7th
May
2008
Ponderings For 2008-05-07
- I’m going to be a tad more negative than usual in today’s ponderings. I’ll save today’s major rant for the end of this post.
- The mind works in strange ways. Randomly browsing the net as I started typing this posting, I was reading an article with the name Edgar in it. Sure, I’ve seen plenty of things with that name in it, but for some reason my brain made the synaptic connection this time to Electric Dreams. For those of you who don’t, like me, have a soft spot for totally 80’s movies (and/or Virginia Madsen), you wouldn’t understand the Edgar reference. Since my brain made that weird connection, and since my soundtrack CD collection knows few limitations, I went to the rack and grabbed my CD of the (UK import) Electric Dreams soundtrack and tossed it on. It’s playing as I type this. I still have a soft spot for “The Duel,” which is an undeniably Giorgio Moroder arrangement of music, played as one of the strangest on-screen duets in movie history (YouTube is such a fun thing to be able to find these obscure things to link to when you need them). As I started typing away with the Electric Dreams soundtrack playing, I started wondering to myself when the last time I saw the movie was (and how few other people around the world have played this particular soundtrack in the last, oh, month or so). Then I suddenly started wondering to myself if the movie had ever been released on DVD. I did some quick research to find out that it is one of the ultra-rare films that has yet to get a DVD release (don’t get me started on Ridley Scott’s 1492: Conquest Of Paradise). Seriously, how the heck is Electric Dreams not on DVD? Guess I’ll have to hunt it down on P2P (which is what I consider P2P good for - stuff that I can’t actually buy). Incidentally, here’s an amusing Electric Dreams anecdote. Back in my days working at a computer store, I made a delivery of a computer to the offices of a big corporate company, and noticed that they named all their printers after famous movie/tv robots/computers. I wandered around the offices a bit and was impressed to see the variety and thoroughness of the names used. Many obvious and many obscure names were used, but I think I was most impressed to see a LaserJet 4p sitting there named Edgar.
- Wow, Iron Man clobbered the box office. At least it’s a deserving movie (saw it again on Monday night).
- The Criterion Collection makes a welcome announcement for their first Blu-Ray releases.
- Here’s a fascinating promotion from Chrysler: gasoline for $2.99 - for three years.
- Do you like movies about gladiators?
- Ladies & gents, the world’s tallest LEGO tower
- AWESOME - the Tetris theme played on bottles
- Here’s a cool compilation of The Simpsons’ couch gag intros (watching that video, even at high speed, sure does make one realize just how long that show has been going)
- Speaking of The Simpsons, check out this wild animated version of Homer purely in CSS code
- The ultimate in smoking accessories. Or not.
- An amusing 404 error
- Good grief. As if DDR wasn’t bad enough. Pole Position, indeed…
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