Still Funny After All These Years

Ok, this in no way means to discredit what we're doing here as it's very important, but I do have a point, and I'll make it after this.



I'd like to draw your attention to the gentleman in the front row at 2:47 yells "Yea, get things out of the i-Rack".  What he means is "Get Kristin Russell out of the i-Rack".  I've been really enjoying going to the gym and writing papers a week ahead of time, but it's time for me to go.  We'll see if perhaps one day, some far distant day from now, I actually get a flight :)

Lost In Translation, or, Harks of the Deep Blue

There are bazaars on base that you can buy movies at.  Lets call them gray market movies.  I've avoided buying any this long, but I had to look.  Here's what I came home with.  The first and last DVD were free.

You may have noticed I purchased the 2010 Disney collection (800 movies promised).  Why would I do such a thing?  Because of the amazing a) selection b) spelling.

Managed to put Pixar in there, buuuut left the essential 'N' out of Monsters.  Also, who is Trazan?

It's hard to tell but on this part I log 2 misspellings of Nimh, 2 of Heaven, a google search of Dogal is fruitless, I think Pinochio  with 1 C is wrong and my spell checker just confirmed, and I'm docking more points for 2x Jungel.

This one is a mess.

And the real reason I bought this collection, Team America.  If anyone wants an entire season of Street Fighter II, please let me know.

Last one, and truthfully I'm pretty anxious to see what's on it.  

The Movie List

Some movies are good, some movies are nostalgically awesome and must be loved by all when mentioned because they were previously forgotten.  I got into a convo last night with some friends about great movies of our childhood (and great tv shows) which I am going to try to recreate now.  Poorly.  I'll be checking out the Haji shops to see which compilations exist.  You'd be surprised what shows up on a dvd-looking thing full of 32 movies.  I'll post pics at the end of the post.

I don't recall which flick kicked it off, but I think we were talking about the animated shorts at the beginning of Pixar movies and started working back from there.  I should caveat we're not neccesarily looking for the obvious 'best movies' of the 80s or early 90s, this was more a nostalgic treasure hunt if you will.

1.  The best Disney movie ever is the Lion King (Kristin)
2. Ok but the ones from our childhood were awesome too like, the Rescuers, The original Parent Trap or anything Hallie Mills was in, Aladdin, Mulan, Robin Hood, then newer ones like Toy Story, Monsters Inc or Finding Nemo
3. Muppets everything?  I especially love Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island
4. Into TV shows we went, quickly: He-Man, Smurfs, Snorks, Gummy Bears, TGIF and SNICK lineups (Family Matters, Full House, Perfect Strangers, Dinosaurs, Step by Step, and I'm missing something), (Are you Afraid of the Dark, Roundhouse, All That, Clarissa Explains it All)
5. I have to admit I'm a bit hazy at this point, but I know a bunch of amazing films like Gremlins, Batteries Not Included, Short Circuit, Tremors, Indiana Jones (thumbs down to them making a 5th one since Crystal Skulls was sub-par), The Last Starfighter, Flight of the Navigator
6. Then I mentioned, and I think everyone should know this - that the American Film Institute's Silver Theater is in Silver Springs, MD and plays all sorts of crazy shit, including, when I first got to DC, Muppets movies for their Jim Henson theme, then later the original 3 Indy movies as part of a Spielberg theme.  It's worth checking out if you live nearby.
7.  Sarah says that apparently in Austin, TX they do a movies on the river thingy where you float in tubes while they play Deep Blue Sea and Jaws themed films.  Lovely.
8.  Followed by a promise on my part to buy as many of these as Haji Films for $2 at the shop if possible today.  Fun!  I guess that means I have to wake up and walk to the cadillac to grab a shower.  More to come.

A day in the life - Part I

I'm almost done here, so I thought I'd give an average look at a day in my life, with comments.

Good morning.  No longer reading Beating Goliath.  I've been reading Atlas Shrugged since the beginning of January.  It's long.  Thanks Knouse.  The egg is my alarm clock.  It beeps at me angrily.  I hit it ~4 times before actually getting up.

Good morning bike!  It takes me 4 minutes to get to work on this.  Amazing.  Note the rocks everywhere, they SUCK and make it like you're walking through sand all the time.  Hate the rocks.

First part of the road to work.  If you don't turn you end up at the coffee place, so its not a lost situation should that happen.  This is a huge base, not a tiny forward base, so yes, we have things like a coffee thingy.

At the desk.  Actually took this while on a telcon.  I spend at least 1-2 hours every morning sipping tea, eating Breakfast #2 (almonds on this day), and staring unconvincingly at my outlook inboxes.

On this particular day, I had to go to the palace (background).  This is the way.  I like the palace because they have real bathrooms (indoors!)

Ok folks, thats all for the first installment.  Maybe next week I add a picture of the toilet.  For someone dreads going to the port o potties every day, the indoor toilets are a big deal.  Plus they're really weird looking.  You'll see.