Water For Elephants

broderic on April 23, 2011

Tonight’s Orioles game was postponed so I ended up at the movies to catch Water For Elephants with Mom. I don’t know which I was dreading more those Damn Yankees drubbing our Orioles or a Robert Pattinson movie. I hate those Damn Yankees, but I think I would prefer that than this movie.

Robert Pattinson is Jacob. Go Team Jacob! He’s a Polish veterinary student who ends up in the small time circus. At first, he’s just a carnie, but later is hired on to look after the animals especially the eponymous elephant who will bring fame and fortune to the circus owner/ringleader. Of course, he falls for the owner’s wife. Cristoph Waltz is the ringleader and he’s still a Nazi; this time manic depressive. It is a classic love triangle story. I’m giving you a cursory summation of the plot, but you can guess how it all ends.

Pattinson’s Jacob was barely out of college. Living in upstate New York, he is naive to the ways of the circus. They’re freaks, clowns, grifters and movers who know the world better than him. Pattinson’s Jacob just wanders the circus wide eyed. Even after joining the family circus, he’s still naive. I couldn’t believe Reese Witherspoon’s Marlena would fall for him. I just couldn’t believe Pattinson’s acting. He witnesses Waltz’s iron fist control of the circus, and he gaily strolls into the love triangle believing he was the better man. It made me shake my head, roll my eyes, and sigh wishing he would get a clue. Is that how the book went? I bet it read better.

I wanted to get out of the theatre in order to read the book.

2 of 5 stars

Quote of the Day [4.20.11]

broderic on April 20, 2011

This girl I know needs some shelter
She don’t believe anyone can help her
She’s doing so much harm
She’s doing so much damage
But you don’t want to get involve
You tell her she can manage
You can’t change the way she feels
But you can put your arms around her

Massive Attack, “Protection”

Link of the Day [4.20.11]

broderic on April 20, 2011

Just bought one of these SSD drives from OWC. I’m using as my storage disk for music and photos. Or rather, I am planning to use it, but like the last hard drive I bought, I haven’t gone through the steps to break down both media libraries and transfer them to that drive.

Yup, it’s a network drive hanging off the Airport Express. I chose an SSD drive so that I don’t have to worry about spinning disc failure. I, also, want to connect it to Mobile Me and Back To My Mac so that I can access it from the road. Yet, I can’t really figure out how that all works. I have yet to successfully log onto my Mini from outside the house. I’m even having trouble with logging onto it via remote desktop while I am home.

All this network computing — it’s all ridiculous.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/Mercury_Extreme_SSD_Sandforce/Solid_State_Pro

Outrun my gun

broderic on April 19, 2011

This flash video player has one of the worst embed HTML I’ve ever seen. Haven’t these vevo dudes taken a look at how YouTube does it? I mean, come on, what year are we in?

Mitts are moe

broderic on April 17, 2011

Moe Asakura Ryouko

She’s wearing oven mitts. The scene before she was bringing hotpot, nabe, to her neighbor to share. She left the pot there with the leftovers and is now on her way home. She’s trying to get our attention.

This is one of the moe-est scenes from The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. I completely find it awesome for the oven mitts. Who knew?

Oh, and Asakura Ryouko, she’s dangerous.