Mar. 13th, 2009
So I got convinced to give Twitter a try. You can find me over there under (surprise, surprise) beckyh2112.
I plan to use it for random short thoughts that I normally inflict on people over IM, rather than for any form of blogging. (I will also continue to randomly inflict things on people over IM. 'Cause I like to share the love.) But if you can't get enough of me, or want to know what's running through my head at any given point in my day, it's out there.
I will not use the LoudTwitter service to repost my daily tweets to Livejournal. Frankly, unless you're very low-traffic with your tweeting, I find that kind of annoying to read.
Anyone eles, besides![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
childofatlantis, on Twitter?
I plan to use it for random short thoughts that I normally inflict on people over IM, rather than for any form of blogging. (I will also continue to randomly inflict things on people over IM. 'Cause I like to share the love.) But if you can't get enough of me, or want to know what's running through my head at any given point in my day, it's out there.
I will not use the LoudTwitter service to repost my daily tweets to Livejournal. Frankly, unless you're very low-traffic with your tweeting, I find that kind of annoying to read.
Anyone eles, besides
childofatlantis, on Twitter?Listening to Styx this morning, I got an idea for a Blue Spirit music video for Avatar. Of course, this necessitated ripping the Blue Spirit episodes so I actually had footage to work with the music.
Ripping "The Blue Spirit" from season one went along fine. When it came time to rip "Lake Laogai", my computer decided it hated season two DVDs with a passion and refused to acknowledge the disc was in its drive. Testing with alternate discs led to the discovery it would read season one DVDs just fine, but it refuses to believe in season two DVDs.
So I'm ripping on another computer because I'm actually home this weekend and Mom is letting me use her laptop because she knows how much I enjoy vidding. Very annoying.
Ripping "The Blue Spirit" from season one went along fine. When it came time to rip "Lake Laogai", my computer decided it hated season two DVDs with a passion and refused to acknowledge the disc was in its drive. Testing with alternate discs led to the discovery it would read season one DVDs just fine, but it refuses to believe in season two DVDs.
So I'm ripping on another computer because I'm actually home this weekend and Mom is letting me use her laptop because she knows how much I enjoy vidding. Very annoying.
Friday the 13th
Mar. 13th, 2009 10:35 pmDad's out of town for the weekend, so Mom and I went to the Blockbuster to get some movies he would never be interested in watching. I picked up "Friday the 13th" since we've just had a remake come out, and it is a huge franchise series. Time to see where all this got started, you know?
Having watched it now, I have no idea how we went from this movie to the rest of the franchise.
We actually spend most of the movie with no idea who the killer is at all. The first-person camera point-of-view whenever the killer was doing something was rather clever, I have to admit. It did lead to some jokes about the cameraman being the killer, though.
I wanted to take the composer out back and clock him. The music was so very, very annoying, especially when the killer was doing his thing. It sounded like someone really liked the music from the shower scene in "Psycho" and felt the urge to replicate it whenever even mildly appropriate.
The fact that we had two girls willing to run around pantsless in the woods, at night, in the middle of a violent thunderstorm impressed the hell out of me.
It really annoyed me it took seventy minutes into the ninety-five minute movie for anyone to find out people had been killed at all. By that time, they'd whittled the cast down from six or seven people to the Final Girl. SEVENTY MINUTES!
She did find the second body five minutes later. Well, 'thrown through the window at the Final Girl' qualifies as 'found'.
Speaking of whom, the Final Girl annoyed me so very, very much. Useless, ineffective, cringing git.
It also annoyed me once the killer and the killer's motivations were revealed to the audience, the killer become mysteriously incapable of actually, you know, killing the Final Girl.
The surprise pop-up of Jason at the end was certainly shocking, I must admit. They left it nicely open-ended, too. He could have been there, or he could have been the Final Girl's delusion from her night of traumatic horror. Either way worked.
So a little quick Wiki research on the Friday the 13th franchise reveals neither the original scriptwriter nor the original director/producer came back for the next few sequels. This may explain how we got from what was going on in the original Friday the 13th to Jason.
Additionally, the budget for Friday the 13th was 550k, while the national gross from showing it was 40 million.
Half a million to make the movie, forty million US box office revenue. Sixty million world-wide.
Yeah, I see why they made a sequel.
Having watched it now, I have no idea how we went from this movie to the rest of the franchise.
We actually spend most of the movie with no idea who the killer is at all. The first-person camera point-of-view whenever the killer was doing something was rather clever, I have to admit. It did lead to some jokes about the cameraman being the killer, though.
I wanted to take the composer out back and clock him. The music was so very, very annoying, especially when the killer was doing his thing. It sounded like someone really liked the music from the shower scene in "Psycho" and felt the urge to replicate it whenever even mildly appropriate.
The fact that we had two girls willing to run around pantsless in the woods, at night, in the middle of a violent thunderstorm impressed the hell out of me.
It really annoyed me it took seventy minutes into the ninety-five minute movie for anyone to find out people had been killed at all. By that time, they'd whittled the cast down from six or seven people to the Final Girl. SEVENTY MINUTES!
She did find the second body five minutes later. Well, 'thrown through the window at the Final Girl' qualifies as 'found'.
Speaking of whom, the Final Girl annoyed me so very, very much. Useless, ineffective, cringing git.
It also annoyed me once the killer and the killer's motivations were revealed to the audience, the killer become mysteriously incapable of actually, you know, killing the Final Girl.
The surprise pop-up of Jason at the end was certainly shocking, I must admit. They left it nicely open-ended, too. He could have been there, or he could have been the Final Girl's delusion from her night of traumatic horror. Either way worked.
So a little quick Wiki research on the Friday the 13th franchise reveals neither the original scriptwriter nor the original director/producer came back for the next few sequels. This may explain how we got from what was going on in the original Friday the 13th to Jason.
Additionally, the budget for Friday the 13th was 550k, while the national gross from showing it was 40 million.
Half a million to make the movie, forty million US box office revenue. Sixty million world-wide.
Yeah, I see why they made a sequel.
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