This show starts off with some complaining about our lack of heat, then we read a news story about someone gettin’ capped, then we read a news story about a drunk-driving rock star, then we read some end-of-year lists. Other stuff happened, too.
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- Inside My Head
- “Weiland arrested for DUI of … something”
- “Hottest Products of 2007″
- “The top 10 movies of 2007″
- Fight Club (buy the DVD
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- Pleo
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Fight Club has to be one of my top 10 films.
I do agree with Tyler about once you’ve hit rock bottom the only way is up.
It’s interesting that it’s still being played in cinemas. There was a British Film History thing here in the UK in september that had classic films - The Wicker Man, Quatermass, and some ones I’ve not even heard of, alongside TV playing some classics as well.
I don’t understand why Spiderman 3 was the top for this year, granted this year has some poor films, but Harry Potter was a damned site better.
Was Hot Fuzz this year or last?
Hot Fuzz was this year. Another British movie i really liked was Severance, released in the U.S. this year but made in 2006. (falls into the same category as Shaun of the Dead, The Descent and Dog Soldiers i guess) I also liked .45 with Milla Jovovovovich, but in general 2007 has been a bad year for movies.
The “Fight Club” screening is part of a series called SLO Rewind. We saw the original “JAWS” there a few months back.
I was also surprised to learn that “Spider-Man 3′” was the top grossing film of the year. Guess its early summer blockbuster appeal beat out everything else. And the “Shaun Of The Dead”/”Hot Fuzz” franchise probably isn’t as big here in the U.S. as it is in the U.K. It’s got a huge following though, for sure. But those films wouldn’t get the kind of coverage that something like a “Spider-Man” movie would.
Severance was similar to these “Torture Porn” Films like Hostel and Vacancy. But it’s thought provoking stuff, like Donnie Darko. I’m not one to get on my high horse (ehem), but Spiderman and Transformers are for kids.
I do like mindless films though, ones just to vegetate to. Starship Troopers is one, I can watch that all day and not get bored. Fight Club is of course another. American Beauty is great, but I cannot get the comparison people give this film to Desperate Housewives and … there’s another but I can’t remember.
Sorry I should say that American Beauty is thought provoking, not mindless.
Comic book fans live to complain about how comics were better when they were kids. A large fraction of the internet is devoted to this. Of course DC and Marvel reboot their franchises and “universes” every five years, mostly because during those five years the characters have reverted to what they were before the retcon. So yeah, that’s why I don’t read many mainstream franchise-based DC and Marvel stuff (Spiderman and Batman being examples).
Also, my sister went to school with the kid who allegedly did the shooting, so he is at least 18.
I should mention that when I was I kid one of my favorite tv shows was the old Batman series with Adam West! There were many Halloweens when I was either Catwoman or Batgirl!
I don’t think Severance was “Torture Porn” at all. Sure the killing was graphic but there were some really funny moments. That guy named Gordon brought the smallest bag but for some reason has everything in it. “Do you have any lightbulbs in your bag, Gordon? Yeah, gimme one sec” and “We need to board ourselves in! How? Check Gordon’s bag! He’s not gonna have a hammer and nails in there now is he? (someone checks Gordon’s bag) Oh for fuck’s sake!”
oh, a bag of many things. that takes me back to my dungeons and dragons years (ahem!) No, scratch that………..
Rowley, I am NOT gonna scratch your “bag”. Limey perv…
lol
Thanks for calling on me, Shawno. You inquired about new technology in the classroom, brought up specifically when you and Jen were talking about texting. Texting in the class is a real pain in the ass and if I see a kid using a cell phone in class I take it (in most cases). The rules of our school board permit me to do so and we’ve established the culture at our school such that the students know it will happen in any of the classrooms. Jen, “notes” are so last century, I can tell you’ve been out of teaching for a while. They can sit in a class now and text kids in other classrooms or at other schools. Heck, sometimes they’ll text a kid only 3 seats away. It’s the new note passing. iPods are a real p.i.t.a. for sure. The kids will try and sneak in an earbud now and then and of course, I take the earbuds from them. I don’t take the iPod b/c that’s a pricey meatball and I don’t want to be responsible for that kind of collateral. And now the kids have the bluetooth(s) mp3 players and headphones … something else I have to look for. iPod wires are easy to spot but when there is no wire I need to look closer. On the plus side, almost every kid (even the poor ones, Jen … that’s a prioritization of resources rant I don’t want to go off on) have cell phones so they always have a calculator.
Teacher Marc,
Yeah, I have been out of teaching for a while now. When I first started subbing, the biggest pain in the ass were nintendo game boys (before the color version existed). When I was student teaching, digipets were the problem.
I do wonder if I went back and visited the schools I used to teach in today how many of the kids would have ipods and cell phones in their hands. Of course, I was mostly teaching in elementary schools, so, I’m not sure how many of those little kids would be carrying around stuff like that. In the neighborhood I taught in, bringing expensive toys to class was basically an invitation for someone to steal them, so, maybe they wouldn’t have ipods. Gotta wonder if the little bangers are using out there using cell phones now, though.
Whole different world. So very glad I got out of teaching. I had a gun threat once in a third grade classroom. Between that and the countless fist fights I broke up, (by jumping in between the little monsters), I don’t think I will ever choose to teach again.