So i found this the other day and have meant to post it all week. it's the new wes anderson movie called Fantastic Mr. Fox. I thought the trailer was pretty cool. It looks like that 70's stop motion puppet animation. Of course it has the voice of Bill Murray so i'm in automatically . If you want to see it larger check out the HD trailer.


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hello dport7 faithful! I miss you. I know the last couple of months/year has been post light but i want in my heart of hearts to change that.. Although life won't let me. The wedding is (as it should) taking up a lot of my time. (watch you mail box for the invite in the next few weeks). then work is whipping my ass like i killed it's dog in a drunk'n rage, (which i didn't do) didn't get out before 10pm all week... So in an effort to win back a few readers i POSTED THE SSP PICS!! along with a link to jon (the jew's) personal photo page. So please relive it and enjoy.

next let's take a step into the way back machine and talk about the movie tron (nerds rejoice).. When i was a kid there was this freaky disney yes disney movie called Tron. If i remember right it was bout this guy that some how gets trapped inside a video game. really dark but visually kinda cool. big john diehl and i were fans... well the big scene from that movie was the moteercycle scene, epiclly cool and remembered by all. Well it turns out that in hollywoods infinite wisdom this year is the year for the sequel. I've posted the leaked trailer here but to be honest i'm not sure if all the cool new CG makes it that much better. i also posted the old trailer to help explain things... anyway you decide.












off to all points west, I'll try to post about that soon...

Labels: movies, SSP, technology

The Dark Knight............ Well as most of you know I'm not a comic book fan what so ever. i feel as though this new generation of comic book movies has been ripped from the trembling hands of nerds to be a bit better. Although don't get me wrong even in this new style the nerds still get their due. over all the Dark knight was a good movie. As you may have already heard Heath Ledger does a respectable job as the joker. Christian Bale is a very convincing batman and more realistic Gotham City is quite engaging. Here's the things kate and i just couldn't figure out. 1. Why in god's name do people continue to live in Gotham City? Ok Maybe it has great restaurants and bars. The reconstruction industry is obviously booming with all the destruction, so jobs are abundant. Is it worth it though? 2. Why is it that when Batman talks he sounds as if he's been smoking and screaming for 6 hours. I know it's suppose to disguise his voice and make him sound tough but come on it really just sounds as if he's an anxious chain smoker. 3. Why, when batman is depressed does he stand atop the tallest building in town? With that said how does he get up there. He doesn't have super powers (can't fly). This means that in the evening, he's driving into town in the bat mobile, parks in the garage, then sweet talks security into letting him take the elevator to the top. If your asking me that's just a little more than embarrassing. Don't get me wrong - none of these questions are deal breakers for the movie it's just some unanswered questions.

In other news i went to post some pictures from the SSP and my iphoto is a bit more than deficient of shots. I putting the the call back out to you the faithful to send in some more shots i can use. Bight thanks to those of you that have already sent in. Sam, Jon,and Steve. i need to so through and pick some of those out for official posting. Either way thanks again everyone for a great time.

Labels: movies, SSP

Faithful so much to talk about. i know I've been delinquent on my posts as of late and your worried but don't fear. Here's the run down. i owe you some pictures in frames of the Kentukry Durby partys i attended, I need to review the appleTV I picked up a few weeks ago. Big John Diehl is in town this weekend. Oh the list goes on.
BUT rather than talk about any of that I'm posting this video saw this morning. Here's the thing I'm not a fan of animated movies but the new pixar film has caught my eye. Its called Wall-E and it's about a little robot that works in a dump. Anyway the robot looks like a small cooler version of Johny 5. This video shows a REAL LIFE Wall-E spotted on the streets of L.A. Man i wish I could do fun stuff like this! Anyway enjoy the clip i loved it, and I'm working hard to try to get some pictures up in frames.

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Labels: movies, robots, technology

So last night Kate and i got invited by her friend sarah to got to one of the press premiers of the movie Speed Racer. I don't know about you but i didn't watch a lot of Speed Racer as a kid I've never been into anime and so i don't really know much about it. The movie was of course packed with visual effects and really tried it's best to stay as close to the cartoon as live action can. The scenes with the cars were well done, although at times it felt a bit like I was watching a video game. I can say if I was a kid seeing this movie i would have loved it. The cars have a ton on little gadgets that try to sabotage one another, like buzz saws and Over all i would give it the dport7 3 stars of approval mainly for it's effort to stay true to the cartoon series. It had a surprisingly famous cast with Susan Sarandon, John Goodman, Christina Ricci, and Emile Hirsch as Speedracer. With all this fame one can't for get the most influential, Korean POP star Rain. On Monday Rain was part of what I estimate to be one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. Steven Colbert of the Colbert Report has been challenging Rain to a dance off after he foolishly made some comments about Colbert being Number 5 on Time magazine's most influential people list. Rain was number one and has let he's ranking go to his head. I've posted the dance off for you to enjoy. Please do. notice the Michael Jackson Moon Walker reference when Colbert throws the quarter.

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Labels: movies

Ok so fist off i wanted to share the first picture of the spring. think sound of music after the helicopter flew over julie andrews and the down draft threw her to the ground. now replace her with me. There you go. SPRING! I would like this post to be about how the weekend was, and we saw the new rolling stones documentary (
shine the Light), but I'm afraid i have a bone to pick with the USPS.
So for some reason my taxes are really kinda complicated (long story) anyway my brother John Diehl found this killer good Tax agent in cincinnati (of all places) and suggested it may be a good idea if i sent my stuff to him and had her do it. I said "cool" put all my papers in an envelope and went to the Radio City Post Office in Manhattan to send it off. Overnighted to cincinnati. The next day i check the tracking number and it was delivered! John calls and is asking where it is. This is where the panic set in. So I call the post office and say "hey guys you lost my envelope". They check the tracking and say " well sir our records show we delivered the parcel..... so you my friend are SOL". This to me is amazing. I'm imagining my envelop ( with all my important tax info) is now sitting in a room somewhere with Amelia Earhart, the Lindberg baby, and Nazi gold. I already hate tax time enough and now I have to file for a extension to prolong this 6 more months. Along with begging people to reprint my W4 and other crap. Who do I blame in all this? (yes I have to blame someone I'm an American its part of our culture) I blame both the USPS for being so incompatant as to be unable to properly put an envelope in a mail box. I also blame myself for being greedy and trying to get more on my return than H&R.com would have provided. Moral of the story, don't go the extra mile especially on your taxes.

In other news my good old best friend brian lauvray has started blogging for the Tyra Banks show. He's helping the young ladies that watch Tyra and are unlucky in love find a man. He gives advice on what a young single guy in his late 20's is really like. Go to the site read a comment and maybe leave one of your own. Its your chance ladies to find out what makes a guy like brian tick.

Labels: lame, movies

Hey everybody happy daylight savings time. I know it's been happy for me so far. I got out of work yesterday and the sun was still up. It was beautiful. In fact I even got home before dark. A special treat. Anyway, on Friday Kate and I went to see be kind rewind. Its a Michel Gondry movie with jack black and mos def. mos def works at a VHS video rental store. His best friend Jack Black lives by the power plant and becomes magnetized. This causes him to erase all the tapes on his next visit to the store. To save the store they remake all the movies on their own. I was really excited to see this movie the director is probably the single most creative person on the face of the earth. He uses simple camera tricks for most of his special effects which always seems more impressive than the CG over done mess that most of current movies rely on for entertainment. So did I love the movie you ask? Well yeah......... I thought it was great, but it just seemed to be missing something. I can't put my finger on it, maybe it was the people sitting behind us that insisted on making comments through the entire show. Why in the name of everything holy would you sit in a theater and say out loud " oh look at that" when something cool happens. "oh, look at that" really? You really want to make that comment. We are all sitting in a crowded dark theater watching a movie we payed to see. What are the chances we aren't paying attention to what's going on in front of us. So please if you talk during movies, don't. Its making me mad. Not just me by the way, everyone around you wants to slap you, and some day someone might.

Good news everyone I bought guitar hero for the wii on saturday. Yes its really fun. What I thought was cool was that the wiimote nests right in the guitar so no extra batteries needed. Kate and ian came over and got sucked back into the guitar hero black hole. Later Saturday night we all went to see my friend jon hildenstein play a small show in park slope. I'll say right off that the guy can really play guitar. The show was great and it was really nice to hang out with jon. It's been at least a year I bet.
Other than that I've just been busy with work, and trying to build more organic models in my free time. I build a mummy last weekend and I'm working on a model of a reindeer right now. I'll post some renderings soon.

Labels: friends, movies

hey everyone I'm sorry for skipping a week. things have been uber busy and i've been feeling beat. the last few weekend have been spent at work and I'm not as resilient as i used to be. a few years ago i never had days off but over the last 2 or three years i got used to weekends and now i'm kind of a wimp when i work through them. sadly because of all this i have very little to share. having this weekend off just resulted in cleaning my apartment and resting as much as possible. kate and i are hoping i have some of next weekend, because it presidents day weekend and we both need to get out of the city. the grey winter weather has left us both feeling dead inside and it would be nice to get out of this environment for even just a day. where are we going? being that we decided late we are thinking about taking the LIRR out to Montauk. come to think of it we were supposed to fly up to Vermont to see DR phil and DR leena but they have been MIA both from kate and i.

I'm sorry i was rambling. anyway to have some sort of reason for this post lets talk about a movie we snuck in one saturday night. there will be blood , nominated for an oscar stars daniel day lewis. set in the late 1800, it's about a man of that time discovering and buying up property with oil on it and mining. It has much more going on in the story than that but that's the over all plot. Lewis's character is one that at the core is damaged and lonely. Its like life beat him early on (something we do not see) and his only recourse is to spend the rest of his life trying to beat it back. this makes him hard and angry. his only sign of humanity is his adopted son that loses his hearing in a drilling accident. the movie goes on the show his great success in the oil industry, combined with is continued decent from personal life happiness. much of the movie is played out with just a soundtrack and little dialogue. the times which dialogue is used it is delivered with a thunder strike that is the tone of Lewis. in short the movie was really made for me by the last scene where Louise's character completely loses it. I give it 2.5 stars as it's a bit heavy for my little paul brain.

this just in Kate has started a band new blog!!!!!!!!! she discontinued her old one "my life" for a new more fashion based "K8 says" this one will not discuss kate's life but only talk about her feelings on fashion. i'm excited so check it early and often the first post went up today. hey kate!

Labels: blogger, lame, movies

as i mentioned in my last post mac world was this week. here's the run down. ( for those of you that think this is nerdy, paul didn't write this, currently this is dport7 staff member nicholas typing) anyway the big announcement is that apple released a new super thin ultra portable laptop called the macbook air. you can see in my picture below how i feel. SO WHAT its super thin. great! don't get me wrong i understand the engineering mastery behind all of this, but really? this is what you want to spend your resources doing? that said I'm sure once I see it in person I'll have the over whelming urge to buy one.
what else did they announce you ask? well not a lot. some crap update for the appleTV, and new apps for the iPod touch (which was needed) but other than that it was kinda slow.

friday ian, kate, sara, her friends and I went to this piano bar on the upper east side called brandy's. its pretty fun, the piano guy starts playing at 9:30 and the place fills up. everybody in the bar sings along and from time to time the waitress or the bartenders come up and sing a few songs. they're all pros working at the bar as they try to get in a show i guess. it's surprisingly pretty fun. people get drunk and rowdy and start having good time. Here's a video clip of the same singer and piano player we saw on friday just to give you a idea of what it's like.

Lastly yesterday we went and saw no country for old men the new cohen brothers movie. It's exhausting! It's really about a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time who finds some drug money and tries to keep it. The drug kingpin sends some crazy murdering guy to find the money and well you get it. It's a good movie it really moves it's just kinda too smart for me.

Labels: apple, movies

So I know I said I would do some blogging this week and I let you down. Here's the thing, I got to Denver on Wednesday with a bit of a cold and then come Thursday morning a blizzard blew into town. So Kate and I made a trip to the mall but with all that snow we couldn't go far. Friday we went to see Charlie Wilson's War at the movies. It was really pretty good, phillip seymour hoffman was as always the best character on the film I think we all can agree he's the best. Saturday kate and I headed up to Keystone to do some big time skiing. Kate is a true talent out there on the slopes. On the first run down some snowboarding tool sacked kate out of no where. Leaving her shaken and bruised pretty bad. Like a champ kate shook it off and we went on to ski blues the rest of the day. Out of shape Paul is so sore today its laughable.
Kate's parents have been wonderful hosts and the entire dport7 staff can't thank them enough for everything. So thank you! Oh and thanks to rocket (the cat) I promise I didn't steal anything.

Labels: holidays, movies, travel

well it was a movie kinda of weekend i guess. stayed out of the bars tried to save some money. friday night kate and i went to go see juno. those of you that read the blog on a regular bases may remember me posting the trailer. it about the teenaged girl that gets preggers and decides to put it up for adoption. it's actually really really funny. it has a couple of our favorites from arrested development michael cerra and jason bateman who are both hilarious. it stars ellen page who is hilarious and really makes the movie sing. i'm ganna have throw the dport7 official recommendation on this one. unless you have a huge problem with teen pregnancy i would absolutely go see this one. with that said it doesn't glorify it at all (if thats possible). michael cerra plays the same awkward genius as always. i love that kid.
As some of you might know saturday i asked a few people over to watch superbad. kate ian eban and daniela showed up. it was probably good, because that was all the seats i had in the house. although the lack of response was kind of a harsh reality that no one in new york at least looks at the blog. that's ok i don't really write much interesting stuff, but I like to think dport7 is a city wide phenomena anyway. i digress, the movie as a best vulgar, the dialogue had more swearing than yankee stadium. with that said it was hilarious, full out. a bit of advice it's kind of a guy movie although by some strange anomaly kate enjoys it. for this i blame ian swanson and myself we're slowly sucking the class out of kate. luckily i think ralph balances it all out.
lastly on saturday morning i got up and took a trip to the newly opened apple store on 14th street. it's three floors of apple goodness and is of course beautiful. Everything is aluminum and super clean. if only i could buy a mac pro. dport7 would have new movies to bring back readers.

Labels: movies

Alright well check out this idea. so because it's cold and snowing, and superbad just came out on dvd why not come over on saturday and watch it at my house. your probably wondering where i live if it's cool or what not. hey maybe you don't care about that and want to watch superbad. either way lets hang out. Check out the invite posted below for info. Oh don't feel left out I didn't send any email invites i thought I'd just post and see what happened. check it out and see you then!

Labels: movies

well i hope everyone had a good holiday. mine was restful. i slept more over this holiday break than i've slept in months. why? well i was at my grandmothers house in canton ohio and there's not a whole lot to do. i can't go out because i don't really know anyone in the surrounding area and everytime i have a drink around my parents they think i've "lost control" anyway that leaves plenty of time for naps. I'm not complaining though i needed it. in between the naps the family decided it would be a good idea to go see a movie. being that we all have different tastes in films my mom chose the feature, which was disney's enchanted. now those of you that know me, know that this isn't exactly on my list of movies to see. I kinda don't like "cute" so much and i also hate patrick dempsey for his awesome hair. needless to say this one was a bit more than i could take. if your into over blown love fairy tales dripping with perfect world sugar sweetness run right out and download this one on bit torrent.
in other news i took the bus back from LGA for a bit of adventure and a savings of like $40 which these days is huge. i don't suggest it if you don't have a good knowledge of the subway in the boroughs of queens and brooklyn, but if you do check it out and save some dough.
also in other news check out my friend elinor's blog foodzi!!! she's a restaurant goer with things to say. Check it out she's got pictures of her food (before it's eaten) and they always look good. she just started the blog so leaver her some comments to get her going. tony ritz you always have good comments lets see what you can do on a food blog.
lastly,(almost done) if you have time this weekend or just whenever go out and buy or rent the first season of Flight of the Conchords. this could be my new favorite show. it's about this two guys from new Zealand that have a band here in NYC and it id hilarious. this is one of those shows that same me from free falling into depression. with all the other crap that's on TV this is a saving grace. it may take you a couple of episodes to get into it so watch at least three before you make up your mind. here's a little clip of them doing a rap that cracks me up every time i watch it. click on the link to check out more clips.
ps... special note for those of you with iphones and the ipod touch. the tech team here at dport7 has finally gotten on the stick and made the video posts playable on your device so enjoy!!!!
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Labels: blogger, holidays, movies, shows

kind of a weird weekend. didn't do a whole lot but felt as if things happened anyway. first off lets talk about halloween. Although it falls on a wednesday this year people used saturday night to get their costumes on and take the town. i (as I so often do) did not buy a costume this year or participate in any holloween festivities. Mainly because upon entering the store every sluttie halloween costume joke i've ever made came true. check this out. along with sexy pirate and sexy nurse some company had the gull to producer sexy parking attendant. I thought halloween was suppose to be scary. I mean couldn't we save face and at least do bloody sexy parking attendant? I know i have no right to complain but come on.

hey have you seen the trailer for the movie Juno? I saw it a few weeks ago and really got excited about this movie. It's got some of my favorite people from arrested development. It's about teen pregnancy but it looks really funny. The girl that plays the lead seems impressively talented. its always nice when a movie comes out that doesn't look like complete crap. i put the trailer at the end of this blog so you to can get excited!

In other news OSX leopard came out on Friday. To be honest with you I'm really not that excited I mean I run an old G4 powerbook and spending 129 dollars on a new OS just makes me want to buy a new computer instead. I was at the apple store on Sunday and checked it out and felt a bit underwhelmed by it. The coolest new features are in iChat but i couldn't test that out in the store. It seams like a good buy if you have a newer mac but i think i'll just wait. Although if any one out there in blog land wants to let me borrow their copy for 2 hours i won't say no.

tomorrow chipotle opens. it feels like christmas has come early!

Labels: halloween, movies, observations

i don't know what the deal is but for some reason posting has become difficult. trying to get the energy to write something is almost impossible. you know it goes through phases. sometimes i work on dport7 non stop and sometimes i'm almost completely absent. Listen to this pointless babble...... sorry.

So I think it was Tuesday or Wednesday I can't be sure but kate and I went to go see the new wes anderson film the darjeeling limited. As some if you may know i'm a fan of the wes Anderson movies. His films have a impressive aesthetic style and the characters are always interesting and corky. Not to mention the fact that bill murry has been in all of his movies. if you have a chance go see i don't think you'll be disappointed, i wasn't.
:::UPDATE:::So before you go see the darjeeling limited click here and download the Hotel Chevaliar it's kind of a prelude to the darjeeling limited (free on itunes) so watch it on your ipods.............

I went to hang out at rebecca's last night and saw some old friends i got like two pictures i'll put them up in fames. Oh wait check this out rebecca moved to greenpoint and has the greatest apartment. it's really set off by the HUGE and I mean HUGE deck out back. it's sick and I know for one I'd go back and hang out anytime. I don't know if jill reads the blog but good luck in africa! (she's joining the peace core to fight aids)

Labels: movies

ok i just don't get it. I have been trying to spread the good word of Corn Mo for about a year now. Last night kate ian and I went to see the show at the parkside lounge. as always it was amazing. It was a bit of a challenge to convince Kate to go but after the show she became a huge corn mo fan. as for almost everyone else i know, corn mo may remain an unknown. I invited just about everyone I thought might be in the area to join and not one could make the leap of faith to join. That's alright that just means more corn mo for us. Anyway without much going on i thought I'd post another video for you to enjoy.

So if you haven't seen Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz do yourself a favor and netflix it or head down to the video store. I guess you would call these movies action comedy's. They're british films with a british sense of humor but don't worry know benny hill shit here. I think what makes them so fun to watch is the lack of dumb comedy. the jokes aren't dumbed down for the the american audience. (i'm not saying americans are dumb, i'm say the movie industry treats us like idiots.) Either way i enjoyed both these film as think you should too.


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Labels: movies, shows

so the bad new is that i'm still sick..... but i'm starting to feel a bit better tonight. which is good because if i had to go through another week of work all sick i would have gone crazy. because of this prolonged sickness my activities have been on hold and as such not much to blog about. now the good news. i received my beastie boys tickets last night along with reserving tickets to see the format in august 21 which is exciting. on saturday kate and i tried to get a bit of sun at the park and then upon kate's request went to go see La Vie En Rose a french film about the life of Edith Piaf who was a famous french singer in the 30's and 40's. It was unexpectedly good mainly because she had such a tumultuous life filled with drugs tragedy and fame. that kind of movie is always good even if it's in french. i think this only proves that culture in small doses can be pretty good even though i try so hard to avoid it. hopefully i'll be better this week and will have pictures to share soon.

Labels: concerts, movies

so if you haven't heard it's cold and flu season. and it got me on wednesday. i went down hard and didn't even get to stay home from work because i had so much due. hey that's the way of the world though. the thing that really upsets me though is that i'm sick here over the weekend. i like so many other cherish my weekends like gold handed to me by god with the explicit intent to try and have some fun. to pass the sick time i finally got around to watching Snakes on a Plane....... I've been thinking about watching this one for along time and never got around to it. was it good you ask? well if you go into to it knowing its a fluff pass of time movie then you'll like it.... i thought it would be a bit more 80's campy. it was but in a less intended way. what makes something 80's campy? 1. stupid 2. pointless nudity 3.bad music 4. hot chicks 5. Booger......... Snakes on a Plane only really had 1 and 2. In short download it on bit torrent save your money, but don't be too mature to enjoy it. oh yeah i put a clip of the best part of the movie in here for you to enjoy as much as i did..... oh wait more copyright infringement.

I've also relegated myself to watching vh1 classics 100 1 hit wonders again. check out the list and save yourself 5 hours.


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Labels: lame, movies

so it's time for an update.

#1 so as some of you may know i'm a hardened criminal and last friday Dec.1 i took the trip out to union turnpike in queens to pay from my open container violation. after arriving out in the outer bounds of queens in the early morning i made my way to borough hall to stand in what i thought would be a forever line. to my surprise there was no line and i walked right in. after security worked me over i went in to court only to find out that my case had been dismissed. the man at the computer checking my information told me that a letter was sent out to inform me that i didn't have to make the trip out there........ flash forward to monday of this week when i check my mail and receive the letter telling me the oh so valuable information....... i'll leave you to think your own commentary from here. oh i took a picture of borough hall for you

#2 i would like to take this opportunity to publicly apologize to HD. i took today and tomorrow off of work so i decided to see if i could straighten out this whole HD thing. so it turns out the guy that installed my cable box didn't give me the HD component cables. they're the green red and blue that replace that single yellow plug you have at regular tv. anyway ever since I turned on the HD channels with the right cables i have been mesmerized. the channel 4 news has crazy good HD and it is awesome... long story short i'm feeling like an idiot for not figuring this out sooner. i guess though i can blame the cable guy.

#3 good news i got a raise at work starts..... in january... so that's good.

#4 saw a good movie the other night calledBaxter .... it's from guys that did wet hot american summer.... to tell you what i really enjoyed it. it was a kate pick and she totally redeemed herself with this one

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