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...improve upon the blurb written by Grady Hendrix of the Subway Cinema collective, the NYAFF's producers and programmers: "A vertiginous slide down a swirling toilet bowl of bad taste, Aachi & Ssipak ... has repulsed movie critics and delighted audiences around the world. Not since the animated anti-authoritarian head trips of Ralph Bakshi has a movie done so much so quickly: within the first reel it's dispensed more ultra-violence than a thousand action films, annihilated all boundaries of good taste and bent numerous intellectual properties (like Batman) over the table and violated them so gleefully they may never...
...subway home I chose to leave my iPhone in its bag, since I'd seen the YouTube clip of my counterpart at Newsweek, Steven Levy, being interviewed on Fox News when a passerby jumped him on live TV and tried to wrestle the iPhone out of his hand. One wonders if the incredible frenzy over the iPhone signals a sea change in Apple's brand identity. The iPod was the accessory of the hip cognoscenti. Will the pricey, sought-after iPhone become a mere status symbol, the kind of thing that marks you as an overpaid Wall Street jerkwad...
...Angeles a couple of weeks ago and changed his party registration to unaffiliated a few days later, fueling persistent speculation (denied, so far, by him) that he might pull a Perot and make a third-party run as a billionaire maverick. Come November 2008, voters could be facing a Subway Series presidential race...
...home, riding the subway, I crashed. An older lady in orthopedic shoes got in a couple of stops down. I stared at her, contemplating her attire. A crucifix, a habit… I didn’t realize she was a servant of God until the girl across from me offered her a seat. The fear of God struck me. Not only would I die from the illegal toxins in the Power Horse, hell awaited me because I didn’t give up my seat...
...buzz is resonating beyond official circles. In the last few days my friends and I have heard people talking about the film in restaurants and museums, at parties and on the subway. This is not just the kind of movie that will get people seeing it to catch up with the tastemaker crowd; it's the uncommoner kind that will lure people who, given what they've heard, are expecting to hate it. They'll see it so they can join the debate, if only to say It wasn't that good...