Monday, March 02, 2009
Nin-Ja Attack! 6:00 AM
TCM is going through one of those periods where they're playing the same old crap over and over again. Yeah, the big theme for February was Oscar material. So they only programed Academy Award crap. Which pretty much was the crowd pleasing stuff. Movies I've already seen a couple times and I wanted to see something new. Sunday morning I watched Fourteen Hours, which was a damn good movie that I'd never seen before. The plot was about a traffic cop trying to talk Richard Basehart off the ledge of a tall hotel building. A really good movie. It was why I watch TCM, to find these great little gems. Then, of course, they filled the rest of the day's schedule with Gaslight, Rear Window, Vertigo, etc. Yeah, like I've never seen those 2 or more times.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Can this be incorporated? 6:00 AM
I can split the gifs and load them into liveswif, I think. Too bad liveswif keeps crashing.
Update: Hold shift while executing liveswif. Whut?
Crap. I don't know why I'm even using this program. I have better luck mucking around with Toon Boom.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The walls on either side 8:30 AM
Grrr....
Ok, where did I put that crap about the show. I need to send it to Mundee.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
How the heck did EBN do it? 9:12 AM
Because I'd like to do what EBN did. Or what TV Sheriff does right now. Simple looping and triggering video clips. Nothing else! No extra crap. No bloatware. I don't want filters. I just want to do what EBN used to do. Love a duck, the "Standard Version of Vjamm" is no longer available. And the demo won't install. (And to be honest, I thought the original Vjamm was a stand alone flash app that didn't need to install.) Frustration is setting in. Grrr...
mute has a lot of potential. I need to experiment with it a bit.
DVC thinks I should put all my little animations up on YouTUBE. I guess I need to edit together a loop.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Relax and float downstream 9:29 AM
The dreams seem to have returned to their normal programming, or whatever passes for the mean.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
In stately Xanadu... 7:59 AM
A raft of literary dreams haunted me last night. I wish I could've Coldridged back a few of the verses that I'd heard in the dreams. Strange poems about fandom and cannibals and the Brady Bunch. Yeah. Good stuff. I wonder what set off the language in my head. It's rare for me to have a dream so centered on talking and conversation. And even rarer for them to have rhyming couplets. It felt like somebody flipped a switch or I'd accessed a new part of my mind. Weird.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
On the Green 7:26 AM
I had a dream and it was a 1930s Hollywood Gangster Musical movie. All singing and all dancing. The movie was about a Golf Tournament, an urban golf tournament played on the rooftops of an incredible art deco Metropolis. I played a small time bookmaker, complete with a suit, tie and hat. And I'm making book on the golf tournament. Not just the out come of the tournament, but every hole, every stroke and every player. I've got a small army of street kids running the numbers for me. And my gimmick is I give shiny new pennies to all the kids working for me. So my gangster name is, of course, "Danny the Nanny." The running gag through the picture is that I don't like the name and keep trying to get another tough guy sounding gangster name to stick.
The Tournament is being sponsored by Bruce. He's a publisher but he's also a gangster. Bruce is playing in the tournament and has a nice musical number at the start of the movie. Which I can't remember much of the details of except there's lots of dancing on the top of an art deco building.
Meanwhile I find myself in a posh penthouse in the middle of the golf course. The penthouse is the place to be, because you can watch the whole tournament from it and it's a private party being run by Ed, who is also a bookmaker. In an exchange I point out that I take more bets then Ed. Ed points out that he may take fewer bets but they are high dollar bets. Then I point out that throwing a party in a penthouse cuts into his profits. To which Ed replies, "Touche."
At the party I meet Brett and E.K. Brett is a gang boss and I report to him which leads to another big show number. E.K. is also a bookie and is backing a rookie golfer in the tournament who is up with the leaders. Even if the golfer doesn't win E.K. stands to make a lot a money.
Things get a bit confusing now. There is a budding romance between two young golfers which gives us a another musical number. And then there's a Nazi golfer and a plot involving 5th columnists.
Unfortunately I woke up before the 3rd reel and have no idea how the movie ended.
The Tournament is being sponsored by Bruce. He's a publisher but he's also a gangster. Bruce is playing in the tournament and has a nice musical number at the start of the movie. Which I can't remember much of the details of except there's lots of dancing on the top of an art deco building.
Meanwhile I find myself in a posh penthouse in the middle of the golf course. The penthouse is the place to be, because you can watch the whole tournament from it and it's a private party being run by Ed, who is also a bookmaker. In an exchange I point out that I take more bets then Ed. Ed points out that he may take fewer bets but they are high dollar bets. Then I point out that throwing a party in a penthouse cuts into his profits. To which Ed replies, "Touche."
At the party I meet Brett and E.K. Brett is a gang boss and I report to him which leads to another big show number. E.K. is also a bookie and is backing a rookie golfer in the tournament who is up with the leaders. Even if the golfer doesn't win E.K. stands to make a lot a money.
Things get a bit confusing now. There is a budding romance between two young golfers which gives us a another musical number. And then there's a Nazi golfer and a plot involving 5th columnists.
Unfortunately I woke up before the 3rd reel and have no idea how the movie ended.
