Technology 1, Filmbrain 0

Without even the slightest hint that it was ill, or even depressed, the hard drive on the most important computer in my world has gone and shuffled off this mortal coil. The nearly two-month old backup I have (somewhere) will be helpful, somewhat, but everything since then has gone to the great gigs in the sky. Sigh. Recovery efforts have proven futile thus far, though I'm considering shamanic intervention.

Unfinished posts, screen capture quiz entries, unanswered emails...it's too depressing to think about. I was going to have a post up today on this year's New York Asian Film Festival, but that too has been reduced to a scramble of ones and zeros. Simple summary until I manage to recreate the post: drop everything you're doing and be sure to see Johnnie To's Sparrows and Koji Wakamatsu's United Red Army.

Now excuse me while I go put on Nick Cave's The Firstborn is Dead and simply stare into the middle distance. . .