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Continuing on from yesterday’s music break, here’s the second part of the tune. It’s not the second part but they both flow very well together. Every time I hear this song, I hear the first verse as asking, “Whose bagel’s offer hope?” Now why are they singing about bagels? Is this some kind of hidden message, but said aloud? I bet you that ain’t the real lyrics. Someone, anyone, get on this and tell me what that lyric was.
Jim Emerson blogs about the warning affixed to a movie theatre's screening of Terence Malick's "The Tree of Life." It's not like the MPAA's warnings of violence and sex, but a warning that the film is arty. It may be too arty for some folks. I figure that if you are making the choice to watch "The Tree of Life" then you already know what you're getting into. It's Malick. You should know by now his M.O. His movies are what they are.That being said, I wish there was a warning for Bad Teacher. To wit: "Warning: Watching Bad Teacher has been known to cause cancer in lab rats."http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2011/06/detour_theres_an_arty_road_ahe.html
“He who warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms, by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed.”
Sarah Palin about Paul Revere
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"But, Marge, that little guy hasn't done anything yet. Look at him. He's going to do something and you know it's going to be good."Homer Simpson, The Simpsons, "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" [4F08]
Once in a while, you just have to want to blow up the earth, because earthlings are foolish in their ways. We hate and hate and annoy and hate and despise one another that it’s a miracle that we are still here. We have to stop and remember that we all inhabit this world and there is no place else to go.
Be excellent to each other….
Welcome to the New Year! I resolve to… Nah never mind because it never works out.
Happy New Year!
the definition of open: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make"Chief Android Andy Rubin, http://twitter.com/#!/Arubin/status/27808662429
Just checking in.
I’ve got to post at least something a day just to make BrowserMetrics’ Seventh Annual NewsRadio Quote Month worth it.
I’ve been trying to set up a subversion repository on my MacMinIntel, but have been stuck for days figuring out where to put it. I would like for it not to show up in a Finder window, but I would like it accessible from all over the place (i.e. over the wireless network to my MacBook Pro). The problem then is one of permissions and such. I tried to create it in one of the root directories, but ran into permission problems. Can someone clarify where to put a subversion repository on Snow Leopard (not the server version)? Or maybe that is my problem, that I am not running the server version.
Apple released new iPod Touches with FaceTime. Looks to be the cool. If I didn’t have jonesing for iPhone 4, I would be all over that. Also, if I had more than 3 GB of music, maybe as well.
Tweeting has been so much fun. I wish you would join me.
Nendoroids. Nendoroids? Nendoroids! They’re coming at me like crazy.
When will that Haruhi movie come out?
What would you like to discuss? Comments are now open.
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.
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.
