Letters to you

I never saw the movie but I read the script recently. From "Who Framed Roger Rabbit":

Doom: That's right my dear. Enough to dip Toontown off the face of the Earth! [The cover is removed to reveal a large machine.] A vehicle of my own design. 5000 Gallons of heated Dip, pumped at enormous velocity through a pressurized water cannon. Toontown will be erased in a matter of minutes.

Jessica: I suppose you think no one's going to notice Toontown's dissappeared?

Doom: Who's got time to wonder what happened to some ridiculous talking mice when you're driving past at 75 m.p.h.?

Jessica: What are you talking about? There's no road past Toontown.

Doom: Not yet! [Starts slipping on the eyes] Several months ago I had the good providence to stumble upon a plan of the city councils. A construction plan of epic proportions. They're calling it, a Freeway.

Valiant: A Freeway? What the hell's a freeway?

Doom: Eight lanes of shimmering cement running from here to Pasadena. Smooth, straight, fast. Traffic jams will be a thing of
the past.

Valiant: So that's why you killed Acme and Maroon? For this Freeway? You're kidding.

"Doom: Of course not. You lack vision. I see a place where people get off and on the Freeway. On and off. Off and on. All day, all night. Soon where Toontown once stood will be a string of gas stations. Inexpensive motels. Restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food. Tyre salons. Automobile dealerships. And wonderful, wonderful bill boards reaching as far as the eye can see... My god, It'll be beautiful.

Valiant: Come on. Nobody's gonna drive this lousy Freeway when they can take the red car for a nickel.

Doom: Oh, they'll drive. They'll have to. You see, I bought the red car so I could dismantle it."

I never knew how horribly close to home this movie was. Except for the fact that in real life, the good guys lost.

rialian is on TV! with clients at Interplay music program

( Scene 21 )

In other words, happy new year!

My favorite Ice People are releasing a movie and an album around November 5....

Sigur Ros

Here's what happens when you go to http://www.youtube.com and search on "The Tenth Dimension"

Parts 1 and 2, courtesy of aekiy via mmsword.

We finally saw "V for Vendetta" last night for the first time (I have a feeling I'll want to see it a couple of more times). It'll take me a while to process that one.

( spoilers, probably )

http://www.scifilm.org/reviews3/eyesoffire.html
Pretty good movie. The genre was Western/Horror... I found the Settlers way more horrifying than the creatures, though. I've always avoided Westerns, mostly for that reason (the settlers with their alien attitudes and religious fervor terrify me).

I was all for the Creatures and the Shawnee the whole time. The Faerie was cool too. And that one loner who knew the Native language.

Funny thing was, the strange aura of the creature-infested wood kind of hung around my house long after the movie was over and guests had left and everyone was asleep (I wasn't). Then around 3 in the morning, maybe 4, rialian, who was fast asleep, suddenly started wrestling vigorously with something and hissing loudly at it. During the day, the only time I've ever heard him actually hiss (and only momentarily) is if we're passing by an area that used to be a beautiful forest but has now become a blighted, paved, crowded slag heap of a development.

I was severely spooked and yelped, asking what was wrong, but he didn't hear me. Then he spoke something in his sleep language that sounded like he'd dispatched whatever it was. The tone sounded bored and disgusted, sort of like "children these days". He remembered nothing in the morning. I wonder what the hell that was. I really wish we remembered our dreams better.

AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! (Some things just don't mix well in my mind).

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=MTH1192&variation=&lg=1&

and

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=MTH1179

I was talking to my mom about movies on Sunday, and the subject of "weird things about movies that have bothered us over the years" came up. My pet gripe is the intergalactic exploration team that invariably encounters carbon-based aliens with humanoid characteristics. It's a big universe and there are many other elements, temperature ranges visual and audio frequency ranges, types of consciousness... Oh, never mind.

So my mom then told me what *her* pet gripe was. "How come in EVERY movie, the main characters always 1) find a parking space right away, and 2) it is always the BEST parking space. They can be driving to a public building, or a shopping mall, or anywhere, and they ALWAYS find the best parking space!!!"

My mummy is funny.