kollektief

more pictures and posts soon, dan good and i are moving to a cottage in jingletown. whee!

If you have netflix view on demand videos, check out the car chase scene at 1 hour 8 minutes of Alien Nation (1988), it’s really cool and unusual and has some great cutting, but it’s hard to explain exactly how. I don’t normally like car chases, and alien nation is a cliche monster, but somehow this car chase scene beautifully violates all the normal rules. I wish somebody could explain to me the way it was conceived and shot, i personally think it turns the film into a forgotten landmark.

then instead of a shootout they just have an overdose scene. what a great film.

also meow. heart waterlove – love sickness, clam dinner.

joyous occasion.

This isn’t much, but I’ve been feeling like maybe I should post some more to kollektief lately, so there you go.

I’ve had a nice time looking at modern art lately. I’ve been getting a bit into Donald Judd, as it seems to turn out that I too have a thing for boxes. Mmm boxes.

I just found this quiz online: Can you tell Donald Judd furniture from cheap Walmart furniture? I got 75%.

I’ve got a lot of work in the next two weeks before school starts.

spent the day in a meeting down in san mateo, drove back and decided to stop around lake meritt for a hamburger in a rare eating out moment for me.

the place was run by a nice Korean couple.

I was reading Eldon Hall’s enjoyable Journey to the Moon but didn’t focus as well as i wanted to. because of that load of work i guess.

speaking of jazz, check out this brilliant jazz rock i had to good fortune to hear tonight. the song solidarity is the one that really grabbed me. chicago keeps churning out the tunes.

just now listening to the rest of the album, it’s more of a post rock kind of thing with a very nice use of brass.

i’ve been doing some reading on Jack Webb’s Dragnet. Webb was notoriously driven with regards to the series, and he controlled every part that he could. What I found surprising to learn, from an interview with Harry Morgan for the Archive of American Television, was that Jack Webb choreographed the exact pacing of the dialogue through the use of teleprompters. I would never have guessed it beforehand, but knowing that and watching the show is really remarkable. It makes so much sense and really illustrates the complexity of Webb’s vision. Also somewhat surprisingly, but kind of reassuring, Morgan described him as very professional and a pleasure to work with, showing that you can be totally obsessive and insane and still a good workmate.

The interview with Morgan drives me a little nuts because the interviewer just exhausts him and doesn’t really draw any information out gradually like i would expect him to, he just shotguns Morgan with questions. The man is 90-something years old in this interview, he’s not going to remember everything as though it were yesterday, and you have to ask him questions about things he’s interested in. Get the interviewee to reminisce!

When Jack Webb died at 62 his jazz record collection numbered over 6000.