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October 17, 2006 &bull uncategorized

Music -
About 10 minutes before we walked out the door for our trip to France, I made an impulse purchase on iTunes (OK, what iTunes purchase isn’t an “impulse puchase?”) and picked up the new Silversun Pickups album, “CARNAVAS”. It was a pleasant surprise to discover a new band and suck their latest effort into my iPod right before I was about to hop on a plane for 10+ hours. I listened to the album a lot during our vacation and really enjoyed it. SSPU reminds me a lot of a band I used to listen to in college called “Knapsack.” Kind of emo/indie stuff, but super, super good.

Movies -
We saw a couple really good movies this past weekend so I figured I should spread the word. We watched Brick on Thursday night and, while I was a little skeptical at first, it turned out to a very good film. The dialog was awesome and even though it wasn’t completely spot-on (kind of like Primer in that regard) it was thoroughly enjoyable.
The other show we watched that got my attention was The Squid and the Whale, which reminded me a lot of a less-goofy Wes Anderson flick. It was very smart and the acting was very good. Jeff Daniels was probably my favorite character; I guess I never considered him a “serious” actor before, but he shows what he’s made of in this movie. Even though the family situation is a bit disturbing, it’s still definitely worth seeing.

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