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Oct 19
Tangerine is a tasty looking new app from Potion Factory. It scans your iTunes library and gets the beats per minute (BPM). It do so quickly. What’s nice about this is that you can make playlists based on the song tempo, perfect for upbeat songs for working out.
The app looks like it belongs on a Mac. It’s gorgeous and simple. It includes Growl support. It’s laid out much like iTunes and perfectly ccompliments it. I’m going to run it against my entire library in the next day or two so I can put together a new workout list…well, multiple lists. I especially like fast music for running and lifting…and doing math for some reason.
Oct 19
Here is something most people probably don’t think about. Probably for good reason. Zombies don’t have blood flowing through their veins. I think we can all agree on this. They are dead. They are cold. Why would they need blood flowing through them?
Why am I talking about zombies and blood flow you may ask? I just watched a movie called Zombie Honeymoon because I will watch just about anything with “zombie” in the title. It starts with a newlywed couple on their honeymoon. The husband gets attacked by a zombie and turns into one.
So what you are asking. After he comes home from the hospital he is apparently “ok” but we, the audience, know better. We know he’s a zombie. He’s not a normal zombie, but is self-aware that he is a zombie and retains his cognitive ability.
That’s not really important. What is important is that he and his wife have sex. This is after he has become a zombie. I call horseshit! He’s a zombie, he has no blood flow. No blood flow, no rising to the occasion.
We need to add this to the list of things we know about zombies. They cannot get an erection. They are impotent. Maybe that’s why they are so pissed off all the time.
Oct 15
10/15/2006 - 1730
After watching the previous crap I had to adjust my brain and get back in line with a decent movie. I chose the classic A Nightmare on Elm St. Freddy makes his debut as a boogeyman who haunts teenagers’ dreams. Freddy is the first boogeyman character I can think of in a movie and probably first on most people’s minds.
It’s one of Wes Craven’s early works and is THE movie that allowed New Line to become the hugely successful company they are today. It was low budget but you’d never know. Everyone on the film seemed to dedicate themselves to a movie they knew could be great and it shows.
Horror wasn’t mainstream in 1984. It was still smaller studios, smaller budgets, and slasher flicks. It had an audience, but it was more niche. Nightmare changed that. It’s a great movie that will make you think twice when you crawl into bed if it’s the first time you’ve seen it. If you’ve seen it before it’s always fun to see the original Freddy before the sequels.
Oct 15
10/15/2006 - 1615
Holy crap this movie sucks. Crippled Creek is supposed to be about…something…but I have no idea what because I turned it off after 30 minutes. Actually I know what it’s about. Three chicks go camping for the weekend, something bad is in the woods, two die, one lives. Meh, normal, simple plot.
What sucked so incredibly hard was, well, everything. I thought I was watching a porno with the quality of the acting…except I didn’t get the benefits of porn. The directing was like a twelve year old, bored on the weekend with the family video camera. The “film” quality matched. It was some horrible digital technology, not even HD.
If it gets better after 30 minutes I’ll never know because I can’t sit through this crap.
Oct 15
10/15/2006 - 1100
Scream is a movie I could watch over and over again (and I do, quite often). It’s difficult to name your favorite movie when people ask. It’s hard to name “the best” of something. But to me, without a doubt, Scream is my favorite horror movie and the best horror movie. It brings together the master Wes Craven and newcomer, at the time, Kevin Williamson. The script was so good there was a bidding war in Hollywood…for a horror flick!
The writing is absolutely outstanding. The directing is tight. The picture looks great. This movie bridged the gap between typical lower budget horror and high budget Hollywood filmmaking. And it did so without selling out. It’s as good a horror/slasher as they make. It’s also a great teen movie (I have a guilty pleasure of teeny horror flicks that were made from 1996 through the present).
The pop references really make this a great movie, references to horror movies, modern culture, and typical teenagers. The opening is one of the absolute best opening sequences, comparable to Psycho not only for the similarities but for the quality and impact. Every little detail is well thought out and purposeful, there is no fluff, no filler.
If you haven’t seen it, what rock do you live under? If you have, watch it again and again. My goal in life is to someday write a screenplay as awesome as Scream. Without hesitation I give this 5 stars.
Oct 15
10/15/2006 - 0800
Technically creature flicks can be classified as horror, especially if they are big bug movies like Eight Legged Freaks. I really like this movie, it’s a great homage to all the cheeseball big bug movies that preceeded it. The acting is very good, there’s a young Scarlett Johansson (big boobs and all), the story is well done, and the effects are good.
This movie is a lot of fun, a little creepy if you don’t like spiders. Definitely I would recommend it.
Oct 15
10/14/2006 - 1300
I have a thing for zombies. I don’t know why. Dead Men Walking is a flick about a prison overrun by a zombie virus outbreak. I suppose, like 28 Days Later, some purists may not consider it a zombie movie as it’s not re-animated corpses but a virus that turns them into zombie-like creatures.
The confining aspect of a prison is an interesting take on a zombie movie. You can’t leave and there are a ton of people. The zombies were pretty decent zombies as well. The makeup was very good. The acting, as expected, fairly mediocre. One prision guard was fairly funny (as intended) playing the tough guy.
There is lots of gore, lots of shooting, lots of biting. I enjoy zombie flicks, but let’s be honest, most of them suck. Even the good ones are only ok. I’d put this in the ok category. It doesn’t go above and beyond like only a select few zombie flicks do, but it goes bove its low budget expectations I think.
Good, not great, not horrible.