Quote of the Day [1.27.13]
Argo fuck yourself!
Argo
Quote of the Day [1.23.13]
"We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate."
President Obama, Second Inaugural Address, Jan 21, 2013
We’re In The Basement
Another B-52s joint. Dance this mess around!
The Earl of Baltimore
RIP Earl Weaver. You will always be the Orioles manager for the city of Baltimore.
Effie, Madge and Mabel. Biddie!
Not a Jaguar, but still fun little song to play on a Fender. BTW, got a nice new guitar; a mahogany Taylor GS Mini. That makes 4 guitars: the Tele, the Takamine dreadnought, the Epiphone dot, and the GS Mini. That also makes 4 things I own with the “mini” monicker, the Mini Cooper S, the MacMini, iPad Mini, and the GS Mini. I like small things what can I say.
Link of the Day [1.16.13]
This kind of scares me: ruthless striving for efficiency causes complexity. Here's anecdotal evidence from the banking industry. The pursuit of efficiency doesn't make things simple at all. I wonder if this is a type of paradox that has yet to be named. I wonder if my bank works the same way. Most likely, it does, and I am kind of scared.
Link of the Day [1.13.13]
Long live pinball!
I’m not sure that Jersey Jack will save pinball, but I’m sure that he’ll have gun trying. That game looks spectacular, and I bet the storyline works wonders. I can imagine unlocking the Lion’s heart or the Scarecrow’s brain then falling into a multi-ball frenzy. It’s gotta to be fun. I so want to play this.
Will it still be a quarter?
Django Unchained
Django Unchained is Quenton Tarantino’s spaghetti western. In a similar vien as Sergio Leone’s “Man with no name” trilogy, it follows bounty hunters, or as the English translation called them bounty killers. One bounty killer frees the slave, Django, and they go looking for more bounties. After they collect their bounty, they go after Django’s wife in Candieland.
I feel that this one is not as good as Inglorious Basterds. It was not as thrilling. Yet, in some scenes it would get good.
Overall, I don’t think this matches Leone’s spaghetti westerns. It’s just something different.
3 of 5 stars
The Impossible
The Impossible is a true story of a family’s survival of the Southeast Asian Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004. The family scattered from the tsunami have to handle the havoc afterwards. That’s when the mother, seriously injured, had to undergo surgery while her kid sits and waits.
This film had the best CG effects I’ve ever seen. I could not believe that they were not in a tsunami. It was good and horrific.
3 of 5 stars.
Quote of the Day [1.09.13]
“The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.”
Christopher Tolkien, see today’s link