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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Janeane Garofalo is stalking me

MORE DOCTOR SHENANIGANS

So I called up the VA and told a nurse there "I would like it if I could get sent a list of what all medication I'm on to make sure I am taking the right stuff." "We can't do that." she responded. "So - I'm not suppose to be able to verify the medicines YOU want me to take? So I should accidentally overdose and die and that's OK? Doesn't that kind of line up the VA for a lawsuit?"

She passed the buck immediately and told me that she would have my doctor called me back. I like that the VA can give me my medicine for free but my God, what a bureaucratic mess.

The saddest thing is that my blood pressure - the whole reason I went in - is back up to what it was. My vision is a bit blurry and my hands are shaking just a little. Much hate for doctors right now.

I guess it's kind of a good news, bad news thing. The good news is I have a pretty decent supply of medicine to start me off - the bad news is that it doesn't seem to work very well. Sigh.



WHAT MOVIES WOULD YOU TAKE?

I have about 500-600 gig of movies. They nicely fit on a one TB drive. If I wanted to take the 1TB drive, I'd also have to take the external drive reader and then worry about only having one power converter. I said "Screw that". The hard drive on the tiny, non-expandable netbook is 1/4th of a TB - 250gigs. More than enough space for someone who isn't interested in storing or watching movies. So, I said to myself 'even with all of the other crap on there, I could still get up to 100gigs of movies on there without really filling it up.' After going through my hard drive storage, I came out with like 60gig of movies I decided I'd like to take with me.

So, I selected just the movies I'd bring with me. Some were movies I wanted to see again, others were 'comfort movies' - movies I find myself re-watching in different moods. Because I'm guessing that there is someone out there who is curious as to what kinds of movies I'd take with, I'm making a list. In order to keep it from just being a list, I'm also putting in some comments on some of the movies.

Here's the list for those who are interested:

Doctor Who - 2005, 2006, 2007.
Austin Powers 1,2,3
Back to the Future 1,2,3 - This totally counts as a 'comfort' trilogy.
Basketball
Bourne 1,2,3 - I would have paid good movie to not have the 'unsteady cam'. Unsteady cam is a cheap film school stunt that the director never ever learned MUST be used sparingly. Or hire camera men who don't have the fucking shakes.
Conan 1,2 - Wish there had been a #3.
Constantine - I've heard that the theater opening is just pretty much an advertisement for the DVD from some directors. I think that's bullshit. I can pretty much tell you if there will be a sequel made to a movie. On IMDB they have two figures - 'budget' and 'gross'. If the budget exceeds the gross, no more movies of that type will be made unless something very odd and very extraordinary happens. The chance is so slim that you pretty much can assume it will never happen. Constantine is one of those movies I wish had a bigger gross.
Day After Tomorrow - For some reason I have yet to figure out, this is one of the films I watch when I'm not feeling positive.
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid - I made a module out of this one. If you ever watch the movies and see how the detective in that (played by Steve Martin) spouts off some 'nobody knows that' stuff, I would like to point out that one of the players I had live DID know that stuff. I had even changed some of it to fit into the campaign better. He would say "Ah- that is obviously referring to the Chinese year of the Rat, which would mean (and correctly calculate the year for the 1920's campaign we were playing in) and spit out the year. Everyone just stared at him and felt a little dumber. I believe that player we called "Doctor John". As he was an awesome player, he suddenly disappeared. Fortunately, I've managed to retain some awesome players since but that use to be the rule - if the player is great, they disappear. If they were average or less you had them forever.
Dogma
Down Periscope
Enemy of the State - Nice spy film.
Eurotrip - This film will help get me through Europe.
Fifth Element
Firefly 1-14 - Of course I have to have Firefly. I still think one of the best reasons to get a dimensional hopper is to find a dimension where Fox didn't suck so bad and kept the show going for five years or more. Then, I would go there and buy them all. For awhile, I would hold onto them and my players would think I am the best GM ever - equaled only by Joss W himself. Then, I'd sell the discs to Joss. He could then watch them and have a good cry or release them to a better studio. The actors would be very confused, however.
Formula 51 - A film that educates you on England. Original title, "The 51st State". Being that Americans were too dim to even know how they should be slandering England, the title was changed for release in the US but kept for release in England.
Galaxy Quest
Hogfather - This one doesn't get a lot of love but it is my 'Christmas movie'.
Hopscotch - Another solid spy movie.
Independence Day
Indiana Jones 1,2,3 - THERE WAS NO FOURTH MOVIE. BURN IN HELL LUCAS.
Italian Job
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Joe vs the Volcano - This is a nice travel movie.
Kick Ass - Yes, TJ, it made the cut.
La Femme Nikita - Aside from people who hung out back in the 'Swamp House' back in the day, few people have ever seen this. I am going to guess - before he even says anything - that Pete has seen this because he likes to go to the Melbourne Movie Fest and watch all kinds of movies that nobody else liked enough to put them on the 'big screen'. I do watch this in the original French and it isn't a bad one to help with your French language.
Lawrence of Arabia - My favorite scene in this was when Lawrence was telling his superiors he had shot someone and wanted to be relieved of command. I've had days where I've felt like this.
Loaded Weapon
Logan's Run
Mad Max 1,2,3 - Like other American's, I didn't really care for Mad Max 1. I brought that one along merely for completeness.
Matrix - Two and three were, IMO, sucktastic.
Mystery Men - One of the few good Janeane Garofalo movies. She was also good in Dogma but there way too briefly. [And yes, Janeane, if you are reading this I didn't think the other movies did your talent justice. Or sucked. Or both. And stop stalking me, woman!]
Princess Bride - Always a classic.
Queen of the Damned - The only movie where I can honestly say I like the soundtrack as much as - or more than - the movie itself.
Real Genius - Val Kilmer before he got old, fat and rich. I'm just like him except for the last one.
Ronin - Good, solid spy movie.
Saint, The - Another of Val Kilmer's most excellent movies. I think he had three. Top Secret, Real Genius and The Saint.
Serenity - Need it.
Three Days of the Condor - Solid though very old and dated spy movie.
Top Secret
Twister - Another 'comfort food' movie.
Zombieland - You can never tell when you're going to need some of the rules to living among zombies in your daily life.


I may end up getting some more on there before I go.

12 comments:

  1. I presume you mean the original Italian Job...

    Have you looked at getting an external USB drive, ie one entirely powered through the USB cable? I expect there are 1Tb or larger ones available over in the US. (Worst case, use 2 USB slots, one purely for power.)

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  2. Did but I think I can manage with 100gig or less of movies. Plus the extra weight and space. Plus the extra power drain. I really don't need extra movies all that badly.

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  3. suprised you didn't put on secret of my success...

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  4. That's true! Hum. Not sure if I even have that one on tap currently. Hum...

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  5. La Femme Nikita is one of my favourite films. I saw it several years before I started attending the film festival. In a shared household we had a tom cat called Victor after Jean Reno's char.

    And now I have the sound track going through my head.

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  6. It's a good soundtrack. Yes, only Pete will have seen that film I think. I enjoyed it- I still remember seeing the bullet angle shot in the kitchen fight - that sold me on the movie. Keep in mind, this was back in the 1980's when they didn't have many of the wild special effects you can get now...

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  7. Keep in mind that your laptop does use some of your hard drive space as "virtual storage" so you don't have as much room as you think you do. A general rule is to always leave 10% of your hard drive free for your CPU to use for virtual space.

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  8. That's a good tip - I will try to leave a lot of space on the drive. Thanks!

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  9. Hey, what about using online data storage? I looked into it a bit and the one charges 9.99 a month for 60GB. If you really wanted more space at a small price this may be a good alternative.

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  10. Trying to get rid of all costs. That much money might be able to house, cloth and feed me for a year and a half in Southeast Asia.

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  11. Not to ignore the very important movie lineup....I'm concerned about your health. It seems like it was a frustrating experience, but I think you should try again. They obviously missed something when they forgot the primary reason for you going to the VA - too much napalm in the morning?! IDK, but I don't want you to get into a bad situation...although it might get you to quit some bad habits for a while again on the bright side if you keep ignoring it! Hate to be a nag, but that is me for you....and it's because I care.

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  12. No worries.

    I don't want to pay large mysterious amounts of money when I can go to a third world nation and get it done for a lot less. And possibly have a better story to tell. I'm feeling great (well, relatively speaking) now and my BP has gone down with the new meds I'm on. I am concerned about the number of meds I'm on mostly for space in the backpack they'll take but maybe after I get whipped into shape I'll need less. Yeah, right.

    But either way, Logan's stubbornness has been engaged and it's full speed ahead!

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