Garden State

January 24th, 2005

I could of sworn that i’d already done about about Garden State, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. I really really liked the movie. It wasn’t a great story. It wasn’t the funniest thing i’ve ever seen, though one of the scenes would probably make the top 10, but that’s probably just because of the mood i was in. I guess if i had to point to something that made it a great movie it would be Natilie Portman and her character, intriguingly neurotic and cute. The movie was written, directed, and produced by the guy from Scrubs, Zach Braff, who is hilarous on Scrubs and pretty good in this movie. I wished i’d seen this one in the theater.

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Soupbone, Big Maracas, and The Sexual Disaster Quartet

January 23rd, 2005

A night of music. We started out at Cheapside at a multi-purpose get together for various friends of Tasha (right). We hung out there for a while and towards the end of that Soupbone went on in the main room. They were kinda stevie ray vaughn style blues band, with a brass section (trumpet and sax.) They we really good, probably the best group we say though the night, had a really groovy feel and the atomosphere was pretty good as well. We’d planned on heading down to The Dame from the started so we left as Soupbone finished offed their first set.

It was rather cold, but luckily the dame isn’t very far from cheapside. As we got in to the dame an Afro-Cuban salsa band Big Maracas was on. There were pretty good, we only got to see their final two songs so they were kinda winding down. The dame was pretty crowded, above average anyway. They finished up and after some time for tear down and set up The Sexual Disaster Quartet took the stage with a jazz-funk style that was really complex and intricate. It seemed to take a few songs before the sound guy figured out what the hell he was doing, translation they sounded like shit. After then he halfway seemed to get things in order, but still never did them justice. The guitar was lost under the bass and drums and you could seldom hear anything besides the crescendos from the trumpet. The band was pretty good, something i’d probably sit around and listen to more than go to s show, but cool nonetheless.

Oh and apparently i need to see napoleon dynamite, or so says like the 10th
person (Alexa) this week so i’ll have to do that soon, i’l let you know what i
think.

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Order in the world

January 16th, 2005

The world is order, at least it wants to be, and in the end i believe really is. That’s not to say we can understand the order, just that it exists. Fractals are found throughout nature for example, the snow flakes which just happen to be falling outside my house today. While snow is interesting you can’t really see the fractals of each of the unique snow flakes due to their miniscule size. There are however, plenty of examples of visible fractals like these and this (best pic.) Those pictures are of Romanesco broccoli, they are not fakes the broccoli actually grows that way. If you want to learn more about fractals take a look at the wikipedia page on the subject.

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Effects

January 11th, 2005

A post on ./ pointed to an article by a team at JPL/NASA on the effects of the recent earthquake on our planet. While there have been numerous stories on the human toll of the earthquake and tsunami this article focused on the changes made to the planet itself. Those of you wanting for more time in a day will be disappointed that the earth’s rotation was altered enough that we’ve lost 2.68 microseconds each day. The earth’s mean magnetic pole shifted by 2.5 centimeters. While neither or these are even remotely noticeable I think it’s wild that things like that affect the planet in such seemingly unrelated ways.

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