Great site celebrating the art of the cinema title sequence, like the startling introduction to Se7en.

The resurgence of prog rock. Absurd time signatures & single-track albums return:

Even so, it’s hard to see how OK Computer’s multi-platinum success can have done the prog scene anything but good by reawakening a public interest in long, episodic songs, retooling the gloomy mein of Dark Side of the Moon for a new decade. Around the same time, metal - traditionally progressive rock’s best mate, with its emphasis on musicianship, partiality for excess and inability to resist a bit of lyrical sword and sorcery - began to rekindle its friendship with prog in the aftermath of grunge.

I’ll have to dig out my PFM.

The Inception trailer was one of the first in a long time where at the end I thought “wha…?” And the film lives up to that - complicated, idea-driven, beautifully shot, and a stellar cast. Christopher Nolan’s 10 year old hot streak continues. Bring your thinking cap.

Getting caught out once was bad, but twice? Why not just, you know, take a photo?? Definitely scroll down to the commentators own Photoshop jobs which are infinitely superior.

From the “bad idea” files, DC Comics wanted/want to do prequels & even sequels to Watchmen. Ugh. Lucky Alan Moore is still cranky with DC (though I don’t know if that’s enough to stop them):

They offered me the rights to Watchmen back, if I would agree to some dopey prequels and sequels…But these days I don’t want Watchmen back. Certainly, I don’t want it back under those kinds of terms.

Great idea - set a “lose by” threshold, and the site tells you if a sports game is worth watching - NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL only for now.

Daryl Hall + Todd Rundgren + Session dudes = genius. Can’t link directly to the track, so:

1. Click this link
2. Scroll to Can We Still Be Friends in the Individual Songs list
3. Jump to 4:50 through the video to skip the blokey bonding
4. TURN IT UP
5. Wallow in the precision playing, harmonic magic, and gushing emotion!

Realtime election info-gadget-overload. Fun!

Still sounding great, especially on Sitting in Limbo.

TDF 2010 on Big Picture