I found this bizarre music video from Jan Terri made on a shoestring budget in the 90′s (not the 80′s!) and in my unkind spirit of laughing at people who try in earnest but ending up looking silly, here it is.
My favorite parts are the heavy leather, the window staring, the off-key singing, the hand gestures, the plotless story and the ‘bad’ boyfriend who cruises through a stop sign and parks in a no-parking zone.
These lyrics are going to be stuck in your head for some time now…
I don’t wanna lose you tonight
You’re the only thing that matters
I don’t wanna lose you this way
Just need your love
This movie came well recommended to me and it was a good, strange and profanity laced comedy. The main character was profound, confusing and yet remarkably consistent and believable. Some good lines in there and a nice change of pace from an action movie loaded with action to this one which seems to try to avoid it at every turn.
When a movie with a plot as benign as MLB drafting and trading using statistics instead of scouting intuition is this entertaining, you know they did something right. Great story that had both Heidi and I riveted to a sport that we really know and care very little about.
Ugh, this Christian movie was not worth watching. While it followed the plot of the Prodigal Son story closely, it seemed to lack all the great details that we had been learning about in the Prodigal God book study that we were going through. The acting was poor, most of the characters were poorly developed and the dialog was very local (to Texas) and didn't sound very natural to my Canadian ears.
Funny People from Judd Apatow (whose 40 Year Old Virgin I really liked) Up from Pixar who haven’t released anything but awesome yet. 500 Days of Summer for Joseph Gordon-Levitt in an indie-type romance Astro Boy because it’s a childhood favorite of mine Extract from Mike Judge with Jason Bateman – looks funny The Brothers Bloom has an interesting premise and is made by the guy that did Brick, which I enjoyed for its originality Moon for Sam Rockwell, who I liked a lot in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and for sci-fi fun Away We Go looks like a good summer romantic drama with comedy and even though I dropped the Office, I still have a soft spot for Halpert The Boat that Rocked for seeing rebels with rock and roll in the 70′s – Heidi will like this one. The Proposal looked sort of funny, this movie represents my weakest excitement, but it does have Sandra in it for my brother. The Hangover for real chuckles from the trailer – stick around for the very end of the trailer for an awesome cameo Julie & Julia for Heidi, I’d gladly skip this one Taking Woodstock about finding the location for Woodstock is the one Heidi’s most excited about and I wouldn’t mind seeing either. Bruno looks hilarious and I loved Borat so expectations are high Toy Story 3 is still a long way away but will be a great addition to the story, I’m sure. 9 looks strange and exciting at the same time Surrogates teams some futuristic sci fi with Bruce Willis and action – good combo State of Play is a thriller that looks good – my favorite genre Stranded is the documentary of the story that the movie Alive was based on Where the Wild Things Are seems to be an exciting look at a popular book that I read as a kid from Spike Jonze who’s loaded with original talent
We’ll see which of these ones actually turns out to be any good.
After a few too many BSOD’s (even Heidi is aware of this term now), I was unable to get my computer to work anymore – I tried a bunch of things (including but not limited to a fresh install, Ubuntu, Puppy Linux, a new hard drive and new DDR2 RAM stick) to no avail.
I then decided to revive my old broken computer instead of trying to fix my newer one in futility. I reluctantly ended up putting Windows back on even though I was really tempted to use Ubuntu. My main holdback to keeping Windows is MSMoney which has a ton of my old financial information in and in a much smaller way, iTunes (though Songbird is going to rid me of that hold).
For my own fun (read: for next time), here’s a list of the programs that I’ve put onto my fresh Windows install already.
Whew! I’ll probably bump into a bunch more software that I ‘need’ but for now, I’m trying to keep my software bloat to a minimum (if I haven’t blown it already).
Here’s the most recent contestant on the British Talent search show to knock the socks off the audience and judges (youtube). I like the Paul Potts guy a little better because he can barely even muster thinking much of himself, so he’s easy to cheer for. Anyways, another nice one to make you feel good.
I thought I'd take a little bit of time to put together all of the games within Desktop Tower Defense and show many I've completed and how many lives I've lost, etc.
Green color on the game name means that I'm satisfied with my progress and don't expect to do much better, otherwise there's room for improvement. Enjoy!:
I 'cheated' and finished this level by juggling - still takes a lot of work but is certainly easier. all 10 guys to get through were aircreeps in the 80's and 90's levels.
Last week, the Office was super sized which means that my normal PVR didn’t catch the end of it. After searching and finding lots of dud torrents, I found the good one at mininova – thought I’d save you the searching time…
Don Lafontaine has the voice you’ll be certain to recognize but a face you haven’t seen – that’s right! It’s the movie trailer voice guy! Not to be confused with the guy who did one of my favorite trailers ever, but he’s still pretty awesome.
Update: Some more info on Don at wikipedia says he DID do the Seinfeld trailer – I guess he is really awesome (awefull actually!)
Update again: seems like wikipedia is full of holes (who knew!) and the Seinfeld guy is actually Hal Douglas, Don’s my second favorite again…
