Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Monday, March 31, 2003 The Pitch: It's like The Truth About Cats And Dogs meets The Wizard! Why video game reviewers are different from you and me:PlayStation 2: Splinter Cell For those of you who've already played through the Xbox version and are wondering if this game is worth buying, the answer is maybe. Are a new level, added cinemas, and altered level designs worth a $50 purchase? For me, the answer is yes. posted by Jeff | 4:57 PM | The Pitch: It's like Gremlins meets The Name of the Rose! sfbg.com | AlertsONE DOESN'T KNOW quite where to begin or end when entering the immense Asiastar Fantasy store at 1126 Grant in Chinatown. From second one, the optic nerves are assaulted by an avalanche of DVDs, VCDs, Kelly Chen calendars, scandal rags, and elaborately packaged CDs. Whoa! Here're all of the new releases from the Shaw Brothers vaults, including the legendary horror flick Human Lanterns. Jumping Jehoshaphat! Here's Paul Williams's Bugsy Malone in MPEG-1 with Chinese subs. Goddamn! Here's practically everything ever made starring Stephen Chow, Chow Yun-fat, and Shu Qi (including the bee-stung one's early soft-core romps), thoughtfully organized under both Chinese and English names. But you want to know something? A lot of stores in Chinatown carry the same products, and often at cheaper prices. Oddly enough, though, no one beats Asiastar Fantasy's selection of non-Asian films. Down in the basement lurks the most motley selection of VCDs of films you never knew existed: a graveyard/oasis of movies abandoned by the studios that made them or deemed unfit for human consumption even by cable TV programmers. Ever heard of Final Payback, featuring the dream cast of Richard Grieco, Priscilla Barnes, and John Saxon? Perhaps you've been scouring the planet for Perverse Destiny 2, starring Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, and Treat Williams? Wonder what Erik Estrada has been up to lately (Look at Me America)? Care to sample the tell-all plot synopses of at least a half dozen Lorenzo Lamas Highlander rip-offs? Care to chuckle over the howling-mad camo-clad guys in poster art for Rambo-era Italian action films like Cobra Mission 2 and Dog Tags? Most discs go for $5 a pop, which means you can fry your frontal lobes with Brain Smasher (starring Andrew Dice Clay and Teri Hatcher) for the price of a weak cocktail. Not only will you be supporting a fine local business, but you'll also be affirming the existence of Asia's fastest growing film category: rack filler. posted by Jeff | 3:10 PM | The Pitch: It's Like Seduction of The Innocent meets The X-Men! Welcome to UncannyXmen.Net - For the Fans, By the FansBeside the seventeen counts of the word SEX, the visual hints include a woman milking a cow (symbolism), red roses (=love), a woman being touched at her nipple and a man at his testicle (among the crowd that had their bliss buttons pushed) and a painting of a naked woman in Xavier’s mansion. With thanks to Dirk Deppey's excellent TCJ blog, Journalista. posted by Jeff | 2:41 PM | The Pitch: It's like Cinema Paradiso meets Night of the Living Dead! Where can you see three of the movies nominated for Best Picture in 2002, and also Kangaroo Jack? Why the Cinema Saver 10, of course! It may end up being what I do on Wednesday. posted by Jeff | 2:33 PM |The Pitch: It's like Dead Poets Society meets Naked Lunch! Borders - Feature - A Day in the Life of the Present: Don DeLillo on CosmopolisWhat is the point of writing and reading novels? Does it make sense to ask such a question? DD: Writers write because they have to. There doesn't have to be a point. The most talented young men and women are still drawn to the novel as the most spacious means of expression, and the most challenging as well. Why do readers read? Not for answers. The novel deals with questions that have no answers. But it remains the deepest route into the landscape of our motives and souls. posted by Jeff | 10:03 AM | The Pitch: It's like Requiem For A Dream meets House Party! Another purpose for this blog: research dump. I think. I'm tempted to get two blogs, and split one for research, one for the journalmalistic type stuff, but we'll see how it goes. posted by Jeff | 10:02 AM |The Pitch: It's like Notes From the Underground meets Groundhog Day! Okay. I should know better: never write in real time on your browser because things time out and then you’re screwed. I just lost my first entry, so lemme see what I can recreate from memory.Welcome to High Concept, a blog that is both a continuation of my Hereafter blog over at my website Lazy Bastard, and also its own new type thing. I'll be honest: because I have a super-great girlfriend with a cool apartment in a great neighborhood, I'm not home much these days which I means I can’t update the blog that often (groovy high security for our home webpages means I can't FTP). So I'm not home much and when I am, surprisingly busy. However, there are times when it's pretty quiet at W-O-R-K, and I thought it would be great if I could blog quickly from the J-O-B when it's quiet, or from the girlfriend's place when she's busy fretting over some project of her own. And some of the options offered by Blogger and BloggerPro give me several keen options to post. There are some other reasons, of course, but I'll probably cover them on Hereafter when I shut it down, and nothing you really have to bother yourself with at the moment. Just settle in and relax, give me a little chance to get warmed up, and then we'll start kicking this sucker out! posted by Jeff | 9:46 AM | The Pitch: It's like The Front Page meets The Mark of Zorro! Howdy, and welcome to High Concept. More in a minute, once I see if this is working. posted by Jeff | 9:38 AM | |
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