Year: 2005
Pro: Winona Ryder. Con: Keanu Reeves.
The only discussion I’ve yet seen dealing with last night’s NBA All-Star Half-Time show,
which included a performance by country stars Big & Rich, dressed in Civil War regalia and flanked by a dancing midget on crutches. Mindblowing.
A band called The 8 Bit Construction Set is getting a touch of internet publicity by claiming that their record is “the first ever use of the vinyl recording medium for software distribution.” Not so.
: The horribly Ill-advised ‘modernization’ of the Warner Bros. cartoon oeuvre (Bugs, Daffy, etc)
In late 2002, I took several photos of Spoon at a show in Ohio. I did this using my girlfriend’s 35mm camera, which was loaded with black and white film. The following week, this film was loaded onto a reel and placed in a tank for developing. The tank was then placed in her trunk.
In January of 2005, she got a flat tire, and finally had to clean out her trunk. It was at this time that the tank was unearthed – still sealed tight, but having weathered two winters and summers in the car. I took the tank in to a local photo shop and had them develop the film.
The negatives definitely appear to have been affected by the time / temperature / etc, but there were still some fun shots, which I posted to Flickr. Woo.
Chris Ware contributes an uncharacteristic cover
for the 80th anniversary issue of the New Yorker.