Scary Babies!

Well what a fudged up weekend. Tried to get my sleeping schedule back around to normal hours but no luck there. Still live like a vampire, awake with the Moon. I took off the pictures from last post because I find I can create multiple blogs under the same log in. So this will be the primary and the other will be for the guys...
; )

Don't worry the picture is fake. His mouth is pasted of his eyes. still creepy. I have always lovved the "Scary Baby" image. here's another..


So I figured out how to get a DVD successfully ripped. The first 6 programs I tried out sucked rocket balls. but once I found one with the right features. I was able to get it to 70 minutes CDR size.
here it is

http://www.magicdvdripper.com/download.htm

One interesting thing I noticed is that at 588 kbps for the video, whenever the movie gets "busy' (lots of movement, many colors) I get heavy mosaic pixilation. I had one ripper that offered the ability to increase the bit rate by a percentage value when stream contains more data, but this one doesn't have it.

Need to go to bed.
Take it easy people, and don't let the bastards drag you down!

Movie Reviews

I will now offer a review for the following three movies. "Sunshine", "Elizabeth: The Golden Age", and "Across The Universe".


Sunshine is the story of a group of petulant 20 somethings who seem to think they are scientists. We've got the main character from "28 Days Later" playing the lead role, (but you wouldn't know it till about 28 minutes till the end), and Michelle Yeoh form Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.


The premise is that a "Q" or "Cue" Ball (theoretical object of foreign super-stable matter that disrupts the fusion of a star, -stated in commentaries) has accelerated the life span of our sun, plunging earth into a "Nuclear?" winter. (I thought you needed a nuclear war to have a nuclear winter) So, Earth sends the best and brightest (who also seem to be the youngest and most angst-ridden) to drop a bomb on the sun. A Nuclear bomb the size of Manhattan! It is the second of such attempts, the first having been lost seven years ago. I give credit for the use of the name "Icarus" as the ships name, funny, that. (Don't fly to close to the sun, or your dick will fall off! Excuse me, I mean wings.) In flight, after loosing contact with Earth , long before reaching Mercury, they learn that Icarus 1 is still intact, but unmanned and dormant. Or so they think... After asking Mr. "I'm the last man in England" if it is feasible and prudent to dock with Icarus' payload and fly it to the sun first (hey, two bombs are better than one, right?), they learn that the Captain of the first mission is insane, on their ship, and hell bent on the destruction of the human race, because God told him to do it. After he sabotages their attempts to get back to their ship, leaving three behind and only one space suit (oh no!) they are going to space walk the twenty meters without suits (it will just be a little cold..) So at this point, they are dying off like flies under the scalpel of the other Captain, who I should add looks like a third degree burn victim because he is obsessed with sitting in the observation bay, watching the sun unfiltered, and has been getting one hell of a tan. A passion shared by one of the members of our crew. We are finally left with just the main protagonist, his girlfriend (of course!), and the antagonist, battling it out in the Manhattan Bomb, (which has it's own gravity you know!) as it plummets into the corona of Sol. Will the bomb go off? I won't spoil that part, and then we all have a tear-jerker moment as his family back on Earth, look up and ... now go watch the movie.

I was unimpressed overall with the lack of logic utilized in plot structure, and it seemed like a lot of the science was moved aside to make room for seat-filling tension and drama. The concept is not new, (anyone remember "The Core"?) and the special effects, if slick, could have been more detailed. If you are in the mood to keep waking up at the bright lights your eyes are assaulted by as you sleep through this movie, then rent it. Otherwise, save it for a night when you've got nothing else to do.





Now for "Elizabeth: The Golden Age". I have always been a fan of period pieces, and after watching this, still am. The sequel to 1998's "Elizabeth", which also stared Cate Blanchett. This film includes other heavy weights like Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush, and Jordi Molla (who was Diago Delgado in "Blow", great actor!). Any history buff knows the story, and even if you are not a student of history, most have heard of the story of the sinking of the Spanish Armada by Admiral Drake and an outnumbered English fleet. Attempting to humanize the historical figure of Queen Elizabeth, using her background of human passions and the internal struggle of leadership, the movie does a exemplary job of bringing to life the world of pre-Victorian England. With dark tones used to symbolize the struggle behind the seat of power, and lighter colors found in many cathedrals and palaces found throughout England as the setting for the day to day life of court, visually the movie strikes the perfect tone for telling the story of the maturing of Queen Elizabeth into the divine Matriarch she later was. One sour note would be the role of Sir Walter Raleigh, played by Clive Owen. Enough with the leading men already. If it is an historical movie, write the role historically, or at least give enough background to create a believable character, rather than just as a supporting role that serves only to move the plot froward at the appropriate time. I'm not saying that Clive Owen acted poorly, just that his character wasn't written with enough depth to get me to care for his personal struggle amidst the struggle for England's survival in the face of Spain and the Roman Papacy's efforts to dethrone a protestant monarch. Lastly, Cate Blanchett was hot armored up and ready for battle!


If you like this kind of thing, I would certainly suggest adding this to the wide selection there is available in this genre. Be warned though, it is really just a chick flick, romance, intrigue, and no you don't get to see Mary, Queen of Scots noggin roll across the floor.





Lastly, the movie "Across The Universe", the send up of all the Beatles songs you remember from the 60's. I save it last because in comparison to the other two, I consider it the best. if a close tie with "Elizabeth: The Golden Age".

You probably never have seen it, but there is a movie out there called "Hair". This is that movie redone with better special effects and just Beatles songs. I will say, I think we need more movies like this, freak outs with celluloid, psychedeliciousness, little orange barrels for your eyes, LSD 35mm. Crafting a story out of a selection of Beatles Musicalia, the story follows young Jude as he skips to America to find his G.I. father during the inception of the Vietnam War, and the protests that came along with it. After meeting Max, a young, Princeton attending, rebel; they skip to New York to meet the rest of the characters; Sadie, Jo Jo, Prudence, and Lucy. Jude struggles to find his artistic voice as Lucy, Max's sister, joins up with local radicals to stage protests. Sadie is a local musician that takes them all in, and with Jo Jo gets discovered by a record producer looking to sign new talent. Max is sent his death notice (read- Draft Letter), and after a hilarious scene involving the local military indoctrination center, is sent off to Vietnam. The group eventually gets torn apart by the pressures of the society they find themselves in, Jude and Lucy are torn apart by her obsession with taking a vocal stand against the politics of the day, until she learns her mentor is now not just a bomb hater, but a bomb maker. Jude is arrested at a rally trying to apologize to Lucy for storming in to the apartments of the radical group and is shipped back to England. He returns, legally this time, to find Sadie back with Jo Jo, on the roof of the record label, doing an outdoor concert. Max has returned from the war a changed man, and together they search for his sister, in the hopes of re-kindling Lucy's love for Jude. With performances by Bono, Joe Cocker, Eddie Izzard, and Selma Hayek, and references to the times more known reprobates like Ken Kesey and Abbie Hoffman, I would highly recommend this movie to both young and old alike. As an examination of the realities faced by hundreds of thousands of young men and women during this turbulent time, added with the flippant use of period designs, the message is still positive enough to leave one with a fresh feeling rarely reached by most modern movies. I expected more psychedelia and the movie could have certainly used it, but I feel the director, Julie Taymor may have gotten "tamed" herself since those heydays of dropping acid and playing music on the beach till dawn. One last note, Eddie Izzard's performance as Mr. Kite fell flat, due to I think the lack of structured direction available on set. An open forum may foster fresh ideas, but occasionally a strong vision and firm hand brings what actors have to offer out in full. Either that, or he was just to high to be on set that day.


Well there you go, my first solid attempt at movie reviewing, hope you had a good read. Look for more in the future. If I had to pick one movie that I would buy the DVD of, it would have to be "Across The Universe", but I am a big Beatles fan and I love the "Freak Out"

The Weird Revolution is upon us. Freaks of the world Unite!


Neo-Consuelo

Velkommen

Just a quick anime desktop this time. Later I will write a movie review for "Sunshine", "Elizabeth- The Golden Age", and "Across The Universe". In that order...

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The Fractal Fruit

What in the Hell is this? From what little I can find, it is some kind of fruit. I have decided to call it the "Fractal Fruit".

The varied forms of nature only prove to remind us of the guiding hand behind the illusion of self will. All invention is just an expression of the creative urge that is a part of the design of the Universe itself. Existence invents itself, you're just the paint brush. As a theory of a friend 'o mine goes "the Big Bang didn't just expand out, there is a lateral force that makes everything spin. That lateral force could be God. That spin keeps everything going."

You should check out the Alan Watts in the player over there ----> it's a great little spoken word clip that shouldn't be missed.

I will leave you with what will eventually be my epitaph:

"Everything is always happening."


Demonic Sigils

Another Revolution of the Sun

Another day has passed, and I have survived to share the vicissitudes of another day. I find I will be working very little this week , along with all of my fellow wage slaves, for there is no work! Time to apply for unemployment, for those of you who rely solely on this job to eat and live indoors. No sense just waiting around for more cash to survive on when the gummint is willing to give some away as long as you are willing to beg for it. So back home adding more music to the player to your right.

Got some more added, Hope people visit. Yea!




101 Rules of Thrash Metal

The Ever Growing Blog Monster

Well, now it is starting to come together. Things took a while to get familiar with, but now that I know what the limitations are for editing the html code I can actually get this this to do flips. Well, little flips. Signed up for hypster.com to add a music player and will be uploading a lot of my favorite songs from the ever growing collection. Oh, and just a disclaimer. I am only sharing, I make no claims that I am the original artist for any pictures or songs accessible on this site, unless stated otherwise. Besides, they should be happy that someone is fond enough of it to wan't to share, and if Brittany Spears has to fly on a Exec Jet 3, that doesn't have a remote for the Home theater system instead of an Exec Jet 4, she will just have to suffer. -Moop


I watched "I Am Legend" yesterday. Thought it was a pretty damn good movie for the most part. It could have been longer though. It's like movie producers are afraid of another Lord of the Rings calamity where everybody stopped talking about the movie and talked about how long the movie was. I don't want to give away the plot, not that it varies too much form the two prior versions, but it felt like a thinking movie. Yes, there was action, but there was enough depth of character to it that you could continue to glean more about the characters form each additional watching. Was withthe girlfriend getting my hand broke every time the zombies came out to play, and yes I call them zombies because that's what this is really, a zombie flick.


Not that I think I will ever actually see any kind of residual income from it, but I did ad AdSense to the page in the hopes that you will click on them and I will make money...Glorious precious, vile, dirty, sexy, evil Money. Or as it is pronounced for most people in the world "Moaney".

I think the last thing I will add to this blog is a haiku of mine.


Crane's head hangs so low,
it looks like he has two legs,
and no head again.

See you in the Future

Play the Game

Good & Evil are Hot!

Here is an Anime Desktop (1280X1024) for you. Have lot of these, so look for more in the future.

Well Here it Is.

Well, it was, then it broke, now it's different. More will come. Damn Blogger.


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