...and wow, what a week this has been. I'm glad it's over with. I've been really, really zonked.
First of all, and most importantly, a big and hearty "congratulations" to my sweetheart, Denise, who receives her bachelor's degree today! "Yaaaaaaaay!" Unfortunately, I am not able to attend, but my thoughts will be with you today as you walk across that stage to get your degree.
It is May 18th. It is not supposed to be this damn cold in Washington in the middle of May. *grumble* And, of course, the heat in my building was turned off last month, as it always is. *shiver*
The Season Three DVD of Babylon Five has just been announced! The release date is August 12th! Woot! I've still got to dump all these damn tapes, though.
I was planning to see two movies yesterday, A Mighty Wind and the new Matrix flick, but I decided to do only one, just Wind. Didn't feel like dealing with the crowds for the other one, and I've got too much work to do, anyway. Wind is absolutely hysterical, just as I would have expected from the gang that did Waiting for Guffman. I heartily recommend it, although waiting for video would also be an OK choice -- being a low-key comedy, it's not a film that will lose anything by moving to the small screen.
On a whim the other day, I bought five PowerBall lottery tickets (something that I do about two or three times a year, just when the fancy strikes me). I won!!! Yes, you are now reading the blog of a multimillionaire. --Err, you're not buying it, are you? No? Didn't think so.
Well, I do believe it's time for me to get my day started -- laundry to do, newspaper to read, email to respond to, and of course, studying for my next exam, which is now less than three weeks away. (Holy cow, where does the time go?)
Posted by Zathras at May 18, 2003 11:44 AMThe problem with living in "surburbia" is that it's hard to find a theater playing "A Mighty Wind" #!#$$@@#$@$$$@#!@ However, I do have "Spinal Tap" on DVD (the movie way before Guffman and First in show), which I did manage to find in a vid store 'round here
Posted by: Shaw at May 18, 2003 03:09 PMWhich edition of Spinal Tap is it? I've got the edition with the hour of footage that hit the cutting room floor and it's pretty funny stuff. I only wish they had set the DVD up so that you could choose to either watch the regular movie or watch it with the deleted scenes inserted back where they belong. The special edition also has 45 minutes of other stuff - TV commercials, music videos, Spinal Tap on the "Joe Franklin Show", Flower People Press COnference. And the greatest of all is the audio commentary by Spinal Tap during the movie. It's pretty funny stuff.
Though I have to admit that it's not quite as funny as Roger Waters' commentary during The Wall. Waters wasn't *trying* to be funny but somewhere around the fifth time he whinges about how much he hated being forced to wear short pants as a child you can't help laughing.
I've got the one where the three stars talk as their characters in the commentary. I know there's a gazillion versions of the DVD out there, so I dunno if I got the "right" one or not. It kinda sounds like you've got the one I have -
ROCK N ROLLS!!!!
ROCK N ROLLS!!!
ROCK N ROLLLLLLS!!!!!
...oh no, not again!
Posted by: Shaw at May 18, 2003 09:12 PM