It’s too bad my couple-of-years-old computer can’t handle the specs of this game. Looks impressive and addictive.
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The Walrus Blogs have an excellent piece on Pynchon and comics.
In other Pynchon news, the man himself creates an Inherent Vice Playlist
Yahoo has the exclusive trailer for The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus.
The 5 minute red band trailer for Legion is worth a watch:
The Aquarium Drunkard takes a look back the Prince’s Sign Of The Times.
Id Software unveils footage from Rage at Quakecon:
This is going to be one of the more bizarre things I’ve ever written, but is it just me or does this image from the Hungarian Xbox 360 manual look exactly like a young Thomas Pynchon? And what, exactly, are they trying to convey here?
And for comparison purposes:
I had high hopes for this film. I like David Fincher. I like Brad Pitt. I like Cate Blanchett. I like Brad Pitt when he teams up with David Fincher. I like F. Scott Fitzgerald. I didn’t particularly care for this film.
Based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, we follow a child born as an old man who lives in reverse, growing younger as time passes. Told in a series of flashbacks and set amongst the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina, the film’s ambition far outpaces any promise it can deliver upon.
The start is fairly promising, with Pitt born as a feeble old man. There’s lots of nice makeup work and special effects, but they just can’t make up for the plodding pace. Knowing the gist of the story before I saw the film, I could have fallen asleep for a good chunk of the film and not missed a whole lot when I woke.
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button is not a terrible film, just a boring one. Like most of Fincher’s work, it is stylistically interesting. The main problem stems from stretching a short story into a two hour and forty minute feature film. I knew I was in trouble when I started checking my watch an hour into the film, and then realizing I was just over one third the way in.
Save yourself some time and read the short story.
RIP Eartha Kitt and Harold Pinter
George Bush, The Reader (via The Literary Saloon)
National Book Award acceptance speech for Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (via Conversational Reading)
Things aren’t much better in the U.K. The Guardian’s top 10 bestsellers in fiction.
VHS is officially dead.
Play Doom And Heretic in your browser.
Man Booker prize sponsor caught in Madoff scandal.
I wish the Mac Vs. PC adds were really like this
Do you think the domain name was available or had to be purchased from a third party? On some level, I am a little disturbed that Electronic Arts owns the DantesInferno.com domain.
The newest Sims 3 trailer looks fantastic, if not a little disturbing.
