Capote "2005"
Directed by Bennet Miller

"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans - in fact, few Kansans - had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." (from In Cold Blood)

Capote is a movie set in the late 1950's in mostly rural Kansas and a town that has just had a brutal murder of a family. Capote is a move about Truman Capote , author of "In Cold Blood" and "Breakfast at Tiffinays" It details Truman Capote's life as his investigates and studies the killers and actually befriends one.

To begin this review I feel it entirely necessary to start with Phillip Seymor Hoffman . He lost 40 lbs for this movie and while he usually doesn't look like he has 40 to lose(maybe 20), he doesn't look deathly skinny. His normal voice is usually low but you won't hear any of that in this movie as Hoffman portrays a gay intellectual. His voice is a little high pitched and it took a little bit getting used to. His performance is excellent. Truman Capote was known as the life of the party and Hoffman does these scenes perfectly. Not a single part of his performance was flawed.

The direction of this movie was very minimal with lots of still shots of the country side. Not a whole lot of eye candy but well done nonetheless. It was shot in 36 days which is a short amount of time for a movie to be shot, especially a mopvie with 5 academy award nominations. I definently applaud the fact that Miller was able to get non-actors to work well as some of the prison guards in the movie were actual life prison guards. The story flows perfect and there is never a dull moment.

In conclusion I belive that Capote is woth a visit to the theaters and a must rent and one of the best movies for the last quarter of 2005.

Heartbreak Party review

HeartBreak
2/11/06
Loveland, PDX
1001 Untouchable Styles

1001 U.S. has been throwing parties since the summer of 2003. There a fairly large crew with 8 Djs. The Event was at the Loveland, a medium sized venue in southeast Portland. There was appromatly 400 people. That made the place a little packed. Nothing I couldn't handle. The crowd was pretty good mix of people. The rest rooms stayed intact. There weren't too many people obviouslly rolling and not too much drama that I saw.

There were 3 stages. Downstairs was mostly 4/4 beats the whole night. I didn't spend too much time down there. That is where some of the cluber type people were. I really hate to stereotype but there really just not my crowd.

The upstairs indoor room was mostly jungle/dnb and was pack and rocking the entire night. Dj Owns played a really good set complete with a few scratch routines. Grey Matter played some good trax as well. Quickster threw killer wax down as well. The vibe was definently in the upstairs.

The outdoor area was mostly psytrance and gabber. It was a thick cloud of smoke and I tried not to go out there much.

All in all it was an awesome night and 1001us knows how to throw a party.