Rants

Vogue

Today was haircut day for both the Bogarduses. We go to a place called Sheri’s Hair Affair because Sheri was in the bicycle club with us at one time and she does a right nice job too. It is a typical salon and the place is just littered with women’s magazines for me to look at while Donna gets her hair cut. I hunted through the stacks until I found a relatively recent one to look at, a Vogue from March 2003. I actually don’t mind looking because they are usually chock full of cheesecake. It was my turn to hop in the chair. When I sat down, there on her table in front of me, was another issue of Vogue. About that time I became conscious of the music playing in the background, Madonna singing, pause for effect, Vogue.

I’ve Lost That Loving Feeling

Well, I’ve lost the ability to watch a movie all the way through. Watched 1 hour and 27 minutes of Spirited Away, stopping like 40 minutes before the end. I don’t have a concrete reason for stopping, I just got bored. The animation was wonderful and the story was intriguing, but it would have made a nice 90-minute movie. Scenes took too long and maybe there were too many bathhouse scenes.

If you check my Netflix rental queue to the left you will discover that I have a plan. Seeing as I can not watch a whole movie I’ve reverted to TV shows. Specifically, one long gone, but still missed show, The X-Files. I am going to keep at least one disc on the coffee table and every Sunday night at 9:00 PM I will sit down and watch 1 episode. For the next 4 or 5 years I will have something to look forward to on Sunday nights.

Well, I Tried

This afternoon I finally blocked out a segment of time to watch a movie. To practice first-in, first-out inventory control, I started with Adaptation because it had been around the longest. Managed to make it about 15 minutes in before bailing out. Just couldn’t take Nicholas Cage’s whiny characters (Character is plural, because he plays twins.) The Meryl Streep portion of the movie that is supposed to be the book that Nicholas Cage is turning into a screen play seemed interesting, but it couldn’t overcome the WHINE.

So we picked the next oldest movie, Rabbit-Proof Fence. It had an interesting premise of a trio of half Aborigine girl who escapes from a re-education camp and head back home. The trick is that home is 1200 miles away and to get there they follow Australia’s rabbit, now emu, fence. We made it 42 minutes into this one.

Tomorrow I will try to get in Spirited Away.

SETI@Home Stats

I added my SETI@Home stats to the Miata Diaries site. I got it to work after several failures. I wanted to add it to this site as well, but I was stymied by the same thing that slowed me down on the other one, I couldn’t get it to work in anything but the root directory of the plog. So I had to use two copies of the PHP script and two copies of the XML file. For whatever reason the one on this blog doesn’t update. It still has last night’s stats.

So I tried once again to get it to link to the one file that is residing in the diaries directory. After one messy failure I think it hooked up to it, but it still shows the old stats.

I guess it wasn’t linked after all, I just deleted the supposedly not being read .php and .xml files and the script fails and outputs what you see on the left.

Back to the drawing board.

James Brown Announces Breakup Of Marriage

You may have not noticed this unless you live in LA (Los Angeles) or LA (Lower Augusta) but in today’s newspaper there appeared this blurb in the people in the news section of page 2:

The “Godfather of Soul,” James Brown, has announced his breakup from his wife, Tomi Rea Brown, with a full-page ad in the show-business trade newspaper Variety.
In the July 21-27 weekly edition of the paper, the ad features a photo of the couple and their 2 year-old son, James Joseph Brown II, smiling at Walt Disney World while posing with the costumed character Goofy.
Above the photo, a statement said that because of their “heavy, demanding tour schedule, they have decided to go their separate ways. There are no hard feelings, just a mutual show business decision made by both parties.”
Mrs. Brown is one of Mr. Brown’s background singers.
The pair is touring together in Europe, the newspaper added, and may continue working together despite the breakup.

They are splitting up because of the heavy touring schedule? They’re together! I could understand it is she was home while James toured the world.

They are going their separate ways? Yet she is one of his backup singers and may continue to work together!

I glad to see I wasn’t the only one to find humor in this announcement, why else would have the copy person who culled this from the Variety ad have made room for the part about the whole family posing with Goofy.

When Will I Watch A Movie Again?

It has been two weeks at least since I’ve watched a DVD. Right now there are 4 Netflix rentals on the coffee table waiting a spin. ( Rabbit-Proof Fence, Moonlight Mile, Spirited Away and Adaptation ) Also stacked up there are 3 other movies from my Co-Worker DVD Swap Club: Pork Chop Hill, Tuck Everlasting and K-19. Plus on top of those I have A Brother From Another Planet that I picked up in a truck-stop in rural North Carolina for $4.88. I guess I’m going to have to take a break from writting in 3 blogs and reading 10 for a night or two…

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