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Funny Games-- An interesting movie for most of it. I dunno if I would have called it good or bad. The fourth-wall-breaking was kind of interesting. But then there comes a part where one of the antagonists picks up a remote control and rewinds the movie. Whatever the film had going for it died at that point, at least as far as I am concerned.

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Dance of the Dead-- With a title like that and the premise of the film [a zombie attack on prom night and the only people left to stop the zombie apocalypse are the losers who didn't have dates to prom] I expected this to be a "so bad it's kind o' good" gory zombie flick. As it turns out, though, I really liked it. It's a good movie, funny little zombie comedy with plenty of gore and a touch of heart to the plot. The actors did excellent jobs, for the most part, and the writing wasn't too bad at all, dialogue-wise. The plot itself has some obvious foreshadowing, but, not bad at all. It broke one or two of my personal zombie rules, as well, but definitely worth seeing.


13 Hours In A Warehouse-- I'm not sure just what the problem is, but I was unimpressed. From about 10 minutes, maybe less, in 'til the end I was uninterested. I spent most of my time wondering what the hell it was they stole. I don't imagine I was supposed to. The acting's about what I expected, some decent B-level and plenty of terrible B-level acting. Same with the special effects and writing. Maybe its extreme mediocrity is its downfall?

I found this thing called YouTube

A four part Collection Update of everything I've purchased in the past year or so. Or, at least, all the Xbox, Playstation, and Nintendo games and DVD's.

The audio sounds like butt, I got lazy and decided not to clean it up. And I left a lot of blank spaces, I got lazy with the cutting. Bah.

Also, I didn't mention my two new CD's... because that's pathetic. Yeah, I only bought two new CD's. Kerli's Love Is Dead and Disturbed's Indestructible. So there you have it.

Put it in your mouth

So, y'ever heard of something that you had never heard of before and then you hear about it everywhere after that? I had something like that recently. I heard of something called FA [fat appreciation/fat appreciators]. Feeders and feedees. And now I'm hearin' it all over the place.

I'm not sure how I feel about it. At first, I was all right with it. Hells yeah, I appreciate me a thick chick. Or curvy/chubby/big, whatever you want to call it. But the more I hear about it the less supportive I am of such a lifestyle. It sounds like the extreme end of the spectrum so far. And then there seems to be a fixation on the weight number, which I am never comfortable with and I don't think anyone should care about that number or their BMI, which is even more fuckin' ridiculous. But, I digress, and I'm getting a little off the topic I intended. I was talking about the extremity of this FA thing. People insisting on being 500, 600 pounds, insisting that anyone less than that is immediately unattractive. I think it's wrong.

If there's anyone who thinks I'm incorrect in my understanding, please, correct me. I'd like to find that this isn't common in the FA lifestyle.

Explanation for the missing mini-review.

Mein chickadee called me on it, heh. I didn't watch any movies last week. At least, nothing new to me. So, no mini-reviews to share this past Friday, sorry.

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Trailer Park of Terror-- It's not very subtle in its charicatures and there's plenty of foreshadowing, but it's fairly well-acted, well-shot, and an entertaining, somewhat cheesy, gory little horror film, with a few [albeit sometimes fucked up] laughs along the way. Pretty good soundtrack involved, too. And an interesting cameo by Trace Adkins, though I don't think anyone who reads this will recognize him.


Watchmen-- Pretty damn good film. Insanely well cast, especially the Comedian, Rorschach, and Nite Owl II. To be perfectly frank, I still wasn't a big fan of the man chosen to play Ozymandias/Adrian Veidt. He did a well enough job, he just doesn't fit the character, visually-speaking. It wouldn't bug me so much if so much of the other cast didn't fit well. Only other minor complaint is the soundtrack. I mean, I understand that it's sort of a period piece, but, it was just somewhat jarring and entirely out of place to hear a lot of this old music start playing. Personally, I feel it should have been scored, no soundtrack.

3 Steps

A new Tebo Productions film! Entitled "3 Steps". Enjoy!

This is that vid we were working on like mad for a few days. I blogged about it a few ago.

A little bit of bitching

This may end up being very stream of consciousness. I've been weird the past... well, my whole life, but, more acutely the past few days. Or past... week? I'm really not sure. But... yeah. Like, I'm feeling much less talkative and I feel like I'm not engaging in conversation. Normally I do so by just asking a buttload of questions or asking for explanations/elaborations. But I'm not so much lately. I mean, I'm still just as curious, I just feel like... it's not my place, I guess? Like, it's none of my business, I shouldn't even be asking. And I find myself with nothing to say in response to things. Like, anything, even simple things. So, being that I am a very boring person with little to be talked about from my own life, I seem much less talkative. Or, I am much less talkative. I dunno. Speaking of being boring, I feel much more boring as well. I mean, I've always considered myself to be exceptionally uninteresting [which is kind of oxymoronic, now that I think about it], but, again, more acutely lately. Perhaps that has to do with being less talkative? Having these big gaps in conversation, long periods where I say/type absolutely nothing. Could be. To segue again, I think that's all I have to say. To end this, I am trembling uncontrollably for some reason... oh, wait, it passed. So, I'll end this with something else... oh, I've been eating a ridiculous amount of cereal lately. I don't know why.


EDIT: No, wait, I do have more. I feel very distant from everyone lately. Again, I'm pretty sure all of this goes back to being less talkative. Except for the cereal thing, I think that's unrelated. But, less conversation, less sense of connection? Maybe? When did I become reliant on that connection to feel well? Blegh. The internet's also very frustrating lately, for somewhat related reasons.

Enneagram

Your result for The Quick & Painless ENNEAGRAM Test...

6 - the Questioner

Thanks for taking the test !

you chose CY - your Enneagram type is SIX (aka "The Loyalist").

"I am affectionate and skeptical"

Questioners are responsible, trustworthy, and value loyalty to family,
friends, groups, and causes. Their personalities range broadly from reserved
and timid to outspoken and confrontative.

How to Get Along with Me

• Be direct and clear.


• Listen to me carefully.


• Don't judge me for my anxiety.


• Work things through with me.


• Reassure me that everything is OK between us.


• Laugh and make jokes with me.


• Gently push me toward new experiences.


• Try not to overreact to my overreacting.

What I Like About Being a SIX

• being committed and faithful to family and friends


• being responsible and hardworking


• being compassionate toward others


• having intellect and wit


• being a nonconformist


• confronting danger bravely


• being direct and assertive

What's Hard About Being a SIX

• the constant push and pull involved in trying to make up my mind


• procrastinating because of fear of failure; having little confidence
  in myself


• fearing being abandoned or taken advantage of


• exhausting myself by worrying and scanning for danger


• wishing I had a rule book at work so I could do everything right


• being too critical of myself when I haven't lived up to my expectations
  

SIXes as Children Often

• are friendly, likable, and dependable, and/or sarcastic, bossy, and
  stubborn


• are anxious and hypervigilant; anticipate danger


• form a team of "us against them" with a best friend or parent
  


• look to groups or authorities to protect them and/or question authority and rebel


• are neglected or abused, come from unpredictable or alcoholic families, and/or take on the fearfulness of an overly anxious parent

SIXes as Parents

• are often loving, nurturing, and have a strong sense of duty


• are sometimes reluctant to give their children independence


• worry more than most that their children will get hurt


• sometimes have trouble saying no and setting boundaries

Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele

The Enneagram Made Easy

Discover the 9 Types of People

Harper
SanFrancisco, 1994, 161 pages

Take The Quick & Painless ENNEAGRAM Test at HelloQuizzy

M.I.A. but not K.I.A.

So, I've been disappeared for the last couple o' days, for the most part. I popped in for a short while on Friday to see what the internets were up to, but, mostly been gone.

I've been working with Tebo on a new film, and we've got a sort of deadline. There's a film festival coming up, the SUNYWide Film Festival [SUNY stands for State University of New York, it's... I don't know what to call it, but, it's a family of dozens of colleges] and Tebo and I wish to enter our short film [called "3 Steps"]. All entries must be in by March 6th, though, so we've been working pretty hard and relatively non-stop to get it done in time. For example, I got up at 7:16 AM yesterday, Tebo came 'round about 8:00 AM or 8:30-ish, somewhere in between there, we went to his house, and worked on the film all day until we left his house at 12:30 AM today, technically. Only time we weren't working was when made a quick run to the post office and when we had some dinner at around 7:40 PM. We didn't rush it, mind you, we just sort of worked on it all at once instead of in bits and pieces over the course of a week or more.

Anyway, so, we finally completed "3 Steps" and I'm exceptionally pleased with it. We put a lot of work in it, did some new stuff for Tebo Productions vids, and it all came out great. Now! The trick is finding some way for anyone other than ourselves to see it. That includes the SUNYWide Film Festival, as we're having issues getting it into the format they want; we'll have to see if they will accept other formats or if it's a "Do it this way or you don't get in!" situation. But, aside from that, we've started working in a much higher quality of video and sound as of "3 Steps", which of course ups the file size, meaning it may not go up on YouTube, we'll see. We far exceed the 100MB file size limit set on non-Partners and I'm not even sure how small we can make it, no matter how much we degrade the quality. It's less than five minutes long and it renders out at 771 MB. So... yep. It may be the greatest Tebo Productions film so far that only a half of a dozen people will ever see.

Not to mention some crediting issues that are starting to aggravate and, to a certain degree, offend me.

Fun little post script to all of that:
At least my body was kind enough not to rebel against me until after we were finished with everything. As I said, left Tebo's at about 12:30 AM and got home around ten to 1:00 AM. Went to bed at 1:30 AM. Woke up sometime around four with awful stomach pains and very nauseous and... just not feelin' well at all. So, y'know, at least this bloated, disgusting carcass within which I reside had the courtesy to wait. It's not usually so kind at all.