| Aboot time for a meme |
[Feb. 18th, 2008|12:00 am] |
-Remaining answers posted 2/20. 9 out of 15, not bad people. 60% success.
Jacked from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) onimaru
1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.
I skipped movies not in English, so none of these are subtitles/translations.
1. "Yes! An' there are two g's in bugger off!"
A: Local Hero (I knew nobody was getting this one)
2. "Hey he's reading the Queen... that's an in-joke, you know."
A: A Hard Day's Night
3. "Do all the interns get Glocks?"
A: The Life Aquatic (lianne_lin)
4. "You do prefer it this way, don't you, as it was meant to be? No peace in our time."
A: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (elec_man)
5. "Two blokes and a fuck-load of cutlery!"
A: Hot Fuzz (_corruption_)
6. "Castration! Double castration!"
A: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (crhale)
7. "It's the damn company. What about our lives, you son of a bitch?"
A: Alien (_corruption_)
8. "Sir, you can't let him in here. He'll see everything. He'll see the big board!"
A: Dr. Strangelove (goroh_)
9. "Squeaky, uh, squeak, squeaker, squeakin'."
A: The Emperor's New Groove (greeneo)
10. "Senator, just one more thing. Love your suit."
A: Silence of the Lambs
11. "I figure it's their fault for being on our land before we got here."
A: Maverick
12. "Or Horatius, or Orpheus... people so lofty they sound as if they shit marble!"
A: Amadeus (ravelez)
13. "I seem to have stabbed myself with the letter opener."
A: A Shot In The Dark
14. "You are talking about the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind! Dead is dead!"
A: Young Frankenstein
15. "I've got better things to do tonight than die."
A: Transformers: The Movie (_corruption_) |
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| Tife and Limes: Back on the horse |
[Feb. 11th, 2008|01:58 am] |
Looks like something Herb Trimpe drew in the late 70's
-I've finally started a second art phase for YSO. I conceived the idea months ago but put it off until the movie got delayed again. Now I've got nothing but time, so there's a bundle of new people to graphicize for some layout ideas. Fortunately, now it only takes half the time to make one. Used to take 4-8 hours. I just put on 2001 or some commentary for ambiance and time gets KILLED.
-Saturday I started my second semester of ENGINEERING. Twenty-five people or so. Four people from last semester! A good chunk of the new folks have had previous experience, like four or five with a LOT. I'm hoping not many people drop because with more people in the class we'll have more opportunity to work in groups at different levels. The first semester it was really only like two very advanced people and everyone else was a beginner. ALL of next weekend is off because of President's Day, which is ridiculous because I want to go to my freaking class.
-Had a few recent leads for stunts, none have followed through so far. I don't mind though. Finally getting really busy and self-motivated. Working out more than I have in a long time, going to ghetto gym twice a week, eating a lot, ideas popping off left and right. Probably start on some choreography and possibly some boards for another project that's been kicking around my head for the past half year or so. Still got anxiety waiting until April for YSO, but I have to do all I can to power through it.
-Gaming wise, HD has totally ruined me. Playing a PS2 game at only 480p kind of hurts my eyes after a while. Got a second-hand card reader and put all my old saves on the PS3. Also FINALLY bought a sealed copy of Omega Boost for $9 off eBay and got to use that eight year old PS1 save file. Man, playing a PS1 game on the PS3 looks like JAGGED HELL unless you turn on the smoothing option, then it looks like a normal CRT.
( SATURDAY GODZILLATHON... DIGITALLY REMASTERED!! ) |
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| Insomnia and orange soda days with blu-rays and light haze |
[Jan. 9th, 2008|01:06 am] |
-HOME STRETCH. It is some hard and tenacious times. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. There are bears in the tunnel. WHY ARE THERE BEARS? Fuck!
-Jesus criminy I have been fighting off a sore throat for three days. I've got this annoying itch in the back of my throat but I have kept it from becoming a full blown infection. I will goddamn RETAIN my unsick streak. It's been nearly three(!) years since I was sick. Not being sick? That's SERIOUS BUSINESS. And I am SERIOUS. BUSINESS.
Fwoooooo I bet most people can't even tell what that is
Gym was freezing and damp. We had our big winter rain over the last weekend and the ROOF LEAKED at the gym on Friday. A third of the floor got soaked. The mats and tramps were spongy and the whole place STANK like whoa. There was a noble cleanup effort on Saturday I hear but we could still use some industrial heaters on this ghetto floor. I'm hoping there's not going to be a mold problem. The floor itself could definitely use replacing regardless but I doubt there are enough funds for such an endeavor.
Wet socks and chilly limbs aside, it was a fun time. Belgian, 88 Kilo Man, Frenchie (learned it's spelled Farouk, I was pretty close) and a whole mess of people from Batuque were there. We did our best. There was hefty analysis on corkscrews and twisting things. Brazilibrium claims black people can jump exceedingly well but do not have the Asian man's intrinsic ability to spin as quickly and efficiently. There was a ton of crashing by said negro and a lot of ribbing whenever I or Pacific did anything. Trying to talk me into doing a cheat 720 twist like I don't know what the risks & ramifications are with that trick. We'll talk summer at the soonest with THAT freakout. The majority of the gang got their second wind within the last twenty minutes. It was tough but we overpowered the conditions with positivity and jokes for days. Damp aside, Thursday seems very likely. Hope there's some time to air the place out before then.
( A veritable blu-ray bonanzana. Pirates and Rats and some other crap ) |
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| "STREWTH! She's fulla STARS, mate! Wot a kick inna yarbles this is!" |
[Nov. 4th, 2007|10:00 pm] |
-Class rocked because I was acclaimed for my not screwing anything up. Glee. Not in this for the grade, though. I did get mildly irritated that we kept having to go over previous material, but them's the breaks. I was admittedly half-asleep for a good chunk of the class. Now that we're moving on to specific theories hopefully I can use some class time to work toward the final. Gonna be a blast.
-Still working on that damned soundtrack. I scoured myspace and listened to approximately 3 songs each of 120+ bands this weekend and they all sucked. They were all under Funk or Funk/Jazz. About four of them were relatively funky. The rest of those falsely categorized motherfuckers wouldn't know something funky if it sauntered up to them in a white shirt and thumb-slapped them in the face. (p.s. Les is awesome too) Posting ads has thus far resulted in a gang of guitar-wielding morons claiming they can compose "ANY GENRE" and serve up demos of gilded SHIT.
-2001: A Space Odyssey was released on Blu-Ray. Goddamn hells of yes right matey.
( HD all in my face! ) |
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| Tife and Limes: Super Nerd Powers Activate |
[Oct. 25th, 2007|01:00 am] |
-My sister is fundraising for the Walk of Hope. If you love breasts, please give a bunch.
-Work is busy as hell again! Just today, things blew up. Nice to be out of that dead streak. On Monday and Tuesday I was completely embedded to the SoCal wildfire news like CRACK. I was refreshing LATimes.com every five minutes and intensely focusing on NPR, all "SCREW FARM-SUBSIDY BILLS GET BACK TO THE FIRE!!" I've got some friends in San Diego but none of them live near the path of the Witch fire (the biggest-ass one burning its way to the ocean).
-Monday there was this disaster expert on NPR that was probably the most energetic pessimist I've ever heard. "THIS FIRE IS UNSTOPPABLE! THE FIREFIGHTERS CAN ONLY HOPE TO GET IN FRONT OF IT AND MOVE PEOPLE OUT OF THE WAY! WE CAN'T GET AIRCRAFT IN THERE BECAUSE OF THE WINDS, AND WHEN THE WINDS DIE DOWN IT'LL BE TOO LATE BECAUSE THE FIRE WILL BE TOO BIG TO FIGHT!" He did everything short of jump out a window screaming "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE I REGRET EVERYTHING"
-The staple elements of my weekly routine (besides work Mon-Fri) consist of:
1) Shave & a Haircut Wed
2) Ghetto Gym Thurs
3) Class Sat
4) Sun rest
So once Wednesday is over I am in HIGH-ASS SPIRITS for the remainder. Feelin' grrrrrret. Monday it was SUPER-DEAD so I drew this (based on recent events):
Not Far From The Truth: Post-It Edition
While on the post-it roll I drew a picture of Maki that turned out really great but it went south when I drew Ibuki standing too close and Hugo's looming head became this kind of enormous screwy Moai statue in a wig. I might take a stab at Maki again, she's really easy to draw. And she has fresh kicks (which I forgot about until I came home and looked at her shoes on her CvS2 version gashapon).
I bought the Captain's Log Star Trek collection last weekend. ( Mini-review, misc. ) |
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| Tife and Limes: Iiiif you want my bo-dy aaaand you think I'm se-xy |
[Sep. 15th, 2007|02:00 pm] |
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| | Galactic - Uptown Odyssey | ] |
WHOO! I feel GRRRRR-ET. (ENGINEERING) really gets your BLOOD BOILING! I love it.
HOLY DROP-OUT RATE, BATMAN!
We had like a meager third of the class there. Started out with some 25-30 people last week including an Indian family of six brothers and sisters! All gone. I guess they never bothered to buy the equipment or just plain got scared off. That left us with a solid ten, THE TRUE BELIEVERS (in engineering!), three of them adding the same day! It was jawesome. The beginners' group is a lot harder than expected but JUST enough so you learn more efficiently in less time. Having less people is actually more comfortable imo because there's more of a support group feel and nobody can hide behind the others and be horribly self-conscious when they have to do something themselves. When we take our turns and screw up, there's heaps of encouragement all around.
Learning (engineering) is strange because it's kind of counter-intuitive to a lot of other things I learned, particularly in the sense that economy and efficiency are the nature when it seems more natural to overcompensate and tense up. It's weird. VERY peculiar in that the less you think about it, the easier it happens. For real! So strange.
I am now the only dude! There were about five others and they all bounced! Quitters!
Forgot to ask the teach today if I could take some pictures. I'll do it next week. Halfway through the class I was ousted as a comedian and former actor/stuntguy. You just can't keep these things a secret. Spent like ten minutes grilling me on my body of work before I flailed my arms in protest and we got back to business.
AWESOME
An all the way uberbomb time at the movies, I tell you. Super nerd powers in the hizzle.
Best idea ever! I hope Tokyo Shock does this with Atragon, Space Amoeba, and Dogora. Fifteen bucks a piece is nay, but twenty for three is spectacular.
One of the most vivid memories I have of my Uncle Don is him describing Matango to my cousins and my sister and I when we were kids. It sounded like the most screwed up and hilarious thing ever, particularly how he told it. "And then this creepy lady shows up and is all, 'Come... let us eat... mushrooms....'" "And then one of them gets INFECTED! And he starts TURNING INTO A MUSHROOM!" Twenty years later, Attack of the Mushroom People is in my hands. Rock.
The Mysterians and Varan I've wanted for ages because I love the background monsters more than the foreground monsters. I would've killed to see GMK with Varan, Baragon, and Anguirus like originally pitched. If Godzilla makes a comeback in several years and the first goddamn co-star they bring out is fucking MOTHRA again, that's some unforgivable laziness. The original NES Godzilla game had a lot to do with my interest because they put TONS of Toho movie characters and enemies in it that were never in the Godzilla movies themselves. It took me years to find out where all of them came from (prior to the advent of the internet anyway). So now I can see Varan and the completely weird o.g. Moguera in all their unsuccessful/brief glories.
Man, soon I'm going to have to make a kaiju shelf on my rack here. This is great.
edit: The Mysterians has some of the worst painted laser blasts I've ever seen, but GOOD GRAVY the model work and practical effects are superb. The tanks recoil, there's some great puppetry, lots of rad touches I haven't seen even in Godzilla movies. Hilarious aliens and excellent set design for their base. Toho really started to hit their stride in the late 50's, this is truly the golden age before they started recycling the footage like mad. After 1967 or so things started to get weird.
edit edit: HOLY GOD VARAN IS THE MOST BORING KAIJU MOVIE EVER. Then again it was originally a US-Japan co-production for a 50-minute TV movie and the Americans ditched so Toho padded it out to salvage what they had shot. The story is lame and the characters suck but gosh darn it I still love poor ol' Varan. Still had excellent model work, some huge boats and landing craft I'd never seen before. Fortunately there was a cool modelmaking feature on the DVD by the guy who crafted the Varan suit. |
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| Tife and Limes: Today is Fettucine day |
[Sep. 12th, 2007|06:50 pm] |
-Cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water. This is some completely wild and unsettling shit.
-My old scale broke ages ago. We got an electronic 500-lb freight scale at work. I weigh 154 pounds. This is good, because it's ten pounds more than the last time I weighed myself (prior to last year's working out period) and I am the certified sex. The most I ever weighed was close to 160 in 2004, but that was due to poor eating habits and lack of activity.
-CHILDREN OF MEN is the BEST MOVIE of 2006. It got its hooks in me hard from the start and yanked me into a completely insane adventure. A total masterwork from start to finish. I haven't had this edge-of-my-seat nail-biting movie experience in ages. It was GRIPPING. The tension was THICK. The single-shot sequences, which are what I die for, are absolutely incredible.
Quote by director Alfonso Cuarón:
"There's a kind of cinema I detest, which is a cinema that is about exposition and explanations.... It's become now what I call a medium for lazy readers."
I would high-five the dickens out of this man.
-Related quote, as shared to me by dub, from David Simon (creator of The Wire):
"My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture.
He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden.
Fuck him. Fuck him to hell."
Goddamn right. Also, fuck awards shows.
-I've been working on this shirt idea for a couple of weeks now and despite being incredibly time consuming it's turning out pretty good. I could make all kinds of promotional crap with this stuff after I'm done. I'm about a third into it. I think it's helping me get back into a drawing mood again. Been really brain-dry in that regard for some time now.
P.S. Lisa needs braces
edit: Fettucine day = rousing success |
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| Tife and Limes: Bongo Joe |
[Sep. 8th, 2007|09:52 pm] |
-First day of class. It was GRRRREAT. Good sized class and the majority were on relatively the same level (real sense of unified confusion). After the intro and technical terms we were split into groups of similar adaptability, which is great. Everyone gets to go as slow as they need to. After it was over I was all FUCK WHAT I'M GON' DO NOW?? Felt like I could kick a dinosaur. Mad fun. The THRILL of ENGINEERING! (Seriously though only ONE person quickly deduced what class I was taking and I am really surprised a lot of others have no idea.) For Jom's record, why yes I am totally taking Engineering. Whitey.
-Pierce is a nice campus, first word that comes to mind is "quaint". Buildings are so old it looks more like a really gigantic high school. Saturday timeslot is perfect, I get out at noon and have the whole day in front of me. Gonna be a bomb semester.
-On a whim I bought Ruckus and From The Corner To The Block by Galactic. I forget how exactly I came across them, think it was randomly scouring wikipedia. At first I thought I'd made a mistake because their sound didn't grab me right away, but it grew on me the more I listened. I went from liking a third of Ruckus to 11 out of 13. From The Corner is a lot more hit-and-miss, but what hits is some SERIOUS gold. I've put Think Back w/Chali 2na on repeat about twenty times. There's a live version on the website but I don't think it sounds as good as the studio version. I'm going to track down their live album. If a band has good studio albums and an even better live sound (Ozo), I am hooked.
-I have been backed up with a giant stack of movies and am slowly whittling it down.
Recently watched, rated with a Geese scale of 5:
1. Inside Man (Fucking great and I don't even like Denzel)
2. Weather Man (Michael Caine was great, movie was okay)
3. Lucky # Slevin (Ugh. Trying way too hard to be stylish. Hartnett was bland as fuck)
4. Syriana (Smartly done but not really satisfying)
5. Hot Fuzz (Absurdly entertaining, stellar extras just like ShaunOTD)
6. Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson: New favorite director)
Remaining stack:
1. Children of Men
2. The Science of Sleep
3. Sky Captain & The World of robots and flying wings and shit
4. Rushmore
-I did fifteen one-hand/one-leg pushups on each arm the other day and my ABS were hurting the most afterward. It was the most I've done so far, my abs were feeling like they'd slap me if they could. Core training is the most satisfying shit. Still more balanced on my left arm/right leg for some reason.
-GREAT weather this week after the heat broke. It was so rough through Monday that the low-90's feels heavenly. |
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| My phone got HELLA dropped and it was like |
[Aug. 24th, 2007|01:32 am] |
But there was no damage other than some scruffage on the corner, thus no headbutt-shaped vengeance was distributed.
Yeah so maybe I just wanted to post that picture of Osaka. August has not been a very bloggable month. September is looking pretty nice. Friday already? Gym Saturday! WHOO! Holy GOD I want some scrambled eggs and potatoes. Hella butter.
( Blizu Rizay, Fire-Breathing Turtle, Grand Prix, Ozowhoring )
Curiosity Pseudo-meme: List your console & handheld history and your first game/favorite game on each.
-Nintendo: Gyromite/Contra
-Atari Lynx: Rampage/Zarlor Mercenary
-Playstation: Tekken/Tekken 3
-Playstation 2: Metal Gear Solid 2/Tekken 5
-Xbox: Halo/DOAXVB
-Gamecube: Star Wars Rogue Leader/Rogue Leader
-Neo Geo Pocket Color: Puzzle Bobble Mini/Card Fighter's Clash
-Nintendo DS: Metroid Prime Hunters/Mario Kart
-Playstation 3: Call of Duty 3/Virtua Fighter 5 |
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| Tife and Limes: Kicking the sky like it owes me money |
[Jul. 29th, 2007|05:32 pm] |
[18:37] Esco> time for a push-up marathon before my pizza arrives
[18:38] Antigone_Jones> I should work out, too.
[18:38] Antigone_Jones> he makes me feel fat
[18:39] Antigone_Jones> I've sat around the tv all day, aaaahhhh
[18:39] tweak> he makes everyone feel lazy and fat
[18:39] Antigone_Jones> lol
Arr, 'tis a good reputation to have.
Dang dudes it is a NICE ass day today. Not too hot, not too humid. I jumped around, jumped up jumped up and got down.
( Talk about Transformers, Shaun of the Dead, Comic-con. Cut for your convenience. )
It's Emperor Sam Yu's birthday. He's already God's gift to women so there's not much I can give the guy. |
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| They don't yell the attacks. Different. |
[Jul. 25th, 2007|09:09 pm] |
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| | Jimmy Bo Horne- Dance Across The Floor | ] |
My thighs are SWEATY. I won't elaborate.
One: Been cutting down on my caffeine intake. Soda is my only vice and I really have been drinking too much of it in the past month or two. I wish I could drink orange juice with the same frequency but I go through o.j. like water. That'd be an expensive habit.
Two: Been having trouble sleeping lately. I have an unfortunate tendency to knock out for an hour or two after I get home from work and stay up until 2 or 3. Getting to sleep is a bitch and waking up is a slow and tedious process. Curse my comfortable bed! Anyway, trying to fix my clock. Exercising and eating dinner earlier is working well.
Here's that damn review I was planning to do over two months ago (seems I've been putting it off longer than that).
Ever since I heard about the feature film re-imagining of original gangsta Kamen Rider, I kept up with the news until its premiere in 2005. There was little word on its impact and reception. Amateur American reviews slowly trickled in here and there, pretty much agreeing "pretty darn good". I figured I'd see it someday for curiosity's sake. A few months ago I was pleasantly surprised by an American release of the movie at Best Buy (as Masked Rider: The First), so I snatched that bastard up.
The film falls into the usual Japanese production pitfalls but I have to agree that all things considered, it's pretty darn good.
( Sometimes it's hard to care, read a review, it'll make your day. A smile so hard to bear, read a review, it'll make a way. Read a reviewwwwwwwww, read a reviewwwww-hoooo-ooo ) |
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| I am playing Scrabble on my cell, how times have changed |
[Jul. 12th, 2007|10:28 pm] |
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| [ | music |
| | Jurassic 5 - High Fidelity | ] |
My new phone arrived a day early :D
My old phone has been to hell and back. Alarm stopped working months ago and all the numbers have long since rubbed off. I figured it was time to get my cell up to date. I spent a few weeks digging up reviews and articles and after much pondering decided on the Samsung SCH-U740. Tuesday I went to the store and found out it was actually $25 cheaper online (w/free shipping) and for some reason they couldn't match the price in-store. Strange. Damn thing has a million manuals. Took an hour to re-log my address book but now I am firmly in the present day of cellularness. Fuck an iPhone.
Also Tuesday:
Die Hard was a fun time. There was absolutely no thinking required while watching it. All you have to do is go along with "OMG HACKERZ" and it goes down fast and smooth like the good ol' actioners of the 90's. There's a place for simple fast-paced action movies and I appreciate them when done well, but it still irritates the FUCK out of me when people in the theater are laughing their asses off at every goddamned one-liner like it was the most original and unexpected thing to ever hatch onscreen. Christ on a BIKE.
Also, all you need to incite laughter in a movie preview is to have somebody crash into/get hit by something unexpectedly. Dumb, predictable shit. I swear. Maybe when I get older I'll stop being so cynical and start laughing at dumb shit for the sake of it.
HORDES AND HORDES OF HIGH SCHOOLERS CAMPED OUT FOR HARRY POTTER. HOLY HADES. LINED UP LIKE ROADBLOCKS IN THE FOOD COURT.
Do you know how weird it is to end up in a kid's book about a bad yet inexplicably successful Disney movie?
It's friggin' WEIRD.
(Mom, I'll send you a copy of the book once I get that drawing done) |
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| How Steng Got His Groove Back (Part II) |
[Jun. 2nd, 2007|09:18 pm] |
-I think I posted it everywhere but my journal that the first teaser for Yeah Sure Okay was posted about a week ago. We got more good stuff coming up.
-My new favorite exercise is one-arm one-leg pushups. That's with your body square to the ground, opposite arm and leg, ball of the foot and not the side. I love exercises that challenge my strength AND my balance. Getting the proper technique on this took a few days. Doing one-handers with your body twisted sideways like Rocky, any fool that is semi-fit can squeeze out one of those nasty things. Doing them proper is much different and you really feel how the whole body is involved. I actually had some trouble balancing on my right arm/left leg, I'd tend to fall toward my left shoulder.
-An unexpected surprise on Friday. I found out that having been at my job for a year, I now get HOLIDAYS PAID. I had no idea. This is rad, man, rad.
( It's the week-end, Parrghty Parrghty Parrghty )
Man. Time for dinner. |
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| How Steng Got His Groove Back (Part I) |
[May. 31st, 2007|10:46 pm] |
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| | Ozomatli - La Segunda Mano | ] |
Saw Pirates last night. I can't really recommend it. It looked like something they shot and wrote on the fly, which is what they really did, and had millions of dollars thrown at it to try to compensate for the lack of planning.
( Partyin' Parrrghty Parrrghty Parrrghty ) |
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| "Kill him, he's not our man!" (rotting teeth all over the place) |
[May. 24th, 2007|06:12 pm] |
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| | Ozomatli - Nadie te Tira | ] |
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 opens tonight. It is a not-so-well-kept secret that I am in it. My first part in a feature, a big-ass overblown multibillion-costage Hollywood franchise, and I'm even credited as a character (on imdb at least). Wild. I missed the crew screening because I was doing Fancy Plans, also it takes a LOT more than a free movie to make me drive into the middle of fucking Hollywood on a Saturday. Ugh. I'll probably wait a week before seeing it (never saw the second, I don't suppose it matters that much). I'll also wait until the weekend's over to spin the tale of how I got into it in the first place. 'Tis a long and legendary tale, arr.
Review-wise it isn't doing very well, not like that's ever stopped these kinds of movies from making stupefying profits anyway. The spectacle! The merchandising! The complete lack of coherence! I'm just that excited :|
Screw hustling and scraping & clawing for work in Hollywood. It's a terrible place. The only opportunities I can hope for is playing a stereotype until the end of time. Fun but mostly tedious experience, never again (unless I'm running the show dammit)
edit: Just got off the phone with Ova, he played one of the core Asian pirates and was the most down-to-earth guy I met. Glad he got credited, the shit they had to do all those months was well beyond what they were getting paid for.
Whenever the topic of Fancy Plans comes up, just about everybody (seriously everybody) will ask me what I'm going to do with it afterward; "You gonna get it distributed?" "Release it on DVD?" "Which festivals are you gonna submit to?" etc. SHIT PEOPLE CAN I FINISH THE MOVIE FIRST, WHENEVER THAT MAY BE?? Even when we were in the planning stages of Spring '06 I got the same grilling. There isn't any guaranteed way to have something planned out THAT far ahead because you never know what's going to happen over the production that will change things. You deal with something over several SEASONS and damn straight it will change.
I even get questions about what I'm going to personally do afterward; "Going to move back to the bay? "Going to move out of L.A.?" "Start looking for stunt work again?" etc. Mostly people ask about my moving back to the bay area. Sam asked me that last weekend and I was completely befuddled as to how these same inquiries keep coming up. I have no reason to move away. I wouldn't know what to do, most of my friends moved away and ZG doesn't exist in the bay like 2001-2003. I like my job, I live only a mile away from it, and things are going along pretty nicely. To be sure I'm not staying in SoCal FOREVER, but neither do I have good enough reason to haul ass elsewhere.
The most important thing about doing Fancy Plans in the first place is to WAIT AND SEE what happens after its over. I'm just going to get it out there and see how people react. If it blows up, great. I'll ride that out and see where it leads. If it doesn't, cool. I made what I wanted to make and there's always more ideas. Hell, just getting it FINISHED at all will be a major achievement. I'm not planning much farther beyond that final cut. See the reaction and go with the fuckin' flow.
Then at some point I'll order a damn pizza, that you can count on. |
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| Hot Hot Heat |
[Mar. 16th, 2007|11:08 pm] |
Fancy Plans! Whoo! Optimism! JESUS IT WAS HOT TODAY SPRING DOESN'T START FOR FIVE DAYS MAN
Anyway.
Wednesday I saw 300. In short, I got my money's worth but imo the book was better. I entirely agree with dub's 4L review. So just read that. Spot on.
I knew I needed to see 300 on the big screen, but the theater can never potentially be excellent unless I go on a weekday morning at about 10 a.m. I went in the late afternoon immediately after work. There was a CHILD behind me. A fucking CHILD. When Xerxes first appeared, a voice behind me of one whose balls have not yet dropped suddenly gasped, "Omigod is he GAY???" FUCKING KID. Didn't understand a goddamn thing. "Is that the bad guy?" "Is THAT the bad guy?" "Are they going to fight again?" Christ on a skillet. I bet his dad wanted his idiot kid to think he was cool for taking him to see it. Great parent!
Ever since I started working on Fancy Plans last year, I've almost completely lost interest in watching movies. From 2006-2007 I only saw King Kong, Batman, 16 Blocks, The Departed, and 300. The two movies I missed that I really wanted to see were The Science of Sleep and Children of Men but by the time I looked for theaters they were on their way out and I couldn't make the time. Even stuff on DVD I barely sit through unless it's something I haven't seen in a long time that I'm nostalgic for. Weird.
Sam's been introducing all sorts of Australian insults to me recently and none of them actually sound insulting. Pooftah sounds lighthearted and silly. Digger is a job skill. Wanker is just hilarious. Yobbo sounds like some kind of background Muppet or Fraggle. I wonder what American profanity means absolutely nothing or just sounds bizarre in other English-speaking countries.
( I bought a shirt! I broke it in. I hate my lips. Etc. ) |
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| Go Larry Go Larry You got a Westinghouse You got a Westinghouse |
[Feb. 14th, 2007|11:48 pm] |
My day was completely devoid of hugs. >:|
But something great did happen today. The culmination of WEEKS OF PLANNING AND RESEARCH. There were consistent days of reading, comparisons, scouring for reviews, boring into the earth's crust, and punching badgers. Swear.
( Too many pictures of Tekken and nerd movies with lasers ) |
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| star wars. nothing but... star wars. |
[Dec. 3rd, 2006|07:25 pm] |
Man I just cannot get out of bed today. It's been a while since I festered in my stasis pod. I need to clean up my room and make dinner.
HRRRNGHGHGH! *thud*
Maybe later.
Yesterday at Borders I noticed this book and stared at it for an hour. I credit Return of the Jedi for my deep fascination & appreciation of detail and craftsmanship in modelwork and creature design. The creative process involved with practical special effects is something I fear is becoming vastly unappreciated in the wake of CG. Jedi had the most of everything in the original trilogy- creatures, ships, costumes. I became intensely fascinated with the things in the background with the least screen time. What kind of work and detail were put into these things that most people either disregard or take for granted? There's enough stuff in Jedi itself to keep me occupied for years. Unfortunately, as good as the book is, several things I want to learn the most about were either only mentioned in text or just small thumbnail pictures. I.e. pilot helmets (molding, painting, how many variants, I GOTTA KNOW), the Executor city set (only seen in one shot), and the Death Star II tunnels.
The Death Star II tunnel sequence remains my favorite scene in any movie in history. It blew my mind when I was six and still does to this day. Not only did they build over 200 feet of tunnels (3 tunnels, 72 feet long by 4 feet wide), but they were detachable by each foot so the camera could move through it. Each filming model needed complex calculations before bluescreening because every ship was in a different scale. It's amazing. AMAZING! I'd slap a nun to see the building process of the tunnels and how they shot it. And don't get me started on how crazy the space battles in that movie were. EVERYTHING WAS BUILT BY HAND! BY HAND! DON'T YOU SEE HOW FREAKING INCREDIBLE IT IS?! YAAAAAAGH! *froth*
Anyway there's a standard $50 hardcover and a goddamn ridiculous $395 limited edition. The limited edition comes with all kinds of unnecessary collector crap, I'm only interested in getting more INFORMATION. I desperately want to see the DVD that comes with it and some of the additional booklets. The landspeeder model and death star tiles are unnecessary as hell.
Finally, FINALLY, got to watch this:
Shogun vs Rogerio Nogueira in Critical Countdown was one of the best decision matches I've seen, alongside Fedor/Rodrigo Nogueira in Shockwave '04. Even though the winner was clear, there was no backing down with high energy throughout all rounds. Arona/Sakuraba was one of the most horrid knee-induced dismantlings I've ever seen. I haven't seen a dude that swollen and masticated since Vovchanchyn pounded and hammered Enson Inoue in Pride 10 for a solid ten minutes. Speaking of Vovchanchyn, unfortunately his last two fights were lackluster but I hope he makes a return to the ring soon. He's been a favorite of mine since I started watching Pride five years ago. Fedor/Cro-Cop in Final Conflict was yet another top decision match. I can't wait for Shockwave '05 and the Absolute/Open-Weight GP series. Amazingly there were only two total decisions in the entire OWGP.
I have yet to see the 2004 Heavyweight GP and the OWGP won't be out for a while. Nice to see the 2000 GP got rereleased. I actually used to have all the Pride DVD's from 1 up to 18, but I sold them all because the original discs were really cheaply made. Thank goodness for the Legacy collection.
I ordered GH2 at long last (currently $40 on amazon!). Hopefully I'll have time to play the damn thing before Christmas. I kinda lost my luster for games because I'm so scant on gaming time. I did however beat the Federation campaign in Star Trek Tactical Assault a few days ago. As difficult as it initially was, it feels just right now. The Klingon campain is taxing though because the ships you start with are freaking TERRIBLE. Almost all weapons are forward-facing, there's no shield recharging, and cloaking sucks unless used at the beginning of a fight before you're detected. Emergency power is better off used for weapons, imo. Nice thing is that you can wait as long as you want to recharge power before warping to another sector.
Anyway time to boil pasta. Wootles. |
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| "We like to call this 2 percent jazz.... 98 percent FUNKY STUFF." |
[Nov. 30th, 2006|10:58 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | daily, movies, music | ] |
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| |  full of Papa John's | ] |
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| | Maceo Parker - Soul Power '92 | ] |
Yesterday I remembered that Tower Records is closing all their stores so I went there after work. About a third of the store was cleaned out. Thankfully my area is chock full of philistines so the jazz section was mostly intact. However somebody beat me to Jazz Samba (Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd) which is the one best-album-ever I have somehow YET to own. Prices were currently running 30% off (DVDs) to 40/50% off (CDs).
Thirty bucks total. Diiiig.
The way Tower priced shit I'm amazed they stayed in business as long as they did. Who the fuck would buy a $19 CD at Tower when they go for $12-15 at Best Buy and Circuit City? There's not much you can get at Tower that you can get cheaper at any electronics place/bookstore/Amazon. Boo Tower. Boo. I might go back in a few days if they're still open and nab some more funky stuff.
Playing Tekken 5 to John Coltrane is weird.
( Blathering about Donnie in '89, other news, etc. )
It's been a good week at work. Not only do I not have to bike in the FUCKING FREEZING ASS COLD in the mornings (Canada laughs at our pathetic 50 degree winter), but I've just been productive as the dickens. This should carry on to the weekend, for I gots what you call them FANCY PLANS hohoho quite right. |
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| YOU GOT ME SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DO-INNNNN |
[Oct. 21st, 2006|12:36 am] |
Queen Super-Nerd Champion Edition Raindance sent me the Guitar Hero II demo. The game is SO hot. It's on the latest OPM demo disc, which I hear is getting stolen left and right all over this great nation. Rightly so! The demo has Strutter, Shout At The Devil, You Really Got Me, and YYZ on all difficulties. After great exclamations, PD had no choice but to run out and nab a copy for himself. The first FIVE places he went to had all the discs stolen from the magazine. Ho ho ho. TRIPLE CHORDS LIKE WHOA.
[19:37] pd> oh MAN
[19:37] pd> when you break that streak
[19:37] pd> it hurts your soul
[19:37] pd> fret board all shadowy
[19:37] pd> and you hear this GROOOAAAN
[19:37] pd> and it's in synch with your heart breaking
[19:38] Esco> it hurts man you feel it in your chest
[19:41] pd> WHAT THE FUCK
[19:41] pd> i jsut got hit with a triple chord on "you really got me"
[19:41] pd> Red, Yellow, and Orange
[19:41] pd> and this is on hard mode only
[19:41] Esco> I'm saying
[19:42] Esco> I got through about half of yyz on hard before I blew up
[19:42] pd> time for strutter
[19:42] pd> i still can't get over that losing a streak effect
[19:43] Esco> I know man the pain
[19:43] pd> YES
[19:43] pd> ;__;
[19:43] * Esco changes topic to '#THE_PAIN'
Left: Eddie Van Halen solo fustigating my sister's fingers
My sister and Diana came over and we watched Thank You For Smoking, which was one of the smartest films I've seen this year. Really glad I finally got the chance to see it. The only thing we didn't like was Katie Holmes, but how her character ends up was damn funny.
I got a tiger scroll, gum, and a penguin magnet from China.
I am naming the penguin Pedro.
There's an eagle my mom sent me that has some kind of strange Canadian foot disease. |
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