And Now For Something Completely Random
Want to know something that has been amusing me all day - the year 2008 is going to be the international year of the:
Potato
Seriously, there is a UN resolution to that effect. Now I know that potatoes are a wonderful food since they act as a stable in the diet of millions (possibly billions) of people over the world. But still - international year of the potato.
Meanwhile my local video store which is probably the crappiest video store in the whole world (but the only one in walking distance from my flat so it gets my business regardless) has just redeemed itself slightly by having the 3-disk special edition of The Frighteners in store.
The Frighteners is one of my all time favourite movies. It’s Michael J. Fox as a clairvoyant con-man vs. the Grim Reaper, which doesn’t sound like all that much, but you have to keep in mind that this is a movie by the same director who introduced the world to lawnmowers as a legitimate zombie slaying device (I also love Braindead BTW), so it's brilliantly funny. (And they let this guy direct Lord of the Rings. Was everyone in Hollywood stoned that day?)
And it contains possibly one of the greatest movie lines of all time - "I'm an asshole...with an uzi."
Potato
Seriously, there is a UN resolution to that effect. Now I know that potatoes are a wonderful food since they act as a stable in the diet of millions (possibly billions) of people over the world. But still - international year of the potato.
Meanwhile my local video store which is probably the crappiest video store in the whole world (but the only one in walking distance from my flat so it gets my business regardless) has just redeemed itself slightly by having the 3-disk special edition of The Frighteners in store.
The Frighteners is one of my all time favourite movies. It’s Michael J. Fox as a clairvoyant con-man vs. the Grim Reaper, which doesn’t sound like all that much, but you have to keep in mind that this is a movie by the same director who introduced the world to lawnmowers as a legitimate zombie slaying device (I also love Braindead BTW), so it's brilliantly funny. (And they let this guy direct Lord of the Rings. Was everyone in Hollywood stoned that day?)
And it contains possibly one of the greatest movie lines of all time - "I'm an asshole...with an uzi."