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09:01 am
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[film] Sound of My Voice
Saw Sound of My Voice Friday afternoon at the Colony. A low-budget indie film about a couple who are self-appointed investigative journalists making a documentary about infiltrating a cult whose leader says she's from the future. Disturbing and uncomfortable, mostly for cult mind games, manipulation, and control. This is a movie almost no one I know will see: if you're local, get to the Colony and see it so we can talk about it.
trailers:
* Darling Companion - Long-married couple uses a stray dog to communicate over and re-bond. At least that's what I think happens from the trailer.
* Bernie - Dark comedy "based on a true story", funeral director gets involved with a horrible woman, and eventually decides he's made a mistake.
* Moonrise Kingdom - Looks like Wes Anderson filming the summer camp sequence in Addams Family Values.
* Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - Plot looks ehh. Cast looks amazing. Probably go see.
Tags: colony, film, film2012, ihsp, ihsp2012, raleigh
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10:55 pm
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[film] Dark Shadows
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) maegwynn and I went to Mission Valley to see Tim Burton's Dark Shadows. More camp and comedic than I remember the soap opera being. Ok but not great. Mildly recommended at best.
trailers:
* Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter - The red band trailer makes the film look more coherent.
* Frankenweenie - Full-length version of the Tim Burton short film. October 5th.
* Gangster Squad - Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen and outlaw cops.
* Argo - Ben Affleck as a CIA agent in 1979 in a plot to fake filming Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light with Jack Kirby design work as a cover for attempting to rescue Americans during the 1979 Iranian revolution. Actually, a true story. http://lordoflight.com/cia.html
http://www.kevin-gendreau.com/2011/07/how-cia-used-lord-of-light-to-save.html
Tags: film, film2012, mission valley, raleigh
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08:22 am
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calendar update
( weekly update )
Tags: calendar, local
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11:35 pm
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"Hand me a book." "Which one?" "Doesn't matter, I'm just testing the capacity of the new satchel."
I may have found a new satchel. This is a big deal for me: I've carried the same satchel since the fall of 1999 and I've repaired it, replaced the shoulder strap twice, broken the D-rings for the shoulder strap, ripped the replaced D-rings out of their loops and repaired those with JB Weld, etc. etc. This bag isn't made anymore, the two main zippers are failing, and I've had two different repair people tell me the way the zippers are attached it'd have to be disassembled completely to repair it and then they refused to take on the job. Wouldn't give me a price quote. At least TRY to scare me with an estimate. I've tried three different bags in the last two years and none of the three have worked, although I turned one into a backup BOB.
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09:11 am
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bird in creek
Tags: flickr, greenway, raleigh
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08:58 am
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tech user groups
One of the things I do when I'm not doing anything else is attend local technical user group meetings. I started back in the late 1990s when a friend wanted to organize a group for Web and Internet professionals and I cataloged the current groups in the area, then kept updating the list over time.
(I get a few emails regularly about the page, and they fall into three categories:
a) someone telling me a group doesn't meet anymore, or there's a new group and would I add it - off course, thanks for the help
b) someone asking me if there's a local user group for (their specific niche interest) that I know about but don't list it and would I tell them how to contact them - Yes, there's a SECRET list of elite groups in the area and I, I am the doorman. Umm, can't help, if I know about it it's on the page.
c) Some recruiter asking me if I have a single email address or web form I've assembled to email all the groups at once with all the job listings - No, I've never created that. )
Recents:
Monday: ExitEvent's monthly gathering of techies, entrepreneurs, job hunters, people looking for new projects, and so on.
Thursday: TriUPA web seminar hosted at SAS.
Triangle Analysts hosted at MaxPoint Interactive, later at Saffron, which has amazing Indian food and I recommend it now.
Tags: rtp
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08:36 am
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calendar update
( weekly update )
Tags: calendar, local
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11:44 pm
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your late night lullaby
Part I (yes, Part I is 9 minutes) of one ofthe best-known tracks by Acid Mothers Temple.
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Tags: acid mothers temple, video
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11:24 pm
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Acid Mothers Temple
May 5th I saw Acid Mothers Temple with Phantom Family Halo and Clang Quartet at Local 506 in Chapel Hill. I've seen AMT several times and enjoyed them every show. AMT plays extremely heavy, complex, instrumental psychedelic rock. Great stuff. Phantom Family Halo kept giving me mental echoes of the Doors, were excellent and I'll gladly see them again. Clang Quartet, my friend Scotty played his usual intense noise set.
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Tags: acid mothers temple, chapel hill, clang quartet, local 506, show
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02:48 pm
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CarolinaCon 2012 notesdump
Slightly redacted notes from Friday and Saturday's CarolinaCon 8 / 2012. Short version: Well worth it.
( longer version )
Tags: carolinacon, conference, raleigh
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