‘Entertainment’ Category

  1. Spider Pig

    August 28, 2007 :: 7:58 pm

    Spider pig, spider pig
    Does whatever a spider pig does
    Can he swing from a web?
    No he can’t, he’s a pig
    Look out!
    Here comes the spider pig!

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  2. MacSaber: Turn Your Mac Into A Jedi Weapon

    July 2, 2007 :: 10:20 am

    Now that you’ve spent entirely too much money on your fancy sudden motion sensor equipped Mac laptop, I predict you’ll soon be swinging it around like a loon.

    Introducing MacSaber. Using your Mac’s sudden motion sensor, this software turns your computer into a Jedi weapon almost worthy of taking on the real thing by making authentic lightsaber sound effects. It senses speed for the lightsaber movement sounds and acceleration for different levels of striking sounds.

    This beta is not yet compatible with the motion sensors in older Mac laptops, but I understand you can move the window around to get the idea.

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  3. Caught red-handed showing feelings

    June 10, 2007 :: 3:11 pm

    I’d forgotten how much I love Pink Floyd’s film “The Wall.” We saw it at the Inwood last night at midnight with Brittney and Chris. We weren’t the oldest people in the audience but we definitely fell in the high end of the range.

    Near the beginning of the film, someone’s cell phone rang. The girl sitting in front of me turned to her boyfriend and asked, quite seriously, “Was that in the movie?”

    Sigh.

    Doc’s cluster headache cycle is just not going away. No screaming bad ones, but he has a headache almost constantly since about February. Saturday we went to three different health food stores looking for this capsaicin nasal spray which is said to help with migraines and anecdotally with some peoples’ clusters too. The first one was just a distribution center in an office park (closed), the second one was Roy’s Natural Market (closed on Saturdays… seriously, WTF?), and Whole Foods did not carry it. We may have to order it online.

    Our Whole Foods trip wasn’t a complete wash though; we spent a long time staring at the fabulously gorgeous desserts in the dessert cases. They are too pretty to eat. I just want to look at them all day! I purchased a new bottle of Dr. Bronner’s Peppermint Castile Soap. I love this stuff. The label, if you aren’t familiar with it (and if you’re not I suggest you read it!), will lead you to the conclusion that dear old Dr. Bronner was nearly all his pancakes short of a stack, but by God (pun intended) he can make some damn fine environmentally friendly non-sodium-lauryl-or-laureth-sulfate-containing liquid soap. It’s expensive but a little goes a long long way.

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  4. Miso, miso

    June 4, 2007 :: 7:58 pm

    I have to do this, it’s been running through my head for days now (this mixed with First Born Unicorn and Crumbelievable!)

    Remember the time we had that soup?

    Soup, soup
    Oh tasty soup, soup
    Oh spicy carrot and coriander
    Chilli chowder
    Crouton, crouton: crunchy friends in a liquid broth
    I am gazpacho, oh!
    I am a summer soup, mmmm.
    Miso, miso
    Fighting in the dojo
    Miso, miso
    Oriental prince in the land of soup!

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  5. First Born Unicorn

    June 3, 2007 :: 8:50 pm

    On Friday night, Doc and my Mom and I watched a nifty old movie, “The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao.” Tony Randall plays Dr. Lao, Medusa, the Abominable Snowman, a serpent, Pan, Merlin, and Apollonius of Tyana (the blind seer). It also stars Barbara Eden, pre-Jeannie. I love the classic special effects – cheesy and obvious to our 21st century eyes, but undoubtedly stunning for the time.

    Also, we discovered that the line in the chorus of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Californication” is, indeed, “FIRST BORN UNICORN.” Seriously. “First born unicorn, hard core soft porn.” I just… I have no words. How can I possibly have words to describe that?

    Category Movies, Music | Tags: | 1 Comment

  6. Watch Award-Winning Film "Coda"

    May 31, 2007 :: 8:40 pm

    Here is our first-place-winning short film from the 2007 Dallas 24-Hour Video Race, “Coda.”

    Our required elements were:

    • Theme: Wrong Turn
    • Prop: a musical instrument
    • Location: flagpole
    • Line of Dialogue: “You don’t owe me anything.”

    Hope you enjoy!

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  7. First!

    May 30, 2007 :: 7:53 am

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  8. TONIGHT: Support your local filmmakers!

    May 29, 2007 :: 8:29 am

    Hey kids, come on out tonight to the Angelika for the finals of the 24 Hour Video Race!! Our film will be screening at 8:20 p.m., but you can come as early as 6:15 to watch the other categories’ finalists. Admission is only $3, and that means you can see as many as 30 short films for ONLY $3!!

    Come on out and support me, Doc, and Lori as we emerge victorious for the third year in a row!!! (We hope.) What a great, fun, inexpensive way to spend an evening!!

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  9. 3 years in a row!

    May 25, 2007 :: 8:41 am

    Our film made the finals! “Coda” will screen a second time next Tuesday night at the Angelika. I’ll post it here as soon as we manage to get it up on YouTube.

    Wish us luck!

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  10. Will we finish?

    May 19, 2007 :: 7:12 pm

    That is the big question right now. It’s 8:13 p.m., our 5-minute short film is due no later than midnight, and due to tape failure we had to reshoot the second half of our film at 5:30 p.m. We’ve got a decent rough cut, but still have to add a few cutaway shots, the music, the titles, and a special effect scene.

    Our motto for this year is “Failure Is An Option.” We almost decided to just shoot ourselves hanging out at the house, drinking wine, explaining what went wrong, and tacking it on to the end of the movie. Instead we did lightning-speed retakes of of eleven shots, and are hoping for a miracle.

    Wish us luck!

    Also: CONGRATULATIONS NATE AND YVONNE!!! Little Baby Stull (she’s yet to be named) was born at 8:20 this morning. Both parents are ecstatic and exhausted. Way to go, Yvonne!!!

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  11. My Hovercraft is Full of Eels

    April 10, 2007 :: 8:41 am

    MY HOVERCRAFT IS FULL OF EELS! And my nipples are exploding with delight!

    Haven’t thought about that in YEARS! Ahh, the good old days when I could watch Monty Python’s Flying Circus and The Young Ones late at night on PBS…

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  12. Random Catch Up

    March 27, 2007 :: 4:18 pm

    I dreamed the other night that at work we had a new building, similar to the old apartment building we used to work in, but more house-like. I shared an office with Amy, in the 2nd floor bathroom. Her desk was in the tub, and mine was in the sink. Our printer sat on top of the toilet. If anyone wanted to bring us anything, they had to shimmy up the drainpipe on the outside wall, and shove their papers in through the window.

    Ben and I are phone-interviewing candidates for our open web designer position, and most of the people that we really like want way too much money — like, $60-$90,000 annually. It’s really disheartening. There are two people we’re bringing in this week who fall somewhat within the salary range we’re offering, so hopefully one of them will work out. If not, it’s back to the drawing board, reposting the position and probably end of summer before we’re able to hire someone. I’m the only designer on staff right now, and my workload is completely insane. I may only be the dried out empty husk of a designer by the end of summer, if we have to wait that long to get some help.

    Last night Doc and I watched “The Science of Sleep.” It was a pretty good movie, and a really spot-on representation of the strangeness of the dream state. Things kept shifting, changing, appearing in different places at different sizes, in different environments.

    I had a nice productive weekend. Saturday I was awake at 6:30 and doing yoga by 7. I know, crazy. I couldn’t get back to sleep after Neko woke me up. I did some gardening and a bit of housecleaning, and Doc and I saw a movie (“The Last Mimzy,” which was good except for the cheeseball ending that the studio probably made them slap on there for a family-friendly feel), looked at bamboo hardwood flooring options, and then invited Brittney and Chris over for dinner. We grilled sausages and chicken, roasted potatoes, I made a roasted tomato soup, and we ate outside on the patio. I spent most of Sunday re-vamping Doc’s website. He was just wanting minor updates and an additional section, but I insisted that it would be easier to start from scratch and rebuild the pages.

    I don’t know if I’m stressed out lately, or if it’s hormones, or the onset of warmer weather, but my skin is in terrible shape. It’s driving me crazy. I do not want to be 34 and have the skin problems of a teenager.

    Category Dreams, Movies, Work | Tags: | 2 Comments

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