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One-line Movie Reviews Part III: The Return of the Cing
The C's Hey, remember the Cold War Kids? I thought they all died too, until I was puttering around YouTube and happened upon their excellent 2006 hit song "Hang Me Up to Dry", or rather the song's equally excellent video. From there, I clicked a suggested link on the right only to find "Something Is Not Right With Me". So they weren't one-hit wonders! Well, except... I don't know I guess it wasn't a hit. But it should have been. While we're on the subject of music and the letter C, I also recently found a great country album. A Canadian country album, no less. It's On the Floor of Heaven by The Blue Shadows. I would link to the respective album and band Wikipedia pages except they don't exist. If you're a musical omnivore like me and you don't outright reject country music, give it a listen, especially the track "Deliver Me". Once you're hooked, buy it on Amazon. On to the C's! Wowsers!
I've been playing a lot of World of Warcraft in the past few days. I'm back. I'm back! I've been making tons of gold, or at least what I consider tons of gold. 600 gold, 3 days work, level 45-47. Finally auctioned an item for 100 gold (though taxes being what they are, I only saw 95 of it). Another finally: I finally got "ganked". Twice, both times in Tanaris. Very different situations though. One was what I would call a fair fight: it was me, a level 45 rogue, versus a level 46 Blood Elf rogue. I had no wish to fight him, but he snuck up and stabbered me as fussy bitchy Blood Elves are wont to do. So I went back, respawned, lured him into a hut with NPCs, and as soon as he "snuck up" and attacked me again, well, I didn't raise a finger. I let the Gadgetzan Bruisers do their good work. And it was good. The next ganking was not a fair fight. A level question mark two-shot me in the middle of town. That's fine, once again the good men of the Gadgetzan Bruisers go about their work. Only they can't kill him. And he can't kill them. It's some bizarre high level stalemate. At level 46 I can only watch, or can I???? As he alternates between slices and heals, fending off 4 or 5 guards, I walk up behind him and use that favorite of Rogueish methods: the Cheap Shot. The Blood Elf (it's always a Blood Elf) is stunned for 4 seconds, and I imagine at that moment there is also a real life human, in some reeking basement with 20 years of filthy TV dinner trays piled around an eMachines that his mom won't upgrade, also stunned, hopefully for more than 4 seconds, as his stupid avatar is slashed and torn by the single-minded guards like hungry wolves on the dumbest baby lamb. One-line Movie Reviews Part II: The Second One
The B's
Not that I'm complaining. Everyone knows that it's better to be too cold than too hot, in that you can always add layers of clothing to warm up. But to cool off, once you're down to your undies... well, your selection of businesses that you may patron decreases, and the cops get mad if they find you. When I say that everyone knows this, of course, I exclude the hapless Southern Californians who've breathed in too much smog or perhaps waded into a polluted beach and now believe that anything below 75 will cause frostbite and only the hardiest Viking-like thick-skinned mongrol men could live north of Sacramento, in the Yeti infested ice-cities of Southern Oregon, say. But uh, I digress. Without further ado, part 2 of this 5 part bloggle. Be warned: some spoilers may ensue. One-line Movie Reviews Part I: The First Part
The A's
I recently found the file on an old hard drive containing these reviews, and I post them here as a bit of cool water amidst the drought of updates. A few notes before I post them: I have changed my mind about many of the reviews, especially the numbers (they are my IMDb ratings before IMDb ate, digested, and destroyed my account). But I'm too lazy to update them. Also, technically many of them aren't reviews but just thoughts or observations or defining quotes from the film. I only had one line! Lack of Updates!
But I'm working on it!
 Hey, folks, it's been a while since I wrote anything (literally anything), but I'm working on getting back on the wagon and start the daily updates again. The last thing I wrote was Whoops! I Saw Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, but I've got a new pile of Whoops! I Saws on my plate to write up. Look forward to those as well as a new installment of No, Dude, It's Awesome, some form of WoW related nonsense, and a photo journal from Comic Con 2010. Get hyped! Last of the Oregon pictures
Well, I've stretched it out as long as I can, the sweet memories of a better place. Let's start with delicious, sizzling bacon.
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So it's almost August and I've been bringing a jacket to work. Because it's cold. In San Diego. In July. What's going on?
Back in 2006 I decided to review every movie I'd ever seen. It was an ambitious project, considering I'd seen a lot of movies, but I thought if I just wrote one line per film I'd get through it. It was fun, but I only got through to the F's before I lost interest or forgot about it.