Ideas

Well, in the 13 days since my last post, I have watched 6 movies. None of them blew me away, but most were entertaining. Just so I feel complete, here is the list, with a few comments about each.

42. Meet the Spartans
Another atrocity of a spoof movie. I don't know why I've been subjecting myself to these so much. Even more pop culture references than the last one. And they keep putting Carmen Electra in them as the sex kitten, even though she's old as fuck. Kudo's to her for getting steady work, but there has to be some hotter young starlet who would work for cheaper.

43. Semi-Pro

The next installment of "Will Ferral makes a comedy about every sport" There were some funny moments, and the same funny cast ensemble that gets used in most of his movies is back and shining in their bit roles. It was worth a one time watching.

44. Horror Business

This one was on Netflix Instant Viewing list. It was about independant horror film makers and the hurdles they must face in plying their craft. While this had the potential to cover a topic that I would find fascinating, they found some of the most annoying and dim witted film makers to focus most of their attention on, and then spliced together alot of crazy images and random old movie clips to fill it out. The highlight was an extended interview with Mark Borchardt of American Movie fame as he attempted to make a new movie. He is quoted in the film saying he wanted to finish it that year (2005) And I am happy to report that accourding to IMDB he completed his latest work a short three years late.

45. Hitman

Cashing in on successful video game franchises into movies has been a long and hard road for Hollywood. You could argue that they did alright with the Tomb Raider movies. I've never seen either one, but they did make two, so it couldn't have been that much of a loss for them. Hitman doesn't require you to know dick about the games and launches into a hitman for hire story that was very reminiscant to me of the Bourne series. There were plenty of awesome kills and over the top sex and violence to keep my adolescent brain intrigued, but it also did one of the things that I hate most in movies. They open the movie showing the Hitman breaking into his main rival's house and having a conversation. The rest of the movie is a flashback to what they went through together. So even if I thought for a second that Agent 47 wasn't going to live through the film, I knew from the get go that he at least survived until they get back to present time.

46. Wet, Hot, American Summer

I can't believe that I don't own this one. I will soon enough. We watched this one with a bunch of the Waycross kids that were stranded at our house for a few nights after the floods. Yes, it captures a lot of the quirks and situations at summer camps, bit it is also filled with raunch and hilarity. And a very solid cast.

47. The Aristocrats

Another one we watched with the Waycross crew. They wanted something funny, and I threw this one in. I think the boys enjoyed it, and the girls may have been slightly less enthusiastic about a film dedicated to the grossest things people can come up with, mostly which involve vagina's in some derogatory way or another. I loved it just as much as any other time I've seen it. It also reminded me of when I saw this in the theater with Joe. There was obviously some young couple a few rows ahead of us on an early date for them. They may have read about this small independent documentary and thought it would be good culture to take in. Neither of them were prepared for what was unleashed upon them. As they left shaking their heads in disgust, I could only rest happily with the knowledge that neither one of them would regard the other the same ever again.

So that catches me up on my movie count for the year. We survived the great flood of 08 with minimal damage and heartache. Right in the middle I turned 27, which is awesome. 27 has been my favorite lucky number for a long time. Duane Ferrell wore number 27 for the Pacers in the mid 90's and I was a fan of his. He wasn't the best player or the most accomplished on the team. Mostly a bench player, I really liked how he played and adopted him as my favorite underdog player. He only played for the Pacers for two seasons, but via a quick wikipedia search, I find that he played for three teams for 10 seasons in the NBA, and is currently working as the director of player programs for the Washington Wizards. You go Duane!!!

Anyhoo, back to 27. Now that I'm my favorite number in age, I feel that this next year will be an awesome one for me. Of course it helps that I'm getting married during this favorite year, but I also think it'll be good for other reasons.

On the kitteh front, Rouge came home tonight. Either she changed a lot from the last time we saw her, or Adie picked out the wrong picture from the internet, because she looks nothing like the picture Adie pulled off. But whatever, she's a kitten and a girl and she's here now with a name, so she's not going anywhere. Gambit had been playing pretty hard for about an hour before Adie came home with her, so I thought maybe he would be pretty chill once she got here. But oh no, that was hardly the case. He chased her and tackled her any chance he got. I let them go at it for about an hour so they could get used to each other, but then decided that enough was enough and locked up Gambit in the bedroom so she could chill a little and get used to the house. Initially, she seems a bit more laid back and chill when she's not being harassed by Gambit.

So the house is now complete and our family has doubled in size in the past three weeks. Alan is in the air on his way home for about three weeks. Tomorrow we are taking our Kansas City BBQ judging class. But I'll save that story for once we have been certified.