Friday, September 19, 2003

Via Jarrod Whaley and Cinema Minima Jarrod Whaley -- Filming the Scenic City: making, presenting, and promoting film in Chattanooga Tennessee USA. Jarrod Whaley is cinema minima's Correspondent in Chattanooga, Tennessee USA. Read his web log at http://www.cinemaminima.com/blogs/whaley/ . I am actively trying to present films (my own, and those of other local filmmakers, as well as classics of world cinema) in a town -- Chattanooga, Tennessee -- whose only other connections with the movies are local multiplexes and corporatized video stores.... It takes a lot of work, but non-corporate film can be brought to the public on a grass-roots level, says Jarrod Whaley. Mr Whaley is the director of DIRTY URGES, OLD FAITHFUL, THE 6TH STEP, SHORT CHANGE, and TYPE. His next film, PIECES, is in pre-production. Oak Street (Independent film that is actually independent.), his production company, is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee USA. [cinema minima] 2:09:28 PM

MoveOn Envy MoveOn.org has proven quite successful. Now some people have been smearing them. It's called jealousy. MoveOn.org, by and large, was correct on the Iraq war and the FCC's attempt at furthering the de-regulatory damage that started in 1996. MoveOn is a Communist Plot!. It's true! According to the good folks at the Texas Citizen's Activist Network, MoveOn is indisputably linked to communism. The Quorum Report addresses it (all of five minutes work, I'm sure, as TCAN's entire "proof" was that some Communist website link [Skeptical Notion] 12:38:35 PM

Next Round's On Me In High Spirits. The Absinthe Guide with history, pictures and a reproduction of a Pernod Fils Catalogue from 1896. Fab. Inspired by Michelle, who blogged another Absinthe link. Hic. [The Cartoonist] 3:57:02 AM

Via Arizona Daily Star Halliburton's Iraq dealings draw scrutiny. WASHINGTON - Halliburton's contracts in Iraq have skyrocketed to $2 billion, prompting new calls from lawmakers to investigate the propriety of the deals. [Arizona Daily Star: Front Page] 2:12:47 AM

The Stroke's New Album - Room On Fire 12:51. The Stroke’s sophomore album Room on Fire is set to be released October 21. More important right now, however, is the lead single 12:51 is available for download from their site. Listen to this happy, hand clapping little ditty and tell me The Strokes have grown musically. [Learn Ignorance: college happenings] 2:09:17 AM