tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57320542011-10-11T12:10:05.221+09:00Like a blog, only with more me.Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.comBlogger3521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-26113386457090496572011-02-23T02:33:00.002+09:002011-02-23T03:07:37.417+09:00

It had been near forever and a day since last I spoke about some fil-lums I seen. So let's do this.I am unsure if Michel Gondry will ever make a film that even approaches Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I haven't seen all of his stuff, dude makes a bunch of stuff, but I'm talking mainly about his feature films. His Hollywood feature films. Cuz Be Kind Rewind was not good. It had about

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-88392584953932237972011-01-11T12:09:00.002+09:002011-01-11T12:20:20.855+09:00

Whip It was good. Full of people I like. Some that I forgot I liked. And one lady who I don't like but was used perfectly. Julliette Lewis strikes me as strange and unpleasant, which is what she was in this film. And what he hell has Daniel Stern been doing? And why isn't Ellen Page in more stuff? She is adorable! And Drew Barrymore plays a good violent stoner.And the plot wasn't quite as cookie

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-41977497499999037592011-01-03T20:28:00.002+09:002011-01-04T00:14:18.257+09:00

There are some people I know who don't like going to movie theatres to see movies because they never seem to have a good experience. I used to think they were silly, or just had a run of bad luck, but I am starting to come around to their way of thinking.Saw Tron Legacy a few weeks back. The movie? Pretty. The theatre? Gah! No one there to take our tickets. (In fact, a harried looking girl with a

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First sign of quality: the production company logo is basically just a rip off of the Fantastic Four logo. Good artists borrow...We start at a military base. Some ninjas be lurkin. Their goal is a sword in a military museum. Ninja close up: Holy Shit, he's wearing mascara! And he's a she! It's a girl, is what I'm trying to say. They hack the security system, do the old sword switcharoo and

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I kinda sucked on that Scott Pilgrim review. I'll be taking a mulligan on that one some time later.It might be a bit of a wait, though.Why?Because Netflix. That's why.Netflix is like a video store in your home. And what was the best part of video stores? It wasn't the latest and greatest. I'd already seen those. It was the old and the worst. Movies whose covers or descriptions made me have

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I love this movie. I love, love, love this movie. Favourite film of the year. Maybe of the decade. I love this film because this is a film full of love. Love of the source material, obviously. The amount of content from the books they managed to cram into a movie this zippy is amazing. And the stuff they changed I prefer, for the most part. I may get into that later.Let's get back to the

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Not the crappy American horror movie from the 80's or the medical drama with Hugh Laurie, but the bugshit crazy Japanese movie from the 70's.I don't know if words can convey what watching this movie is like.It seems like whoever wrote this film, directed this film and edited this film had never been involve with film before. This is a film of wild exuberance. An everything and the kitchen sink

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One Saturday, not so long ago, we watched a couple of 'classic' 80's movies. Rad and Thrasher.Rad is about BMX biking whilst Thrasher is about skateboarding.Rad is better at conveying what BMX biking is was all about at the time. The opening and closing credits have dudes pulling all kinds of tricks off on their bikes. The hoppy, near stationary, climbing all over the bike in ways a bike was

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I think that this film may have made more sense if I was mainlining Human Growth Hormone. Or this flick is HGH for the eyes. Or both.I had fun watching this film. But I knew that I would. Yeah, this is that kind of film. If you think you're going to like it, you probably will. If you know you're going to hate it, you ain't wrong. This is a film that rips the heart out of some nameless mook

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Is not a good movie. It is a bad movie. The worst of Kevin Smith's career. It looks better than a lot of his earlier stuff, he's become a better visualist, but that doesn't mean much when everything else is so substandard. The story is a non-starter. I can't quite recall what all happened, actually. There were buddy cops, a wedding, a rare baseball card, and it all flowed together not at

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Finally saw this flick.When it was good it was great, but it was pretty bad in the in betweens. The action is the highlight, of course, but the one liners are horrible. I know that is the point, but...I know that a lot of one liners in action movies are stupid, but movies with nothing but shitty one liners are usually the shitty action movies. Each action classic has at least one or two line

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Inception, though I've only seen it the once may be my favourite film of...Quite some time, let's say.I cannot stop thinking about it. Snatches of scenes continually float through my brain. And a lot of people, most of whom are better thinkers and writers than I have clicked a fair amount of keys discussing all sort of Inception minutiae. So I won't do that.I'll just mention a couple things.

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We didn't even really try to watch a movie on Tuesday. We lazy.Instead, the wife and I stayed home and watched I Love You Man. Decent enough movie, but no one mentioned how cringey a lot of the humour is. Not vulgar or gross, just a dude being uncool. Not the biggest fan of the cringey humour. But Paul Rudd is much better in such a film than, say, Ben Stiller.

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The Monday after a cabin weekend is usually spent getting back to 100%. But thanks to the water and gatorade, I felt no ill effects, even on Sunday.So Monday was spent doing nothing.

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We spent a fair bit of Friday morning cleaning up and packing. Still. Everything seemed to take longer than it should.I got up at 6:30, fer goodnessakes! Went to a bootcamp, trying for a bit of preventative medicine. An hour of sweating more than balance out an entire weekend of eating and drinking to excess, right? So I got up early and got my motor running, and still we didn't get out of

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Once upon a time there was a plan that involved us being out at the cabin starting on Thursday. That plan did not bear fruit.Right. Forgot to mention something about Wednesday, the day before this day not the acclaimed film. We stayed up finessing my lovely lady's resume and cover letter. She did most of the finessing, I was mainly there for moral support. It was a late night/early

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I don't know if I have mentioned this before, but I once made a film called wednesday. On Wednesday, we went out to the cabin for some eatering. There was meat. And potatoes. And corn. Maybe some salad. Visited with my aunt who I haven't seen in forever. She looks great. It's good to see how good she's doing.It's good that she's good and I'm glad that she's good.Good.

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I don't mean this Tuesday, as in tomorrow, but last Tuesday as in last Tuesday.Last Tuesday the plan was to go see Despicable Me. That plan did not come to fruition. As is often the case, when we plan on going out to see an animated film, we end up drinking instead. We drank.Also, we planned for the cabin weekend. I think that was about it.

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I can't remember a damn thing that happened on Monday.

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Maybe not quite a few, but slightly more than a couple. Is there a word for that?Sunday was full of food and drink and visiting.It seems I have been in training all this month for the upcoming cabin shenanigans.We went out to the cabin around ten on Sunday morning to have a delicious breakfast with mom and Jerry. Everything seems to taste better out there. Plus everything Jerry cooks seems to

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If I keep going at this rate I'll be blogging about tomorrow next week and next week next month and next month next year.That sounds about right.Not much happened on Saturday. Played some DeathSpank (totally worth the 15 bucks) and Dragon Quest 9 (totally worth the 3 bucks I spent on it). Neither the name of, nor the engraving on my iPod were my idea. I just know awesome people.Also watched a

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I think I like having a day's distance between my life and this blog. Lets things stew in the brain juice.Not that any great bursts of insight occurred to me about Friday.Friday was a good day. My ipod touch arrived in the mail. I shall call it iPodcalypse Now and on its shiny backside is inscribed "Byte my shiny metal apps." It is a good pod and I love it.Haven't actually touched other than

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I missed a day of blogging. There was a bit of a car trip and then a movie and then some eating and then some sleeping.The car trip was from Lafleche. Our bellies still full from a fantastic brunch and my muscles still sore from a fair amount of digging and large appliance moving.Just in case my satedness subsided, I packed myself a delicious roast beef and bacon sandwich on homemade bread.

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I wrote and directed a movie called Wednesday once.Today was my birthday. I spent it digging trenches.My hands and feet and everything aches.My reward was an awesome dinner. I ate so much. Delicious deliciousness. Roast beef and new potatoes and corn and I am so damn full. Plus two deserts.I think of things to write about during the day and then I sit at the computer and wonder where those

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I cannot think of the last book I read. I've started a few, but i just kinda forgot to finish them.Digging trenches through dirt that has been used as a driveway for over half a century is not the most pleasant of things. And then it storms and fills in all our hard work. Well, maybe not all. I haven't checked, I'm kinda scared to.I am trying to think of more stuff to write about. And

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This is the week wherein I turn 35.Crud.So this is me writing. Because I really should do that more.It is a sad sad thing that the highest grossing movie of the year was Alice in Wonderland. That was a horrendous movie, a misfire on every level. And I didn't even see it in 3D, which would have added an extra dimension of suck.Whenever a word contains a doubled letter, I rarely double the right

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-71619351974383328612010-03-16T23:22:00.002+09:002010-03-17T00:38:49.322+09:00

Bad kid's movies are bad. Maybe more than other movies because they are sullying new eyes. Just because the eyes are new does not mean they are stupid, don't make a lazy stupid movie because it seems like you can get away with it. Not that I've seen a lot of bad children's (spellchecker does not like children's, but has no problem with children, I really don't understand how spellcheckers work

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Nothing but awesome movies this week.Red Cliff is epic Woo. The drama is as over the top as the action. Which is as it should be. Lots of shots of dudes staring off into the distance. Lots of mulling, contemplating, introspection. But also lots of grand gestures. Lots of musical instrument playing. Lots of knowing smiles. Everything is so big. So big. Even the little moments.But then

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-72929872521987278212010-02-18T02:24:00.002+09:002010-03-12T22:09:49.258+09:00

Let's talk horror. I like horror. A lot. There is a lot of crazy stuff to be found. The lack of respect the genre receives frees the participants. Let's put the camera inside a torso and hack it open because fuck it, we ain't ever gettin no Oscar. Not that all films are so crazy inventive. Most aren't.Within the last week I took in four films that can be viewed as horror films. They all

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Man, I gots to get better at writing down my thoughts about films quicker. I saw Avatar on Monday and Synecdoche New York on... Saturday(?) and Ninja Assassin on Thursday.Let's start with Ninja Assassin first. It is a very bloody movie. Which is kind of a good thing, I guess. But most of the gore looks super fake. It was all added in later by computers. That's like cheating or something.

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God damnit, I truncated my last post fairly severely. I didn't mention any of the music introduced to me via Rock Band.Which is pretty impressive when you stop to think about it. Rock Band is a game where you play along with music you know and love. New stuff? You're too busy worrying about hitting all the notes to notice the song that the notes make. Maybe it's just me. But there are

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What is it about music? Why do we like it, man? Why does it compel us? How can some person singing about something that has nothing to do with the listener affect the mood of the listener? It is crazy magic. It is emotional alchemy.And I am a soft touch. So, so soft. My heart is on my sleeve. Plus it is oversized. I've got a lot of heart, is what I'm saying, and it is a very sensitive

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So it has been a few days since I bitched about how I wanted to write more, but that is okay. Cuz I've been mad busy. Didn't manage to get the whole house cleaned, but I put a pretty good dent in it. And I've been cooking! And the stuff I cooked ended up tasting good! Tomato pasta sauce from scratch! Bread! Shepherd's Pie! Yum!And I've been, slowly but surely, converting my Japan vids.

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Stop putting shit off.That was my New Year's resolution.Got off to a decent start, too. Cleaned our room all to hell, moved everything, dusted, vacuumed, threw out shit that just seems to build up. Blogged. About movies. The post prior to this.But then I started putting shit off. I have a mental and physical block. As soon as I start making any sort of change in my life, I sabotage myself.

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Rang in the New Year in the preferred fashion. In a warm basement with good friend, food and drink. And crappy movies.Well... one crappy movie, one comfort movie and one...Crank 2 is a hard movie to describe/explain. But an easy one for me to enjoy. Just whacked out craziness all over the god damn place. Full of unlikeable people doing unlikeable things to each other for near inexplicable

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Friday was a day filled with many movies. Three movies, to be exact. All three were enjoyable, but only one was good.District 9 is good. It is very good. I need to see it again before I call it great. Because it was not quite the film I expected. I'm not sure what I expected, but...Whatever. This film offers up so much. It is several films in one. It's a mockumentary, an action film, a

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I always want to call it Transformers ROFL. Except that film elicited no laughter from me. Which is the main reason why I prefer GI Joe. Itall a matter of tone.Transformers is way too far up its own ass. Michael Bay has never not made a B movie. Except he doesn't know how to make a B movie. He makes silly genre films without the silliness.This is how he approaches Transformers (please read

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On Tuesday this past week I saw two movies. Because Tuesday is cheap movie day. I saw Transformers 2 in the morning and Funny People at night.Obviously, these are two very different movies. The biggest difference being that one is actually good.The fight scenes in this new Transformers are so much better than the first film. It is still not all that easy to tell who is who, but what they are

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By that I mean I will blog about movies I have recently seen and then imagine your responses and then ignore them.First movie: Lesbian Vampire Killers. The first half of this movie is a couple tics better than good, the second half a couple tics less. The prologue is nicely done, sets up the lore in a quick and humorous manner. The introduction of the two leads is also nicely done. The tone

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Pixar cannot make a bad film. Cars is their worst film. By far. And it is still a good flick. And they know it. So they keep pushing themselves.Can we make a kitchen full of vermin adorable? Yes we can.Can we make a trash compactor adorable? Yes we can.Can we make an old curmudgeon adorable? Yes we can.Can we make the audience cry within the first fifteen minutes? Yes we can.This film

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Spiderman 3 showed what happens when a film gets away from Sam Raimi. He throws his bag of tricks at it and sees what sticks.Drag Me To Hell shows what happens when a Sam Raimi gets his way. He throws his bag of tricks at it. And it all sticks.This is a glorious film. It opens with a cute kid being flung to his death and then dragged to hell. This is a very lean film. And very mean. If a

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Wow. These movies are crazy.Crank starts off crazy and just keeps on being crazy. Nothing gets in the way of its craziness. Not the budget, nothing. This is a cheap looking film. But a good looking film. You can tell just how fake some of the shots are, but the shots are cool so you understand why they wanted them in. Cheesy effects or no.It has a crazy internal logic. A comic book/ video

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I didn't realize that there was no colon in the title. I thought it was Terminator: Salvation. The lack of a colon makes it make less sense.Which is telling. Not that the movie makes no sense, but that it is thoughtless and pointless.The first fifteen minutes are a great indication of what is about to follow.It starts with a horribly written, poorly acted scene. We are introduced to a new

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I will be watching The Spirit again to try and dissect where and how badly it went wrong. I will also be re watching Star Trek. Because it is a really well put together film.It starts with a bang. It is a great opening. Right off the bat, it demonstrates just how different this Trek is from past versions. Space is not sterile blackness. Light explodes across the screen whenever possible.

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I don't know how to approach this. I almost want to re-watch the movie to help me remember how bad the movie was. But I won't. Not yet. But I will.I have always maintained that you can learn a lot more from failure than success.

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Wow.Huh.It is hard to put in to words what I think of The Spirit. Mainly because I have no idea what I think of The Spirit. I mean, I know that it is in no way a good film. It is poorly put together. In many ways.But everything wrong also seems to work. At least, for me. I know that the writing is horrendous, but I dug the hell out of it. Same with the acting and the editing and so on and

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-48956798926242164222009-05-09T12:45:00.001+09:002009-05-09T12:45:35.319+09:00

Dude put on a hell of a show. Not a huge rock spectacle, but rock-y, acoustic-y, indie-y goodness. with two encores. And he also played the opening set. Dude played for near three hours, near as I can tell. I can tell you that I missed most of the first set. Tickets said doors opened at 8. So we grabbed a cab at around 8:30. Cuz that's how it works, right? Nope. Joel Plaskett was on the

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-62469077914670049702009-05-06T07:50:00.003+09:002009-05-06T07:53:05.358+09:00

Lewis Black was funny. And got funnier the angrier he got. He is angry about a lot of things. Including his failing memory. He spent a lot of time umming and uhhing and then saying fuck really loud. I felt a little bad for the guy. But he has an iphone and I don't so fuck'im.Also, I forgot to put my ring back on after my exercises yesterday and I felt all weird and out of sorts and off

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-91227785292951988452009-05-03T12:43:00.002+09:002009-05-03T12:47:57.132+09:00

I listened to him rant and rave for over an hour and a half. It was very entertaining.Age had not mellowed that man.The lady sitting next to me laughed a lot. She had an odd laugh. High pitched and surprised and pleased, like each time she laughed she was discovering anew how nice it was to laugh. And she also blew her nose a lot. Loudly. And it did not sound like she was getting anything

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-77823651746547495902009-03-28T02:48:00.003+09:002009-03-28T03:55:20.793+09:00

Been a while, let's get right to it.I have a bunch of half finished posts about the various movies I have seen in the past while. This post should hopefully bring all that into the fold. And then some.Why? Why now?Because of Where the Wild Things Are. The trailer for that movie has just been released and holy good god does it hit me in all the right places. I already love Spike Jonze. I

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-9439570363703762242009-01-29T15:22:00.002+09:002009-01-29T15:53:25.487+09:00

Saw a couple of films lately. Including The Wrestler. But I'll blog about that one later.I'm blogging about Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police. They are both super bloody flicks from Japan. Shot on the cheap. Machine Girl is about a schoolgirl whose brother is murdered and has her hand chopped off by a family of Yakuza Ninjas. Said hand had been covered in tempura and deep fried

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-49948294414142634502009-01-22T15:11:00.002+09:002009-01-22T15:28:59.749+09:00

Kinda sucks.In America.But other places seem to be doing okay.I say this because I saw The Unborn and Let The Right One In recently.The Unborn is not good. The trailer was good. Made me want to see the movie. But stuff that looked freaky and scary in the trailer looked pretty damn fake in the actual movie. And the story was nowhere near good. And I don't think anyone involved knew how to end

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-35657397431139587692009-01-19T13:01:00.002+09:002009-01-19T13:08:08.668+09:00

My iPod doesn't always like to play in the car. Such was the case today.Which is me trying to explain why I was listening to local Regina radio today. And not the community station, neither. I was listening to the Zed. Z99.*shudder*I was lucky enough to catch the tail end of the Saskatchewan Top 20.I weep for my past, present and future.How the fuck does Nickelback stay at the top of any list

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-67338448297182129372009-01-16T15:02:00.002+09:002009-01-16T15:13:24.311+09:00

I saw a trailer for Pink Panther 2 in front of Yes Man. (Yes Man? An average comedy. Funny bits. Sappy bits. Zooey Desanchel is frickin adorable and awesome.)I love Steve Martin. My sense of humour owes so much to him. My dad watched Martin, Monty Python, the Pink Panther movies and SNL with me when I was very young. Thanks dad. Seriously.But manoman do his latest movies make me

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-37005959512452055782009-01-09T15:28:00.003+09:002009-01-10T02:50:16.057+09:00

And now I update you on the subject about which you have all been wondering about. I lost 0.8 kilos over the holiday season.I don't know how the fuck I manged that either.Yay me.

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Let us talk a bit about Role Models. It is a film I saw about a month ago. I haven't seen a film in a theatre for a month. That sucks. I am earning money, and that is nice, but I miss my weekly movie fix.But Role Models was a good movie, all that aside. It played to the strengths of all its leads. Paul Rudd is basically what all males my age want to be. I know I sure as hell wouldn't mind

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-91929123946975204242009-01-06T14:59:00.003+09:002009-01-10T02:50:52.166+09:00

Now that it is the new year, and the first Monday of aforementioned year (the new one), I figured I should give this blogging stuff another shot.By the time I actually become a regular blogger, the blogosphere will be old and abandoned. Much like I will be.I already feel old. My back started hurting on Christmas day, and it hasn't gone away yet. It is better than it was, but still not all that

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-49289498592720979112008-12-09T01:33:00.002+09:002009-01-10T02:51:12.289+09:00

I busted out the Wii Fit this morning for the first time in a month. Mainly to see how much I weighed. Because I figure I should weigh myself before the big holiday season and then after the big holiday season and see how much weight I gain. I reckon I will gain a lot.Which sucks because I am already about as fat as I have ever been. I am 88 kilos. I think my heaviest ever was 90 or so.

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-14607606830228537852008-12-08T13:34:00.004+09:002008-12-09T07:52:18.577+09:00

Saw the new Punisher on Friday.I had read Ebert's review . And Pajiba's.They were not wrong.The Dark Knight was a hard PG-13. This movie probably hid behind that movie as much as possible. It gets away with all kinds of stuff. This is a very violent flick. Especially the sound. The sound guys must have had a field day on this one.I want to talk about it more, but I don't want to ruin any of

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-5289668877499788622008-12-08T13:12:00.002+09:002008-12-08T13:33:56.317+09:00

Saskatchewan sure does have a lot of sky. It is oftentimes awesome. Our friend David stopped in Regina on his tour across Canada. The sky put on a couple great displays. But the sky last Monday was super duper awesome. It was like the Red Sea, both because it looked like the clouds were parted and because the clouds were red. Parted red clouds. It was cool as hell. It was nice to look at

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-19869073203458769662008-11-26T01:25:00.001+09:002008-11-26T01:28:32.978+09:00

The iMac's wireless mouse can go fuck itself. It is a piece of crap. Always losing its connection or telling me the battery is dead or some such shit. Plus the scroll nub doesn't work half the time. Horrible, horrible fuckin' mouse.

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-89859025852700232442008-11-24T02:40:00.002+09:002008-11-24T04:00:27.925+09:00

Casino Royale was a great reinvention of the Bond character and a great re invigoration of the Bond franchise. It was also a really good film. With a half hour boring film tacked on the end. Then another five minutes of cool.I can understand why they structured the film the way they did, especially after seeing the new film, but that doesn't change the fact that the pacing in Casino Royale was

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-59836408042063283642008-11-14T15:19:00.003+09:002008-11-14T15:39:04.844+09:00

Tried to see Role Models this week. Was sold out. Only playing on one screen. Was sold out nearly an hour before the movie was to start.Never trying to watch a new movie at that theatre ever again. It is always crowded and smelly and full of fuckwads.So I can't talk about Role Models but I can talk about that Kevin Smith movie some more and Run Fatboy Run. Because they share some

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-31561574082494750892008-11-07T15:36:00.001+09:002008-11-07T15:38:31.483+09:00

This movie is not as good as Clerks 2. But Clerks 2 is my most favouritest Kevin Smith movie of all time. Forever.And not it ain't got enough tits.

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-67942963612362382142008-11-06T03:58:00.002+09:002008-11-06T04:24:33.747+09:00

Damnit!Published that one a bit too quick.I wanted to work at least one more thing into that last post.Another thing about McCain. About his speech last night. About the crowd. About how McCain felt about the crowd. When they booed Obama. The things they yelled out while he was talking. The huge cheers for Sarah Palin. I think the dude was getting pissed off.Not to say that he doesn't like

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-66036155426127777882008-11-06T03:10:00.002+09:002008-11-06T03:57:41.198+09:00

I'm sure this post's title has already been used, and used by better folk than me. But that makes it no less true.I have no idea how to write this all down, so this is going to be a bit disjointed.I consider myself to be a cautious optimist. I always try to look on the bright side of life. And I hoped that Obama would be the next President of the United States of America. But I didn't think

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-92065724049952166812008-10-25T01:01:00.002+09:002008-10-26T02:53:27.919+09:00

In the last couple o weeks, I have seen Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Sex Drive, and The Wackness.I'll talk about the other two in a bit, but I'll start off by saying that Sex Drive was funnier than I expected. It is not some near classic like Superbad, but it is vulgar and funny and immature. It is a teen sex comedy, and as a teen sex comedy it is a teen sex comedy. It does what it is

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-51316143424802941862008-10-21T15:02:00.002+09:002008-10-21T15:10:52.506+09:00

Is awesome. Seriously. It is full of great dialogue said by great actors. And it looks great. And there are boobs! And violence!I must own this film! And memorize it.I think the buddy action flick may well be my favourite genre of film.That may just be my post-viewing glow.

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-82812760360314238832008-10-08T15:36:00.002+09:002008-10-08T15:43:01.603+09:00

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is a scruffily charming movie. There's nothing new in the film, but it is all just so dang likable. The music, the actors,... No that's basically it. The direction could have been sharper, as could the picture. But yeah I liked watching their like turn into maybe love. Just cute.

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-63421893964343704532008-10-03T14:58:00.002+09:002008-10-03T15:01:22.000+09:00

I also didn't like The Big Lebowski when I first saw it. Or Pulp Fiction. Maybe I have bad first taste in movies.

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-58993208741008026492008-10-01T15:37:00.002+09:002008-10-01T15:45:17.819+09:00

I have not seen all of the Coen Brothers' movies. But I have seen a fair few of them. Liked a couple of them. Loved even more of them. Raising Arizona may well be my favourite comedy of all time.But some of their films take a few viewings to sink in. I hope Burn After Reading is one of them. Because, having just seen it, I don't even know if I like it. This is the first time were I could

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-76512870451235788912008-09-28T15:06:00.003+09:002008-09-28T15:39:07.351+09:00

Rearranged the basement over the last few days. I like how it turned out. It's like a tunnel of couches in front of our big new tv.Movies look good on our big new tv. It's like our own little home theatre. Kinda.We watched a couple ridiculous movies in our home cinema; the new Die Hard and Snakes on a Plane. Actually, I believe Carla coined a new word to describe them: retardulous.Which is

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-53043179445676595822008-09-25T15:23:00.002+09:002008-09-25T15:28:59.164+09:00

Meant to see Burn After Reading last night but was too full of shrimp to do so.Instead we rolled into bed and watched Blades of Glory. Figure they're about the same - comedy wise.It was better than I expected, but I was expecting sub-Taledega Nights level comedy. It was better than that. But still just an average Will Ferrel type comedy show.But Stranger than Fiction was an above average Will

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-33497302352614908442008-09-25T01:31:00.002+09:002008-09-25T01:36:27.919+09:00

Last night we went out to Red Lobster for their Endless Shrimp dealy. Now that I am not young, these all you can eat things don't make as much sense. I miss being able to eat stupid amounts of food. Maybe I should take up some kind of physical activity to increase my hunger.After not eating very much shrimp at all I finished off the meal with a biscuit soaked in garlic butter. It was a soggy

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-82188565110727993102008-09-25T01:12:00.002+09:002008-09-25T01:15:17.258+09:00

I don't want to harp on this, but when you are having trouble sleeping sleep is a bout all you think about. The falling asleep and staying asleep are smaller problems, but it is the waking up that is the main issue. Every day waking up is like swimming through mud to land on a beach of sludge. It is just unpleasant and not a good way to start the day.

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-54127652312216896882008-09-23T03:42:00.002+09:002008-09-23T03:46:03.302+09:00

This lack of sleep sucks so much. I woke up this morning, took my lovely wife out for a birthday breakfast then fell asleep for a few hours. Now I am up and am pretty sure that either the air or my body has increased in density. Moving is laborious and exhausting. I feel like I need a nap. But I fear how crap i might feel after the next nap.The worst part is that our new bed is so comfy. I

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-9185170765749509242008-09-21T16:20:00.002+09:002008-09-21T16:26:53.163+09:00

The day after I blog about how I want to blog every day is a day where I don't blog. That seems to happen to me a lot.But I have a feasible reason this particular time. I was out at the cabin. The cabin is pretty much off the grid. It doesn't even have a phone.But I am blogging now. Yay me.I am blogging because I said I was gonna and also cuz I can't sleep. I've been having this problem

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-20981112675703655382008-09-19T14:21:00.002+09:002008-09-19T14:48:18.008+09:00

I'm gonna try to post something to one of my blogs every day before I g to bed. There always seems to be a few minutes left at the end of the day that would be filled nicely by blogging. It'll be good practice. I gotta get into the habit of writing more. And I have to get used to writing with this fucked up finger of mine. It never goes where I want it to. Stupid fucking finger.It angers

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-54212628491901296522008-08-12T05:21:00.002+09:002008-08-12T05:26:59.014+09:00

We didn't end up seeing any of the last day of the Folk Fest. There was lightning and rain and such. Stouter folk than we braved the elements, but we went out for dinner instead. I regret nothing.I'm still trying to figure out what it was about Hellboy 2 that bothered me so much. Maybe bothered isn't the right word. Nothing in the film engaged me. No, there was also stuff in there that

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-64042539617185828642008-08-11T03:51:00.002+09:002008-08-11T03:57:37.282+09:00

Day two was a much more subdued affair. very mellow. so low key i don't think imma gonna capitalize anymore. the great lake swimmers were very nice, full of wistful, lovely songs n such. as were most of the other acts of the night. the standout f the evening was Suzanne Vega. She gets capitalized, cuz she deserves it damnit! Such a great voice, full of cute and sweet and sad all at the

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-88166513477009018212008-08-10T02:56:00.003+09:002008-09-19T14:26:50.848+09:00

The39th Annual Regina Folk Festival is going on right now. in years past, we had just bummed around outside, listening to the music for free. Cuz I was a young punk kid. But now I feel motivated to spend money to support stuff I like. And I liked every single artist onstage last night. The Weakerthans, Final Fantasy, Broken Social Scene, plus some lovely local bands like Library Voices and

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-80050000048497390742008-08-07T15:02:00.002+09:002008-08-07T15:33:05.337+09:00

So I went to the Exhibition this past weekend. As always, I went mainly for the food. But this time I did not partake of any of the old favourites. No Mr. Souvlaki, no little donuts, no corndogs, no brats covered in onions and peppers. Nope. Too much new stuff. New stuff like deep fried Coke. It tasted like deep fried Coke. And the deep fried Oreos tasted like deep fried Oreos. Those

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-54464901710962941772008-08-03T02:48:00.002+09:002008-08-03T03:01:31.093+09:00

It is just like me to start blogging to bitch. I bitched about my broken finger. But what really made me want to blog, before my still twisted finger, was Wall E. But I didn't. I couldn't. I can't. I can bitch. That is easy. But to properly praise such a glorious film? My ironic slacker vocabulary is not equipped to deal with that. All I can say is that it is a truly lovely film. The

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-43830915092301491612008-08-01T05:05:00.002+09:002008-09-19T14:24:47.303+09:00

So I broke my finger round about a week ago.  Almost exactly a week ago.  Spooky.  The middle finger on my right hand.  One bone in that finger in a couple places.  It looked gross.  Still does.  I don't think the doctor who fixed my finger actually fixed it.  So I got my family doctor to look at it, to make sure that everything was A OK.He said everything was A OK.  But he didn't look at my

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-82956109961892324632008-06-17T09:38:00.007+09:002008-08-02T03:08:43.465+09:00

Yeah, there are scads of things I am going to miss about Japan.But not scat. Won't miss that.I will miss the commercials. Most are crazy, some are cute and then there is my new favourite commercial.It is for Uni Qlo.It starts with a topless lady walking into a room. The lady's shapely back is to the camera as she strides across the modern looking room (all white and bright). She picks a piece

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-86350489526117316572008-04-23T14:38:00.003+09:002008-08-02T02:42:10.228+09:00

That would have been awesome! A giant muppet tearing shit up in New York? Sign me up!Cloverfield was not as cool as that. It was still enjoyable. It was indeed a cross between Godzilla and The Blair Witch Project. I didn't really have a problem with the Godzilla side of the equation. The monster was freaky looking and did a fair bit of damage. And seeing it from a civilian's perspective

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-22016235843863285102008-03-17T16:56:00.002+09:002008-03-17T17:03:30.981+09:00

Just the other day I posted about how Wii Fit didn't think I would loose any weight. Well, I just now broke through my revised target weight. Wii Fit seemed quite surprised. Suck it, Wii Fit, suck it down!

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-75190123577800814282008-03-14T12:12:00.003+09:002008-03-14T12:17:17.840+09:00

Every time I try to motivate myself to blog here more often, it always has the opposite effect.Plus, I was supposed to be talking about my Wii Fit-ing and I kinda slacked off on that for a bit. But not no more. I've been averaging about 5 days a week, and that is pretty good. For me. And I've been loosing weight. Wii Fit told me there was no way I was going to be able to loose the amount of

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-37102758527390021262008-02-26T12:16:00.001+09:002008-02-26T12:18:23.177+09:00

I can feel the negativity, man. I can feel me trying to bring myself down. It ain't gonna happen. I'm not going to let that happen.

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-52508567220765943002008-02-16T18:35:00.002+09:002008-02-16T18:43:08.867+09:00

Too lazy eve to capitalize that lazy up there in the title.So when you weigh yourself in Wii Fit, you give yourself a stamp for that day. But only if you weigh yourself. If all you do is workout, but don't weigh yourself, you get no stamp. If you were to look at my stamps you would think that I am even lazier than I actually am.I am so lazy. I've had Wii Fit since January but I've only played

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-58005886240268832622008-02-05T01:18:00.000+09:002008-02-05T01:23:47.402+09:00

I didn't Wii Fit at all this week, but I'll be damned if I slack off on the posting as well.Maybe I Wii fitted once. I haven't weighed myself since last time, of that I am sure.The main reason for all of this is the new Smash Brothers game. It just got released. And I am HOOKED.I'll try harder this week, I swear!

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-86089107979860104902008-01-29T20:58:00.000+09:002008-01-29T21:09:48.133+09:00

I'm once again trying to be more regular in me posts to this here corner of the blogosphere. Yeah, I hate that word too. I figure one way to make sure I update at least once a week is if I have something to report on on a weekly basis. Say, for example, I was trying to loose weight. Which I am. But I'm not so crazy as to join a gym or anything nutty like that. Heavens no. Instead, I am

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-25170432871322853502008-01-23T20:53:00.000+09:002008-01-23T20:57:39.285+09:00

Was out drinking with Carla and David and Fernanda last night. Over there at Captain Kangaroo's. The table next to us was filled with older white dudes. And by older I mean they could very well be the same age as me. But they were fatter and wrinklier. And all their efforts at talking with the girls at the bar met with failure. I don't wanna be that guy.

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-77716571401481563362007-09-17T23:19:00.000+09:002007-09-17T23:53:32.602+09:00

Here is a guided tour of our awesome love hotel room in Tokyo.

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-38707027333197781912007-08-29T23:18:00.000+09:002007-08-30T12:00:35.483+09:00

For one whole week, one whole movie theatre devoted one whole screen to showing the 'American' version of Grindhouse. I was all over that like mutated rednecks on a stripper's leg.I'm glad I saw it in the way the directors intended and I'm also looking forward to seeing them separately. Oh hells yeah, I'm seeing them again.I'm also glad I saw them when I did and with whom I did. A bunch of

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-6707393947394732662007-08-15T00:32:00.000+09:002007-08-15T00:36:32.192+09:00

is finally coming here. But not as Grindhouse. It's being released as two films. Nearly a month apart from each other. Death Proof first.I'm happy that I actually get to see it but sad that it won't be in the original format.Also, Japanese people do the above a lot. They start typing out a sentence in their subject line and then just continue the sentence in the body of the email or txt

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-5979350540543360232007-08-13T09:57:00.000+09:002007-08-13T10:02:16.831+09:00

So I woke up this morning not to the alarm clock, but to Carla telling me to shut off the alarm clock. Poor girl, I didn't hear it at all. Next I awoke to the sound of the garbage truck. It was too late for me to get or garbage out in time. Next I awoke to an unpleasant feeling in my bowels. I dashed into the bathroom and spent the next ten minutes making sure no more hot chocolate soup was

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-65516620335727337422007-08-05T23:19:00.000+09:002007-08-07T00:12:14.358+09:00

Transformers was a pretty movie. All of Michael Bay's movies have looked nice (I assume. I haven't watched most of them. The trailers looked pretty. And retarded), but in this one, the cameras stayed still and the edits were spaced out so that you could actually appreciate the prettiness. Still no continuity once the action started, but I think that's just the way Mike likes it. That's just

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-30956557701730069662007-07-31T11:13:00.000+09:002007-07-31T11:19:13.542+09:00

As I mentioned before, I found it much easier to identify with a talking rat than with a talking car. But there were moments in the film that broke that connection between me and the rat. As soon as there were multiple rats on the screen, I would get freaked out. Masses of rats are gross, they make me shudder. I don't know if Brad Bird did that on purpose or not.

Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265361723454779303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732054.post-66500415116712245962007-07-30T00:52:00.000+09:002007-07-30T01:10:01.637+09:00

Cars was the first Pixar flick I didn't catch in the theatre. It just never grabbed me. I read and heard the reviews, it'"s Pixars weakest effort, but still miles beyond most of the competition." Having finally seen Cars, I would only agree with the first part of that sentiment. I found cars to be dull, not all that funny, and un-engaging in just about every way. It looked fricking fantastic

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