Rear Window Timelapse
Jeff Desom stitched together the original footage from Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window into a panoramic time lapse. The series of events plays out in sequence to the movie’s plot. More info here.
noah wants to watch anything
We were going through our Netflix Streaming queue looking at movies, and Noah desperately wanted to watch anything we mentioned.
bad lyrics can ruin everything
Last weekend I watched one of my favorites movie, The Princess Bride
For those of you who have seen it, you’ll know it has awesomely cheesy music, which fits the film perfectly. But with it, it has a great love theme that reappears throughout the film. but there’s a downside to this love theme.
A big downside.
Last weekend I decided to watch through the credits, to hear more of this love them, only to be greeted by these horrendous lyrics.
Come my love Ill tell you a tale
Of a boy and girl and their love story
And how he loved her oh so much
And all the charms she did possess
Now this did happen once upon a time
When things were not so complex
How he worshipped the ground she walked
And when he looked in her eyes he became obsessed
My love is like a storybook story
But its as real as the feelings I feel
My love is like a storybook story
But its as real as the feelings I feel
Its as real as the feelings I feel
This love was stronger than the powers so dark
A prince could have within his keeping
His spells to weave and steal a heart
Within her breast but only sleeping
My love is like a storybook story
But its as real as the feelings I feel
My love is like a storybook story
But its as real as the feelings I feel
Its as real as the feelings I feel
Now he said, dont you know I love you oh so much
And lay my heart at the foot of your dress?
She said, dont you know that these storybook loves
Always have a happy ending?
Then he swooped her up just like in the books
And on his stallion they rode away
My love is like a storybook story
But its as real as the feelings I feel
My love is like a storybook story
But its as real as the feelings I feel
These are some terrible lyrics. Worse is when you hear them to the music, where, in some cases, he has to rush the phrasing to fit all the syllables into place. Nothing ruins a good melody like trying to crush 9 words into a place that only fits 4. And while I’m not totally stuck on rhyme scheme…you should at least make the lyrics appear to be in song form.
Oh well. No movie can be perfect, and I imagine there are worse things than having the lyrics in the end credits be terrible. Say for instance, aliens that are allergic to water.
seriously…we’re all gonna die
tonight i watched “super size me.” you may have heard of this movie/documentary a few months ago when it first came out in theatres. soon after followed the onslaught of “we’re gonna get you healthy” advertising from mcdonalds. well, i must say that you should give it a gander. while i know better than to take it all as truth, cause as we’ve seen lately, documentaries can be a whole bunch of poo, and even when it is all real, compacting it all in an hour and half creates the idea that it’s a bigger part of life than it really is. and while i don’t want to say that i’m a changed man, cause i’m kinda the king of broken resolutions, it’s certianly changed the way i think about eating. i think my biggest problem is i really like what i call “hearty” meals. things that you can take big bites out of, and have to chew, and you can feel it hit your stomach. things that when you’re done, you know you’ve eaten. the problem comes with the fact that when i visualize these foods, it’s all burgers, or hot dogs, or breakfast skillets made of nothing but onions, hashbrowns, and three kinds of dead pig. that’s right…three. cause two kinds of dead pig is for pansies.
my month on the blockbuster “we can beat netflix” deal is over, and yeah, we’re quiting, and signing up for netflix. plain and simple, one month, and we’ve watched most of the movies we want to see, and havn’t gotten to rent many that we wanted to see. (so to you, the guy who’s had “day of the dead” for a month…you suck) and here you see one of the things that comes with being married. i now sound all pretentious, like i’m refering to myself in the third person when i say “we.” but no, i am referring to the entity that is “the bullards.” so don’t think that this website has gone to my head, cause i gaurentee you, one glance at the stats, and my self-worth takes a nice dive. something that only a sweet kiss some my sexy co-host can cure. so anyways, you should all rent this movie, and watch the extras, simply to know that after we all die from all the nuclear bombs the 80′s action movies told us about, the only things to survive will be cockroachs. and they will feed entirely on mcdonalds french fires.
picky pepper packets
so it’s been a while. i could go on about working two jobs and whatnot, but i’ll spare you. i’m trying to cut down on complaining. which makes me wonder exactly what i’d put up here if i didn’t complain. well, judging by the last month or so, absolutely nothing.
as i start writing this, i realize i have nothing to say. this has been the cause for the delay also. i just don’t find myself all that interesting, so why the heck would you people. this sparks inside me the idea that i should turn this into a professional site…again. but then i think about who would ever look at it…since i’m not exactly a freelance engineer, and the idea of getting even more work right now makes me want to crawl into the corner and cry. but keeping as it is…this thing that i refuse to admit is a blog, seems kinda pointless also. cause well, i can’t remember the last time i posted anything on this site beside odd, meandering posts like this one. but maybe i can prevent this from being nothing more than another stupdi post by asking you this question, which you can respond to below in the little comments thingy. Netflix vs. Blockbuster. Blockbuster now has a program similar to Netflix. gimme pros and cons of each. or dont…whatever.
no news is good news
a little update on two of the things i posted on last time. apparently, heath ledger’s new movie “the order” didn’t even have a critic’s advanced screening. which means they didn’t even let critic’s screen it so they could write reviews. is there any better way to say that your movie is not worth seeing?
also, i mentioned david blaine’s next “trick”, which he has now started. 44 days in a box. neat. according to relevant magazine david has suffered not only starvation, but sleep deprivation. people have been seen throwing eggs and golf balls at the glass cube. one pedestrian was seen play a drum while david was trying to sleep. i’d feel sad for the guy, but he did put himself in a glass cube and hang it above london.
too much heath
i sure could stand not to see another commercial for the order. it’s that annoying new heath ledger movie where he’s the worlds sexiest priest/evil stopper. funny thing is, when i saw the first trailer, it was uber-anti-catholic. i think the tagline was something like “behind the face of good, lies the soul of evil.” but now it doesn’t even mention the catholic church…thought that was funny.
on another note, i wonder what the animal rights people are gonna say about this. david blaine proves magic is nothing more than sitting around. first the ice thing and now this.
what could be greater?
turns out that tim burton is gonna direct a new version of charlie and the chocolate factory. apparently the first movie, “willy wonka and the chocolate factory” didn’t make the writer of the book too happy, so they’re gonna take another pass at it. latest news i’ve heard on this is that johnny depp is the hopeful for the part of willy wonka. anyone who’s seen pirates of the caribbean probably understands why i’m excited about this. and for those of you who don’t know who tim burton is, it’s the guy who directed the first batman, nightmare before christmas, edward scissorhands and sleepy hollow. so you know, creepiness abounds. yippee!
spring broke
sorry for the lack of updates. i’m on my spring break, and i’ve been out of town. the thing i hate about breaks from school, is that looming fear that i’ve forgotten something important, not thinking about school for a whole week. i try and think everything over, and it’s scary to realize i can’t remember what my last class was about. and to think i didn’t even go out and get drunk and party like mtv wants me too. but the saddest part of my spring is my complete lack of money. i mean, when you’re roommate has to treat you too a movie so he won’t be bored out of his mind, that’s just sad. i’m not too proud to have someone else pay for me, but when either someone else pays for you, or you don’t go…well, that’s a little pressing on my pride. but hey, i can say that “anger managment” is a good movie.
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