I was watching the movie “Primer” last night (Great stuff, check it out if you like a wordy sciene geek flick)
It got me thinking about the time that Jeremy Bishop, Chris and I all time travelled by way of Bruce Campbell.
We decided to spend a summer afternoon watching the Evil Dead Trilogy in the basement bedroom Jeremy filling in number 666 hunter street. Fromerly the Kozma home, I passed #666 all the time and was jazzed that Jeremy lived there. It was a perfect fit for the “I want to be debauched” Jeremy.
As I was saying, we spent the afternoon watching the Eveil dead films. Even at our best estimate we were to be done late in the evening (having started mid-afternoon). Any fan will tell you that the Evil Dead Movies are great fun, and worth wasting an afternoon on, even a summer one.
When the movies were over we prepared to head out into the cooler summer evening, perhaps to tool around downtown Kincardine, maybe to hang out somewhere. I forget. but when we stepped out the sun was still full in the sky. It wasn’t even close to sunset yet.
Wilco Ferdinand Culpa?
Shouldn’t it be dark?
We went back inside and checked that we had in fact watched the movies, yup the last one was still in the VCR.
It should be later, right? We all thought aloud.
Here it was, still late afternoon.
We had travelled through time, backwards.
Freaky Stuff.
Our whole summer evening spread before us and we got to do whatever we wanted for a few more hours.
So we watched more TV.
LoL
This morning I saw two great images to capture, a beautiful sky and a bright moon. I pulled out my phone to snap an image and it locked up. I reset it and tried again, locked and the stylus fails to actually manipulate the screen.
I was, to say the least, a bit peeved.
After fiddling with it and looking for troubleshooting help I started looking for specific advice from Verizon, as well as the firmware update.
007Ben noted when I pointed it out that the side of the screen might have become sensitive due to the screen protector on my phone. After pulling it of all was well. For a bit.
I started to upgrade the phone and it turned off, so I pulled it from the cradle and cursed the strange usb errors this laptop has. I snapped it back in and restarted the update, which progressed flawlessly.
The phone is fine now (and I snapped that pic you see on the post); so yay!
If you had a band, what would you call yourselves?
Question submitted by Zoot.
If I had a band I’d call it “Cindy Mae’s Cheerleader Atrocity Engine”
The only music I have any talent with is electronic and glitch-noise based, I’d almost have to confine myself to the “emo-techno” genre. With a name like that though, I’d sure sell a great deal of t-shirts. Maybe even have an organization like the PMRC come after me. That’d be sweet.
I have been in a band before though, even released a couple of tracks solo.
If you ever hear some lame techno stuff labeled as by “KWCrush” or “BBCrush” you might be listening to one of my old tracks (1994-1996) produced in 4 tracks with an old 386 and a tape deck, using live samples from my answering machine, television and the radio. Good times.
“i don’t wanna” was my best track.
The mild “stuffed with walnuts and meat” feeling I had in my sinuses yesterday afternoon became, “overflowing with meat” in the evening requiring doses of pain medication to deal with it. My head felt like it was being pressed open by a mass of ever-expanding meat. (Still kinda does)
I’ve got some kind of head-cold and it meant that this morning I stayed home and attended a meeting from bed. I went back to sleep and caught about 10 hours of sleep in total.
I don’t feel *that* much better now, but I don’t think I’ll need pain medicaton to deal.
I had a great nap earlier, slept right through House. I have most of the episodes recorded so it’s no big loss.
Dead like me is back on TV, so NiteGirl is totally psyched and recording them obssessivley. I’m thinking I know what to get her for Christmas this year, SOCKS.
It was pretty busy at work today, and I’ve been a little sick (some kind of head cold) so my patience has been pretty worked. I’m going to have to sleep better tonight, especially since I have a meeting at 8am for a product group I have nothing to do with. Fun stuff.
My burn from the weekend still hurts in places, but the one on my forhead is crfacking in peeling, I should be a barrel of laughs tomorrow.
I’m almost done with “The Human Condition” which is just a series of short stories, I’ve based through about 13 Graphic novels and 25 issues of JSA in between. I really should focus on one book at a time.
I’ve got to get back on WoW this week, hopefully snagging more of my Wildheart set. I have the gloves and bracers now. I also have the entire volcanic set on. It’s nice to have the extra buffs.
I’ve almost recovered my itunes collection and was pretty choosey on it. When I’m done I’ll back it up to my external drive and feel a great deal better.
What’s your middle name? Is there a story or history behind it?
I don’t have a middle name, but my first name is interesting.
[Kevin] was not my ‘rents first choice, their first choice was Kenneth. After a famous footballer, Kenneth Dalglish a member of the Celtic Football Club (Glasgow, Scotland, God Bless them all)
Anyway, Kenny apparently left the club and my Dad was so disgusted that they changed my name, which apparently means “Handsome One” in Gaelic, so, yeah, awesome. [Gaelic: ‘comely birth’, Saint Kevin founded Glendalough 618 ad]
What is your favorite cover song?
Question submitted by Ray.
Easy “Whiskey in the Jar – By Metallica”
While I love the Thin Lizzy recording (which I’m not sure is the original but c’est la vie), Metallica put such an awesome spin to it you just can’t help but get into it.
The close second (Blasphemy) “Faith” by “The Boy Least likely to” [do not miss the chance to listen to it loud]. This is a great cover for the Q Magazine goes to the 80s collection (and a B-Side I think) How often are you going to hear a song you can dance to that has banjos and a song you can sing along with? Inspired! Faith reminds me of my last few years in grade school and my first years of High School. These are mostly bitter memories, but there is some sweet there too. I was and still am a giant dork after all.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention “Behind Blue Eyes” by “Limp Bizkit” I really love that cover. Damn me.
Today we were discussing the way I sometimes use movies landmark my life. I do it with songs too, but movies mark a number of parts of my life.
Earthquake or Sinbad mark my earliest memories of the movies. With Jaws being the first movie that scared the crap out of me.
Alien will always remind me of the seldom-visited basement of my Aunt and Uncles house.
Love and a .45 will always remind me of parties in Bruce County and New Years in particular.
The Princess Bride, Clueless, Babe, Pocahontas, Aladdin, The Lion King and Clerks will always remind me of my First Real (grown up) love, and The Great Mouse Detective too. We shared alot of first view of movies and things.
For some reason National Lampoons Senior Trip and Interview with a Vampire will always remind me of meeting my wife. However it is the song “Enjoy the Silence” is more meaningful there.
I’m sure I could dig deeper and deeper, how Jay and Silent Bob remind me of some friends (Brian, Pete and Twwly). The movie Exit to Eden reminds me of my Friends Angie and Lynette.
We all have these associations, I’m sure in your life there is a phrase from our common cultural lexicon that will forever remind you of someone or something you think about from time to time.
The Song “Now is the Time” that is used all over the place in Happy Hardcore reminds me of my best man “Shawn” and the phrase “He’ll be okay in 15 minutes, but I wouldn’t give him any doughnuts” reminds me of Chris, my best friend from home.
Yeah. I’ve got a lot of memories and it’s true what you all have said, the bad ones tend to fade as I get older and it is sweet.