Archive for June, 2007
The Face of Another - Criterion Collection - Hiroshi Teshigahara Box Set — dvd movie review
The third outing for Kobo Abe and Hiroshi Teshigahara, The Face of Another, marks the adaptation of one of Abe’s most dense and fascinating works. Hot on the heels of Woman in the Dunes, itself one of the most faithful and thought provoking literary adaptations ever to hit the screen, expectations were understandably high. [...]
Alan Wong’s — restaurant review — Hawai’i
Located conveniently (or maybe not so conveniently) on South King Street, in an unassuming narrow three-story office-type tenement, Alan Wong’s dining room overlooks lush Manoa Valley scenery that’s unfortunately blocked by a bunch of apartment buildings and condos, dammit (just kidding, I love the skyline… “Honolulu city liiiights”). This is a big tip: reserve [...]
Masa’s Sushi — restaurant review — California
If you’re going to put your name on something, especially an eatery, you’d better make damn sure it’s good. Masastugi Uehara proudly parks not only his name on Masa’s Sushi in Mountain View but his smiling face on his website. Masa is not a behind-the-scenes kind of entrepreneur. He’s always behind the [...]
Dreamlogic Link Update — New Friendly Sites!
So we’ve recently updated our Links page with a few friendly sites. In the past we’ve just updated the page silently, but figuring some of you may not know about those little awesome links at the bottom of our page, we decided to alert you to them here. Also, be sure to check out our [...]
Jamba Juice Coupon . Buy one smoothie, get one FREE!
I can’t believe someone is trying to sell this web coupon for $3.25 on eBay with “free shipping”. Capitalism at its finest, hehe.
Woman in the Dunes - Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara - Criterion Collection — dvd movie review
First off, I must say how much I’ve always disliked the international theatrical poster for Woman in the Dunes (aka: Suna no onna). While undoubtedly a striking image, filled with a raw and tangible passion, the film is far from “Rapture in the Sand,” erotic art house fare the likes of …And God Created Woman. [...]
Wallaby Organic Yogurt — munchies review
My last attempt at organic yogurt (Trader Joe’s vegan soy I think?) was my last. Or so I thought. With organic foods on the rise and on the cheap (well, cheapER than they used to be), I found cute little tapered containers of Wallaby Organic Yogurt in the refrigerated alcove of Yahoo!’s Dot’s [...]
Pitfall (Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigaraha) - Criterion Collection — dvd movie review
Pitfall, the first film in Criterion’s three film set is also Teshigahara’s first feature film. Having worked primarily on non-fiction documentary shorts, Teshigahara’s jump to an adaptation of Kobo Abe play, itself a surrealist ghost story criticizing the Japanese mining industry, was met with a bit of trepidation (in fact, two of the film’s assistant [...]
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara - Criterion Collection — dvd box set review
Before embarking on this set of reviews, I must admit, Kobo Abe is my favorite author. Haruki Murakami may have introduced me to the world of Japanese surrealist literature, with his outstanding effort, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle (it too, a personal favorite), but Kobo Abe is my drug of choice. Japan’s premier intellectual existential-surrealist, [...]
Mountain View Stone Cookies — munchies review — Hawai’i
Can you say “ow”? You might not be able to after eating a Mountain View Stone Cookie. These thick golden brown oblong discs are forged for fantastic gum-busting fury!! You’ll wish you were stranded on a deserted island somewhere just so you could invent new uses for them; building tiles, adze blades, [...]
Real Ice Cream (aka: Olety’s Chaat Corner) — restaurant review — California
Do you remember the free webhost Angelfire? I guess I started internet browsing around the death of Angelfire so I remember designing a webpage for a CS class and going nuts with colorful repeated backgrounds (were those orange serrated semicircles supposed to be fans or carrots?), animated .gifs, 42pt banner marquees, and framesets (thanks [...]
DoA: Dead or Alive — he said, she said — movie review
HE SAID:Finally, a summer film that entertains throughout! Seriously, I’m not joking. Dead or Alive was the most fun I’ve had at a summer movie this year. It may be a videogame adaptation, but its ribald mix of kinetic action, sexy females, and tongue in cheek humor provided a consistent level of entertainment — something [...]
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer — he said, she said — movie review
SHE SAID:
Now this is going to sound pretty superficial (but it’s a mainstream movie, so I’m allowed), the main reasons I wanted to see Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer were Julian McMahon and Jessica Alba. If you’re going to do the same, you might be disappointed. First of all, they made [...]
Fur: an Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus movie review
JUST SAY NO to Zaph Chancery font! How can a film with art direction and cinematography so rich start out with credit lines so faulted? It almost reduces it to a Made for Television style, when this film deserves so much better than that.
Behind the (ugh) titles, we see a woman on a [...]
Trailer for P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood
It’s about time. New Paul Thomas Anderson! I could buffer this with all sorts of praise, Punch Drunk is one of my favorite films ever, Anderson is one of the few cinematic geniuses of this generation…but most of you already know that. Let’s just get on with it. Click below to watch the trailer for [...]
Linda Linda Linda — movie review
Linda Linda Linda is my first encounter with Shojo cinema — light and fluffy tales of female friendship, fledgling romance, and good feelings that appeal to the loose-socked teenage girl crowd. To be entirely honest, I wouldn’t have picked it up if I knew this beforehand – I had stupidly confused it with Swing Girls, [...]
Ocean’s 13 — Hostel: Part II — movie reviews
I know some of you out there might actually care about the mainstream releases this past weekend, and so I toss you these two bones. Given the nature of these two films, I think writing full reviews would be fairly superfluous. So, you get a capsule and a mini. Enjoy.
Ocean’s Thirteen
This third outing is [...]
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