“If I believed in fairy tales I wouldn’t have dropped out of kindergarten.”
Here’s to 29 years of The X-Files goodness. It’s always great to hear that opening riff. I miss the simpler times when conspiracy minded people were truly crackpots.
Spooky Mulder
I just started to rewatch one of my favorite shows. My friend, Annie, used to call me Scully because of how much I talked about the show. I’m gonna see how much it holds up.
One thing that does suck is that my BluRay player playing the DVDs wants to upscale and stretch the picture to match my television. I can’t figure out how to make it run in the original aspect ratio. This is just one of the mysteries that you find in one of the X files.
Anyhow. Doesn’t the theme song just evokes an era? How nostalgic.
Quote of the Day [2.14.13]
“Mulder, toads just fell from the sky!”
“I guess their parachutes didn’t open.”
Special Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) to Special Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) The X-Files
Quotient Quotables
The Themes To “Downton Abbey” And “The X-Files” Are The Same Song moe.vg/125G0Pc <- woah— Peter Payne (@jlist) January 29, 2013
No idea what to say about this. Flash doesn’t work on the TiBook, so I’m posting this as a reminder to check it out later when I have a better computer. It’s bookmarked. Of course, I could’ve just favorited the tweet, but, well, you know. Lazy.
Link and Quote of the Day [6.07.12]
"No other object has been misidentified as a flying saucer more often than the planet Venus. Even the former leader of your United States of America, James Earl Carter, Jr., thought he saw a UFO once, but it's been proven he only saw the planet Venus.
Venus was at its peak brilliance last night. You probably thought you saw something up in the sky other than Venus, but I assure you: it was Venus."
Man In Black (Jesse "The Body" Ventura), The X-Files, "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'"
NASA's gallery of the transit of Venus across the Sun from the the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Whoa! Breathtaking.
Quote of the Day [3.20.12]
“I’m fascinated how a person’s sense of consciousness can be… so transformed by nothing more magical than listening to words. Mere words.”
Jose Chung (Charles Nelson Reilly), The X-Files, “Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space'”
Quote of the Day [2.23.12]
Blaine Faulkner: I know how crazy this is going to sound, but… I want to be abducted by aliens.
Jose Chung: Why? Whatever for?
Blaine Faulkner: I hate this town. I hate… people. I just want to be taken away to someplace where I… I don't have to worry about finding a job.Blaine Faulkner (Allan Zinyk) to Jose Chung (Charles Nelson Reilly), The X-Files, "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'"
Nine Ladies Dancing
The X-Files (How The Ghost Stole Christmas)
Christmas time finds Mulder and Scully investigating a haunted house in Maryland. The duo find two desiccated bodies under the floor boards. The corpses are wearing the duos outfits. The duo are on a wild ghost hunt. They meet up with the former occupants of the house who committed suicide on Christmas Eve in the past. The ghosts delve into the two FBI agents’ complicated relationship.
One of the worst episodes of the X-Files. The concept was cute by a half.
Christmas theme: Need to be connected to someone. Sceptic with the believer. Both afraid of the loneliness. Sharing the holiday season with someone who understands you.
I miss the internet community that The X-Files spawned. And Scully in her short bob. Mmmm, Scully!
The Truth is 8 Bit
I miss Scully.
The Truth Is Out There
Courtesy of tjblackwell.
Science searches always to determine why, what, how. It is always questioning, looking, searching, peering deeper and deeper into the mystery of life and the universe. Is it all there is? Is this all there is? Years ago, I read Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe. It blew my mind. We will find out lots of things. Keep searching.