Hey, everyone you know won’t hate Little Miss Suns… BryanCombs - Dec 3, 2007 Hey, everyone you know won’t hate Little Miss Sunshine. I love it. It’s actually my favorite film from 2006. (Right ahead of The Departed and Borat) Dixie loves it too.
I’ve been with Firefox ( originally Phoenix, then Firebird, forked to IceWeasel) for years now. Yes, it was the chip off the old block (Son of Mozilla, rise!), and it was build upon Good Code©, and it bore no hint of That evil corporation that won the browser war by not playing fair It was the best parts of mozilla, with none of the bloat of the suite (that email program that no one used) ...
Watched several movies over the past few days (Thank you, Netflix). Some thoughts on them: Constantine: Creepy, dark film about a man blessed/cursed to see the interplay between angels and demons in our world. I really liked it, especially for its vivid portrayal of Hell. The Muppet Show: Wow, this doesn’t age well. It’s about as interesting to the modern eye as the 70’s variety shows upon which it’s based. Plus, without “Pigs…in…space.” Bah!
Movies I’ve seen lately… 1. Perfect Strangers… DavidJarvis - Dec 3, 2007 Movies I’ve seen lately… 1. Perfect Strangers. A good friend recommend this. I told him afterwards he is no longer allowed to recommend movies to me. Ever. This movie leaves you with the same feeling you might get after finding someone had barfed in your food. After you ate it. 2. Bertie and Elizabeth. Interesting and sympathetic look at the lesser-known brother of Edward VI (and a very unsympathetic look at the woman he dumped the crown for) 3. Beowulf. Some are panning this because it doesn’t follow the original story exactly. Actually it does fairly closely but adds some unifying elements that I thought worked rather well. I liked it a lot, but adaptations don’t have to be authoritative versions for me to enjoy them; I guess I’m not a purist. 4. How Green Was My Valley. Sappy but touching. ...
Ugh. I’ve said it before (“Underworld”), but how do you dress Jennifer Garner up in this outfit and have a boring movie? Lots of camera effects layered atop a very weak story, that’s how.
Just sat through Karl Schoemer’s “The New Reality” seminar. Schoemer, an Indiana-Weslyan University grad (Woohoo!), teaches a tough-love seminar on recognizing change, dealing with your responses to it (Shock, Denial, Identity Crisis, and Search for Solutions), and recognizing positive and negative behaviors associated with it. The overall message is: “Old reality” is dead. The social contract of selling your soul to a company, working there for 30 years and retiring as a good “company man” no longer exists. Each person is responsible for his relative contribution, attitudes, and responses to change. It’s never going back to “the good old days”. Stop having this familial, parent/child attitude towards work. They owe you nothing, aside from a paycheck. ...
Probably the worst Disney animated film of the modern era. They sanitized the lusty, humanist story of Heracles. Example: One of Heracles’s challenges was put to him by King Thespius of Thespiae who wished him to kill the Lion of Cithaeron. As a reward, the king offered him the chance to impregnate each of his 50 daughters. Accordingly, Heracles did this in one night (sometimes referred to as his 13th Labour). ...
You’d think the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Baily Circus is unchanging, right? Wrong. Two words for you: House Cats. Yes, there’s an act in the middle of the 1st act of the Circus where a two trainers do an act with trained housecats. I’d pay real money if Letterman would do a walk-on and and make some quip about “Stupid Pet Tricks”. But, it got better. I’ve been to the circus in Lexington many times, most recently in 2001, when the “Red” Ringling Bros. circus came to town. This is the circus with Bello, a clown/aerialist/acrobat main character with Vanilla Ice’s haircut. It’s also the traditional, 3-ring “Big Top” show. What we got this time in Lexington is the “Blue” circus, a one-ring circus with a plot (trust me!) that plays like an amalgam of Cirque du Soleil and a broadway show. ...
“Gold” is coming to town where I live next month. … Thomas J. Brown - Aug 5, 2007 “Gold” is coming to town where I live next month. I’ve never been big on the circus, but their female ring leader, Liliana Escobar, is pretty hot. Maybe I’ll go see the circus. -)
I went to my first meeting with my new division yesterday, and I must say, It sounds pretty good. A particular highpoint was The Wifi Guy. Nice idea for the new media–funny, viral, very over-the-top. LXK’s making a big foray into wireless consumer printers. Thing that gets me–why aren’t we doing some sort of co-branding with Apple? Apple’s main selling point these days is cordless, wireless, de-cluttered desktops. With this new line, seems like we’d be right there. ...
Ah, Luc Besson (The man who wrote The Fifth Element) brings us another gem of style-over-substance. If you could epitomize Eurotrash in a movie, this is it. But, God, such fun! Nothing like a man barrel-rolling a W-12 powered Audi A8 to remove a bomb attached to its undercarriage. Frank (Jason Statham), is a very, very bad man, but his schtick great–Always wearing a crisp suit, always in a clean car, always in control. ...
Hrm…let’s see. Yesterday: - A French Bank closed 3 subprime hedge funds because there’s not enough liquidity to value them. I don’t know what that means exactly, but it sounds bad. - The S&P dropped 3% yesterday. - The subprime mortgage fiasco is turning into a vortex. I yanked my 401(k) back into a money market. I’m NOT looking forward to a repeat of the bath I took on my Roth in 2001.
not enough liquidity to value them….the mtg co’s… Whitney - Aug 5, 2007 not enough liquidity to value them….the mtg co’s are so far upside down on their lending that it’s not even worth the analysts’ time? well, the hedge funds were invested in the subprime mortgages and mortgage brokers themselves. I used to be invested in Harbor Fund’s Harbor Bond fund and it had a great run investing in mortgages, but it scared me so I got out before 2005. ...
So, I took one 2 hr block to myself. I grabbed my once-a-month blow fund and headed out after a rather trying Saturday of watching the kids, and said, “Damn it, I’m going to see something for me.” Something with nary a trace of romantic comedy, meaningful plotline, or maybe even sense. I went to watch “The Simpsons Movie”. Let’s cut to the chase. You get to see Bart’s penis, Homer flips-off the residents of Springfield, Otto hits a bong, and Marge says ‘Goddamn’. That’s why this movie is PG-13. ...
A couple of years after the last film came out we have the next installment of the Daniel Radcli…er…Harry Potter movies, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Let’s get this out of the way–I LOVED THIS MOVIE! The trio can really act these days (particularly Emma Watson and Radcliffe), and the movie was a visual and comedic delight. From the first scene on, we’re in the land of tasteful CGI–From the first scene’s dementor attack throught he climactic battle between Voldemort and Dumbledoor, it’s a wizard’s world, and wonder abounds. ...
Two words: Loved it. link Dumb, enjoyable comic book movie. Not pretentious (a la “Hulk”), nor overlong (Spidey #3). Any move where a flaming skeleton rides a demonic motorcycle up a skyscraper to defeat an elemental demon is worth at least a look. The CGI looked great, and Cage got to chew the scenery (and co-star Eva Mendes) for a full 112 minutes. Probably the best part for me is Peter Fonda as Satan, strolling by Cage’s motorcycle offering “Nice Bike.” Cage’s bike is a replica of Fonda’s from “Easy Rider”
yeah I liked it too. campy, but I’d hit that. Whitney - Jun 5, 2007 yeah I liked it too. campy, but I’d hit that.
Gary Sinise’s 1992 remake of the John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men was long and boring, but strangely compeling. Sinise plays George, a migrant worker in Californa during the Great Depression. George is joined at the hip to a giant named Lennie Smalls, played by John Malkovich. As the movie opens, we see Lennie and George fleeing from a posse, George has done some very bad thing, and they had to get away, hiding among the reeds in a creek to throw off the bloodhounds. From there, the story revolves around them as they seek work at a Barley farm, doing hard manual labor as they desperately try to stay out of trouble. ...
I enjoyed the book quite a bit and thought it was … Chuck Fouts - Jun 5, 2007 I enjoyed the book quite a bit and thought it was an excellent window into the life of two generations ago. I hadn’t heard of the movie but your “long and boring” along with the “but one worth watching” has me confused. Is this a good movie for the replication of the original story, for the mind set of watching the vagaries of life, or for the performance of the actors themselves. To be honest Malkovich has worn me thin over the years but I could watch Cool Hand Luke every year or so without getting too tired of it. ...
From my pal Chris Cool (yes, that is his real name…). His band EYESUPONUS is playing Icthus this weekend Thanks to all your support and all your votes, we will be playing the Ichthus Festival in Wilmore, KY this weekend! The festival is Thursday 14th - Saturday 16th. There are three stages: the main stage, the Deep End stage, and the Edge stage. We are scheduled to play Saturday at 3:40 pm on The Edge stage. If you are at the festival, please come and hang out with us for our 25-minute set. We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you all, and EYESUPONUS truly appreciates the love and support we have gotten throughout this entire process. I hope to see as many of you there as possible. ...