Saturday, February 06, 2010

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Say "Hello!" TO Capt. Jack for us! :-)

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Saturday, September 05, 2009

My First Tarantino
The house was loud for about a week, so my folks & I decided to "dinner & movie" it off and on that week. "Inglourious Basterds" was one of them. Now I'd never seen a Quentin Tarantino film before, but what I knew of him was "too much sex, violence, and mobseters". Well, I'd forgotten he directed this film until the opening credits.

The sex lasted about 5 seconds, the violence...I've seen worse (but I don't recall seeing scalping before), and there were no mobsters- just Nazis (as if there were much difference there). The comedy was well-balanced with the drama/war and I liked the "chapters" bits. It's based on a fantasy WW2 novel cuz Hitler just didn't die that way- which was a shame.

There should be awards for the cinema set decoration, the music, and if Christoph Waltz doesn't get *at the very least* an Oscar nomination for Col. Hans Landa then we're going to have problems. Brad Pitt may be from Oklahoma but does a damn good job of pretending to be from Kentucky.

Overall, I think it was a great film and I'd buy it. Just close your eyes during the "craftsmanship".

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Saturday, June 27, 2009

i was once a treehouse, i lived in a cake
While researching Dr Who (David Tennant is quite convincing) in consideration of "giving it a shot since I've never seen it but maybe 3.5 episodes", I ended up on You Tube (another "new" to my collection) and came across The Dalek Song. Got stuck in my head something awful, so while seeing it again today, I learned it's a parody of the Llama Song.

llama lyrics / Dalek lyrics

The Timekeepers/KLF song is on iTunes and the Ultimate Doctor Who title mix is quite trippy.

Of course, being an old classic it's going to take forever for me to catch up on just the history alone! (Kudos to the guy who made this Doctor Who website!)

Sounds like one could always use a yellow truck!

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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Blogger and Fanlistings
Fixed the grey box problem. Also joined more fanlistings tonight. Be careful there...addictive!

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DADGUMMIT ITUNES!
I just bought a $25 gift card and was prepared to download 25 songs. Natural right? Wrong. I open iTunes and I find I need an upgrade. I upgrade. Then it tells me that they've come out with an improved format and you can upgrade your entire purchased library for a price. Am I the only iTunes user who feels that the upgrade should be free?!

Methinks the iTunes executives looked at the number of downloads to date and thought: "Gee, we can make 2/3 more than we already have if we charge for upgrades! Nevermind how the customer feels, or the current economic crisis."
You heard me.

Just be thankful that they didn't do away with the 99¢ song!

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The Dull No.2
Spoke with my current family doc about my "fibrofog": the fibromyalgia version of the million-times-more-painful version of the meds-induced cognitive disorder symptoms I've had over the past decade+. And no I didn't invent the phrase "fibrofog." :-)

Instinctively, all of my life my brain has felt like a dulled pencil that was once sharp and thus I've had this yearning to grab a magical sharpener to get it back to where it once was. Trouble is, I don't know when (earlier than age 5) or how much sharper my brain used to be. Doctor's order is to keep playing brain-boosting games. Gamer by doctor's order- now there's a new one.

Good news is I was already a gamer anyway. Board games as a kid, crossword varieties during the worst of my medical oddessey, and now I'm playing Wii and PC games. They finally made games that I'd like much less be able to play! Back in '96-7 I bought those Lucasfilm collections of Star Wars games but for some reason the joystick and I just couldn't get along.

Not to mention the rant I could post about how the majority of computery games require you to buy the cheat codes books in order to just get to the next friggin' level! You have to "cheat" in order to win! Gee now, what does *that* tell us about society?!

Easter Eggs- yes.
Cheating- no.
Guide book for those who have actually made a good faith effort using their own brains and geuninely need a little help? - Oh yes!

Meanwhile, Indy's mayonaise is long past expired, he'll never pick up the genuine candlestick, much less find out why that carving is more deeply etched. Harry still can't get Colin's wand down to him or move the benches nearby due to the invisible wall which looks like a bug. But the Miis are happy and mingle, and Super Paper Mario can go anywhere he likes and be thanked by creatures everywhere.

As for RPG-type games, I'll buy the books (Star Wars only) but I can't play. The Fibrofog has put them on the "Do Not Admit" list for some dumb reason. They're exactly the kind of thing I could play if I wanted to, but like their cousin card games, I can't.

Poker- yes.
Pokémon- no. (sorry guys)

Anyway, this Gooball needs to eat and stare at the 7-pack multi-sided die she bought yesterday at Heroes & Dragons because she likes polyhedrals.

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