Entertainment

I just finished watching this with the girls. I have never read the book and although I was a very avid reader as a child, never even heard of it before until the movie came out and since then have heard from several people “oh, that was my favorite book”. Whatever. I am a pretty big sci-fi/fantasy fan and don’t think I ever knew anyone as a child that read it either.

OK, just looked it up and it came out when I was about eleven and by that time I was pretty much beyond the newberry stuff and reading Heinlein, Farmer, and Foster which might explain why I had never heard of it.

I may actually have to get hold of the book and read it after having seen the movie. It was actually pretty good. I love horror movies. I personally try to stick to horror and action. Shoot-em-up type stuff. It’s because they are good for a rush of adrenaline and a laugh.

And they don’t make you cry. It doesn’t take much to get me weeping in a damned old sappy movie, and this one did the trick. By the end I was blubbering like a fucking baby. Thus the fact that I don’t go see shit like this in the theater.

Anyhow, it was a pretty good story but like I said, not at all what I expected.

Technorati : Bridge to Terabithia, Reviews

Steve McQueen is a man’s man, whether it was in his movies or in real life. How many of the pussified Hollywood stars do their own stunts? I was reading over at Cinematical that it’s rumored Brad Pitt might have the starring role in the Bulitt Remake. Oh hell, no. I tend to agree with them that the only star I know of that might approach the man (Steve McQueen) in coolness would be Daniel Craig.

A while back I posted a bit about the Police, their new album, and the subsequent concert. The new album is a two CD compilation of their most renowned songs. The Police were the quintessential 80’s band, and these songs show why. Here is the track listing:

Disc 01
01 Fall Out
02 Can’t Stand Losing You
03 Next To You
04 Roxanne
05 Truth Hits Everybody
06 Hole In My Life
07 So Lonely
08 Message In A Bottle
09 Reggatta de Blanc
10 Bring On The Night
11 Walking On The Moon
12 The Bed’s Too Big Without You
13 Don’t Stand So Close To Me
14 Driven To Tears
15 Canary In A Coalmine

Disc 02
01 De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
02 Voices Inside My Head
03 Invisible Sun
04 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
05 Spirits In The Material World
06 Demolition Man
07 Rehumanize Yourself
08 Every Breath You Take
09 Synchronicity I
10 Wrapped Around Your Finger
11 Walking In Your Footsteps
12 Synchronicity II
13 King Of Pain
14 Murder By Numbers
15 Tea In The Sahara

I’m not a huge die hard fan, everyone knows I am into metal and classic rock as well as the blues, but I do enjoy their music. Enough to purchase The Police CD and see them on tour anyway, which is a pretty good bit I suppose.

They even have a widget at their website that you can install on your page that shows their upcoming and current tour dates.

Here is a spot that has been running on TV in the UK recently.

Anyway, the CD has been out for about a month now, and along with the two CDs includes a vintage Police poster as well. One of the things for me not being a humongous fan is that I don’t constantly listen to them anymore, and I was extremely pleased to listen to the album as I forgot just how catchy and enjoyable their music is.

Technorati : The Police

Now that I have finished my brother’s book I am going to start reading the other one he brought me, The Children of Húrin. There is a reason he brought it with him though. He said it is boring as hell. I love Tolkien. He was one of the first fantasy authors I ever read as a child, but when Christopher Tolkien released the Silmarillion after his father’s death, I never did make it through the book. It is boring, dry and reads like a boring, dry history text written to put people to sleep.

I will attempt to make it through this one. My tastes have matured since then, but if my brother didn’t like it I don’t hold out much hope for the book.

Technorati : The Children of Hurin, Tolkien

You know I’ve smoked a lot of grass
O’ Lord, I’ve popped a lot of pills
But I never touched nothin’
That my spirit could kill
You know, I’ve seen a lot of people walkin’ ’round
With tombstones in their eyes
But the pusher don’t care
Ah, if you live or if you die

God damn, The Pusher
God damn, I say The Pusher
I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man

You know the dealer, the dealer is a man
With the love grass in his hand
Oh but the pusher is a monster
Good God, he’s not a natural man
The dealer for a nickel
Lord, will sell you lots of sweet dreams
Ah, but the pusher ruin your body
Lord, he’ll leave your, he’ll leave your mind to scream

God damn, The Pusher
God damn, God damn the Pusher
I said God damn, God, God damn The Pusher man

Well, now if I were the president of this land
You know, I’d declare total war on The Pusher man
I’d cut him if he stands, and I’d shoot him if he’d run
Yes I’d kill him with my Bible and my razor and my gun

God damn The Pusher
Gad damn The Pusher
I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man

It’s pretty obvious what I have been listening to since I got home. I went ahead and loaded some stuff up on the boy’s iPod Nano and while I despise wearing headphones I do have one of those cassette things that you plug into your music player and listen in the car. Much better than the crap that’s on the radio. I have 129 songs on my playlist right now but I am sure it will expand.

Gods and Goddesses
[Roman names are given in brackets]
Apollo:
Son of Zeus and Leto; favors the Trojans.
Ares [Mars]:
Son of Zeus; favors the Trojans.
Athena [Minerva]:
Daughter of Zeus; favors Greeks.
Hades:
Son of Cronus; ruler of the underworld of the dead.
Hephaestus [Vulcan]:
Son of Zeus and Hera; favors the Greeks.
Hermes [Mercury]:
Sone of Zeus; favors the Trojans.
Iris:
Messenger of the gods.
Persephone [Proserpina]:
Daughter of Demeter [Ceres] and queen of the underworld.
Poseidon [Neptune]:
Son of Cronus; king of the sea; favors the Greeks.
Zeus [Jupiter, Jove]:
Son of Cronus [Saturn]; king of the gods and ruler of the sky; arbiter of human destiny.

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The Boy is watching Kingdom of Heaven on cable right now. Pretty decent movie. This is the first time that I have seen it but I don’t know if I am going to stay up with him to watch much more though. Tomorrow will be a fairly long day and I need to get some sleep whenever this diarrhea of the fingers stops…

I found a site to add to my media center links. The movie collector site is pretty cool. It’s called Movie Gatherer and the site is designed for movie collectors and movie lovers. There are useful links and information on hot to store and keep them as well as news about collector’s editions of quite a few movies. There are some pretty useful gadgets on there such as this revolving CD rack that holds 100 CD/DVDs. There is also a bit of information about barcode scanners. Barcode scanners are particularly useful because there are a couple of programs that will read the barcodes and pull the movie information off the net. You can usually find fairly cheap barcode scanners online as well.

The program that I use does just this. It pulls in the movie information from the Internet and then adds it to a database that I can use with my media center front end, including the posters and art work, which is very cool using one of the ten foot interfaces.

Not that I post a lot of news about celebrities or anything, but damn thats a nice dress 🙂

That was quite an appropriate ending and considering the amount of bloodshed and drama from the last few years, a very nice one.

Irritating as hell though.