I get home last night, nostrils wide for the delicious aroma & homey warmth of apple pie, and am instead greeted by a frigid, baking-free house and two nearly passed out gals in the living room meditating on the wisdom of Alex Trebek.
"We're too tired to bake!" they lament.
"We're HUNGRY!" they complain.
So.
Instead of wallowing in delicious apple pie on a frigid fall evening, I end up making dinner for a pair of laggardly game show addicts.
Hrrrumph!
11.06.2007
genre
blaxsploitation.
Oddly thin on the movies themselves, but the coverage of soundtracks is deep and wide.
Oddly thin on the movies themselves, but the coverage of soundtracks is deep and wide.
11.05.2007
filmic reminders
No Country for Old Men draws nigh.
Also, I found this cool site with reviews of HK cinema past and present.
They're finally releasing a Twin Peaks box set that includes the pilot.
And yet another version of Bladerunner.
I'll get it for a couple of reasons, none related to the promise of a super duper final ultra killer extreme directors cut.
One, the print used for the original release and the Director's Cut sucked ass. For this movie digital remastering is a big selling point. I'd be happy if they just cleaned up the existing Director's Cut, but that's not in the cards.
Two, the extras on the multi-disc Alien release were stellar and I'm expecting something similar.
I'm mostly against people rejiggering movies that are already set in the public consciousness, but the tone of this one was so badly mangled by the studio-enforced voice over & stock footage happy ending they tacked on I gave it a break. I doubt I'll take quite so well to whatever further alterations Ridley makes with this iteration...but c'mon man, digital remastering!
Also, I found this cool site with reviews of HK cinema past and present.
They're finally releasing a Twin Peaks box set that includes the pilot.
And yet another version of Bladerunner.
I'll get it for a couple of reasons, none related to the promise of a super duper final ultra killer extreme directors cut.
One, the print used for the original release and the Director's Cut sucked ass. For this movie digital remastering is a big selling point. I'd be happy if they just cleaned up the existing Director's Cut, but that's not in the cards.
Two, the extras on the multi-disc Alien release were stellar and I'm expecting something similar.
I'm mostly against people rejiggering movies that are already set in the public consciousness, but the tone of this one was so badly mangled by the studio-enforced voice over & stock footage happy ending they tacked on I gave it a break. I doubt I'll take quite so well to whatever further alterations Ridley makes with this iteration...but c'mon man, digital remastering!
2nite
Devra is coming over to bake an apple pie with the wife.
The smell of delicious baked treats should draw me out of my bone-littered cave on the internet.
Hopefully someone brings vanilla ice cream....
The smell of delicious baked treats should draw me out of my bone-littered cave on the internet.
Hopefully someone brings vanilla ice cream....
inscriptions
on the ffep of a copy of New Elementary Latin by Ullman and Henry, in neat block print:
In Case Of Fire
Throw This In
11.02.2007
EMERGENCY ANNER UPDATE
my connection has been down the past few days, on top of a fallow Halloween week, and Anner made her displeasure known.
So, emergency update before bed! And before my connection takes a dump again!
news from the Pelf:
This is especially amazing because we saw Re-Animator on the big screen (back when there was still such a thing as a B Movie, and you could still see them in theaters), and he got hassled and carded by the ticket gal which made us miss half the credits and sent his blood pressure through the roof.
It was hard for me to blame her, though.
We did after all spend that entire summer getting him into the drive in for the 12 and under price.
I don't doubt the simmering rage engendered by this and similar incidents (the Denny's waitress who brought him the child's menu, etc etc) fueled his journey to a place where you get cell phone calls from youthful idols who want to hear about your zombie romantic comedy script.
So, emergency update before bed! And before my connection takes a dump again!
news from the Pelf:
Dudes, I'm driving on the 210 -- my cell rings -- IT'S STUART GORDON
-- the he-man legend who directed RE-ANIMATOR. I called him to pitch
my zombie opus JOE ZOMBIE a few weeks back and had forgot all about it
-- he was asking me to tell him about it -- I was off guard and
didn't do the best job, but he still said to send it his way and
someday he may read it...not a quote, but the gist of things.
This is especially amazing because we saw Re-Animator on the big screen (back when there was still such a thing as a B Movie, and you could still see them in theaters), and he got hassled and carded by the ticket gal which made us miss half the credits and sent his blood pressure through the roof.
It was hard for me to blame her, though.
We did after all spend that entire summer getting him into the drive in for the 12 and under price.
I don't doubt the simmering rage engendered by this and similar incidents (the Denny's waitress who brought him the child's menu, etc etc) fueled his journey to a place where you get cell phone calls from youthful idols who want to hear about your zombie romantic comedy script.
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