Saturday, December 22, 2012

One Boyle Pitbull Goes Celebration Red

Music and Voices Upon A Playable Device

Take Me Home by One Direction.  Diminutive English kids sing songs for girls.



Standing Ovation: the greatest songs from the stage by Susan Boyle.  English lady sings old songs.


Global Warming by Pitbull.  Guy with weird stage name sings dancey songs.



Album Title Goes Here by Deadmau5.  Canadian plays songs of techno.

Celebration Day by Led Zeppelin.  Wrinkled Englishmen reminisce while singing songs.



Red by Taylor Swift.  American singer sings songs on Target Store commercials.

Futurimpromethe-ama

DVD

Prometheus starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbbender, Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron, CGI.  Prequel to Alien CGIs a big people-eating CGI bug to scare your CGI off and sing peppy pop tunes.


Futurama: Volume 6 starring [voices of people].  Idiot falls into cryogenic chamber and wakes up in the future.


Futurama: Volume 7 starring [voices of the same people including that actress from Married with Children and Sons of Anarchy.  But, I have never watched Sons of Anarchy even though that big dude, Ron Perlman, is fun to watch.  Did you see Perlman in that short Punisher video that Thomas Jane produced?]



The Simpsons: the fifteenth season starring [an animated slob, an animated brat, and an animated greyhound.  As if any greyhound is "animated"].


Thursday, December 20, 2012

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Parker J. Palmer Attacks En Masse

NonFiction 
In Support of the Upcoming January 22nd Book Discussion Sponsored by the Arts Alliance of Greater Lake Mills

Healing the Heart of Democracy by Parker J. Palmer.  Copy one.

Healing the Heart of Democracy by Parker J. Palmer.  Copy two.

Healing the Heart of Democracy by Parker J. Palmer.  Copy three.

Healing the Heart of Democracy by Parker J. Palmer.  Copy four.

Healing the Heart of Democracy by Parker J. Palmer.  Copy five.

Healing the Heart of Democracy by Parker J. Palmer.  Copy six.

Healing the Heart of Democracy by Parker J. Palmer.  Copy seven.

Healing the Heart of Democracy by Parker J. Palmer.  Copy eight.

Healing the Heart of Democracy by Parker J. Palmer.  Copy nine.

Healing the Heart of Democracy by Parker J. Palmer.  Copy ten.

Parker attended Carleton College. He is now suspect.  Everyone sing! Gusties will shine tonight, Gusties will shine!

Musical Notes Inlaid onto a Thin Metal Service That Can Be Scratched and Ruined

Babel by Mumford and Sons.  Singers sing songs of folkeyness.

Fiction

Edgewood by Karen McQuestion.  Self published sci-fi.  But, McQuestion is an honest to goodness writer and had titles published by a subset of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt named Mariner.

I once read a book of Norwegian sea stories and liked it. I think this was the book.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

One Sound, 18 Video

Music on Flat, Circular Piece of Plastic

The Dreamer by Rhett Miller.  Singer sings songs with his gold tooth mouth.



DVD

Little Rascals: the complete collection starring [kids who never got residuals].  The guy who played Spanky spoke at my college in "90 or '91.  I was only able to attend his talk for about an hour and then had to leave to wash dishes in the cafeteria.  I was telling everyone about hearing Spanky and my classmates and dorm mates did not know what I was talking about.
The Champaign Public Library used to loan out 8mm films and projectors.  My parents would get the Our Gang features for birthday parties.

Ivor or Zelig?

Detention starring Josh Hutcherson.  High school horror comedy.

ParaNorman starring [animated people and monsters].  Boy who sees dead people has to save his town from a curse.

Expendables 2 starring [guys with muscles].  Guys with veiny muscles - Bruce Willis excluded - shoot things.  I have no idea what the plot is.

Eastbound and Down: complete third season starring [chubby guy with mullet].  Baseball pitcher joins minor league team in Myrtle Beach.  I went to Myrtle Beach in 1999.  I did some go-kart driving and enjoyed it greatly.



Dragons: riders of the Berk starring [voices].  The case says "4 explosive episodes" so I guess this is not a feature film.

Citizen Gangster starring Scott Speedman, Brian Cox.  Canadian war veteran robs banks.  Hoser guy wears a toque and robs a bunch of Loonies from a Toronto bank then goes home to sit on his chesterfield.


Shape: 400 calorie fat-blast with [fit blond ladies].  Three 15-minute workouts.



Shape: make over your butt, hips and thighs with [fit blond lady and background models].  The box photos imply lots of lunges.

Monday, December 17, 2012

DVD Bonanza!

DVD Bonanza (with limited number of embedded trailers)

Bourne Legacy starring Jeremy Renner, David Strthairn, Scott Glenn, Stacy Keach, Joan Allen.  Secret agent's life is threatened by the government and, according to the tv commercials, he jumps from a roof into a narrow alley.

Savages starring Blake LIvely, Salma Hayek, Benicio del Toro.  Great novel.  So-so movie.

Safety Not Guaranteed starring [people you don't know except for] Kristen Bell.  Guy says he knows how to time travel and is looking for people to go with him.



Angry Boys starring [Australian acting different parts].



Breaking Bad: First Season starring Meth.  Cancer stricken high school teacher brews meth to earn money for his family.

Breaking Bad: Second Season starring Meth and Guns.  High school teacher is making much meth money and his drug business causes other trouble.

Men in Black 3 starring Josh Brolin, Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones.  More franchise.

Ted starring Mila Kunis, Mark Wahlberg.  Teddy bear that came to life with boyhood wish is still around and causing trouble when owner an adult.

World Without End starring Cynthia Nixon, Miranda Richardson.  389 minutes of Ken Follett.


Girls starring Peter Scolari and Lena Dunham.  Single women, just out  of college, and in New York City.