Moving Neighbours And Movie Making
► More back security-door banging at the apartment today, albeit not quite as bad as yesterday. Around noon there were a couple of guys loading furniture into a flatbed trailer. After they left, a few hours later, there were several cars crammed in the back and numerous women going up and down the and loitering in the stairwell (I could hear the voices through my bedroom wall).
I guess the lady in the apartment must really be moving out. It's funny how Dean and I have only been here 2 years yet the other 3 apartments have had an incredibly turn over rate. No one else has stayed more than a year since we moved in. Am I playing the porn on my computer too loud?
► Dad called me at noon, surprising me, although it shouldn't have, by telling me that my grandmother decided not to go to the hospital today after all. She'll go next week instead. Stubbornness.
The reason Dad called was to see if I wanted to go out with him today since I need to pick up a few things. I would have gone, but he called just after I ate 3 hotdogs (on whole wheat toast), a pear, and a chocolate glazed donut. With my neurotic obsessive stomach issues I had to pass. Bad timing. Instead we might go out in the early afternoon tomorrow.
► Star Wars Actors Ahmed Best & Jake Lloyd Added To Big Apple Comic Con Guest List! - Geez, do they want angry geeks to burn the place down?
► 'Hobbit' casting: Martin Freeman could still play Bilbo Baggins - It had never occurred to me to think of Martin Freeman. Good choice. I hope he's able to do it.
► SUPERIOR WEEK: Mark Millar - Wonders never cease! For once I'm actually really curious and interested in a Mark Millar comic book. Mostly because he seems to have shelved his usual hyperbolic huckster-creep rhetoric.
► Canada unveils new speed bump: optical illusion of a child - From the article:'You have to wonder if the designers of the "speed bump of the future" considered that drivers might become conditioned to disregard Pavement Patty and her imaginary cohorts, creating something similar to a "boy who cried wolf" effect. Couldn't such conditioning reduce drivers' caution if a real child should cross their path?'
That was my first thought. I think we'll see a rise in cars hitting pedestrians.
► First look at Green Goblin, other designs from Spider-Man musical - HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, oh my god... WOW. I was going to make a comment about this being a superhero comic book musical designed by someone who had never heard of superheroes or comic books before, but words fail me. All I can think is "flamboyant" and "flaming". Julie Taymor, can I have some of what you're smoking? Grace Jones lives, and she's silver!
Please tell me this is all part of some Christopher Guest mockumentary spoofing Broadway. This can't be real, can it?
Fuck... HAHAHAHA. God, I have to close that tab.
► Josh Brolin puts the Jonah Hex movie into perspective.
Movie Trailers - Movies Blog
It's a truism that no one sets out to make a bad movie. Usually (but sadly not always) people have good intentions when working on a film and things just don't work for whatever reason. It's a standard hyperbolic response, particularly online, to claim that most movies nowadays suck. I think that's a fallacy. With movies, as with anything else, there are always a small portion of truly classic, expansive films, ones that push the boundaries of the medium, just as there are always a small portion that are truly, horrifically, incompetently awful. Most movies fall into the larger middle, where they're not really great but also not really awful, just mediocre and average, and there's nothing wrong with that. Not every movie can be Citizen Kane, but not every mediocre movie is Manos: The Hands of Fate.
Quote of the Moment
Scotty Brennen: See that girl over there in the red? Say "hi" to her and she's yours. She'll have her legs around you so tight you'll be begging for mercy.
Josh: Well, I'll stay away from her, then.
- Big (1988)
Drinking: Brisk lemonade
I guess the lady in the apartment must really be moving out. It's funny how Dean and I have only been here 2 years yet the other 3 apartments have had an incredibly turn over rate. No one else has stayed more than a year since we moved in. Am I playing the porn on my computer too loud?
► Dad called me at noon, surprising me, although it shouldn't have, by telling me that my grandmother decided not to go to the hospital today after all. She'll go next week instead. Stubbornness.
The reason Dad called was to see if I wanted to go out with him today since I need to pick up a few things. I would have gone, but he called just after I ate 3 hotdogs (on whole wheat toast), a pear, and a chocolate glazed donut. With my neurotic obsessive stomach issues I had to pass. Bad timing. Instead we might go out in the early afternoon tomorrow.
► Star Wars Actors Ahmed Best & Jake Lloyd Added To Big Apple Comic Con Guest List! - Geez, do they want angry geeks to burn the place down?
► 'Hobbit' casting: Martin Freeman could still play Bilbo Baggins - It had never occurred to me to think of Martin Freeman. Good choice. I hope he's able to do it.
► SUPERIOR WEEK: Mark Millar - Wonders never cease! For once I'm actually really curious and interested in a Mark Millar comic book. Mostly because he seems to have shelved his usual hyperbolic huckster-creep rhetoric.
► Canada unveils new speed bump: optical illusion of a child - From the article:'You have to wonder if the designers of the "speed bump of the future" considered that drivers might become conditioned to disregard Pavement Patty and her imaginary cohorts, creating something similar to a "boy who cried wolf" effect. Couldn't such conditioning reduce drivers' caution if a real child should cross their path?'
That was my first thought. I think we'll see a rise in cars hitting pedestrians.
► First look at Green Goblin, other designs from Spider-Man musical - HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, oh my god... WOW. I was going to make a comment about this being a superhero comic book musical designed by someone who had never heard of superheroes or comic books before, but words fail me. All I can think is "flamboyant" and "flaming". Julie Taymor, can I have some of what you're smoking? Grace Jones lives, and she's silver!
Please tell me this is all part of some Christopher Guest mockumentary spoofing Broadway. This can't be real, can it?
Fuck... HAHAHAHA. God, I have to close that tab.
► Josh Brolin puts the Jonah Hex movie into perspective.
Movie Trailers - Movies Blog
It's a truism that no one sets out to make a bad movie. Usually (but sadly not always) people have good intentions when working on a film and things just don't work for whatever reason. It's a standard hyperbolic response, particularly online, to claim that most movies nowadays suck. I think that's a fallacy. With movies, as with anything else, there are always a small portion of truly classic, expansive films, ones that push the boundaries of the medium, just as there are always a small portion that are truly, horrifically, incompetently awful. Most movies fall into the larger middle, where they're not really great but also not really awful, just mediocre and average, and there's nothing wrong with that. Not every movie can be Citizen Kane, but not every mediocre movie is Manos: The Hands of Fate.
Quote of the Moment
Scotty Brennen: See that girl over there in the red? Say "hi" to her and she's yours. She'll have her legs around you so tight you'll be begging for mercy.
Josh: Well, I'll stay away from her, then.
- Big (1988)
Drinking: Brisk lemonade