{"id":561,"date":"2004-08-09T19:35:31","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T19:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=561"},"modified":"2004-08-09T19:35:31","modified_gmt":"2004-08-09T19:35:31","slug":"cool_baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"Cool, Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I managed to catch <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0369339\/\">Collateral<\/a>, the new Tom Cruise\/Jamie Foxx vehicle.  I&#8217;ve always liked Michael Mann&#8217;s work.  <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0113277\/\">Heat<\/a> was brilliant and <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091474\/\">Manhunter<\/a> is, in some ways, better than Silence of the Lambs.  Collateral is a kind of noir ode to Los Angeles, especially the after-dark version of LA.  Much of the movie shows the characters driving from one location to another, eating in their cars, practically living in their cars.  It&#8217;s all about the sprawl of the city and the vaguely disconnected ambiance of its office towers and nightclubs, which the film depicts with great success.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s supposed to be in the 60s all week around here.  I think I&#8217;ve only turned on my air conditioner twice all summer.  Good for my energy bills, but I&#8217;d still like a couple more blasts of summer heat before the long and interminable winter settles in.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifiheaven.net\/main\/trailers\/toss1hi.html\">Here&#8217;s a promo<\/a> for the new Star Trek: The Original Series.  The tone of the ad is a bit schizophrenic: 60&#8217;s camp meets 70&#8217;s funk.  But it still works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I managed to catch Collateral, the new Tom Cruise\/Jamie Foxx vehicle. I&#8217;ve always liked Michael Mann&#8217;s work. Heat was brilliant and Manhunter is, in some ways, better than Silence of the Lambs. Collateral is a kind of noir ode to Los Angeles, especially the after-dark version of LA. Much of the movie <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=561' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-93","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}