Courtesy Amazon.com
Casting calls abound in the Durham area in the coming weeks.
- The one most likely to elicit conversation is by far Playboy. The men’s interest is seeking women to appear in its October 2009 Women of the ACC issue. The photographers will be in Durham March 30 and 31. Interested women (yes, in spite of Seth Rogen, it’s just women) should read the press release and call 312-401-7343 to schedule an appointment.
- Main Street, the film set to be filmed in Durham in April, is looking for extras. The extras casting call is from 1 to 5 p.m., this Saturday, March 28th, at the Homestead Suites
5.9 “Namaste” & 5.10 “He’s Our You”
Sayid broods. Courtesy TV Squad.
Some of you might have noticed that I kind of dropped off the face of the earth last week. Sorry about that. Luckily, I have organized everything I had to say about last Wednesday’s filler transitional episode into a somewhat-not-really short series of bullet points that you may feel free to scroll through in order to get to the meatier stuff of last night’s whopper.
- If the trees sway mysteriously in the wind to the sounds of dragon bellies rumbling, you can bet the smokey monster is up to something naughty again.
- If a light turns on in an abandoned house while Frank and Sun are strolling through the old Dharma neighborhood at very reasonable hours of the night, you can bet it’s Dr. Christian Shephard waiting around to relay another helpful message about how they’ve either gone about something the wrong way or have a long, long road ahead of them.
- “My” runway theory was totally on target. Now the question is, were Ben and the Others anticipating the Aljira plane when they built the runway, or did they have other plans for it?
- I about had a conniption fit when Jack bumped elbows with Dr. Pierre Chang, who assigned the other doctor with janitorial duties. Then I just laughed.
- Any fuzzy feelings I was harboring for Sawyer fizzled into thin air when he verbally assaulted Jack with some zingers about how he, all bespectacled and severely flat-ironed, is actually thinking things through, whereas Jack always just forged blindly ahead and got lots of people killed. Rude!
- Radzinsky, the original button pusher and designer of the Swan (a.k.a. the Hatch), gets extremely cranky when riffraff such as Sayid catch a glimpse of his precious model, which looks like someone built the Epcot Center out of toothpicks and then chopped the whole thing in half.
- Ben does not destroy all the Dharma folk after all—somewhere between now and his eventual turn to the dark side (which is ironic because the young impressionable version of him looks a wee bit like Harry Potter minus the forehead lightning), Charlotte makes her escape, presumably by leaving the island with her mother, and the baby whom I am currently assuming to be Miles is somehow granted a reprieve from death by poison gas as well.
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25 Mar 2009, Posted by Andrew Hibbard in Playground, 1 Comments
I really want to see Where the Wild Things Are. I hope it doesn’t go the way of some adaptations of pictures books. In Spike Jonze’s hands, I don’t think it will. The trailer looks great. Totally trippy. But what’s with the Obama overtones? Seriously?
Vincent Van Gogh's "The Night Cafe." Courtesy Yale University Art Gallery
It seems like we keep blogging about Yale, but this one is a little different in tone. In a move antithetical to Brandeis’ modus operandi, the New Haven university filed a case in the Connecticut federal court concerning Vincent Van Gogh’s seminal 1888 piece to maintain possession of the work. The AP reports that Yale is suing for rights of the work and to block Pierre Konowaloff, the painting’s original owner’s great-grandson. Also from the AP:
Pierre Konowaloff of France says he is the great-grandson of industrialist and aristocrat Ivan Morozov, who owned the painting in 1918.
Russia nationalized Morozov’s property during the Communist revolution. The painting now hangs in the Yale University Art Gallery.
The school says it wants to remove any cloud over its ownership.
The debate over ownership is always a touchy one, especially when it comes to a work as famous as this one. But it’s good to see a university working to maintain its art collection in light of the Rose Museum.
Lucie Zhang/The Chronicle
When I added Cut Copy’s “Lights and Music” as one of my top 10 songs of 2008, I had made a statement that the song would be perfect for a house party or the big arena, even using the word “epic” to describe the song. Sure, it seemed silly to call the Australian electronic group epic among greats such as Bon Iver and TV on the Radio, whose music has a little more substance than four lines of simple lyrics and repetitive beats.
However, last night’s show at Cat’s Cradle reaffirmed all my faith in the group and proved once and for all why they deserve all the hype they receive. I have seen some great electronic shows at this venue, including Caribou and Ratatat, and Cut Copy takes the win for the most fun I’ve had there yet.
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