Martin Logan

Now, I don't know if this happens with other people's computers but it did give me a chuckle. No, I don't have any videos yet - see below...

Martin Logan

Who the heck is that? Why? Should we set him on fire? Film at 11.



TV SHOW REVIEW - PASSPORT TO EUROPE

Starring Samantha Brown now. One of the things that she does do that I like is to actually tell the pricing of some of the stuff. However, she does stay in places that are WAY out of my price range. She seems to consider anything under $400 per night 'cheap'. Note that this is a bit out of my price range. I don't know if this lady travels around on her own or how much per day she gets to go review the cities she goes to. Pretty crazy amounts of money get dropped. And she goes and tries on $150k Rolex watches, though she didn't buy it. If they let me into a shop like that, I'd be surprised. Probably as surprised as me wandering into a shop like that. I'd suspect sleep walking. Anyway, this lady seems to be loaded or gets the amount of money per day that I can only dream of. Being that I am going to be traveling on say thirty times less per day than she seems to I think you'll get more of a 'budget view' from my blog. [Note that all of the areas she goes to (according to the all knowing internet) DO have cheaper places to stay - she just isn't there.]

Bert mentioned that it is not impossible for me to run into someone on the road who has a camera and wants to film me. Who knows - maybe movie makers in Prague will have seen the success (?) of "An Idiot Abroad" and think "A Fat Cripply Bastard Abroad" is a good show. [Note - that title not found in IMDB - it is available!!] Weirder shit has happened...

A good example of a difference between Samantha Brown's show and mine; she was in Amsterdam and was saying that while she is here, she's got to try something that is local, surprisingly easy to get, etc. Then, showed us raw herring. I would have looked at the camera and said "Drugs and hookers." And meant it. While not everyone would agree with that sort of thing, I feel it is a 'refreshingly honest approach'. And better than deep throating a raw dead fish.



JANEANE GAROFALO

I would like to take a moment to thank Janeane Garofalo for stalking me. For some reason, that blog post is still the highest ranking of all of the individual ones. Thanks for that Janeane; please stop sending me hate mail with pictures of various weapons and notes like "I could use this!" on them.



THOUGHT OF THE DAY

If you wanted people to be nice to you all day today, you wouldn't be reading this fucking blog.


Heck, I don't know where Estonia is!

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.