Archive for the 'Movies and Music' Category

I, Robot
Sunday, July 18th, 2004

I hadn’t heard much about this movie going into it, other than the teaser trailer from a few months ago advertising the NS5 as your new home companion. I generally try to avoid watching previews for movies, because I think they ruin the plot of the movie by summarizing the entire script into 2 minutes. […]

The Butterfly Effect
Friday, July 9th, 2004

I was interested in seeing this movie when I first saw the previews, as it looked like a pretty decent idea for a psychological thriller, and I thought it would be interesting to see Ashton Kutcher try a dramatic role, rather than his usual over-the-top physical comedy as seen on That 70’s Show and just […]

Top-grossing movies
Monday, July 5th, 2004

From Erik… How many of the top-grossing movies of all time have you seen? I haven’t seen the ones in bold. Hm, I watch a lot of movies…

1. Titanic (1997) – $600,779,824
2. Star Wars (1977) – $460,935,665
3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) – $434,949,459
4. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) – $431,065,444
5. […]

A Fandango Ate My Baby!
Wednesday, December 10th, 2003

Thanks to the magic of Fandango.com the wife and I already have our tickets for the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, coming out a week from today. Do you have yours?

After writing the title for this post… I wondered where that “A dingo ate my baby” quote comes from. I did quite […]

Dreamcatcher
Thursday, November 20th, 2003

Watched this over the weekend with a couple of friends… I hadn’t heard the first thing about it, no previews, no reviews, no trailers, nothing. None of us had actually, so we went into it without the first clue what it was about. To sum it up, this is the absolute strangest movie I have […]

The Matrix: Revolutions
Thursday, November 13th, 2003

My wife has been asking when I’m going to post my thoughts on the last Matrix movie, so I guess I will even though I don’t really have anything enlightening to say about it.

We used Fandango to pre-order some tickets to the 5:00pm showing of the movie on its opening day, and I took off […]

An iPod Moment
Thursday, November 6th, 2003

Normally I listen to my iPod the most in my car, thanks to the audio input on the front of my car CD player, then carry it in my pocket the rest of the day at work. I have a small collection of music on my computer at work, but it gets pretty old so […]

PUSA is coming back!
Saturday, October 11th, 2003

According to this article, one of my favorite bands of all time, the Presidents of the United States of America, is back together and will be releasing new material next year. Hooray! It said they will be re-releasing their self titled album on president’s day of 2004, and then releasing new material after that. I […]

Dear Music Industry
Monday, September 22nd, 2003

Jason Zada has written a great rant directed at the music industry. He encourages everyone that reads it and everyone he knows to stop buying plastic CD’s. To instead rip their entire music collection to MP3’s, sell all of their existing CD’s and never buy another one. He’s not really promoting stealing music, just boycotting […]

LAUNCHcast
Wednesday, August 20th, 2003

Well after a tip from Adam I signed up for the LAUNCHcast service today. The free version was pretty cool, but kinda low quality and there were commercials. So I signed up for the paid service and now have 7 days to try it out. I think I’ll be keeping it though. It’s only $4 […]