February 28th, 2009 admin
Oh Terminator, you almost had me there, thinking you were going to
become one of those ‘Of the week’ kind of shows where each week sarah
and co stumble onto some wrongdoing which they just have to right.
Almost. But you pulled it off at the end with a nice twist on the
‘Flashback’ convention that i didn’t see coming.
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February 28th, 2009 admin
Cherry flavour. Potent and effective
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February 28th, 2009 admin
My mom said i was a quiet baby who slept all the time, and that she’d
often have to wake me up for feeding or just because she figured i
should be noisier. My sister says ‘that never changed’ but the common
misconception is i sleep all the time, but really i just don’t like
getting out of bed.
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February 28th, 2009 admin
I got to have a poke around inside my dad’s 60″ tv today. Now i
understand why they’re called projection screen tvs
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February 27th, 2009 Graig
Aliens are going to blow up the Earth because it’s taking away ratings from all other intergalactic TV stations, and it’s up to the formerly human now gigantic techno guy to save the planet. Fun stuff
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February 27th, 2009 admin
I’ve been thinking about a new tv lately and i was thinking how nice
it’d be to have some kind of report for consumers on what’s available
and comparables… Und voila… Here it is! also, vacuums .(Sorry
hon, the dysons didn’t fare very well).
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February 27th, 2009 admin
Daytime, because i haven’t felt this cruddy getting on a plane
since… the last time i got on a plane. Nighttime, because i
like to be able to breathe when i sleep
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February 27th, 2009 admin
I had never heard the term ‘red zone’ before, but it’s apparently what
you use to describe a unneutered dog’s aggression when he hasn’t had
a… bitch session (For lack of a better term) in a long while
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February 27th, 2009 admin
I’m a comfortable flyer. I have no stomach or head troubles at all
(save for my ears popping) and i have no anxiety on take off or
landing, but i can’t help but think of multiple crash scenarios
throughout my journey. I hope if i do ever crash that there’s some
dharma initiative stations around.
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February 25th, 2009 Graig
I finally figured out how to create licenses using the new license tool… I’ll have to play with it some more to be sure and then teach Toasty, but I think I got it.
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February 25th, 2009 Graig
14.
Report - I don’t think he has the report. I love the reaction of the audience on this one. I can sympathize today *cough cough*
Candar 1 - Simon and Hecubus perform hypnotism, awfully. It takes real skill to act this badly on purpose.
M. Piedlurde Court Un Marathon - Mr. Heavyfoot Runs a Marathon
Jazz - why does Bruce hate jazz, you know, jazz music?
Candar 2 - Simon and Hecubus return to vex their hypnotism victim, Tony Henderson and make the best of a bad situation
Touch Bellini #1 - the winner of the first ever “Touch Paul Bellini” contest is announced, however it’s the American insert, which isn’t really important when comparing to the Canadian winner, except the visual hue and brightness of McKinney when making the announcement are noticeably different. One of the few notable changes between the American and Canadian versions of the show (the DVDs use the American ones)
The Affair - best use of first person sex-cam ever.
M. Piedlurde Essait L’Auto - Mr. Heavyfoot Test Drives a Car
Queen To Queen - The Private Correspondence of Buddy Cole and Elizabeth Windsor, a Scott Thompson tour-de-force in both roles.
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February 25th, 2009 Graig
Whenever I’m not feeling well I wind up drinking gallons of tea. Mint isn’t necessarily my favourite, but frequently what I have around.
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February 25th, 2009 Graig
Unlike most web-savvy people, I’ve never been that hip to watching or reading things on-line when there’s some other way to consume them. I get a lot of PDF samples of comic books to review but read very little of them because I prefer the more traditional format. Same with the Strongbad Email series, which I’ve always enjoyed, but rarely on-line. GAK bought be the 3-disc of the first 100 emails a few years back and it’s a treasure of my dvd collection. He even later followed it up with disc 4 (I’ve been lax on picking up discs 5 and 6 which continue through to email #200).
Looks like Strong Bad is still going strong over at Homestarrunner.com. With it’s flexible format (each cartoon can be as long or as short as the creative team demands) and its simplistic set-up, it’s truly a pop-culture phenomenon that will have a hard time wearing out its welcome.
I watched ten emails today, two of which are all-time favourites:
Comic (featuring Teen Girl Squad)
and Dragon (witness the creation of Trogdor The Burninator)
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February 25th, 2009 Graig
I’ve bowed at the feet of false idols more than once in my life, people (artists, musicians, writers, actors, directors, the like) whom for some reason I glommed onto and blindly and obsessively followed in their careers until I hit the wall with them and just couldn’t be so enthused about anymore. Some I can’t enjoy any new work, and some I can’t even enjoy any of the works which got me into them in the first place, and some I just realized aren’t as flawless (or awesome) as I though they were.
These include, but aren’t limited to:
Tori Amos
Kevin Smith
Phil Jimenez
Neil Gaiman
Luc Besson
Bjork
George Lucas
Quentin Tarantino
John Carpenter
Chris Carter
Mike Allred
this list does not include Mr. T, who is still every bit as awesome as I’ve always remembered him being.
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February 25th, 2009 Graig
As a moody teenager, I was quite infatuated with the Crow, a comic book about death and vengeance, anger and pain. Metalheads and goths adopted the character as their own, the Kiss for a new generation, but I was neither . James O’Barr’s iconic imagery of leather-clad gothic clown resonated with me as an artist and a fanboy. It was really when the movie was in production that my attention was brought to the character and the comic. Back in 1993, anything based of a comic book was pretty rare and somehow worth paying more attention to. When Brandon Lee tragically died on set while filming it went from being a rather small release to a minor blockbuster by way of curiosity.
I watched the film in the theatre and I guess you could say I was already a fan. I had consumed the graphic novel a couple times over (upgrading from the regular edition to the super-deluxe-hardcover-slipcase edition) and it’s not a lie to say that the soundtrack was one of my most listened to CDs that year. There was also some CD-Rom thing I bought which I never could properly consume (the home computer at the time wasn’t powerful enough to run it, and by the time we upgraded the ROM was outdated and wouldn’t play). As a result, I’m sure I gave the film much more praise and leeway than it maybe earned on its own merits. I probably also watched the film a couple times on laserdisc, and in 2001, I bought a copy of the special edition DVD which, honestly, I have never even watched…
…until today. Honestly, the film holds up. There’s a very narrow focus to the film, good versus evil, vengeance and justice, which the elaborate but confined set design of streets and rooftops keeps it contained. The action is, by today’s standards, unglamorous, lacking spectacle or showiness, looking more like TV (eg. Angel) than blockbuster film (eg. Batman Begins). As a superhero-revenge-drama, it’s still got plenty of excitement, plenty of cool, but there’s a air of sadness that never leaves the film when you watch it, and it’s something I’m sure director Alex Proyas intended, with his permanently dark and rainy visual landscape, but is ever so heightened by the death of Brandon Lee, who you can tell would have emerged from the role a near superstar, a few notches above his direct-to-video status at least, freeing himself from his father’s shadow. I’m happy that it’s still an entertaining movie with solid performances, since Lee’s legacy is so small and not great, it’s good that he has at least one worth remembering.
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February 25th, 2009 Graig
The average common cold takes about 7-10 days to fully shake. Bah.
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February 25th, 2009 Graig
If you’ve bothered to notice what I read (and watch) over the past few weeks, it’s probably no surprise that I’ve never read (or seen) Macbeth, one of the Bard’s most notorious plays. “ShakespeaRe-Told” was a series of BBC-produced movies reinterpreting a quartet of Shakespeare’s plays into modern day scenarios, paralleling the structure of the original plays but completely changint the characters and setting.
In Macbeth, Joe Macbeth (Wanted’s James McAvoy) is the sous-chef in a restaurant which just got a rare 3-star ranking in London. The owner of the restaurant and celebrated TV chef, Duncan, receives (and takes) all the credit, even though he no longer has a single hand in the day to day meal preparations. Macbeths’s wife, Ella, convinces him that there’s only one way for Joe to get the recognition he rightfully deserves, and thus the plot plays out.
I found that being unfamiliar with the story didn’t hinder it much (I was indeed curious how it would all play out), but I think if you were knowledgeable of the original play it will prove at least differently interesting, providing for juxtaposition of the two. As well, it should be noted that unlike Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet this doesn’t retain the Bard’s script but puts everything in modern language.
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February 24th, 2009 Graig
Gentlemen!
I was a fairly huge fan of Aqua Teen Hunger Force and the early days of the Adult Swim network, but for the past three or four years I haven’t really had the same level of enthusiasm for the Adult Swim products. When Sealab and ATHF started descending into nothing but violence-as-comedy (in other words “we’re out of ideas, so lets just have stuff hitting/shooting each other”) in their third and fourth seasons, pushing to further extremes of nonsensicality I started to lose interest in the line. Their uniformity of the sub-network waned, as lesser shows like Squidbillies, Morel Orel and Assy McGee didn’t inspire me much to maintain my “rah rah everything Adult Swim” fandom. There are still some awesome shows - Frisky Dingo; Metalocalypse; Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job; Robot Chicken; and The Venture Brothers - which are worth getting fanatical over, and Adult Swim provides a tremendous amount of entertainment on their website (free music, video games) on their site, but it took a scant few years before the luster of their golden touch wore off.
Aqua Teen season 1 is still enjoyable, although I’ve seen each episode in this season dozens of times, so it’s entertainment value has worn a little thin. Yet there’s still quips and events in each episode that surprise me and make me laugh (something later episodes would fail to do). The Mooninites and Plutonians, even more that Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad (but not Carl), are classic television characters, just brilliant creations (though I imagine later seasons start wearing the characters thin).
My Season 2 collection was loaned out and I’ve never had the opportunity to reclaim it, so it’s lost to the ether. I wish I still had it, but I’m not likely going to replace it.
I still haven’t seen Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters.
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February 24th, 2009 Graig
Drinking lots of fluids and carbing up to try and kick a common cold. Hot Kid Rice Crisps, which we purchased to have around for our wheat-free friend, are the snack of the day, since I ate all the other crackers we had around here yesterday. The “natural” Rice Crisps are surprisingly flavourful, salty. Really, they’re a last-ditch snack from our empty shelves.
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February 24th, 2009 Graig
I’ve never really travelled very much. I’ve inhabited my travel genes from my parents who also don’t travel very much, instead venturing from home to visit friends and/or family. I’ve travelled much of Canada, but aside from a couple trips to New York and Duluth, a trip to San Diego and London, I’ve not been all that adventurous. Maybe once we settle down as a family and have our finances all in order, and when (if) the economy stabilizes we can go…elsewhere.
Then again, if I think about my top destination spots, I don’t really have much of a list beyond Chicago and Hawaii. I suppose I’m just not that adventurous.
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