Circadian Shift

I'm way overdue with posting the weekly mood board. So here it be (for last week), such as it is.

I saw the movie Tarnation. It's an autobiography, created by some 32-year-old guy named Jonathon Caouette. As noted in this writeup in The Guardian:

It's compiled from footage shot on various cameras, ranging from a Super 8 to mini-DVD, that he's owned or borrowed to record his life since the age of eight. This he's accompanied by family snapshots, clips from feature films and audio tapes, all edited on an iMac computer using accompanying Apple software.

And these are no ordinary home movies, as Jonathon didn't exactly have a normal upbringing. His mother suffers from severe bipolarism and schizo-affective disorder, the result of (as it now turns out, likely unneccessary) electroshock treatments she received at a young age. At various times, Jonathon lived in an orphanage, foster homes (where he was abused), and with his grandparents, who had troubles of their own. Hardly the stuff of sunshine and lollipops.

Anyway, the film is sometimes difficult to watch, with occasionally garbled imagery and dialogue, and some very disturbing footage of people in severe mental pain. I don't regret seeing it -- and you've got to applaud the guy's effort to put all this together -- but if you're looking for something that's going to put you in an "up" mood when you leave the theatre, you may perhaps want to give this a miss. Or if you're curious, read more info about the movie here.

Various bits of tunage that got prominent play:

• "High and Dry" by Radiohead -- darned fine listening for when you're feeling good and sorry for yourself
• "Chest Fever" by The Band -- that organ sound just stays with you long after the song is over
• "Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers -- sure, he sings "I know, I know" twenty-six times in a row, but it doesn't seem the least bit redundant
• "Going Fetal" by Eels -- already written about here

And, of course, there was job hunting:

• Workopolis recently added RSS feeds to its 'Fast Track' job post categories, and I like them a lot. They're much more useful than some of the garbage that get spewed out in the email-based 'Career Alerts'.

• Yahoo! Hot Jobs has made RSS available for a while. Here too, I find that attempting to build a customized feed (based on specific search criteria) also includes a lot of garbage, but feeds of postings by industry seem to work OK.
• Multimediator's job board recently had an upgrade of some kind, but unfortunately still does not have an RSS feed.