Archive for February, 2003
Pumpkin (2002)
Starring:
Christina Ricci (one of my top ten favorite actors, soon to be in Prozac Nation*)
Hank Harris (as Pumpkin)
Dominique Swain
Directed by:
Adam Larson Broder
Anthony Abrams
Brief Plot Outline:
A sorority girl (Ricci) falls in love with a disabled man (Harris), at the expense of her “perfect life”.
Comments:
This was a cute movie that doesn’t seem to take itself too seriously.
Ricci (who also has a production credit) plays the role well, although there isn’t a lot of on-screen chemistry between her and Harris. Decent supporting cast.
Not one of Ricci’s better movies, but still worth checking out. It’s an interesting concept that looks stupid on paper but executes very well on the screen.
Hank Harris was perfect for the role.
I give it 4 out of 5 Kidds.
* Interesting note.. the director of Prozac Nation, which is Ricci’s next movie (where she also has a production credit) was directed by the same guy who did the screenplay for the original “Insomnia”, reviewed below.
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Insomnia
Starring:
Al Pacino (always a favorite)
Robin Williams (his comic shtick annoys me to no end, but he’s a REALLY good “creepy” actor)
Hillary Swank (one of the best actors in the industry)
Directed by:
Christopher Nolan (“Memento”, which everyone has seen, and “Following”, which no one has seen but SHOULD see)
I’ll forego a plot detail, since this was just a remake of the 1997 film of the same name. I actually liked this movie. I’ve never seen the original, but I’ve heard it’s better than the remake. The direction, casting, acting and cinematography were all outstanding. The only thing that sucked was the screenplay. It was stale, uninteresting, and predictable. I think if any other director tried to take on this film it would have bombed BIG TIME. The end result was a nice little distraction, but with the amount of talent they pooled together for this picture they should have picked a more interesting script.
I give it 4 out of 5 Kidds.
Anyone else seen it?
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I read here that the U.S. military is planning to introduce a “massive new weapon” in the upcoming war on Iraq. It’s basically a gigantic 21,000 pound bomb, nicknamed “MOAB” (Massive Ordnance Air Burst). “Sources” claim that the net effects of this terrible new weapon are similar to that of a small atomic bomb. That sucks.
I thought the name was interesting. I dug deep into the recesses of my dirty little brain, and recalled that during the late 40’s and early 50’s prospectors flocked to Moab, Utah (including the great Utah Phillips) to mine uranium. At the time, Uncle Sam was buying the stuff like mad to support nuclear weapons development. Is this a coincidence? Who knows. I bet crazy conspiracy theorists would argue that this new weapon is secretly just a new nuclear device hidden inside of this giant bomb casing. Unfortunately, we’ll probably be finding out pretty soon.
The other day I was wonking to Steve about how the tools in windows are mostly useless, especially the stupid Window’s Find feature, which always seems to omit results (which for me is useless). So he recommended that I try Cygwin, an implementation of the BASH Shell that runs under windows. I gotta say this is about the best thing ever! This takes me way back to my Pratt and Whitney days, back to a happier time (from a programming standpoint). This, coupled with a new installation of Perl I threw on last week almost makes me feel like a real programmer again.
You can’t even imagine how many times in the last few days I’ve typed
fgrep -iHR pattern *
I’m grinning ear to ear.
I’ve been spending a good deal of the afternoon immersing myself in A History of Unix.
From our friends at
This weeks episode of Enterprise was actually really good for once. Wanna know how I know this? Cause instead of Karen attacking me to get the remote (like usual), she only asked about 25 minutes into the show how much longer it was going to be. Sounds like fan approval to me!
This weekend I attempted to watch The Unbearable Lightness of Being, with Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche (one of my favorite actresses.)
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I think I can only stand watching Daniel Day-Lewis bang random chicks for about 20 minutes before I start to tune out, so I was surprised that I actually got through about 40 minutes of the movie. This was super boring.
This movie gets 0 out of 5 kidds. Don’t waste your time on it.
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Quite a few people have been asking me lately,
What exactly does Homer Vs Kidd mean? What exactly is wrong with you?
This will explain it all
Homer Vs Kidd (requires windows media player)
The character on the right, played by Steve, is Kidd.
The character on the left, played by yours truly, is Homer.
And don’t think for a second that this is the only Homer Vs Kidd anim.
This was made with Deluxe Paint 4 on an Amiga like 12 years ago, in Steve’s basement.
I could devote an entire website to this crap.
I implemented a simple little voting feature in my weblog. Go to the entry entitled “War Protests” and try it out. It even has a primitive scheme for stopping people from voting twice, although I’m sure Steve will be able to figure out what I’m doing pretty quickly, and proceed to vote 50 billion times. Some of the techniques I’ve used to implement this will be used to build my wedding RSVP page in a few months.
Corporate media lies to you. Corporations with big money pay lobbyists big bucks to elect these clowns into office, and then use their media juggernaut to propel whatever nonsensical crap they think is reality into your TiVo, which makes it’s way directly into your brain.
Case in point: Think Saddam and Bin Laden are bedfellows? Read this article for a slightly different perspective.
Also, I recommend you visit FAIR occasionally, they always have some good stuff, like their January/February issue which had an article called “Quizzing the Questioners” about how Ari Fleischer is a conniving spineless little butthole (there isn’t a link to this one, sorry, I read this article in their magazine. Subscribe, why don’t ya.)
As everyone knows, most of the world is protesting against the impending war against Iraq, which I personally think is the stupidist idea ever (the war, that is). Let’s bomb the snot out of millions of innocent people, because we (americans) are fat lazy slobs that are hungry for oil. Stop driving your stupid SUV’s people, and there won’t be any problems! Anyway, enough ranting..
Here’s a site that covered some of the protests that actually doesn’t seem to be controlled by advertising driven corporate media (e.g. CNN, MSNBC, etc..)
There have been some interesting protest banners that have made their appearance. Here are a few below. Vote for which one you want. Simply click on your choice, and you can view the running tally of who voted for what.
a) War in Iraq is Wack
b) Goo Goo Dolls Fans for Peace
c) Viva La France!
d) It’s Imperialism!
e) Lay Down Your Swords (J. Christ, Occupied Palestine)
f) Eat Another Pretzel, Asshole.
We went to Fantasia today and we were VERY impressed.. The place was small, but really nice. The prices were excellent, and the people running the place were incredibly competent and professional; they had everything we asked for, including really estoric things like backup generators in case the power went out. Their menu selection was outstanding, and they invited us back for a tasting in a few weeks. I guess we will actually show up at someone’s wedding and they will sequestor us into a special room and basically stuff our faces full of ALL of the wedding food, so we can get an idea of what it’s like. I was very impressed! They would let us do the ceremony right on the premises, and we could even book extra time above and beyond the 5 hours that most people usually book. I was impressed by their attention to detail; they take care of a lot of the little things that most other places seemed to casually ignore, but were very important to us (like having a team of people on site to direct all aspects of the day, from our arrival to the ceremony to our departure). Karen and I are very excited. This place is definitely in our top 5 right now, and we have 2 or 3 other places to visit. I will be very happy if we decide to pick this place. The best part? They have a SPECIAL SECRET near the end of the night, that involves DRY ICE..
Saturday morning we are going to Fantasia in North Haven, Ct.
This place has a decent looking menu, it’s in a good overall location, and I think the prices were in the ballpark.
Here are some random pictures of it, tell us what you think.
One of the American Idol finalists
was recently kicked from the show, because of her past job history as an employee of an adult porn site. What? Somehow working for a porn site gets you kicked? I had no idea that the show was run by moron conservatives.
I find this endlessly amusing.. The “Dude you’re getting a Dell” guy, Ben Curtis,
was busted on 2/9 for misdemeanor marijuna possesion, on the lower east side.
Here’s a recent picture of him tending to his stash:
I also noticed that Dell yanked his Webpage. I guess marijuana did more than any of us thought.
20 bucks says he ends up in porn.
Hi everyone!
What do you think my wedding colors should be?
I need some ideas. Click on ‘Comments’ below to give me some color combinations to think about. As you know, my favorite flower is the
And my favorite color is yellow.
We’re thinking of having the wedding at the end of summer or in the fall (2004). We want to go with either a summer motif (think: ocean breeze, seashells, weathered glass, message in a bottle, etc..) or a fall motif (think: pumpkins, sunflowers, and vibrant colors).
Karen are I are becoming avid American Idol
viewers. Mostly because it’s the only show we can agree on. Tonite, we voted for 2 contestants:
Clay 
and Ruben
I thought the rest of them sucked.
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