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Criterion DVD picks

Every once in a while, a filmmaker, actor, or musician stops by the Criterion Collection office and is allowed to take a few free DVDs/Blu-rays from the closet. Here is what they chose…

Guy Maddin’s picks:

  • L’Avventura
  • The Night Porter
  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
  • Mouchette
  • When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
  • W.R. Mysteries of the Organism
  • Robinson Crusoe On Mars
  • Mala Noche
  • House
  • Black Narcissus
  • Days of Heaven
  • The Thin Red Line
  • Brand Upon the Brain!


Wim Wenders’ picks:

  • The Rules of the Game
  • Salò
  • Vivre sa Vie
  • Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties


Guillermo Del Toro’s picks:

  • Black Orpheus
  • The Red Shoes
  • The 400 Blows
  • Charade
  • Crumb
  • The Thin Red Line
  • The Magician
  • Repulsion
  • Paths of Glory


Bill Hader’s picks:

  • Amarcord
  • House
  • Salò
  • Green for Danger
  • Loves of a Blonde
  • Antichrist


Robert Downey Sr.’s picks:

  • 8 1/2
  • America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
  • Two-Lane Blacktop
  • John Cassavetes: Five Films


Philip Kaufman’s picks:

  • Amarcord
  • The Wages of Fear
  • Crumb
  • Fanny and Alexander
  • The Battle of Algiers
  • Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir


Michael K. Williams (from The Wire and Boardwalk Empire) picks:

  • Gomorrah
  • The Fugitive Kind
  • Hunger
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • Dazed and Confused
  • Modern Times


Harris Savides’ picks:

  • L’Avventura
  • Red Desert
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • Yi Yi
  • Three Colors: Blue, White, Red


Adrian Utley (Portishead guitarist) picks:

  • Antichrist
  • Ratcatcher
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc
  • Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
  • The 39 Steps


André Bonzel’s picks:

  • The 400 Blows
  • Stranger than Paradise
  • The Scarlet Empress
  • Pandora’s Box
  • Brazil
  • House

YouTube playlist for the Criterion Collection “DVD Picks” http://bit.ly/JJiVUr



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Resistor Color Bands, Part Deux!


I just finished creating a new interactive JavaScript web app to help my Audio Electronics students learn to decode resistor color bands.

This new web app gives you four colors and asks you what the corresponding value would be. http://bit.ly/JsKPUA
The other app (created two months ago) gives you the value of a resistor and asks you what the four corresponding colors would be.
http://bit.ly/z740gg



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Hospitality (Merge Records)

NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Set List:
“Sleepover”
“The Birthday”
“Betty Wang”
Their album is one of my favorites of the year. Here are a few other songs from the album.





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Flaming Lips Boombox Experiment #6

YouTube video from 03-03-1998 in Seattle, WA at The Showbox

Setlist:
06:25 = Test No. 1
11:04 = Test No. 2
15:15 = The Big Ol’ Bug Is the New Baby Now
24:00 = A Winter’s Day Car Accident Melody
35:00 = Realizing the Speed of Life
44:29 = Heralding in a Better Ego
54:22 = Altruism, or That’s the Crotch Calling the Devil Black



This show had special guest “operators” in addition to some audience members. The special guests were:
Dave Dederer & Jason Finn (Presidents of the USA)
Steve Fisk (Pell Mell, Pigeonhed, & producer)
Krist Noveselich (Nirvana, Sweet 75)
Jon Auer & Joe Bass (Posies)
Mark Arm, Steve Turner, & Bob Whittaker (Mudhoney)
Roderick Romero (Sky Cries Mary)
Nick LaCotta (Seattle City Council member)



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