Some Noise

I promised almost a year ago to not adjust the dates of my entertainment viewing diary here. Not only have I not done this, but if I was keeping a journal in a real book, I would probably fill the those pages with the date of the event as well.

There are two movies (well, one movie and one series of movies) in which actors speak with a British accent I have never heard before.

It is true, when you get older you see that there are not that many really really bad guys.

Interesting that these movies seem to be emulating things that the Bush government is reported to be doing, which is rewriting history.

Lately, my mother is doing this same thing.

Spoiler/embellishment alert:

This is how I imagined the off camera conversation to go. "I would rather be dead than to be the Pirate Queen".

I had a choice between seeing Shrek the Third or Pirates the Third at a digital theatre -- I chose Shrek because I have been wanting to see a rendered movie on a digital projector.

That is what I saw.

Apparently, I have the tastes of a male age 18-34. I really really liked Metalocalypse. When they were showing it daily here, I felt surprisingly cheerful compared to other daily aired shows on the same network.

They have a volkswagon Thing in this movie. There is a marquis with the name Menudo on it. And there is a somewhat blurry humanbeing in one scene who could be Ted Nugent in his pre-hunting days. Maybe not though.

For Memorial Day.

Of all the Henry Rollins shows that I have seen and all of the Henry's Film Corners I remember watching, this was (as strange as this seems to me) the most interesting of the interviews.

Leonard Cohen once wrote about the United States of America, "I like the country but I just can't stand the scene." This interview was very much like that.

The last 10 minutes....

I dreamed that I was helping Andy Milonakis little old lady friend to dress up.

Once again, I only caught the last two thirds of this 2000 version of Hamlet.

My moms age group had Richard Chamberlain. We had Mel Gibson. I would like to trade Mel Gibson for Ethan Hawke.

Ziggy Marley and Angelique Kidjo were on the Tonight Show. I hadn't seen or heard of Ziggy for a long while.

I only saw about the last three quarters of this yet another Jesus movie. I showed the interview sequence to yosh and said "Kris Kristopherson makes just as good of a Christ as just about anyone else, huh?"

This movie included a resurrection and also an escape plan.

First there was Suzi Quatro and Roz Kelly singing something on Happy Days and then there was Pat Benetar singign a cover of John Cougars' John Cougars' I Need A Lover after that there was Joan Jett with an amazing cover of ACDC's Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.

I have no clear memory which I heard first. Release dates and airing on commerical radio or television are not necessarily related. It is clear to me though, that this formula fed, pop ear of mine went tip-toeing slowly into the garden of rock and roll....

Then Henry gave time to some nice young men singing lullabies for which I almost curled up and slept like a baby right after.

Long long ago, when I was free to speak and when I believed many of the things that I read and heard, I did not have access to a computer like these people probably did, I did, however, have Opus.

I acquired this book at a Berkeley Breathed book signing I attended.

me:

Possibly, I am the last person in the world to see that the NBC Thursday night line up is Paper, Rock, Scissors.

yosh:

huh?

me:

Okay, the second to the last person in the world

This movie was not as good as Shawn of the Dead but good enough.

When I first heard about this collaboration between Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, I was really looking forward to see the results.

I would have to call Grindhouse, this years "feel good" movie of the year.

Dear Quentin:



Thank you for starting Kurt Russells engine.



carol

This show was so good. Parents who saw the first run and children who are seeing the movie now (and the culture it spawned and spawned and spawned and spawned) would both enjoy this.

Yosh was fairly keen to see this movie.

It was good.

They should know by now how to make mobster movies.

The same comic book artist from Sin City, this time with a different director. I went to see this movie at 1) Yosh's recommendation and 2) because I am very interested in the computer stylizing of digital films.

There are three reasons to see this movie. 1) you are a gay man who loves to look at scantily clad men. 2) you are a woman who has never seen male bodies in good shape doing battle things like men used to. 3) you are like me and would like to see a goregeous computer stylized film.

I got to see this in one of those digi-theaters I mentioned here.

Seeing Scotty has made me laugh so much since when he reappeared to catch Laura's bouquet when Luke and Laura got married decades ago.

Conversations about Scotty and other Baldwins...

In the very beginning, in the montage of stars, there was a stern man who looked like a younger Charlie Murphy.

I immediately saw this movie as a prequel for The Fantastic 4.

Yosh said he heard that this movie was not so good, so there was no seeing it at the movie theater. I caught it via direct satellite and I liked it. It probably would have been just fine to see on the big screen.

Stephen interviewed Dan Rather while Seinfeld commercials sold themselves on the station breaks.

I saw the advertisments before and just ignored them because the show has Alec Baldwin in it.

Anyone who is reading my web site and also watches this Andy Milonakis show should probably read what I have to say the reason is that the old man is stealing Andy's can openers.

In the middle of my day today, I suddenly remembered Jon Stewart interviewing Kurt Vonnegut.

The couch potato installer still works with TiVO. Mostly you need to ignore what it says:

I am a Dave Chappelle vetern, but not a chartered member of his first run audience.

I cannot change this one fact about myself. I love fried chicken wings.

The Wiz is a Motown Musical that says it was filmed in New York. Another Motown Musical that actually was filmed in Motown is RoboCop. I think they just did not have money to pay the singers.

If he had been wearing clothing in the seventies, he might have been a heart-throb of mine.

Could you tell these two apart if they were in front of you?

I had heard an 'Arab' voice on public radio and all of a sudden I knew that it was a voice actor and not an Arab voice. This voice was funny and easy for me to listen to. I really was thinking about that before I saw this movie.

I was at a cinema waiting to watch the movie Borat and there was someone in the audience that was playing a laugh track during the showing of the trailers.

I saw some things in this movie that I never wanted to see. Like naked and unattractive men wrestling and what might have been faecal matter passed around in a bag.

At first I thought that Hugh Jackman was Orlando Bloom. Then I thought that David Bowie was Eddie Izzard.

Nothing about the man; more about the career.

I wrote about a weird restroom experience I had in San Francisco right after I first arrived. That story was completely inspired by the noise on the television.

I spent part of the evening reading about Metalocalypse on wikipedia.

Wanda's resume was worse than mine.

Edward coerces Jelly Cabin to spend all of their money on squirrel cookies, depriving the ice cream penguin of his business. Officer Buffy Burger (an American Otter from the Department of Fish and Wildlife) hitches a ride with the Ice Cream Truck Penguin to ask Slinkman to buy the remaining cookies from Jelly Cabin so that the penguin can have his route back again.

Scoutmaster Algonquin C. Lumpus makes a Chinese New Year Party for the Order of the Legumes and starts a fire in the woods near Leaky Lake. Miss Rubella Mucus is too busy throwing water melons at Lumpus and the Order of the Legumes to notice and Officer Buffy Burger and the penguin show up with the ice cream truck which is also outfitted to put out fires and saves Camp Kidney.

Lazlo thinks it will be cool if there was a real watch tower near to Camp Kidney since the Squirrel Tower is being used for other things. Officer Buffy Burger and the penguin agree.

Officer Buffy Burger and the penguin return and install a new Look Out Tower for the Fire man who has yet to be hired (and a cabin for him to live in) as well as a Cabin for herself and other government Officers to stay in. The penguin takes off leaving Officer Buffy Burger there to wait for the Fire man to show up.

Officer Buffy Burger has to help the Lemmings' mom (Laura) get their dad (Luke) out of the new fire watch tower; where he has taken up residence because he misses his children.

they have to await a hiring....

Buffy Burger is an American Otter and knows how to swim. It is one of the many qualifications one needs to become a Wildlife Inspector with the Fish and Wildlife Service.

I watched this. I had a tough time with it.

For as much as I would have rather have heard GeorgeL be interviewed, I was as happy to hear Stephen and the guy from Orleans sing o/~ Dance With Me o/~.

And so far, I can only remember one of them....

This is the resume that I wrote about a year after life as I knew and understood it became impossible to reach. It was also a resume for a search engine, so I wanted to believe that telling no lies and having very few secrets would be in my favor.

In my defense, real life (not any reality program instead, a life) had replaced itself with a TIVO.

This is that resume.

Second place in the green screen contest and they got to recreate that feeling from another completely timeless movie....

This episode of Earl was itself not that good or bad, but it contained two things that might not be obvious later when trying to find them. Randy peeing in the Goth Art Exhibit and also the Randy Montage of him singing Time After Time after a break up.

Sometimes, some combinations are just too disturbing to watch. This episode of Colbert Nation presented what was almost one of those combinations.

Not as good as last weeks episode -- there was a weird thing about urinals in noise for couple of weeks.

I have been anticipating this movie since I saw the trailer the first time. In fact, I might have been anticipating this movie since I saw the same technique being used in a financial advising (iirc) commercial. That being said, it is interesting to see a movie like this when you have just a little experience with even just one pixel manipulation application, in my case, it is GIMP.

So, now I watch these movies and try to keep track of several things. The story, the imagery used to support/enhance the story, other similar stories and also pixel technique.

This week Jon Stewart doodled a turkey.

When I first started watching South Park, I was impressed by the perfect analogy and irony that the authors and animators could make.

This episode, which had the kids speaking as their game pieces was analogy and irony like the old days.

It is a story about writers. Writers writing about other writers and writers writing about their writing block. This is the Dick Van Dyke show, only this time nobody has children.

I chuckled when Sally Kellerman who appeared as herself insisted on being called 'SallyKellerman' like a wiki word or a single first name like Cher or Bono.

Circe got high and scorched her dinner in the pan.

I like Lewis Black. He is almost infuriated enough to play Howard Beale in a reality-based weekly series remake of Sidney Lumet's Network, but convincingly lazy enough to not actually go there.

Lewis said two things that did not leave my thoughts for a long while

A Phil Ken Sebben and Bear Action Figure 2-pack arrived in the place I have been staying today.

A comical and interesting look into the task of getting your film rated by the governments special little board that rates things.

First there was Shin Chan and an episode about sausage stickers. Then there was Metalocalypse and an episode about banana stickers. Now there is this theme page.

This is what wikipedia says about this episode: "Dethklok has a huge fight on stage, which prompts the record label to hire a performance coach to keep the band together. The band falls in love with therapy for all the wrong reasons, and deals with an addiction to 'banana stickers'."

I liked this movie very much, which surprised me.

I had watched what I saw (and contributed to) as a great and respectable project become dirtied with what looked to be a dating game or worse.

This movie actually started to make me laugh about some of the real life things I have been enduring since 2003.

I saw this DVD at the video rental and said something about it being a cool name for a movie. It was rented and watched.

It was a well written and well acted crime drama.

This was a great movie. I suspect that it will live a long life in public schools.

It is always really nice to listen to Morgan Freeman's voice, as well.

Pee Wee demonstrated how to make a turkey doodle in one of the earlier episodes. I cannot remember which one.

Shin decides to eat enough sausages so that he can have enough stickers from the packages so that he can get the Bastard Action Belt.

There is a commercial (being shown quite often now) which haunted me when I was not watching. Then, with the sound off (and this is a commercial without closed captions) it still haunts. The young Asian woman looks sincerely back at you and informs you that she will be treating your problems as if they were her own.

See, I know this girl. I was that age and I was very sincere then. The problems I had when I was that age, I still have now because I either did not see them as problems or I totally ignored them or put them off until a later date or a combination of all three of these options.

I watched this the first time. My mind was a blank. I had no idea what it was I was seeing.

The television set I have been watching has not been producing sound for not quite a month yet. In these few weeks, I have determined that I am writing like one of them, having visions of another and meanwhile, solving the problems of another one of them.

"Them" being people who have been on the televison I watch quite a bit in the last year and a half.

I don't do everything the bump says, but they mentioned that their jobs depended on me watching Shin Chan.

Dr. Johnny Fever appears lifeless in the discjockey chair -- he could be shot or passed out drunk or simply sleeping. The music is playing that Van Morrison song. (No, probably not that one, another one....). When the song starts to "La la lalalalahhh lah lah lah lanh lanh lanh", Johnny slowly lifts his head and lip syncs along with the warbling Mr. Morrison.

That was entertaining television.

Anything before this entry (in time) has been fake dated.

When I originally saw Pee Wee's Playhouse, I saw episodes of it mostly in the first year. I liked it. I used to say that Pee Wee could do in a half an hour what used to take the Captain (Captain Kangaroo) a whole hour.

There is nothing in these shows that children can't see. So, at least on this web site, Pee Wee's Playhouse is moving to the safe for 14 and below. It might actually be safer for children ages 14 and less.

carol:

Yosh, do you remember -- when you saw this show the first time through, do you remember if you used to say the magic words with Jambi?

yosh:

[A giant video screen appears on his belly showing an enraptured little indian kid chanting along with the tv screen] I don't remember.

carol:

I admit, I might have. Those were some of the goofiest of my college days. Think back, you should be able to remember that.

yosh:

[The giant video screen appears on his belly showing a montage of the same enraptured little indian kid chanting along with the tv screen on several different days. We see the child start to mature and still chant along with the tv set.] I really don't remember.

PW:

[soars away on his scooter]

carol:

Would you look at that. Replace the scooter with a fluffy dog that has wings and you got the closing credits for Andy Milonakis!

yosh:

heh, you're right.

She has pennies instead of eye balls. Unlike Harvey Birdman, she has pupils. She has a way of telling about her life. I think that what I wrote here can be blamed on hearing Penny again.

yosh (poking online at things):

It says here that Laurence Fishburne was in this.

yosh:

heh

carol:

Yeah, didn't you recognize him?

yosh:

nope

carol:

cowboy curtis and othello. quite a career.

She has pennies instead of eye balls. Unlike Harvey Birdman, she has pupils. She has a way of telling about her life. I think that what I wrote here can be blamed on hearing Penny again.

I have watched the commercials they run on these cable shows with a greater interest since I saw Good Night and Good Luck, starting with the Daily Show.

Now, count the number of times they ran the advertisement for Ricky Bobby....

I saw a cover of this movie in an animation and once again I await the return of the real Michael Jackson.

carol:

yosh, while you are on the plane to Munich, I would like you to use grep or whatever and find all the times on the irc that you kicked and banned someone.

carol:

i want to put it online -- sort of a Kick and Ban Montage.

yosh:

heh

yosh (poking online at things):

It says here that Laurence Fishburne was in this.

yosh:

heh

carol:

Yeah, didn't you recognize him?

yosh:

nope

carol:

cowboy curtis and othello. quite a career.

carol:

Yosh, do you remember -- when you saw this show the first time through, do you remember if you used to say the magic words with Jambi?

yosh:

[A giant video screen appears on his belly showing an enraptured little indian kid chanting along with the tv screen] I don't remember.

carol:

I admit, I might have. Those were some of the goofiest of my college days. Think back, you should be able to remember that.

yosh:

[The giant video screen appears on his belly showing a montage of the same enraptured little indian kid chanting along with the tv screen on several different days. We see the child start to mature and still chant along with the tv set.] I really don't remember.

PW:

[soars away on his scooter]

carol:

Would you look at that. Replace the scooter with a fluffy dog that has wings and you got the closing credits for Andy Milonakis!

yosh:

heh, you're right.

My first experience seeing a movie that was being displayed via excited crystals on a huge LCD screen (1 pixel is approximately equal to 1 inch) was memorable. So many times, you see something new and expect things to be better or at least different, but they aren't. This was not the case with this upgrade in movie projection.

My problem now is that there are specific movies that I would like to see on this screen, but not all of them seem to be on the list to be converted into the format.

Here is my rant about it.

This movie was long. Without actually comparing the times, I would have liked the first one to be this long and this new one to be as short as the first one was.

I liked the movie. That being said, it was not as good as the first one. I am going to risk a funny explanation for the difference: The first one was more believable(?).

As an episode in Johnny Depps life, it is far more interesting. I was sorry that Keith Richards wasn't in it as promised.

DS:

Phil said that the last 6 years had all been lies.

yosh:

heh

carol:

it would actually make me sad if that was the same wife he married in the eighties.

I saw this movie about the time I met Tom Rathborne. There was a scene in the movie in which the female star wanted to meet Alice Cooper and when she finally did, the man who took her to meet him had much more to say to him than she did.

Things would have been different if I had met Tom in my own life -- the one I had been living when we first became friends.

Meatloaf is better without large breasts and I personally turned into a quivering mass of goo when I heard the first few bars (and that is all they played btw) of Only Woman Bleed.

The end of Dead Man where young William Blake is being set adrift in a specially made canoe into the ocean then popping up again as Jack Sparrow in the second Pirates movie, rowing in a coffin away from something or other.

Vin wasn't playing the role of a Jew in a Shakespeare comedy; he was playing an Italian. Many of the qualifications to make this role believable were already met. Then the director, Sidney Lumet for this mob movie; he directed a few of my favorite movies.

Here is the conversation when the dvd was returned to the rental conglomeration outlet:

clerk:

I liked that movie. Vin Diesel did really well with the dramatic role....

carol:

Yeah, I liked the movie -- I don't think I have seen him in a non-comedy yet though.

carol (what I wish I would have said additionally):

Although, I haven't seen [points to display thing behind her] that one yet. That one might actually be a tragedy....

In each lifetime there are a few moments where you know enough to see and appreciate something that is perfect that is occuring where you can see it. Occassionally, these moments were written and recorded and will be available within a few years on DVD.

For me, the montage of all the different ways and times that Dean and Hank died which was shown in the season opener of Venture Brothers is one of those moments.

This Dream Works animation, Madagascar was nice for me in that it was the first animated movie that both yosh and I saw for the first time at the same time. It was worth seeing just for the penguins.

I enjoyed being able to notice things about the mechanics of the animation and being able to discuss them instead of having them pointed out to me and lectured about. Not that that is bad, I just enjoyed this for a change.

Yosh and I talked about the lions hair and ears. The hair was beautiful....

yosh:

Can you make sure TIVO picks up Letterman tonight? Colbert is supposed to be on.

In the nineties, I was sitting in a trailer in what used to be a swamp in the middle of a corn field in middle rural Michigan. I had access to MTV, Comedy Central, TMC and the local stuff and the basic cable stuff on the television. I saw one movie that decade in a theatre. CB4 (because the radio told me to). On the radio (and I listened to the radio a lot) I had access to and listened to Ann Arbor Public Radio and a lovely little college radio station from MSU.

The video for Been Caught Stealing was one of the laughs that my television gave me.

I think the college station played 100 ways for me first.

I remember saying "its not my usual genre of music, but there are some real musicians playing this music, I think" when my kid questioned me for buying the cd.

yosh:

This is the last Robot Chicken this season.

carol:

yeah, well they probably need to go out and invent some pop culture to lampoon here when they come back.

carol:

it really is nice that people are allowed to write the stuff they have content for and not have to fill a contract for 26 episodes, whether they suck or not.

It was a challenge for me to get the sound together with the visual for this online flash thingie.

It was worth it.

Oh, I enjoyed X-Men: The Last Stand. It was not as good as the first two. Storywise, it seems to have had little effect on the saga, as when you are a mutant, you don't really die and you also don't really lose your powers. The cg, while beautiful in many ways was also somewhat incomplete...

The Cleese episode in Monty Python's Personal Best was good enough that I watched Eric Idles next.

Via the magic of TIVO, I took notes.

I admit, I TIVO the pbs's Monty Python's Personal Best they are there if I need them. On this evening, I watched it and saw and read of Mr. Cleeses untimely departure in 2005.

Some interviews you see are between people you somewhat understand and other times interviews are between two people you don't understand much at all.

From the looks of it, everyone was on vacation this week at Comedy Central, except these people.

There was also some really nice video editing.

I liked this movie, even though the rest of what I wrote here is negative, the people who made this movie so far can be counted on for telling a good sci-fi adventure tale.

That being said, how isn't The Matrix just another voyeur fantasy and this movie is simply about a bunch of perverted old men who mess up a perfectly decent girls life.

Even with almost the entirety of Shawshank Redemption included, it is not so difficult to unravel this adventure tale and see it as what it probably is. A bunch of perverts who should have left that girl alone.

carol:

Poor Oprah.

carol:

Do you think this is how they pronounce 'mingw?'

yosh:

It does sound about right.

When you recommend something like an episode of a television show you enjoy, quite often the recommendation has a lot to do with the person you make the recommendations to. If I don't really know you and think you don't really know me, I would recommend the Sicily episode of this series, to see if you like it or not. If you are not at least mildly amused by this one show, you will not be mildly amused by others in the series. It is a good recommendation.

This Quebec episode of No Reservations is considered by me to have surpassed being a recommendation and has achieved that high ranking of Mandatory Viewing for friends and family.

This show presented some extremely powerful images. I consider it mandatory viewing.

If you only see one episode of Ham on the Street, Food On a Stick is probably a good choice. Guilty Pleasures is another good choice.

I really loved the book tape in the nineties. I heard that Mel Gibson had bought this movie option back then but at the time too busy making Braveheart. I have no idea if this is the truth or not, but I liked this movie much better than Braveheart, especially as it addresses modern problems. It isn't what you say, but how you say it.

yosh:

Was Seth Green any good on Real Time?

carol:

He was the conservative. I don't think he has ever done that before.

yosh:

I don't believe you. You were confused.

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Æon Flux

Flight

from Frankfort to San Francisco

IMDb

Æon Flux

Wikipedia

Wikipedia Page

carol:

Mitch. I can't help but notice those yellow sneakers of yours.

mitch:

Yah, they are old and full of holes and leaking...

carol:

I don't know anything about all that. The only other time I saw yellow shoes like that is the guy who plays guitar on Letterman.

carol:

He used to have this interesting jump he would make at the end of a song.

carol:

mitch. let me see if you might find this funny. There is a man who is working in an office. Whenever he sees his co-worker, the co-worker always says "Did you get that thing I sent you?"

One day, the man needs to go to the bathroom. He is sitting there imagining he is alone so he can get on with the business of being there.

The other guy shows up and says "Did you get that thing I sent you?"

The effort now is a failure. He must try again later.

Does this sound at all funny to you?

mitch:

nope

Now I lay awake wondering how to make this episode mandatory viewing when there is that whole second bathroom story that no one except an American would understand. And I wonder what sort of office potty culture the germans do have if they don't have one like this. And I wonder what will happen to Germany, and indeed all of Europe once they adopt an office potty culture like USA's.

From the end of the second Riddick movie to the poster for Find Me Guilty

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movie title

Flight

San Francisco to Frankfort

IMDb

Elizabethtown

Wikipedia

Wikipedia Page

Caro Dario, the quotes and slobber I write here could not possibly spoil this movie. It is a trilogy of non-epic proportions; the diary of a man in his early forties, an eloquent observer.

I found myself thinking about this movie often after seeing it.

I am in a difficult position -- I have to admit to watching a movie in its entirety or I have to deny saying the funniest thing I have said this year....

Originally filmed about a year before I saw this, it was more interesting (perhaps) in the order I saw it in. In this episode, Seth MacFarlane spoke about recent changes in censor demands. He had to cut a scene of Peter pooping nickels and in the future he is expected to blur out the cracks in nekkit rear ends.

stewie, to his babysitters boyfriend:

Now go back to the quad and resume your hackysack tournee. I'm not going to lie down for some frat boy bastard with his damn Teva Sandals and his Skoal Bandits and his Abercrombie Fitch long-sleeved, open-stitched crewnecked henley smoking his stinky buds out of a soda can while watching his favorite downloaded Simpsons episode every night. Yes, we all love Mr. Plow. Oh, you got that song memorized do you? SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE! It is exactly that kind of idiot that you see at Taco Bell at 1:00 in the morning. The kind of guy who just whiffed down the bar-skank ladder. If he wants to throw hands I will throw hands, I will tell you.... (passifier inserted).

From 8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter.

I saw a really wonderful movie last night, Frida. In addition to the beautifully told story was beautiful use of cg in which painted portraits seem to become real people.

Tina Modotti:

I don't believe in marriage.

[crowd laughs]

Tina Modotti:

No, I really don't. Let me be clear about that. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women in the house and out of the way, wrapped up in the guise of tradition and conservative religious nonsense. At best, it's a happy delusion - these two people who truly love each other and have no idea how truly miserable they're about to make each other. But, but, when two people know that, and they decide with eyes wide open to face each other and get married anyway, then I don't think it's conservative or delusional. I think it's radical and courageous and very romantic. To Diego and Frida.

I have a list of a few things I saw on television that just the thought or mention of them will cause me to start to cry, somewhat uncontrollably. Not uncontrollably like unceasing wa-a-as of tears. Uncontrollably like the tears are produced and escape the duct and it is difficult to stop them.

This episode of Boondocks is on that list. Another notable entry on that list is the REM video, Everybody Hurts.

If you never saw that painting guy on public television, it might not affect you that way though.

yosh:

heh, peter griffin sings better than buddy hackett....

It is the longest poop joke in network television history, I think.

carol (pausing the TIVO):

What you are about to see is one of the most incredible feats of animation I have seen recently, I think he is going to perform the whole number....

yosh:

huh?

Peter Griffin:

o/~ ... Shipoopi Shipoopi ... o/~

carol (pausing TIVO after the football show was over):

Have you seen Music Man? Ron Howard is in it, probably before he could control peoples brains (reference to a Stroker and Hoop).

yosh:

No, I haven't seen that one.

carol:

You should rent it, you will see. This remake of it was perfect. A more perfect (potential half-time) performance that respected its parent this much cannot be made than the version that has been drawn here. You should rent this.

yosh:

If they have it....

carol:

Ha! If they have it, you're kidding, right?

The last time I saw one of my heros being shown so well, it was Bill Maher hosting Politically Incorrect with Buzz Aldrin as a guest.

In the middle of a very long week, electronic media are not all working. A few years ago, I would have not thought twice about such an occurance, but in the last few years, I laugh at others who have suspicious disconnections at weird times. The problem with laughing at others is that you will never again feel innocent in the same situation....

Charlie has a beautiful voice. Charlie is not so good as a stand up commedian as he was telling stories on the Chapelle show though.

The first commercial I had seen for Henry's Film Corner was impressive, to say the least. I was laughing when I added it to the TiVO TODO list.

A few episodes later, when I saw the conversation between Heidi and Henry about Henry getting a Porsche for his birthday -- I laughed and sent him email about this. I changed the name of my best friend at the same time.

Then, he was here, appearing somewhat locally. For $20, I got to hear that he answered all emails.

Once again, I am writing a review several months after seeing this movie, and I am seeing Hamlet again. This is an older version of Hamlet than that first one I saw in this series. It also looks like not everyone liked this movie as much as I did.

He ain't got no distractions
Can't hear those buzzers and bells,
hmm hmm humm hmin'
Plays by sense of smell.
Always has a replay,
'n' never tilts at all...
  

See this movie and Tommy on the same evening.

From the commentary of the first episode, Joss Whedon said this to the actor playing Jayne.

I grew up watching Walter Cronkite.

Edward Murrow was long gone by the time I was able to figure out those shapes in the television screen, but this movie, this movie about Edward R. Murrow had the look and feel and texture of what television news was then.

I really liked this movie.

I know this about myself. When I need to think of something that will give me a dark and quiet chuckle, I will be thinking of the Italian salt farmers I saw in this episode.

The movie was really really good. The tv show was better.

Joss Whedon

I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.

Neil Gaiman

Yes. It really is this thing of executives loving the smell of their own urine and urinating on things. And then more execs come in, and they urinate. And then the next round. By the end, they have this thing which just smells like pee, and nobody likes it.

Joss Whedon

There's really no better way to put it.

carol (pausing the TIVO):

This story is based on the real life of Dave Chappelle.

ghost of debian for dummies:

huh?

carol:

How is it not?

ghost of debian for dummies:

eh

carol:

And that is Blair from Facts of Life.

ghost of debian for dummies (image googling):

heh

carol:

The girl on that show who could fix things took a long time thinking about if she was going to sleep with John Stamos or something.

carol:

I dislike these people, why are they in my life? Oh, TiVO.

ghost of debian for dummies:

I have to go to work, can I bring you some diet coke first?

carol:

Sure. How politically incorrect is it for me to dislike the fiction?

It is called Stop Motion Animation and to make the Alien vs Predator spoof, they used much more of the Stop than of the Motion parts of the art.

Yosh owns this DVD.

carol:

Those scary black critters, the first ones not the big ones that look like people dressed in costumes, the little ones that rip your flesh from your bones -- they look like they morphed into the bats for Batman.

yosh:

I don't see what you are saying.

This was my favorite of all the Batman movies.

I cried probably two thirds of the time that the movie was showing and I was in the theatre watching it.

Long ago, I was given the basic wine training that they gave waitstaff who were to work in establishments of fine dining. I was a bartender then and I did not get the book. The restaurant that wrote the book came down with the World Trade Center, if I remember my education correctly.

At that time, 1988, I remember picking a few names and varieties that would be my fallback in the case I was ever among wine snobs and needed to sound like I at least once knew what I was talking about.

After seeing this movie, I realized that not too much has changed.

The ticket says 'NO CAMERAS". I took mine, but I did not take a photograph of the band. I got a photograph of the chandeliers in the old and famous to me theatre. I am sorry that I did not get to see this venue/theatre until after CLEAR took it over.

This is definately not my usual genre of movie. I am a big fan of Robert Rodriguez and was curious to see what the digital filmaker with the 10 Minute Film School could do to make this movie look like a comic book.

Without knowing the comic book it sought to emulate, I was taken back by how beautiful it looked on the big screen.

This is one of those great movies.

A rented DVD that I would like to own.

Shaun of the Dead.

On the recommendation of Henry Rollins I started to see Wes Anderson movies.

This one was funny also.

If Wes Anderson movies are like wine, this movie would be his Beaujolais Nouvous.

The part I loved so much about this movie was the race that Royal had with his grandsons on the tricycles.

I recommended this movie to my dad. He warned me that he has a very short attention span now.

In many ways, this movie was not so funny. That teacher lost her job.

This movie completely surpassed my expectations.

The theatre, while beautiful and interesting in its own way, was so directly a contrast to everything that I had loved about Angelique when I heard her music, while living my own life where I had made it.

Tru was playing for a singer who opened for Jenna Mammina.

It was a very nice venue.

I honestly liked this singer for her creative covers. She had the time and the stage to be able to reach out and slap me (not literally) for not knowing that the cover was of a Warren Zevon song, and she did this.

I am guessing at the date that I saw Dave Attell.

There were three commedians that night. There were a lot of rules about not talking at the tables. We shared a small table with two young men.

Al Jarreau and Jenna Mammina at this old mansion turned music center and nature walk area -- two jazz singers with excellent backing musicians in an outdoor theatre. I knew of Jenna from an interview and from being played on the Wayne State public radio that I usually tuned into where I would choose to live.

This was written many many months after seeing this movie, Garden State. I enjoyed it when I saw it. When I review things about it to write about it today, I see Hamlet.

I heard the business card scene on the radio at least once. That was some funny stuff since I had been trying to help my friend design her web site and went with her to get things printed. I think she also wanted me to help with her business card and I do remember thinking that she was almost completely insane -- and not the same kind of insanity that she had been in college either, where glittery fabric and romance that ended with the receipt of a red rose had been encouraged.

She fired me from making her web site when I used the Cindy Bob font for it.

When I finally saw the movie, I was surprised by the violence and how it was mostly not funny, but a sad thing about trying to fit and stand out in the standards that were created for and by the yuppiedom of the eighties.

I have a friend who has every episode of this series saved on his TIVO hard drive. He would like to buy the dvd, however, last look there was not a dvd available.

Is burning a series to a dvd yourself illegal when the dvd is not available and you wait patiently for years?

I think my friend ended up installing a new harddrive onto his TIVO so that he could continue to hold onto the TIVO copies of the series and buy it on dvd as soon as it becomes available.

This movie was just plain silly. I laughed for most of it.

The inhabitants of #gimp on the irc were talking about this movie and Lord of the Rings when I first joined there in 2001.

They mentioned that in the movie, the main character made soap. I told them (quite honestly) that I made soap. Then they explained what the soap in the movie was made of.

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When Simon gave me this book, he translated the title into the English "Not Funny" and babelfish confirms this by translating it as "not merry".

I remember a challenging situation I was facing in real life when he pasted a frame from this German comic which was online that seemed to be somewhat the same thing.

When the invitation was sent to GIMP developers to attend this conference, I thought that Akkana was better suited to represent GIMP there. For so many many reasons. 1) she had been printed in a Linux magazine (about something she had done with GIMP) and 2) to the best of my knowledge, her life had remained unchanged since becoming involved with the project.

I did not read this but someone claiming to be the author (with a good humor) signed my Python Pocket Reference and also claimed to have opened the image on the cover up in GIMP.

This has become a very disturbing conversation. I see this image in other places since then and also from before that time.

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There was a trailer for this movie that I saw attached to Sin City (i think) that made me cry and gave me the chills.

I get nervous when my favorite books are turned into movies. I really loved this movies version of this favorite story of mine.

Highly recommended.

I arrived at this book signing very early (which is unusual for me), yet I still had to be strong to keep my seat. I sat next to a gentleman who seemed to be well-versed in book signing protocol and I got to listen in on what turned out to be a really good verbal how to, whether I will actually be able to put into practice everything that I had learned then or not is yet to be seen.

I was only familiar with this author because I had a friend who wrote a ircbot which quoted both Terry Pratchett and Good Housekeeping Magazine a combination that still makes me giggle to mention.

The last movie I saw in a movie theatre was CB4 in 1993. I admit, I saw this movie because public radio told me to. I took my daughter. Wikipedia says it is like Spinal Tap. I thought it was like Wayne's World. We all enjoyed it.

Then, in the year 2003, yosh was visiting for our birthdays and we went to see my next movie at a theatre. We saw this Pirates movie several months after its release, I guess I was lucky it was still showing. He found the movie showing in Flint Michigan and we took my car there to see it. Driving the two lane roads to and through Flint to see the city, we ended up 10 minutes late to the wrong movie theatre.

If CB4 is a good midnight snack, then this pirates movie was a good breakfast.

I did not have a television when I first heard of Anthony Bourdain, I had a radio. Also, I did (and still haven't) read any books lately, by Mr. Bourdain or anyone else for that matter.

I heard Bourdain do the public radio rounds when the book Cooks Tour first came out. He gave great interview.

On the radio, his voice had that patina which can only be made from years of saturated fryer fats and nicotine. The experiences he was claiming to have had matched the voice and what I know of the world of restaurants.

I remembered him when he did the same public radio tour for Kitchen Confidential.