Three quick reviews:
1. I saw Rize last night (finally). It’s kind of a mess, it has about six different endings and leans pretty hard on some pretty shots of dancing, but all-in-all it’s a great film. I read in Film Comment that La Chappelle set out to treat his krump-dancing subjects like the stars they know they are, and he succeeds at every turn. See the movie and watch people be awesome at something you probably didn’t know people did.
2. I saw another screening of Me and You and Everyone We Know …

For the last few weeks, I have been engaged in a battle with Nextel and Equifax that is lifted straight from the pages of the script for “Punch Drunk Love.”
It went like this:
Nextel has a promotion with Continental Airlines going until June 30th which offers new subscribers 7,000 miles to switch to their service. My Verizon contract lapsed in May, and despite overall pretty good service from Verizon, my phone didn’t work in my otherwise perfect apartment. For a year or so, I’ve been the guy who paces up and down his …

A shout-out to Amy Adrion for the picture and nice sentence in LA Weekly’s coverage of the UCLA Director’s Spotlight for her “Surviving 7th Grade.” If you’re in LA on Wednesday - check out a night of great UCLA movies and one sparkling short.

This is my dorm-sized fridge. The block of ice over the empty jug of OJ and the Vanana (vanilla/banana) yogurt is what used to be my freezer. It started frosting over when I moved in, muscling out my frozen taquitos and eventually requiring a working over with a fork to force it to accommodate a pint of ice cream.

A gallery of Japanese Movie Monsters from a blog I can look at but not read because of the whole not being able to read Japanese thing.