Saturday, April 18, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
So this is the new challenge, and it's somewhat more structured than previous challenges. Below you will find opening lines to a story. Your task is to finish the story.
You must start with the prompt:
Prompt:
It was a dark night. It was a stormy night. Far down wolves howled and wailed at the black, moonless sky like clerics of some primeval sodality. Aqueous orbs tumbled and twirled from their cumulonimbeous birth to the lonely earth below, shattering into millions of featureless specks - bursting and breaking their bodies on the windows of the house where, inside, it was warm and dry.
You are limited to 4 double-spaced, 12 point font, 1-in margin pages and you must include the following words and elements:
Words:
• frippery
• vagaries
• "a swear" - as in "Liz said a swear." Literally the word "a", followed by the word "swear."
• wizard
Elements:
• A suspicious character
• Some kind of phobia
• A misunderstanding
Due Date: Saturday, May 9
You must start with the prompt:
Prompt:
It was a dark night. It was a stormy night. Far down wolves howled and wailed at the black, moonless sky like clerics of some primeval sodality. Aqueous orbs tumbled and twirled from their cumulonimbeous birth to the lonely earth below, shattering into millions of featureless specks - bursting and breaking their bodies on the windows of the house where, inside, it was warm and dry.
You are limited to 4 double-spaced, 12 point font, 1-in margin pages and you must include the following words and elements:
Words:
• frippery
• vagaries
• "a swear" - as in "Liz said a swear." Literally the word "a", followed by the word "swear."
• wizard
Elements:
• A suspicious character
• Some kind of phobia
• A misunderstanding
Due Date: Saturday, May 9
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Transporter 3: Revolutionizing World Cinema or Not as Good as the First Two?
So Rose and I saw Transporter 3 this past week and it was an exciting affair around the edges. I could have done without the romance in the middle.
I just have to say that it was a perfect example of Jim's idea of the hyper-masculine film. He kicks everyone's a$$, drives a $120,000 car with a W-12 engine (which is 3x the size of my little Hyundai engine and 4x the horsepower), has sexy European women begging to have sex with him, and he's totally ripped/has a sweet accent/drives his car on top of/into a train. Plus he floated his sinking car out of a river using dufflebags filled with air from the tires, got the car running again in less than 10 minutes, somehow got more air into the tires and was off to catch the stupid baddy.
The only things that doesn't fit Jim's idea is that the Transporter is friends with a French guy and he fishes with a pole and not a speargun/nuclear submarine.
So in the end, it was a decent action romp, but nothing compared to this sequence from the first movie:
Arguably the best scene in any movie, anywhere, at anytime, ever.
We did get to see more of Jason Statham's signature front kick in Transporter 3, which was good, but all in all, I'd say it wasn't a great ending to the trilogy, although there were plenty of fireworks. The first one really is, and I'm not exaggerating, an all-time action classic and will go down in history as such. One of the best indie action movies of all time, if not the best.
I just have to say that it was a perfect example of Jim's idea of the hyper-masculine film. He kicks everyone's a$$, drives a $120,000 car with a W-12 engine (which is 3x the size of my little Hyundai engine and 4x the horsepower), has sexy European women begging to have sex with him, and he's totally ripped/has a sweet accent/drives his car on top of/into a train. Plus he floated his sinking car out of a river using dufflebags filled with air from the tires, got the car running again in less than 10 minutes, somehow got more air into the tires and was off to catch the stupid baddy.
The only things that doesn't fit Jim's idea is that the Transporter is friends with a French guy and he fishes with a pole and not a speargun/nuclear submarine.
So in the end, it was a decent action romp, but nothing compared to this sequence from the first movie:
We did get to see more of Jason Statham's signature front kick in Transporter 3, which was good, but all in all, I'd say it wasn't a great ending to the trilogy, although there were plenty of fireworks. The first one really is, and I'm not exaggerating, an all-time action classic and will go down in history as such. One of the best indie action movies of all time, if not the best.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Saw this and had to share
In the "real world" these villains totally would have dominated their counterpart "heroes" no matter how much I may have loved/love them.
7 Bad Ass Cartoon Villains Who Lost to Lame Heroes.
7 Bad Ass Cartoon Villains Who Lost to Lame Heroes.
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