Smiley's Tropical Escape

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

nobody@vox.com(Smiley) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:04:32 +0900

So, I watched Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium the other day. Don't look at me like that, I was on a nine hour flight across the Pacific. I was desperate. Anyway. I really wanted to like this movie. I really did. I like odd, quirky, feelgood ...

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The Sandlot

nobody@vox.com(Smiley) — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:34:42 +0900

Back in college my roommates and I performed the most exacting sort of scientific experiment to determine the greatest guys' movie of all time. We sat down in a closed room with several young men and women and watched a selection of several film...

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Mini Review: Moleskine City Notebooks

nobody@vox.com(Smiley) — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:38:46 +0900

Moleskine, the famed maker of small, hardback, quality notebooks, has recently released a series of city guides. The guides are designed to turn a travel journal into a useful guidebook as well. From the website: A special guidebook, to buy f...

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Review: Rough Guide Directions Barcelona

nobody@vox.com(Smiley) — Sun, 06 May 2007 14:33:53 +0900

A good travel guide should provide the traveler with all the information they need to get around the city, tourist attractions, hotels, and restaurants. A good travel guide should not provide so much information about a place that the traveler...

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Manga Review: One Piece Vol. 1 Romance Dawn

nobody@vox.com(Smiley) — Sun, 06 May 2007 11:34:01 +0900

One Piece is the story of Strawhat Luffy, a boy whose sole ambition in life is to become King of the Pirates; chapter 3 of Volume 1 opens with Luffy riding a shark, cowboy style, complete with a rope strung between its teeth for reigns. This ima...

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Book: David Bowie's Low by Hugo Wilcken

nobody@vox.com(Smiley) — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:54:38 +0900

Low can be a hard album to listen to. It does not have the conventional pop singles or tracks that are easy to jump into and out of; the second side of the LP contains nothing but slow, synthetic songs that seem more at home as background music...

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Book: Clerks and Chasing Amy - Two Screenplays

nobody@vox.com(Smiley) — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:58:31 +0900

Kevin Smith has been one of my favorite directors ever since I first saw Clerks, way back in the day. My friends and I would quote the movie constantly; my roommate in college even wrote Silent Bob's single line on a note-card and stuck it on th...

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Film: Broken Flowers

nobody@vox.com(Smiley) — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:35:44 +0900

My wife and I sat down to watch Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers the other night. We had our popcorn and our tea and then we had vastly different reactions. Now, two days later, I can't get the film out of my head and I'm still wondering what it m...

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