Reeeeberrrrrrrrrr!!!!

broderic on August 2, 2006

It’s going to be a busy weekend. A cousin is going to be married. So we have the rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner on Friday. The wedding takes place on Saturday. Congratulations are forthcoming when it happens. This is the preview.

Unfortunately, we will miss Otakon 2006. We’re missing the chance for the the Max and Mirya special edition valkyrie. We’re missing the chance to get Gunslinger Girl shirts. Hentai! Damn. Couldn’t their wedding have been in February like all cool kids do nowadays.

Looking towards September and I find that the Baltimore Comic Con occurs the same weekend as The Civil War Century. I can’t buy a break here.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend (Whaa?!)

broderic on August 1, 2006

2 of 5 stars.

For the review see below.

Why was this was posted again? Well, blogger fucked up. I sent the review in last Tuesday via email, but look at when it got posted! The review you read is when I just cut and pasted it myself.

Damn blogger.

Commuting in Seattle via a bicycle

broderic on July 27, 2006

One of my favorite bloggers, David Neiwart at Orcinus has written an article about bike commuting in Seattle. It’s not a bed of roses as they make it out.

But I, myself, would like to bike to work. Except work is 30 miles from my home by freeway. And Baltimore is terrible place for public transport not to mention bike commuting.

I should find a place that’s close to work. And bike to it.

One Less Car.

50 Movies to see before you die

broderic on July 26, 2006

Update: Checkout Capitol Swell and The seed for their fifty.
Someone in the UK conducted a survey to see which 50 movies your MUST
see before you die. I am not going to argue about which films were
included. I am just going to mark which ones I have seen. How many have you seen? 1 Apocalypse Now (y)
2 The Apartment
3 City of God
4 Chinatown (y)
5 Sexy Beast
6 2001: A Space Odyssey (y)
7 North by Northwest (y)
8 A Bout de Souffle (y)
9 Donnie Darko
10 Manhattan (y)
11 Alien (y)
12 Lost in Translation (y)
13 The Shawshank Redemption
14 Lagaan: Once Upon A Time in India (y)
15 Pulp Fiction (y)
16 Touch of Evil
17 Walkabout
18 Black Narcissus
19 Boyz’n the Hood (y)
20 The Player (y)
21 Come and See
22 Heavenly Creatures (y)
23 A Night at the Opera
24 Erin Brockovich (y)
25 Trainspotting (y)
26 The Breakfast Club (y)
27 Hero (y)
28 Fanny and Alexander
29 Pink Flamingos (y)
30 All About Eve
31 Scarface (y)
32 Terminator 2 (y)
33 Three Colours: Blue (y)
34 The Royal Tenen-baums (y)
35 The Ladykillers
36 Fight Club (y)
37 The Searchers
38 Mulholland Drive
39 The Ipcress File
40 The King of Comedy
41 Manhunter
42 Dawn of the Dead (y)
43 Princess Mononoke (y)
44 Raising Arizona (y)
45 Cabaret
46 This Sporting Life
47 Brazil (y)
48 Aguirre: The Wrath of God
49 Secrets and Lies
50 BadlandsI’ve seen 27 out of 50 and I am 34 years old, therefore I expect to die
around 68. Hmm, I guess I should update my Netflix queue.
Link

My Super Ex-Girlfriend

broderic on July 25, 2006

Somewhere in this movie was a funnier film. It seems as Ivan Reitman has lost his touch. It felt a lot like Evolution. It’s supposed to be funny because of the premise, but the execution of it did not work.

There were a few funny things in the movie. The first “sex scene” had be laughing to tears as well as the rest of the audience, but that doesn’t make up for the rest of the unfunny.

The plot was thin, and the critics are correct in calling this a misogynist movie. Uma Thurman was set up to be a screeching, needy woman. Her power emasculated all males she came into contact with. In fact her origin scene basically stated that upon receiving her powers, the boy in her life was left alone, which caused him to be bitter. What a strange view of the power of woman. It caused me to cringe a few
times. It is strange to have such a bitter outlook on woman.

Luke Wilson needs to be a straight man. He needs others to be around him to be funny. That dude from The Office was supposed to be the funny, second banana, but was not in enough scenes to make Luke Wilson better.

2 of 5 stars.

You, Me and Dupree

broderic on July 25, 2006

The only thing saving this movie from being a complete waste of time is the cameo by last year’s Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong. In fact, Owen Wilson’s character, Dupree finds himself by becoming a better cyclist. That is what I want to do.Other than that, it’s as stupid a film as you would expect. Matt Dillon is still hilarious although he acts as if he’s a more mature person than his Something About Mary character. Kate Hudson is very invisible in this movie. She’s there to show off her booty. And Micheal Douglas? What?!The one thing I commented on during the film is the relationship between Kate Hudson and her dad played by Micheal Douglas. They don’t seem to be father-daughter. Matt Dillon supposedly works for him, yet how did he meet his daughter if the the two don’t even talk. Dillon was getting grief from the dad all movie long, but did Kate step in at all? No. I think the script as originally written didn’t have Micheal Douglas as father of Kate Hudson. They just added it for filler and a secondary subplot. That shows how thin a plot this movie had.Bleh, but serviceable.3 of 5 stars.

Le Tour 2006: Remarkable Ride to Morzine

broderic on July 21, 2006

And I thought that his chances were finished, but Floyd Landis rides a phenomenal 17th stage to claw back into contention for the maillot jaune. He now sits third just 30 seconds back of the leader and with only the individual time trial left, he has a good chance of extending the American streak at Le Tour to 8 straight years.

He broke the contenders backs very early in the stage upon the first climb of the day. His team set a steady, but quick, pace up the Col des Saisies from which he launched his attack. The peleton let him have it thinking that he couldn’t ride at speed all the way to the finish. Yet, at each successive mountain, he would retake time back from the leaders until finally the fabled Col de Jeux Plane awaited where he rode the lone remaining cyclist off his wheel and into legend.

Now the tour takes a breather out of the mountains and a transitional stage awaits for them tomorrow. Can everyone get there legs back in time for the final time trial? I can’t wait.

The tour has been spectacular. It probably hasn’t been this good since the 80s. No more Lance Armstrong and his bossing of the peleton or Big Mig taking time in the time trials to sit and wait to win. This year’s been great to watch and hard to predict because there seems to be no one strong enough to win it except for Landis. I feel that since there is no one dominant team or dominant cyclist that the peleton doesn’t know what to do. It has been great.

Allez Floyd! Allez!

Le Tour 2006: Damn you La Toussuire!

broderic on July 20, 2006

This has been an amazing Tour. What seemed to be Floy Landis’s time came to an abrupt and stunning end on the top of La Toussuire. This was the first time that the Tour had visited this particular climb, and it will now go down as the scene of carnage.

I haven’t seen the footage, but I can hear Paul Sherwin proclaiming, “This is an utter disaster for Landis.” It must have been something to see. Oh! What could’ve been.

There is still tomorrow’s final mountain stage and with the crowd at the top of the leader board it is still anyone’s race. If it’s not decided tomorrow, then the individual time trial on Saturday will definitely sort things out.

I am bummed out for Floyd Landis. He looked so promising. This is one strange Tour, but exciting.