And even better, my friend Dave managed to send me a few lost articles from his RSS which reminded me that all my previous posts have been stored in my Google Reader. So a huge thanks to Dave, and another huge thanks to Amie who got me started on using Google Reader just a few months ago. I’ve managed to recover the text of those articles, so I’ll just re-post the major ones here for archive purposes. (My apologies to anyone using a feed who just wound up with tons of old posts.)
Just in time too, since I have something relatively big on the way for later this week. Stay tuned.
February 07 2010 | Daily Life | 1 Comment »
I was getting quite good at it too, but unfortunately, had no choice but to turn in my resignation today. Different circumstances have forced me to seek out two full-time jobs around my neighborhood instead.
Just a few quick stories and observations about my brief stint in door-to-door marketing:
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Before starting this year’s Smashie Awards, I have an unfortunate announcement to make.
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Having recently finished “Brutal Legend” again for the umpteenth time, I wanted to post up a review, but a simple review didn’t seem to be justice enough for the fifth installment in one man’s legacy of video games. Enter Tim Schafer – not a house-hold name, and not associated with any mainstream games like Super Mario or Halo – but nonetheless, one of the finest creative minds that the medium has to offer and one of my personal heroes.
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Inglourious Basterds
What we see in the trailers: Wall-to-wall action as Lt. Raine’s troops storm around France gunning down Nazis in a bloodbath of awesomeness.
What the movie’s actually like: People sit at tables and chat for twenty minutes about everything except the plot. Then some plot happens. Then they sit at another table and repeat the process until the movie’s over. Every other scene ends in a quick ten-second gunfight. Those are the parts that end up in the trailers.
But it’s still damn good!: Yessiree, Bob.
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My brother Nick and his girlfriend dropped off their dog at my place for a couple days. It’s a welcome change from the usual hairless cats I take care of, although they weren’t kidding when they said this dog was dumb. Ironically, she’s named Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom.
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Following up my previous lists from the 80’s and 90’s, I have now scientifically broken down a list of the finest films of the 70’s (because obviously the 70’s comes after the 90’s. Don’t ask me how science works.) These are the top movies that have been walking fine lines for over three decades, and still kick ass for their time.
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Following up on my 80’s article comes a list of films from that other decade I grew up in. This list was harder to make because in the 90’s, regret for the 80’s started becoming contagious, and Matthew Broderick couldn’t just turn into a mystery-solving sasquatch and expect audiences to jump on the bandwagon. So whatever qualifications were being used in the last list had to be readjusted to fit this decade.
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