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:: Friday, December 23, 2005 ::
:: Calvin 1:45 PM [+] ::
Got back LATE last night from Charlotte -- had a great time. The pictures are:HERE
Happy holidays to Dan and Stef -- sorry we didn't get to meet up this time.
Jonathan -- you left the hair metal CD!! Make sure you get that one from Mom!
We made Mom's WONDERFUL cream cheese pound cake, and we have Buddy Cams installed on both machines now so we can talk live and in person. Feels very Kubrickian. I learned today that John Landis tries to work in the phrase "See you next Wednesday" in most of his films as an homage to the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey where the girl is chatting on the videophone with her papa -- very cool.
I hope that the Charlotte Dillons are enjoying the new Japanese addition to the family.
I also hope I get emails about how cool the Orlando RHPHS reunion was (or you can post here so all can see).
Hope you guys had a blast!
Happy holidays -- go finish your shopping!
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:: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 ::
:: Calvin 6:04 PM [+] ::
Three generations of Dillons saw Peter Jackson's Bug movie, I mean, King Kong tonight.
The effects were incredible, and as an homage to a loved childhood film, it stands alone. WETA deserves an Oscar for how realistic they made Andy Serkis' motion capture look, and Naomi Watts was fantastic in the Fay Wray part. Brody and Black were okay.
The criticisms I have heard so far are pretty valid -- Jackson went a little overboard on the rampages and on the "spider scene" that was cut from the original. The worms were too much and proved a distraction from the narrative.
He made up for it with this really neat twist on the Kong-Darrow relationship, adding the idea of a father figure void in her life that Kong fills, and there is a whole riff on beauty involving sign language and sunrises that was really keen.
Overall, definitely worth seeing in the theater. I am looking forward to Narnia, and the chick flick I now have to see with my lovely wife to repay her for the gore and scary jumpy things in the film.
I guess my dreams of a Jean Claude Van Damme marathon before Christmas are now folied. Alas, alack.
Hope everyone is enjoying their time off.
Later
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