So maybe I should split off a dev-blog, or just shut up about Drivey for a while. It’s kind of taken over to the point that I find myself casting about for something else to talk about.

And it’d be nice to keep a little bit of mystery about the project ;)

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I saw Million Dollar Baby yesterday. If you like your movies served with a big dollop of pathos then you’ll probably like it a lot [I did]. I’ve seen it described as Rocky meets Terms of Endearment, and might be inclined to agree if I didn’t have such a low opinion of the x-meets-y school of criticism [for nerdular reasons: if you define everything in terms of where it sits between two other things, you are probably neglecting the axes along which the subject might actually define a new extreme].

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The soundtrack to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is not as good as I would like, dammit! Probably because [as with most soundtracks] the music was selected based on how well particular bits of it worked in particular scenes. There are beautiful little piano pieces that don’t actually go anywhere, along with disconcerting vocals accompanying parts which had been purely instrumental within the film. Plus it includes music from the more jarring sections of the film, which worked well dramatically but really sucks when you just want something nice to listen to.