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Intriguing video of Sigur Ros playing acoustic and unannounced, during the day, in a little Paris cafe. While I think the camera work is pretty stingy with the environment (what’s the point of these things if you don’t get a better sense of the place??), it’s funny to see the few French patrons on hand sort of oblivious and wrinkling their noses a bit at the whole fuss.
More here.
After the Easter egg hunt, Sofia found some real eggs in the mailbox over at Ed’s place.
So the magician asks everyone in the crowd to choose a three-digit number. I think of 437. He calls on someone else to announce their number, and they say 437. And that wasn’t even the actual trick yet! Real magic in the form of bizarre coincidence…
While this exchange may not sound promising (between a Fox News reporter and Hillary Clinton), it’s an unexpected bit of humor and pop-culture reflection. Might make you think more highly of both of them.
From The Year in Pictures blog - just when you thought no one got a shot of the Hudson plane crash, Roy Gates did.
Midnight (1939)
Happy New Year to all!
View from Galeria Zoya, Warsaw, 2008
Finally got around to seeing Slumdog Millionaire. It was filmed in Mumbai, perhaps fitting as an antidote to the recent tragic events in that city. I have to say it’s an impressive film (and not just because it’s the first time I’ve been out to the theaters in what feels like ages). Much more powerful and engaging than I expected. It’s by the director of Trainspotting and 28 Days Later, and Danny Boyle put his unique visual (and visceral) stamp on this one as well. The ending maybe goes a bit fairytale, but I thought the ending of 28 Days Later fell off the rails too…
An on-the-money review is here.
