Another Best Buy Day

I had to take a sick day today. I think I might have a stomache virus or something. For some reason though, I always find the strength to spend money. I just got back home after picking up a couple of things from my local Best Buy: The X-files Season 5 DVD, From Hell DVD, The Others DVD, and the new album from Moby.

Season 5 of the X-files was considered the last “good” season. I think that all of them are great and I can’t wait until season 6, 7, 8, and 9 are out. Season 5 was also when they started filming the series in a widescreen format and it looks great of DVD. From Hell was a very decent movie, but I think it suffered from the “a good movie can be ruined by a great book” syndrome. From Hell is a great book and the movie could have been great if they just stuck to the story. Still, the visuals in From Hell make it a worth wild buy on DVD. I haven’t seen The Others yet, but I heard it was very well done and very scary. I’ll let ya know what I think about it after I watch it. Then there’s the new Moby album, 18. Moby is just a brilliant artist and a huge Apple advocate. This being the case, you can always trust that he’ll never release one of those copy protected cds and always side with consumer’s rights. I can’t wait to hear this album.

Site of the Day

Give my friend Mark here credit for finding this one. Here’s something to play with when the boss isn’t looking:

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~pyang/flash/miniputt.swf

Have fun.

Congratulations

The month is graduation for a lot of college students and today it happens for USC. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend, but I do still wish to extend my congratulations to one particular person. I knew you’d make it all the way through even with everything else happening in your life. It proves exactly how strong of a person you really are and I never once doubted it. You’ve made a lot of people, especially myself, extremely proud and I wish you and your family nothing but the best in the future.

Super Stupid

I don’t know what it is, but I really hate the word “super“. It’s a unskillful word and needs to be removed from the English dictionary all together. I encountered it numerous times the other day talking about a post production process we’re trying to create for a certain specification. It’s basically a process that uses a little more time than the standard process to make the finished product look better. This process was branded by one of our sale/marketing guys. You would think that a marketing guy could think of a better term than “super” process. I mean hell, it’s a term that’s about as gay as the day is long. We might as well call it our “spiffy” process or our “terrific” process or even our “coolest maximus” process. Hell, anything is better than “super”. It’s just a plain “super” stupid word!

Boy let me tell…

Boy let me tell you. I picked up my Star Wars tickets today and I’m way excited about it. I’m going to see THE FIRST DAMN SHOW at midnight on Wednesday (well, it’s actually Thursday at that point). And if that’s not enough (and I’m sure it wont be), I got tickets to the 10:55pm show Thursday night! I’m gonna see this thing twice in less than 24 hours! Oh man I can’t wait.

What else happened today. I bought two DVDs of movies I’ve never seen before. The first one was Ocean’s 11. Way better than I thought it was going to be. The performances were first rate and overall it was just a very entertaining flick. Next was Sexy Beast. Ben Kingsley is absolutely insane in this one and you’ll love it. He plays a mafia type gangster who asks Ray Winstone‘s character to join him in a job and will not take no for an answer. I’m gonna try and pull my favorite scene from it and post it here soon. It’ll show you how amazing he is.

I also picked up the Star Wars: Episode II soundtrack done by the always brilliant John Williams. Again, he pulls off pure magic that can only come from a genius mind like his. Last summer, I had the chance to see him in concert conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a tribute to all of the different films he’s scored. It was easily one of the most incredible and breathtaking experiences of my life and I can’t wait to see him again.

That’s all for now folks.

Ramblings of a Desperate Man

Damnit people, you better start posting some constructive comments to these items or I’m going to draw a warm bath and whip out some razor blades on myself. What do I need to do? You like porn? Will that do it? How about a “Hottie of the Day” or something? Who do you want to see? What do I have to do?

Fortune of the Day

We just got done eating Chinese food and breaking open the fortune cookies. Here’s the fortune of the day:

“Reconciling one’s relationship with work is the most difficult, yet satisfying task.”

Lucky numbers: 1, 5, 8, 7, 13, 27, 30, 36 and 40

My Short Spiderman Review

I was pretty upset that I didn’t get to see this movie on it’s opening day mainly because you get the good crowds who are really into it and don’t hold anything back as far as showing how they feel about the scenes. So I waited and waited until one of my friends were free (I’m not one of those people that like to go to movies by myself) and we finally caught a 10:10pm showing on Sunday night right after watching a great X-files.

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Most comic book adaptations to movies have been, for the most part, lame. This is not the case with Spiderman. I mean it is no Batman (just the first one, hehe), but it’s close. There’s plenty of action, the acting was decent, Danny Elfman does a great job of scoring the thing, oh… and of course there is Kirsten Dunst. You can give most of the credit to Sam Raimi for this movie though. Although I’d say a majority of his films have been absolute crap, Spiderman does not fall into that category. We also can’t forget about Kirsten Dunst.

So was there anything I didn’t like? Or course. There was a good amount of dialog that just needed to be thrown away, I would have enjoyed more live action sequences than the many CG sequences, and Ms. Dunst doesn’t get naked (although there was a hint of nipple). Oh and there’s one thing that REALLY bothered me. The whole class is on this field trip to some lab at one point and they’re looking at these 15 genetically enhanced super spider. Mary Jane (Dunst) looks in and says she only sees 14. The guide then basically says “oh well” and continues on. If some super mutant changing rabid genetically enhanced spider was on the loose, I think I’d probably do a little bit more than say “oh well”. “Oh forget about that little guy. We let him frolic and play as he wants. Forget about the fact that if he bites you, you’re going to start wearing colored spandex because your DNA has been screwed with.”

Other than that, it’s a solid movie and it has Kirsten Dunst. I highly recommend it to any looking to zone out for 121 minutes. Oh, did I mention that Kirsten Dunst is in it?