A mystery…
So I tuned into Comcast Sportsnet's Daily News Live last Wednesday and Thursday watched an very nice HD feed. However on Friday and Today (Monday) the feed was not HD. What is going on here? Am I going crazy? I'm trying to get to the bottom of this, because the regular looking feed sucks. Not to mention an Angel cries every time a non hd signal gets displayed on my tv. It's true.
Survey: Daily Show/Colbert Viewers Most Knowledgable, Fox Viewers Rank Last
"A new study by Pew Research confirms what many have always believed: Fox News makes you dumb"
My Take:
Very interesting article. If a candidate was smart they would consider strongly to advertising on comedy central.
Interesting Article…Pearls Before Breakfast
Joshua Bell is one of the world's greatest violinists. His instrument of choice is a multimillion-dollar Stradivarius. If he played it for spare change, incognito, outside a bustling Metro stop in Washington, would anyone notice?
Updated...My Take...
I thought this article was pretty cool, but wished they would have taken it one step further. They should have expanded upon the idea and placed him in other locations. Perhaps the train station was a bad location, people are too focused on getting to work, not willing to pay attention to the music being played. How would Bell have faired if he had go to other locations at other times of the day. Maybe a more social setting where people are more relaxed. Or a more upscale setting were perhaps people would be more knowledgeable about his music? Or in different cities, would New York be any different than DC, or middle America vs the coasts, etc... If only...
Summer Film Radar…
The following films are on my Summer Radar:
April 13
Disturbia
May 4
Spider-Man 3
May 18
Shrek the Third
May 25
Angel-A
June 15
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (sadly yes, this is on my radar)
June 22
DOA: Dead or Alive (Hands down this will be the best movie of the summer 
)
June 29
Live Free or Die Hard
Ratatouille
July 4
Transformers (even though it's damn shame what they did to the robot designs)
July 13
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
July 27
The Simpsons Movie
August 3
The Bourne Ultimatum (shaky cam FTL!)
August 10
Rush Hour 3 (Chris Tucker needs to work damn it!)
Volver…
Volver should really be called “survive the first hour” because that is what you must do. Get through the first painful hour with an understanding of a few important plot points and just sit back and enjoy the second hour. The second hour is where the magic happens.
But first let me preface this. I watch the film over two nights, in one hour chunks. After the first hour I was unsure if I wanted to continue. The first hour was somewhat boring, slow to develop and Penelope Cruz still got on nerves (even in Spanish).
The second night I basically forced myself to finish; I just had an hour left and was curious enough from to plot to see where it went. The second hour is completely different than the first…Cruz is not annoying, the story moves along rather quickly, and as many of the plot points wrap up it’s very fascinating. The one with the daughter I did not see coming at all. That was definitely an “Oh shit” moment for me.
As good as the second hour is, and it’s very good, there are a few things I wish they would have wrapped up. How did things settled out with Cruz and the restaurant? Or with the restaurant owner? Does Cruz ever try to sing again? They spend considerable time in the first hour setting that story up and to leave us with nothing at the end is a real shame.
So I’m torn. That first hour was just plain painful, but that second hour is magnificent. I definitely enjoyed myself on the second night, but this film falls short of what it could have been.
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