Just watched the trailer for Grindhouse, the sleaze-horror double feature that includes Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof and Planet Terror by Robert Rodriguez. I really, really hope it won’t take several months after the US release for this to show up here in Sweden. The stuff looks hilarious. I hope Tarantino and Rodriguez have the skill to re-create the… uh… the magic of the genre, because it’s pretty damned near rock bottom as far as quality goes – and that’s a big part of what makes it so charming.
Update: It seems it will open here a week after the April 6th US release. I really don’t like it when movies lag behind so I have to struggle to ignore the buzz online until I can see it myself. As a fan of Philip K. Dick I’m for example still waiting for A Scanner Darkly to show up. I could order the dvd now since I’m planning to get it anyway, or I could download it now, and see it in the theater later and then get the dvd, but I’m sort of old-fashioned and like to see anticipated movies on the big screen first, while knowing as little as possible about them.
Tags: Death Proof, Grindhouse, horror, Planet Terror, Rodriguez, Tarantino
December 24, 2006 at 3:37 am · Filed under Entertainment & Culture, Movies & TV
Congratulations to “mobile home insurance” for being the 1000th spammer caught by Akismet since I installed it. The prize is a trip up shit creek, and I might be there ready to apply the paddle.
And big thanks to the Automattic people, for providing the product that didn’t let a single one of those spam by. Excellent work, and big x-mas hugs for all of you. :)
December 22, 2006 at 8:00 pm · Filed under General
I looked at the TV schedule and saw that Jackie Brown was on. I havn’t seen that one in a couple of years, so I made a couple of sandwiches and sat down to watch. But there was no movie for me, since the TV site I use hadn’t updated their listing to show that this night’s programming had been rescheduled because of the Discovery launch.
It has become quite a big deal in the media here, since Christer Fuglesang is about to become the first Swede in space. Personally I don’t care, I don’t event know anyone who is the least bit excited about it, but with all the news about it you’d think he’s not only taking a trip to the ISS but travelling solo to the Moon on a rocket made of Dalahästar and surströmming. I mean, space isn’t big news these days, people walked on the moon almost 40 years ago, and the guy isn’t even going halfway.
So personally I hope the shuttle stays in one piece. If something would go wrong and Fuglesang ends up scattered across the stratosphere the press would go crazy for a long time, but if everything goes well he’ll be yesterday’s news in no time.
Tags: Christer Fuglesang, Discovery, space
December 10, 2006 at 12:39 am · Filed under General
