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Harlan Ellison – Pay the Writer

Posted in Movies, Writing, tagged , , on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I found this really great rant by Harlan Ellison about writers getting (or not getting) paid.

Pay the Writer is taken from a documentary on him called Dreams With Sharp Teeth. Here is the trailer:

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Double or Nothing

Posted in Books, Movies, Science and Technology, Writing, colombia, tagged , , , , , , , on October 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »

So back onto this idea of twins or doubles existing. I was looking into Jose Saramago, the Portugese author of Blindness, which has been made into a movie that everyone seems to be talking about. I am one of those people that usually finds the book is better than the movie, so I am reading [...]

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Viva Chihuahuas! No Mas!

Posted in Movies, Spanish, colombia, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

My favourite Spanish language film is Amores Perros, produced and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, and written by Guillermo Arriaga, the duo responsible for 21 Grams and Babel, although I was not nearly as impressed with those films as I was with Amores Perros. One of the most engaging storylines in the film is with [...]

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Opportunity Lost and Found

Posted in Movies, Thoughts, tagged , , , on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today I watched a Spanish short (or cortometraje) called Momentos de estacion. You can watch it here if you like, but there are no subtitles so unless you understand Spanish you’ll just have to get the basic idea from visual clues. It’s just a cute story that is basically about seizing the day and lost [...]

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Ghost Town – Go See It!

Posted in Movies, tagged , , , on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Now, I don’t want to build it up too much because then you may not enjoy it. But if you appreciate comedy then you must see Ghost Town. Let me tell you, I haven’t laughed that hard and often in a movie in a VERY long time! And of course, it has some cute romance [...]

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