Movie Watch 2009 – Ice Age 666

1. Bolt
2. His name was Jason
3. Role Models
4. Pineapple Express
5. Knocked Up
6. Flubber
7. Bewitched
8. Day of the Dead 2: Contagium – Unbelievably Bad! Avoid
9. Halloween II
   



This quote sums up the movie Halloween II pretty good:
Hank - We will find him.
Loomis - Where are you going to look?
Hank - I don’t know.
Loomis - Neither do I.

10. Dracula – Dead and Loving it
11. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
12. The Shining
13. Nutty Professor 2 – The Klumps
14. Futurama – Into the Wild Green Yonder
15. Hairspray
16. Walk Hard – The Dewey Cox Story
17. Breach
18. American Gangster
19. 21
20. An American Werewolf in London
21. Dead Heat
22. Happy Gilmore
23. Hannah Montana – The Movie
24. Duplex
25. Highlander
    

    "There can be only one."

    Apparently there can be at least five and a TV series? It took me me seven sittings to get through this one.

26. Flight of the Phoenix – This one was a remake, I did not know that.
27. Meet the Robinsons
28. Zombie Holocaust
29. Tarzan 2
30. The Eagle has landed
    I wonder if the Hartnoll brothers of Orbital has heard the soundtrack by Lalo Schifrin from this movie? There are a couple of notes played here and there which sounds very similar to their excellent track The Box.
31. K-PAX
32. Lords of Dogtown
33. Ice Age 3
34. Flight 666
    

This post serves as the ever expanding list of movies I watch this year. I might enhance it with links, pictures and other fun stuff as time goes by… so let’s see what happens?

This post will also be popping up at the top of the Blog when I add new movies, using the “sticky” option.

Something, Something, Something, Dark Side

I remember really enjoying the hour long episode Blue Harvest of the series Family Guy.

I later heard rumours about another episode and today I actually looked it up. According to Wikipedia there will be a sequel episode called Something, Something, Something, Dark Side.

If we can trust Wikipedia it might premiere season 8 of Family Guy this fall?

In a home theater far far away…

I just saw these images of one of the coolest home movie theaters I have ever seen!

I have been showing my daughter some clips from Star Wars IV and she absolutely loves it. She would like this theater, perhaps even more then me?

I like that the left and right front speakers kind of looks like Darth Vader, or Star Wars as my daughter calls him… and the Stormtroopers are Star Wars’ friends.

You can read an article about this home theater at www.electronichouse.com

Summer Trance in The Summer…?

kaChing’s career as a composer started at age four and without any formal training, he gave his first public performance of his own composition, an acapella piece titled “Give me candy!”. At this early stage he began expanding the existing spectrum of sound and musical language and to develop the unique musical style for which he unfortunately not is very known for today.

In the mid 1980’s kaChing built his own studio/laboratory where he was able to create an environment where he could compose and perform.

kaChing tends to avoid discussion as to the mechanics of how his music is created, simply stating, ” I function as a channel through which music emerges from the chaos of noise”. This chaos is usually never channeled into anything else which explains why he is not known to the music world.

The sound of kaChing is unique. Through a keyboard-based combination of luck and accidents, he has created a remarkable and unique world of sound. kaChing plays all the instruments himself: he is composer, arranger, producer and at the same time he doesn’t even know the meaning of those words.

From the late 1970s as a young boy, with careful use of his parents accordian, he created sound textures which at the time were considered to be just noise and still are as a matter of fact.

kaChing is something of a recluse, since the early 1970s he had made very few concert appearances – not because he wanted to, but merly because nobody ever asked him.

www.myspace.com/kachingsweden

PS3+Summer=?

As I have been looking for a PS3 and it is summer… this wil be the perfect thing to get!

Follow this link for the answer…

Elvis – A Hard Working Man?

Here we have the King taking a nap during the race in the movie Viva Las Vegas. Either he is very sleepy or very cool… I guess you need to concentrate to be a good driver and sometimes it helps to close your eyes?

I borrowed a few concert DVD’s from the library the other day. One of them was the Elvis Presley ‘68 Comeback Special. They also sold some old Q magazines, I bought a bunch of magazines for only 10 SKr. In one of them there was a list of some of the different jobs Elvis had in his movies. It is quite an impressive and funny list.

• Hawaiian fishing boat captain
• Trapeze artist-turned-lifeguard
• Ex-con-turned-author
• Doctor
• Navy frogman
• Racing car driver
• Judo expert
• Unemployed rodeo rider working at a beauty spa
• Water ski instructor

Elvis starred in a total of 31 movies in his lifetime, and actually spent most of the 1960’s making films.

Black Clouds & Silver Linings

A big happy 4th of July to the talanted guys in Dream Theater!

I just read in this mornings’ newspaper that their album “Black Clouds & Silver Linings” was the best selling record in Gothenburg, Sweden this week!
Nice to see that incredible and amazing music can be in the top of the charts instead of the usual commercial crap we always get.

I have listened to the album a little bit through the wonderful Spotify and if you like Dream Theater you will not be disappointed.

Of course the album was released in several different versions. There is a 3CD Limited Edition with a bunch of covers on one disc, Stargazer by Rainbow and To Tame a Land by Iron Maiden. Also in this version you will get the entire album in “instrumental mode”, maybe if you are into karaoke?

Do not get me wrong, I think it is a brilliant idea to include this, it must be one of the quickest and easiest way to provide a “bonus disc”? Just mute all the vocaltracks and you are done…

They even have the special edition available and on it you gwr some cool covers like Stargazer by Rainbow and To Tame a Land by Iron Maiden.

Friday Happy Fun Movie – No Mercy!

I got to think of this hilarious scene from Family Guy. Gather your family around the screen, turn up the volume and I guarantee you that exactly 21 seconds in you will laugh… Do not skip forward to 21 seconds because you need to get all the back story and character developments.

Click on the image to see the Movie

Studio Project 2009 – Part XII

Here is a quick little update on the Studio Project 2009. There are still a lot of Lego in the studio but I have now managed to sort a lot of it in to different colours. I have also started to put some of the things together and it is so much quicker to find the different pieces now.

At the time of writing this I am the buildning and construction manager of 3 castles, 1 airplane, 1 car and 1 Star Wars Kit.

I am having way too much fun doing this… It is also a great way of listening to music. I do not believe I have listened to this many albums from start to finish in a long time. Yesterday, we listened to the entire Weird Al Yankovic album “UHF” and also discovered some pretty good songs on the Iron Maiden album “Brave New World” from 2000.

Oh, on a related sidenote, I decided to sell my MIDI Keyboard as it was way too big! I am looking at the CME keyboards and will later on get one a little smaller in size, so we both can be in the same room while playing.

No Summer without Midsomer

Here in Sweden it has become somewhat of a tradition to show Midsomer Murders, the British television series  about murders that take place in the fictional English county of Midsomer.

I just watched the first episode which aired just now called “The Dogleg Murders” on the Swedish public service channel SVT. We are now being shown episodes from the tenth season here in Sweden and the number of murders must be up to about 300-400… not bad for a district of that size?

One of the funniest episode titles has to be “Four Funerals & a Wedding”.

For me and I believe many others this series kind of starts off the summer and sets you in “summer-mood”. Just two more weeks of work and I can get into solving murders full time…

Three things I learned…

Three things I learned from watching Zombie Holocaust

1. When you buy a sofa make sure it matches the wallpaper and when you get a table make sure it matches the carpet… also do not forget the lamp…
2. If you leave the campsite after dark your friends will not start looking for you until the next morning and then only for 30 minutes.
3. When you are captured by cannibals make sure you stand completely still when they want to paint flowers on you before they sacrifice you.