http://jordanhoffman.com Howdju Getso Rudana Reckless? Sat, 17 May 2008 02:08:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As soon as the Suburu with black tape all over it to mirror EVH's guitar pulled up I knew we were in for a good time. I love Van Halen. The *real* Van Halen, that is. Sure, they had one or two good songs with Sammy Hagar (and maybe ... http://jordanhoffman.com/2008/05/16/van-halen-at-the-brenden-byrne-arena-i-mean-continental-airlines-arena-i-mean-izod-center/ I think there is some sort of rule that if you are an Eastern European filmmaker you have to have at least one scene of marathon group drinking in some sort of brightly lit holiday ball room. (Hell, Milos Forman managed to squeeze a whole movie outta that.) ... http://jordanhoffman.com/2008/05/11/the-prefab-people-1982-bela-tarr-b/ Much like The Simpsons Movie, this direct to DVD feature can best be described as one long Futurama episode. One of those really confusing heavy SF twisty-turny ultra nerdy paradox-laden Futurama episodes with Al Gore in them. You know, the best ones. Can't wait to watch this one again ... http://jordanhoffman.com/2008/05/11/futurama-benders-big-score-2007-dwayne-carey-hill-a/ Here's something that they don't tell you when you poke around and learn about Celine - he's really effing funny. Misogynistic, racist, a probable Nazi sympathizer (if not full on collaborator) yes - but also really funny. The horrors on WWI are on full display starting with chapter ... http://jordanhoffman.com/2008/05/11/journey-to-the-end-of-night-louis-ferdinand-celine/ In 1997 Lou Reed released what I consider his greatest achievement other than 1989's New York, Set The Twilight Reeling. I went absolutely batshit for this album and still dig it out from time to time. In 2000 he followed it up with the just-okay Ecstacy. It ... http://jordanhoffman.com/2008/05/11/lou-reed-ecstacy/ Hey - it's Will Riker flirting with all the girls on DS9, yakking with Kira Nerys, her showing him the Defiant and - OH SNAP! He's gone crazy! Wait, no, it's not Will Riker at all. It's Tom Riker. And TOM Riker's gone crazy! He's ... http://jordanhoffman.com/2008/05/11/defiant-ds9-3/ I remain very much in the minority, but I still feel that this is a pretty damned good movie. The first 20 minutes - the Enterprise-B prologue - remains fanfuckingtastic. On its own, it is the greatest short film of the 1990s. The two big problems everyone's got with ... http://jordanhoffman.com/2008/05/11/star-trek-vi-generations/ Jadzia shtups some guy from a planet interphasing in & out of our corporeal dimension. They figure out a way to stay together. But it doesn't work. Kinda like this episode doesn't work. http://jordanhoffman.com/2008/05/11/meridian-ds9-3/ This is one of those dreams where no matter how much you climb you just keep falling in deeper. O'Brien accidentally sets off a Fail Safe defense system for "Terok Nor" that, one screw up after another, leads to the whole station about to blow up. Garak tries ... http://jordanhoffman.com/2008/05/11/civil-defense-ds9-3/ Quark accidentally smuggles a Jem'Hadar infant (they grow up so fast!) onto the station. Kira wants to kill it, Sisko wants to farm it out to Starfleet for study, but Odo (bristling at the idea of it living in a lab) uses his status as a "Founder" to try ... http://jordanhoffman.com/2008/05/11/the-abondoned-ds9-3/