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“Those common elements are even more noticeable — and funny — in this fan-made YouTube trailer for Paprika’s Inception. In this clever mash-up, Paprika’s images are matched with the Inception soundtrack and voice-over narration. The level of synchronicity between the two is pretty amazing. I’ve never heard Nolan talk about Paprika, and there are certainly no shortage of movies out there using shared dreams as plot elements, but it’s still interesting to note some of the things the titles have in common. It seems like the filmmaker must have at least been familiar with Paprika on some level. Perhaps the worst thing about the similarities between the two projects is that it seems likely that people will call Wolfgang Peterson’s live-action version of Paprika an “Inception rip-off,” should it ever move beyond the treatment stage.”

link: ‘Paprika’ Meets ‘Inception’ in This Mash-Up Trailer – Cinematical

“Is there a better area of Downtown to work near (or eat lunch in) than Little Tokyo? It almost makes me want to get a job at City Hall just so I could work near all the great Japanese food that lines the streets between Main St. and Alameda. I’ve already tried the porky bowl of goodness that is Daikokuya’s ramen, and the Little Tokyo Marketplace (on 3rd & Alameda) is on my radar. But when Profiled Lunch’er “Nguyen” (who also happens to own Starry Kitchen in the Downtown Water Court) called Chin Ma Ya’s ramen one of his favorite dishes to eat Downtown, the Weller Court (nr. 2nd and Los Angeles) leaped to the top of my list. Chin Ma Ya isn’t known for their typical Japanese ramen. You can order a shoyu or shio ramen, but their specialty is something called “tan tan men” a Japanese ramen with a Sichuan twist (imagine a bowl of soup with dan dan noodles dumped into it, and that’s the dish.) I love ramen. And I love Sichuan cuisine. So there was pretty much no way this was going to be bad…”

link: Chin Ma Ya’s Tan Tan Men Combines Two of My Favorite Things (Dan Dan Noodles & Ramen) | Midtown Lunch: Los Angeles

“When Cage takes on these outsize B-movie roles, I don’t believe for a moment that he is just nodding wearily to his agent (and his accountant). I think he’s fulfilling a vision, albeit one that looks inscrutable from the outside, of choosing roles in the kind of movies he himself loves. Remember that Cage is a lifelong devotee of comic books—his collection was auctioned off for $1.6 million in 2002—and that he named his second son Kal-El, after the birth name of Superman. Cage may mix lowbrow and high, but with rare exceptions (Matchstick Men, The Weather Man), he doesn’t do straightforward middlebrow dramas. And his high and low choices have a lot in common: Both evince the taste of a man drawn to extremes of experience.”

link: A few thoughts on the mannered weirdness of Nicolas Cage. – By Dana Stevens – Slate Magazine

“But one thing that is clear is “Billboard” has already lost. By clinging to its old model for far too long, cutting overhead instead of reinvesting. What a fascinating world we live in. Where oldsters live on icebergs, holding on for dear life as they float further and further away from the mainland, as global warming decreases their floe, and the rest of us are sitting pretty on terra firma, with endless delicacies in front of us. But this new world has been incomprehensible. Until now. It’s like we’re putting glasses on the music industry, the details are finally coming into focus. And you can’t quantify music. But you can quantify its reach. You can approximate its impact. In the old days, that was via tracking radio and retail sales. Now they’re only part of the picture. It’s time for the music industry to embrace a dose of reality. Yes, finally, music is ready for the nerds.”

link: Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » The Death Of Billboard (& SoundScan!)

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