Your Boring Saturday Night

I like both versions - the original one has tons of abstract style but not the same kind of tension/suspense the remake does.

I am in CT, watching preseason baseball on TV, where I will have to get up and change beds when 15-month-old niece awakens around 5:30.

The original TC Affair is watchable but very silly cotton candy (Faye Dunaway as world-class 23-year-old model-beautiful insurance investigator).

I didn't know "The Windmills Of Your Mind" was from this movie.

it won the Best Song Oscar! what magnificently abominable lyrics.

I never paid attention to the lyrics until just now.

why did summer go so quickly, was it something that you said?

Apparently my course of study up to this point has been a little neglectful of "The Windmills Of Your Mind."

To Write:
-600-word feature on boring bluegrass festival
-300-word review of B52s album (still need to listen to this)
-250-word review of Counting Crows album (need to finish listening to thiszzzzzzz)
-500-word review of Southland Tales (need to watch again)
-150-word piece on Os Mutantes
-50-word snippet recommending (!!!jesussss) the Used
-???-word email on project
-???-word email on thoughts about a friend's album

To Edit:
Three scenesssss from film; deadline is end of april.
250-word review of Gnarls Barkley album

Listening to:
David Archuleta - Shop Around/You're the Voice
Dolly Parton - Down from Dover
Counting Crows :(
B-52s, eventually

^^^really depressing life, except for the film, which makes me happy/anxious

Am I the only one up on this thread who actually had a social engagement I was supposed to go to but was so beat that I decided the best course of action was to stay home and take it easy - which ended up meaning lots of old country music videos on youtube. Of course there is also the technicality was that I wasn't really sure if I was invited, but maybe somebody didn't have my address. In any case, I made some noise to some people about intending to try to go, I'm sure I'm going to catch hell tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be well rested enough to take it.

i read a bunch of magazines while basketball played in the background :-/

Redd: yes you are

500-word review of Southland Tales (need to watch again)

oh, the hell you do, no one does.

morbs. get brunch with us tomorrow?

my tongue is currently hilariously swollen from eating the spiciest pepper ever, but i will want sushi gen in the morning

beat my dad at scrabble.

xp: maybe next week, I am at sister's house in Connecticut til tomw night. (hence I am online)

Played some poker and broke even, then relisted a few items on Amazon Marketplace. Do I really want to get back into that snakepit?

I totally sonned that douchebag Jon Darneel on ILM, check it out.

Wacky.. I didn't know that Hal Ashby worked on the original Thomas Crown (he was the editor)

Yeah, I noticed that too. Morbius kind of right about this movie, but it's still fun to watch out of corner of eye.

Samba,
Sugarloaf,
Jungle,
Piranha.

Don't you see? There's no way out.
You've done too good a job, Vicky.

Had some vodka and cokes with mates when they got back and set the world to rights via that magic of slagging off how shit the UK is nowadays. (Post-Thatcherite malaise, you know the score) So... wasn't a total wash out.

OK, just put the WKCR country music festival back on.

Thomas Crown over with. Now watching Futurworld on Tivo and drinking beer

ugh "Futureworld"

I'd like a big delicious beer.

Hah... I haven't seen this in 20 years. I forgot that it was good old AIP that did this.

The IMDB keywords are brilliant:
Fountain, Obscene Finger Gesture, Spiral Staircase, Sex With Robot, Security Guard, Telephone Call, Acrophobia, Cigarette Smoking, Mainframe Computer, Card Game, DNA, Dream Sequence, Doppelganger, Threesome, Hologram, Map, Evil Robot, Tunnel, Gunfight, Fall From Height, Eye, Eye Scanning, Reporter, Robot, Security, Mind Reading, Computer Breakdown, Sequel, Conquer The World, Dream, Android, Evil Scientist, Fantasies, Gunslinger, Killer Robot, Amusement Park, Sword Fight, Human Chess Board, Robot As Menace, Independent Film

Plus Peter Fonda!

getting more beer...

Futureworld sounds a lot better than The Reivers.

Speaking of Peter Fonda, Chris, have you ever seen or heard the Bruce Langhorne soundtrack of The Hired Hand?

Maybe I should start reading one of these books I got a hold of today- the new Ken Bruen or an old Domenic Stansberry featuring a baseball theme.

i just got off work

i have to be back at work in 6 hours so i am going to bed

how is that for a saturday night

but at least i am having a beer

listening to stars of the lid "and their refinement of the decline"

it works

oh and apparently i got some liberal arts honors award. which is cool.

this ghostwriting project really sucks ass.

Are you one of those LLILAS scholars, HOOS?

stars of the lid "and their refinement of the decline"

V. good album. Best in cold weather, tho (Coral Gables is a balmy 72 F).

Maybe you should accept some piecework from TapeStore, HOOS.

Maybe I should read this other book I have here which is a crime story with a SoCal music backdrop, Beach Boys and Manson, Little Nancy Sinatra and Bobby Fuller, called The Dead Circus, by John Kaye.

Futureworld sounds a lot better than The Reivers.

The Reivers isn't that bad but I'd rather just read Faulkner.

Speaking of Peter Fonda, Chris, have you ever seen or heard the Bruce Langhorne soundtrack of The Hired Hand?

I've got a copy of it. Great stuff and the Jeweled Antler-plays-Paris-Texas comparison is pretty spot on.

The Star Chamber is on Fox Movie Channel in 45 minutes if anyone needs some conspiracy/paranoia.

All right, I went a found a Dos Equis. I always thought they should come out with a more macho version called Equis I Griega.

Are you one of those LLILAS scholars, HOOS?

-- James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, March 30, 2008 5:34 AM

i have no idea what that means, so probably not.

Some Latin American studies thing.

One, Two, Three has been playing on WNET all this time. Horst Buchholz was just awakened by an Uncle Sam cuckoo clock.

Take it easy, kid, or you'll wind up in the People's Emergency Hospital!

We're going to turn this crumb-bum into a perfect son-in-law, and we've got three hours to do it.

C.R. MacNamara: Cigarette? Cigar?
Peripetchikoff: Here, take one of these.
C.R. Macnamara: Thanks. Hm, 'Made in Havana'.
Peripetchikoff: We have trade agreement with Cuba. They send us cigars, we send them rockets.
C.R. Macnamara: Good thinking.
C.R. MacNamara: You know something? You guys got cheated. This is a pretty crummy cigar.
Peripetchikoff: Do not worry. We send them pretty crummy rockets.

Meanwhile, over in Futureworld (which doesn't really have a lot of Future in it) Peter Fonda just materialized three ineffective robot samurai

Mrs. MacNamara: Maybe after sixteen years, every marriage gets a little stale, like a leftover glass of beer.
C.R. MacNamara: Look, Phyllis, can't we discuss this problem without bringing up a rival beverage?

The posters for this though are FANTASTIC

http://www.ukquad.com/futureworld.jpg

http://www.ukquad.com/2002.jpg

The girl in the second is posed like Peter's sister in the credit sequence of Barbarella.