Monday, June 11, 2007

Sicko Movie Premiere.

My sister won free tickets to a movie that isn't out yet. I tagged along.

Example

yes sir, Michael Moore's new movie about how evil and bad American health care is will be coming out June 29, but i got to see it first, oh boy, oh joy.

I really didn't want to see it that badly and I'm sure alot of other people that hung out by the "red carpet" just to see Michael Moore would crap some nice pants to watch the same movie at the same time as Moore, but fuck those people.

We drove to the shit about an hour early so we could line up and wait for a half hour (OMG I LOVE WAITING) We stood around next to people that got all dressed up, it made us look out of place till this couple showed up sporting FOOTBALL TEAMS! (It was like they just got out of bed) The other people beside us were in the movie or something, not sure when, maybe he was the guy in the Joe Kools. (sad that I have no idea)

They came by and asked us if we had any cameras or cell phones, then they let the first line in, then our line, they had the metal detector beepy things out and scanned us (they didn't beep, they made a sqweez toy noise) The older lady got her camera taken away (This sort of shit should always be at the theater.)

We pushed pasted the slow moving group and spotted some good seats at the top so we made a break for it. The time was 6:30 so we had a half hour to sit around till the shit started.

we watched as people walked in to see all the good seats taken. We also watched as people saved seats for people that showed up one minute before the movie started.

All the important people showed up late and took the seats that were reserved for them and then we all sat around waiting for Moore. He busted in and ranted on for god knows how long, then the lights went down low and the movie started at 7:30.

He then got up and was all "oh this isn't the starting"

Then we waited for a bit and the woman beside me said "I hope we don't have to move to a different theater" I turned to her and said "screw that, I'd leave."

The movie started and we all watched. Everyone clapped when people they knew showed up on the screen and everyone went bat shit crazy when the words "London" showed up. (OMG THATS WHERE I LIVE! WE ARE AT THE PLACE ON SCREEN RIGHT NOW! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!)

It ended and everyone clapped (I did.. I mean.. The guy was in the room and it was a pretty clappy ending)

It was still dark and the credits were still rolling, "if we want to go we gots to do it now" i said, we got up and walked out before the Q@A started. (I walked right pasted Moore when I was leaving. I could have punched him in the face if I wanted to but i kept walking because I'm better then that)

The movie? You want to know about the movie? uh, lets see, well it was better then Fahrenheit 9/11, it was shorter then his last few films, it left out some details when talking about other countries (it made other countries look like utopias) and he said that he was missing some shit about Canada "you might be watching the Canada parts of the movie and think "well wait thats wrong" and your right, so you should get out and fix these problems" HUH?) The man knows what it takes to make an entertaining movie, it takes parts that make you cry, laugh and care, but I wouldn't take it as anymore then entertainment.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Star Feet Academy.

I had a guy in front of me as i was driving home from work with a window sticker that read "Star Fleet Academy".

The car was this small white piece of crap that had a trunk for a backseat(sort of stereotypical in a way) I had to see who the hell would have this sort of thing, so i got into the other lane and gunned it hard. (not really)

I tried to keep the car on the road and looked sideways at the same time (tricky thing if you know how my car is) I didn't see anything shocking, I was sort of expecting the unexpected(hot girl) What I got was a middle aged man with long greasy black hair, big glasses and a half-ass beard that was begging to be shaved (i can't really talk about that last one myself)

I'm all for geek pride, but not greasy loser geek pride, that sort of thing brings us all down.

(meanwhile, at the EB)

I walked into the EB on the way home to see if the new Tomb Raider game was in, after being told by the clerk lady that I was a day early I spotted Planet Puzzle League (Tetris Attack or Pokemon Puzzle Challenge or Pokemon Puzzle League but made for the DS) I said that I would like to buy it.

As the whole deal was going down this guy beside me was talking to the clerk lady about video game news and what the internet is talking about these days (it was sort of like he had been waiting around for an hour trying to come up with new things to talk about. Everytime the clerk lady said anything to him she had this "go away" tone to her voice) "Oh whats this? Looks like a new game for the DS? Planet Puzzle League? whats that about?"

I wanted to say "Its like Tetris Attack" but then he would ask "Whats that?" and then I would end up explaining how it works so fuck that noise. The clerk lady said "its different puzzles" (technically true) He then took a moment to think about something new to say, "so i hear.....like in japan that Nintendo is beating the PS3...like 5 to 1" I said "I'm sick of hearing about Nintendo" under my breath.

The clerk lady then asked him where he got this info and told him not to believe that sort of thing as fact.

A part of me wanted to jump into the conversation, but then I would be talking to a guy who hangs out at the EB and a woman who really doesn't care.

They kept talking and I GTFO LOL.

YTV, What Have You Done To Me?

Way back in the days of "The 90s" YTV ran what they called "short circuits". These 5 minute shorts filled in time between every damn show and they only had so many so everyone who watched any YTV at the time must have seen these things ten times a night and probably has at least some memory of the music and scenes burned into the back of the brain.

If you don't remember this shit, then you don't give a fuck. Maybe these were mind blowing back when they made them in the late 80s, but if you put them beside movies today then these are pretty shitty. (nostalgia powers)





















I remember another one that they ran and it was this band playing a really fast song, but i think it used stop motion and had nothing to do with this.