Another message, from a completely different email:
up, and they hurried along then, not caring if it was trolls or goblins.
The light was in front of them and to the left of the path, and when at last they had drawn level with it, it seemed plain that torches and
This is starting to form a kind of waking dream narrative. I’ll be pretty disappointed if I stop getting these messages.
Today I received yet another bizarre spam containing only a few lines from Tolkien:
Or will you be flying?
Your ponies are straying!
The daylight is dying!
There’s a weird urgency to it. I feel like I’ve been given an important message, yet I don’t know what it means. If I were paranoid, I might be a little concerned that the message came from an “Abdullah Xu.” A Google search yields only a single web page.
Scanner Darkly is my favorite Philip K. Dick book and consequently I had very high hopes for this movie. It is the best adaptation of a PKD book thusfar, sticking very close to the source material, unlike Blade Runner and Total Recall. But the majority of my favorite scenes were absent from the film. Strangely, many of the scenes in the book which are mentioned in passing are explored in greater detail while the more fleshed out scenes were completely ignored. The scene with Freck and the being from between dimensions is the only scene in the film that is exactly like the book, word for word.
The most important part of Bob Arctor’s character development was rushed and requires you to have read the book to really understand what happened. The ending comes too quickly so it lacks dramatic punch.
Overall, it captures the ideas and the essence of the book: layers of drug-induced paranoia and psychosis, drug addled conversations, and inevitable despair. I was happy to see they retained Dick’s cautionary epilogue and the list of his friends lost to drugs. Robert Downey Jr. shines as Barris and Keanu Reeves is the old school Keanu, darker, free of the demands of having to be a blockbuster movie star.
Drey’s Top 10 Movies seen in 2006
1. Brick
2. Inside Man
3. Day Watch
4. Night Watch
5. Howl’s Moving Castle
6. The Chronicles of Riddick
7. Superman Returns
8. Scanner Darkly
9. Cars
10. Mission Impossible 3
Where are you?
I can’t find you.
I’m going to start calling to you, but I don’t know if you can hear me where you are.
I don’t even know your name.
I call you Elysia in the stories because I think you are wonderful.
I’m starting to recognize your face because I mistake other people for you.
Where are you?
I’m not sure where to look anymore; all the spaces have grown so thin.
So I will let you know where I am.
I will say your name and you will know me when you hear it.
Please hear me.
The more times I see The Chronicles of Riddick, the more I appreciate it. The story is imaginative and quickly establishes its unique mythology. The visual design is incredible, sort of what Star Wars might have looked like had Weta done the sets. Ordinarily, Vin Diesel is decent, but here he completely embodies Riddick in the way that Jackman embodies Wolverine. I don;t know if there are plans to continue the series, but that last scene just kills me and I demand to know what happens after.
Drey’s Top 10 Movies seen in 2006
1. Brick
2. Inside Man
3. Day Watch
4. Night Watch
5. Howl’s Moving Castle
6. The Chronicles of Riddick
7. Superman Returns
8. Cars
9. Mission Impossible 3
10. V for Vendetta
The more spam like this I receive, the more I think that this is evidence of SkyNet groping for machine sentience. I mean, what else could it be? There’s no ad here, no viagra for me to buy, no virus attachment. Nothing… just this:
/begin spam
Hello Allan,
THE STAMP IS A GOOD WAY TO STUDY GIVEN TO THE CHILD!
Double characteristic with marketable securities and work of art of the stamp. Lie in , the range of ups and downs is not restricted by national government decree its place different from the stock, totally up to the state change of market supply and demand.
Entry
ICQ 221–476–097
email : [email protected]
We offer:
1990 ~ 2005
Stamp of the whole year
220$ ~ 120$
Method of delivering goods of MES
Most perforations of the stamp of our country are 11 degrees , 11 1/2 degrees , 12 1/2 degrees and 14 degrees.
Maintenance of the stamp:
Six; Lay out the drier inside preserving the container which posts the volume ; Have water accumulation in the drier box after putting for some time. Please look over in time that change.
/end spam
Hell, I’d buy stamp of the whole year for only 120$ ! After all, everyone knows that the stamp is a good way to study given to the child.
I saw Superman Returns Tuesday night. I expected a packed theater with a line out the door, but I guess everyone was at the Rio. Juan, Jeremy and Rob had been waiting there for three hours and they were the first in line.
I had watched the original Donner film just before heading to the theater. I hadn’t seen this extended cut (2.5 hours!) before and it had a lot of interesting additions which I guess they extracted from unused footage from filming Superman 1 and 2. Anyhow, the film was fresh in my mind, so the homage Superman Returns makes to the original was very obvious. For the most part it worked, but I thought there was a big continuity problem because of this. Superman Returns is supposed to be a sequel to Superman 2, yet a big plot element is basically identical to one in the first film. I was thinking “Wait a minute, didn’t he try this stunt before?”
Other than that, I really enjoyed the movie and found Brandon Routh convincing as both Superman and Clark Kent, though he does seem to be mimicking Reeve’s Kent rather closely. Kevin Spacey does the same thing with his Lex Luthor, following Hackman very closely. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s just that in recent years I have become used to Clancy Brown’s more serious portrayal on Justice League.
The effects are superb and you can see the money up there on the screen. I love how they did the opening titles just like the original films, only with astonishing outer space scenes instead of sparklers and weird glowing goo. The opening credit sequence is a film in itself, like the intro to Star Trek Voyager on acid.
Drey’s Top 10 Movies seen in 2006
1. Brick
2. Inside Man
3. Day Watch
4. Night Watch
5. Howl’s Moving Castle
6. Superman Returns
7. Cars
8. Mission Impossible 3
9. V for Vendetta
10. Layer Cake
1. Firefly
2. Keen Eddie
3. Miracles
4. Carnivale
5. The Inside
6. Wonderfalls
7. Push, Nevada
8. Sam ‘n Max: Freelance Police
9. The Tick
10. Brimstone
1. Battlestar Galactica
2. Firefly
3. Farscape
4. Doctor Who
5. Stargate SG-1
6. Carnivale
7. Lost
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
9. Star Trek – The Next Generation
10. Stargate: Atlantis
The woman next to me at the concert said that JD completely blows Michael Hutchence away. She explained that Michael was already in decline so it made sense for him to kill himself and now he’s in hell looking up at JD wishing he were still alive. Somehow I avoided decapitating this woman and said, “We’ll see.” She bought me a beer, so that helped. I hadn’t watched Rockstar INXS because I thought it was obscene and I had only heard the new album once. But I wanted to see INXS in concert and, until Rhythm ‘n Hues can bring back a virtual Michael, this was as good as it was going to get.
And she was wrong. JD is a fantastic performer, but is devoid of passion, sensuality and authenticity. He looked like he was having a great time pretending to be the lead singer of INXS. The band sounded great, but the disparity between JD and Michael cast them in an INXS tribute band light. Where the Beck concert was authentic and fun, this one seemed manufactured and cold. Needless to say, I didn’t get stuck in traffic trying to leave the ampitheater.