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Portishead live February 2007

Shitty video of an awesome impromptu Portishead performance at a club in February, their first performance together since the Tsumani relief show.

Jules and I caught a showing of David Fincher’s Zodiac over the weekend, and, like Julie says, we had high expectations and it still managed to blow us away. I walked out of the theater thinking about the film and haven’t really stopped since. It has been catching a lot of flak from critics for being too long without a satisfactory resolution. I think that both of those claims are unfounded. It is long, (it runs for just over 160 minutes,) but it never FEELS long. From the first gunshot fired by the Zodiac in the prologue I was hooked; swept up in the films panic and obsession and desperation. The film’s energy and impact, and its greatest strength, comes from its unconventional structure. It is really a great film that goes so far above what we are used to seeing from Hollywood these days. I’d love to write a detailed review, but I really need to see it a 2^nd time before I could do it justice. Fincher really stepped-up his game and focused on storytelling and characters above his personal style. A must-see, and you’d do good to see it in the theaters.

Does “Sift+F7″ mean anything to you?  Chances are if you know it you know it as the shortcut for opening the thesaurus in MS Word.  Something that I do A LOT of.  Years ago, just hours before his wedding, I was helpign Beau put the finishing touches on his vows when he taught me a nifty trick that is one of my favorites to this day:  right-click on a work in MS Word and the contextual menu as a “synonyms” pop-out menu.  This is a fantastic extraordinary way to quickly “punch up” something you are working on in Word after you realize that you’ve used the same descriptor 4 or 5 times.