Sunday, November 20, 2005
How I Spent My Birthday
It was good that I had some well wishers (thanks, Tammy) and even from HC Realms, which is all the more amazing since I haven't been there in over a year and a half, since I gave up Heroclix. And I got a nice big check from my parents, which was very nice since they're even helping me out on some bills and even told them I didn't deserve it, that they're helping me through this rough patch.
I watched Comedians of Comedy, first the movie and then re-watched the first episode of the TV series featuring Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn (cool because they're both comic book/sci-fi/action figure fans and both show them enjoying their hobby), Maria Bamford, and Zach Galifianakis. I rewatched the first episode because I decided to put the movie and TV series on one big DVD. The movie was brought out by Netflix, who even though I had it in my queue from the time I heard of it, and it's now available, they're saying that they haven't received the Sam Kinison Family Entertainment Hour DVD I mailed out earlier last week.
Then the mess with the wife occured, and I watched a movie again that came out around the time of my birthday back in 1977 but wasn't playing in my neck of the woods and I couldn't get my family to take me called Heroes. The ads were touting it as a wacky romp starring Henry Winkler and Sally Field. Unfortunately, that wasn't the only place publicity dropped the ball, not even touting that Harrison "fresh from Star Wars" Ford was in the cast. But to be fair, they had their hands full, as it was one of the first films dealing with Vietnam since the end of the conflict. Winkler plays a veteran that is in and out of mental hospitals (he is put back in after entering a recruitment station and trying to talk the men inside out of enlisting) that is pursuing his dream of opening a worm ranch in California. En route he meets Ms. Field en route to her nuptuals. But as she starts to fall for him, his world is falling apart. Another thing that sold it was Kansas' Carry On Wayward Son that still has a place in my heart mainly because it was used in the ads and at the end of the movie. Unfortunately, it is no longer in the video version, or the one played on Sundance Channel.
And then I continued to catch up on the TiVo by watching my recording of Sunset Blvd. from Turner Classic Movies, deserving of the title indeed. Amazing that Billy Wilder's output was so varied and so entertaining.
And now I can't sleep, I've been having trouble getting to sleep the past few nights and the events of today haven't helped.
I watched Comedians of Comedy, first the movie and then re-watched the first episode of the TV series featuring Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn (cool because they're both comic book/sci-fi/action figure fans and both show them enjoying their hobby), Maria Bamford, and Zach Galifianakis. I rewatched the first episode because I decided to put the movie and TV series on one big DVD. The movie was brought out by Netflix, who even though I had it in my queue from the time I heard of it, and it's now available, they're saying that they haven't received the Sam Kinison Family Entertainment Hour DVD I mailed out earlier last week.
Then the mess with the wife occured, and I watched a movie again that came out around the time of my birthday back in 1977 but wasn't playing in my neck of the woods and I couldn't get my family to take me called Heroes. The ads were touting it as a wacky romp starring Henry Winkler and Sally Field. Unfortunately, that wasn't the only place publicity dropped the ball, not even touting that Harrison "fresh from Star Wars" Ford was in the cast. But to be fair, they had their hands full, as it was one of the first films dealing with Vietnam since the end of the conflict. Winkler plays a veteran that is in and out of mental hospitals (he is put back in after entering a recruitment station and trying to talk the men inside out of enlisting) that is pursuing his dream of opening a worm ranch in California. En route he meets Ms. Field en route to her nuptuals. But as she starts to fall for him, his world is falling apart. Another thing that sold it was Kansas' Carry On Wayward Son that still has a place in my heart mainly because it was used in the ads and at the end of the movie. Unfortunately, it is no longer in the video version, or the one played on Sundance Channel.
And then I continued to catch up on the TiVo by watching my recording of Sunset Blvd. from Turner Classic Movies, deserving of the title indeed. Amazing that Billy Wilder's output was so varied and so entertaining.
And now I can't sleep, I've been having trouble getting to sleep the past few nights and the events of today haven't helped.
# posted by Tony Collett @ 11:09 PM 
