Okay, so I plan to update you on my recent drama soon, but for now I just have a public service announcement.

Do NOT See "Meet the Spartans"

I would pay another $10.50 to get that hour and a half of my life back. If I didn't have someone to make fun of it with, the experience would have been entirely without merit - but it's still not worth seeing even for mocking value.

Seriously, people. This was one of the worst movies I've seen in years. I would be embarrassed to have my name associated with that kind of trash. Kevin Sorbo should be ashamed for being involved. It is an unfunny comedy, entirely without a shred of redeeming value, and it is a disgrace to the genre (founded by Zucker/Zucker/Abrahams and Mel Brooks) which spawned it.

Tags: entertainment, public service announcement, rant

Who is coming? You will comment, and you should call me.

The plan:
Our usual theater, Century Stadium 25 (1701 W Katella Ave, Orange, CA 92867), has a showing at 10:30pm.  You should buy your tickets in advance on Fandango.com ASAP, just in case it sells out (it's not a huge movie, but this is opening night after all, who knows).  We should get to the theater at least by 10:00pm to get good seats.

We may go to dinner at JT Schmid's first, which is just down the street from the theater on Katella.  If we do so, we will meet there around 7:30 or 8:00, and you should let me know in advance if you are coming so I can reserve the right number of seats.  If you just want to meet us for the movie and skip dinner, that is fine too, just let me know.

Feel free to call my cell phone about questions or concerns you may have, or to let me know you are coming.  If you don't have my cell number, leave a comment and I will get it to you.

Tags: entertainment, events, geekery, life
Current Mood: excited

Thanks for all the laughs.

Tags: entertainment, news, people
Current Mood: melancholy

1. While coming to meet up with us, ki_pat's car was viciously attacked by another car, ending in a busted tail light
2. Hurt my back somehow.  Ouch.
3. Got to Pacific Amphitheatre in time to catch last couple songs by The Decemberists.  They were quite good, check them out.
4. Met the sheriff.  He freed us from the the pull-ties that bound our chairs. For some reason he didn't look how I pictured - I had been expecting a handlebar moustache.
5. Ate concession-stand hot dog, which made stomache sad.
6. Saw Beck.  Technically 4th row, but effecitvely front row (we were on the end, in the pit, and once standing could walk up to the stage).  w00t.
7. Wandered fair.  Made fun of AARP members from afar.  I want to go back, stand in front of them looking expectant, hands on hips, and say: "Well?"
8. Drove home.

All praise and thanks go to bashful_dwarf who stealthily purloined our tickets from her boss.  Well, by "stealthily purloined" I mean "obtained legally", but I wanted to say "purloined".

In the end, not a bad evening - despite my stomache, back, and ears (loud!).  I look forward to the sequel.

Tags: entertainment, events, life, music
Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime

STAR WARS = T3H AW3S0M3!!1!11ONE!

*collapse*

Tags: entertainment
Current Mood: exhausted

Step 1: Pick 15 movies you like
Step 2: Find a quote you like from each.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what movie the quotes come from.
Step 4: Cross out the quotes when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: DON'T GOOGLE THEM

1. "This isn't paper, it's some kind of metal!" naerbnic, MST3K: The Movie (or: This Island Earth)
2. "Subcreatures! Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, the traveller has come. Choose and Perish." ki_pat, Ghostbusters
3. "OK wait. If you guys are really us, what number are we thinking of?" "69, dudes." "Whoa." [quadruple air guitar solo] tnkrbel269, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
4. "Still, she's got a lot of spirit. I don't know, whaddya think? You think a princess and a guy like me..." "No." ki_pat, Star Wars: A New Hope
5. "Whether or not what we experienced was an 'According to Hoyle' miracle is insignificant. What is significant is that I felt the touch of God. God got involved." ki_pat, Pulp Fiction
6. "Sanguinarious homo indomitus est, et se me dite cum mendagio."  "Ego nunco pronunciari mendagio! Sed ego sum homo indomitus." oiseaurobyn, Braveheart
7. "I'm your density. I mean... your destiny." ki_pat, Back to the Future
8. "What are you doing now?"  "Averting our eyes, oh Lord."  "Well, don't. It's just like those miserable psalms, always so depressing." ki_pat, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
9. "It's not a graduation. He's moving from the 4th grade to the 5th grade."  "It's a ceremony."  "It's psychotic! They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity." ki_pat, The Incredibles
10. "The point is ladies and gentlemen that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of it's forms - greed for life, for money, knowledge - has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed - you mark my words - will not only save Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you." Dad, Wall Street
11. "I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." ki_pat, Dr. Strangelove
12. "These are great days we're living, bros. We are jolly green giants, walking the Earth with guns. These people we wasted here today are the finest human beings we will ever know. After we rotate back to the world, we're gonna miss not having anyone around that's worth shooting." ki_pat, Full Metal Jacket
13. "Of course I don't have my underwear. I'm definitely not wearing my underwear." ... "These are not boxer shorts. Mine are boxer shorts. These are Hanes 32." naerbnic & Anonymous, Rain Man
14. "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." Dad, Wall Street
15. "I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin bushwackin, hornswaglin, cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter." naerbnic, Blazing Saddles

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Current Mood: bored

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy coming out friday!  Who wants to see the 12:01 showing?

Bring your towel.

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Current Mood: excited

FYI:

I and others are going to see Sin City tonight.  It was shot in digital, so we're going to go see it at the digital theater at the Irvine Spectrum.  If you want to go, buy your tickets online (we don't know when they'll sell out) from Fandango for the 10:10pm DIGITAL PROJECTION showing and give my cell phone a call.  naerbnic, bashful_dwarf, ki_pat, onehemophiliac, and Echoboy will be there as well.

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"Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government."

"If something about the human body disgusts you, complain to the manufacturer."

"The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is."

"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God."

"Capitalism is the best. It's free enterprise. Barter. Gimbels, if I get really rank with the clerk, 'Well I don't like this', how I can resolve it? If it gets really ridiculous, I go, 'Frig it, man, I walk.' What can this guy do at Gimbels, even if he was the president of Gimbels? He can always reject me from that store, but I can always go to Macy's. He can't really hurt me. Communism is like one big phone company. Government control, man. And if I get too rank with that phone company, where can I go? I'll end up like a schmuck with a dixie cup on a thread."

--Lenny Bruce (1925 - 1966)

Tags: entertainment, history, life
Current Mood: inspired

So the other day I found and read an interesting online book by Robert P. Murphy, called Minerva.  It is available for reading (in PDF form) at that link, so check it out.

Here's my mini-review: The story basically centers a near-future world in which a group of people creates a market anarchist utopia on an island in the Pacific.  They become very sucessful through heavy investment, and are soon the envy of the world - which, of course, inevitably leads to great conflict.  A fairly simple premise, but it really takes off in imaginative ways.  The book is relatively short (210 pages), and was put up in serial form, in six parts.  If I have any criticism, it is that the book's story becomes a bit disjointed about half way through, probably because of the serialization method, but the plot does not suffer majorly.  On the whole, it is well written and has interesting and coherent ideas and compelling characters, even if his vision seems a bit naive (but that can be forgiven).  He is not a professional fiction author (I believe he is a college professor), and it is a remarkable achievement to be releasing for free.  I recommend it to everyone who enjoys scifi, it is probably a bit different from what you are used to.  Oh, and rated R for language, minor sexual content, yadda yadda.  Not that anyone really cares about that.

Oh, and I have printed out a copy of it if you can't stand reading on the computer screen - just ask me if you would like to borrow it, I will happily loan it to you.

Tags: entertainment, politics
Current Mood: busy