Watching:
All I Want: Not too bad, up until the end when every one lives happily ever after and everything is okay. Blech to that. Franka Potente = always great.
Reading:
Need to make a stop at the library.
Listening:
Bonobo feat. Fink: If you Stayed Over
Jun 30, 2008
Jun 24, 2008
June 24, 2008
(updated Tuesday the 24th because I forgot yesterday)
Watching:
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story: Bad. Bad bad bad bad bad. Whosever idea this was, they should have their head cracked open, shove all the dvds into it, shove a stick of dynamite into it, and light it. BAD. Trying way too hard, the formula has run out, just cause you put funny people in it doesn't make it funny, etc. BAD.
The Bourne Identity: Ran out of things to watch, so I thought I'd check this one out. Not bad. Decent action movie with a decent plot.
The Bourne Supremacy: Seemed logical to follow up with the sequel. Fell asleep though.
Reading:
Battling the Inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People: Totally hate the writer's writing style. From what I can tell, he has no credentials. He does make some good points though, even if he does re-word and re-iterate them to DEATH. And oh my god, stop talking about your ex-wives.
Listening:
I'll update this later, cause I can't have photoshop and iTunes open at the same time.
side note: Song downloads will now only be available from the current and previous month, because having all these mp3s on my website is threatening to blow it up.
Watching:
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story: Bad. Bad bad bad bad bad. Whosever idea this was, they should have their head cracked open, shove all the dvds into it, shove a stick of dynamite into it, and light it. BAD. Trying way too hard, the formula has run out, just cause you put funny people in it doesn't make it funny, etc. BAD.
The Bourne Identity: Ran out of things to watch, so I thought I'd check this one out. Not bad. Decent action movie with a decent plot.
The Bourne Supremacy: Seemed logical to follow up with the sequel. Fell asleep though.
Reading:
Battling the Inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People: Totally hate the writer's writing style. From what I can tell, he has no credentials. He does make some good points though, even if he does re-word and re-iterate them to DEATH. And oh my god, stop talking about your ex-wives.
Listening:
I'll update this later, cause I can't have photoshop and iTunes open at the same time.
side note: Song downloads will now only be available from the current and previous month, because having all these mp3s on my website is threatening to blow it up.
Jun 10, 2008
June 17, 2008
(updated Tuesday the 17th because I wasn't working yesterday)
Watching:
The Iron Giant: Cute. I liked that it was the older style of animation, like in the movies I watched as a kid (think The Rescuers Down Under). The plot was the usual, the voice cast was kind of refreshing, even though I'm not a huge fan of Jennifer Aniston or Vin Diesel. The 'lesson learned' (cause doesn't there *always* have to be one in a kids' movie?) wasn't too forced, it fit into the plot nicely without seeming like an afterthought.
I, Robot: I wasn't expecting to think much of this one, but it wasn't terrible. It did seem to get the whole way to the end before getting on with the point, but that's kinda the way of a sci-fi I guess. The fight scenes with the robots were a little 'ehhhh ok already get on with it'/'seriously? he's gonna fight a bazillion really freaking agile/strong robots pretty much by himself? and win?' but so it goes in an action movie (with robots).
Can't Hardly Wait: the Sunday afternoon movie on network tv, so edited out the wazoo. I forgot how many b-list 'stars' were in this movie, so watching it kind of became 'what's she in?' and 'hey that guy's in freaks and geeks.'
The Missing: Pretty good. Strong cast, strong story. Not completely predictable.
Reading:
Battling the Inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People: Still reading this one.
Listening:
Leonard Cohen
Totally love the crap out of this guy. A fantastic poet who's been around for many a decade, I can listen and re-listen to his cd's endlessly and they never get old.
Leonard Cohen - Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye
side note: Song downloads will now only be available from the current and previous month, because having all these mp3s on my website is threatening to blow it up.
Watching:
The Iron Giant: Cute. I liked that it was the older style of animation, like in the movies I watched as a kid (think The Rescuers Down Under). The plot was the usual, the voice cast was kind of refreshing, even though I'm not a huge fan of Jennifer Aniston or Vin Diesel. The 'lesson learned' (cause doesn't there *always* have to be one in a kids' movie?) wasn't too forced, it fit into the plot nicely without seeming like an afterthought.
I, Robot: I wasn't expecting to think much of this one, but it wasn't terrible. It did seem to get the whole way to the end before getting on with the point, but that's kinda the way of a sci-fi I guess. The fight scenes with the robots were a little 'ehhhh ok already get on with it'/'seriously? he's gonna fight a bazillion really freaking agile/strong robots pretty much by himself? and win?' but so it goes in an action movie (with robots).
Can't Hardly Wait: the Sunday afternoon movie on network tv, so edited out the wazoo. I forgot how many b-list 'stars' were in this movie, so watching it kind of became 'what's she in?' and 'hey that guy's in freaks and geeks.'
The Missing: Pretty good. Strong cast, strong story. Not completely predictable.
Reading:
Battling the Inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People: Still reading this one.
Listening:
Leonard Cohen
Totally love the crap out of this guy. A fantastic poet who's been around for many a decade, I can listen and re-listen to his cd's endlessly and they never get old.
Leonard Cohen - Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye
side note: Song downloads will now only be available from the current and previous month, because having all these mp3s on my website is threatening to blow it up.
Jun 3, 2008
June 9, 2008
Watching:
Juno: Blah. Blahhhhhh. 'Quirk' and a soundtrack full of indie music do *not* a good movie make. I didn't hate Ellen Page as much as I expected to (I find her totally irritating usually), but her acting fit the part. The plot was so incredibly mediocre, and the dialogue was so contrived, I can only compare it to flowery poetry that's heavy on the 'flowery' and light on the 'poetry.' But hey, if you liked it, watch Dan in Real Life, because obviously you like movies that pose in the independent genre but are really formulaic and boring. Oh, I did totally love the crap out of that hamburger phone though.
Flight of the Navigator: Fantastic, durr. Classic, of course.
Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla: Hilarious in that way that it doesn't mean to. Once again, it's the kind of movie I can't help making fun of, but isn't that the fun of it? I kind of wish I'd been able to get the 1974 Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (which is a completely different plot, by the way), simply for the cheese-factor, but my resources were limited.
Futurama: Bender's Big Score: It's Futurama, of course it's great.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Hilarious in that way that it doesn't mean to. Once again, it's the kind of movie I can't help making fun of, but isn't that the fun of it? (Yeah, this one too.) It was entertaining, but it was by no definition 'good.' And it seemed like they were opening themselves up to a series of Mutt Jones and the Adventure of the Something Cheesy's.
Side note: Did you know the Addams Family is on dvd now? Cause I didn't, and that's pretty rad.
Reading:
Battling the Inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People: Holy crap, I'm actually reading something! Well sort of anyway, I haven't gotten far enough into it to say much about it, since I rented like twenty robot movies, and then had to wrestle with myself about do I watch these movies before they're due or read this book which is crazy interesting, and doing both at the same time doesn't really work that well.
Listening:
Nicole Reynolds
Upbeat, folksy, cute, easy-going, light. Like listening to a honeysuckle bush.
Nicole Reynolds - When We Meet Again
Juno: Blah. Blahhhhhh. 'Quirk' and a soundtrack full of indie music do *not* a good movie make. I didn't hate Ellen Page as much as I expected to (I find her totally irritating usually), but her acting fit the part. The plot was so incredibly mediocre, and the dialogue was so contrived, I can only compare it to flowery poetry that's heavy on the 'flowery' and light on the 'poetry.' But hey, if you liked it, watch Dan in Real Life, because obviously you like movies that pose in the independent genre but are really formulaic and boring. Oh, I did totally love the crap out of that hamburger phone though.
Flight of the Navigator: Fantastic, durr. Classic, of course.
Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla: Hilarious in that way that it doesn't mean to. Once again, it's the kind of movie I can't help making fun of, but isn't that the fun of it? I kind of wish I'd been able to get the 1974 Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (which is a completely different plot, by the way), simply for the cheese-factor, but my resources were limited.
Futurama: Bender's Big Score: It's Futurama, of course it's great.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Hilarious in that way that it doesn't mean to. Once again, it's the kind of movie I can't help making fun of, but isn't that the fun of it? (Yeah, this one too.) It was entertaining, but it was by no definition 'good.' And it seemed like they were opening themselves up to a series of Mutt Jones and the Adventure of the Something Cheesy's.
Side note: Did you know the Addams Family is on dvd now? Cause I didn't, and that's pretty rad.
Reading:
Battling the Inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People: Holy crap, I'm actually reading something! Well sort of anyway, I haven't gotten far enough into it to say much about it, since I rented like twenty robot movies, and then had to wrestle with myself about do I watch these movies before they're due or read this book which is crazy interesting, and doing both at the same time doesn't really work that well.
Listening:
Nicole Reynolds
Upbeat, folksy, cute, easy-going, light. Like listening to a honeysuckle bush.
Nicole Reynolds - When We Meet Again
Jun 2, 2008
June 2, 2008
Watching:
Family: I randomly picked this up at the library although I'd never heard of it. It's a family drama tv show from the 1970's. The story lines are a lot cleaner than more modern tv shows, in that it just is what it is, rather than throwing in a bunch of superfluous drama, cliff hangers and other such baloney just to keep your interest, and for that I like it. Which isn't to say it's boring, because it isn't, it's interesting, but with valid plots and conflicts.
Reading:
The problem here is that I really did plan to read something this week, but I've read everything I own, and I hadn't planned ahead and gone to the library. So, hopefully next week there will actually be some something or other here.
Listening:
The Refreshments: I just lost probably a zillion points of indie cred, but that's what I've been listening to. It's been in my cd player for probably a month now, and it's mainly what I listen to when I'm in my room (aka playing video games), singing along to every single song like the 90's-loving nerd that I am. It's good southwestern pop from the mid/late-90's, that's really easy-going and simple with a lot of the lyrics being about ladies and beer.
Unfortunately, I don't have any of their music on my computer and there isn't any that's easily and freely available for download, but I will probably update this later this week with a link/song for downloading.
UPDATE: The Refreshments - Sin Nombre
Family: I randomly picked this up at the library although I'd never heard of it. It's a family drama tv show from the 1970's. The story lines are a lot cleaner than more modern tv shows, in that it just is what it is, rather than throwing in a bunch of superfluous drama, cliff hangers and other such baloney just to keep your interest, and for that I like it. Which isn't to say it's boring, because it isn't, it's interesting, but with valid plots and conflicts.
Reading:
The problem here is that I really did plan to read something this week, but I've read everything I own, and I hadn't planned ahead and gone to the library. So, hopefully next week there will actually be some something or other here.
Listening:
The Refreshments: I just lost probably a zillion points of indie cred, but that's what I've been listening to. It's been in my cd player for probably a month now, and it's mainly what I listen to when I'm in my room (aka playing video games), singing along to every single song like the 90's-loving nerd that I am. It's good southwestern pop from the mid/late-90's, that's really easy-going and simple with a lot of the lyrics being about ladies and beer.
Unfortunately, I don't have any of their music on my computer and there isn't any that's easily and freely available for download, but I will probably update this later this week with a link/song for downloading.
UPDATE: The Refreshments - Sin Nombre
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