And before the Manager again protests against the amount of film-related content in this weblog lately, let's go for some blogland news: I just found FFWD, a weblog by h0l, the boss of Monotonik, the internet music label I did some cover designs for a few years ago. Then local Mac evangelist Rui Carmo has unveiled a new design for his strange mix of blog and wiki - mac.against.org - congratulations on taming PHPWiki so well. And finally, Red of 990000 has devised a very cool photolog interface, although I do miss the teletextesque (now try to pronounce that) design in the weblog. Now, I really ought to freshen my blogroll, some links are breaking and others began to update so sparsely I lost interest. ¶

Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy remakes! (Warning, the link opens many pop-ups) To be honest I have downloaded them but haven't tried them yet, as I think of the childhood timewaster that Jet Set Willy on my ZX Spectrum was and consider the odds of finishing my documentary on time. But here it is, what is perhaps a good way to start ruining your newly started summer holidays - if you are lucky. ¶

Oh, this is nice: a very big archive of corporate logos in vector (EPS) format. There are even a few portuguese companies there. I only hope no company is stupid enough to stand in the way of free advertising and shut the site down because of some stupid copyright law. Now there's an interesting clash of ultracapitalistic interests. (via Zeldman) ¶

Now this really resembles those annoying blogs that place images in every post just to look cool and waste your bandwidth (which equals time plus money). However, Roman Coppola's debut movie CQ is special. You see, I still feel a bit weird after watching this, simply because it's that kind of film that fits me like a glove. You mean, so here is this guy who is a young movie editor (I want to work in editing, so check), has a thing for documentaries (check) shot in cineverité style (check), spends all his cash in filming equipment (check) and in order to survive works at a studio editing and directing a cheesy sci-fi movie (check - the sci-fi part, not the directing or editing unfortunately) with a foxy french actress (I like that, check), and has to put up with the whole insecurities and pseudo-intellectualism of being in a film-related community (check). So... I'm a bit mesmerized, that character really could be me, if I happened to live in Paris in the 60s and had a cool haircut and wore a cool black suit. I mean, CQ is then a top film if you are into any of this stuff. If you don't find editing tables and 16mm cameras the least attractive, you probably won't enjoy it as much as I did. Only a remark: it's a real pity that it was only released in the portuguese theatres now, as the movie is two years old, and already available on DVD for ages. Then again, there were no more than 10 persons in the room and it opened today, as did crap (although I haven't seen it I'm sure to say it's probably shite) like 2Fast 2Furious that had people queueing up outside. Shitty country... ¶

There's something quite romantic about nightly blogging. Even though I ought to wake up in about six hours to spend a whole day of my life attending a wedding, the consequent party, but worst of all, the kind of family reunion where you find out perfect strangers are members of the family, there's still something quite unique to blog at 3AM that sets it apart from the 'professional' atitude (or maybe it is the routine) of blogging after I come home in the early evening and check what's going on in the internet. Or maybe this is just blogrrhea as I try to delay going to bed, as from there it's warp speed to morning. Whatever. ¶