Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver (formerly Paramount)
900 Burrard St Vancouver 604-630-1407
No Country for Old Men 122 mins
Fri-Thu: 12:30 1:00 3:30 4:00 6:40 7:10 9:50 10:20
Anyone for a Sunday matinee?
Anal Distention Part II: O Feculent One
On Sep 22 I posted that I was monitoring my toilet paper usage. I forgot to post when I finally finished the roll about a week ago. So, that puts me at about 1 roll a month…12 rolls a year. Just wanted to mark that for posterity. Or do I mean posteriority?
Because I Like To Make My Mom Worry (More)…
Well isn’t that just the darndest thing! The shooting in Shaughnessy that happened this weekend was just 2 blocks from my place!
IS NOWHERE SAFE? ARE NOT EVEN THE RICH PROTECTED IN THEIR SWANKY MANSIONS?!? I better get a gun to protect myself.
Query
Do you think it’s possible that Beowulf might not be as incredibly bad as it looks in the trailers? Because, sweet Moses, if I was a stronger man I’d gouge my eyes out.
The horror…the horror….
Meanwhile, No Country for Old Men opens this weekend.
The awesomeness…the awesomeness….
Pro-Con
This morning I got up early-ish to bike down to Strategies Games on Main St with the last two pieces of art for the wall-hanging. I wanted to get there as early as possible (aiming for opening at 11am) because I had two more engagements during the day, but I got there at least a half hour later than planned. Still, by the time I got there Darren was just opening the shop which I found curious. while I was there I picked up some pirate miniatures for my Freeport D&D campaign.
It wasn’t far to get down to the Heritage Hall where the Vancouver Comicon was being held. It was supposed to open the same time Strategies opened but when I got there I waited in line and there didn’t seem to be anyone taking money so I left to get some breakfast. By the time I got back I was let in and discussed Secret Comic Project #1 with the gents from Critical Hit Comics, did some drawings, picked up some local comics and some cheap comics, and bumped into a lot of friends, including an old friend who I hadn’t seen for almost a decade, with whom I worked at Duthie Books/Macneill Library Service. She was cleaning out her collection of comics and I aided her as I could with some Tom Strong, New Adventures of The Spirit, and Steve Rude’s X-Men: Children of the Atom. When it comes to inking I think Steve Rude is my #1 go-to guy. I hadn’t planned on staying long but Kevin helped me figure out what was going on with the weirdness of my timing – I didn’t “fall back” with my clocks the night before, so suddenly I had a free hour that I didn’t know what to do with! So I sat down at the Critical Hit Comics table and did some sketches.
Appointment #3 was Drexoll Games and Day Four of the d6 mini-con. I played Burning Wheel with a bunch of fellas but was kind of spacey, tired, and also distracted by the results of my miniatures buying spree. Still lots of fun though.
And here’s a little taste of what I’ve been working on lately:
"Hey guys, wait for me!"
So ashamed…
tag: Barbie Commercial
November on TCM
Here’s a little culture service announcement courtesy of me, all about my favourite TV channel (always commercial free!) TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES and some interesting things to watch on it this month (guest programmer month):
Today – 5pm Adam’s Rib with Spencer Tracy & Audrey Hepburn
– 11pm Citizen Kane with you-know-who
1:15 am – The Magnificent Amberson’s, a wonderful film.
set your VCRs for 7am tomorrow morning (Nov 4) because it’s the noir classic The Maltese Falcon. A must see.
NOV 10 – Guest programmer Danny Devito has some unlikely choices! Bridge on the River Kwai with Alec Guinness (see it if you haven’t); 1975’s Shampoo with Warren Beatty; The Devil Doll (An escaped Devil’s Island convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those that framed him!!) & The Battle of Algiers
NOVEMBRANCE DAY: Woody Allen’s sci-fi film The Sleeper; then Mutiny on the Bounty with Marlin Brando (pretty good!);
NOV 12: 12 Angry Men (a must see!); Inherit the Wind – a 1960 film about teaching evolution in schools with Spencer Tracy; and then, MORLOCKS! in 1960’s The Time Machine.
NOV 14 – Guest programmer Matt Groening
NOV 16 – 1933 King Kong at 7pm
NOV 18 – some Cary Grant goodies including North by Northwest and The Philadelphia Story PLUS Casablanca.
NOV 20 – It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
NOV 21 – Kermit the Frog guest programmer and picks Singin’ in the Rain
NOV 23 – The wonderful Best Years of Our Lives with my favourite Myrna Loy; plus Stalag 17 the precursor to Hogan’s Heroes but much much better.
NOV 29 – Guest programmer Mark (Devo) Mothersbaugh and Inherit the Wind if you missed it on the 12th.
300
This pretty much illustrates one of the reasons I disliked 300 so much:
courtesy of Robot Chicken.
From the people who brought you Mystery Science Theater 3000…
Thanks to Mr Beck for pointing me at this:
Its all been strange and mysterious and lovely, and it makes me want to do it all over again. And now, almost 20 years later, I am. Ive decided, in collaboration with the other bold souls who started it all, to do a new project that is strong enough for our diehard audience, and also gentle and easy to swallow for those that are new to movie riffing. Wait for it .wait for it . meet Cinematic Titanic!
…Its going to be powered by the original cast of MST3K! Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein and yours truly, along with some friends who came along later to make the show great: the beloved Frank Conniff and the scathingly brilliant Mary Jo Pehl.
Were very busy writing and doing preproduction right now so the website is tiny, but the big thing right now is to sign up for the newsletter so we can keep you informed about the fine movie riffing weve got planned for you.
Life is Not Fair
I know this guy who went in to record one line of dialogue for a toy commercial. He actually worked for about 20 minutes, and spent another 2 hours waiting for his turn with the other voice actors. Not very professional to say this on a blog but he got paid ~$2100 including a 2 year “buyout”, after paying his agent’s cut. This is about the same that an average illustrator for roleplaying games makes in 2 months. Isn’t that heinously outrageous and outrageously heinous? Of course one could say that the amount paid for the gig balances for the actor’s time going to numerous auditions for which he never got the role, and other expenses like headshots, resumes and so forth; and one could say that it also balances other arts of dubious cultural significance which the actor may have worked hard on for little or no pay. Either way, isn’t it interesting? Nice work if you can get it.