Posted by rae in entertainment, video at 3:19 pm on Wednesday, 18 June 2008
I just saw “Southland Tales” which is a mind-warping SF movie.
It reminded me of “Charlie Jade”, “Repo Man” and “Johnnie Darko” (the last makes sense since it’s the same director).
But before you see it, be sure to read parts 1 to 3 in graphics novel format first.
The movie starts with “Part IV”.
It has some surprising names, for such an unseen movie.
Sarah Michelle Gellar (”Buffy”), Dwayne Johnson (”The Rock”), John Larroquette, Christopher Lambert, and Jon Lovitz.
There is a bizarre musical in the middle starring Justin Timberlake, who plays a minor character.
So the deal is, if I transfer all our old 8mm videos to DVD/DivX, then we can buy a new HD video camera.
Cool, thinks I, all I need to do is borrow Vartan’s 8mm videocamera, which has FireWire out, making digitization a snap!
Vartans videocamera
So I pick up the camera from Vartan Friday night, and tonight I try to set it up, only to discover that.. I can’t find my mini-FireWire cable!
You see, the videocamera has this teeny-tiny FireWire jack.
mini-FireWire jack
I have lots of full FireWire cables, but I think I may have lent out my mini-FireWire cable.
If you have such a cable I could borrow, or you have one of mine, let me know!
I’ll try asking at Friday night gaming, if I remember.
I guess I could always buy one while I’m in San Francisco next week..
I was watching some movie trailers:
Iron Man,
War,
The Last Legion,
Exiled,
Lions For Lambs,
Right at Your Door,
and The Signal.
At the end of “Exiled”, I noticed something funny in the end credits, as you can see to the right.
Heh.
Btw, I heartily recommend the “Iron Man” trailer. Yes, they used the Black Sabbath song.
“The Last Legion” looks really good, and I was susprised to see
Colin Firth
and
Ben Kingsley
were in it.
“War” and “Exiled” look to be two good martial arts action movies.
I suspect the former will be more in the impossibly-good category,
while the latter has more of a “Reservoir Dogs” feel to it.
Posted by rae in friends, gaming, video at 9:53 am on Thursday, 19 April 2007
On June 6 2006 we played Pit and I made a few movies. So I just uploaded them to YouTube for fun.
The people who are playing, from left to right, are: Vartan (off-camera), Iain, me, and Michael
Tanya’s show “Blood Ties” will be on “Lifetime” in the US starting in March.
Unfortunately, it’s on at the same time as Battlestar Galactica on SciFi.
That suketh mightily.
Then again, there are always VCRs/TiVOs/BitTorrent.
If you have such a cable I could borrow, or you have one of mine, let me know!
I’ll try asking at Friday night gaming, if I remember.
I guess I could always buy one while I’m in San Francisco next week..
