Virtual vehicles for the metaverse
Movies, TV, books, music, and torch-juggling lemurs.
Do you get the Comedy Network where you are? If you do, check out this show coming up soon: Rockpoint PD – Thursdays at 10:30 PM Pacific time (that’s Fridays at 1:30 AM Eastern).
Described as “the anti-COLD SQUAD”, it’s a cop comedy whose principal cast includes a good friend of mine — Simon Hayama — and Jen MacLean (another UBC theatre alumnus). It’s a must-see. Okay, so it’s on late. Just tape it and watch it later, for crying out loud!
Is it still hip to be square? I keep hoping it is, but I’ve been told that I’m clinging to an ideal from decades ago. Oh, for the glorious days of the past, when being square was hip. Thank you, Huey. Your song was a blessing for a great many fashion-challenged teens.
Last night I watched the new director’s cut of the Fellowship of the Ring. I loved the new scenes — it restores some very important character and plot information — but it’s way too long now. I think Peter Jackson could easily have made LOTR into six movies.
My suggestion to someone renting the director’s cut: watch it in two nights, pausing between books one and two (after Chapter XII, “Flight to the Ford”). I’ll avoid spoiling it for anyone who hasn’t read the book or seen the movie, but I will say that it’s an obvious pause in the action after a serious chase scene and a river (the “flight to the ford”). Although the movie is split onto two discs in the four-disc set, I felt that the break came at a strange spot.
Anyway, I survived the marathon movie-watching session. Now I have to tackle the DVD “extras”. And when am I going to find the time to watch it with the three different commentary audio tracks?? I’ll have to watch it three more times before I return it on Monday.
Whoo hoo! Spidey has just swung into my DVD collection. I’m in for some web-slingin’ fun.
A couple of weeks ago, a friend and I were at the local pub, when this guy in urban camo fatigues walks in. All heads turn and watch as he sits down with a dozen or so nondescript types. Nothing particularly unusual, except that there’s this red patch on his shoulder that looks vaguely familiar — the symbol looks a bit like a black swastika on a red background.
So we’re thinking, Hey. Has our neighbourhood pub been invaded by neo-nazi punks? We both take a closer look at the arm patch. We’d seen it before… but where? We don’t know if he’s just some loser, or if he’s a neo-nazi punk deserving a good frowning from across the room (there were a dozen of them).
This morning it hit me. It’s the symbol of the invading army of lizards in the 1980s TV series “V”.
So does that mean that he’s just an extreme sci-fi geek?