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Just got back from seeing a restored version of The Monastery of Sendomir, a silent movie with Tora Teje. It was quite the accident - I arrived too late for Taking Off and figured, hey, restored silent movie, sounds fun. :-) It was, too (and the pianist was excellent), though I don't recommend eating a pizza before going to the cinema. The first half hour I was fidgeting quite a lot to prevent falling asleep, until the digestion coma subsided.
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I also picked up the tickets for BUFF. I'll be seeing eight films (if I can manage): ORPS, The Scouting Book for Boys, The Wedding Song, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Fish Child, Skellig, Monster Busters, and Mary & Max. Mary & Max is the only one I've seen before, but it's that damn good.
Other BUFF movies I've seen before are Where the Wild Things Are and Vorstadtkrokodile, but unfortunately they show in daytime during the festival, so I won't be able to see them again.
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Seeing Vorstadtkrokodile and then being reminded of Quest for Camelot through the Nostalgia Critic made me want to do a Handicapped Badass video, sort of like
isagel's Half the Man but with a broader scope.
My first negative thought considering this idea was, "I don't have a song."
My second negative thought was, "Doesn't matter anyway, considering what a bitch Movie Maker is being."
I may need a new video editing program. Does anyone have a suggestion for one that's relatively easy and cheap, yet functional? I mean, with the X-men vid I tried to make in August, WMM kept changing the timing. That's not functional. At the same time, it's the only program I have an actual mentor for (everything I know I learned from roseveare), and I don't want to spend money on some incredible software only to sit there like an idiot.
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Btw, concerning today's excursion to the cinema, I saw a guy at the train station who managed to rock the Watson 'tache. Quite a feat.
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I meant to do a bunch of stuff today (fic, for one), but thanks to my new favourite blog Älskade dumburk, I ended up watching lots and lots of clips from "What's My Line" instead. It is an incredibly funny show, especially for people like me who love old Hollywood. But I think it could be fun nowadays too; certainly more fun than any other game show that's on.
For those of you who, like me, had never heard of this before, it's a show where a panel guesses the job of various people. In every show, there's also a celebrity guest (which is sometimes an actual celebrity, sometimes a relative of the panel), where the panel is blindfolded and then has to guess the identity of the person.
Some of the funny clips I've watched:
Salvador Dalí, which is the clip I found on the blog:
Elizabeth Taylor, doing a great voice:
Yul Brynner, where the last question cracked the audience (and me) up:
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I also picked up the tickets for BUFF. I'll be seeing eight films (if I can manage): ORPS, The Scouting Book for Boys, The Wedding Song, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Fish Child, Skellig, Monster Busters, and Mary & Max. Mary & Max is the only one I've seen before, but it's that damn good.
Other BUFF movies I've seen before are Where the Wild Things Are and Vorstadtkrokodile, but unfortunately they show in daytime during the festival, so I won't be able to see them again.
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Seeing Vorstadtkrokodile and then being reminded of Quest for Camelot through the Nostalgia Critic made me want to do a Handicapped Badass video, sort of like
isagel's Half the Man but with a broader scope.
My first negative thought considering this idea was, "I don't have a song."
My second negative thought was, "Doesn't matter anyway, considering what a bitch Movie Maker is being."
I may need a new video editing program. Does anyone have a suggestion for one that's relatively easy and cheap, yet functional? I mean, with the X-men vid I tried to make in August, WMM kept changing the timing. That's not functional. At the same time, it's the only program I have an actual mentor for (everything I know I learned from roseveare), and I don't want to spend money on some incredible software only to sit there like an idiot.
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Btw, concerning today's excursion to the cinema, I saw a guy at the train station who managed to rock the Watson 'tache. Quite a feat.
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I meant to do a bunch of stuff today (fic, for one), but thanks to my new favourite blog Älskade dumburk, I ended up watching lots and lots of clips from "What's My Line" instead. It is an incredibly funny show, especially for people like me who love old Hollywood. But I think it could be fun nowadays too; certainly more fun than any other game show that's on.
For those of you who, like me, had never heard of this before, it's a show where a panel guesses the job of various people. In every show, there's also a celebrity guest (which is sometimes an actual celebrity, sometimes a relative of the panel), where the panel is blindfolded and then has to guess the identity of the person.
Some of the funny clips I've watched:
Salvador Dalí, which is the clip I found on the blog:
Click to viewElizabeth Taylor, doing a great voice:
Yul Brynner, where the last question cracked the audience (and me) up: