Well, it seems I am never satisfied with my foobar designs, so I spent some time last night refining it some more.

I decided to alter my SCPL to make things clearer. The code is here (note, this is a work in progress and the code still looks messy), row height = 17, group rows = 4: GROUP | ITEMS

Some things to note, the album art resizes to an optimum display size, so that albums of three tracks only can have art work displayed without all the other albums suffering from a small display size. The maximum image size is also easily defineable, so with one change I can make all the artwork scale up to 300px. The second image shows how Various Artist albums are handled.

I built the playcounts into a form of hotness rating, so that the more a track is played the deeper orange and brighter the track becomes. The ratings system is separate to this.

I caught this last night without any prior knowledge of the storyline, premise or Cédric Klapisch except that I recognised the title “L’Auberge espagnole”, a phrase that comes in reference to Klapisch’s previous film. The trailer doesn’t paint the perfect picture; it is a love story that tells us to avoid clichés in writing before throwing them back at us in a delightfully unpredictable fashion. Xavier Rousseau reminded me of Tomas in The Unbearable Lightness of Being adaptation, maybe he just bears a likeness to Daniel Day Lewis, but I could see Rousseau calmly echoing that “Take off your clothes” catchphrase. Kelly Reilly is delightful to watch. Dolls is an effusive trans-culture love tale that maintains a heartwarming questioning outlook on the great mystery without having to resort to mindless sickening sweetness akin to the colour pink. Such is, a self respecting movie goer can happily watch a romantic comedy without needing a bucket, and this is a significant achievement in its own right.

Now officially my favourite film of 2006, I thought I would post this trailer considering Abigail Breslin has been nominated for an oscar in this years shortlist, by the way… she is only 10 years old. I sincerely hope this feature performs well at the academy awards (which has snubbed The Prestige in my opinion). I shall also note that Breslin is the little girl in the film “Keane” that I commented on a few weeks back, where her performance is once again stellar yet the films are starkly different.

If you’ve not yet seen Little Miss Sunshine I urge you to buy the DVD or rent it, it is one that cannot be missed. The DVD came out last monday here in the UK.

Just posting to inform people of some updates to my newly announced site http://artists.trivialbeing.org. The main landing page when you search for an artist has been spruced up and a fully fledged browse feature which allows you to specify the number of images per page, oldest images, newest images and random images has been implemented here: http://artists.trivialbeing.org/browse.php

Also large images are now available if you append an artist image url with &imgs=large