Livin it One Day at A Time

I was talking with a friend, who informed me that I’d have to give up my mad pinball collection when I finally find someone I want to spend my star wars watching/RV Driving/Photo Taking/Arcade building days with.

Why didn’t she just tell me “oh, and no happiness”.

I mean, this hobby. It might border on an addiction. It may be, that I have more projects to work on, than floor room.

But, I’m still like 95% kid inside! That 5% adult gets out voted every time!

I’m building quite the collection. I just need to find more space for storage, until I buy my own house.

Current games -
Pinball:
The Addams Family (It all started with this one, and the guy said, you can’t get just one, and I believed him) The Twilight Zone
Fish Tales
Johnny Mnemonic
Doctor Who
Dealers Choice
Pinbot
Bram Stokers Dracula
NBA fastbreak
The Shadow
Star Trek the 25th Anniversary Edition
And I’ll prolly be getting
WhiteWater
(you can see the photos of these games on my Photo site or read up on the games at The Internet Pinball Database. )

Video Games:
Dragons Lair
Primal Rage
BattleZone
Star Wars
Killer Instinct
My half put together Mame cabinet

These can be seen at the photo page, as well as Killer List Of Video Games

I don’t think it’s that bad, do you?

Oh, and I got a gum ball machine a few days ago, but that’s just, uh too cool.

Ohhhh, and if you want to click on certain links on this page (I can’t tell you which, cuz then I get in trouble) you can erm, help me with my addiction!

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I just got off the phone with a friend.

Did I mention that I’m a social movie goer?

Did I mention that I was *not* going to go see Revenge of the Sith? (well, at least until next week).

Crap. I now I have tickets for the 12:03 showing. That puts me up until 2:45 in the morning!

I am standing in line for Star Wars.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY HEAD?

Why can’t I just say, “No, I’m going to be watching all 153432 hours of Anne of Green Gables tonight?”

Well, I’d be watching something like “Monster Garage”, or “Monster House”, or “Monster Kitchen”.

Or doing my Laundry, or I dunno, washing my hair.

No.

I had to fall.

And I fell hard.

This had better be good or.. I’m throwing popcorn. Or thin mints, or some kind of candy, or nachos.

Well, at least I have the firefly movie “Serenity” to look forward to.

Oh, PS. The second oldest in my fam, Gordon has started his own blog. Check out the first article, I give it three thumbs up.

Oh, and as always, I’m working on pinblog to showcase all the mad pinball stuff I do.

I <3 pinball >

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I told myself that I would swear it off.

Like any self respecting geek, I’ve sworn off this addiction.

Now, I find the allure, and the marketing pulling me in. Into the Dark side.

I told myself.

Self, you won’t go see Revenge of the Sith until the movie has been out a week.

Just a few minutes ago, I found myself looking at tickets online at fandago.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED to me?!?! Where is my resolve?

Well, since I am a social movie goer (that’s how i’ve ended up seeing all the chick flicks I’ve seen), I don’t have anyone to see it with.

So I’m Safe.

Unless I fall tommarow.

Unless I go over to the Dark Side.

Unless I see another Star Wars related commercial, food product, bathrobe, or lego.

I’m sunk.

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Woo.

I’ve decided to bring back the 1800’s and get myself some kickin sideburns and Lambchops.

You can just call me Mr. Darcy.

I have to go take a nap.

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I have been recieving via e-mail from some people, accusing me of just acting macho so that I can retain street cred with my homies.

That may be true.

Or it may not be
Anyways, I thought I’d review one of my favorite movies, Moulin Rouge. You can all decide if I am a closet Romantic or not. (Or this could all be Sirhc writting this, since his evil, and he is my twin).

Moulin Rouge

Directed by Baz Luhrmann
Nicole Kidman …. Satine
Ewan McGregor …. Christian
John Leguizamo …. Toulouse-Lautrec
Jim Broadbent …. Harold Zidler
Richard Roxburgh …. The Duke

Grade: A+

It’s a time old tale. Boy moves to Montmartre France, boy finds girl, girl finally decides she wants boy, yada yada.
In this interation of the story, Baz Luhrmann has taken old pop songs, combined them with frantic, busy camera work, and created a film that will please. Make no mistake, if you go get yourself some popcorn, you might as well throw in the towel and watch it some other time.
The film starts off showing us a rather dejected Christian (Ewan McGregor). He starts by letting us know that he will be telling us about the year before, and that the woman he loves is dead.
He starts writing a story that “is about love”. We then travel back, as he tells the story of his moving to France, and his search for the Bohemian ideals (and this is my favorite part).

Beauty, freedom, truth, and, above all things, love.

He then finds a group of misfit bohemians who are attempting to write a play, one that they call “Spectacular, Spectacular.” Due to some writting differences, Christian ends up being recruited to write this play for the Bohemians.

The Bohemians offer Christian some absinthe (like one zillion percent alcohol) and what follows is a blur of green fairies, windmills, and courtesians. At this point you get introduced to Satine (Kidman) and Zidler (Broadbent). Satine is a singer/courtesian and Zidler is the business man who owns the Moulin Rouge (a business of ill repute). More visual insanity ensues, and you get to see Zidler do a series of backflips and some naughty can-can.

Through a series of mishaps Satine believes that Christian is a wealthy financer, and Christian promptly falls in love with her. The only problem is the real financier, The Duke. The Duke decides he must have Satine, and well, a nasty little love triangle love ensues. In the words of the J. Geils Band “You love her, But she loves him”.

Throught the rest of the movie, you watch as Satine and Christian fall in love. You also find that Satine is dying (of TB). Throught this act, my favorite song is played “Come what may”.

Never knew I could feel like this
Like I’ve never seen the sky before
I want to vanish inside your kiss
Every day i’m loving you more than this
Listen to my heart, can you hear it sings
Telling me to give you everything
Seasons may change, winter to spring
But I love you until the end of time

Chorus:
Come what may
Come what may
I will love you until my dying day

At the end, a jilted Christian realizes that she loves him, and well, you’ll have to watch to see how it ends (if you already haven’t). One thing I have noticed, is when a scene is about Christian, it has a blue backdrop. When a scene with Satine is shot, it is in Red.

Anyways, it’s a good film.

I give it 4 out 4 Roller Skating Neon-glowing Muses.

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I know this won’t interest most of you, but it’s just cracking me up.

A co-worker asked me to house sit/pup sit. This dog is a Brittany, which is a bird dog.

Last night, I got out of work at, 10:30 at night, headed over to the house, and was greeted by a reserved, yet very attention starved dog.

As soon as she had done her business outside, she was all over me in the house, following me around, picking up her little plush toys.

I then made the mistake of petting her. Three days later, she let me stop. Everytime I attempted to quit, I had a nose burrow under my hand, lifting it up into the air, so that she could get some more attention.

Then came all the toys. I was throwing quite a few to her.

Then she fixated on a blush toy, that was stored quite a bit away from her, and stared at it for the next half hour (I kid you not).

When it was time to go, she started acting all ansy, growl talking to me, and then walking in front of my legs, trying to make sure I couldn’t make it to the door (or, she just wanted to see me fall, one of two.)

She’s Goofy.

I like that.

Call me Goofy >:)

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My brothers and I were talking on the phone…

We came to the conclusion that we had been scarred for life, and probably for eternity by “Anne of Green Gables”.

Now, some of the female readers of this blog, may think I’m exaggerating.

I don’t do that.

Ever.

Imagine, if you will, a house, with 4 boys. We would be watching our episodes of GI Joe. As some of you may know, GI Joe would always end with a saying such as “Eating twice your weight in crayons can cause your stomach to be irritated”, followed by a kid saying “Thanks, now we know” and then the GI Joe character would follow by saying “And knowing is half the battle” followed by a Chorus of GI JOE!

Anyways, we’d be there, learning small bits and pieces of what should be done in the GI Joe world (and since, as a kid, you can’t tell the difference between reality and TV, our world) and our Mom would come in to change the Channel.

To Anne of Green Gables, or one of the other bazillion versions of Anne (Avonlea, etc, etc). Now I hope the reader can realize how traumatic this was for us boys. I mean, it was that, or go outside and play. Outside, where we would have to entertain ourselves.

So we would try to bully our mother into letting us watch our GI Joe, and get our daily programing.

She wouldn’t do it.

Thus, my disdain for Anne of * grew.

So ya’ll can’t blame me for me disdain. Well, not to much.

So, onto the mockery!

Amazon.com describes the series as

When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables, Prince Edward Island, send for a boy orphan to help them out at the farm, they are in no way prepared for the error that will change their lives. The mistake takes the shape of Anne Shirley, a redheaded 11-year-old girl who can talk anyone under the table. Fortunately, her sunny nature and quirky imagination quickly win over her reluctant foster parents. Anne’s feisty spirit soon draws many friends–and much trouble–her way. Not a day goes by without some melodramatic new episode in the tragicomedy of her life. Early on, Anne declares her eternal antipathy for Gilbert Blythe, a classmate who commits the ultimate sin of mocking her hair color. Later, she accidentally dyes that same cursed hair green. Another time, in her haste to impress a new neighbor, she bakes a cake with liniment instead of vanilla.

Mistake was the right WORD! And boy can this girl TALK. To top it off, she’s almost the most MELODRAMATIC girl I’ve ever seen.

You know. I think that’s enough right there.

I should have received some kind of award for being stuck seeing what I did see. (Not that I did see anything. Not a thing)

From getting Diana Berry(her bosom friend?) drunk, to getting stuck in a sinking boat (of which, Gilbert Blythe (The Hero) had to save her. ) In fact, at the beginning she smashes his head with a chalk slate! (all for calling her Carrots!) Just some innocent teasing! (Props to him for stealing her dance card though)

Green hair. Oh. The list goes on and on!

(Please remember, this info is all from my evil twin, Sirhc)

In the end (not that I’ve ever watched this through to the end), she does come around, becomes more grounded, and finally marries Gilbert Blythe (I guess she finally comes to her senses, much Like Elizabeth Bennet.)
Not after, what I consider a wonderful quote from Gilbert (after the second proposal rejection)

Talking about her falling in love with someone “I hope he breaks your heart. Maybe then you’ll come to your senses.”

This series of books has spawned a Mini-series, a cartoon series, and a play.

I think all of them are available on the Lifetime Channel

(Gordon, Brian, and Michael, did I end this too mushy? )

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