passin' the time.

it's a sad time in your life when night rolls around and all you're pumped about for the following day is that fantastic strawberry and blueberry cereal you got from wal-mart the other night. not that i would know. or anything.

so i found basically the most amazing site ever to be created by humans.

in70mm.com

it's a big history of large-format motion picture film. i realise it won't hold the interest of 98% of the people who read this blog but that's cool. i thought i'd share my enthusiasm with all of you because it's my new favourite place and i've geeked out on it for the last two days solid. did you know that star wars' sound team used spare channels in the magnetic soundtrack on their prints to store sub-bass information, therefore providing a more solid "thwack" at the right times in the film? AMAZING. i bet you didn't know that. that's why i asked. how cheeky.

i've developed an unhealthy interest in abnormally long films too. starting with bondarchuk's "voyna i mir" (war and peace), lanzmann's "shoah" and tarr's "sátántangó" i'm gunna try and work my way through obscenely long movies as long as they have merit. no "cinematon" for me (it goes for 150 hours). maybe i'm just going crazy in down time but hell, this is my chance to go nuts on film unhindered by australian download limits.

not much has happened besides these two things over the last few days. i've been listening to common's universal mind control album and it's...incredibly weak compared to his best album, 2000's like water for chocolate. if you doubt hip hop's ability to rule incredibly hard (do these people still exist?) you need to hit that album up. i've been listening to way too much paramore also. there's something about how all the elements of their music come together that really nails it for me. hayley's voice is satisfying as are zach's drums and everything else sits nicely on top of that, like a well made cake. delicious.

catch.