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High Ho, High Ho

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1 year, 4 months ago

in Cinerama, Colorado Living, Folx, Tattoos and The Intarweb

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I have no idea how long it’s been since I’ve actually been to work. I had the week between Christmas and New Year’s scheduled for vacation, but then we had the Hanukkah Blizzard of 2006 so things got started off really early for me. I guess two weeks ago today was the last time I was in the office.

Take a guess at my motivation level…

Thanks to the Hanukkah and Kwanzaa blizzard combination, we ended up spending the holidays doing a lot of sitting around and staring at each other. We did get out to the tattoo shop to get the Mother-in-Law a new piece (of which I should really get a better picture) and for The Wife and I to get some touch up done.

Other than that, not a lot to report. We did watch some DVDs:

Nacho Libre (B) — Jack Black, yo. Plus I love me some Lucha Libre.
Talladega Nights (A-) — Best Will Ferrell joint ever. Period. John C. Riley is a king.
Aeon Flux (B+) — I was a big fan of the animated shorts on MTV’s Liquid Television, but I kind of like this better. There was actually a storyline available without creative interpretation. Plus Charlize is badass.
Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man’s Chest (B-) — Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow was weird in this one. Not nearly as good as the first one.

One quick link, while I’m at it: I like this guy’s style.

Good Things

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Jake

1 year, 6 months ago

in Cinerama, Geekery, Televisio and TuneStuff

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A categorized list:

Hip Hop

Hi-Tek’s Hi-Teknology and Hi-Teknology 2: The Chip are (as the kids say) dope.
VH1’s Hip Hop Honors were great this year. They have been every year.
Dave Chapelle’s Block Party is well worth watching.
Cody Chesnutt was on Block Party. His album called The Headphone Masterpiece makes a good go at living up to its name. (Reminds me a bit of Chocolate Genius with extra hot sauce on the sexy.)

Geek

Firefox 2.0 is out and seems worth the update. I do suggest getting the Tabbrowser Preferences extension, because I hate those tab close buttons on every tab. The inline spell checking is worth the price of admission, though.
Outside.in (from Steve Berlin Johnson) is interesting, but I’m not sure it turns me on just yet. Not a whole lot of content for my neck of the woods so far.

TeeVee

Happy Hour is back on my TiVo’s to-do list, so it seems that it has survived the early hiatus. Hooray for Shawnie’s show!

The Nose Knows

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Jake

1 year, 7 months ago

in BiblioThingy and Cinerama

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It must have been sometime in college that I read Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind. It easily became one of my all-time favorite novels. (It also makes an interesting gift for a new girlfriend, FYI. There are two copies in my house… I’m just sayin’…)

Now I see that they’re releasing a movie based on the novel, and the trailer doesn’t look half bad.

I make no claims for the film, but the book is highly recommended.

Geeks in a Theater

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Jake

1 year, 9 months ago

in Cinerama and The Intarweb

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Today the software team took off early to go see Snakes on a Plane. (It’s quite the phenomenon on teh internets, y’know…)

Much to our surprise, the movie had a 73% on Rotten Tomatoes before we left. (It’s down to 63% now, which is stull hugely high for this particular motion picture.)
It really is a fun, campy pic. Don’t get me wrong, it’s bad. It’s tremendously stupid, and it certainly isn’t art, but it’s a good time if you want to go get rowdy in a movie theater.

More than anything, I can’t get over how much fun Sam Jackson has had being part of SoaP. Good for him.