Earthquake!!

broderic on July 16, 2010

Reports said that there was an earthquake in Maryland this morning about 5 AM.Yup.It woke me up from one of my quirky dreams. I was lying asleep on my stomach. I felt some shaking. I thought it was a heart attack, but then I realized that it must be an earthquake. I felt the trembling on my chest and barely heard the shaking in the house. At that early time in the morning, I thought that I was hallucinating and that it was just a dream. It was real. So that's what earthshaking means.

Paper Planes Covered

broderic on July 14, 2010

The Clientele covers M.I.A.

Was listening to the several of the covers on AV Club Undercover, and found some enjoyment with this cover of M.I.A’s “Paper Planes.” I liked the Telecaster and I liked the violins. I liked the fact that it’s a cover a tune that makes use of a loop from an 8-bit version of the Clash’s “Straight To Hell.” That’s music in this day and age.

Link of the Day [7.14.10]

broderic on July 14, 2010

Links of the Day usually take you to interesting sites that I hope you find interesting. Or they take you to sites that I hope provoke some thought. Today’s site does neither. I just think it’s the best named site EVAH! If you have a robot, it has to be topless. Beats those other droids.

http://www.toplessrobot.com/

Re: Alyssa_Milano | Old Spice

broderic on July 14, 2010

If you’re on Twitter, then you must have noticed that Old Spice is a trending topic. The heck? Why do so many people care about that?

Because, if you tweet at @OldSpice, you may find a video on YouTube with our man, the Old Spice guy, flirting right back at you! O, @Alyssa_Milano, why do you find this guy flirty, but me creepy when I DM you?

Predators

broderic on July 11, 2010

Predators is the perfect summer movie. Good, but not great. Bad, but not awful. Mediocre.

It dove right into its premise right off the bat like people falling out of planes. It kept moving forward introducing each character/predator victim. They were all archetypes — the sniper, the heavy machine gunner, the shiv wielding con. Every character ripped their roles from a character class in a video game. But the movie kept going forward not stopping for people dying or even plotting. It’s predators hunting human — the dangerous game. That’s the plot in a nutshell and a summary of what to expect from the movie. That’s it, but the job was completed successfully.

3 of 5 stars.

Toy Story 3

broderic on July 10, 2010

After releasing the very lyrical movies, Up and Wall-E, Pixar returns to the movie franchise that put them on the map. Excuse me, I don’t understand the appeal of the Toy Story franchise. I may be a simpleton and one of the few that didn’t find Toy Story 3 as another Pixar knock-out, blockbuster hit. My low opinion of the Toy Story franchise has biased me into not paying proper respect to the movies. I just can’t understand it.

RottenTomatoes.com has Toy Story 3 at 99%. I may have seen a different movie. Wait a second while I go read some of the blurbs there.

Okay, I’m back. While it does top the tomato meter, a lot of the blurbs give it decent coverage following in the previous movies’ greatness yet also acknowledging the formality of this final installment.

The movie doesn’t wow me like the other Pixar films. Even the ones I don’t regard highly, Finding Nemo and Ratatouille, I can find something to like. The Toy Story movies I find nada. Does this make me soulless?

What I find wrong with the Toy Story franchise is that they’re routine. Maybe the first installment might be a groundbreaker, but the rest I find unappealing. Yes, I know that their stories reflect how we grow up but that don’t mean squat to me.

The final movie just wasn’t impressive enough. It’s better than some other animated schlock, but not high in the Pixar patheon.

Most other Pixar movies give me hope that animated films can move beyond the kiddie movie ghetto, but Toy Story is the quintessential kiddie movie at least superficially. It drives me crazy that they don’t make it awesome. There was a point where I was hopeful that Pixar was gonna be brave and make the movie bold, but I knew that it had to have the happy ending.

That being said. The movie is solid story telling. Flawless in execution. Kids will like it many adults as well. Ho-hum.

3 of 5 stars. Plus a meh.

She Knows How to Use ’em

broderic on July 10, 2010

Was browsing through the bookstore tonight. I know, right? A Friday night and your humble narrator was at the bookstore. It’s my home away from home. I was just browsing the manga stacks picking up the second volume of Twin Spica, BrowserMetrics’ current nice read, when I saw the book of books, Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential!! Yeah, I know, right? Of course I flipped through it.

Hentai! But that isn’t the point of this post.

In the books, there was plenty of pictures of school girls in short, pleated skirts. Lots of Grade D zettai ryouiki. Hentai! But this isn’t the point of this post.

I am a leg man. They’re my favorite part of the female body.

What I noticed though from the book and what has been kind of making me sad is that Japanese girls have chubby legs. Their legs on average are not very shapely. That’s a shame considering that their country loves the skirt and loves the bare thighs. It’s a country that has coined a brilliant word for those bare thighs: zettai ryouiki — “absolute territory.” Think about that. A word to describe the flesh from the hem of the skirt to the top of the socks. Brilliant. Yet, their women have legs that don’t inspire leg men. Even my favorite, Nozomi-chan, her legs are not very shapely, which makes me sad, because with such a cute face, yumm. Lots of cute, cute girls. Lots of short skirts. Not too much shapely legs.

Perhaps my definition of great legs is completely different. Perhaps I’ve got too high standards. No. I’m sure my standards are too high.

But I am a leg man. They’re my favorite part of the female body. Make sure you have the legs to show a little skin. I’ll love you forever.

Now, with that said, I’ll be working on my girls in glasses post next.