Thursday, May 04, 2006
Lost
Okay, last night's Lost kicked ass. I guess Michael has cut a deal with the Others...or maybe he's brainwashed. My guess is the whole dealio business. He probably had to get 'Henry Gail' out as part of an agreement to free Walt...which you know they won't do willingly. Finally a good episode, and 3 more in a row...not too shabby.
Spectator Consumer
t has been a long time since I rapped at yous, but this post should make up for it. Finals are over, save a class at a restraunt tonight, so I'm psyched and ready to start my metaphorical yappin.
Let's start off with Silent Hill. The movie is ok. Most of it sucks, but it is interesting enough at the end that I guess I don't give it a thumbs down. Ignore this sentence if you want to see it: Mom has child out of wedlock in the 70s in some conservative coal mining town called Silent Hill; the town is famous for its long association with witch burning and the school teacher isn't too happy about the bastard girl; the child is mocked by the other students, molested by the school janitor and then it gets bad for the kid; the teacher turns out to be the fanatical leader of a local cult believing in human sacrifice, so she gets the town elders together, bully the mother into letting them take the child and then commence to strapping the kid to some metal contrapation over some coal fire; something goes wrong, the hotel where they were burning the kid is set on fire and the kid lives but horribly burned; that night coal fire burns out of control and most of the residents are killed, the town is abandoned; the burnt girl survives in a hospital but can't move and getting more pissed by the second, eventually her hatred breaks her in two, a good side and a bad side; the bad side takes the good side (now a baby) and drops it off at the local orphanage, where our kindly mother (Rose) and Father adopt the Child calling her Sharon; Sharon is messed in the head with bad dreams about Silent Hill, so Rose decides to take her there, turns out the place is hard to get to and the road is blocked off; on the way Rose crashes and Sharon is gone missing, also there is a cop that followed the Mom and also crashed; the film follows Rose's attempt to find Sharon as the town changes everyone once and a while from raining ash to completely demonic...the teacher is still there at silent hill and has attached an air raid siren to warn the other residents when they have to run to the church to avoid the demons; eventually Rose meets with the Demon who is a version of Sharon with bloody eyes and claims to be "The Reaper"; Rose agrees to help the demonic girl who evaporates into Rose's body; Rose goes to the Church and denounces the cult which causes the teacher to stab her in the heart, when she starts bleeding the evil Sharon appears and rips people apart with barbed wire; Rose is reunited with Sharon and they leave silent hill and go home, only to find no one there; turns out Rose and Sharon died in the crash, the ash filled Silent Hill was the evil girl's purgatory and needed to get someone good to enter the church (Rose); after the evil Sharon has taken revenge and sent the cult to hell everything is good except that Rose doesn't realize she's dead; the end.
So it is complicated and I found it interesting, but not a great movie.
Just received my new laptop, a 17" Centrino Core Duo from Dell Outlet...refurbished it only cost me 920 bucks with a bag, shipping and tax. It kicks ass. When you consider the operating system itself costs 300 bucks, and you get a 1 year dell warranty(which you can extend up to three years) it's a steal. Get one.
Loved Colbert's speech at the Press thingy. I'm not so hip on the idea that the Press and President are so cozy, but at least Colbert didn't hold back. Colbert's satire was so cutting the press was left critizing him for being too critical. What fools. The press now must realize they were played, used, to pass on propaganda to start an oil war. They didn't do there jobs and allowed it to happen, and now still jump to the President's defense when he's made fun of. Colbert made no mention of Iraq except to say, "I believe the government that governs least governs best, so we've succeeded in Iraq" The guy is responsible for the needless slaughter of over 100,000 people and who knows how many injured. The press ought to know this, they ought to have boycotted the dinner in protest of the way the President has used them and to what end. Instead they generally were critical of Colbert. Nice job.
Oh, and lets not forget the Democrats. I saw a quote from at least one Democrat denouncing Colbert. When will these idiots ever realize that defending your political opponents isn't going to win you an election? Don't copy them, don't defend them, propose an alternative and give people a choice. Is that too much to ask?
Let's start off with Silent Hill. The movie is ok. Most of it sucks, but it is interesting enough at the end that I guess I don't give it a thumbs down. Ignore this sentence if you want to see it: Mom has child out of wedlock in the 70s in some conservative coal mining town called Silent Hill; the town is famous for its long association with witch burning and the school teacher isn't too happy about the bastard girl; the child is mocked by the other students, molested by the school janitor and then it gets bad for the kid; the teacher turns out to be the fanatical leader of a local cult believing in human sacrifice, so she gets the town elders together, bully the mother into letting them take the child and then commence to strapping the kid to some metal contrapation over some coal fire; something goes wrong, the hotel where they were burning the kid is set on fire and the kid lives but horribly burned; that night coal fire burns out of control and most of the residents are killed, the town is abandoned; the burnt girl survives in a hospital but can't move and getting more pissed by the second, eventually her hatred breaks her in two, a good side and a bad side; the bad side takes the good side (now a baby) and drops it off at the local orphanage, where our kindly mother (Rose) and Father adopt the Child calling her Sharon; Sharon is messed in the head with bad dreams about Silent Hill, so Rose decides to take her there, turns out the place is hard to get to and the road is blocked off; on the way Rose crashes and Sharon is gone missing, also there is a cop that followed the Mom and also crashed; the film follows Rose's attempt to find Sharon as the town changes everyone once and a while from raining ash to completely demonic...the teacher is still there at silent hill and has attached an air raid siren to warn the other residents when they have to run to the church to avoid the demons; eventually Rose meets with the Demon who is a version of Sharon with bloody eyes and claims to be "The Reaper"; Rose agrees to help the demonic girl who evaporates into Rose's body; Rose goes to the Church and denounces the cult which causes the teacher to stab her in the heart, when she starts bleeding the evil Sharon appears and rips people apart with barbed wire; Rose is reunited with Sharon and they leave silent hill and go home, only to find no one there; turns out Rose and Sharon died in the crash, the ash filled Silent Hill was the evil girl's purgatory and needed to get someone good to enter the church (Rose); after the evil Sharon has taken revenge and sent the cult to hell everything is good except that Rose doesn't realize she's dead; the end.
So it is complicated and I found it interesting, but not a great movie.
Just received my new laptop, a 17" Centrino Core Duo from Dell Outlet...refurbished it only cost me 920 bucks with a bag, shipping and tax. It kicks ass. When you consider the operating system itself costs 300 bucks, and you get a 1 year dell warranty(which you can extend up to three years) it's a steal. Get one.
Loved Colbert's speech at the Press thingy. I'm not so hip on the idea that the Press and President are so cozy, but at least Colbert didn't hold back. Colbert's satire was so cutting the press was left critizing him for being too critical. What fools. The press now must realize they were played, used, to pass on propaganda to start an oil war. They didn't do there jobs and allowed it to happen, and now still jump to the President's defense when he's made fun of. Colbert made no mention of Iraq except to say, "I believe the government that governs least governs best, so we've succeeded in Iraq" The guy is responsible for the needless slaughter of over 100,000 people and who knows how many injured. The press ought to know this, they ought to have boycotted the dinner in protest of the way the President has used them and to what end. Instead they generally were critical of Colbert. Nice job.
Oh, and lets not forget the Democrats. I saw a quote from at least one Democrat denouncing Colbert. When will these idiots ever realize that defending your political opponents isn't going to win you an election? Don't copy them, don't defend them, propose an alternative and give people a choice. Is that too much to ask?
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Boing Boing: Ministry of Reshelving puts 1984 in its proper place
Sounds like a fun idea. Print out some book marks and reshelve Orwell's 1984 to Current Affairs or New Release Non-Fiction. Funny and makes a great point without really causing harm.
Boing Boing: Ministry of Reshelving puts 1984 in its proper place
Boing Boing: Ministry of Reshelving puts 1984 in its proper place
