DVD REVIEW [Early] . Graveyard of Honor (aka: New Graveyard of Honor)

They say nihilism loses its appeal after a certain age. Maybe it has to do with a change in lifestyle that comes with lasting relationships, fulfilling work, and true freedom of choice. Teenagers often are drawn toward nihilistic works because of the absence of these elements in their lives. Whether that’s truly the case, I [...]

YouTube Find . Tarantino Vs. Jan Wahl

If you live in the Bay Area you’ve probably heard of film reviewer Jan Wahl, or even had the misfortune of catching her weekly segment on the KRON 4 News. The woman is terribly uninformed, thickheaded, loud, stupid. I can’t stand her. I don’t know how many times she’s mangled the names of alleged favorite [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS [In Brief] . Meatball Machine, Crash (1997), Hustle and Flow

Summertime catch-up continues with three more films from the queue. This go round we have Meatball Machine, David Cronenberg’s Crash, and Hustle and Flow. Enjoy.
Meatball Machine . This was a bit of a hit at the 2006 Hole in the Head fest, but I finally tracked it down this week. Directed by Yudai Yamaguchi (Battlefield [...]

DVD REVIEW [Early] . Everything’s Gone Green

A beached whale brought them together. It’s true, in Everything’s Gone Green, Ryan (Paulo Costanzo) the chronically tardy hippie salaryman with the Buddha beads and orca-shaped telephone meets Ming (Steph Song) the leather-clad artistic type at the tragic scene of a gigantic mammal carcass. They exchange some philosophical anthropological banter and part ways, [...]

Frank Gehry Napa Valley groundbreaking today

A new six building 110,000 square-foot Napa Valley winery which celebrated architect Frank Gehry designed for Craig and Kathryn Hall is having its official groundbreaking ceremony today. Unconventionally, the groundbreaking is taking place after initial construction has already begun. Mrs. Hall, the former U.S. ambassador to Austria, is a known avid art collector [...]

MOVIE REVIEW . Tokyo Eleven (aka: Tokyo 10+1)

You know, it’s always a shame to see a fun flick torn apart because of superficial reasons. “The film looks ugly because it was shot on DV. I hate DV. The film wasn’t serious. It looked cheap. The acting wasn’t Shakespeare. The people were too pretty. Others were too ugly”… and on and on and [...]

Yahoo! News . You Tube and Stock Quotes get bloated with Y! Expando

Now you can watch a full-sized You Tube video in the SRP (Search Results). Just click on the image in the search results and behold the magic of Expando:

EXPANDO YOU TUBE

EXPANDO STOCK QUOTE (awful timing now that the DOW plummeted.. again)

Yahoo! News . Yahoo SRP goes on a No Numbers Diet

This is the quickest and smallest “big cheese” search page on the web. On previous tests, I worked with the webdevs on a main sprite image (reducing image calls) and the team found a way to further reduce page weight by over 60%~!
I am very excited because we can hopefully achieve lightning [...]

Yahoo! News . Pièce de Assistance

Some new better browsing ideas that launched last night:

Travel Assist Module

Music Artist Assist Module

Search Assistance Layer

Optimism boost: Tom Kelley visited Yahoo! on Monday and I’m still stoked!

If you’ve never heard of IDEO, you’re about to. IDEO is a company which makes other companies perform better. They analyze and restructure strategies and product designs for big name johns like Proctor & Gamble, Microsoft, Apple to design more effective products and/or concepts. For example, their fat squishy toothbrush handle for [...]

La Victoria Taqueria — restaurant review — California

Thank God this place has their infamous orange sauce because their burritos taste like garbage. And I don’t mean a euphemism for bad food, I actually mean garbage like someone dumpster-dove for the tomatoes and lettuce and left ‘em in mayonnaise out in the sun (I saw that taqueria caveat piece on the news; [...]

Yuki Sushi // restaurant review // California

It may seem a bit misleading when you see the queue outside and the crowded dining area inside, but Yuki Sushi is not good eats. Their tempura batter is too thick, noodles starchy and limp, sushi rice too vinegary, rolled tamago way too sweet, nori stale, maguro stringy, tako a bit sour, overall tough [...]

A few issues to be upset about

I don’t usually bring in political articles in an effort to keep the comment boards civil, but some of these issues in the past week or so have been pretty frustrating.
The Evil P2P Menace!
This CNET news article reports that Congress is now claiming P2P networks are a threat to national security. Why? Because a [...]

TRAILER WATCH . Lust, Caution, 3:10 to Yuma, Darjeeling Limited and more

Here are a few more of trailers I came across on the web. Also, scroll down for a Panda Prison Break ( I didn’t know where else to place it).
Lust, Caution . New Ang Li, featuring Tony Leung and (ugh) Joan Chen. Plot involves a love story and assassination plot in occupied Shanghai. Check [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS [In Brief] . Ghost in the Shell: SAC: Solid State Society, Behind the Mask, and Bloodrayne

…and a little more catch up. Reviews for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, and, in preparing for the upcoming San Francisco screening of Postal, Uwe Boll’s BloodRayne. Enjoy.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society . How’s that for the [...]

Garbage — Absolute Garbage — he-said, she-said — music video DVD/CD review — early!

The DVD (SHE SAID)
Oh, you know those little mistakes in life you regret? I regret agreeing to do this review. First off, I remember thinking “damn, they ripped off Curve” when Garbage first hit the scene, then I remember being puzzled when my otherwise gentleman-y and sickly sweet friend said “Shirley Manson is [...]

MUNCHIES . Mango Nectarines

Was I gypped? Is this in fact just a yellow-er nectarine? Sure tastes like a nectarine and looks like a nectarine and has a nectarine seed-pit. But nooo wait, the consistency is definitely smoother, without all those pulpy maroon seed-hugging nubs and strands, and the color is definitely bright mango-yellow pop straight [...]

Rose & Camelia - I give you slap!!!

If you made a Jane Austen novel into a fighting game, you’d probably end up with something like Rose & Camelia, a Japanese flash game of 17th century high-society slapping that has to be seen to be believed. It’s quite a bit of fun and features some fairly intuitive controls (click the action button that [...]