originally a caveman

feeling listless finds
I've been trying to decide what to do with the tumblr for months, and finally I've decided to turn it into a place to gather any videos and the like. In other words, use it properly. So that's somewhere else for you to subscribe to, because I'll not be repeating anything here. It's like an alternate multimedia reality. Latest video? Matt Damon: "I want to know if she believes there were dinosaurs four thousand years ago..."

Archrs - an everyday story of web development
The every day story of country folk turned into an astonishing web-based interactive drama without changing a word.

Play With Spider
For those of you missing La Princess.

Soundtracked - "Death Race" by Paul Haslinger
Brutally honest blog post from the composer for P.W.S.A.'s new film, which demonstrates how far along in the creative process it is that the music is conceived. John Ottman's talked about this very subject. Elsewhere, Charlie Kaufman directs.

Google News farce triggers Wall Street sell-off
I think as people reliance on the web for information rather than human contact intensifies, the regularity of this kind of thing will increase.

Steven Soderbergh working on Liberace film and wants Michael Douglas
Which is precisely why I love Soderbergh. I can't think of a single predictable career choice he's made.

Michelle Obama Interview: Her Father's Daughter
"Eventually I thought, This is a smart man with a good heart, and if the only reason I wouldn't want him to be president is that I'm married to him, no, I can't be that selfish.''

Jerome Bixby's Man From Earth
It's not often I'll unreservedly recommend a film, but Man From Earth is special. It's a low budget fantasy tale in which a man draws together all of his university colleagues out to his wood cabin just before he leaves forever and tells them that he was originally a caveman and has lived for fourteen thousand years. Their reaction is as you'd expect, but over the following eighty odd minutes the details of the man's possible life are laid out and through some great performances and writing from the late Bixby (he finished the script on his death bed) you begin to question what's possible. This is intelligent sci-fi of the kind which is rare in movies these days, questioning genetics and belief systems and in places has crystallised answers to some of the intellectual questions I've been wrestling with for the past few years. The cast includes the likes of Tony Todd and John Billingsly and a stunningly good David Lee Smith as the potential cro-magnan. It's K-PAX without the showboating.