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Lex, Edward and I saw Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler” a few days ago and were each of us stunned by the piece. I could be called an Aronofsky detractor in any other circumstance, his earlier work like fingernails on the chalkboard of my brightest hopes. The Wrestler, however, delivers.
It delivers a lot more than merely [...]
Tags: Darren Aronofsky, Film, Lex, Robocop
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‘JCVD’ Theatrical Trailer @ Yahoo! Video
One of my favorite films when I was an impressionable young squirt was Bloodsport. Cyborg and Universal Soldier (Dolph Lundgren!) were not far behind. A few years into puberty and I realized that Jean-Claude Van Damme couldn’t act to save his own life and movies like Timecop and The Film [...]
Tags: Awesome, Film, Jean-Clause Van Damme
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What was the last Bruce Campbell movie you saw? Was it the one where they were trapped in a snowed in airport and one of them was an alien? Was it the one where he may or may not be Elvis and fights a zombie pharaoh? Maybe it was one of his many cameos?
The last [...]
Tags: Bruce Campbell, Film, Funny, News, TV
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If you’ve never seen a sweded film before, you’re missing out. Well, you’re missing out on all of the other ones. You know, because I just showed you this one.
Fuck you, Schrödinger.
Tags: Film, Funny, Sweded, Terminator
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The Chicago transit system is always packed during my commute. This makes little sense as I don’t commute the same schedule every day and routinely watch trains opposite to my schedule fly by empty as though a great plague has set itself through their hollowed shells.
As luck and some level of statistical improbability would have [...]
Tags: Code, Film, Food, Happiness, Infra, Lex, Love, Max Headroom, Music, Robotics, Transformers
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Lex and I took in a midnight showing of Transformers: The Movie last Saturday night at the Music Box. It was truly an event beholden of the markedly epic dreams I had as a child of doing things exactly like this when I became an adult.
The idea that I’d be in the theater watching the [...]
Tags: Candy, Film, Fun, Happiness, Lex, Love, Movies, Robots, Sex, Transformers
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It has been a long standing rule for me to mention very little on this site pertaining to films I see and my thoughts of them. This is because I have a site entirely dedicated to films and my thoughts on them I am working on and don’t want to sell my chickens before they’re [...]
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Though I’ve always considered myself a total geek, I have always been proud of the fact that I’ve never specialized in my geekery. I can tell you the basic rules of a few collectible card games, but you’ll likely kick my ass with your newfangled tournament deck and all of its starkly foil cards. I [...]
Tags: Film, Sci-Fi, Sex, Star Trek, TV
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We are about 3 days from a complete technology move. Holy shit has this been a struggle. By the end of next week everything should be all wrapped up and tidy. The entire client base will be humming on my new engine/database and the importers will be handing out data like they were condoms at [...]
Tags: Film, Motivational Growth, Solder, Theft, Work
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I dropped in on Langel’s BBQ bash a number of hours back. The experience is one I could only justify myself describing as profoundly odd and uncomfortable in the most interesting fashion.
To say that I didn’t fit in would be an understatement of monumental proportion. The gentleman to my two-o-clock described an encounter with [...]
Tags: Drugs, Film, Friends, Music
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One time when I was 7ish my mother brought home this video. I think I was sick and home from school or something and she wanted to give me something to do other than watch daytime TV and puke in the popcorn bowl. For this I was very appreciative. Moms care. Moms know what is [...]
Tags: Childhood, Film, Peanut Butter, Strange
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So, a lot has happened since my last post, kids and kittens.
I spent Wednesday night rewriting my resume. It went from this huge font laden amalgam with what can only be described as an “inspired” layout to a plain text ASCII standard notepad kickout. I sent it to 1 (one) place and was called Thursday [...]
Tags: ASCII, Detroit, Film, Work
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I went to see Brother tonight. It is a rare film achieves so much in story, execution and cinematography. The film has the most methodical pacing I have seen in a picture with a driving story, intricate characters and Takeshi Kitano’s trademark attention to detail.
Beat Tekashi not only directs like a god, but stars in [...]