Three reasons to be on Twitter

Mar. 24th, 2011 09:50 am
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1. The direct message function means I can kinda-text people around the world without paying Virgin any extra.

2. Re-tweets keep me updated on world events and interesting issues.

3. Tweets from famous people, meaning you can watch Neil Gaiman and Phill Jupitus chat:

NG: Not the most cheering thing for me to find on my hotel pillow tonight. http://twitpic.com/4cluel

PJ: @neilhimself Leave. That. Hotel. NOW.

NG: @jupitusphillip I can't. The BBC is paying.

PJ: @neilhimself Hotels? The BBC? In this day and age? You're lucky not to be sleeping in a skip under thousands of 'compliance' documents...

NG: @jupitusphillip I am lucky. And I think they like my Doctor Who episode.

There's probably some pithy things to say about identity, and performance of identity, and the public performance of celebrity identity, and the audience's pleasure in searching for moments of authenticity in the public performance of celebrity identity, or you can do what I do and giggle at Mark Gatiss's description of Barry Manilow: "Manilow. You had to be there. Skin tauter than a 1000 year old mummy. Legs of Virgil Tracy. Astonishing."
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Yes, I haven't finished any more work, shaddup

Jul. 4th, 2009 01:22 am
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I have, however, seen three movies in the last three days: Public Enemies, Moon and Drag Me to Hell, each of which I recommend (though for different reasons). Public Enemies has lots of style, Moon is stark but funny (and contained yet not claustrophobic), and Drag Me to Hell makes you forget that Sam Raimi made the leaden (humourless) crapfest that was Spiderman III.

Tomorrow I'm heading off to Stratford for the third time this summer to see Three Sisters, Cyrano de Bergerac and Macbeth. Three Sisters doesn't star Colm Feore, but the other two do.

As I'm back to watching movies (lazy, lazy film grad), I've been updating my Twitter feed of movie reviews.

I also have Opinions about all the movie trailers I've seen, but it seems like there are a bunch of fun-looking sf/action flicks coming up. Whoever's in charge of naming these movies needs a refresher in not sucking, though. Armoured? Gamer? Bruce Willis Has to Save the World Again Surrogate? Lame titles, man.
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July, August, September and October Twitter reviews

Nov. 2nd, 2008 12:44 pm
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I watch far more television than I do movies, which makes my Twitter feed rather sparse. Instead of posting about the one movie I saw every month, I saved up for a few and now have something more substantial to post.

If I had to pick one movie from the list that I'd tell you to run out any rent/buy right now my god right now it would be The Fall. I only Twittered (Tweeted, I think?) about it once, but I've seen it five times in the past four weeks. I watched it for the fifth time with Teagan last night, and we agreed there is a lot of movie in that movie. (I also showed her my favourite science fiction film ever, La Jetée, which is now helpfully posted in its entirety on Youtube. It's a good mood-setter for The Fall, and a good short film in and of itself. [livejournal.com profile] nevalent: you were asking about short films? That's one you must see.)

( Epics, epic fails, and epic wins )
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Twitter Movie Reviews from June

Jul. 9th, 2008 06:44 pm
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Continuing from last month, here are June's movie reviews from my Twitter account. Enjoy!

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Twitter Movie Reviews from May

Jun. 13th, 2008 09:24 am
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First I stole [livejournal.com profile] philthe25th's idea to catalogue all the movies I've seen on Twitter, now I've stolen his idea of posting a month's worth of reviews on lj. The fun of the Twitter review is that you're limited to 140 characters. The fun of re-posting the reviews here is that I can expand on whatever snap judgment I'd made and say some more things (more coherent things, maybe) about the films.

I didn't see enough films to make this a best-of (maybe I should start reviewing/grading TV episodes?), but fair's fair: here's what I've been watching.

Iron Man (2008): 9/10. Light on the character-to-action ratio, but that's like faulting water for being wet. RDJr is a hero. Saw it 2x.

More: ( I've actually seen it 3.5 times by now, heh. )

EDIT: After only one entry, I've forgotten the one-song-per-post challenge I've set for myself. So: here's a Justin Timberlake/Ace of Base mashup ("Summer Love" with "Cruel Summer"). Good times.
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