In a store today I saw the latest issue of Fangoria (the horror magazine). Not normally something I'd pick up and read, but I saw something on the contents page that intrigued me, so I went to look and...yes...there is a movie out there about killer sheep, and they're coming to your town! And I have the trailer to prove it!!!
http://www.blacksheep-themovie.com/
Some violent content in the trailer (sheep killing people...if you must know). Description to follow on Snortymedia!
Monday, May 28, 2007
Memorial Day 2007
I can think of no better description of what this day is meant for than to read the story below(http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010133). Here's part of the story, go to the site to read the rest...
The men in World War II always knew, although news coverage was sometimes scant, that they were in some sense performing for the people at home. The audience dwindled during Korea. By the Vietnam War, the journalists were omnipresent, but the men were performing primarily for each other. One story that expresses this isolation and comradeship involves a SEAL team ambushed on a beach after an aborted mission near North Vietnam's Cua Viet river base.
After a five-hour gunfight, Cmdr. Tom Norris, already a legend thanks to his part in a harrowing rescue mission for a downed pilot (later dramatized in the film BAT-21), stayed behind to provide covering fire while the three others headed to rendezvous with the boat sent to extract them. At the water's edge, one of the men, Mike Thornton, looked back and saw Tom Norris get hit. As the enemy moved in, he ran back through heavy fire and killed two North Vietnamese standing over Norris's body. He lifted the officer, barely alive with a shattered skull, and carried him to the water and then swam out to sea where they were picked up two hours later.
The two men have been inseparable in the 30 years since.
Leo Thorsness was also at the Hanoi Hilton. The Air Force pilot had taken on four MiGs trying to strafe his wingman who had parachuted out of his damaged aircraft; Mr. Thorsness destroyed two and drove off the other two. He was shot down himself soon after this engagement and found out by tap code that his name had been submitted for the Medal.
One of Mr. Thorsness's most vivid memories from seven years of imprisonment involved a fellow prisoner named Mike Christian, who one day found a grimy piece of cloth, perhaps a former handkerchief, during a visit to the nasty concrete tank where the POWs were occasionally allowed a quick sponge bath. Christian picked up the scrap of fabric and hid it.
Back in his cell he convinced prisoners to give him precious crumbs of soap so he could clean the cloth. He stole a small piece of roof tile which he laboriously ground into a powder, mixed with a bit of water and used to make horizontal stripes. He used one of the blue pills of unknown provenance the prisoners were given for all ailments to color a square in the upper left of the cloth. With a needle made from bamboo wood and thread unraveled from the cell's one blanket, Christian stitched little stars on the blue field.
"It took Mike a couple weeks to finish, working at night under his mosquito net so the guards couldn't see him," Mr. Thorsness told me. "Early one morning, he got up before the guards were active and held up the little flag, waving it as if in a breeze. We turned to him and saw it coming to attention and automatically saluted, some of us with tears running down our cheeks. Of course, the Vietnamese found it during a strip search, took Mike to the torture cell and beat him unmercifully. Sometime after midnight they pushed him into our cell, so bad off that even his voice was gone. But when he recovered in a couple weeks he immediately started looking for another piece of cloth."
The men in World War II always knew, although news coverage was sometimes scant, that they were in some sense performing for the people at home. The audience dwindled during Korea. By the Vietnam War, the journalists were omnipresent, but the men were performing primarily for each other. One story that expresses this isolation and comradeship involves a SEAL team ambushed on a beach after an aborted mission near North Vietnam's Cua Viet river base.
After a five-hour gunfight, Cmdr. Tom Norris, already a legend thanks to his part in a harrowing rescue mission for a downed pilot (later dramatized in the film BAT-21), stayed behind to provide covering fire while the three others headed to rendezvous with the boat sent to extract them. At the water's edge, one of the men, Mike Thornton, looked back and saw Tom Norris get hit. As the enemy moved in, he ran back through heavy fire and killed two North Vietnamese standing over Norris's body. He lifted the officer, barely alive with a shattered skull, and carried him to the water and then swam out to sea where they were picked up two hours later.
The two men have been inseparable in the 30 years since.
Leo Thorsness was also at the Hanoi Hilton. The Air Force pilot had taken on four MiGs trying to strafe his wingman who had parachuted out of his damaged aircraft; Mr. Thorsness destroyed two and drove off the other two. He was shot down himself soon after this engagement and found out by tap code that his name had been submitted for the Medal.
One of Mr. Thorsness's most vivid memories from seven years of imprisonment involved a fellow prisoner named Mike Christian, who one day found a grimy piece of cloth, perhaps a former handkerchief, during a visit to the nasty concrete tank where the POWs were occasionally allowed a quick sponge bath. Christian picked up the scrap of fabric and hid it.
Back in his cell he convinced prisoners to give him precious crumbs of soap so he could clean the cloth. He stole a small piece of roof tile which he laboriously ground into a powder, mixed with a bit of water and used to make horizontal stripes. He used one of the blue pills of unknown provenance the prisoners were given for all ailments to color a square in the upper left of the cloth. With a needle made from bamboo wood and thread unraveled from the cell's one blanket, Christian stitched little stars on the blue field.
"It took Mike a couple weeks to finish, working at night under his mosquito net so the guards couldn't see him," Mr. Thorsness told me. "Early one morning, he got up before the guards were active and held up the little flag, waving it as if in a breeze. We turned to him and saw it coming to attention and automatically saluted, some of us with tears running down our cheeks. Of course, the Vietnamese found it during a strip search, took Mike to the torture cell and beat him unmercifully. Sometime after midnight they pushed him into our cell, so bad off that even his voice was gone. But when he recovered in a couple weeks he immediately started looking for another piece of cloth."
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Desperate Housewives finale
Wow!!! What a shocker that was! Supposedly, the actress was going to start a horse farm with (of all people ) Micheal Bolton, so they were getting away from Hollywood for awhile. But, my thinking is 1) Carlos is going to rescue her just in time and 2) it's Danielle, not Edie, that's hanging from the ceiling. But, I guess we'll just have to wait 4 months or so to find out!
Saturday, May 19, 2007
I've got to get better about posting...
The new job is exercising brain cells I didn't know I had, so its been tough to post on a regular basis. I'm trying though! Really!
First, the news came out that yes, there is going to be a Starcraft 2. I was never that great at the first one, but I guess that news gets everyone pretty worked up. Not that it came as a great surprise though...it was either going to be Starcraft 2 or something Diablo related. I was wishing for Diablo, but oh well.
Getting on to other things, I saw Spiderman 3. If I can ever get around to it, I'll post a review on Snortyville soon. The other big movie is "Shrek the Third", but not sure I'll get around to that this week. Pirates of the Caribbean though next week.
The new Transformers trailer is out, and its pretty hot. I don't see any hint of a plot yet though. I guess when there's giant robots running around destroying stuff...how much of a plot do you really need?
And finally, finales for Desperate Housewives, Heroes and Lost this week...Postings on all three finales on Snortymedia, you'll see!
First, the news came out that yes, there is going to be a Starcraft 2. I was never that great at the first one, but I guess that news gets everyone pretty worked up. Not that it came as a great surprise though...it was either going to be Starcraft 2 or something Diablo related. I was wishing for Diablo, but oh well.
Getting on to other things, I saw Spiderman 3. If I can ever get around to it, I'll post a review on Snortyville soon. The other big movie is "Shrek the Third", but not sure I'll get around to that this week. Pirates of the Caribbean though next week.
The new Transformers trailer is out, and its pretty hot. I don't see any hint of a plot yet though. I guess when there's giant robots running around destroying stuff...how much of a plot do you really need?
And finally, finales for Desperate Housewives, Heroes and Lost this week...Postings on all three finales on Snortymedia, you'll see!
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
It's been about...
...six weeks since the last post. I've been working at a new job (its going great) and so its taken a little while for everything to get back to normal (or as normal as it gets). But, we won't take up anymore time with that.
Spider-man 3 in 3 days...word is its going to be the biggest Spidey ever. I can't help but feel sort of blah about it. I've never liked Spider-man all that much. It's an interesting character, but I just don't identify with him very much at all. Regardless, I'm predicting a $120,000,000 weekend, and depending on the crowds, I'll get out and get a review up on Snortyville this weekend as well.
Exciting things on Snortyville...the debut of Snortymedia! This is where I'll put all the news on movies, TV, and music that I find intriguing or interesting. First off...the next few days, a review of the "Heaven and Hell" tour that reunited Ronnie James Dio with the rest of Black Sabbath. A picture from the concert:
Yeah, not a very good picture, but come look at it at Snortyville and you'll see that one and others in their sort of full glory!
More info on Vista and some computer stuff, like how to turn all those videotapes into DVDs (not the store-bought ones, but the one's YOU'VE recorded over the years). So stay tuned...more to come!
Spider-man 3 in 3 days...word is its going to be the biggest Spidey ever. I can't help but feel sort of blah about it. I've never liked Spider-man all that much. It's an interesting character, but I just don't identify with him very much at all. Regardless, I'm predicting a $120,000,000 weekend, and depending on the crowds, I'll get out and get a review up on Snortyville this weekend as well.
Exciting things on Snortyville...the debut of Snortymedia! This is where I'll put all the news on movies, TV, and music that I find intriguing or interesting. First off...the next few days, a review of the "Heaven and Hell" tour that reunited Ronnie James Dio with the rest of Black Sabbath. A picture from the concert:
Yeah, not a very good picture, but come look at it at Snortyville and you'll see that one and others in their sort of full glory!More info on Vista and some computer stuff, like how to turn all those videotapes into DVDs (not the store-bought ones, but the one's YOU'VE recorded over the years). So stay tuned...more to come!
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