So, for the past week and a half or so, I have been getting
progressively weak and ill feeling. After last week, which was
busy as hell, and yesterday, which started busy as hell and then got a
lot slower, I decided I would actually call in. This was a good
idea, as I more or less couldn't really stand up very well.
I
think I am just dehydrated. As anyone who has spent any time with
me knows, I tend to eat more salt than any normal person ever should.
Now, this isn't necessarily a bad
thing, as I do have a sodium deficiency, and my body craves and needs
salt... but that salt intake should probably be accomapnied by
something watery like water, and not something blatantly dehydrating
like soda.
So, I have begun to drink more water.
Orange juice sounds like a good idea too... it has a lot of
electrolytes or something. My favourite is Simply Orange which you can read about here. I could just chug that stuff out of the bottle... in fact, sometimes when I wake in the middle of the night, I do chug that stuff out of the bottle. Mmm........ good stuff.
Today, the Rifftrax for Ocean's Eleven comes out... The special guest riffer is Richard Cheese, who I will be going to see in October. I need to pay Steve back for that after the next paycheck.
Last night I watched The Onion Movie.
I doubt a lot of people would enjoy that, but I sure as hell
loved it. It's a satire movie, much along the lines of Kentucky Fried Movie and at times reminded me of The Upright Citizen's Brigade.
If you don't like semi-raunchy, politically incorrect, or racial
humour... you probably wouldn't enjoy it. I, for one, enjoy
ANYTHING that's just "wrong" so I loved every minute of it.
Anywho... I am dizzy again, so I am going to go lie back down.
I am at work, and I feel like I am very much still asleep. I
wish I could take a vacation day, because I just simply don't want to
be here today. My head is dizzy and it's hard for me to keep
my eyes open. Blah.
In October sometime, Steve and I will be (hopefully) going to see Richard Cheese and Lounge Against
the Machine in concert. Apparently, he has some
vocal chord illness or something, so this is his farewell
tour. I think he'd be a blast to see, so I am excited about
it. Go here
if you don't know who Richard
Cheese is.
Also, Cheese will be the guest riffer on the next Rifftrax.
The movie Mike and Richard will be riffing on is to be Ocean's Eleven.
Woo!
I got the new Cinematic
Titanic disc in the mail a few days ago. The Wasp Woman is a
dreadful movie, and it's kind of sad that I had actually seen that
movie before, un-riffed. I didn't realise it until I was
about ten minutes in, and then I groaned and said "Oh, god... THIS movie."
Stupid Roger Corman.
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Headquarters
The Monkees
sound awesome
in surround sound. They've always had a massive stereo
seperation in their music anyways, so surround only seems perfect for
their music.
So, my parents both have the week off of work, and then they, along
with my sister and brother-in-law, will be going camping towards the
end of the week. This means I am very insanely much on my own
for the week. I have my sister's car (the older one, not the
newer one) for the week, and will be putting my way to work and back
every day. Yay. I have a feeling I will be having
Chinese food a lot this week. I love Din Ho.
Anyone who is in Chico, if you've never been to Din Ho, you are missing
out on some damn good food.
In Rifftrax
news, the next one up is... **drum roll** Memento!!!
That's right... the backwards/forwards movie.
Goodie, this will be fun! It comes out on Tuesday,
so I will most likely be watching it on Wednesday.
I don't know yet what will be after that one, but to keep me satisfied
until they release more Rifftrax,
the third installment of Cinematic
Titanic is available to buy on DVD on Monday. The Wasp Woman by
Roger Corman... If it's Corman, it's got to be bad.
I think I will have enchiladas tonight.
...but first, I must empty the dishwasher and clean up the kitchen a
bit. In fact, I think I will go do that right now.
I think I may have figured out why I have been avoiding my blogue
recently. It may be due partly to my having to redesign the
blog for my work's website. Currently, it looks like pure
crap, as you can see here.
So, being the web graphics guy, I
have been given the task of redesigning it to make it look and feel
pretty.
I feel pretty. Do you?
Today, the Harry Potter
and the Chamber of Secrets Rifftrax came out...
I will be downloading that tonight when I get back home from the
meeting at Shane's. We have done away with the attempted
movie review show, and have collaborated with a few others on an online
sketch comedy show. This new project is a LOT easier and
cohesive than the previous one. Since there are more people,
and simple short sketches, not everyone needs to be present at all
times, and there is a lot less involved in the way of
preparation. Well, to an extent. We don't have to
watch a movie and write a sensible review of it, and that is a bit
easier at least.
Although, with the lack of movie reviewing, I may take up some reviews
on this site here. I think that was one of my original plans
anyways.
Aside from not having loads of free time, and possibly because of it,
my life has been going swell recently. My biggest complaint
is (always) a lack of sleep. I need to sleep a lot more than
I do, but I geuss that's what weekends are for, eh?
Well then... at work, I have been on a marathon of MST3k, and at home,
I have been watching all of the Rifftrax
in order.... so
here's where I stand currently: With Mystery Science Theater
3000, I am on episode 0421, Monster A-Go-Go.
As for Rifftrax,
I just finished Firewall.
It's weird to think that I can still do all this marathon nonsense, and
yet I still have a life as well.
So, the four(4) titles were announced for the 20th Anniversary Edition
set of MST3k.
And here they are:
211- First Spaceship on Venus
706- Laserblast
904- Werewolf
1004- Future War
Some people are complaining about the selection. I, however,
think that it's a mighty fine set of episodes. The best part
is going to be the special features. Apparently, there will
be a Crow T. Robot
figurine, along with a featurette on the history of the show,
interviews with all the people involved, and most importantly, they
will include the reunion panel from Comic-Con.
I have watched a crappy 6 part video of the panel on YouTube and it was
hillarious, so I am looking forward to that.
If you want to see a promo video for the collection, click
here.
Posted 25 July 2008. 19:00
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I Took A Vacation
Okay, so I didn't...
I DID,
however, take a vacation from myself and blogueing. "I know what a break from
blogueing is, Beef, but what is this vacation from yourself nonsense?"
Well... let me tell you. I grew a mustache.
I have
since shaved it off, but for almost all of July, I was growing a
mustache. How is this a vacation from myself, you might ask?
I don't normally have a mustache, nor do I ever really want one... but my
co-worker Shane and I both grew one (each) because it was something
different than what we normally would do.
We got the idea from episode one of season eight of Seinfeld.
Watch it if you have a copy of it. It's a good
episode.
Well,
not much actually happens in my life. I work and sleep, and
occasionally I do other things, such as hanging out with a few select
people. This last weekend, my cousin Dana got married, so I
went
to her wedding. That was a nice time.
I wish I had more to talk about.
Whenever my friend Steve gets back from Germany, we are going to go see
The X-Files: I Want To
Believe. I will possibly be going to see The Dark Knight
again this weekend.
OH!!! Tonight, at about 8:30p Pacific Time, we will be
finding out what episodes are to be in the Mystery Science Theater 3000,
20th Anniversary Collection. I will most likely
tack on an edit to this post, OR I will add a blogue tomorrow or Sunday
about it.
I am excited and have been refreshing forums pretty much all day while
working.
Work
has been extremely busy for me recently, but it's the end of the month,
so it normally gets crazy for a bit. It's been somewhat nice
consistantly having things to do, but it's occasionally gotten a bit
much. I have begun to make lists of everything I get thrown
at
me, so when people come up and ask "Are
you busy?" I can simply hold up my insanely long list and
glare at them.
I am almost done RE-re-authoring my Rifftrax
DVD's... now that I have them properly mixed down (I am on the last one
currently), I will be compressing the audio properly so each and every
disc has a nice flat volume to it and will match the volume levels of
all the other Rifftrax
DVD's.
This
month of just shorts has been quite nice. To spend very very
little, and see some nicely pre-mixed and downloadable videos of the
aforementioned educational shorts from Rifftrax, go here.
Well, that about wraps it up for me tonight, at least until I find out
the episode list for the MST3k
box.
24 hours ago, I was in a theater, getting all set to watch the midnight
(12:02 to be exact) showing of The
Dark Knight.
A day later, with plenty of time for it to sink in, I am now
going to give my review. I will make it very short, simple,
to
the point, and spoiler free. There are TONS of long reviews
out
there currently, and I am hungry... so short it is:
First
off, let me say that this movie lives up to the hype. Sure,
people are saying that everywhere, but it's true. If I could
use
only one word to describe the film, I would choose "brutal."
That's not a bad thing at ALL, because Batmanshould
be brutal. This movie cuts down to raw brutality.
No
hinting, no beating around the bush, and it definitely does not leave
things simply to your imagination.
There is a LOT of talk about Heath Ledger's performance as The Joker.
I have said before, many times, mostly in my arguments over the past
18-19 years as to why Burton/Nicholson got it wrong, that The Joker, done
right, should make Hannibal
Lector seem like an all-around nice guy. Ledger
did NOT
fail to deliver, and they did NOT tone it
down for the general public.
At
first, a lot of the hype truly did stem from Ledger's unfortunate
death... but now that we are able to see his performance, the hype is
simply due to what may have been the best performance ever. I
can
honestly say that he out-acted Johnny Depp on every level, and that's
saying a LOT. I have always thought Ledger was a good actor,
but
after seeing The Dark
Knight, I truly believe he was the best actor I have ever
seen.
Back to the movie itself, and of course, Batman...
Christian Bale is a terrific actor, and still the best choice
for
a real, non-campy hero. I have always trusted Christopher
Nolan's
casting, writing, and directing choices... and Aaron Eckhart was a
magnificent choice for Harvey
Dent.
Actually... the only casting choice I have had problems with
in
this and the prior film was with Katie Holmes. She was not a
believeable D.A. Maggie Gyllenhaal, while not as "cute," was
much
more true to being a worn out lady who goes to court every single day.
So much for short.
Anyways, I am going to sum up, simply because I am hungry. My
only issue truly with this movie was that Gotham City did not
look anything like the one from Batman
Begins.
Continuity, people. Aside from that, the acting all
around
was superb, the visuals were outstanding, and of course Ledger's raw
brutality stuck with me for a day, before I could actually stop taking
deep breaths and saying "Yeah... wow."
Go see it.
Posted 12 July 2008. 17:15
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Pepper Pot Soup Is The Best
So, a few days ago, they announced the artwork for the outer box of Mystery Science Theater 3000,
20th Anniversary Edition. Here is the sweet
packaging... looks to most of us like a metal tin.
This is going to be neat!!! I can't wait to find out what
episodes, special features, and hopefully other stuff will be included
in this purty looking box.
I received Batman:
Gotham Knight in the mail the other day. It's an
animated feature just over an hour long that more-or-less fills time
between Batman Begins
and The Dark Knight.
If you enjoyed Batman:
The Animated Series at all, you will most surely enjoy
this.
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