May 2007 - Posts
Found on YouTube: "The French army has developed a cutting edge missile built entirely in-country. They used French parts, engineers, and designs. The results are amazing."
Nothing really happening, so how about an awesome guitar solo by the always inspiring Yngwie Malmsteen?
I haven't read this book yet, but it sounds interesting. The author combed through endless baseball statistics and added in all the times The Babe flied out at a distance that would be a home run today in the same city's current ballpark (since they tend to have smaller outfields than in the 1920s). Take that, Barry Bonds, you cheater!
Link to the book at Amazon.
SAF = "Single Anxious Female". Under 30, unmarried, uneducated, unaffluent, and "thoroughly pissed off at the direction of America". (Maybe because they spend too much time watching Grey's Anatomy and not enough time reading a textbook?)
Sounds like something a mean-spirited Republican pollster would come up with, right? Wrong. It's the invention of a women's political group as part of a get-out-the-vote effort and a major focus area for the Hillary Clinton campaign. Apparently this is one of the fastest-growing voter groups. Now I'm concerned about the direction of the country! Anyway, here's an article:
http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/32135/
This is an awesome video made by a professor at Bucknell University that uses Disney clips to explain copyright law (demonstrating fair use in the process!). Very funny, too.
Fun stuff. A bit of a parody of the AFI's "100" series, but also a tribute. See if you can identify all the movies. For the record, I've seen 94 of them. ("Docking bay 94....")
If you really MUST, the answers are available here:
http://acrentropy.blogspot.com/2007/05/for-those-who-just-have-to-know.html
Another classic found at YouTube. This thing is becoming the Wikipedia of video archives. Yowza.
I'm kinda excited about figuring out how to embed YouTube videos in blog entries (what a configuration hassle!), so I've posted several below that were fun. One more and I'm off to bed.
Cool video showing places in LA that have been featured in major movies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXtVZQ6jcZg
Looks like Rowling is talking about the possibility of writing an 8th Harry Potter book that would basically be a collection of removed bits from the earlier novels and stories about the other characters, and "encyclopedia"-like sections.
Article here.
HDNet Movies is showing The Searchers in HD on Saturday night at 6pm Eastern time. I'm guessing it uses the new transfer that was done for the 50th anniversary DVD release in 2006. So this is a rare chance to see this classic in all its glory.
The Searchers is John Ford's masterpiece. It was made in 1956, and stars John Wayne, Vera Miles, Jeffrey Hunter and a very young Natalie Wood (age 18). It was shot in VistaVision, mostly around Monument Valley, and is considered by nearly everyone as one of the greatest films of all time (and probably the greatest western).
BTW, unlike many widescreen, colorful classics, The Searchers won't be letterboxed. VistaVision, which was also popular with Hitchcock, was never shown at really wide formats, and most VV films present very well at 1.85:1 (16x9, the normal HD format). I believe the correct ratio for The Searchers is actually 1.66:1.
One thing I have really enjoyed since building a home theater is watching classic films as they were originally presented in the theater -- on a great big screen, and with later classics, in their original aspect ratio. They may not have impressive sound, but they really look terrific and often present very differently from the way they do on a small television screen.
Everyone knows heat cannot melt steel! When will the government wake up about events like 4/29 and 9/11?! And just take a look at this further evidence:
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!
http://429truth.org/
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