Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
what a pain
and today started out with so much promise. tonight was the monthly maintenance night, so i started my day doing a few things that i wanted to get done.
- listened to OnA
- read a good chunk of V for Vendetta
- got an oil change and replaced my serpentine belt
- saw cloverfield
- read more of V for Vendetta
so by the time i headed into work, i was feeling pretty good about the day.
once in, things went along as expected until i went to patch one of our Win2000 servers. it pretty much shit the bed. and the ONLY saving grace was this happened at the start of the evening, rather than, like, now.
so, the entire evening was spent dealing with this single server (a rather important production server) while i tried to get the other servers patched. i managed to get most of them done. a few updates i wanted to do i couldn't because i ran out of time, so they'll wait until next months update.
so now it's time for bed. i'm tired and somewhat frustrated, but at least i'm not as frustrated as i could (or in the past would) be so i should be able to get some sleep.
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Saturday, November 17, 2007
random bits
well, the move is complete. that's not to say that everything is as it should be in the new office, but for the moment at least things are quiet. i considered going to the new office today, but opted out which was a mixed blessing. i hate being dragged into other projects that have the cart being drawn before the horse. what a fucking mess that is turning into.
finally got around to seeing Saw IV in the theater last night. i thought it was ok, nothing great or special, just ok. i didn't think that it was bad, but i liked how the first 3 played out and this one had the feeling of trying to fit into them, but didn't quite make it. it certainly had a few moments, but all in all it was just ok. i've always been a fan of the series, but now i'm wondering if there wasn't a bit of shark jumping with this one.
M stopped by last night and startled me a little - i was debating what i wanted to watch on dvd tonight and she opened my door. it didn't help that i was listening to music and completely missed her call so it wasn't until i saw my door opening out of the corner of my eye that i realized what was going on. i rather enjoy being lost in my world of music, and i suppose that's my achilles heel - once i tune in, i tune out the world around me.
while she was here it dawned on my that as of 11/8/07, i am by definition debt free. there will always be bills, but i no longer have any loans hanging over my head as my final student loan payment has come and gone. it was so very nice to see this when i logged in to check on it:
Loan Balances
You do not currently have any active or fully disbursed loans on our system.
it took a few moments for that to sink in, but it's really nice to think that the chunk of change i've been sinking into paying that off now sinks into my bank account. i'll try and enjoy this while i can, but at the same time i also know that i have a new car coming in the coming months (i'm finally fed up with my explorer - i don't want it anymore but will suffer thru the winter to save down payment money to help minimize that loan) and of course once the house hunting starts up again, that's going to put me in debt for pretty much the rest of my life. so i'll have to enjoy it while i can.
weather has turned brisk around here which i suppose is expected for this time of the year. and it looks like the trees around the house which had their leaves up until very recently have finally dropped most of them. it's been odd to see just how many leaves haven't fallen yet, of course they are shades of brown, so it's not as nice as leaf peepers would like. tho i do have to chuckle at a sermon the assistant priest in high school gave about how he enjoyed fall and the fall colors, but how one year in school it was explained why the leaves change color - the are dying and when dying they go from green to the bright vivid colors, etc. anyways, he had a hard time dealing with that as he couldn't figure out why if they were dying were they so vividly colored. eventually it clicked that it wasn't a bad thing as in the spring there was a rebirth and life would return, etc.
i always found it amusing as i guess i never looked at leaves that way. sure i knew why they changed colors, but i never gave it much thought other than to wonder why they'd change to the color they did (yellow, orange, red, etc). he certainly got over it, but it was some time before he shook that memory, eventually relating it to whatever bible story was the subject of that sunday sermon (most likely rebirth or something along those lines). but i guess it's since stuck with me - i still smile a bit when i think about it. anyways, moving on.
Porcupine Tree's Fear of a Blank Planet is a current front runner for the Molius Album of the Year award (sounds fancy). if you haven't heard it, it's well worth plunking your hard earned money down for.
and on that note, i'll wrap this up.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
a few days later
even tho the anniversary was the other day, as today is the 30th, i figured i'd say happy 30.
happy 30 star wars.
han shot first!
Friday, March 23, 2007
Friday, January 05, 2007
hmmmm...Gone In 60 Seconds is on tonight.
same time. different channels.
TNT is showing the 2000 remake.
Speed is showing the original 1974 version. with interviews with cast and crew.
which shall i watch?
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Thursday, November 02, 2006
whoa.
i love aliens, but this just screams NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD!
(where's ogre when you need him?)
Thursday, October 12, 2006
here's a word for you
bowdlerized
i had no idea what it was, so i looked it up.
and to keep you people from freaking out about how i'm making you click the link, here you go.
bowd·ler·ize
tr.v. bowd·ler·ized, bowd·ler·iz·ing, bowd·ler·iz·es
- To expurgate (a book, for example) prudishly.
- To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
it's BOWED-ler-eyes, but the funky pronounciation characters didn't want to copy, so here it is.
here's what prompted my search for the word. (look at the alternate title) Read More......
Saturday, September 09, 2006
boy oh boy, was Black Moon Rising a QUALITY movie. i would like to thank the Speed Channel for airing this high quality movie. not only was it entertaining, but they showed trailers for 2 other high quality movies.
the first was Viva Knievel!
what a winner that looks like.
the second was for Freejack, yet another wonderful movie. the best part? when alex (emilio) is walking down some alley or something and the music in the background is Ministry's Thieves. best part in the whole movie.
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
huh....
found on Dark Horizons. i certainly never thought that this would happen, but i guess he managed to have a change of heart. there are some fairly significant changes in the story, some of which were approved by Frank Herbert, but then things got chopped into bits which is when Lynch got upset. so it will be interesting to see what he does for the 'director's cut' and hopefully it will help the movie make a little more sense.
1984's "Dune" by Director David Lynch to this day remains a hallmark of the sci-fi genre even though the film has gone through numerous cuts without the director's consent. His approved theatrical version to this day however remains heavily criticised for its truncated feel. As a result al sorts of different versions exist on DVD or video, and talk on an "Extended Edition" scheduled to hit May this year drew little excitement.
That's about to change though. The Digital Bits has done some digging with their sources at Universal and have learned the real reason behind their delay of the "Dune: Extended Edition" DVD (it's currently unscheduled) is that after years of saying he would never revisit "Dune", at the 11th hour director David Lynch decided that he wanted to be involved in the new DVD after all. This means that when it's eventually released, not only is the DVD going to include the original theatrical version of the film... it will include a brand new "director's extended cut" edited by Lynch himself.
i wonder if it will be as long as the Sci-Fi version...
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