friday night out 12/16/05
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Guess what movie I went to see? (HINT: No gay cowboys were harmed in the making of this picture.)
Tag Archives: movies
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Yesterday was Monkey day *and* Kong opened. I missed both. Ook. Ook. I Don’t think there were any gorillas in the Narnia movie. Curious.
LJ comments are still taking their sweet time to get to me. I think most of the old ones have made it, but some current ones are still suffering logjam, it seems.
Still no big computer or DSL… what the heck?! C’mon, folks! *whine whine* I should count my blessings.. world hunger, evil dictators and quadriplegics… and I want to play video games. Tsk, Scotto.
Moment of Lyric mp3 Instrumental.
Mmm. Jazzy. Also the epitome of A Charlie Brown Christmas.
1 year ago – Mel & Scotto facts, Gorilla Girl, Monkey Day, Massive Frog eats 3-legged dog, Beatles Christmas Records, 7070, Santa hates damn contemporary, bullshit architecture!, I break Christmas bonuses to ADP
2 years ago – spelling poll, pandas, turtles, and a bed of fresh noodles
3 years ago – keywords, Newt likes Broccoli!, Lauderdale cams, bah on bush, gore and grover Cleveland, mh trim, J-lo nose picker, shoe-doodle
4 years ago – holiday shopping, good advice, winter depression folk
5 years ago – moment of RAW, Santa Claus – geek, holidays, donations
7925 – woah-ho-ho-hoooo
Woo… the King Kong marketing machine is in full swing… it’s going to be a Giant Gorilla Christmas!
I rather dig the Beijing Olympic Mascots.
Currently a bit pissed at work. only Carl Douglas and Giant Apes can cheer me up.
Moment of Lyric: mp3
Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing
They were funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were chopping them up and they were chopping them down
It’s an ancient Chineese art and everybody knew their part
From a feint into a slip, and kicking from the hip
Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing
There was funky Billy Chin and little Sammy Chung
He said here comes the big boss, lets get it on
We took a bow and made a stand, started swinging with the hand
The sudden motion made me skip now we’re into a brand knew trip
Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they did it with expert timing
(repeat)..make sure you have expert timing
Kung-fu fighting, had to be fast as lightning
7906 – This and That
Hey! Looks like Thomas Hayden Church as Sandman in Spiderman 3!
7900 – only 2100 more until I’ve hit 10,000 entries!
Didn’t hang with anyone last night, just flew solo. No calls from Wendy, Liz or the hippies… walkabout was fun, regardless. Chicken Little was cute, but not worth a matinée… more of a Netflix rental.
7803 – mope mope monkeys on a bike!!
Still feeling a little mopey, and more than a little like a cave-bear. I’m really just not in the mood for interaction with loud, noisy little peeps today. Both Friday and Monday have been cranky workdays. Today would do well to change the pattern.
Usually, Autumn will lower gravity, not raise it.
Poor Herm got her ankle hurt on vacation… I hope she’s feeling better soon. Sweeties shouldn’t get owies.
A group of children, all wearing ape masks, rides their bicycles to the park for a picnic. Along the way, all but one are eliminated for violating basic bike safety rules.
One Got Fat: Bicycle Safety (1963)
Edward Everett Horton narrates. Mr. Horton provided the wonderful narration for Jay Ward’s Fractured Fairy Tales on the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show, too.
Best Bike safety film, ever. I love how they keep getting killed, but the rest continue on to picnic. Nelly was cute when angry, but Filbert is my favorite demise.
See also the remixed trance music video. Hooray for open source!
Moment of Lyric
7800 – leeches, leeches, leeches!
Sometimes, I feel very reclusive. I like the idea of retiring to a cave. A place with a fire, a wall to draw on, and a personal store of food by an underground spring full of fresh water. Maybe an opening at the far end where the sun can get in, but not so close that rain gets everything.
Perhaps an oceanside opening, too, and a comfortable area to curl up with the Newt-cub.
Only the sound of dripping water from distant stalactites, and maybe torches flickering, leaving a little smudge on the wall where it burns a bit too close.
If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, and whom you would not have met without the internet, post this sentence in your journal.
Actually, I have some friends that I networked to via a net-pal, and the net-pals themselves is gone.
Age of Empires III is out and about… may be my Christmas prezzie to myself. It looks gorgeous… and I imagine the gameplay will be up to the usual high standards.
More thoughts about Wallace & Gromit… They didn’t have a bunch of science fiction fans called “the Inventive Cheese-eaters” or whatnot (though it does have it’s own fans, certainly), and I’m sure the movie will do just fine on it’s opening weekend. Fans Serenity could learn a bit from that sort of cinematic Social Darwinism… Good movies will do just fine, with or without some cult-like fan base. I really rather think the name “Browncoats” is just a smidgen too close to “Brown shirts”, too. I suspect that the Browncoats didn’t do much to get people to go see the movie.. other science fiction fans were going to check it out, because they’d already heard of it, one way or another… I figure they were preaching to the choir.
Wallace and Gromit did well, I’m sure, and it’ll surprise me if it doesn’t have better opening numbers than Serenity did.
That said, RT has W&G at – 95%… that’s a pretty fantastic rating. I know it’ll be something people will want to watch on video every Halloween with Great Pumpkin and Night of the Living Dead. I can’t say that about Nightmare before Christmas. (the closest similar popular movie I can think of)
vs. Serenity at – 81%, which is still pretty respectable, considering that most fans of the show really weren’t crazy about it… (and most non-fans that I know also didn’t dig it). I guess the Joss formula of the 80 lb super-girl is still pretty marketable. Will people want to watch it in 5 years? I imagine it’ll end up on UPN as part of the recycled Sunday sci-fi movie run, along with Ghostbusters II, because the better and more popular movies will be too expensive to syndicate. (Like Ghostbusters the first)
On a tangent – some favorite Halloween movies – Usually, I like a light opener (comedy or classic) and then actual horror after.
- It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
- Ghostbusters
- The Mummy (Both the Karloff original, and the Brendan Fraser vehicle)
- Young Frankenstein
- Night of the Living Dead
- Alien
- The Shining
- The Fly (Vincent Price)
- The Thing (Newer one) – I like to Follow up with Big Trouble in Little China
- Evil Dead
- Poltergeist
- Hocus Pocus
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- Beetlejuice
- The Exorcist
Just of the top of my skull.
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Wallace & Gromit didn’t disappoint… it was excellent, and wasn’t watered down at all. Lots forany age to enjoy, plus a number of fine nods to classic horror films to boot. Plenty of laugh out loud moments, and the opening feature with the Madagascar penguins was also excellent. The kids at the show had a great time, and there were no screaming babies or annoying cell phones.
Aside from that, walkies were composed of roaming the Aventura mall and people-watching. There is a huge population of cuties, elders, kids and tourists to eyeball, not to mention punks, thugs, goths and other pseudo-fashion trendies.
It was nice to sleep in and then go out and about mostly undisturbed.
Thought about dying a colored streak in my hair for halloween… gray, and when asked about it at work, just claiming “what I saw… I can never tell… anyone. ever.” and then shuddering, saying no more.
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Priest revealing how to destroy the were-rabbit.
Fountain in the mall, shot from the 2nd floor
6943 – Hey, Kool-Aid!
Seeing this icon reminded me of on of my favorite character ideas of Danny’s from games past.
Dan had a character Best Suited for his personality – “Man of Iron“, but one of his other planned supers was Kool-Aid Man. Child-actor who actually was Kool-Aid man.. became disenfranchised later in life when nobody took him seriously, and began using his “giant pitcher of red fluid”-powers to commit crimes. It didn’t take long to catch him… and now he goes on special missions with Z-squad. (Or… would, if he wasn’t asked to come up with something else. He ended up playing a tunneling Joe Pesci slimeball named the Weasel… a precursor to his current character in the D20 D&D game his students are running at the school.)
Watched Silent Running this morning. With the exception of the “message music” that seems to be in all movies in or around the early 70s, it is a really good film. I of course sympathize more with the murderous space-hippie than the corporate drones.
Lappie’s battery charge no longer detects properly… I suspect it’s on the way out. I wonder if I can locate an inexpensive replacement? He’s been a durable little bugger since the mack’s groves gig, years ago. The only add-ons I’ve ever done to him are memory and a wireless card (and reformatted from Windows Me(h) to 2000) … he’s served me well both as a primary and a backup machine for quite a span… aside from games that require heavy-duty graphics, it’s still a fine little workhorse.
Well, the rainy season is officially over… how come the hurricane season still extends into and through November?
The weather is lovely outside.. highs in the 80s at noontime, lows in the 60s at night. *This* is the reason my folks moved to the south in the first place.
Witchcraft a part of Maryland’s past Continue reading 6943 – Hey, Kool-Aid!
6938 – Cellular, Modular, Interactive-odular!
Happy Birthday, Shah-Hala!!
Her birth was a great present to us all. Many thanks to her parents!!
Something she’d like, I’m sure – murder scenes scaled to dollhouse size, used to teach forensic science in the ’40s.
Gray Pumpkin forwarded a link to me about Mary-Sues (the phenomenon where an author somewhat unwittingly makes a character in their story who is basically the author, or an idealized/fantasy version of the author.)
The Original Fiction Mary-Sue Litmus Test
We were both reminded of a person in our old group who hit almost all of these points with her fiction.
Went out with Danny last night to Ugly Tuna Saloona. We didn’t have the interest or time for a movie, but we enjoyed the hangout quite a lot… its a quiet joint in the early evening, and the servers were very attentive. (We had the same server we had last time, and I think that we were remembered from our last visit about a month ago.) I think we’ve found a new hangout! We still need to check out the new casino.
Big Kahuna called right as we were sitting down … she wanted me to go back to the office and burn a cd, but fortunately it can wait until this morning.
I do my follow-up presentation at Kiwanis today, too.
The FDA approved an implantable computer chip for use in humans.
6928 – Monday, Already?
Went to the local Winn-Dixie for the first time (I usually shop at Publix)… The prices, selection and cleanliness at Publix are much better. The Winn-Dixie is new, but is already looking like a future “broken down” store. a few months of poor care, and it’ll look like an aged husk. I couldn’t be bothered to pick up anything that wasn’t pre-packaged as a result… I’ll have to hit my green-grocer up midweek, instead.
Weather outside is getting to be ideal. Cool enough to really enjoy long walks again.
I also swung by the library, just to sniff out any new DVDs that might be worth watching… friends of the library had a cart out front full of books and other media, marked 3/$1.00. I picked up a barely opened copy of Fleischer Popeye cartoons, Superman (the un-remastered ones), and a Marlon Brando Movie: One-eyed Jacks, for the grand total of $1. Not a bad haul, at all.
One-Eyed Jacks has a pretty prophetic fat joke made by Karl Malden in a sombrero to Marlon Brando.
Bonus on the Popeye DVD is a tour of Fleischer studios in Miami. Sort of neat to see local life 50 or more years ago. Popeye cracks me up… He and Bluto are at least medium level superheroes, but all they do is selfish stuff for the most part. (Run for president, Woo Olive Oyl, Just trying to get sleep, etc, etc) It’s also kind of odd that they’re both smokers.. pipe and cigar.
Sometimes I picture myself as the eye of the storm. I’m mostly a passive person, taking the path of least resistance to my goals. I can see disaster out on the fringes of my life, but things are generally calm where I tread. Brother is a different story… he’s fortunate, but is constantly in the midst of trouble, not just near it. Additionally, I also like to walk along the beach.
Monday Meeting. I have to somehow convince the big kahuna that mass e-mail marketing (SPAM) is *not* the way for us to look to raise awareness and open pocketbooks. The only people that make any money from the spam industry are folks that sell spam lists to people, and people who sell the “service” of pumping the bilge that is spam out to the poor public. I fear we will see no return on our investment of a list purchase, and worse, that our good name will be tossed in the dumper. I’ve tried explaining it in the past, but marketers seem to have more sway than my explaining how spam works in the real world. All I can do is stress my point again, and ask people what *they* do when they see a strange email in the box…. *delete*. Maybe explaining that they’ll be blocked by the bigger orgs will do the trick.
More info on that A&E Trolly that I rode last weekend.
Dad’s Home – This makes me smile. Super Powers, Insanity, and a smiling man rocking out.
6915 – Linkies, linkies, who's got the linkies?
I was right, took me about three hours, and I got a nice bonus check and an Italian lunch out afterwards.
The gang will be happy with the new machines… flat screens, better boxes, and cordless keyboard/mice for some. HP is really quite good about granted equipment, if you’re willing to dance around the paperwork.
Treadmill for FPS games… about time!
Sam & Max team started a new studio! It may not be dead, after all! Telltale Games
3-d Model of the haunted mansion
Would someone like to buy me a 10 million-dollar zeppelin for Christmas?
Archive.org: Sabucat vintage movie trailers collection (see also the great AV Geek section)
1 year ago – Prop2 gets nuked, poop in the pool, decade old posts by Scotto to Usenet, Hala attacked by the carnivator, I find out that I need surgery, chimp & the woman
2 years ago – net’s a little poopy, Finn drama at work (after the letter campaign)
3 years ago – clerisy, broken door, bad day, Ripple,
4 years ago – rainy day, poi dog, I first learn to do online carts, x degrees of sep
6915 – Linkies, linkies, who’s got the linkies?
I was right, took me about three hours, and I got a nice bonus check and an Italian lunch out afterwards.
The gang will be happy with the new machines… flat screens, better boxes, and cordless keyboard/mice for some. HP is really quite good about granted equipment, if you’re willing to dance around the paperwork.
Treadmill for FPS games… about time!
Sam & Max team started a new studio! It may not be dead, after all! Telltale Games
3-d Model of the haunted mansion
Would someone like to buy me a 10 million-dollar zeppelin for Christmas?
Archive.org: Sabucat vintage movie trailers collection (see also the great AV Geek section)
1 year ago – Prop2 gets nuked, poop in the pool, decade old posts by Scotto to Usenet, Hala attacked by the carnivator, I find out that I need surgery, chimp & the woman
2 years ago – net’s a little poopy, Finn drama at work (after the letter campaign)
3 years ago – clerisy, broken door, bad day, Ripple,
4 years ago – rainy day, poi dog, I first learn to do online carts, x degrees of sep
6907 – Humpday!
Bro called and apologized for bailing on Monday. Maybe I can take him out to lunch sometime this week.
Oktoberfest is coming… maybe I won’t totally miss it this year. Chicken Dance!
Downloaded Dawn of War demo… it’s really nice. A typical build your resources, make an army , hold your ground game, like age of empires, but graphically amazing… and amazingly graphic. Definitely M for mature. The voice talent is sweet, too. Multiplayer must be a hoot.
I’m doing a community meeting with the local police tonight… Hopefully that’ll fly well. The map stuff always impresses folks.
The Bugmenot plugin for mozilla is great… never have to worry about registering at any news site again… the way it should be.
LA to New York, time lapse drive. pretty spiffy. (quicktime embedded on page, w/sound)
Marvel’s Looking for voice talent for an Avengers Animated movie.
The sample working scripts are sort of cringeworthy.
6888 – Saturday, off call!
Downloaded and watched 50 first dates.. very typical sandler movie, cute and silly. Nice night.. not many missings to interfere.
Off to lunch and then Ghost in the Shell 2 this afternoon.. Sammy said it was great, so I’ll follow that lead. (I don’t know how fond I am of the acronym “GitS”.
I like the term “tuber” for potatoes. I don’t like it for people floating down a river.
“time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
-hector berlioz
Kong is King – You can watch as Peter Jackson builds the new King Kong movie. (Video production diary on the right) Weird that Andy Serkis (Gollum) will be providing motion capture and facial expressions for the computer generated King Kong. (He was ruled ineligible for a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 2003 Academy Awards because his character Gollum in Lord of the Rings onscreen was computer generated.)