December 2009
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2009 in Travel
Places we went in 2009:
Copper Mountain, CO
Atlanta, GA. (twice, maybe three times)
Little Torch Key, FL
Key West, FL
Las Vegas, NV
Los Angeles, CA
Austin, TX
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Clint Mansell interviewed by LittleWhiteLies →
The composer talks about working with Aronofsky, scoring Moon, and a little about his ideas for Aronofsky’s next picture, Black Swan:
“Well it’s all really embryonic at the moment, one of the main ideas we’ve got is building the entire score out of elements from Swan Lake. I mean it would have to be vastly screwed with, but that’s a starting point. Sometimes we’ve had ideas in the...
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Backdoor tour of the Vegas monorail →
We used the monorail for the first few days we were in Vegas, to go from Riviera on the north end of the Strip down to the main southern section. It’s expensive and kind of a pain to use. Riding the bus worked a lot better:
“On the Strip, as I walked south from the Sahara, I couldn’t help noticing the crowded bus stops. As it turns out, in 2005 the RTC started running a flashy...
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Apple bought Lala
Music service Lala was bought by Apple recently. There are a number of possibilities here:
The good:
An owner with cash could keep the service running indefinitely
Maybe Apple understands that the iTunes store isn’t enough anymore
That iPhone app shouldn’t have trouble making it through certification now
The bad:
Active development will almost certainly slow to a crawl until...
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“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma)
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