Watched a crappy movie this afternoon called Fishtales – don’t watch it, the only thing worse than the movie was Billy Zane’s wigs.
What was good was Steve Niles Fear Itself episode, I liked it.
Went camping in Gettysburg last week, came back to work wondering why I wasn’t born wealthy so that I could travel the world instead. Finished reading a couple of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels.
So we attempted to go camping a couple of weeks ago at Raccoon Creek State Park but Mother Nature had other plans and decided to rain almost the whole time. After the first night we thought we would brave it until the second night got a little bit crazy. We grabbed some of our stuff and decided to leave the tent up, come home and then go back out the next day, well when we tried to leave there were downed trees, branches, you name it all over the road. We were almost out of the campground when we were stopped by the park ranger who told us that a big tree had fallen and blocked the road so we couldn’t get out. Fortunely there is a back entrance but we had to go all the way back into the park to reach it. What a crazy night.
Fourth of July was spent at a friends house with a nice little cookout.
Among other fun things we also had some bubble blowing going on, pictured is Michael (his house), O (my daughter the tall one), and Michael’s daugther, Julia.
In other news I finished Echo Burning by Lee Childs, this is book 5 in the Jack Reacher series, it’s fun stuff nothing heavy weight, it’s a good summer read. The main character Jack Reacher is a mid-thirties ex-military policeman who gets caught up in an assassination conspiracy after accepting a ride from a woman in the middle of Texas.
I’ve also watched a bunch of crap movies including but not limited to; Chaos Theory – lame even with Ryan Reynolds and Stuart Townsend 11:14 – another horrible movie with a good cast ( The events leading up to an 11:14 PM car crash, from five very different perspectives) Macbeth – a modern day version of Macbeth only set in the Melbourne underwold, it looked good but that’s about it.
Set in Spain during the Napoleonic Wars, Alfons (Zbigniew Cybulski) is a young army captain who discovers an old book that tells the story of his grandfather, Alfons van Worden, who was a captain in the Walloon Guard. The younger van Worden reads of how his ancestor sought the shortest route through the Sierra Morena Mountains. At an apparently deserted inn, the Venta Quemada, he dined with Moorish princesses, Emina (Iga Cembrzynska) and Princess Zibelda (Joanna Jedryka), who inform the captain that they are his cousins and, as the last of the Gomelez line, he must marry them both to provide heirs. He’ll have to convert to Islam, but then delights of all sorts will await him. This gets the good captain’s attention, and he drinks with the ladies gladly, only to wake and find himself back in a forbidding countryside, lying next to a heap of skulls under a gallows. He meets a hermit priest and a goatherd; each tells his story; he wakes again by the gallows. He’s rescued from the Spanish Inquisition, meets a cabalist and hears more stories within stories, usually of love.
I agree with all of them but would include Untamed Heart and Requiem for a Dream. Also of note is that most of them are on my favorite movies list; Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Fly, and Nineteen-Eighty Four. Dead Ringers is of course very cool, as is A.I.
