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Wandered around the local grocery store at 10 PM. I'm writing this after I got back.

It was all quiet. Peaceful.

I went in really for some frozen salmon. Earlier this evening I cooked the last I had for dinner. It was as an accompaniment for a salad. I used Chef John's Miso Honey marinade as the flavoring. It turned out delicious. Afterwards, I wanted to replenish my freezer with some frozen salmon. Off to the grocery I went.

I also picked up a few odds and ends. I usually do that. For you see, I don't really cook too much at home. Salads for lunch. The occasional soup. Breakfast of oatmeal. So that's all I have. Dinner is... salad if I'm lucky. Or out. So when I shop for groceries, it's usually weird stuff.

I bought a jar of jalapeños. I plan to make some jalapeño focaccia.

I bought lots of SweeTarts. I think I'm already sick of them.

I bought some frozen cod to go along with my frozen salmon.

I'll be cooking some of it up this weekend. Let's see if I know what to do!

Labels: commerce, cooking, hunh?

There's joy in this video. The dude playing the guitar. The two backing singers. They're all having fun.

Now the song is pretty joyous itself even though I don't understand a word of it. The hoots and hollers make it even more fun to sing along. Sing along! Just follow the backing singers. If you play guitar, play along! Stomp your feet! And if you got mariachis? Shake them as well. This song could also use some cow bell, too.

Lately, blogging has been difficult...

I doubt my writing has been any good. The last year of movie reviews? I was just doing it on duty to you my reader. I'm sorry that it has been sucky. I don't know what to do...

I'll just sing along. Play a guitar. Stomp my feet and sing!

Labels: AKB48, hunh?, music break

Snowpiercer currently has a 95% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes. Reading through the capsule reviews most all of them really like the movie. I must be in the minority 5% because I did not like the movie one bit.

Snowpiercer is science fiction movie about a future Earth covered in snow and cold with the remnants of human civilization living on a train that constantly circles the world. If it stops, humans will go extinct. Passengers on that train are either the haves, the upper 1% who inhabit the front of the train with sushi, clubs, and books, or they are the have-nots the sorry passengers at the back. They yearn for the type of stuff that the haves have. Into this world is Chris Evens who wants to go from the back of the train to the front. He leads a revolution.

With that set up, Snowpiercer would lead you to believe that the film will be an allegory. Except, it wasn't. Yes, there was the battle between the haves and the have-nots. But there was also the musical number in the middle. And then Bong Joon Ho's favorite, the key master and his daughter. They came from another movie. The allegory was lost. The movie had many different tones to it. How can you really make it an allegory when it was all over the map?

I think that Sucker Punch had a better train fight. This is the second Bong Joon Ho film that I didn't like as much as others had. The first film? The Host. I didn't like that one as much. This film makes me feel like I did during The Dark Knight -- I think I'm missing something.

2 of 5 stars.

Labels: hunh?, movies, review

There's nothing left to say about Gangnam Style. Or is there? Doesn't that guy in the elevator remind you of Mike Myers? The Korean Mike Myers!

Does K-pop rule or what?!

Labels: hunh?, music break, NewsRadio quote

A little Megane-chan for you this morning. "Shinagawa-kun! Shinagawa-kun!" (Hee hee hee... she has me laughing even now.)

Hope you've got all your shopping done. Now time for the wrapping and the cooking. We'll be having a wonderful time soon.

Labels: ha ha, hunh?, Yankee-kun to Megane-chan

Continuing on from yesterday's music break, here's the second part of the tune. It's not the second part but they both flow very well together. Every time I hear this song, I hear the first verse as asking, "Whose bagel's offer hope?" Now why are they singing about bagels? Is this some kind of hidden message, but said aloud? I bet you that ain't the real lyrics. Someone, anyone, get on this and tell me what that lyric was.

Labels: hunh?, music break, The Richest Man In Babylon, Thievery Corporation

Jim Emerson blogs about the warning affixed to a movie theatre's screening of Terence Malick's "The Tree of Life." It's not like the MPAA's warnings of violence and sex, but a warning that the film is arty. It may be too arty for some folks.

I figure that if you are making the choice to watch "The Tree of Life" then you already know what you're getting into. It's Malick. You should know by now his M.O. His movies are what they are.

That being said, I wish there was a warning for Bad Teacher. To wit: "Warning: Watching Bad Teacher has been known to cause cancer in lab rats."

http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2011/06/detour_theres_an_arty_road_ahe.html

Labels: hunh?, lotd, movies

"He who warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms, by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed."

Sarah Palin about Paul Revere

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Labels: hunh?, qotd, you'll need babelfish

"But, Marge, that little guy hasn't done anything yet. Look at him. He's going to do something and you know it's going to be good."

Homer Simpson, The Simpsons, "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" [4F08]

Labels: ha ha, hunh?, qotd

Once in a while, you just have to want to blow up the earth, because earthlings are foolish in their ways. We hate and hate and annoy and hate and despise one another that it's a miracle that we are still here. We have to stop and remember that we all inhabit this world and there is no place else to go.

Be excellent to each other....

Labels: hippie-ish, hunh?, you'll need babelfish

Welcome to the New Year! I resolve to... Nah never mind because it never works out.

Happy New Year!

Labels: hunh?, tis the season

the definition of open: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make"

Chief Android Andy Rubin, http://twitter.com/#!/Arubin/status/27808662429

Labels: geeked, hunh?, qotd

Just checking in.

I've got to post at least something a day just to make BrowserMetrics' Seventh Annual NewsRadio Quote Month worth it.

I've been trying to set up a subversion repository on my MacMinIntel, but have been stuck for days figuring out where to put it. I would like for it not to show up in a Finder window, but I would like it accessible from all over the place (i.e. over the wireless network to my MacBook Pro). The problem then is one of permissions and such. I tried to create it in one of the root directories, but ran into permission problems. Can someone clarify where to put a subversion repository on Snow Leopard (not the server version)? Or maybe that is my problem, that I am not running the server version.

Apple released new iPod Touches with FaceTime. Looks to be the cool. If I didn't have jonesing for iPhone 4, I would be all over that. Also, if I had more than 3 GB of music, maybe as well.

Tweeting has been so much fun. I wish you would join me.

Nendoroids. Nendoroids? Nendoroids! They're coming at me like crazy.

When will that Haruhi movie come out?

What would you like to discuss? Comments are now open.

Labels: hunh?, lists, NewsRadio quote

Reports said that there was an earthquake in Maryland this morning about 5 AM.

Yup.

It woke me up from one of my quirky dreams.

I was lying asleep on my stomach. I felt some shaking. I thought it was a heart attack, but then I realized that it must be an earthquake. I felt the trembling on my chest and barely heard the shaking in the house. At that early time in the morning, I thought that I was hallucinating and that it was just a dream. It was real.

So that's what earthshaking means.

Labels: dreams, get me out of here, hunh?

After releasing the very lyrical movies, Up and Wall-E, Pixar returns to the movie franchise that put them on the map. Excuse me, I don't understand the appeal of the Toy Story franchise. I may be a simpleton and one of the few that didn't find Toy Story 3 as another Pixar knock-out, blockbuster hit. My low opinion of the Toy Story franchise has biased me into not paying proper respect to the movies. I just can't understand it.

RottenTomatoes.com has Toy Story 3 at 99%. I may have seen a different movie. Wait a second while I go read some of the blurbs there.

Okay, I'm back. While it does top the tomato meter, a lot of the blurbs give it decent coverage following in the previous movies' greatness yet also acknowledging the formality of this final installment.

The movie doesn't wow me like the other Pixar films. Even the ones I don't regard highly, Finding Nemo and Ratatouille, I can find something to like. The Toy Story movies I find nada. Does this make me soulless?

What I find wrong with the Toy Story franchise is that they're routine. Maybe the first installment might be a groundbreaker, but the rest I find unappealing. Yes, I know that their stories reflect how we grow up but that don't mean squat to me.

The final movie just wasn't impressive enough. It's better than some other animated schlock, but not high in the Pixar patheon.

Most other Pixar movies give me hope that animated films can move beyond the kiddie movie ghetto, but Toy Story is the quintessential kiddie movie at least superficially. It drives me crazy that they don't make it awesome. There was a point where I was hopeful that Pixar was gonna be brave and make the movie bold, but I knew that it had to have the happy ending.

That being said. The movie is solid story telling. Flawless in execution. Kids will like it many adults as well. Ho-hum.

3 of 5 stars. Plus a meh.

Labels: hunh?, I'm a fool, movies, thoughts

Looking up siopao on the internet, I get this bit from wikipedia: "[T]here are several siopao stuffing varieties which could be either Asado or bola-bola that may use pork, chicken, beef, shrimp, cat meat, salted duck eggs."

Duck eggs? Cat meat? And this is just the Filipino version of steamed buns! You can always put something in steamed buns, but that don't necessarily mean I'll eat it. I just want the bbq pork.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siopao

Labels: hunh?, mmm

On the drive home tonight, I listened to the radio. Tuned into the local classic rock station which was celebrating music from 1983. Said music is classic rock like classic rock was when I was in high school. 20+ years to the music of the 80s just as back in the 80s it was 20+ years to the Beatles, the Stones and the Who.

Labels: hunh?

Putting your sugar water into a 9 ounce can is not innovative.

Setting up a website to tout how innovative you are is itself not innovative.

I'll wait for your tweet about it.

http://www.livepositively.com/product_updates

Labels: hunh?, lotd

Someone's ready
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.

ESPN's app already has games for next year. Hee hee!

Labels: apps, baseball, hunh?, iPhone, sports

This should be tweeted, but your limited to 140 characters.

I'm watching Ghanjani, some BollyWood film on iFC. It starts off as rip-off of Memento: some guy with amnesia looking for the killer of his girl.

And then like all Bollywood films, the singing kicks in. We're now in some romantic comedy showing the back story of how the guy with amnesia falls in love with the girl. It's a case of mistake identity. And singing.

When will it get back to the thriller?

UPDATE WITH REVIEW:
I was just looking for something to watch this morning as I was waking up, and I decided to check out one of the free channels that I get on DirectTV. It's the Independent Film Channel, iFC, showing their Sunday Bollywood programming. I let the station play as I was more interested in the morning's news on the blogs. That is until, that dude decided to beat some guy up. Then I was intrigued about the movie. Then they started in with the singing. And the movie went from some thriller to romantic comedy.

She was a struggling model low on her ad agency's actress list. He was the scion of the big telecom company. He's come back from America to take charge of the family business. She is somehow linked to him. She pretends he's her boyfriend. It works and she becomes the darling of the ad agency. They do finally meet. Cute. She thinks he's an aspiring actor. She helps him get a job with her clout. They sing and dance.

Then we go back to finding out how she dies. And we're back into Memento land and the bad ass kicking ass theme.

I was more interested in the romantic comedy. I wonder if that would make a better movie.

3 of 5 stars

Labels: hunh?, movies, review