my life//in medias res*

Drifting along with a tumbling tumbleweed

sillyjoe — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:05:49 +0000

So I decided to start a tumblelog to have a place to put random youtube videos and quotes and flickr photos and such that I find, and I don’t want to crowd this blog with stuff like that either.

So, you can check out my new tumblelog on tumblr here.

New Music and Video: last week of February, 2008

sillyjoe — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:12:26 +0000

Here’s the new stuff I picked up this week:

Want to buy me a late Christmas present?

sillyjoe — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:29:28 +0000

I want a beard cap!

They’re only the coolest things ever! I think I’m going to buy one and wear it all the time, even during the summer. The best part, nobody will notice if I forget to shave! YES!

And it’s you when i look in the mirror…

sillyjoe — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:19:45 +0000

U2 3D is (according to its Wikipedia article) the first live-action movie to be done exclusively with digital 3-d technology. I was incredibly excited going into the theater, but that may have been about the glasses. I love 3d glasses. There was a part of me that was skeptical, because I thought there was no possible way that any U2 film could top Rattle and Hum, but now, as the dust has settled, I am in love with this movie. I had to miss the first two songs (friggin’ traffic), which sucks since they opened with “Vertigo” and “Beautiful Day.” As I entered the movie theater I heard the familiar (and awesome) bass line to “New Year’s Day,” and my excitement grew. No longer was my excitement only related to the glasses. I was at a U2 show! And everything was so amazingly vivid! I haven’t seen a film in IMAX since middle school, and I had forgotten how incredible the technology is. I sat as close to the front as possible without having to crane my neck, and locked my eyes to the screen. For the next 80 minutes or so (it ended way too soon!) I sat, completely riveted. This one gets five stars from me, and it’s renewed my U2 love…which is not good for my wallet. Here’s the full setlist from the film:

Vertigo
Beautiful Day
New Year’s Day
Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own (I was reminded how consistently good Bono’s voice is here)
Love And Peace Or Else (the following stretch of songs was pretty incredible and flowed perfectly)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride (In The Name of Love)
Where The Streets Have No Name
One
encore
The Fly
With or Without You
credits
Yahweh

And, as I stated in the last post, it seems that these 3-d concert films are going to become new trend (If U2, the Stones, and Scorcese do it, the rest of the world is sure to follow). I surely hope so.

Oh, and speaking of concert films in 3D/IMAX

sillyjoe — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:02:55 +0000

Yeah. Oh Snap.

OMG!!! Bono’s lookin’ at me!

sillyjoe — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:32:56 +0000

Review coming…

Click for the full-size shot of the poster

Uno. dos. tres. catorce!

sillyjoe — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:25:18 +0000

So tomorrow is one of the incredibly rare occasions in which I have a day off, and nothing planned. Therefore, I think I’ll go see a movie, and maybe two.

Right now, I’m definitely wanting to go see Be Kind Rewind, the new Michel Gondry film starring Jack Black and Mos Def. Gondry is without a doubt the most visually imaginative director in the business, so I’m excited about this one. Here’s the trailer if you haven’t seen it. However, if I decide to go to the 4:50 show of Be Kind Rewind at Downtown West (Knoxville’s arthouse theater), I can go to a 1:40 show of U2 3D at the Pinnacle at Turkey Creek. Now, seriously…a U2 concert in 3D IMAX?!?! Yeah, I gotta check that out. So, I’m gonna try and do both after I grab some lunch (maybe Moe’s, Shane’s Rib Shack, ooh or maybe Bonefish)

New Music for February 19, 2008

sillyjoe — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:44:02 +0000

New stuff I picked up at Target today:

Hey, I put some new shoes on and suddenly everything is right…

sillyjoe — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:00:22 +0000

Okay, no new shoes for me.

But I do have lots of new stuff over there on the sidebar: quotes, twitter tweets, what i’m reading, what i’m listening to, and you can even check out some of my flickr photos…yeahhhh

On the subject of youtube videos…

sillyjoe — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:53:44 +0000

This kills me