challenges, and other
Jan. 28th, 2006 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishIt was twenty years ago today
Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play
. . . only, not so much. I'm rather surprised not to see anything on Google this morning.
It's all a blur. I was in fourth grade at the time; I think they made a special announcement on the PA around mid-morning, and everyone was in a bit of shock. Fluorescent lights, desks, bright walls, and quiet voices. But being A) kids and B) smart kids, we all recovered quickly enough, to the point of telling "Challenger jokes" for the next couple weeks. I suspect this absolutely horrified Mrs. Weikel.
RIP, American space program."We walked on the moon in 1969. . . . since then, space has gotten progressively further and further away." --Warren Ellis
Belle Waring and her commentors talk about metric, including mention of the really cool Revolutionary watches. I would dearly love to have a decimal/duodecimal pocketwatch.
How To Prepare For Cat Ownership: "9. Have a friend come in and vomit randomly on the carpet about once a week. If your floors are hardwood, have him vomit on the furniture or on any available papers or books."
Andrew Rilstone on the Narnia movie: "The problems start when Adamson has to make up stuff for the characters to say." Quite good, and even has a footnote about the director's name being such an obvious allegory.
And meanwhile I am in my happy place. Trailer for Ultraviolet, the new film from Kurt "Equilibrium" Wimmer. IMDb sez USA release date of 24 Feb. Rock.
From Stephen, via Ross.
Name 5 movies you'd like to show people. Obscure, mainstream, artsy, weird, doesn't matter, just 5 movies you think people need to see. Links and reasons optional. Please, no spoilers, even if you think everyone has seen this.
1. The Boxer. Irish accents, people recognising that they're acting like eedjits in a romantic situation ("Jaysus, Maggie, I was only nineteen"), a well-developed story, and Emily Watson being her typically cute self.
2. Equilibrium. Niftiest gunplay I've seen in a movie since The Killer. (And another one for Emily Watson.)
3. In the Mouth of Madness. Quite possibly the best Lovecraft film ever made. "I think, therefore you are."
4. The Usual Suspects. What I really like is watching people watch this for the first time, and watching their little brains spin in circles for the last fifteen minutes. (And for those of you who've seen it before, next time you see it listen /very/ closely to what Verbal says about Keaton when Kujan pushes him to the breaking point. Holy wow.)
5. Domino. I've only made other people see it once so far but that's enough to convince me that this is the kind of movie that needs to be watched repeatedly in a group of eight or ten. In an effort to explain why this is the case, I refer you once more to Ken Hite's excellent um, review, or something.
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princeofcairo's journal. (Feel free to show me how nonunique I am in the comments.)
Name a CD you own that you think no-one else on your friends list does: John Cale, Music For a New Society. Easily the creepiest album I own, and it doesn't even have Cale's cover of "Heartbreak Hotel."
Name a book you own that you think no-one else on your friends list does: Well, I could continue with the theme and list John Cale's autobiography What's Welsh for Zen (design and cheesy cardboard binding by Dave McKean). Or I could just be mean and list Andy Runton's Owly: Flying Lessons, just because I have it and you don't.
Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that you think no-one else on your friends list does: If concerts count there's John Cale's Fragments of a Rainy Season. Now apparently available stateside; a huge thanks to vond and kittenchan for getting me one from Japan. Otherwise I'll have to go with I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, which has nothing to do with the Warren Zevon song and is instead a very noir film with Clive Owen.
Name a place that you have visited that you think no-one else on your friends list has: Sadly we're out of John Cale references at this point. I'm pretty sure that no one else has done Philmont, so I'll go with Mount Baldy.
Name a piece of technology or any sort of tool you own that you think no-one else on your friends list has: A small tack-hammer with three sizes of Phillips-head screwdrivers and one jeweller's screwdriver in the handle.
Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play
. . . only, not so much. I'm rather surprised not to see anything on Google this morning.
It's all a blur. I was in fourth grade at the time; I think they made a special announcement on the PA around mid-morning, and everyone was in a bit of shock. Fluorescent lights, desks, bright walls, and quiet voices. But being A) kids and B) smart kids, we all recovered quickly enough, to the point of telling "Challenger jokes" for the next couple weeks. I suspect this absolutely horrified Mrs. Weikel.
RIP, American space program."We walked on the moon in 1969. . . . since then, space has gotten progressively further and further away." --Warren Ellis
Belle Waring and her commentors talk about metric, including mention of the really cool Revolutionary watches. I would dearly love to have a decimal/duodecimal pocketwatch.
How To Prepare For Cat Ownership: "9. Have a friend come in and vomit randomly on the carpet about once a week. If your floors are hardwood, have him vomit on the furniture or on any available papers or books."
Andrew Rilstone on the Narnia movie: "The problems start when Adamson has to make up stuff for the characters to say." Quite good, and even has a footnote about the director's name being such an obvious allegory.
And meanwhile I am in my happy place. Trailer for Ultraviolet, the new film from Kurt "Equilibrium" Wimmer. IMDb sez USA release date of 24 Feb. Rock.
From Stephen, via Ross.
Name 5 movies you'd like to show people. Obscure, mainstream, artsy, weird, doesn't matter, just 5 movies you think people need to see. Links and reasons optional. Please, no spoilers, even if you think everyone has seen this.
1. The Boxer. Irish accents, people recognising that they're acting like eedjits in a romantic situation ("Jaysus, Maggie, I was only nineteen"), a well-developed story, and Emily Watson being her typically cute self.
2. Equilibrium. Niftiest gunplay I've seen in a movie since The Killer. (And another one for Emily Watson.)
3. In the Mouth of Madness. Quite possibly the best Lovecraft film ever made. "I think, therefore you are."
4. The Usual Suspects. What I really like is watching people watch this for the first time, and watching their little brains spin in circles for the last fifteen minutes. (And for those of you who've seen it before, next time you see it listen /very/ closely to what Verbal says about Keaton when Kujan pushes him to the breaking point. Holy wow.)
5. Domino. I've only made other people see it once so far but that's enough to convince me that this is the kind of movie that needs to be watched repeatedly in a group of eight or ten. In an effort to explain why this is the case, I refer you once more to Ken Hite's excellent um, review, or something.
Seen first at
princeofcairo's journal. (Feel free to show me how nonunique I am in the comments.)vond and kittenchan for getting me one from Japan. Otherwise I'll have to go with I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, which has nothing to do with the Warren Zevon song and is instead a very noir film with Clive Owen.