Generate this!
These generator’s could probably come in quite handy when writing a tandem story entry:
And of course there’s always the trusty Shakespearian curse-generator and the Web Economy BS generator. Blah.
All that is gold does not glitter…
Ok, so RedRival is still in the process of “upgrading”, but I’m going to start posting stuff anyway.
Salon recently ran an interesting article about the new “Lord of the Rings” Trilogy that is presently in production. I am currently reading The Fellowship of the Ring, which is the first book of the trilogy. When I first heard that Peter Jackson would be directing, I was a bit suprised. This is such a high profile film that I would have expected a “safer” director to be chosen. While Jackson is best known for his mainstream work (The Frighteners and Heavenly Creatures, neither of which did blockbuster business), he was also known as a bit of a B-film maker, with some real disgusting movies under his belt (Meet the Feebles, Bad Taste).
Also suprising is that all three films are being filmed at the same time. Generally, the first film is made and released, and, if it does well, the next two are put into production (the scream trilogy and the matrix trilogy are two recent examples). To have all three put into production at once, without a proven box office draw, is unprecidented.
Cinematic Atrocities
It wasn’t too long ago when I witnessed the atrocity that is “Wild Wild West”. Quite possibly one of the worst movies I have ever seen; I actually contemplated writing a review for it, but I found that I was less motivated than a neutered dog when it came time to actually research it. But now I’ve found the ultimate reference for bad movies (“Ripping Hollywood the New Ass it Deserves”), and they’ve actually wasted their time to review all the bad movies so that you don’t have to watch them, including the Wild Wild Worst movie I have ever seen. Mighty selfless of them, I must say.
Isn’t it ironic?
LOL! Microsoft is producing reports on Macintosh computers! Put that in your irony hookah and smoke it 🙂
Javascript Sucks
Hmm, AltaVista seems to have taken a page out of Google’s book and created Raging Search with a nice clean interface.
Check out The Web Color Visualizer, it rocks. Very useful tool, there…
Was Ist Ist
Why, oh why, are they making a sequel to The Blair Witch Project. Can’t they just accept that they did something original and exciting, and leave it at that? No, oh no, they have to beat the idea to death. I suppose the sequel could be good, but I’m really doubting it. Oh well, was ist ist.
BTW, I put up a review of Red Dragon. Comments and questions are always welcome.
Thou haughty sour-faced malignancy
Use the Shakespearian curse-generator to deftly insulte thine enemies. When you get bored with that, try creating some Web Economy BS here.
Oriented
I started my job today. Blah. It was orientation today. My real work starts tomorrow. Blah.
I finished Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris the other day (eventually I’ll put up a review in Kaedrin Books). I liked it, but I don’t think its as good as everyone says. I would rather watch Silence of the Lambs again. I’m now reading The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. It doesn’t keep you on the edge of your seet, but it is a fascinating look at how the computer industry used to be (it traces the creation of a new computer that was to compete with the VAX – this is circa 1979 folks, so things are a little different now). No wonder computers and their software are so bloated today.
X – Men grossed over 50 million dollars last weekend (#2 for the summer behind MI2). Sure enough, a sequel is in the works (and a third is also rumored). I’m happy for them. And worried that the sequels’ll suck.
Napster Smapster!
Who’s scared of losing Napster when you can use gnutella to download any files, including mp3s, mpegs, avis, movs, wavs, and any other file you could ever want.