So, I opened it last night and set it up. There has been much debate about whether to go ahead and open it or wait until Christmas morning. The final deciding factor is that, much as it seems to surprise people, this is my first REAL espresso machine and I have firmly believed it is…
Read More first impressions of my new Gaggia ClassicDidn’t get a lot of movie time this past month, but, here’s some thoughts on what we did get to see, in reverse chronological order. Battlestar Galactica I just wanted to make a few comments on this before I get into the actual movies. Terra and I have watched the pilot mini-series and…
Read More Movies I watched – April 2009i have had this urge lately to blog the movies i watch and do it once a month – not to give detailed reviews or anything, just to log them… since i had this idea late, i’ll start with the movies i watched in march in reverse chronological order… Magnolia this may very well be…
Read More march moviesi just watched it for the first time and wanted to get some thoughts down while the emotional impression is still fresh… i have not read a word about this film, nor did i even know what it was about… (btw, i’m typing this up on my phone, which has no cut/paste… not the best…
Read More Follow the music… August Rushthis is one of many movies that, as a self-professed film snob, it is pretty much unforgivable that i have never seen it… peter sellers was absolutely amazing – he played the role perfectly every moment, too much would have made us feel he was something less than a person, too little and he would…
Read More a few thoughts on Being Therei was just complaining on twitter a couple weeks ago (one, two) about the netflix rating system being very restrictive… one star = hated it, two = didn’t like, three = liked, four – really liked, and five = loved… there are SO FEW films i want to give a five-star rating, but, according to…
Read More MY movies ratingsnothing in-depth, just going to c/p the notes i took of what we saw as we watched the three movies… this is just about the dvd/transfer quality, not about any changes to the movies (there are countless sites for that)… nor comparisons to the laserdiscs or “did they fix [insert notorious problem] yet?” stuff (short…
Read More star wars dvd notesseems every time we meet someone that actually has a real interest in movies, it is always horror… usually cheap, sleazy, b-grade horror… we try to be open-minded and go with the idea that maybe there is just something we don’t know and perhaps it is simply a matter of broadening our horizons, so, we…
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