Butch aka Travis

This is a chronicle of my self exploration, with BitTorrent.

I have finally decided to plunge into Bit Torrent. I am sick of Imesh and Kazaa always downloading spyware, and sick of WinMX’s inconsistency. I do like Shareaza though, i recommend it.

But why would i go back. I was worried, there was thie new think called Bit Torrent and i dont know nothing about it. SO i downloaded it.

Basically i am very new to it, so if you would like to help, please do so.

Firstly, through out all you know about all other P2P programs.

BitTorrent is not like other peer-to-peer applications (such as Winmx, Kazaa, Gnutella, etc.) in that it does not have its own “universe.” Put another way, BT lives on top of the Web, which means that all of the searching/listing of available files is done on the web. When you find a file you want to download, you click on it and the BitTorrent client program will run and ask you where to put it, and then start downloading.

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This sort of concerned me. I really felt like i had missed something, and i still do. I am at this very moment downloading somehting though, and i know that that is the best way to learn the software and the process.

You need BitTorrent first. Then you need a BitTorrent P2P program that will download the files for you, i have used Azureus.

to be continued…….

Make sure you read Ovens account of OMT production.

theOven :: My first time..it should be fun. :: October :: 2005

Last night i watched for the first time ever Blood Simple by the cult filmmakers The Coen Brothers.

For some reason i have recently read alot about the Coens and also watched pretty much all of their movies (except the Hudsucker Proxy and the Big Lebowski). I have recently finished reading their autobiography, and they come off as talented and eccentric, which i think comes through in their films.

Blood Simple was much more noirish and more amateurish than any of their movies i have seen, this isnt to be unexpected, it is their first film after all.

I found the film well written and very well made. The now famous Barry Sonnenfeld was the DOP, but i think most of the Direction was from the Coens. There are lots of clever tracking shots. There is a fantastic shot where a camer tracks down a bar, lifts up over a drunk who is asleep at the bar, and then pulls back back down to the bar.

There are such eveident Coenesque traces of storytelling and in the design of the shots. Alot of the shots remind me of some i saw in Fargo and there is also some parralells to Raizing Arizona.

What got me the most was hoiw i was able to compare the sometimes akwardness of the film to Mean Streets, I was able to draw a few comparisons.
The first is that they are the debut films from guys who went on to be cult favourites. Secondly, the Director(s) attempt(s) to achieve some shots that they doesnt have the talent to pull off just yet, making for some irratic and sometimes bizzare and confusing shots; In Mean Streets the ending where De Niro gets shot is a little confsing, and when Ray in Blood Simple leaves his car lights on, he drives past that old farmer who sort of points at him from his window, it just dont fit. Both scripts have good dialogue with some great character building, and both the Coens and Scorsese these days have begun to lose their touch.

Where Scorsese gets a break is that he had very talented actors all around him (What’s a Mook?) whereas the John Getz who played the character of Ray in Blood Simple isnt all that great, i could hardly understand a damn word he said in his Texas drawl.

For a Director and Writers first time out Blood Simple is awesome. There is one shot where the Private Eye is shooting holes through a wall… well i wont explain it…. I couldn’t do it justice.