June 23, 2003

Here are a few random links and comments that have accumulated in my frontal lobe over the past few weeks, and that I need to put down on digital ink in order to remember them later and maybe even better the day of an equally random reader:

In today's NYT: A thoroughly enlightening article by David Pogue on Sony's new DVD recorder.

Also, the NYT continues its infatuation in writing about blogs and bloggers. Did the paper fact check all that?

Rent the movie IGBY GOES DOWN on DVD. It's quite possibly the most interesting and delightful film I have seen all year. Having watched it twice in a row (once alone, once with a friend), I was going to write a lengthy review with all kinds of references to J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye (a book I thoroughly despise, but who's main character Holden bears a striking resemblance to the deliciously lovable Igby). Yet, that review hasn't completely formulated itself in my brain, so maybe later. In the meantime, go rent the movie. Susan Sarandon's performance as Igby's pill-popping, psycho-maniac mother Mimi is outstanding, as is newcomer Kieran Culkin's as confused teenager Igby (also worth seeing in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys).

You can thank me later.