I was bouncing around over at Fark, and stumbled across a fun alternate take on the Star Wars mythology that I’d never seen before. Kinda cool theory, I think.
TV And Films
The shows and movies I like (or don’t).
Kate and Leopold
Candice and I went out to see Kate and Leopold this weekend. End result from both of us — cute flick. Probably a matinee or renter rather than an evening show, but definitely fun to watch.
It’s just a movie, folks
One for the Darwin Awards — the first item on this page is a story of a Japanese tourist who died in the middle of a snowy field outside of Fargo, North Dakota…while trying to dig up the stolen money left there in the movie Fargo. The fictional movie.
Kevin Smith directs Lord of the Rings
The Council of Elrond from Lord of the Rings (as directed by Kevin Smith), and The Mines of Moria from Lord of the Rings (as directed by Michael Bay). Too funny not to share.
Site fixed, new addy, and LOTR
Okies — first off, I was able to restore this main page from a recent backup, so the page is back to normal again.
Secondly — www.djwudi.com is active! Yay! I’ll go ahead and leave the old djwudi.dyndns.org addy active for a while, but the preferred address for my site is now www.djwudi.com. Woohoo!
Lastly — just got back not too long ago from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. In a word — incredible. I’m not sure I can get much more than that out yet, a more detailed review will have to wait, but…. Well, I enjoy fantasy movies, and they’re a lot of fun, but this is the first time I can remember that a fantasy film was that good and true to the spirit of the genre, completely sweeping you up in its world and carrying you along the entire time. Just wonderful.
And it’s going to be a long year until the next part….
Two quick things
One silly that popped into my head: why is the plural of box ‘boxes’ when the plural of ox is ‘oxen’? You just have to love the English language, don’t you?
Second thing — Moulin Rouge! Yay! Picked it up today at lunch…now I just can’t wait to get home so I can watch it. Future project: creating my own 2-CD soundtrack by running my DVD’s audio output into my computer so that I can burn the entire movie to audio CD. The official soundtrack is certainly wonderful, but there were so many other songs that I wanted to be able to listen to…and now I’ll have them! Woohoo!
It’s astounding, time is fleeting…
Okay, so sure, I haven’t actually posted any real content since my site came back online…but I just stumbled across this, and am completely jazzed about how cool it is.
Google just added the ability to search through Usenet postings — 20 years of postings, actually, dating back to 1981! I’m afraid it would be all to easy for me to spend hours searching through this. I did take a couple minutes on lunch to do an ego search, and came up with a bunch of neat stuff from when I was active on Usenet. Discussions on whether the Borg might be related to V’Ger, nine inch nails fans in Alaska, good introductions to Taoism, introducing myself to the alt.music.nin newsgroup (and again), and my earliest returned post was apparently posted February 9, 1994 about live nine inch nails cd’s. Yikes. Anyway…really fun toy to play with.
Upcoming reading material
I’ve been between books for a while now, and have been casting about for what to read next. My next book I’m now good for — I can’t think of the title right now, but Candice loaned me a book last night that explores many of the different religions and/or cults (depending on your point of view) in the world today, from Mormonism to Scientology, should be interesting reading.
Today I was reading this thread on the Home Theater Forum where they’re discussing some of the reviews that have been coming out for Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. On [page two of the thread conversation turned to whether or not the film would capture that near-undefinable “magic” or “epic” feel of really good fantasy or science fiction. In the course of the discussion quite a few books and series were mentioned, and I thought I’d jot some of them down so I can pull from this list next time I need to find a book to dive into. Here’s what they’ve mentioned so far:
Enterprise: Cold Front
Just got done with “Cold Front“, this week’s Enterprise episode. Haven’t had a lot of time to digest it just yet, just some first impressions.
Aaaah! I wanna see it! I wanna see it now!
Reviews of the first Lord of the Rings film, Fellowship of the Ring, are starting to hit the net…
Here’s what I’ve found so far: Home Theater Forum Sneak Peaks, Sir Ian McKellan, The White Council Forums, Ain’t It Cool News, The White Council Forums (another one), Home Theater Forum. I may be back to update this list later on, but these are the first batch.