worst. movie. evah.

Nathan and I had a sort of wager going at work - I said Gwendoline (aka The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yaks) was the worst movie ever made, and he said Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter was. Neither of us had ever seen the other one's movie.

Well, JR and I netflixed JCVH, and boy did I lose! No contest - JCVH is, hands down, the worst movie ever made. Don't even suggest other movies that you think are worse - you are not informed enough to make that claim until you have seen Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. Think Slacker, but 100 times worse.

And this is coming from someone who recently watched Lake Placid 2. You can't even begin to know how badly I want those 70 minutes of my life back. If your budget is so low that you have to CGI in a seaplane, pay attention to where you put it. How can you CGI up landing a seaplane and unloading it at the dock, and then just forget to put it in the background five seconds later as your entire cast walks away from an empty dock? That movie is a travesty in the face of Lake Placid, one of my most beloved movies!



And still, both of us couldn't take any more after 12 minutes of JCVH.

In light of the double whammy of LP2 and JCVH, I look back fondly on Gwendoline in comparison. At least good ol' Gwenny had half naked women in fake bondage doing fake manual labor on spray-painted styrofoam sets.

i declare it is not yet march

Due to the fact that I haven't switched to a March design, I have decided it's not actually March. FYI

I have been very busy and very sick recently, and simply haven't the energy to blog or switch the design. The ski trip was ... interesting ... my birthday party was a lot of fun, and I had (have?) the plague. And I have a gazillion photos just waiting to be uploaded to flickr. But instead of doing that, I have been curled up on the couch barely able to breathe and watching... let's see:

• The entire Eddie Izzard collection
  
  • Dressed to Kill
    
  • Glorious
    
  • Circle
    
  • Unrepeatable
    
• The Matrix
• The Matrix Reloaded
• Garden State
• Seven Samurai (the first half)
  
• Haiku Tunnel
• The Lord of The Rings trilogy
  
  • The Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Two Towers
    
  • The Return of the King
    
• My Neighbor Totoro
  
• Labyrinth
• Shawn of the Dead
• Old School (unrated)
  
• Hot Fuzz
  
• Blade
  
• Season 8 of The Simpsons

Still sitting in the wings: The Fifth Element, Shawn of the Dead (yes, again!), the rest of Seven Samurai, and the 5 other movies i just 1-clicked from amazon.com: Little Miss Sunshine, Saving Silverman, Grandma's Boy, Flight of the Conchords Season 1, and Superbad (unrated).

So there you go - the mundane details of my movies watched and my movies planned to watch. Aren't ya glad you stopped by?

sf noir film night

Tonight we went to another double feature at the Noir City Film Festival. This evening they showed D.O.A. and The Story of Molly X. They were both great, but Molly X was really entertaining - that's one dame who should've been on Dames Tough as Nails night. Afterwards, it was so crisp and clear (and the rain had stopped), so we walked home. This is a helluva city.

Noir City - No Happy Endings!

Poster and logo design: Bill Selby; Poster and Noir City 6 photos: David M. Allen

This is so cool, and if I could, I would go every night. It had me at "No Happy Endings..."

It's Noir City 6, and they have an SF Noir night, and a Dames Tough as Nails night. Yeeeeeeeee!!!!

it's design week on AVTV!

Tonight, after meeting other designers for drinks at House of Shields, we're going to go see Helvetica. I am very geeked about this - I tried to go see it at SXSWi, but the theatre filled up way too fast. They could have had 2 other showings at the same time and still not handled everyone in line.

Last night, we joined BayCHI and went to the meeting/speaker series. Christina Wodtke (IA expert, founder of boxes and arrows, eleganthack fame, etc.) gave a presentation about Going from Designer to Founder that was very entertaining and enlightening.

Tomorrow night, it's either SFlickr or a class at TechShop, we haven't decided. One of the things that was so appealing about SF was the flickr community here, and we've been here a YEAR and have yet to make a meeting. By Thursday we're both so tired. But we're determined to fix that.

Friday I get my cast off, which has nothing to do with design, but THANK YOU JEEBUS!!! I'm at the point where I don't think I can take another minute of it. And JR offering to saw it off himself isn't really helping.

So that's this week in a nutshell. I have so much back-blogging and back-flickring to do... So you'll be getting a little traveling back in time for a while. You'll take it, and like it!

grrr...stupid broken netflix dvd

Don't you hate it when you get 3 fresh, new movies in from Netflix, and you are working your way through them (assume in this case they are TV series discs and you are really hooked), and you go to watch Disc 3 and it won't play? You eject the disc to discover that it's cracked from the center all the way out in one spot. You were all set up with a glass of wine and finally an evening in which you could watch this show, and now... boned.

All I can think is, "Why didn't I open them all up when I got them and check them? Why?!? By now the damaged one would be replaced and I would be getting tipsy in front of the space cowboy warmth of my Firefly..."

Every time this happens, I vow I will open all the DVDs up on arrival, and I never do.

Grumble.

Side note: I can't believe that I haven't had a "bitchandmoan" label before this post. Huh.

say what again!

This is an incredible version of Pulp Fiction's "Say What Again!" clip expressed through typography.

Say What Again! by Jarratt Moody.

Thanks to Susan and McD for the heads up!