Flash Post 3

Casino Royale = good movie, great Bond movie.  Very close to original story with only details changed to bring it up to date.  Fun and entertaining.  Recommended.

Cylons to the Left of Me…

Took a break from both writing and studying this evening to catch up on Battlestar Galactica.  Man that show is good.  Seriously good.   I mean, wow.  And when the guy was gonna do that thing?  Man.  I don’t even know why you’re still reading this.  Go watch BSG and leave me alone to write.
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More Classics

Picked up Shane and Fort Apache today.
I’m really looking forward to making M watch these, as she is really fond of yelling “Shane, come back!” whenever I’m leaving to go meet my friends.  Which is really annoying.  Especially as she’s never seen the film.
Hmph.

Classics

I came home and found my wife watching Casablanca today.
It may not sound like much, but it made me pretty happy. I’ve been picking up a lot of the classics recently, as a company here in Japan has been producing good quality DVDs of a lot of the old black and whites for about [...]

Vacation Time

Finally.  M and I are going to get a real vacation.  As in, we won’t know anyone else in the location we’re going.  It’ll be just us.  With nothing to do but lay on the beach and imitate lobsters.  Including the claw-gestures.  And probably some shopping.
Naturally, a typhoon is in the area.
But, for tonight, now [...]

Xombified

For those fans of Flash animations out there, I came across Xombified.com a while back and fell in like. I do not know much about the series and have not taken much time for research beyond watching the seven episodes available, but I am looking forward to the next one, I can tell you [...]

Lights, Camera, Inaction

Drinking until 3 a.m. apparently leads to hangovers. 
While this may not be a surprise to those of you readers who are, no doubt, smarter than I, it does seem to be a fact that I am unable to remember until it is far too late.
But this post is not about booze.  This post is [...]

Pirates

M and I went to see “Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest” tonight and we both thoroughly enjoyed it. The story is just a bit darker than the first one and the effects are a little campier in places but it sure made two and a half hours go by rather quickly.
I don’t [...]

A Day Off

For the past few weeks, I've been Getting Things Done.  Imagine that the italics in the previous sentece represent the Voice of God, as it does in so many B-grade comedies.  Now, read it again.  Right.  
So, I've been following bits and pieces from different systems and ideas, but, by and large, I look to [...]

Learning to Be a Child of the 80s

M and I sat down to watch Labyrinth tonight.  M's comment:  "I wish I could have seen that when I was a child.  I think I would have loved it.  But it looks a little cheesey, these days, and the pacing is slow."
That was really telling to me.  See, my wife grew up in Japan [...]

Clobberin’ Time

M and I sat down and watched Fantastic Four last night.  Due to the movies rating of 26% Fresh at Rotten Tomatoes, I wasn’t expecting a whole lot but I enjoyed it.  It wasn’t the best movie I’ve seen, and it wasn’t even close to being one of the best superhero films (Batman Begins currently [...]

Movies I Watched This Week

Shopgirl – Simple curiosity prompted me to watch this film and I’m very glad I did. It plays with some of the same themes as Lost in Translation and Rushmore. Steve Martin plays a man who falls for a shopgirl, played by Claire Danes, who seems just a little bit lost in both [...]