Sunday, October 31, 2004

The Things You Find.....(Mostly For You, Adam...)

So, I went to someone's LiveJournal, and clicked on their Friends List. I then clicked on someone I knew also's list, then clicked on their friends list, and again, and again, and randomly found one of their friends (who had Homer Simpson as their Pic Icon) and lo and behold I found this excerpt:

"I'd like to say I'm too white to define crunked for you, but according to urbandictionary.com, Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter apparently invented it, and human beings don't get much whiter than that. Yes, that's right. O'Brien and Richter coined the term used in Stankonia by OutKast. It is the first-known instance in the history of man when African-Americans stole from whites musically instead of the other way around."

"Anyway, O'Brien and Richter used "crunk" in 1995 as an all-purpose faux curse meant to flummox TV censors ("That's a load of crunk!"). It has since morphed into a hip-hop melding of "crazy" and "drunk," and urbandictionary.com defines it thusly: "verb, noun, adverb; past, future and present infinitive and participles. Crunk is a phenomenon which occurs when an individual becomes (happy, excited, angry, passionate, etc. . .) beyond one's ability to control his or her self. Crunk is known to be highly contagious, as well as addictive, and extended periods of crunk (aka crunkery, crunkitude, crunkness, crunkilation, etc. . .) might lead to death, either of the individual who is at the time crunk, or those surrounding said crunk individual."


NOTE: As is came from UrbanDictionary.com, it could also be an Urban Legend.

This is the original article.







.......sigh, isn't odd what you'll do sometimes?

What's Not To Love....

Because WGN has had an all-day X-Treme X-Files Halloween Marathon, I got to see one of my all-time personal favorites.

The reason I love this episode is because it's the only X-Files where at the end I feel good and teary-eyed. But, lemme give you a quick rundown of the story and I'll get to the best part.

Episode 5X06 "Post-Modern Prometheus"

The episode, shot on black & white film, and directed by series creator Chris Carter, is a Frankenstein-esque story. A woman writes the X-Files....and Jerry Springer.....because she has been impregnated by an alien monster. Therefore, Mulder and Scully go to investigate. In the small town they find locals who are extremely smalltownish and extremely exicted about Jerry Springer coming to town. Well, after investigations and the other content that take up the next 45 minutes of kooky airtime, the agents discover that a scientist had accidentally created a monster, but his dad—out of pity—had taken care of the creature as a son. (it was really just a guy who had two faces....albeit really ugly) '

Well, the basic heart of the episode lies with it's similarity to the Cher movie "Mask" starring Cher and Eric Stoltz as a kid with a deformed face yet loved by his mom Cher anyway. Everyone else starts to like him too....once they can look past the ugly face.

Well, in the end it turns out the monster really likes Cher, and before he is taken to jail, Mulder and Scully take him to a Cher concert, and she is singing "Walking In Memphis," and the monster gets up and dances.....then in the best part!.......Mulder lends Scully his hand and they dance together.

Then they turn into a comic book drawing, and the book closes, and the credits roll.

One of the most lighthearted and sweetest episodes ever. Oh man, it's so good.

Thursday, October 28, 2004

I'm In A Band....Show Me Your Hooters

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

BEAKMAN CAN KICK BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY's ASS ANY DAY OF THE WEEK!




MOM: I just don't like that show, it's so vulgar. They can get really suggestive.

In reference to: "Whose Line Is It, Anyway?" ......is that not gay?

Okay, so is there any way to skip next Tuesday and just go right to Wednesday? Gosh, I hate elections and politics, but I am just so literally twisted inside with all the pressure and I have this feeling of dread and ......I already feel guilty. I'm either going to vote for someone who I will regret, or I will regret not voting for someone. One thing is true: we are either right or wrong. It just sucks that we don't know yet.

Oh well, I assume we will die by our own hand eventually so I guess it doesn't matter.

Let's all go to Six Flags!

Screw You Nike........

You and your Kill/Bill-esque TV ads.


You suck.


Your shoes cost alot of money, too.

We Shall NOT Stand For Crap No More...

Ok, so here's the deal.

There is a top Talent Agency called "William Morris Talent Agency." The Vice President of this agency is a man named Sam Haskell. Sam Haskell is from Amory, Mississippi. Every two years he organizes an event called "Stars Over Mississippi." This is a huuuge event......however, it's not what it could be.

I have been browsing the company's website, and feel that we have been shortchanged. After seeing the names on there, ranging from Melissa Auf Der Maur to flippin Mitch Hedberg, I want justice!

No more will I settle for celebrities of 'has been' caliber. I want MxPx to come to Amory. Bill Cosby would be legendary. I would name more, but they are long lists and I'm tired.

I just don't want friggin Mary Ann Mobley and flipping Gary Collins anymore.

Bring us the big guys!

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

On Camera

So......I don't suppose anyone happened to catch the eclipse thingy on video did they?

Darn, I always miss those things. Meteor showers and crap like that always happen late at night.....why should this be different.....or at least marked on my calendar.

People Are Awesome

Man, people are so cool.

How about this:

Someone calls you up, asks you to tape a festvial-type event and get some footage for an ad to promo the event for the following year and pays you. You spend about two hours at the festival just hanging out and getting lots of footage.

A year later, she calls you back wanting the footage.....so she can take it back to a Real Station (CBS Affiliate) to have THEM put together the ad, probably for ALOT MORE MONEY than you would have charged.

Now, since you shot the footage on your crappy $200 Digital8 camera, you don't have it in the proper format. So now, you have to convert the footage to the crappy yet more expensive type of tape that the Proper Staion uses. Oooohh-oooohohhh.

So now, not only are you insulted for having someone else edit your own footage that you could have very well done youself (and a damn fine job, mind you) but you actually have to do more work than neccessary.


(oh, and btw.....the camera that takes that type of tape you need has a bad record head and scratches the digital tape. So you now have about 18 hours to get your hands on someone else's camera that will record that type of tape.)





neat.

I Love My Life ......(revised 10/27)


———BEFORE——————————AFTER———

Same plant....after my care and loving. It's not a metaphor or anything....I don't make things die after two years. Wait, yeah I do.


...........hey check this out:

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Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Hey, highlight to read....

Hi,

Didn't know you'd actually try it. This is that kind of feature they use to hide spoilers on movie fan sites. So, if you were at theonering.net right now, you would probably be reading "Frodo doesn't actually destroy the ring, but instead Gollum bites his finger off, and then celebrates and dances too close to the edge. But, I like how Peter Jackson had he and Frodo 'fight' off the cliff.......it was more dramatic."

See, wasn't that totally a waste of your time?

Now I better not see any of you jerks copying me....this is MY device.

So fuck off.



Happy Halloween.

The L Word

fuck




(abridged from a longer draft of the post)

Monday, October 25, 2004

Only Means Of Expression.....

So I've been told that I'm a bit long-winded when it comes to posts.....well I'm sorry.

I guess (even though I can't communicate well with other people) I'll just stop using this blog as a way to vent and limit my posts to 500 words or less. That way you can spend more of your precious time not listening to me and instead look at more porn.







OR.......you can just learn to read, asshole.

Hooray For CMT....

Well, first let me say that I watched a great documentary program hosted by none other than George Noory (Art Bell's replacement on Coast to Coast AM......who I have grown to love just as much as tha man Art himself.). Called "Most Shocking: Ghosts," it was a well produced, entertaining and scary hour of TV.

However, I didn't see this on the Sci-Fi Channel or Discovery Channel. I saw it on CMT.



Yes, everyone's favorite Country Music Video channel is moving the way of our old friend MTV. Videos are so passe and sooo 1989. It's the '90s now.....time to move on to actual programming and showing movies and things. No more crummy videos to crowd your airtime.

And, just after it, I saw "CMT's Most Shocking: Moonshine," an equally good doc on moonshining. I now know what a "Jake Leg" is, and something from my childhood makes sense:

Long ago, I was in a car with some guy who picked up myself and another kid from school. We were stopped at a gas station, and this guy points at an old man, with a jangly walk, and says "Know what a Bootlegger is?" .....I, of course being 8 years old knew darn well..... I said "No." He told me that man was one....and now I make the connection that that man made moonshine and sold it to others. I also now know that he had a "Jake Walk" b/c he drank some of the (legally produced) poison Jamacian Ginger Extract. Read a book, dummy. Still don't believe me, it's called the internet.....look it up.

Even "Rocky" Had A Montage....

New idea for TV-7 programming:

Of course, I'm sure all of you watch the Oxygen channel religiously, so there is no need for me to explain who Sue Johansen is—the host of "Talk Sex w/ Sue Johansen"


yep......this lady talks about EVERYTHING.......on live TV, mind you.


So, we get someone to host a W07BN late night talk show.....about you know what!


It'll be huge!




The only downside........hearing southern people talk about it.

"Well, when we get nekkid and ever'thang, I get a funny feeling, you know in my back end. It kinda gits in tha way when I want to get er' done. Whatcha think?"

Thursday, October 21, 2004

Why The Movie Isn't Being Made.....

1. Napolean Dynamite. Everyone wishes they could have made that movie.

2. The creator of Freaks & Geeks is making one.

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Dangit Matt....

Stop taking me to those Gay Resorts where it's a bunch of twinks who criticize me for not leveling up enough before I tried to fight the giant wave monsters. I was only doing 1,000 damage each hit.

Everyone was nice though, when I shook their hand they all did that thing with their fingers. (Oh, on a side note, NEVER go in their rooms in the morning and wake them up.)

And ummm.......Juilia Bingham was helping out. I didn't know Gay Warriors like Freshwater Prawn. Maybe that's how they level up so quickly. They can cast magic like nobody's business.






just a dream
[adult swim]

Thank You Netflix:

(Before I begin, I must point out that I am neglecting "As Seen On TV" in Oxford, a great movie store b/c you can actually find the films I'm talking about. However, Oxford is a long way from my house, and I really don't feel like driving there everyday after work to get a movie. But, I suggest you don't follow my lead but instead go the store in Oxford and rent good movies. Netflix just happens to be easier for me, and I believe the $20 once a month versus gas and rental fees combined with limited time for watching the movie make me side with online rentals. Besides, I don't have to interact with people.)

Now, that being said:

Thank You Netflix for bringing culture (well, to some extent....movies really aren't that much culture) into my life.

I've started watching older movies and foreign films alot, as well as silent movies. I've even been watching old silent foreign films as well. Anyway, Netflix has this option where you can rate the movies you watch, then they give you recommendations on what you should watch next. Usually, they are spot-on b/c I'm experiencing a new world of movies you can't find at Blockbuster. Well, not Blockbuster in Mississippi. So I feel I'm getting a better well-rounded view of movies. It's just a shame that you can't make references b/c no one knows what the flip you are talking about. Then you have to explain. (For example: For all of you Conan O'Brien lovers....you know that clip he plays of the skeleton-devil dancing with the smoke? I actually have that movie. It has nothing to do with devils, it's a dream sequence. But in Conan's context, it's soooo funny now.)

Anyway, I do have a tendency to buy newer 'classy' movies that come out. It's a bad habit b/c I buy movies in the odd hope that one day I have a house or apt. and someone for some reason comes over and browses my collection and thinks "this guy has class AND is sexy.........ooooooohhh."

But, I'm slowly working on my classic film knowlege. It's tough, b/c ........ummm.......there are alot of them there old movies.

Monday, October 18, 2004

Coming To A Theater Near You....

So I think I may know the reason for remakes and movie updates:

It gives a chance for the DVD release of the classic movie which is the subject of the update.

Our latest film is the remake of the movie "Flight Of The Phoenix." I've only seen the preview twice with Adam and again with Kelley, and I took it to be "Alive", only hotter. Now, like you I'm sure, had no idea this was an old movie—a Jimmy Stewart movie nonetheless! But, it starred Jimmy Stewart as the pilot, George Kennedy (everyone's favorite character actor from the '60s), and of course Richard Attenborough (the "Welcome to ...Jurassic Park!" old guy). I don't know who the blond and spectacled guy what figures out how to build the plane is, but he does look like a 1960s version of a Giovanni Ribisi. I am sad to think of Dennis Quaid playing a Jimmy Stewart role, (much like I will be if they REALLY do the remake of "Harvey" with John Travolta) but i probably won't see the movie anyway.

Well, I do think it's good that remakes come out, b/c we get to see the old movies on DVD. I've come to believe that these were just attempts to make money off the old ones, but I'm starting to understand it now. However, I STILL get embarrassed to even pick up the old movie on DVD and look at it, b/c I feel so ashamed to have never seen the old one, and only want to see it b/c "there is a new one out." It is this idea that I hate most. ——btw, some of the most recent I'm describing include "The Manchurian Candidate," "The Ladykillers," "Dawn Of The Dead" (plus countless other horror movies), "Stepford Wives," "Napolean Dynamite" (just seeing if you were paying attention...), "Walking Tall" ......is "Ocean's Eleven" worth mentioning? Damn. (Please Note: the only thing I actually object to is remakes of foreign films. That's just b/c Americans are to stupid to read subtitles of the originals therefore we must make dumb versions for dumb people)
However, I will say now that I am anxiously awaiting both the old and new versions of "King Kong." The original version had me scared to death when I saw it on TCM one day, and I can't wait to be scared with the new one. However, the DVD has yet to be released, but I sure when it does it will get a full-scale high-quality transfer and special treatment for DVD. It had better NOT be one of those crappy $10 DVDs in the Wal-Mart bin. Now THAT would make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm ang......oh sorry, wrong movie.

So, just watch for "Flight of the Phoenix" on DVD about the time the new movie comes out in theaters. Oh, and I'll save you the trouble of paying money to see either one: The Phoenix flies.

Hey, don't get mad at me.......it's what Phoenix's do. Read a book for crying out loud.

Saturday, October 16, 2004

Just Don't Talk To Me....

I AM ONE P.O.'D LOSER.....

I finally just finished the Return of the Jedi on DVD, and there's something at the end NO ONE WARNED ME ABOUT:

They replaced the original actor for the Jedi spirit Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader) with fucking Hayden Christensen....the Young Anakin Skywalker in Episodes II and III.

How the flying fuck could George Lucas do that?

I know how: imagine you are him for one moment. (now, don't get a 'playing God' complex.....this is just for review)
You have made 3 movies that are some of the most popular of all time. Because of all of the merchandising and liscensing you were smart enough to invest in, you are one of the richest men on the planet. In 1997, you have a chance to make EVEN MORE money by re-releasing your films with new scenes to represent "What it was intended to be."

After their 'success' you realize "Hey, I made a trilogy, but it was only the last half of a sextet......I need to make 3 new movies 20 years later that shows events that were supposed to happen 32 years (fact from theforce.net) before the original 3 movies took place. "

UH-OH! you now realize that some of your ideas and consitencies in the original movies don't add up for your next movie, so what do you do? You go back to the origianl movies, digitally alter things so they all add up and you pretend it's how you originally wanted it, when you actually just thought of it while eating ho-ho's on your couch while thinking of how to get fatter and richer.





........I'm sorry baby, you know I love you George. Oh, but I hate you so much, why do you do this to me?

Gooooshhhh.

Friday, October 15, 2004

Oh Just So You Know....

In case you've never seen that episode of Freaks & Geeks.....

The song by the Who is called "Baba O'Reily".......NOT "Teenage Wasteland"

I Hate To Say Anything About A Classic Piece Of Work...

But The "Chariots Of Fire" theme—though really triumphant and inspiring—is still gay.

Thursday, October 14, 2004

Celebrities Die In Groups Of 3.......First Rodney, Then Christopher....Who's Next?

Ok so I edit TV commercials, right?

Well, one of our sponsors is Azaela Gardens in Oxford—a retirement community. On one of the clips near the end I used a shot (that Bill shot, NOT ME mind you) of an old lady walking her little dog, then a close up of her just holding the dog. It's so cute. However, I received word today that I have to go back and re-edit the ad......and take that shot out. "Why?" you ask? BECAUSE THEY HAD TO PUT THE DOG TO SLEEP!

Now, doesn't that suck. Poor old lady.


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So my boss' dad has Alzheimers and in the past 2 years since I've been there it's gotten into it's worse stages. A couple of years ago he would just walk around, and you could kind of make out what he said and he would just laugh. Now he's at the point where has those anger spells and gets really ornery (?....where did that come from?) and wants to fight.

Today he picked up a step ladder, a plastic garden/lawn chair, and a converted van seat (a seat from a van that just has a block of wood for a base) and turned them all over. He was ready to go home.

It's really lame and I don't know what to do but just let him be. It is funny when he tries to mess with Vernon and Vernon gets mad.

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Hey Kids: It's Time For A Quiz!

ahhhahahhahaa oh boy, am I gonna piss you off with this one! [well, only if you are a livejournal user] If you're not familiar with LJ, I suggest you find someone who is, read their lj, then read their 'friends'' lj's. Then you will know all of this is true. ahahahhhah. darn I'm cruel. Oh, I do need to explain that often, LJ's [Im sure some blogs are, but I haven't seen any yet] are filled with all of these little quizzes that people post instead of legitimate content. Now, ok, they can be cute, but when you try to read and get to the juicy intimate feelings, these damn things get in the way. So now I'm angry and want revenge....

Get ready for the war b/w Bloggers & LiveJournals!

QUIZ: What Type Of LJ User/Blogger Are You?

Name Of Blog: 'this turd's sorry pathetic losery life'

Type Of Content: lots of pictures, pointless rants, and of course, QUIZZES!

Number Of Comments: well, not that anyone actually reads this!

Updated How Often: almost daily, that is when i'm not too busy doing ....something else. but, if i am a bit busy, I can just pop in a quiz so my faithful readers won't think i'm dead.

Sci-Fi Or Fantasy: ehh, at least with fantasy you can have ligers and pegasi. [plural of pegasus, I suppose]

Last Time You Saw A Naked Girl: well, between posts of course (oh wait, you don't mean an online porn site do you?)

Is Your Blog/LJ Address Printed On Your Business Card: ....i'm just so proud of it.

Which Do You Like Better: blogging, b/c livejournal is a community. i don't like being part of a group. who needs friends and whatnot?

Is Posting Healthy: yes it allows me to vent. however, i don't get any excercise and i get angry and sad when i post my own feelings. i guess that makes it bad X 2.

Your Position On Emoticons: the ONLY way to live :)- :o aww man, i'm feeling sick :$ ......hey check ME out! 8====> whoooo! =]

Is Being Human Really Worth It: ehh, it's ok.......just don't quote inane song lyrics and everything will be fine.





dang, I need sex badly. and I could use a life, too.

WARNING: The Following Post Is VERY Topical And Already Outdated....

(So think back over the past few months about commercials on TV.)

Ok, so now there is something to make America EVEN FATTER......

LG has introduced a new refrigerator ....with a TV built into the front door.

What The Flip Is Wrong With My Computer?

So yeah, when I'm connected to the internet, after a little while I can click on a link, the bar at the bottom says 'connecting', then I get an 404 page saying it cannot find the page. So I click on the connection status icon in the system tray, and as I look it over, it tells how many bytes are being sent, received, etc. These numbers have stalled, and I look down farther and see the status of Errors: .......the number just continuously counts up...I've had it get to 160 before yelling at my computer what it thought it was doing.

So, can anyone tell me what the flip these errors are? They happen 95% of the time I'm connected to the internet on my comp, and happen mostly in the mid-morning and late afternoon/early evening. In other words, THE ONLY TIME I'M ON THE INTERNET.

I can usually get away with about 5–8 errors (btw, I watch the status CONSTANTLY b/c I hate it, and it's going to stress me out and give me a heart attack) but once it gets over 10, they usually just start happening continuously and I can't freely surf the 'net. I just sit and watch them pile up.

On another side note, anytime I post I have to copy everything I've written, b/c I have lost many posts before while publishing.


Hmm......I feel this needs a bit of explanation.

Ok, well a couple of years ago David Cross released a comedy album called "Shut Up You F****ing Baby." In the liner notes, he said it would be great if [I assume a restaurant he visited] someone would name a hotdog after him.


Therefore, I present to you: Ronnie Doggs.

Oh well, the plan was to send it to him and become famous, but that never happened. Yes we were bored, but we were also lazy. The moral: never give up on things or put things aside. Learn from Ronnie Doggs.

Sunday, October 10, 2004

Muwahahahahahaha

It's Like The Unpleasant Feeling Of Being Drunk...

What's so unpleasant about that!?

.......ask a glass of water. ahahahaha



So I know I sound like Marvin the Paranoid Android from 'Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy,' but life really sucks.

HOWEVER.....I have found something that truly makes me happy and feel good on the inside: Funny home video shows.

Of course, AFV is the original, but basically any show with real-life videos of people getting hurt or embarrassed just crack me up. And when I laugh at them, it's not that fake laugh I do just to be nice to people. It's a genuine laugh.

Saturday, October 9, 2004

More Randoms From A Waste Of Life

1. In "Napolean Dynamite," Lafawnduh's cousin is Jamiroqui. ("You like to dance, huh? Here, [throws tape at Napolean] my cousin made this. I think you may like it."....at the skit, the song on the tape is Canned Heat by Jamiroqui.

2. Curt Jernigan is such an awesome name.

3. The other night I woke up about 4am really thirsty. I was craving grape juice so managed to get up and go pour a glass. So I took it back to my room and sat in the dark to drink it. As I set the glass down on the edge of my nightstand (in the dark, mind you) I felt the gravity of the cup turning over and heard a splash. I turned on the light, used a dirty towel to clean up the little bit of juice in the floor. The rest of the juice spilled into the open nightstand drawer onto all of the cases of the DVDs I have my backed up TV Ads on, it was also spilled onto everything in my floor (which is everything) including my notebook with movie 'script' [completely soaked—but the movie is a piece of poo anyway], a pair of shoes, some socks, and some tapes. Wonderful. I hate being a clutz.....but I hate being a sleepy clutz. P.S.: As of Saturday morning........it hasn't been cleaned.

4. So.....Trey Parker and Matt Stone can create a movie ("Team America: World Police") entirely with marionettes......yet the "Thunderbirds" movie was ENTIRELY LIVE ACTION!?! (in case you are ignorant, "Thunderbirds" was a BBC show from the '60s that starred marionettes. Yet, this summer they made a live action movie. Pshh. Oh, why do previews still have to say: "From the creators of 'South Park'?" By now we know they are flippin' Trey Parker and Matt Stone!

5. Sports has lots of dirty terminology.

6. I know it's 'classy' to watch Chaplin films...but I can see why his movies are so revered. When I watch them, I'm absolutley drawn to him and can't take my eyes off. He just has a grace about him that is so awesome. The way he moves is effortless....it's just classic genius. And the stories for his movie are also really [kinda] a few years ahead of their time. Poignant and just.....good.

7. I just can't grasp the fact that I'm not beautiful......and I can't do things. Come on, I dare you to name one....that's 1....thing I can do. Come on, one. See? And dammit, why can't I at least look pretty so I won't have to be able to do things?

8. Jude Law is THE HARDEST WORKING MAN IN HOLLYWOOD RIGHT NOW. Honestly, ever since "Cold Mountain" came out on DVD, he's had a new movie come out every few weeks or so. This isn't exaggerating, either. Let's just review this fall: "Sky Captain and THE WORLD OF TOMORROW," "I Heart Huckabees," "Alfie," "Closer," and "The Aviator." And those are just movies about to come out before the end of the year. He's got it all......and he's English or whatever.

9. So......the crappy new movie coming out is "Taxi".....yet it's NOT a movie version of the 70's TV show Taxi.

10. I have a new pair of glasses. However, as per the Radio Shack ads, they are the same style as Howie Long wears. Sigh. At least flippin' Terry Bradshaw doesn't call me. Then I would have to rethink the whole suicide thing.

11. Is it un-American for me to hate politics? I mean, granted, I don't know the first thing about politics (see #7, and add "I don't KNOW anything about things either), but I hate them. I also hate pundits (those guys who show up on shows on news channels and bicker and fight and talk over each other at the same time) and people who are important people in their respective parties. For example, on channels like Fox News, the democrats are always these tiny squeaky whiny ugly dudes with big ears and the republicans are these boffo dudes who never stutter or try to stall while thinking of answers. I guess I shouldn't make fun of people for doing what they obviously like to do, but people who run campaigns are funny to me. Take for example George Stephanopolous. If you haven't seen the documentary "The War Room" (starring Ragin' Cajun James Carville about Clinton's '92 campaign) it's just funny to see this tiny greek guy with big hair running around trying to elect Bill. I just hate all the fighting and lameness that politics brings. It sucks that those are the people who run the country.

Friday, October 8, 2004

Movie Review: "The Forgotten"

Hey, remember movies about UFOs and aliens and abductions? You don't? Wouldn't you say they've been........forgotten?

Well, the new Julianne Moore movie "The Forgotten" is about that. Now, the whole alien craze sort of died out in the late '90s after the X-Files lost Mulder and totally sucked pooballs. Up until then, every summer movie was about some kind of alien invasion. "Independence Day," "X-Files: The Movie," Charlie Sheen's "The Arrival," the beautiful Jodie Foster in "Contact," "Phenomenon" (wasn't about aliens...but was sci-fi movie until the end....he just had cancer), and I'm sure the list goes on.

Anyway...after the X-Files lost a leg the whole alien craze went away and people started making more suspense movies. That darn M. Night Shaylaman had to go and make "The 6th Sense" and start the whole 'suspense with lots of twists at the end' craze. Ironically, he later made "Signs" which was mostly about aliens.

Well, "The Forgotten" begins with Juilanne Moore playing yet another strung-out prone to outbursts type of character (like in "Magnolia"....only not addicted to painkillers) named Telly. Anyway...aliens go to the trouble of abducting her kid and lots of others so they can erase their memories of them. It's like an experiment or something.

So yeah stuff happens and she meets a dude and they look for their kids and the black lady gets sucked away and at the end the one alien guy morphs into a scary face for a second that instantly turns just a thriller into an alien movie. And at the end the experiment fails b/c Julianne Moore is one bad mother (but an excellent mother b/c she can't let go of her kid's memory) and the bad alien gets sucked away and she gets her kids back...but no one else is none the wiser.

So in the age of suspense movies, "The Forgotten" seems out of place b/c it gets kinda freaky at the end. Oh, and as for the mind erasing, it doesn't compare in the least to "Eternal Sunshine."

Monday, October 4, 2004

I've A New Habit....

I've started whistling, you know, doing 'solos.'

..."well, you better not get 'whistled out' b/c when Susan gets home you'll be too tired to pucker."



But my whistle actually developed from me making a 'shewww' noise at work. (i.e. "shewwwww......this is a lot of work to do.") It just evolved into a whistle.

Now it's a habit....I do it without reason randomly.

Work After Play Is Tough....When You Are Sleepy

So I met a British guy today. I wanted to just sit and listen and listen and listen. Although he's a bit of a dingbat and not that talkative. But still, very sexy. ....Except he's kind of old and dumpy-fat, not husky-fat. But he does wear a really big gold belt buckle and trucker-style hats.

He rummaged through my boss' CD's trying to find ones to take back to England with him. He'll probably have trouble at customs b/c he left with ALOT.....he had to have a box or a big bag.










p.s. D-Con has killed mice in the building. How do I know? Well, you come to the station and sniff for yourself.

Sunday, October 3, 2004

So Is 'Shaun Of The Dead' Ever Coming Around Here?

I'm seeing constant previews on TV, but nary a theater listing around here.

And it looks like Memphis or Nashville is the only place I can see "Dirty Shame."

UPDATE:

Ok, according to the Hands On Nashville website....they are showing "Manos: The Hands Of Fate" and "The Crawling Hand", which are just two episodes.

Well, one of the two places needs to get their stories straight. Oh, they list it as October 25, which is a Monday. So please.....be cool and go with.

Even if it's not "The Movie", which is in fact the one where they watch "This Island Earth", I still love "Manos: The Hands Of Fate"

It's the one with everyone's favorite movie monster: TORGO!


Torgo is the monster who's evil attribute is ..............BIG KNEES! AHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!


......You have no clue what I'm talking about, do you?
Sigh....well darn. Oh man, I'm excited anyway.

I've always regretted that MST3K: The Movie never came around here and I didn't know what it was so I wouldn't have watch it. Also, they stopped manufacturing the DVD a few years ago, so it's rare to find it in that format. You have to pay like $60 on eBay just to get the movie on DVD. To see it on the big screen would make me soo happy. I haven't seen too much of happiness lately, so it would be awesome.

Ok well I won't get too excited until I find out for real info about this wondrous event.

Oh My Sweet Goodness.......

Oh please, oh please......

If they ever settle on a date for this, and I can absolutely go......I'M GOING!

Click here, then tell me........WHO'S COMING WITH ME?!





Please respond only if you are cool. This is equivalent to a dream come true for me.

Saturday, October 2, 2004

I See You Reggie, Shakin' That Pooch...

Sorry...I just couldn't help putting the action of a 50 year old biker with a belly jiggling to the high school band to the music of Fatboy Slim (I see you baby, shakin that thang ....[or the uncensored a**]).

I know it's all goofy to have those goofy nonsensical subject lines at the top of my blog....but yeah.

Friday, October 1, 2004

Aww Man, Little Richard's Hopped Up On Goofballs Again...

So yes just after I got all crabby about how (even though INCREDIBLY awesome it was that they put it out) the Looney Tunes Golden Collection was only 4 discs.....and not even crammed to the brim with nothing but great cartoons....I find out they are (sigh of relief) coming out with a second set in November! That just is boffo b/c Looney Tunes are still the best classic films ever.

So see you in St. Louie, screwy....on November 2 that is.