Don’t know if I’ve ever promoted software here on the site – but I stumbled across Flavors.me yesterday and just love it – using Flavors within minutes you create a personalized website so folks can easily access all of your internet content in one place – this is what I wished Google Profiles looked like, (Google is not known for their design sense of course – I remember the first time I visited Google Video – watched someone’s home-made Batman movie – and of course the ‘twist ending’ was ruined because Google showed thumbnails along the bottom of the screen – including the denouement – sigh).

Anyhew here’s what I whipped over half a cup of coffee:  jett-loe.com

They’ve got a free and a paid option – paid if you want to use a custom URL, (I did as just purchased jett-loe.com – on a personal note to the folks who own jettloe.com – you want $1000 for it?- who other than me would ever want it?  My enemies?  Too cheap).

Flavors host the site as well so it really is simple to set up – in fact there really isn’t a set-up – the whole thing is so light – instant and continuous - for me it feels like the future – apps so simple to use they don’t seem like software – they just are – making your life easier rather than harder – a nice thing in our world seemingly drowning in information.

TFT 136 running time: 33 minutes 43 seconds – 16.3mb mp3

KNIGHT AND DAY starts at 2 minutes 37 seconds

TOY STORY 3 starts at 24:07

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HELP JETT FIND WORK IN LA– CLICK HERE FOR THE LINKED IN PROFILE

We’ll be reviewing INCEPTION on episode 137 – in the meantime here’s some early observations, (spoiler free of course):

• Best big-budget remake of DREAMSCAPE one could hope for
• If you’re an average 14-year old US male it will be the greatest film you have ever seen
• Outside of that demographic? Eh, not so much
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a star
• Comparisons to Kubrick? (people have been doing it Dear Reader) INCEPTION is as close to Kubrick as GET HIM TO THE GREEK is when Aldous Snow cries out during a chase scene that the long corridors they’re running down in are “Kubrickian”
• Christopher Nolan does architecture as well as Michael Mann
• Go in with moderate expectations and you’ll have a good time, (assuming you don’t mind gun battles that go on forever)

Is there anybody out there?

In the late seventies, out of accident or curiosity, some unknown stoner put on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon while simultaneously watching a muted The Wizard of Oz. Thus begat music/film synchronicity. For The Dark Side of the Rainbow, the quality of effect is directly proportional to the amount of drugs you have ingested. Sober, the whole is more annoying than the sum of its parts.

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More and more I wish for some sort of universal copyright/left system that would allow for easy re-use of existing material:

Why Not Re-Hab Films Like We Do Houses?

This occupied my mind yesterday when I screened the extremely watchable doc THE WILD AND WONDERFUL WHITES OF WEST VIRGINIA.

Documenting a year in the life of an ‘outlaw’ family in West Virginia, (though not nearly as ‘outlaw’ as the trailer for the pic would have you believe), the film is layered with music and graphics that sorta tell you what to think – this is not necessary – but it’s a stylistic choice that moves the pic along at a clip so I understand the compulsion to do it – but can’t help thinking about the raw material – the bags and bags of tapes that must exist after a year of shooting.

Wouldn’t it be a wonderful service to make those available for anyone to remix and reversion?  Because while the film itself is well-crafted, competent and done with obvious love for the subjects, the humanity on display is something special, it transcends the contemporary nature of the filmmaking – so much so that I watched the film through again with the sound off to just watch the faces – a much more powerful experience for me then the film with the sound turned on.

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Just a thought for this humid and wet Monday morning in Nashville;  THE WILD AND WONDERFUL WHITES OF WEST VIRGINIA is at The Becourt Theatre for three days only, July 13th to the 15th.

The pic is also available to watch on demand at home – click here to go the Official Site and find out how.