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[Jun. 12th, 2009|08:57 am] |
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Ooof....weird dream about highschool crushes. |
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[Jan. 11th, 2009|12:40 am] |
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A Strong Man competition is on tv. |
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[Dec. 25th, 2008|06:11 pm] |
Hello,
I have an EEE PC now, so expect many posts/IMs/stuff from me in the bathroom.
Also, I'm studying for the GRE...I have to take it in about 2 weeks, so I can apply to places in Feb. Also I need to write about why I should be in grad school. |
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[Dec. 10th, 2008|10:17 pm] |
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I'm planning on going to Madison/Milwaukee Jan 3-8th or so. |
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[Dec. 7th, 2008|11:02 pm] |
Man...looks like I'm going to have to buy a scanner/printer.
I only wish I knew what sort don't eat up ink like candy.
ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS??? |
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[Nov. 23rd, 2008|11:32 am] |
A FEW UPDATES:
I recently saw a film about a vampire and a human falling in love with each other. No, not Twilight, but "Let the Right One In," from Sweden. It was a glorious film.
Also: It is entirely important that you go here: http://thisismymilwaukee.com/ YES, you have to watch all 11 minutes of it, so stop complaining already. |
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| Thoughts of the Night: part 1 |
[Nov. 21st, 2008|09:02 pm] |
If I go to grad school osomewhere in England, will I be found exotic moreso for my accent or my circumcision?
The movie The Fugitive is really good, and is extra fun to watch as a real life man hunt between Tommy Lee Jones and Harrison Ford. Tommy Lee Jones is utterly relentless, but Harrison Ford has a rogue's luck. It is exactly how it would work out in real life.
Getting punched by Harrison Ford looks like the most painful thing known to man kind.
More to come? |
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[Nov. 9th, 2008|01:55 am] |
I saw two movies tonight, The Mist and Synecdoche, New York.
Guess which one I loved and which one I hated with every absolute fiber of my being. |
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[Nov. 6th, 2008|12:41 am] |
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I took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test! "Feels the situation is hopeless. Strongly resists ..."
Click here to read the rest of the results.
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[Nov. 3rd, 2008|07:01 pm] |
Why Rock?N'Roll Is Dead
Post #6700 by Warren Ellis on November 3rd, 2008 in brainjuice
INTERVIEWER: So why is there no more rock ?n? roll, then?
NICK CAVE: Maybe because you?re not allowed to smoke indoors anymore. |
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[Oct. 20th, 2008|09:39 pm] |
Episode Four: Blue shirts, kitchens, hard nipples.
Derek:
Tim: |
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[Oct. 20th, 2008|05:52 pm] |
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I write the longest post of recent note and no one has anything to say about it. |
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[Oct. 19th, 2008|03:16 am] |
Midnight Meat Train.
Well, I feel honored to be one of the..........200 people in the country to see it in the theatre. 25 of which were at this special midnight showing at the Uptown Theatre in Minneapolis.
I went in with some pretty high hopes. The director is Ryuhei Kitamura - the guy who did Versus. And it has a whole load of controversy behind it after the studio purposedly tanked its release a few months ago. 102 budget screens for a WEEK before being pushed out onto dvd. It took in roughly $34,000. So, when i saw that it was being shown for the Halloween series of midnight films this month, I HAD to go.
Ohhhhh boy what a bad movie.
First off - I never thought I'd agree with a movie studio before, but christ.
The few scenes that are good are REALLY good. But, the majority of the film is laughably bad, poorly scripted and poorly explained.
The cast is a bunch of nobodies from various episodes of various TV shows, including one of Dr. House's new doctors as a New York diner owner. The acting is horrible over all, except for Vinnie Jones - who doesn't say a word and just looks angry all the time.
Its good parts include:
The sound: great atmospheric score and lots of metal scraping metal background sounds through, echoing the sounds of both a subway train and a butcher shop.
Neat Lovecraftian twist, but it isn't really alluded to at all until you are dropped in its lap. You get that something is wrong, and it isn't JUST a guy mudering people on a train....but its development is really poorly explained. Why does the main character deside to look into missing person cases for the last 100 years? Why does the train butcher cut off and save what looks like wart/nipples from his chest and save them in little jars? Is there some sort of psychic connection to the character and the task at hand? Why does the scar on his chest look like a kitty cat?
Hanging Meat Scenes: These are the only ones that I liked. Him following the butcher into the factory. Also, I liked the bodies hanging from the train. That was cool.
The bad:
The acting: Holy shit. Also, Brooke Shields is in this movie as a pretentious and successful artist who just likes money and fucking younger men.
The script: "Where are you going??" ~long stare~ "I've got a train to catch."
The scenes: Why does the main guy turn his girlfriend around and slam her onto the diner counter and fuck her from behind in violent thrusts after proposing to her and not taking off either of their clothes? Why does the girlfriend tell the guy to "take photos of what you love," suggesting herself, and try to get him to take pictures of her taking off her clothes right after she confronts him about being COMPLETELY INSANE and they are both sort of crying? Why does Vinne Jones cut the nipple warts off his chest and store them in jars in his medicine cabnet for no apparent reason? How could a vegan artist stop the blows of a giant man brandishing a meat pulverizer?
The CG: fucking cheaply done and completely over used. A simple pool of blood on the floor shouldn't be CG just so we can see a face reflected in it.
First Person Perspective: Does this ever work in film?
The End Fight: Stupid Photographer gets a bunch of butcher tools and goes to the train to fight the other butcher in some sort of cosmic butcher fight.
[Spoiler]
Hardly explained twist/ending: Okay - 90 minutes into the film and I'm supposed to suddenly acknowledge that demons exist and have always existed and live under New York at the end of an unused subway stop and need to feed on human flesh or else they'd destroy the world? There were like...4 of them and we haven't figured out a way to kill them? And it is a cover-up so complex that even the police are involved? AND that Vinnie Jones wasn't trying to kill the stupid photographer, but test his mettle so that he could take over his position and continue the feeding cycle? Also - why didn't the monsters attack the people who were fighting outside the train? Wouldn't they rather kill/eat the live people instead of the dead bodies?
Most of the time the audience spent laughing at the film, not with the film.
Also someone brought their baby to the film, and it was cooing and was cute. |
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[Oct. 12th, 2008|01:53 pm] |
PART THREE:
Now with 100% more Sean!
Popular Topics are: Jeff Goldblum and things that horrified us as children.
Ep. THREE POINT FIVE: Now with 300% Less Shirts!
Now with 100% more hung-over Sean!
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[Oct. 9th, 2008|07:45 pm] |
My friend Derek and I have decided to start having discussions back and forth via YouTube.
PLEASE GIVE ME SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT
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[Oct. 3rd, 2008|01:16 pm] |
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Ack. I'm home along all weekend. What the fuck am I going to to do? |
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