Herbie: Fully Loaded

Over the weekend I ended up going to see "Herbie: Fully Loaded" with my cousin (who, by the way, is way cooler than yours).

Personally, I thought was enjoyable. I mean, c'mon, it's Herbie. Herbie and I go way back. Here's a picture I took of him the last time I saw him in person:



So, anyway...we went. I suggested it without thinking she'd go for it, but she said she wanted to see it. It's cool, tho. I know better than to suggest something I know I'd hate, even as a joke, just in case I get taken up on the offer.

From what I could tell by one viewing, the stories that circulated on the 'net about Disney deciding to use CGI to reduce Lindsay Lohan's bust size were bogus, mainly because if they went to that trouble I think they would've lengthened her skirt, too.

Without going into any long drawn-out review mode, I'll just say it was worth the money and was a nice escape and 'turn the brain' off movie.

King Kong Preview

Sweet.

King Kong Preview

I'll be there.

Lions Rescue, Guard Beaten Ethiopian Girl - Yahoo! News

Man...this is so completely cool. A young girl gets kidnapped and then lions scared off the kindappers and stayed with the girl until rescuers showed up.

Lions Rescue, Guard Beaten Ethiopian Girl - Yahoo! News

BATMAN BEGINS again

Okay...went to see "Batman Begins" today, finally. Work has been an overtime-filled bear lately, so that's what took me so long to get to it.

It was....really, really cool. It was Batman, all the way. I remember going to see the Tim Burton/Michael Keaton "Batman" at a midnight premeire when it first came out. I remember the rush when it started and Batman appeared on screen, scaring the heck out of the baddie. I remember thinking "this is *my* Batman." I also remember, thinking back on it later, that it wasn't such a hot movie. Style over substance and all that. "Batman Returns" was in many ways a better movie, and then...well, the less said about the other two, the better. (except I still think Clooney was a great choice - he just had the misfortune to be in the worst movie of the bunch)

Since then, I've decided that the best Batman movie of them all was "Batman: Mask Of the Phantasm." Yeah, the animated film.

Now, I think it might be the second best.

And now that the setup is largely out of the way, if they make another film (which seems pretty likely) it can be even better.

Random comments - Would've liked less frenzied editing in most of the fights, tho it was perfect for the first full-on Batman fight. Still think the cowl needs work. The score, I'm mixed on. In many ways it was just servicable...no stirring themes to hum on the way out but at the same time, it served the action perfectly. Adding to, not distracting from the film. The Batmobile didn't thrill me when it was first unveiled months ago. Having seen it in action now, I gotta get me one of those. The casting and performances were nearly perfect.

Yep...this was a good movie. Go see it.

And the preview for "Sky High" looks pretty fun, too.

A Personal Best....

Hey...this is about the best I've done in contest yet:

FARK.com: (1522103) Photoshop this picnic table

As of this writing, I was about 8th with 13 votes.

Yay, me.

Here's the picture I did if you don't want to look at everyone else's work:

All My Yesterdays 2

"Have you ever been in love?

Horrible isn't it?

It makes you so vulnerable.

It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...

You give them a piece of you.

They didn't ask for it.

They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

Love takes hostages.

It gets inside you.

It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.

It hurts.

Not just in the imagination.

Not just in the mind.

It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.


I hate love."

By Neil Gaiman, Sandman #65

I Don't Like Colds

I don't. Don't like 'em at all. Which is why I rarely ever get them and why I hate them even more than most when I do get them. Like now.

And of course it hit me just in time for my weekend. Not that I had anything major planned, but what I didn't have planned was to end up lying on my floor for close to an hour because I was hopped up on cold medicine and didn't have the energy to move.

This coming week they're expecting to be really busy. We'll see. The way it's been lately, a 40 hour week would be more than we've had to deal with for a couple of months now. Not sure I can make it that long anymore.