While I was home yesterday, my wife and I watched Waste Land.
It was awesome.

Really?

*Dazed and Confused fans understand.

From Coffee and Cigarettes by Jim Jarmusch

This was my takeaway from Man of Steel.
Superman is totally cool with collateral damage.
Early in the movie Superman’s father, Jor-el, tells him, “You can save them all.”
Right, except for the millions Superman killed while he was smashing General Zod through buildings in Manhattan.
Which reminds me, can we lay off destroying New York in movies for a few years? Shit.

I’m a documentary junkie, and this one looks good.

I love documentaries. They’re real stories about real people and the best ones offer unscripted and unedited retellings of stories by the people who experienced them.
Last night I watched Searching For Sugar Man with my wife. It recounts the search by a few South African fans for a thought-to-be-dead musician from the 70’s by the name of “Rodriquez”. Unbeknownst to Rodriquez, he’s huge in South Africa (“Bigger than the Beatles”). In 1998 he finally gets to experience his fame and play 6 sold out shows to his fans.
After watching Searching For Sugar Man I decided to see what other interesting documentary trailers I could find on my Apple TV:
Room 237 is about the mythology and codes behind Stanley Kubrick’s, The Shining.
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder – About Lawrence Ferlinghetti, founder of City Lights Books in San Francisco. If you’re a fan of the Beats (Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs) like me, this is a must-see.
56 Up – This film tracks the lives of 14 people from age 7 to age 56.
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography – About the skateboarding team assembled by Stacy Peralta. I saw this film last month and really liked it, but not as much Stacy’s previous film, Dogtown & Z-Boys.
The Last Gladiators – “Academy Award® winning Director Alex Gibney takes an unprecedented look at the National Hockey League’s most feared enforcers and explores the career of Chris “Knuckles” Nilan.”
Those are just a few I’ve seen or have piqued my interest. There’s a bunch more coming out. Check em out.

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I’m building for myself on spec. It’s this out-of-control hobby vibe of just enjoying the process all the way through.

—Magnus Walker

Urban Outlaw (via So It’s Come To This) feels like a documentary specifically made for me. It’s about Magnus Walker—a Porsche enthusiast who owns and has restored every 911 between 1964 and 1972 (approx. 32 minutes):

This film resonates to me on a few important levels:

—Magnus is an autodidactic engineer like my father. He has little formal education. What he didn’t know he figured out. And he didn’t care what the “rules” were.

—He loves cars Porsches, and restores them himself. He designs his restorations based on his taste, not what other prospective clients might want.

—The film uses a great track from one of my favorite bands, The Kills.

—He designs and sells his own clothes. Again, like the cars, clothes he would like to wear. I’ve long been obsessed with graphic tees and have started making my own (see the sidebar of this site).

—He has a great wife. Examples of great marriages are between people who share the same values. After seeing what his wife was able to do with their dilapidated industrial property in the Arts District of Los Angeles, and they you look at what he’s able to do with old Porsches, it all makes sense. I feel the same way about my wife. She’s fanatical about fashion the way I’m fanatical about design and technology and cars.

Screen Junkies just posted a new Honest Trailer for The Dark Knight Rises (via Laughing Squid).

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one acutely aware of the gaping plot holes and inconsistencies in The Dark Knight Rises. It paled in comparison to The Dark Knight (2008).

Bryan didn’t dig it either.

The Hole is one of the oddest New York-related stories I’ve ever heard.