Blown Away

broderic on June 3, 2008

Driving into work and I make a quick move to avoid a car. My hat slides across my dashboard and out into the morning air. D’oh! I’m so unlucky with caps. I’ll get another. I could’ve reached out and stopped it. It moved in slow motion, across the dashboard, hung up for a microsecond on the lip of the door then, whoosh. I watch it in my rearview mirror. Sayonora, baseball cap.

The bitter end

broderic on May 5, 2008

Now they tell me!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=iron+man+after+the+creditsI hate that, because I did stay past the first set of credits on the
roll. Everything that had some Iron Manly thing as a background. I
left during the credit roll before it got to the technical talent of the
gaffers, best boys, focus pullers, slate snappers, dolly men, and craft
service servers. I wondered why that group of guys were sticking around.Oh, well. We at least got YouTube.

Recent Keyword Activity for March 2008

broderic on March 13, 2008

It’s always good for a post to check referers. I’ll just pick the recent ones and comment. Simple and effective. Plus then I start my own google bomb to get these to the top. Very self-referential and weird!

NY escort kottke: Must be wondering what kottke thinks about Gov. Spitzer resigning or even looking for some special service.

apple unboxing: Looking for some great computer porn.

oksana akinshina naked: What’s a week without this search term?

when love is unrequited the whole world is crap: Searches for NewsRadio quotes drive traffic here.

doobie keebler: ditto

ellen page show me love: Is she making the English remake? I hope she isn’t? She’s too sassy for an Agnes.

cool lamp shades: I keep meaning to get me some.

8-bit video game music: Sounds cool!

negative about monte pego: Can’t think of any. Oh, here’s one: it’s too far away right now. Darn.

That’s it for today. There’s no naked Oksana Akinshina here! Look for Oksana Akinshina naked here!

Swede!!

broderic on January 31, 2008

In a comment on marge’s blog and also in my review, I predicted that someone was going to insert their own selves into the action going on in Cloverfield and by doing, would make a more enjoyable film (at least for me).

They would take the conceit of the movie and recreate it for themselves and their friends. It will go on YouTube and people will judge it as its own creation.

They’ll swede it.

Hunh?

It’s the concept of filming an already released movie in your own interpretation with whatever you have on hand. That don’t sound right.

Just visit the site for Michel Gondry’s upcoming flick Be Kind Rewind and you’ll get the gist of Sweding. Once their compare this sweding with the original (click the original first!!).

I laughed at the original and I can’t wait to see this.

When Titles Collide

broderic on December 16, 2006

Over at The House Next Door they are doing a movie title mash up. What’s that you say? Take titles of movies and string them along together, jumble their respective plots, and there you have it.

Don’t get it, then sample some of them there or read a few of mine.

Apocalypto Now. — A pre-columbian epic wherein the protagonist must kill the head of the crazy Mayan tribe.

Se7en Samurai — A Japanese village enlists the help of ronin samurai to catch a serial killer. The english translation doesn’t work: “Kikuchiyo” doesn’t mean “what’s in the box.”

Repo Man on Fire — A man goes after the people who reposessed his car with deadly force.

Repo Manchurian Candidate — The sequel wherein the man gets his car but unbeknownst to him under the careful scrutiny of a secret society leading him to kill a presidential candidate.

The Rules of the Game of Death — A kung fu movie set amongst the french upper class. Passion and action ensues.

Do The Right Thing That You Do — Racial tension on a hot summer day boils over when a band on the rise loses it’s way.

The Hills Have Eyes of Laura Mars — After her eye surgery Laura Mars’s car breaks down in a remote place, she’s attacked by mutant savages, but thanks to the serial killer eyes repels them.

See that’s easy. Your turn.