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All Things End

The past couple of weeks have been interesting as several pop-culture phenomenon have concluded all at the same time. We have seen the end of stories about a fantasy world, political satire, superheroes, and some nerds who eat together, that have captured the collective hearts and imaginations of millions of people around the world in… […]

Weird words we use everyday

To tell you the truth I think all words are weird. Language in general is a very peculiar thing. It is just grunts and sounds arranged in a particular pattern or sequence that we have all collectively agreed has some sort of meaning. English in particular is complex and hard to learn as in it’s… […]

MET Gala 2019

I know this is a little late but I had to do a post about this year’s MET Gala. Every year the beautiful and the rich get together in an extravagant display of excess and wealth for…some reason. They choose a theme, people prepare, they make a scene, and stop for lots and lots of […]

Some Stuff

As you know, I stopped posting for over a year and started again just recently. But during that time it wasn’t that I was not writing, I just didn’t complete anything that I wrote. Currently I have 18 draft posts just sitting there waiting to be re-examined and maybe posted. Well this is one of […]

Bad Trek

The last post I wrote for this blog before I went on a ridiculously long break was about Star Trek Discovery. The show had just started, airing the first 2 episodes which created and destroyed the world I thought this story was to take place in. I had enjoyed the episodes but because I hadn’t… […]

Product placement

I still have friends that complain about product placement in movies. It used to be something that got to me as well but many years ago I kinda just got over it. Why? Because it properly reflects a realistic version of the world we live in. Look down at your clothes, look at your desk, […]

Until

Music is a strange thing. It is a series of strung together sounds that are pleasing to the listener. Unless of course you are an old crotchety man waving his stick at the damned youth of today. But music has a way of instilling emotions, making you move fast, or slowing you down for just… […]

Get untethered

I don’t like horror movies. As a young child I was afflicted with night terrors and that combined with an over active imagination did not bode well for an evening’s slumber. As I grew older the terrors waned but my dislike for horror persisted. But every once in a while a horror movie catches my… […]

If you liked the Manga…

Every once in a while I have the audacity to let someone else pick the movie I am going to watch. That is just crazy! But the other day my friend begged me to go see Alita: Battle Angel. Despite my reservations and due to him offering to pay, I said yes. This was a movie I… […]

Stop Living in the Past

Nostalgianoun a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal association something done or presented in order to evoke feelings of nostalgia I get why nostalgia sells. For the most part it just makes people feel good. It is a familiarity taking you back to a […]

I sorta still care

I stopped truly caring about the Oscars years ago. Yeah I was still (sort of) interested in who won what but I usually find out the next morning instead of watching the extremely long ceremony. The academy rarely nominates the movies that I care about or the ones they do (especially the winners) rarely seem… […]

So I’m sitting at work…

So I’m sitting at work and a co-worker asks me if I like short films and am I a zombie fan. To that I said um… yeah! And then he sends me a link to watch “Zombie in a Penguin Suit”. First off I laugh at the title. Second I think to myself… …more

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

From my last post and, well, all the other Valentine’s day posts you have probably figured that I am a bit of a cynic when it come to love. But I could never be cynical about a love of books. That is why I couldn’t help but love the following video. This academy award… …more

Love Life

When you’re young you are taught that… Dean Martin – You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You For a while  the love of your family is all you need. A tender touch from your mom, a pat on the back from your dad, sibling commradery… …more

Have a look at this

Every once in a while I get wind from somewhere that the band OK Go has released a new video. I realized a while ago that this is something I don’t want to miss. Their videos are always inventive, different, fun, and the music ain’t bad either. By the end product you know they take… […]

I am awake?

So it’s 12:46 am and I have to wake up in about 6 hours but I am not sleepy at all. I am sitting here being destracted by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as I try to write this. They are showing a bunch of his musical bits. Right now it is The Doors …more

That Must ‘ve hurt

I like a good action movie. Lots of punching, kicking, shooting, blowing up of stuff, all the things that get you all hyped up. In those movies the lead role is usually played by a guy that’s all beefed up. There has been a trend to have female leads in this kind of role but… […]

My ears are loving it

Some time before the Holidays as I sat in my very quiet apartment I was restless and needed something new to occupy my mind. I had been using music to fill the dead air but even though I have a large collection it quickly became repetitive and boring. I had heard all those songs a hundred times… […]

My answer is yes

A few months ago in the middle of being bored I had a Wes Anderson film-fest all by my lonesome. In a post I proclaimed my love of his movies and that I couldn’t wait to see his upcoming film Moonrise Kingdom that I knew almost nothing about. Now that has changed, the trailer… …more

51 more to go

I know it is a week late but welcome to 2012. The year where the Mayan calendar ends harolding the end of the world and… other things i suppose. I plan to just do whatever it is I do until whatever it is supposed to happen happens. We will see. First I would like… …more