What distracts me from the blog

• I'm working on a story for WNIJ about the Khmer Rouge tribunals going on in Cambodia. Seems like a very international story for a DeKalb station to cover, but NIU is one of the nation's top schools for South Asian studies, so there are some people here who have helped gather evidence and historical documents in preparation for the tribunal. In the mean time, I've been reading up on the area's history and following all the tribunal proceedings on cambodiatribunal.org. Most people remember the genocide, if they remember it, from the film The Killing Fields. 
• Speaking of films that are hard to get through... I finally saw Hard Candy, in which Ellen Page plays a 14 year old girl who goes to a 30-something's house and spends an hour and a half... turning the tables so to speak. It's been a few days and I'm still thinking about the ending and all of its moral ambiguities.
• The past few years, I've found the best interviews I've read from musicians have been generally from older guys, which in rock and roll, usually means above 30. Call it what you will, but it's nice to hear from bands who put the lie to the idea that getting old means getting stale. Pitchfork recently featured video of the DeKalb-bound(!) Dinosaur Jr. as they record their new album. Can't wait to hear it... performed live at Otto's.