"Troll Bridge" Update
After much sleeping on everyone's part, I got the final word from Daniel about the screening of "Troll Bridge" for Terry Pratchett, well, I should let Daniel say it in his own words:
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Who's That Tramping Over My Bridge?
Terry Pratchett is one of those truly gifted authors---someone who just "gets it". With a few words he can make the most cutting and incisive comment on modern life. And all of his Discworld stories are set in a fantasy realm. I don't think he's as widely known in America as he is in England and Australia. The typical response I give to the inevitable query "Who's that?" is that he Douglas Adams of fantasy novels.
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Damn, Dirty Astronauts
I came home tonight and took a look at my "Now Playing On Tivo" to see if there was anything I felt like watching. I discovered that my intrepid little box decided to record an episode of "Simon & Simon" for me. Remember that one? From about twenty years ago, two private investigator brothers trade barbs and solve crimes? I never really watched it as a kid. Shows like "The Greatest American Hero", "CHiPs" and "The Dukes Of Hazzard" were much more my style.
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Don't Gimme No Back Talk, Sucka!
Yesterday we received news that yet another TV show is heading to the big screen. This time it's Stephen J. Cannell's 80's action-comedy "The A-Team". I pity the fool who didn't watch this show. I was 9 years old when this was first on the air and it was one of my favorites. Even to this day the theme song is the ringtone on my cellphone, I have a Mr. T t-shirt that I often wear, and I even have this little keychain that when you press a button, it gives you choices bits of Mr. T dialog like "Quit yo' jibba-jabba!"
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Count Me Among The "Stoned Slackers"
From the AP newsire:
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That's No Moon
Ok, probably everyone has already seen this but I finally caught all of the animated "Star Wars: Clone Wars" that the creator of "Samurai Jack" made in conjunction with LucasFilm. It's a series of twenty 3 to 5 minute micro-episodes. The series recently won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Programming of One Hour or More. Cartoon Network showed them all last night.
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Me Like Tivo
For the last two years I have been recording a few of my favorite TV shows on an old Macintosh with EyeTV. The cool thing about this is that I didn't have to remember to switch videotapes. I could quickly copy the shows on to my laptop to watch anytime, anywhere. Plus I could burn it to a VCD for archiving, taking up much less space than a videotape.
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Heavy Metal Parking Lot
I forgot that I was planning on mentioning this over the weekend until I showed up at work again today...
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Recovery Room
I slept away most of the morning trying to play catch-up after all those hours at work. Yesterday was another long one---9am to 1am. The good news is that as of about 12:30am this morning, I am going back to work next Monday on a little horror movie. In fact the words "if not sooner" were used, so I might not even have a full week off.
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In Dreams You're Mine All Of The Time ...
What is it about horror and oldies songs? There's something about the sugary sweet melodies of late 1950's, early 1960's teen pop and romantic crooners that makes horror movies and television even scarier.
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Giant Monsters From My Childhood
This one can be filed under “So bad, it’s good.”
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Fun With High Definition Television
I wound up in Long Beach today at my aunt and uncle's place fixing the setup on their new Panasonic 60" LCD Projection TV. It's a gorgeous set. And huge! The guys who delivered it didn't take the time to, or know how to, or whatever, do the little things like auto-program the channels. I did another nice picture calibration with my Avia DVD just like I did for Cameron.
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So May This Strife Of Men And Gods Be Done With
This just in from Reuters:
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A Prayer To A Supreme Being
Dear God, Baby Jesus, or which ever higher power has executive control over Tom Cruise's movies:
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Serendipity
Good things always come in threes, right? Today I saw an amazing documentary, and it's weird how well it fits in with the two documentaries that I had meetings about last week. I caught a matinee of "Mayor Of The Sunset Strip" appropriately enough at the Sunset 5. Wow! Just awesome.
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I'll Have A Pepsi To Go With My Zombie
In my last post I talked a little bit about some of my thoughts on zombie movies. It brought back a lot of memories of the year that my friends and I spent putting the few issues of Right Turn Clyde that ever saw the light of day (or the glow of a monitor). Those were fun times figuring out what would be the next snarky comment about Hollywood. I might have put together the website but MNKE was the driving force behind that effort. And without the four of us who wrote most of the articles and tracked down the photos and got the interviews, I don't think it can exist again. At least not like it did.
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Emergency Broadcast
This is a test post of the TV & Movies section. This is just a test. If this had been a real post, the title would be followed by instructions on which visual entertainment you would be required to enjoy. This is only a test.
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Runnin' Zombies
I was over at Wil Wheaton's site reading about his twisted views on life. He recently went to see Dawn of the Dead and posed the question, "When did zombies start to run?"
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