Apathy is my middle name...
Well, I fully intended to do a post today, but I'm thinking now that that's not going to happen. Let's see how I do:
Weekend was, in keeping with tradition, better than every last one before it in a few ways. It'd be tough to beat the Memorial Day weeekend festivities, especially now that I have my first LKN Resort "Big Summer Party" under my belt (and which I have yet to properly chronicle on this forum), but we made a good effort, and several highlights and milestones were surpassed. Furthermore, P has been deemed a worthy (if not amusing in small doses) diversion, and we'll be seeing more (in frequency, anyway...there's not much more to see physically [wink]) of her as a result. Lap dances for all!
Missed an opportunity for a play date on Monday, due to getting the voicemail invite too late...need to get a better handle on when to have the phone on "ring" and when ot have it on "vibrate". Damnation! Gonna be kicking myself for missing that one for a while, it was definitely overdue.
Not much going on this week, it's one of recovery and sloth. I have watched quite a bit of programming in my stupor though, Kung Fu Hustle, with Stephen Chow and a bunch of chinese people you never heard of, Unleashed, with Jet Li, Morgan Freeman and Bob Hoskins, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with Zooey Deschaniel (yum), Sam Rockwell, John Malkovich, and Mos Def, and Starsky and Hutch with Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Bnoop Dog, Molly Sims, Brande Roderick, Amy Smart, and Carmen Electra, (all of the chicks in bit roles, and a cameo from The Bishop Don Magic Juan) along with some random TV programming.
Oddly enough, two of those titles, Kung Fu Hustle and Starsky and Hutch, purely coincidentally are specifically mentioned in this article about Sony-licensed porn for the PSP. Now I have a reason to get one! Hrm, upon reading the article, and associated "related stories" link list, it appears that portable porn is quite the killer app of late. Some Indian guy has written a couple programs to convert torrent-friendly formats to the PSP. Article here. This second article is really much more interseting, as it covers the possibilities of the PSP. My favourite line is "...if the PSP becomes the iPod of portable video. (And it might, if Apple continues to be so reluctant to make the iPod the iPod of portable video)." Nice.
Kung Fu Hustle, (which has been the Hong Kong produced film with the largest US theatrical release to date, beating out the last Stephen Chow film, Shaolin Soccer, another odd, but entertaining movie) was interesting to watch (stoned), and funny at times, but that was about it.
The Jet Li movie was weird and largely pointless, but the action scenes were impressive. The chick who played his mother, Jaclyn Lee, reminded me of a friend, Kelly, in NYC...both hot, for Asian girls... ;)
Hitchhiker's, which I had high hopes for, was largely disappointing. I actually kind of liked the 80's BBC miniseries version better in some ways. The production values weren't proportionally better for the amount of money they no doubt spent as comapred to the British version (cameo by the 80's Marvin was cute), and the plot changes, though penned by Douglas Adams, didn't make much sense, and the whole movie seemed disjointed, both from a fan's perspective, and from a point of view of what I'd imagine someone unfamiliar with the books might be. They leave so many things hanging that a sequel is almost necessary, but will the market bear it? Although I was looking forward to several aspects of the casting, such as Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschaniel, Mos Def, and Alan Rickman voicing Marvin (brilliant idea, and it worked well), after having only recently seen the BBC miniseries, I have to say that they were only barely an improvement over that one. And what's with Arthur Dent and Trillian being all flirty and interested?! Sheesh...I could go on, but I'm sure it'd be largely boring, as well as making me sound like one of these sci fi freaks...I guess to sum up, it was just too Hollywood, and they have no handle on the Adams franchise...
Starsky and Hutch was mildly entertaining, my favourite parts were the cheerleader (Brande Roderick, Amy Smart, and Carmen Electra) introduction scene (yum), the cheerleader (Brande Roderick) questioning scene, and the threeway action with Owen Wilson, Amy Smart, and Carmen Electra, where the latter two made out for a little while. Also yum. I understand that about 8-10 seconds of footage of the girls kissing had to be cut to maintain the PG-13 rating. Damn those 13-year olds anyway! Give us the girls making out over the added kiddie revenue any day! Might have to download the director's cut.
Plans to venture out to a Perch show tomorrow with select members of the gang. Talking Baby! I wish I could leave there remembering more of the sketches.
May attempt to head over to the club Friday, though as yet undecided on that. Need to talk E into heading up for the weeeknd, and call P to see what she's doing...hrm, that's right, P's busy this weekend. Alas.
I'm generally not a fan of those "If you were a (blank), what kind of (blank) would you be?"-type surveys, mainly because to be of any value, they have to be in depth, and if they're in any kind of depth, I don't have the attnetion span to take them. That and their uber-ubiquity (ooh, good alliterative phrase) is pretty annoying, but I saw this one when I fell into a myspace time sinkhole (damn all those young and underage hotties on there!), and it seemed interesting:
My life is rated NC-17.
What is your life rated?
However, after having taken it, I feel slighted, and empty. Alas.
Ugh...Need to run to the bank today...should I stay up until they open at 7:30? or go to bed and chance that I'll be up and about before they close at 5? I should add that I've been meaning to go since last Friday, but due to my goofy sleep/wake/do stuff schedule and this particular financial's institution's "shortest-business-hours-in-history" philosophy, I will have made by this time tomorrow, no fewer than five trips to the branch in order to try and make a deposit, which I can't seem to do at their ATMs. Nice.
Weekend was, in keeping with tradition, better than every last one before it in a few ways. It'd be tough to beat the Memorial Day weeekend festivities, especially now that I have my first LKN Resort "Big Summer Party" under my belt (and which I have yet to properly chronicle on this forum), but we made a good effort, and several highlights and milestones were surpassed. Furthermore, P has been deemed a worthy (if not amusing in small doses) diversion, and we'll be seeing more (in frequency, anyway...there's not much more to see physically [wink]) of her as a result. Lap dances for all!
Missed an opportunity for a play date on Monday, due to getting the voicemail invite too late...need to get a better handle on when to have the phone on "ring" and when ot have it on "vibrate". Damnation! Gonna be kicking myself for missing that one for a while, it was definitely overdue.
Not much going on this week, it's one of recovery and sloth. I have watched quite a bit of programming in my stupor though, Kung Fu Hustle, with Stephen Chow and a bunch of chinese people you never heard of, Unleashed, with Jet Li, Morgan Freeman and Bob Hoskins, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with Zooey Deschaniel (yum), Sam Rockwell, John Malkovich, and Mos Def, and Starsky and Hutch with Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Bnoop Dog, Molly Sims, Brande Roderick, Amy Smart, and Carmen Electra, (all of the chicks in bit roles, and a cameo from The Bishop Don Magic Juan) along with some random TV programming.
Oddly enough, two of those titles, Kung Fu Hustle and Starsky and Hutch, purely coincidentally are specifically mentioned in this article about Sony-licensed porn for the PSP. Now I have a reason to get one! Hrm, upon reading the article, and associated "related stories" link list, it appears that portable porn is quite the killer app of late. Some Indian guy has written a couple programs to convert torrent-friendly formats to the PSP. Article here. This second article is really much more interseting, as it covers the possibilities of the PSP. My favourite line is "...if the PSP becomes the iPod of portable video. (And it might, if Apple continues to be so reluctant to make the iPod the iPod of portable video)." Nice.
Kung Fu Hustle, (which has been the Hong Kong produced film with the largest US theatrical release to date, beating out the last Stephen Chow film, Shaolin Soccer, another odd, but entertaining movie) was interesting to watch (stoned), and funny at times, but that was about it.
The Jet Li movie was weird and largely pointless, but the action scenes were impressive. The chick who played his mother, Jaclyn Lee, reminded me of a friend, Kelly, in NYC...both hot, for Asian girls... ;)
Hitchhiker's, which I had high hopes for, was largely disappointing. I actually kind of liked the 80's BBC miniseries version better in some ways. The production values weren't proportionally better for the amount of money they no doubt spent as comapred to the British version (cameo by the 80's Marvin was cute), and the plot changes, though penned by Douglas Adams, didn't make much sense, and the whole movie seemed disjointed, both from a fan's perspective, and from a point of view of what I'd imagine someone unfamiliar with the books might be. They leave so many things hanging that a sequel is almost necessary, but will the market bear it? Although I was looking forward to several aspects of the casting, such as Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschaniel, Mos Def, and Alan Rickman voicing Marvin (brilliant idea, and it worked well), after having only recently seen the BBC miniseries, I have to say that they were only barely an improvement over that one. And what's with Arthur Dent and Trillian being all flirty and interested?! Sheesh...I could go on, but I'm sure it'd be largely boring, as well as making me sound like one of these sci fi freaks...I guess to sum up, it was just too Hollywood, and they have no handle on the Adams franchise...
Starsky and Hutch was mildly entertaining, my favourite parts were the cheerleader (Brande Roderick, Amy Smart, and Carmen Electra) introduction scene (yum), the cheerleader (Brande Roderick) questioning scene, and the threeway action with Owen Wilson, Amy Smart, and Carmen Electra, where the latter two made out for a little while. Also yum. I understand that about 8-10 seconds of footage of the girls kissing had to be cut to maintain the PG-13 rating. Damn those 13-year olds anyway! Give us the girls making out over the added kiddie revenue any day! Might have to download the director's cut.
Plans to venture out to a Perch show tomorrow with select members of the gang. Talking Baby! I wish I could leave there remembering more of the sketches.
May attempt to head over to the club Friday, though as yet undecided on that. Need to talk E into heading up for the weeeknd, and call P to see what she's doing...hrm, that's right, P's busy this weekend. Alas.
I'm generally not a fan of those "If you were a (blank), what kind of (blank) would you be?"-type surveys, mainly because to be of any value, they have to be in depth, and if they're in any kind of depth, I don't have the attnetion span to take them. That and their uber-ubiquity (ooh, good alliterative phrase) is pretty annoying, but I saw this one when I fell into a myspace time sinkhole (damn all those young and underage hotties on there!), and it seemed interesting:
My life is rated NC-17.
What is your life rated?
However, after having taken it, I feel slighted, and empty. Alas.
Ugh...Need to run to the bank today...should I stay up until they open at 7:30? or go to bed and chance that I'll be up and about before they close at 5? I should add that I've been meaning to go since last Friday, but due to my goofy sleep/wake/do stuff schedule and this particular financial's institution's "shortest-business-hours-in-history" philosophy, I will have made by this time tomorrow, no fewer than five trips to the branch in order to try and make a deposit, which I can't seem to do at their ATMs. Nice.
posted by Gene at 6:01 AM
1 Comments:
man.. NC-17. I'm rolling with an R rated life.
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