Friday, March 31, 2006
Judah Loves Erin
Judah & Erin
Originally uploaded by m/a/z/e & Molliwogg.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Reno Weather
Spring
Winter
Spring
Winter
Spring
Winter
Spring
Winter
And that's just the last week. Yesterday it snowed, today's it's 50 degrees. Tomorrow???
Monday, March 27, 2006
Tahoe Rocks
Tahoe Rocks
Originally uploaded by m/a/z/e & Molliwogg. Went sledding on Mt. Rose, next time I have to remember the sunblock.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Testing...
Branches
Originally uploaded by m/a/z/e & Molliwogg.
Inside Jokes (Tres)
Uno
Well I'm running - police on my back
I've been hiding - police on my back
There was a shooting - police on my back
And the victim - well he won't come back
I been running Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, running
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday, Sunday
Yes, I'm running down the railway track
Could you help me?
Police on my back
They will catch me if I dare drop back
Won't you give me all the speed I lack - Police on My Back by Eddy Grant
Butterfingers!
Tres
Have you ever tried sugar....or PCP? (Mitch Hedberg)
Two of these describe what I've been going through the last two months to a "T." The other one's just funny.
(For the record, I'm not actually wanted by, or running from, the police. Please do not attempt to apprehend me, that would be awkward and a little silly.)
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Strange
When I changed the layout with HDI, Comentario Loco looked really weird. Stretched out all over the screen, just crazy looking. After tinkering around with it, I finally gave up and was going to move the archives over here. I just looked at it again, and now everything looks fine. I don't know if Blogger's acting up or what, but suddenly, without any help on my end, the pages are fine.
Weird.
Oh well, at least I don't have to move the archives now.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
The Great Movies
I finished reading Roger Ebert's The Great Movies and The Great Movies II a couple of days ago. Most of the movies I've never heard of - old silent films, various foreign flicks, etc. I've never had any real interest in silent films, and ever since I watched Babette's Feast, I've been gun-shy of foreign films.
Anyway, I thought it would be fun to make my own "great movies" list - not a top 100, just flicks I dig. I don't claim to be a film expert or anything like that, so please don't think I'm trying to come off as some kind of authority (I've listed a Muppet movie in the list, that alone should toss any notions of film snobbery out the window). The only criteria I have for this list is that I have to a) like the movie enough to reccomend it to someone else, and b) have watched it more than a handful of times.
I cross-referenced my list with both of Ebert's books and with IMDB's top 250 films. Movies in bold are in Ebert's books, movies in blue are on the IMDB list. Can you guess what blue and bold mean? If so, pat yourself on the back.
The list...
- 12 Monkeys
- American Beauty
- American History X
- American Movie
- Apocalypse Now
- As Good As It Gets
- Batman II
- Beetlejuice
- Being John Malkovich
- Beyond The Sea
- The Big Lebowski
- Blade Runner
- Blazing Saddles
- Blow
- Blue Velvet
- The Blues Brothers
- Boogie Nights
- Boys Don't Cry
- Boyz n the Hood
- Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
- Casino
- Chaplin
- A Christmas Story
- A Clockwork Orange
- Comedian
- Do The Right Thing
- Dogma
- Drugstore Cowboy
- Ed Wood
- El Mariachi/Desperado/Once Upon A Time in Mexico (Trilogy)
- Elf
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Fargo
- Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
- Fear of a Black Hat
- Finding Nemo
- Forrest Gump
- From Dusk Till Dawn
- Garden State
- Goodfellas
- Grease
- The Green Mile
- Hair
- Halloween
- Hotel Rwanda
- Indiana Jones Trilogy
- Jaws
- The Jerk
- Johnny Got His Gun
- Koyaanisqatsi/Powaqqatsi
- L.A. Confidential
- L.A. Story
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Lord of the Rings (All)
- Love, Actually
- Malcolm X
- Million Dollar Baby
- Misery
- Monster's Ball
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
- Mystic River
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Office Space
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
- Permanent Midnight
- Pirates of the Carribean
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- The Polar Express
- Pulp Fiction
- The Rat Pack
- Repo Man
- Reservoir Dogs
- The River's Edge
- The Road to Perdition
- Rocky
- Runaway Jury
- Se7en
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Sid & Nancy
- The Silence of the Lambs
- A Simple Plan
- Sin City
- Singles
- Sixteen Candles
- The Sixth Sense
- Sling Blade
- Spider-Man II
- Spy Kids II: Island of the Lost Dreams
- Star Trek II: THe Wraith Of Kahn
- Star Wars (All)
- Summer of Sam
- Swingers
- Thelma & Louise
- This is Spinal Tap
- Unbreakable
- The Usual Suspects
- The Warriors
- When Harry Met Sally
- Wings of Desire/Faraway, So Close!
The New Digs
Welcome to the new digs. Happy Death, Inc. was getting a little to big to consider it a "personal" site anymore, so I decided to move the personal stuff (other than Roadside Chic) to a new page. I've got a bunch of projects on my plate right now, but when I'm finished, HDI will be getting a healthy dose of new content. Until then, enjoy the view.
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Filthy Humans!
Humans are responsible for the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs and must make unprecedented extra efforts to reach a goal of slowing losses by 2010, a U.N. report said on Monday.
...
"In effect, we are currently responsible for the sixth major extinction event in the history of earth, and the greatest since the dinosaurs disappeared, 65 million years ago," said the 92-page Global Biodiversity Outlook 2 report. - Reuters
Now there's a report card you want tacked up on your refrigerator.
And, in what one can only hope is a coincidence...
A pair of baby marmoset monkeys the size of a human thumb were amongst a haul of rare animals and birds stolen in a burglary of a zoo.
The tiny primates were amongst an entire colony of the threatened black-eared marmosets that was stolen along with a number of exotic birds from Exmoor Zoo in Bratton Fleming, Barnstaple, Devon. - Daily Mail
Go Humans! Ra! Ra! Ra!
Friday, March 17, 2006
Quote
"Those things are always waiting for something to die so they can eat it. What a weird job." Jacob Mitchell (Billy Bob Thornton) A Simple Plan
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Being Bored Stupid Does Have Benefits
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Gareth
"I was thinking will there ever be a boy born who can swim faster then a shark?"
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Bored
Start iTunes/MP3 Player/Whatever, put your entire collection on random, post the first ten songs that come up.
Here's mine...
Invitation to the Blues - Tom Waits
Strength - 7 Seconds
How Come You Do Me? - The Cramps
Simple Twist of Fate - Concrete Blonde
Nowhere to Run - Arnold McCuller
Eve of Destruction - The Undead
Freedom of '76 - Ween
You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones
Jupiter Crash - The Cure
The Man With All the Toys - The Beach Boys
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Susan Butcher. The Iditarod. Cancer.
Four-time Iditarod winner Susan Butcher, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, flew into the Ruby checkpoint Friday from her home near Fairbanks to cheer on friends and former rivals.
Butcher, 51, has lost most of her hair, but went without a wig as she sat with her two daughters in the spruce log community center and chatted with local race fans.
"I've been pretty tired," said Butcher, who follows the race every year. "It's hit me pretty hard." She said she will return on April 6 to a Seattle hospital and has a bone marrow transplant scheduled for May 16. - Yahoo
I've never really been into the Iditarod. Growing up in Anchorage, where the Iditarod starts, meant little more to me than half of downtown would be closed off for most of the day. Still, Susan Butcher rocks my world. During a five year stretch she won the race four times, coming in second once. Needless to say this pissed off the redneck mentality that was dominant in the Last Frontier at the time, amusing me to no end. There was even a shirt made (And man, what I would do to get my hands on one now), "Alaska: Where men are men and women win the Iditarod." As the old saying goes, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," and Susan Butcher was one of my personal heroes. She beat the ruling establishment at their own game and for that she will always have my respect.
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Satan Gets a Roommate
Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav leader, who was branded "the butcher of the Balkans" and was on trial for war crimes after orchestrating a decade of bloodshed during the breakup of his country, was found dead Saturday in his prison cell. He was 64. - AP
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Oscars II
"I'd like to thank the aca....."
Oscars
For the last three weeks leading up to the Oscars, all I've read is right-wing ninnies whining about liberals/gays/insert your Blue State stereotype here.
I could really give a rat's ass about all that but...
A spinner in the opening credits?????
You can't get any cooler than that.
Of course, there was an X-Wing slipped in there as well. But if you're going to geek out I've found it best to do it one movie at a time.
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Oh yeah.
Not only do I have the cold from Hell.
Not only has Howie Mandel crawled out from the 32nd level of St. Elsewhere and found himself back in primetime.
But I have a big ol' patch of freaking ringworm on my hand.
I don't mind telling you, I'm feeling kinda sexy.
Random Thoughts
I hate colds.
It pains me to think that despite all the starving third-world comedians out there, Howie Mandel somehow managed to get back on network TV.
Did I mention I hate colds?
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