kadavy.net » Movies http://www.kadavy.net Get to know David Kadavy Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:13:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.kadavy.net http://www.kadavy.net/../favicon_kadavynet.gif kadavy.net Kadavy’s Big Screen Debut http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/kadavys-big-screen-debut/ http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/kadavys-big-screen-debut/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:09:33 +0000 David Kadavy http://www.devwp.kadavy.net/?p=174 I recently played the lead role in Marc Stayman’s “Echo,” a production of Scary Cow. It played on the big screen at the Victoria Theater in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, but I unfortunately missed it since I was wandering through Europe. Thanks to the interwebs, you can enjoy it from the comfort of your internet browser. Check it out!

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It’s on YouTube, so you can pass it around easily. Blog it. MySpace it. IM it. Yo DAAAAAAAAAWWG!!

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]]> http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/how-not-to-interview-a-workaustincom-promo/feed/ 2 The Economics of Urban Sprawl http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/the-economics-of-urban-sprawl/ http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/the-economics-of-urban-sprawl/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:01:22 +0000 David Kadavy http://www.devwp.kadavy.net/?p=83 AJ Kandy of “West of the Expressway” has made some perceptive observations on The Economics of Urban Sprawl. Not only do the suburbs exterminate culture, they may be an economic drain all-around. It’s great to make the decision to not buy a gas guzzler, but how about designing our lives so we drive less to begin with?

The eventual realization of these economic consequences may result in the End of Suburbia, looks like an interesting documentary, analyzing “the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.” It probably won’t be coming to a theater near you, but they do encourage public screenings. Anyone up for one in Omaha?

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]]> http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/the-economics-of-urban-sprawl/feed/ 8 Alexander Payne’s “Sideways,” and JD Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye” http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/alexander-paynes-sideways-and-jd-salingers-catcher-in-the-rye/ http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/alexander-paynes-sideways-and-jd-salingers-catcher-in-the-rye/#comments Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:22:45 +0000 David Kadavy http://www.devwp.kadavy.net/?p=60 Friday night I saw Alexander Payne‘s newest masterpiece, Sideways in which the lonely, divorced Miles (Paul Giamatti) takes his soon to be wed friend, Jack (Thomas Haden Church), on a week-long bachelor party of sorts through California’s wine country.

In preparation for dressing up as Holden Caulfield for Halloween (I actually went as Pedro from Napoleon Dyanmite), I have been re-reading JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, and I noticed an analogous relationship between at least a portion of Catcher and Alexander Payne’s movies (most notably, Election, About Schmidt, and Sideways). In Sideways, there is a scene where Maya (Virginia Madsen) explains to Miles that she likes wine because it is living, and is different every day. The day that you open it, it tastes different than it would be on any other day. Also, in Catcher, there is a part where Holden, while walking to the Museum of Natural History ponders:

“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers and their pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket. Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you’d be so much older or anything. It wouldn’t be that, exactly. You’d just be different, that’s all. You’d have an overcoat on this time. Or the kid that was your partner in line the last time had got scarlet fever and you’d have a new partner. Or you’d have a substitute taking the class, instead of Miss Aigletinger. Or you’d heard your mother and father having a terrific fight in the bathroom. Or you’d just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you’d be different in some way–I can’t explain what I mean.”

This alone seems like a rather weak link, but then I remembered, didn’t Mr. McAllister (Matthew Broderick) get a job at the Musuem of Natural History after he moved from Omaha? There is also a scene in About Schmidt where Warren (Jack Nicholson) visits The Great River Platte Road Archway Monument, and views exhibits similar to those described in Catcher. Perhaps even Warren’s deceased wive’s Hummel figures serve as this static artifact that contrasts with the constant change in the lives of the characters surrounding it.

I’m sure this concept of people being in a constant state of flux, contrasted by something unchanging is a literary theme that originates from before Salinger, but It made me wonder.

What do you think?

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There are very few things in this world that I know enough about to express a strong opinion on, and politics is far from being one of them. I will spare you from hearing another uninformed opinion on politics, but present this resource for you to form your own opinions.

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]]> http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/super-size-me/feed/ 0 Swimming Pool (movie) *SPOILERS* http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/swimming-pool-movie-spoilers/ http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/swimming-pool-movie-spoilers/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:06:50 +0000 David Kadavy http://www.devwp.kadavy.net/?p=18 Last night, I watched Swimming Pool (Amazon), a rather ambiguous movie a la Mulholland Drive (Amazon) or 8 1/2 (Amazon). I enjoy such movies because they make wonderful vehicles for discussion. Of the many interesting posts on this movie, I think the interpretation that the Julia we see for most of the movie is Sarah’s creation makes the most sense.

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