Monday, January 7, 2008
Carmaximum
I got back from New York yesterday. It was a fun trip, we got to see Darrell Hammond from SNL do stand up at the comedy cellar. He was funny, did some good impressions, and said that he was on acid but he might have just been really drunk. Then we went to some bars around town before heading home the next day.
One thing I remember about this trip is that when we were going to eat dinner at the hotel before we went out for the night Ash had to get ready, take a shower or something, so I went with Andrew and Rachel around to find some food. I ended up for some reason getting all this low quality fried food from a carry out/ market kind of place because it looked OK and I thought it was going to be cheap. It ended up being expensive and hardly lukewarm. Ash was pissed and I was sad myself because I paid a bunch of money for the worst meal. Andrew and Rachel of course got delicious gourmet hamburgers because they didn't immediately buy the first thing they saw.
I met this guy on the bus who's name was Rodney Burton and he said he was a DJ. His DJ name is DJ Danger. What's weird is that DJ Danger Mouse's (of the infamous Grey Album) real name is Brian Burton. Coincidence? Probably.
I don't know or care about any of this, this is weird that I wrote this. The DJ guy was really nice though but we were so squished in the back of the bus with him, it was the three seat part that's not really three seats big at all.
This was also another example of people wanting to talk to me. I hardly ever want to talk to strangers but everywhere I go people want to talk to me. They tell me about how they're a DJ or they complain about the building manager or they ask me if I've had Triscuits before because they're good. I know Triscuits are delicious, you, strange middle aged woman, don't have to tell me.
I'm selling my car today then finishing packing up.
"I'm selling my car," like I had anything to do with it. I think my dad took it to Carmax. I don't think I had anything to do with it.
I leave tomorrow for LA. I have a one way plane ticket.
That is cool.
Once I get here this blog will probably be even more exciting then it is now, what with all the hobnobbing I'm going to be doing.
I do agree that my blog was a million times more exciting, but in hindsight I kept my hobnobbing to a minimum.
The Ten comes out on DVD on January 15th. It is really irreverent but that's almost the whole point. It's ten short stories that interweave somewhat, bookended by an ongoing narration by Paul Rudd's character, about the ten commandments. It is directed by David Wain and stars Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba, Jean Grey from X-men, Adam Brody, Michael Ian Black, and a slew of other comedy superstars. It's definitely worth a watch.
Meh. Watch Wainy Days, Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer, or anything else David Wain does instead.
I might be seeing One Missed Call later today so I'll let you know if it compares to The Ring besides the strikingly similar premises.
That was a bad movie.
Also check out Wainy Days at mydamnchannel.com
Oh, there you go, I didn't see that.
My last sign off was of course from Southland Tales, the most elusive movie I've ever tried to see.
But until next time "if [I'd] meant [these blogs] literally, [I'd] have written them in stone."
Oh jeez. So nerdy and weird.
Posted by Pete at 7:05 AM
Labels: acid, BMW Z4, David Wain, Greyhound, LA, New York City, One Missed Call, Paul Rudd, Shannyn Sossaman, SNL, The Ten, The TIck, Wainy Days
Friday, February 5, 2010
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 24/7/366?
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Wow, it still seems like it's 2008 but it's about to be 2010 in a few weeks.
24/7/366?
First of all, I hate it when people say 24/7/365, let me explain why: The first number (24) is the number of hours in a day. The second number (7) is the number of days in a week. The third number (365) is number of days in a year but hold on, we already covered days with 7. The correct continuation of the numeral phrase
Numeral phrase sounds so smart, did I make that up or is that a real thing?
would be 4 or 5 or 6 as in 4 or 5 or 6 weeks a month, but I get why they wouldn't want to say 24/7/5 or 6, it would be silly and confusing. We could almost just round to 5 weeks a month as pretty standard. However, I propose that we say 24/7/12, as in 12 months a year. That way we're saying 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 12 months a year. At least then we're keeping it fresh and not talking about days twice.
This makes so much sense to me.
So if you ever say anything about 24/7/ etc, which you shouldn't anyway because it's stupid, say 24/7/12 or 24/7/5/12/10/10/100/infinity and we'll have a chuckle.
No one has in these whole two years.
Also, this year is a leap year.
But anyway I leave for LA on the 8th, here's me packing with Ash:
In the original blog post the picture got cut off and Ash wasn't in it which explains her comment later on. I guess I've gotten much better at picture posting since 2008.
cute. I'm sure I'm going to need those red Aeropostale swim shorts for all the Blood Pool Parties I'm invited to.
Which I haven't gone to any yet.
I am going to try and watch 366 movies this year. So far it's January 2nd and I've watched 3 so I'm well on my way. I'm keeping a list that I'll post on January 1st 2009 so if you never read this blog again, at least read that one. I might even put them in order of how I liked them!!! How exciting would that be. I wish that some of my readers/friends would do this with me. If so we could talk about it and compare notes and be nerds about it. As always you can message me on this blog or at PeterLHarmon at gmail.com
I think maybe two people almost did this with me. Ever since I discovered IMDb My Movies this has been so much easier. I didn't get to 366 though. It would be so hard to watch a movie every day even though I feel like I do. It means that two hours-ish of every day is devoted to a movie. At LAFSC though at night almost every night I would sit on the couch and watch something and eat cookies and milk after the gym or pool. Not as bad as it sounds. I'm so glad I did LAFSC, it has been awesome and so helpful, however, I am really glad it's over and I don't have to do it again.
DVD pick of the day: Shooter. A lot of people were telling me I should see it so I did. I don't usually go for that type of movie but it was really good, not too complicated with all the government inner workings and top secrecy or whatever for the layman (aka me), and just plain exciting. Plus Mark Wahlberg is an awesome actor. He was my favorite part of The Departed and that's a feat. I don't want to ruin one of his upcoming roles, in case anyone cares about it, but check who he is playing in 2009 in this movie. http://imdb.com/title/tt0380510/ I don't know how I feel about it but I'm excited nonetheless.
Wow, this is weird that I'm re-blogging this today because I'm probbaly going to see The Lovely Bones today. It's also weird because Mark Wahlberg was in The Happening since this post and even though it was dumb I still thought he was so funny in it which maybe isn't a good thing. Everyone hated on him and that movie so hard and yeah, the movie was dumb and kind of boring, but I loved Mark Wahlberg in it and that iPhone video was so funny. Also, didn't Zooey Daschanel "only" have dessert with some guy? I think M. Night was messing with us with that movie.
I also saw Wayne's World for the first time ever today. It was super-90s. Kind of funny, the character of Wayne reminds me too much of Austin Powers mixed with Ted Logan from Bill and Ted. There were a lot of quotable quotes that I've heard before too many times.
Yeah, whatever. I haven't seen a lot of movies from people's childhoods and then when I catch up with them now they suck. THE GOONIES is one of the. The Goonies sucks. It's OK that you liked it when you were young but don't let that nostalgia taint your current opinions. It's even OK if you want to watch the movie now and remember it fondly as part of your childhood, but don't tell me it's a good movie for me as an adult to watch and then I watch it and it sucks and then you tell me that it doesn't.
Does anyone know where I could see Southland Tales? I don't want to have to wait for the DVD. I'm going to New York this weekend, maybe it's playing there. Or of course when I live in LA it might be playing.
I ended up seeing it and it was not what I expected. It was fine though.
I haven't been signing off of these blogs, like I haven't been saying "good night and have a pleasant tomorrow" or anything so I might just use a tagline or a quote from a movie I mention in the blog as the sign off. That could be a fun game for all of us. The first one might be really easy.
Oh well "have a nice apocalypse."
I'm glad I didn't keep doing this.
* Editors Note: lol at the blog formatting cutting off Ash in the picture, maybe once there are more postings it will show the entire picture, but she is in it and she did help me a lot.
Posted by Pete at 5:33 PM
2 hollers:
Ashlea said...
i was seriously wondering if you cropped me out on purpose. lol
January 2, 2008 7:22 PM
Woopsies!! I think these are my first comments though. Who knew they would be from my future wife!!!
Ashlea said...
also your blogs dont sound like how you talk outloud. so i'm wondering if thats how you sound inside your brain...you know?
January 2, 2008 7:23 PM
Ash and I just had a funny conversation about how we might sound in our heads but I can't explain it in words. Also, really? They don't sound like how I talk out loud? How do I sound out loud? Is this smarter or dumber than I sound? Do people think I sound dumb? Ah!!?!!
Wow, it still seems like it's 2008 but it's about to be 2010 in a few weeks.
24/7/366?
First of all, I hate it when people say 24/7/365, let me explain why: The first number (24) is the number of hours in a day. The second number (7) is the number of days in a week. The third number (365) is number of days in a year but hold on, we already covered days with 7. The correct continuation of the numeral phrase
Numeral phrase sounds so smart, did I make that up or is that a real thing?
would be 4 or 5 or 6 as in 4 or 5 or 6 weeks a month, but I get why they wouldn't want to say 24/7/5 or 6, it would be silly and confusing. We could almost just round to 5 weeks a month as pretty standard. However, I propose that we say 24/7/12, as in 12 months a year. That way we're saying 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 12 months a year. At least then we're keeping it fresh and not talking about days twice.
This makes so much sense to me.
So if you ever say anything about 24/7/ etc, which you shouldn't anyway because it's stupid, say 24/7/12 or 24/7/5/12/10/10/100/infinity and we'll have a chuckle.
No one has in these whole two years.
Also, this year is a leap year.
But anyway I leave for LA on the 8th, here's me packing with Ash:
In the original blog post the picture got cut off and Ash wasn't in it which explains her comment later on. I guess I've gotten much better at picture posting since 2008.
cute. I'm sure I'm going to need those red Aeropostale swim shorts for all the Blood Pool Parties I'm invited to.
Which I haven't gone to any yet.
I am going to try and watch 366 movies this year. So far it's January 2nd and I've watched 3 so I'm well on my way. I'm keeping a list that I'll post on January 1st 2009 so if you never read this blog again, at least read that one. I might even put them in order of how I liked them!!! How exciting would that be. I wish that some of my readers/friends would do this with me. If so we could talk about it and compare notes and be nerds about it. As always you can message me on this blog or at PeterLHarmon at gmail.com
I think maybe two people almost did this with me. Ever since I discovered IMDb My Movies this has been so much easier. I didn't get to 366 though. It would be so hard to watch a movie every day even though I feel like I do. It means that two hours-ish of every day is devoted to a movie. At LAFSC though at night almost every night I would sit on the couch and watch something and eat cookies and milk after the gym or pool. Not as bad as it sounds. I'm so glad I did LAFSC, it has been awesome and so helpful, however, I am really glad it's over and I don't have to do it again.
DVD pick of the day: Shooter. A lot of people were telling me I should see it so I did. I don't usually go for that type of movie but it was really good, not too complicated with all the government inner workings and top secrecy or whatever for the layman (aka me), and just plain exciting. Plus Mark Wahlberg is an awesome actor. He was my favorite part of The Departed and that's a feat. I don't want to ruin one of his upcoming roles, in case anyone cares about it, but check who he is playing in 2009 in this movie. http://imdb.com/title/tt0380510/ I don't know how I feel about it but I'm excited nonetheless.
Wow, this is weird that I'm re-blogging this today because I'm probbaly going to see The Lovely Bones today. It's also weird because Mark Wahlberg was in The Happening since this post and even though it was dumb I still thought he was so funny in it which maybe isn't a good thing. Everyone hated on him and that movie so hard and yeah, the movie was dumb and kind of boring, but I loved Mark Wahlberg in it and that iPhone video was so funny. Also, didn't Zooey Daschanel "only" have dessert with some guy? I think M. Night was messing with us with that movie.
I also saw Wayne's World for the first time ever today. It was super-90s. Kind of funny, the character of Wayne reminds me too much of Austin Powers mixed with Ted Logan from Bill and Ted. There were a lot of quotable quotes that I've heard before too many times.
Yeah, whatever. I haven't seen a lot of movies from people's childhoods and then when I catch up with them now they suck. THE GOONIES is one of the. The Goonies sucks. It's OK that you liked it when you were young but don't let that nostalgia taint your current opinions. It's even OK if you want to watch the movie now and remember it fondly as part of your childhood, but don't tell me it's a good movie for me as an adult to watch and then I watch it and it sucks and then you tell me that it doesn't.
Does anyone know where I could see Southland Tales? I don't want to have to wait for the DVD. I'm going to New York this weekend, maybe it's playing there. Or of course when I live in LA it might be playing.
I ended up seeing it and it was not what I expected. It was fine though.
I haven't been signing off of these blogs, like I haven't been saying "good night and have a pleasant tomorrow" or anything so I might just use a tagline or a quote from a movie I mention in the blog as the sign off. That could be a fun game for all of us. The first one might be really easy.
Oh well "have a nice apocalypse."
I'm glad I didn't keep doing this.
* Editors Note: lol at the blog formatting cutting off Ash in the picture, maybe once there are more postings it will show the entire picture, but she is in it and she did help me a lot.
Posted by Pete at 5:33 PM
2 hollers:
Ashlea said...
i was seriously wondering if you cropped me out on purpose. lol
January 2, 2008 7:22 PM
Woopsies!! I think these are my first comments though. Who knew they would be from my future wife!!!
Ashlea said...
also your blogs dont sound like how you talk outloud. so i'm wondering if thats how you sound inside your brain...you know?
January 2, 2008 7:23 PM
Ash and I just had a funny conversation about how we might sound in our heads but I can't explain it in words. Also, really? They don't sound like how I talk out loud? How do I sound out loud? Is this smarter or dumber than I sound? Do people think I sound dumb? Ah!!?!!
Friday, December 11, 2009
Saturday, December 29, 2007 For Pete?
Saturday, December 29, 2007
For Pete?
Thanks to everyone who came to the going away party. I had a lot of fun and I was definitely surprised. I think I would have figured out that something fishy was going on if I had a couple more minutes. I saw Drew P's car then Brendan's but Ashlea said it wasn't there
woopsies, *their
cars and I believed her. Also, thanks for the kind words and the lewd drawings.
I think I might still have that piece of wrapping paper somewhere in my archives. It's funny that everyone drew wieners and wrote silly stuff like that to me for my going away party, but then at the lunch after my wedding rehearsal when we played that game everyone was so cordial and polite and mature with their drawings. Instead of like 'Hey Pete, don't go gay in LA' (not a real thing anyone wrote) the messages were like 'Pete has always been funny while maintaining his morals' (a real thing, paraphrased, that one of the fellas wrote). I guess they stepped it up since my whole family was there. Thanks for being appropriate guys!!
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story was great because it had a similar tone to how I write.
I am less of a Walk Hard fan now that I've seen it again, I think it was more of a one watch kind of movie. I'm not hating, but meh. I know Ash loves it though which, this is going to sound weird maybe, but I love it when Ash really likes a movie that I don't particularly like. It just shows me that we don't have to love the same movies and she has her own tastes and all that. One of my favorite days was when I told Ash she could pick the movie we saw at the $5 matinee because it seems like I always choose the movie or at least I suggest them, and she chose Notorious which is awesome because I love Biggie and that's what I was going to choose anyway.
Speaking of movies at that theater, Ash and I went to see Saw VI (I think it was 6) and a woman, man, and child sat behind us. They started talking in non-whispered regular voices part way through the movie. Ash and I moved to the other end of our row and we could still hear them. I went over to them and said, in a firm but not jerky tone, "Hey, we had to move because we could hear you talking and we can still hear you."
The woman said "OK" in a really mean voice.
I said "I'm asking you to be quiet, I don't want you to think I'm being passive aggressive and just being a dick, I'm actually asking you to be quiet."
The woman said, in an even meaner voice, "I said OK."
I said "Thank you" and went back and sat down.
And I seriously was that nice and I didn't curse at her (except for saying I wasn't being a dick, whatever) and her kid was too young to be watching Saw but that's another story, but she got mad at me! She was ruining MY movie watching experience. She paid money (and this was no $5 matinee sister) to go sit in a theater and talk? This isn't your living room. Why are you mad at me? Oh, because I exposed you for being a jerk, now you're going to have to tell your kid why that man had to reprimand you in a public place. Because you were being inconsiderate and wrong. That's one reason why I'd rather watch my movies at home. I've adopted the thinking that if a movie I sold out, or has the potential of selling out, I'd rather not see it then anyway and watch it at home on my awesome TV with my baby dog.
That's one of the first times I've ever really done that, told someone to be quiet in the movies, and thankfully I didn't get stabbed.
I'm glad there are ridiculous comedies getting made out there.
Sure.
It had most of the Apatow crew in it and some SNL alums.
It also had Matt Besser in it and now I see him all the time at the UCB theater.
It seemed like an Apatow movie mixed with an SNL digital short mixed with The Brothers Solomon (in a good way). I know it's been out for a while but go see it. I would watch it again right now, there are so many jokes and it might even be better a second time through.
They weren't.
Junebug is also on the list of must see movies. It's incredible.
Yes!
I leave for LA in a little over a week. I still need to get rid of my car,
What a cool thing to say, get rid of my car. I'm like (adapting a cool guy voice) Yeah, I don't need this car anymore, Ima just get rid of it, probably like drive it towards a cliff and then jump out and let it run of the edge and watch it burn brah.
buy some stuff, and pack. I'm visiting New York a week from today though. Hopefully I'll see Tina Fey or Conan on the street because they aren't working right now.
Sweet burn? I love writer's strike humor!!!!
For Pete?
Thanks to everyone who came to the going away party. I had a lot of fun and I was definitely surprised. I think I would have figured out that something fishy was going on if I had a couple more minutes. I saw Drew P's car then Brendan's but Ashlea said it wasn't there
woopsies, *their
cars and I believed her. Also, thanks for the kind words and the lewd drawings.
I think I might still have that piece of wrapping paper somewhere in my archives. It's funny that everyone drew wieners and wrote silly stuff like that to me for my going away party, but then at the lunch after my wedding rehearsal when we played that game everyone was so cordial and polite and mature with their drawings. Instead of like 'Hey Pete, don't go gay in LA' (not a real thing anyone wrote) the messages were like 'Pete has always been funny while maintaining his morals' (a real thing, paraphrased, that one of the fellas wrote). I guess they stepped it up since my whole family was there. Thanks for being appropriate guys!!
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story was great because it had a similar tone to how I write.
I am less of a Walk Hard fan now that I've seen it again, I think it was more of a one watch kind of movie. I'm not hating, but meh. I know Ash loves it though which, this is going to sound weird maybe, but I love it when Ash really likes a movie that I don't particularly like. It just shows me that we don't have to love the same movies and she has her own tastes and all that. One of my favorite days was when I told Ash she could pick the movie we saw at the $5 matinee because it seems like I always choose the movie or at least I suggest them, and she chose Notorious which is awesome because I love Biggie and that's what I was going to choose anyway.
Speaking of movies at that theater, Ash and I went to see Saw VI (I think it was 6) and a woman, man, and child sat behind us. They started talking in non-whispered regular voices part way through the movie. Ash and I moved to the other end of our row and we could still hear them. I went over to them and said, in a firm but not jerky tone, "Hey, we had to move because we could hear you talking and we can still hear you."
The woman said "OK" in a really mean voice.
I said "I'm asking you to be quiet, I don't want you to think I'm being passive aggressive and just being a dick, I'm actually asking you to be quiet."
The woman said, in an even meaner voice, "I said OK."
I said "Thank you" and went back and sat down.
And I seriously was that nice and I didn't curse at her (except for saying I wasn't being a dick, whatever) and her kid was too young to be watching Saw but that's another story, but she got mad at me! She was ruining MY movie watching experience. She paid money (and this was no $5 matinee sister) to go sit in a theater and talk? This isn't your living room. Why are you mad at me? Oh, because I exposed you for being a jerk, now you're going to have to tell your kid why that man had to reprimand you in a public place. Because you were being inconsiderate and wrong. That's one reason why I'd rather watch my movies at home. I've adopted the thinking that if a movie I sold out, or has the potential of selling out, I'd rather not see it then anyway and watch it at home on my awesome TV with my baby dog.
That's one of the first times I've ever really done that, told someone to be quiet in the movies, and thankfully I didn't get stabbed.
I'm glad there are ridiculous comedies getting made out there.
Sure.
It had most of the Apatow crew in it and some SNL alums.
It also had Matt Besser in it and now I see him all the time at the UCB theater.
It seemed like an Apatow movie mixed with an SNL digital short mixed with The Brothers Solomon (in a good way). I know it's been out for a while but go see it. I would watch it again right now, there are so many jokes and it might even be better a second time through.
They weren't.
Junebug is also on the list of must see movies. It's incredible.
Yes!
I leave for LA in a little over a week. I still need to get rid of my car,
What a cool thing to say, get rid of my car. I'm like (adapting a cool guy voice) Yeah, I don't need this car anymore, Ima just get rid of it, probably like drive it towards a cliff and then jump out and let it run of the edge and watch it burn brah.
buy some stuff, and pack. I'm visiting New York a week from today though. Hopefully I'll see Tina Fey or Conan on the street because they aren't working right now.
Sweet burn? I love writer's strike humor!!!!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Thursday, December 27, 2007 Sweeney Todd
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Sweeney Todd
See Sweeney Todd. Period.
I still feel this way. I want to see it again on Blu-Ray for sure.
Buy the soundtrack.
I never buy music hardly ever, not to mention soundtracks, and I mean I like never have bought a soundtrack ever, except for maybe the Next Friday soundtrack, but I bought this soundtrack (on iTunes what what) because it was awesome. There are people the buy a lot of CDs, I don't understand where they get money from to buy them, it seems like poor people always have a lot of CDs. I used to go to Record and Tape CDepot or whatever, they're all named some combination of those words, and trade in like 30 CDs and get one CD for the price of the 30 I traded in. And one time I bought a Silkk The Shocker CD and to my dismay it was edited. Now, if you know anything about Silkk the Shocker, you may know that his songs already sound edited because he pauses all the time and has no flow. I should have gone with Mystikal or maybe C-Murder, pre-murder of course.
Remember Funcoland? You used to be able to play the game to make sure it worked because technology still sucked. The Funcoland guy actually had to blow on the game before he put it in the NES or Sega or what have you. The only time I ever played VirtuaBoy was in Blockbuster and even as however young of a gentleman I was, I was like wow, this sucks...but I want one. You're either super rich or super poor if you owned a VirtuaBoy. A sure sign that you're poor is if you owned a lot of CDs and a VirtuaBoy.
Back to soundtracks for just one more second. Some people are soundtrack nerds. They're like, oh, I loved Batman's theme in Dark Knight, or the music in There Will Be Blood was spellbinding. My answer to that is, wait, were you watching the movie or being a weird nerd. Then they buy the soundtrack? Why not just buy the movie for the five extra dollars and then you get a whole movie too. You really wanna listen to 'Joker's Lament' or something like that in your car? Come on.
All that said I bought the Sweeney Todd Soundtrack so I'm a hypocrite. I guess I would have bought the movie but it wasn't out yet and if I had bought the movie I'd be pissed today because I didn't get the Blu-Ray.
Posted by Pete at 8:55 PM
Sweeney Todd
See Sweeney Todd. Period.
I still feel this way. I want to see it again on Blu-Ray for sure.
Buy the soundtrack.
I never buy music hardly ever, not to mention soundtracks, and I mean I like never have bought a soundtrack ever, except for maybe the Next Friday soundtrack, but I bought this soundtrack (on iTunes what what) because it was awesome. There are people the buy a lot of CDs, I don't understand where they get money from to buy them, it seems like poor people always have a lot of CDs. I used to go to Record and Tape CDepot or whatever, they're all named some combination of those words, and trade in like 30 CDs and get one CD for the price of the 30 I traded in. And one time I bought a Silkk The Shocker CD and to my dismay it was edited. Now, if you know anything about Silkk the Shocker, you may know that his songs already sound edited because he pauses all the time and has no flow. I should have gone with Mystikal or maybe C-Murder, pre-murder of course.
Remember Funcoland? You used to be able to play the game to make sure it worked because technology still sucked. The Funcoland guy actually had to blow on the game before he put it in the NES or Sega or what have you. The only time I ever played VirtuaBoy was in Blockbuster and even as however young of a gentleman I was, I was like wow, this sucks...but I want one. You're either super rich or super poor if you owned a VirtuaBoy. A sure sign that you're poor is if you owned a lot of CDs and a VirtuaBoy.
Back to soundtracks for just one more second. Some people are soundtrack nerds. They're like, oh, I loved Batman's theme in Dark Knight, or the music in There Will Be Blood was spellbinding. My answer to that is, wait, were you watching the movie or being a weird nerd. Then they buy the soundtrack? Why not just buy the movie for the five extra dollars and then you get a whole movie too. You really wanna listen to 'Joker's Lament' or something like that in your car? Come on.
All that said I bought the Sweeney Todd Soundtrack so I'm a hypocrite. I guess I would have bought the movie but it wasn't out yet and if I had bought the movie I'd be pissed today because I didn't get the Blu-Ray.
Posted by Pete at 8:55 PM
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Monday, December 24, 2007 VHS Tapes
Monday, December 24, 2007
Blogging on Christmas Eve.
VHS Tapes
Right now I am undertaking the huge
Aka not that huge.
project of transferring my movies that I have made over the years from mini DV, Avid file, Windows Media Player file, and VHS all to my MacBook and iPod.
I'm really glad I did this. I don't think the VHS transfers every actually worked out though.
A lot of them are terrible but a couple of them are awesome. It has been a great timeline that has shown how I've changed since my early movie making days. It's also great that I'll be able to have my movies on my iPod.
I've probably shown people them on my iPod twice, maybe.
I'll be able to transport them anywhere and show them to anyone. However, I need to borrow a VCR to complete the task.
Anyone!!?
Does anyone have a good VCR with an output RCA port that I can borrow? Message me, leave a comment, or email me at PeterLHarmon at gmail.com
Yeah, I don't think that ever worked, which may be for the best. One of my early video projects I was a part in high school was a remake of a scene from a Friends episode. I played Chandler. I was so bad. I should have at least watched the episode ahead of time so then I could mimic his line readings. I should go to one of those shady 'we turn your VHS into a DVD' places and get my VHS tapes changed.
Has anyone seen Juno? I had really mixed feelings about it. Actually I really liked everything but the main character, Juno.
Still pretty true but why did I have to talk about Juno soo much. And then it's weird that my internship was at the production company that made Juno, right after I started this blog.
Michael Cera was great, both hilarious and heartbreaking. Jennifer Garner walked a fine line between seeming to crazy to still being able to be related to.
I don't remember writing this or ever writing like this.
Jason Bateman was good as well. However, Ellen Page's title character (it wasn't all her fault) made me hate her nearly every time she opened her mouth. The slang and tone of her character wasn't natural. I think it was mostly the script's fault. I mean sure, people do really talk like that in real life, but I dislike those people in real life too. Also her character liked punk music...who cares? Is she Kirsten Dunst's love interest in Bring It On?
Good reference, srsly.
He liked punk music too. They're both such rebels.
But apparently people loved the way she talked because the theater was responding very well to it and Diablo Cody got a Golden Globe nomination. I would like to hear someone who really loved Juno's character to tell me why they liked it.
Still haven't.
I didn't, but the movie is still good and watchable in spite of it. Michael Cera, again, was breathtaking and so is the closing shot of the movie.
I copied the end shot of Juno in Jasper.
The direction was really good too.
Here's a pic of Michael Cera I got from this blog http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/oscars/index.html who's got a much better blog than I.
This isn't going to turn into a Michael Cera fan blog, I swear.
But he is wearing some shoes I have.
Instead of reviewing movies I should have started posting pictures of celebrities wearing shoes I own. That would have been a lot more interesting.
There are too many movies out right now that I want to see.
This is usually the case. There's usually two or three good movies out that I want to see but then I end up going and seeing like One Missed Call or something. Then, when it was my birthday this year there was nothing at all out. I had to go see the Friday the 13th remake. At least I avoided the temptation to go see Zombieland last weekend and Ash and I saw the Toy Story 3D double feature. It was so good but Ash and I forgot that there would be a lot of kids in the theater, duh. The couple next to us had a kid that fell asleep in the first movie and snored throughout the rest of it and the second movie. An old grandpa next to me fell asleep, he didn't even pretend to put on his 3D glasses. Basically these people are paying nine dollars (it was a matinee plus the 3D charge) for someone to take a nap. No one shows discretion when they go to a theater. There were babies when I saw Saw V! But at nice theaters like the Arclight the tickets are like fifteen dollars, maybe that's the price you have to pay to weed out the babies.
Merry Christmas.
Posted by Pete at 6:15 PM
Blogging on Christmas Eve.
VHS Tapes
Right now I am undertaking the huge
Aka not that huge.
project of transferring my movies that I have made over the years from mini DV, Avid file, Windows Media Player file, and VHS all to my MacBook and iPod.
I'm really glad I did this. I don't think the VHS transfers every actually worked out though.
A lot of them are terrible but a couple of them are awesome. It has been a great timeline that has shown how I've changed since my early movie making days. It's also great that I'll be able to have my movies on my iPod.
I've probably shown people them on my iPod twice, maybe.
I'll be able to transport them anywhere and show them to anyone. However, I need to borrow a VCR to complete the task.
Anyone!!?
Does anyone have a good VCR with an output RCA port that I can borrow? Message me, leave a comment, or email me at PeterLHarmon at gmail.com
Yeah, I don't think that ever worked, which may be for the best. One of my early video projects I was a part in high school was a remake of a scene from a Friends episode. I played Chandler. I was so bad. I should have at least watched the episode ahead of time so then I could mimic his line readings. I should go to one of those shady 'we turn your VHS into a DVD' places and get my VHS tapes changed.
Has anyone seen Juno? I had really mixed feelings about it. Actually I really liked everything but the main character, Juno.
Still pretty true but why did I have to talk about Juno soo much. And then it's weird that my internship was at the production company that made Juno, right after I started this blog.
Michael Cera was great, both hilarious and heartbreaking. Jennifer Garner walked a fine line between seeming to crazy to still being able to be related to.
I don't remember writing this or ever writing like this.
Jason Bateman was good as well. However, Ellen Page's title character (it wasn't all her fault) made me hate her nearly every time she opened her mouth. The slang and tone of her character wasn't natural. I think it was mostly the script's fault. I mean sure, people do really talk like that in real life, but I dislike those people in real life too. Also her character liked punk music...who cares? Is she Kirsten Dunst's love interest in Bring It On?
Good reference, srsly.
He liked punk music too. They're both such rebels.
But apparently people loved the way she talked because the theater was responding very well to it and Diablo Cody got a Golden Globe nomination. I would like to hear someone who really loved Juno's character to tell me why they liked it.
Still haven't.
I didn't, but the movie is still good and watchable in spite of it. Michael Cera, again, was breathtaking and so is the closing shot of the movie.
I copied the end shot of Juno in Jasper.
The direction was really good too.
Here's a pic of Michael Cera I got from this blog http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/oscars/index.html who's got a much better blog than I.
This isn't going to turn into a Michael Cera fan blog, I swear.
But he is wearing some shoes I have.
Instead of reviewing movies I should have started posting pictures of celebrities wearing shoes I own. That would have been a lot more interesting.
There are too many movies out right now that I want to see.
This is usually the case. There's usually two or three good movies out that I want to see but then I end up going and seeing like One Missed Call or something. Then, when it was my birthday this year there was nothing at all out. I had to go see the Friday the 13th remake. At least I avoided the temptation to go see Zombieland last weekend and Ash and I saw the Toy Story 3D double feature. It was so good but Ash and I forgot that there would be a lot of kids in the theater, duh. The couple next to us had a kid that fell asleep in the first movie and snored throughout the rest of it and the second movie. An old grandpa next to me fell asleep, he didn't even pretend to put on his 3D glasses. Basically these people are paying nine dollars (it was a matinee plus the 3D charge) for someone to take a nap. No one shows discretion when they go to a theater. There were babies when I saw Saw V! But at nice theaters like the Arclight the tickets are like fifteen dollars, maybe that's the price you have to pay to weed out the babies.
Merry Christmas.
Posted by Pete at 6:15 PM
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Thursday, December 20, 2007 Waiting For My Big Break
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Ooooh, almost Christmas!!!
Waiting For My Big Break
I just finished the first
And only, I'm a one take kinda guy.
draft of the script I am going to submit for the LA program. It is supposed to be 8 minutes (aka 8 pages in standard screenplay format).
Thanks for the necessary clarification.
Mine is about 7 pages but some of my concepts will be longer in the film than they are on paper I think.
The script is titled Waiting For My Big Break and it is about a young woman who moved to Los Angeles to follow her dreams and become what she always has wanted to be since she was a little girl...a waitress. The only problem is that all she can get is acting jobs on the side while she's waiting for her big waitressing break.
I need to reread this script but from what I remember it was legit. I should try and make it at some point.
Get the title now? The pitch sounds a little hokey but I think I found a great tone and I'm really proud of the script. I was going to post the first couple of pages to give you a sample of the humor but the blog wouldn't let me format it correctly and it looked like a mess.
A hot mess.
If you would like to read the first couple of pages of the script just email me at PeterLHarmon at gmail.com and I'll send you them.
No one ever did...
Or you can just wait five months until it is produced (hopefully).
Broken dream right there. Documented.
I wrote this script more descriptively than I usually write just in case I'm not the one who eventually directs it at the LA program. I have a very clear vision of how it has to look and I don't want it to be messed up.
Online TV shows to watch: like I said yesterday, Wainy Days at www.mydamnchannel.com also Clark and Michael at www.clarkandmichael.com which if you haven't seen it by now you're really late but it's still worth watching if you're a fan. It's smarter and probably generally funnier than Superbad and I know how much we all love that movie (which I do but it's not the end all be all).
I am definitely going to go back and rewatch all the Clark and Michaels. This is how you know though that I didn't have anything interesting going on, and I'm not saying I ever have, but the fact that I'm blogging about what Internet TV shows to watch?
And look how I get a little snooty about Superbad. I really like Superbad. Who says end all be all?
Fun fact: I'm friends with Clark Duke on youtube and I messaged him one time and he responded.
I also messaged him when I was casting Jasper because I really wanted him to play Jasper and I thought he was still kind of unknown and maybe Clark and Michael was the only thing he had really done but what I didn't know was that he was about to be on the show "Greek" and be in real movies. He would have made a great Jasper but I think the guy who ended up doing it was perfect.
the aforementioned Clark and Michael
Movies to watch: Eastern Promises.
At this point I've only posted on this blog like 4 times and I think I've mentioned Eastern Promises every time. I guess that was when Viggo handed me the big bag of money with the dollar sign on the side.
It's so good. And of course Superbad but before you watch any Judd Apatow productions you need to buy the DVD boxed sets of Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared.
Apatow snobbery.
Or borrow them from me but you'll have to give it back by January.
Or don't, whatevs, I'm breezy.
Questions, comments, feedback, (movie, etc related) announcements you want me to post send to me PeterLHarmon at gmail.com
Because my blog is the hub of all entertainment and not just a way for my parents to see what mid level celebrity I saw at The Grove.
Posted by Pete at 3:19 PM
Labels: celebrity gossip, Eastern Promises, Jamie Lynn Spears lol, jk, pitches, river bottom nightmares, scripts, serving, Superbad, X-Men 3 blog, youtube video
Jamie Lynn Spears must have just gotten busted being pregnant, see, in two years no one will care about any of the celebrity news that they did.
1 hollers:
My first comment!!
Ashlea said...
Future wife!!
dont forget that i am friends with michael cera via myspace for his short film "darling darling." he has messaged me twice!!
ash
You're gonna need to step up your grammar and punctuation for all future comments please. But that is cool, a little back and forth with Mikey C. Totes jelz...
My battery of my laptop is about to run out soon, so I won't talk about how dumb I think every kid is going to be eventually, but young kids and texting right now is out of control, and I try to talk to people my age about it and they all make some joke about me sounding old, like an old grandpa or something, but when your only source of communication or writing is like this: r u gon 2 da mall l8s? You're going to be an idiot. I just know one day I'm going to have some job where I'm reading these idiots resumes and I'll have to be all like 'So, it says your skillz include being a l33t hax0r and making your peepz lls off da chane?' and they'll be like 'what? sorry, I was live tweeting this job interview.'
December 20, 2007 8:53 PM
Ooooh, almost Christmas!!!
Waiting For My Big Break
I just finished the first
And only, I'm a one take kinda guy.
draft of the script I am going to submit for the LA program. It is supposed to be 8 minutes (aka 8 pages in standard screenplay format).
Thanks for the necessary clarification.
Mine is about 7 pages but some of my concepts will be longer in the film than they are on paper I think.
The script is titled Waiting For My Big Break and it is about a young woman who moved to Los Angeles to follow her dreams and become what she always has wanted to be since she was a little girl...a waitress. The only problem is that all she can get is acting jobs on the side while she's waiting for her big waitressing break.
I need to reread this script but from what I remember it was legit. I should try and make it at some point.
Get the title now? The pitch sounds a little hokey but I think I found a great tone and I'm really proud of the script. I was going to post the first couple of pages to give you a sample of the humor but the blog wouldn't let me format it correctly and it looked like a mess.
A hot mess.
If you would like to read the first couple of pages of the script just email me at PeterLHarmon at gmail.com and I'll send you them.
No one ever did...
Or you can just wait five months until it is produced (hopefully).
Broken dream right there. Documented.
I wrote this script more descriptively than I usually write just in case I'm not the one who eventually directs it at the LA program. I have a very clear vision of how it has to look and I don't want it to be messed up.
Online TV shows to watch: like I said yesterday, Wainy Days at www.mydamnchannel.com also Clark and Michael at www.clarkandmichael.com which if you haven't seen it by now you're really late but it's still worth watching if you're a fan. It's smarter and probably generally funnier than Superbad and I know how much we all love that movie (which I do but it's not the end all be all).
I am definitely going to go back and rewatch all the Clark and Michaels. This is how you know though that I didn't have anything interesting going on, and I'm not saying I ever have, but the fact that I'm blogging about what Internet TV shows to watch?
And look how I get a little snooty about Superbad. I really like Superbad. Who says end all be all?
Fun fact: I'm friends with Clark Duke on youtube and I messaged him one time and he responded.
I also messaged him when I was casting Jasper because I really wanted him to play Jasper and I thought he was still kind of unknown and maybe Clark and Michael was the only thing he had really done but what I didn't know was that he was about to be on the show "Greek" and be in real movies. He would have made a great Jasper but I think the guy who ended up doing it was perfect.
the aforementioned Clark and Michael
Movies to watch: Eastern Promises.
At this point I've only posted on this blog like 4 times and I think I've mentioned Eastern Promises every time. I guess that was when Viggo handed me the big bag of money with the dollar sign on the side.
It's so good. And of course Superbad but before you watch any Judd Apatow productions you need to buy the DVD boxed sets of Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared.
Apatow snobbery.
Or borrow them from me but you'll have to give it back by January.
Or don't, whatevs, I'm breezy.
Questions, comments, feedback, (movie, etc related) announcements you want me to post send to me PeterLHarmon at gmail.com
Because my blog is the hub of all entertainment and not just a way for my parents to see what mid level celebrity I saw at The Grove.
Posted by Pete at 3:19 PM
Labels: celebrity gossip, Eastern Promises, Jamie Lynn Spears lol, jk, pitches, river bottom nightmares, scripts, serving, Superbad, X-Men 3 blog, youtube video
Jamie Lynn Spears must have just gotten busted being pregnant, see, in two years no one will care about any of the celebrity news that they did.
1 hollers:
My first comment!!
Ashlea said...
Future wife!!
dont forget that i am friends with michael cera via myspace for his short film "darling darling." he has messaged me twice!!
ash
You're gonna need to step up your grammar and punctuation for all future comments please. But that is cool, a little back and forth with Mikey C. Totes jelz...
My battery of my laptop is about to run out soon, so I won't talk about how dumb I think every kid is going to be eventually, but young kids and texting right now is out of control, and I try to talk to people my age about it and they all make some joke about me sounding old, like an old grandpa or something, but when your only source of communication or writing is like this: r u gon 2 da mall l8s? You're going to be an idiot. I just know one day I'm going to have some job where I'm reading these idiots resumes and I'll have to be all like 'So, it says your skillz include being a l33t hax0r and making your peepz lls off da chane?' and they'll be like 'what? sorry, I was live tweeting this job interview.'
December 20, 2007 8:53 PM
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Stellllaaaaaaa
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Stellllaaaaaaa
David Wain has an internet TV show called "Wainy Days" that is really funny.
I need to catch up on this series, it was really funny.
It has millions of special guests
Well that's an exaggeration if I ever heard one.
like Michael Ian Black, Elizabeth Banks, Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Fogell/McLovin from Superbad), Martin Starr (Beard guy from Knocked Up), etc. There are about 15 episodes so far, they are only about 3-5 minutes each. You should sit down and watch them all right now.
Or else?
I think the latest episode comes out this Friday. Here is Episode 1 to give you an example.
It would be sweet if I had embedded Star Wars Episode 1.
Sweet? Who says sweet? Am I in Dude, Where's My Car? The best part though of Dude, Where's My Car was when they were trying to tell each other about their tattoos.
I'm always sad when people that I am positive are dumber/ poorer than me (and I'm pretty dumb and poor) have more tattoos than me. How are they affording tattoos? I was transcribing one of the first episodes of "Intervention" that I ever transcribed and the addict and her boyfriend had matching tattoos. The boyfriend said something like 'I bought me and her these matchin' tattoos with my first paycheck from my job at the bank but then I got fired from the bank cause she was calling me too much on the bank phone.'
You live with your parents but you spend your first paycheck on matchin' tattoos? Come on.
Also, I don't spend money on cell phones. The phone I currently have I paid $10 for when I re-upped my plan at T-Mobile and I think that's too much. This $10 phone is my first ever camera phone, which I used to hate on, but it's actually pretty cool. But anyway, how come the guy putting granola on my Pinkberry for me has an iPhone and I have the $10 re-up phone? I bet he has so many tattoos also.
Alright, I gotta re-watch this Wainy Days episode.
Silly right? Totally.
Totally. I watched the Stella: Live at Boston thing the other day, it's on Netflix watch instantly right now, and it was really funny. I would/ am currently recommending it.
If you have a video or link or announcement or whatever that you want me to put in my blog just send me an email at PeterLHarmon at gmail.com explaining yourself.
There's that at instead of @ thing again. Whatever Pete. Also, I used the words 'explaining yourself' that's weird. If you email me you have some 'splaining to do.
The other night at dinner, Ash and I went to a birthday dinner for her coworker, eh nevermind, I'm not even going to set up the story because as I think back on it now it really isn't that funny or maybe it just wouldn't be funny written down and maybe it was funny at the time.
Whenever I think of jokes ahead of time in a conversation I never say them because I feel like that's cheating. I only feel like off the cuff remarks deserve any credit. But thasss jus me ya'll.
Yesterday I watched The Kingdom and The Heartbreak Kid. The Kingdom was great, Jamie Foxx did a great job and even though I usually don't care for political thrillers this movie made everything pretty clear as well as having some great action scenes where you could actually tell what was going on.
This semi-pisses me off that I would say something like this at any point in my life for a couple reasons. One is the whole who cares about your movie opinions Pete? Another is that I listen to a lot of movie related podcasts and whenever a big action movie comes out every single 'critic' aka nerd with a podcast, is all like 'I didn't have any idea what was going on in the action scenes.' Really? Because I saw Casino Royale or Bourne Whatever and I didn't have any trouble telling who was doing what am I'm not even a critic!! I don't think these guys actually had any trouble knowing anything, I think they're just exaggerating to make the point, which I understand is entertaining to other d-bags, but I personally appreciate honesty. I would appreciate it if they just said 'hey, you know what, the action was shot and cut a little frenetically for my taste.'
Heartbreak Kid was better than I expected. I didn't really like There's Something About Mary so I didn't expect this to be any good either. There are the typical shock humor moments that really aren't very funny but if you get a chance to see this movie for free (like I did) go ahead and take it. There are some bro twins who are kind of funny in it, maybe just because they're twins/bros (I mean bro like fraternity brother, not like biological brothers because that's implied by them being twins).
No comment.
Once again, you should all listen to the Creative Screenwriting Podcast. It is fascinating to listen to writers discuss their breaking-in stories, how the studio (or independent) system works, and everything else you'd want to know about writing a movie.
Jeez Louise, I guess this was when Jeff Goldsmith handed me the big bag of money with the dollar sign on it. That's a super nerdy Creative Screenwriting related joke, haHA!
Go to iTunes and search for Creative Screenwriting in the Podcast area. Hostel Parts I and II are on there, Brick, The Kingdom, X-men 3, and probably about a hundred or two more.
Posted by Pete at 12:02 PM
I consider myself relatively smart. I did pretty well on the SATs, got good grades, sometimes know the answers on Jeopardy, etc, but I also know that I am super dumb about so much stuff. For example, reading this timestamp I really have to think whether 12:02 PM is right after midnight or right after noon. So I just thought about it for a second and I'm going to say that I know it is right after noon but still, it wasn't automatic knowledge. I think that I care so much about the stuff that I care about that anything else is very inconsequential. I don't even remember a lot of the roads' names I used to drive every single day in Maryland around Greenbelt or whatever just because I usually navigate based on sight so road names don't matter so I forget them, or never learn them.
Labels: David Wain, Elizabeth Banks, LOL, My Damn Channel, pwn3d, Stella, Tom Hanks, Wainy Days
I'm starting to get a little silly with the labels here. Tom Hanks? Pwn3d? Hilarious!
One of my favorite parts of the 17 Again Blu-Ray Extras (which is a funny sentence in itself) is when Zac Efron tells Tom Lennon that he should say pwn3d when he's playing all of his video games in that one scene. This makes Zac Efron seem a little bit cooler or maybe a little bit lamer, can't decide right now. Not that I'm gonna hate whatsoever, because I really, legitimately like 17 Again a lot, because it's a lot like the late 90s teen movies I really like, but watching it in Blu-Ray you can see Efron's weird, probably spray on, tan in the scene where he has his shirt off towards the beginning.
Speaking of Tom Lennon, why, when, and how did Jon Hamm from "Mad Men" get to be so friendly with the UCB/CDR comedians? He does all their podcasts? I'm not complaining, it's just weird because he has an Emmy and, I'm seriously not hating at all, I love going to UCB and I listen to all those comedians podcasts.
This has gotten to be too much about podcasts and not enough about 17 Again. In summation, let's have a 17 Again Blu-Ray party at our house, you're invited but BYO soda.
Stellllaaaaaaa
David Wain has an internet TV show called "Wainy Days" that is really funny.
I need to catch up on this series, it was really funny.
It has millions of special guests
Well that's an exaggeration if I ever heard one.
like Michael Ian Black, Elizabeth Banks, Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Fogell/McLovin from Superbad), Martin Starr (Beard guy from Knocked Up), etc. There are about 15 episodes so far, they are only about 3-5 minutes each. You should sit down and watch them all right now.
Or else?
I think the latest episode comes out this Friday. Here is Episode 1 to give you an example.
It would be sweet if I had embedded Star Wars Episode 1.
Sweet? Who says sweet? Am I in Dude, Where's My Car? The best part though of Dude, Where's My Car was when they were trying to tell each other about their tattoos.
I'm always sad when people that I am positive are dumber/ poorer than me (and I'm pretty dumb and poor) have more tattoos than me. How are they affording tattoos? I was transcribing one of the first episodes of "Intervention" that I ever transcribed and the addict and her boyfriend had matching tattoos. The boyfriend said something like 'I bought me and her these matchin' tattoos with my first paycheck from my job at the bank but then I got fired from the bank cause she was calling me too much on the bank phone.'
You live with your parents but you spend your first paycheck on matchin' tattoos? Come on.
Also, I don't spend money on cell phones. The phone I currently have I paid $10 for when I re-upped my plan at T-Mobile and I think that's too much. This $10 phone is my first ever camera phone, which I used to hate on, but it's actually pretty cool. But anyway, how come the guy putting granola on my Pinkberry for me has an iPhone and I have the $10 re-up phone? I bet he has so many tattoos also.
Alright, I gotta re-watch this Wainy Days episode.
Silly right? Totally.
Totally. I watched the Stella: Live at Boston thing the other day, it's on Netflix watch instantly right now, and it was really funny. I would/ am currently recommending it.
If you have a video or link or announcement or whatever that you want me to put in my blog just send me an email at PeterLHarmon at gmail.com explaining yourself.
There's that at instead of @ thing again. Whatever Pete. Also, I used the words 'explaining yourself' that's weird. If you email me you have some 'splaining to do.
The other night at dinner, Ash and I went to a birthday dinner for her coworker, eh nevermind, I'm not even going to set up the story because as I think back on it now it really isn't that funny or maybe it just wouldn't be funny written down and maybe it was funny at the time.
Whenever I think of jokes ahead of time in a conversation I never say them because I feel like that's cheating. I only feel like off the cuff remarks deserve any credit. But thasss jus me ya'll.
Yesterday I watched The Kingdom and The Heartbreak Kid. The Kingdom was great, Jamie Foxx did a great job and even though I usually don't care for political thrillers this movie made everything pretty clear as well as having some great action scenes where you could actually tell what was going on.
This semi-pisses me off that I would say something like this at any point in my life for a couple reasons. One is the whole who cares about your movie opinions Pete? Another is that I listen to a lot of movie related podcasts and whenever a big action movie comes out every single 'critic' aka nerd with a podcast, is all like 'I didn't have any idea what was going on in the action scenes.' Really? Because I saw Casino Royale or Bourne Whatever and I didn't have any trouble telling who was doing what am I'm not even a critic!! I don't think these guys actually had any trouble knowing anything, I think they're just exaggerating to make the point, which I understand is entertaining to other d-bags, but I personally appreciate honesty. I would appreciate it if they just said 'hey, you know what, the action was shot and cut a little frenetically for my taste.'
Heartbreak Kid was better than I expected. I didn't really like There's Something About Mary so I didn't expect this to be any good either. There are the typical shock humor moments that really aren't very funny but if you get a chance to see this movie for free (like I did) go ahead and take it. There are some bro twins who are kind of funny in it, maybe just because they're twins/bros (I mean bro like fraternity brother, not like biological brothers because that's implied by them being twins).
No comment.
Once again, you should all listen to the Creative Screenwriting Podcast. It is fascinating to listen to writers discuss their breaking-in stories, how the studio (or independent) system works, and everything else you'd want to know about writing a movie.
Jeez Louise, I guess this was when Jeff Goldsmith handed me the big bag of money with the dollar sign on it. That's a super nerdy Creative Screenwriting related joke, haHA!
Go to iTunes and search for Creative Screenwriting in the Podcast area. Hostel Parts I and II are on there, Brick, The Kingdom, X-men 3, and probably about a hundred or two more.
Posted by Pete at 12:02 PM
I consider myself relatively smart. I did pretty well on the SATs, got good grades, sometimes know the answers on Jeopardy, etc, but I also know that I am super dumb about so much stuff. For example, reading this timestamp I really have to think whether 12:02 PM is right after midnight or right after noon. So I just thought about it for a second and I'm going to say that I know it is right after noon but still, it wasn't automatic knowledge. I think that I care so much about the stuff that I care about that anything else is very inconsequential. I don't even remember a lot of the roads' names I used to drive every single day in Maryland around Greenbelt or whatever just because I usually navigate based on sight so road names don't matter so I forget them, or never learn them.
Labels: David Wain, Elizabeth Banks, LOL, My Damn Channel, pwn3d, Stella, Tom Hanks, Wainy Days
I'm starting to get a little silly with the labels here. Tom Hanks? Pwn3d? Hilarious!
One of my favorite parts of the 17 Again Blu-Ray Extras (which is a funny sentence in itself) is when Zac Efron tells Tom Lennon that he should say pwn3d when he's playing all of his video games in that one scene. This makes Zac Efron seem a little bit cooler or maybe a little bit lamer, can't decide right now. Not that I'm gonna hate whatsoever, because I really, legitimately like 17 Again a lot, because it's a lot like the late 90s teen movies I really like, but watching it in Blu-Ray you can see Efron's weird, probably spray on, tan in the scene where he has his shirt off towards the beginning.
Speaking of Tom Lennon, why, when, and how did Jon Hamm from "Mad Men" get to be so friendly with the UCB/CDR comedians? He does all their podcasts? I'm not complaining, it's just weird because he has an Emmy and, I'm seriously not hating at all, I love going to UCB and I listen to all those comedians podcasts.
This has gotten to be too much about podcasts and not enough about 17 Again. In summation, let's have a 17 Again Blu-Ray party at our house, you're invited but BYO soda.
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