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Spotted in the VCD/DVD store: Gem and the Holograms, the box set. I appreciate the desire to put everything that can possibly be collected out on DVD while the bubble lasts, and I'm certainly not one to snicker at other people's fun, but could we get at least set a list of priorities so when the burst comes we at least have the most important stuff available? Put another way, I'm fine with there being My Little Pony Tales Video CDs out, but shouldn't the Adam West Batman series or, for that matter, Get Smart be hurried along?
I'd have stayed longer, but I don't need more entertainment purchases right now. Plus the store monitors started showing the latest installment of Eye-Gougingly Awful Adam Sandler Brand Extruded Movie Product, this time starring the antifunny twit as a repulsive animal care guy. It's bad enough he makes movies with humans, but humans theoretically have a free choice to associate with him. Animals, whether live or animatronic robots, don't get asked.
Spotted on the big TV screen outside the Shaw Brothers cinema: a trailer for Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. White Castle burgers are worthwhile as subjects of a road movie -- one can view my trips back home as pilgrimages to White Castle -- but hoo, boy, the movie looks bad. Yes, the trailer features a raccoon, but as an angry raccoon in a car attacking them. No movie whose trailer shows a wild animal attacking someone in a car has ever been any good.
Trivia: Six of the 508 Project Mercury astronaut candidates were rejected for being too tall. Source: For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut, Scott Carpenter and Kris Stoever.
Currently Reading: Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis.
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Date: 2004-07-18 07:28 am (UTC)-J
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Date: 2004-07-18 11:05 am (UTC)Hm ... all right, I'll grant Groundhog Day as a decent movie with much that's good in it. I'm not sure that the groundhog attacked anyone in the trailer, although I do remember the groundhog driving and maybe screaming.
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Date: 2004-07-18 09:44 am (UTC)I got hooked on Columbo watching it on A&E, but we cancelled the satellite a while back since we didn't watch enough TV to justify it (and we were broke and the rates were going up again), so I miss it.
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Date: 2004-07-18 11:11 am (UTC)There are individual shows I'd really like, although not so many I'm eager for complete runs of -- I believe Land of the Lost is in the queue, and I know they're coming out with Season Two of Rocky and Bullwinkle, though I don't know if they're going to include a non-evil bug defaced version this time around.
What I'd really like is a ``sample platter'' kind of thing, with (for example) an episode of each of the Saturday Morning Cartoon shows from 1980, or so. Too much of any one thing, however wonderful (or wonderfully awful), can be too much.
They've recently added Digital Cable here, and I'm planning to pick it up, largely for the better diversity of science and classic movie channels. I'm honestly thirsty for History Channel -- there's abundant nature shows, but not so much about people who've done things, on the science and education channels here.
HAR HAR HAR!!!!
Date: 2004-07-18 01:21 pm (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/users/whiffert/14769.html?mode=reply
Har har harrrrrr
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Re: HAR HAR HAR!!!!
Date: 2004-07-19 04:23 am (UTC)Fine by me. Ask![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blither I don't have anything better to do this week. Besides, the plush toy is wonderful. I've got one myself.
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Date: 2004-07-18 02:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-19 04:25 am (UTC)Pretty much. Non-procyonids may think this is ego, but think it over. What's the best part of the Ace Ventura movies? Yup, the sequence with the raccoon, even if JIm Carrey blows it entirely.
That reminds me, though. Fierce Creatures is on Wednesday.
Ummm...
Date: 2004-07-18 02:22 pm (UTC)Re: Ummm...
Date: 2004-07-19 04:26 am (UTC)Uh ... yeah. That'd probably explain why I was having such trouble finding web sites with the theme song on it. Thanks.
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Date: 2004-07-18 10:45 pm (UTC)We live in a world where Adam West's Batman isn't available on DVD, so that much for the war for freedom.
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Date: 2004-07-18 10:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-19 04:30 am (UTC)Well, good to hear that. The best episodes of the 90s Batman cartoon -- even counting the one where Catwoman gets gene-tweaked into, uh, a cat-woman -- were the ones with the Gray Ghost, or that one with Gary Owens as the 1950s Batman, or so on.
I've heard there's some labyrinthine rights issue which keeps the Batman TV series from coming out on DVD. I don't know if it's more or less complicated than getting Crusader Rabbit out, but it is the kind of thing that makes one demand ``fewer loonies'' in the entertainment law industry.
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Date: 2004-07-19 11:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-20 03:07 am (UTC)I keep looking and thinking over whether to get a digital recorder. There's not as much variety on Singapore channels as there are, say, on DirectTV in the US, but there's plenty out there. But the uncertainty in how long I'll be here drives me away -- no sense buying a big expensive piece of consumer electronics if I have to sell it in a year. It's a bit frustrating.
Oh, and the old Disney Afternoon stuff needs to come out in some form. Just a set of the freakiest Darkwing Duck episodes ever would be good.