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Day: September 17, 2002

  • Artsy time-lapse movies rock.

    Here’s something about me I bet you didn’t know: I love artsy time-lapse movies. This dates back to the mid-80s, living in Seattle, and going to see Chronos at the IMAX theater with my best friend Steve McMullen. (I wonder whatever happened to him.)

    Chronos is short, but very very cool. You can, or could, buy it on VHS but it loses a bit of its appeal on the small screen. If OMSI ever wants my undying affection and permanent membership, they’ll arrange to show me Chronos on the OmniMAX some day. (Look at it this way: It’s gotta be better than watching a Star Wars prequel projected onto the inside of a giant dome.)

    Ah. Apparently it is out on DVD. Note to friends: Buying me Chronos on DVD will make you my very bestest friend for life. Really.

    Where I was going with this, before I got off on a rant about Chronos, was that I wanted to link to the website for Koyaanisqatsi, the other really cool artsy time-lapse movie I enjoyed back in the mid-80s. Turns out there’s a third movie in the now-trilogy, so they’re doing a wee bit of promoting for it. (For the record, Koyaanisqatsi is mostly cool but sometimes feels like it will go on forever. Powaqqatsi didn’t do much for me when I saw it. I’ll have to see about watching both of them again soon to see if my perceptions have changed.)
    Koyaanisqatsi dot Org

  • Oddball Search Engine Theater 3000.

    I’ve gotten used to seeing a lot of the same search queries land people here time and again, such as “cowboy bebop mp3” and “escaflowne movie review” and “pink hello kitty laptop” (and many variations thereof) and “transparent concrete” (?) and let’s not forget “kitten masturbation” (sickos). Oddly enough, searches for “greyduck” and “grey duck” combined only slightly outnumber those Bebop MP3 searches. Go figure.

    Perusing the top queries list today, I note some interesting additions. For instance, I’m pretty sure that “bambalance” is a reference to a Captain Rooba entry from the Weekly Recaps. Someone searching for “melpster” may very well have been looking for, ah, Melpster. I hope. To the four of you who came here looking for “spanked cheerleaders,” I apologize for your disappointment. And last but not least, I also apologize for not having nearly enough Sailor Moon material here to account for all of you who have landed here because of Moonie-based searches like “sailor moon (or venus) music videos” and “sailor moon english genesis roms”. (I thought all of the SM games were on the Nintendo. You learn something new every day…)

  • I’m passionate, alright.

    So I type up the last entry and mosey over to the kitchen for another cup of cocoa. Because nobody can ever be bothered to turn off the idiot box, I was treated to something… vile. Something revoltingly bad. Something like what would happen if a really bad Charmed knockoff (and I don’t like Charmed, just so you know) had a one-nighter with Days of Our Lives (and I don’t like… you get the idea) and they didn’t employ proper safe-sex practices.

    If bored uptight middle-America housewives are getting their notions of fantasy-style storytelling by watching Passions, it’s no wonder that Pagans and Wiccans get such a bad rap in this country. Wow. I didn’t know what it was until after I’d turned off the telly in complete disgust and complained about the tripe I’d just seen to the next person to enter the break room. “Bad acting? Witchcraft? Yes, that’s Passions. It’s become a running joke, it’s so campy that people can’t help but watch.”

    In that case, define me as “not people.” I couldn’t help but power off the teevee. Wow. That was bad. I need something to cleanse my mind of the whores– er, horrors I’ve seen. I think I’ll curl up with the Eddings’ “Elenium” books tonight…

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