncut movies without commercials.

It's the typical IFC movie except it's about time travel. Actually, it's got a pretty good story, but here's where it falls apart. The dialogue, which is unspectacular, and the two main actors, who are fine but just not interesting to watch.

Would I watch it again from the beginning? Sure. But there's a lot of things I'd watch.

That Star tape I was talking about

I left out the red giant cause it's the same as the Sire tape. I left the green & black belly logos in cause it's such a good picture.

I could, I'll hook you up

I like Belly, but they're not really a favorite. there just aren't that many songs that I really, really like, and after King things dropped off a lot. So when Tanya Donelly started putting out solo records in 1996/1997, I didn't bother. First there was the Sliding & Driving EP, then the full length Lovesongs for Underdogs.

I missed out. It wasn't till 2004 that I picked up Lovesongs and got to hear "Landspeed Song", one of the best TD songs. Then I found "Influenza", a B-side and probably the greatest TD song.

None of the TD record sleeves were anywhere near the Belly ones, though the Lovesong era ones were ok.

Favorite scenes

This month when they start playing horror movies there are two things I want to see.
Even though I like the two movies themselves, what I like most is their opening scenes. First, The Exorcist. It's not the story in the Iraq sequence I like but the way it's shot. It's so clear, and not just on DVD. All those people swinging pickaxes, that kid running along the ruins. I don't know how they got the picture so clear; I guess it has something to do with recording using more frames per second or something like that.
And the shot at the end of the sequence where Merin is turning around and the camera pulls back, so perfect.
When The Shining is gonna be on, all I wanna see is 30 seconds of it. I had seen The Shining a few times since I was a kid, but it wasn't till a few years ago that I noticed the opening shot and how great it is.
I love when it goes from the old Warner Bros. logo to that shot of the island and its reflection in the lake. Again, the picture is so clear as the camera goes over it and the music plays. Creepy, but mostly just beautiful. It's a good movie but I don't think anything in it tops that opening shot.

I won't always stop and watch The Shining, but I'll almost always watch The Exorcist when it's on.

"She's testing you"

This morning I figured out what to do when there's a problem with the Direct TV here ( last night it froze on the big dinner scene from The Miracle Worker, it was the first good thing that's been on TCM since I moved here, but not the best thing on Direct TV-The Chiller Channel has Twin Peaks reruns).

This computer hasn't been hooked up to the internet in over a year, and when I was looking through my Favorites I found some kind of database (not eyesore) that had Belly & Breeder cover scans.

Here's how it looks: the Kristin Hersh page, for instance, will have say, 7 entries for Hips & Makers and maybe 6 of them will show just the cover, or an alternate cover, but the 7th may have some of the inside artwork.

Yesterday I got to see the booklet for In a Doghouse; interesting, but I'm glad I didn't buy it like I did Sweet Ride.

There were two very exciting finds. The first was the Gepetto remix EP on cassette. It's a lot like the Gepetto cassette single I have (both Gepetto and Slow Dog remixed), except it's in the normal cassette format and not the cassingle format. I love the "Gepetto Remix" side lettering, plus the backflap song title lettering with the purple/brown Belly logos in the background.

The monkey wrench picture is the same but the lettering is different (I like my tape version better).

The next exciting thing was the cassette version of Star from 4AD. Again, a lot like my Sire version, but with some cool differences: the back flap has the song titles closer, the doll picture is colorized, and the best thing- the fake flowers from the CD back cover; it must be the original full photo, covered in Belly logos. I love the back cover of the Star album, not just the photo itself which has a kind of watercolor quality, but the both versions of the song title lettering. I switch around a lot, but this picture has probably been my desktop background more than any other.

I don't know how long I was on this site yesterday, probably no more than two hours. I checked all the releases for Belly, Tanya Donelly, Throwing Muses, Kristin Hersh, Pixies, Frank Black, and The Breeders.

I think a good place to work would be the place where they print out that v23 stuff.