| Given the day I'm having. . . |
[Jan. 12th, 2012|10:42 am] |
I need a good laugh. Fortunatly I found it.
Oh, by the way neither video is safe for work, around children or people with heart conditions. |
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| Fine, I Will Comment |
[Jul. 13th, 2011|03:37 pm] |
I seem to be a bit behind the times on this one but the thing that annoys me about the whole Casey Anthony reaction is that people fail to realize that the system in this case worked, the prosecutors went for the charge they wanted instead of the charges they had, they over reached you might say.
I don’t know what happened that night, but I do know this. The prosecution failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Casey Anthony murdered her daughter, all they proved was that she was a bad mother.
Our legal system is based on the belief that it is best for a hundred guilty men to free than for one innocent man to go to prison. An understanding that is not very popular in my family, this is why the state must have evidence that proves guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. As I have said in the above paragraphs, and I cannot stress this enough, the D.A.’s office did not have this evidence, they tried playing the emotions and sympathies of the jurors, and the jurors didn’t go for it.
So, no, Nancy Grace it wasn’t that the jury was pact with 12 idiots, you being one should be enable you to spot your own kind. And no, it wasn’t the slick lawyer who defended her, he did his job which was to poke more holes in the state’s case than the state had spackle and he did it well. It was the D.A.’s office that dropped the ball, and instead of going for something like manslaughter (which might have worked), child endangerment (which possibly would have worked), or child neglect/abuse (cast iron right there I’m told) they made it murder with the death penalty option with (I say again) no evidence for it.
So, who wants to bet me that in 10 years Casey Anthony is going to be an even bigger train wreck? |
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| Insidious Review |
[Apr. 1st, 2011|02:12 pm] |
Well, I saw Insidious two days before it came out. Well, I was the security at the sneak preview so I was not so much watching it as watching the audience watch it to make certain that it wasn't pirated, but I did watch some of it and I got to listen to all of it.
Now let me say this about scary movies, American scary movies don't scare me, they might startle me, but they don't scare me. Only two horror movies have succeeded in getting a reaction out of me before this, 1923's Nosferatu (German) and 2003's Ju-on: The Grudge (Japanese). Nosferatu managed to give me the chills with the scene where there's a long dark hall way and at the far end there was Count Orlock, and they cut to the close up. That was freaky, I liked it.
Ju-on was a different story I watched that movie at high noon on a clear June day with the windows open and all the lights on there was a scene there that caused me to spend the rest of the day and well into mid-night watching Marx brothers clips and MST3k on you tube to make me try and forget what I just saw.
Ju-on: The Grudge remains the scariest movie I have ever seen. Insidious is a not so distant second.
(There maybe some vague spoilers at this point.)
They say what is scary is the unknown, the unseen, for me and movies, it is less so. If you're selling me a ghost story, I expect to see a ghost. Same goes with vampires, werewolves, demons, aliens, and the like. Who would see a zombie movie if you never saw a zombie in it?
And by see it I don't mean for a split second and then nothing. I don't want a jump scare, sure it'll startle me, but it won't scare me. This is where many American made horror movies fail; it's all about the jump scare or the whack job with a k-bar.
If you want to scare me get the creepy thing on screen and let me get a good look at for a couple seconds. And if all it does is open its mouth you're on the right track. And even with the unseen the right sound in the right scene can raise the pucker factor of a scene, something like someone off screen racking a shotgun.
Insidious did this very, very well. There are still however moments that I was not a fan of. Like other American made horror flicks there is a strong leaning to do Jump scares and as I said earlier I'm not a fan of those. Not even the sound of them, scaring me means raising my pulse, not causing a heart attack.
And there were a couple scenes where I wanted to step through the screen and smack one of the characters till the stupid fell out, and shout "Take the nickel tour on your own time, you have a job to do!" And leaving the theater I was wondering why no one thought to astrologically project this poor shmuck a .45.
This movie is basically "Poltergeist". Some things are changed, some are added, some are deleted, and some concepts are expanded and stretched. But yeah, it's "Poltergeist", right down to the comic relief in the form of the paranormal investigators.
The ending was also predictable, when I heard that one of the guys making the movie also made "Paranormal Activity", I had a good guess what the end was going to be like, and I was not wrong. As to what exactly the ending was I had it figured out during the big chase scene. I could see that they were going for a twist ending, but it didn't really work out that way. In the end if you want to see a scary movie I really have no hesitation recommending it.
On a side note, who knew that demons were such an Ironic bunch? I expected the soundtrack to Hell to be a live performance of Black Sabbath, or Cradle of Filth's Cruelty and the Beast album. I never would have guessed that it was Tip-toe through the Tulips by Tiny Tim.
As an addendum, I would like to add that one American movie did have a scene that did creep me out. That scene would be the spider walk scene in "The Exorcist". You can tell me all day long that there is nothing wrong, but the second someone spider walks down a flight of stairs the only thing you'll see of me is an optical illusion because I just ran at the speed of light to get as far away from that location as possible. On that note the humanoid creature crawling along the wall in "Insidious" was kind of creepy, but it wasn't exactly "I'm the hell outta here!" creepy. It might have been because this was during the climax. |
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| De la Rey |
[Mar. 31st, 2011|09:49 pm] |
I don't know why but this reminds me in some odd way of Firefly. Perhaps this is why I find it so addictive |
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| A Very Pleasant Day. |
[Mar. 20th, 2011|12:55 pm] |
So today it looks like we will hit near the eighty mark for temperature, which is good it means I am closer to retiring my winter coat till next winter and being able to wear fewer than six layers of shirts underneath that. It has been warming up rather steadily for the past couple of weeks and making my life all the more tolerable for it.
And since this is the first day I've had pretty much to myself for the past two weeks I'll do what I do pretty much every time the weather seems to improve for the year and that's have a glass of sake that I will drink to the coming of warm and pleasant months, then to the sunset, then to the point I'm teaching the lawn furniture Criminology. |
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| Today Was Good |
[Feb. 17th, 2011|05:36 pm] |
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Aside from the wind I would have called this day perfect. |
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| Boom-lay Boom-lay Boom |
[Jan. 30th, 2011|10:18 am] |
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| Something on My Mind. |
[Jan. 10th, 2011|10:56 am] |
So, it looks like Qubo has started to show some old cartoons from the 80's during their late night blocks, starting at 11:00 pm and according to Wikipedia goes till six in the morning. As a fan of the 80's when I'm up at the farm and as such no access to so much as a can of beer it means I'm normally up till midnight or later, depending on how wired I am from my caffeine intake that day. This means I'm normally flipping channels between Qubo and This TV if the movie they're showing is interesting enough.
Well anyway, while watching He-Man one night I started to scratch my head over something, and it started to bug me a bit. It wasn't the ambiguously gay subtext so many on the internet have taken a rather obsessive interest in, or the Freudian overtones in the character He-man himself. No this head scratcher had me heading to fridge to get the tall cans of PBR I bought during the day, to make sense of this quandary.
The episode that kicked this thought train off was the episode "Evilseed" Where a monster named wait for it. . . Evilseed convinces these, what I can only assume are Gnomes, to plant these seeds by the dam they live by. The seeds grow at a rate than even Jack of "Jack and the Beanstalk" would call bullshit on and try to take over the world before the good guys torture science like a pissed off Jack Bauer to stop the evil plot.
And the line that started it off this quandary was when a gnome told He-Man "We tried pulling the weeds but they were just growing too fast." At this point I muted the TV, went to the fridge, grabbed two pints of PBR, and I asked myself this question.
The planet of Eternia has the technology make tanks, fighter craft, and other such items that- and I'm not fooling myself here - were designed to sell toys. But the one thing they haven't gotten around to creating is a tractor? I mean it might not have stopped Evilseed, but it could have slowed him down to have to deal with this universe's version of a Harvester International and a plow. They could have stuck some plows on some tanks and called it "Good enough for Hannibal Smith." You could have even turned the message from "When we work together we achieve great things!" (Watch the episode to see how that came about) to "With some ingenuity and know how, any problem can be solved!"
But they did blow up an iceberg, which is a solution, of sorts. |
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