WWYD?

Alright, it's been quite some time, but my computer is alive again. I had to replace my motherboard, and get rid of a defective RAM card, but hopefully I'll be good for a little bit longer. I got sick from eating some Japanese spring rolls the other night (they were very good, and probably worth getting sick over). Anyways, at about 2:30 this morning I decided that I should blog about everything that was running through my fever-induced mind, so here goes...

The family is doing well, everyone's into the school year schedule, Jude and Ashley are in school, Ashley has Jude's teacher from last year and Jude's in first grade, spelling everything. "Dad, how do you spell fink?... f - i - n - k ?" "Yes Jude, that's how you spell fink." Jess and Aravis get to spend each day together, which is good for both of them. Jack is getting less wild, which isn't really saying much, but at least it's a start.

One of my friends has one of those "What Would Yoda Do?" t-shirts, which always brings a smile to my face, that's my kind of humor. Also, I like that bumper sticker that has a gold ring in one corner and says the following; "Frodo Failed, Bush Has The Ring Of Power". What a great way to piss off so many people at with one statement. By the way, if you haven't talked to Jon recently, ask him about the Brazillian soldiers over in Iraq.

That reminds me, it's been a year now that the defaced, subverted, ravaged and illegitimate Star Wars "original" trilogy DVD set became avaliable for purchase. Needless to say I would not stoop to the level of purchasing this offensive product, rather I joined a petition, and asked others to join me in boycotting this product and asking Lucas to please release his original, unblemished masterpiece. Lucas made statements to the affect that this release was the only one he would ever allow and that his "Special" Edition version was the only trilogy he recognized. Days ago, Lucas released the unadulterated, original Star Wars trilogy on DVD. How do I feel? I think I would like to get a copy, and Star Wars obviously has had a mojor impact on my youth, but like the whole Michael Jackson thing, the Pee Wee Herman scandal, Ben Affleck in a Tom Clancy movie, and Rush Limbaugh, the innocence of childhood sometimes is tainted by things you learn as an grown-up.

I don't remember if I wrote about the film "Inside Man" when I saw it a few months back, but now that it's rentable, I am reminded of my impressions of the movie. Overall I was entertained, and I like how a director like Spike Lee can lead us to assume things about his film, based on his previous work, then throw us a curve ball like "Inside Man". I'm liking Clive Owen in everything I've seen of his (Closer and Sin City mostly) and Denzel Washington is just plain awesome. Anyways, although I liked the movie, the Chistopher Plummer character detracted from my enjoyement. He plays a Nazi sympathizer/war profiteer, who indirectly is the villian of the film. Now I undertstand that actors want to play a wide range of roles, and the greatest actors can convincingly play heros and villians (sometimes in the same film), but for someone who's greatest roll was Captain Vonn Trapp, doesn't it just seem wrong that he would play the exact oppisite character in a Spike Lee heist pic? If you can think of a more dramatic difference in one actor playing two roles, I'd like to hear what it was.

Alright, my rambling is winding down, my next blog will be more normal. So what should I do, stop buying DVDs? With this new Blu-ray out now, and HD televisions everywhere, why would anyone buy low picture resoulition standard DVDs anymore? Shouldn't there be like a program where you send in your Lord of the Rings trilogy DVD and they send you the Blu-ray copy for just shipping and handling? You mean, maybe, just maybe, this has all been planned for like the last ten or fifteen years, and they want us to buy all those movies that we use to have on VHS, now we have on DVD and Blu-ray is finally the answer. Personally, I just want the original prints, and when I finally get that projector, I'll watch them on my "big screen"...