Today was Hef's day out with the boys.
Sep. 19th, 2010 06:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerPHASE 1: Spent day with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
themadhatter26, drinking Yuenglings and playing Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Video Game, which I far prefer to SP in comic or film formats. I chose to play as Kim Pine, because someone I know she'd be sympathetic toward my hatred of Scott himself. Also, because she's played by Allison Pill, who was frickin' brilliant on the Gabriel Byrne show IN TREATMENT.
PHASE 2:? Remembering that food is good, and getting amazing carnitas verde enchiladas with a ginger beer mojito to power my way through beating Scott Pilgrim. Because seriously, I really dislike SP (the movie and the comic, for different reasons each), but I can't not love this entire game:
PHASE 3:Profit Drank wine and watched The Lost Skeleton Returns Again, the sequel to The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, with fiveseconddelay, tazira, tompurdue, and latecomer tommx. Not as strong as the original Lost Skeleton--a film which itself isn't universally beloved--but with enough hilarious moments and quotable lines to make it well worthwhile. "Let's go this way! It could be a trap!"
PHASE 4: Sobered up and watched Stingray Sam, the new film by Cory McAbee, frontman for the band The Billy Nayer Show, and creator of his previous film, The American Astronaut. I love Astronaut, but Stingray Sam surpasses it in pretty much every way. But it's hard to say how, if you haven't seen either. Both films are damn near indescribable.
I've heard American Astronaut described as "Eraserhead era David Lynch making a Firefly musical with Flash Gordon serial FX." That's a start. But it doesn't really capture the unique brilliance of Cory McAbee's first film, much less his superior second.
Best way to sum it up is... well, here, watch the first ten minutes of Stingray Sam yourself:
It only gets better and better from there. It's been a while since a film ended and I immediately thought, "I wanna watch that again! Now!" I almost never feel the need to buy DVDs anymore now that I have Netflix, but I damn well am buying this one. And American Astronaut, I need that one too. Plus the soundtracks. I'm just gonna devour them incessantly for a week.
PHASE 5: Came home, reunited with Henchgirl--who spent the day making cookies for us, with a batch to send tobox_in_the_box, who needs cookies--ate cookies, had a Johnny Go martini, and got totally obnoxious with the gal I love.
IN SUMMATION: A good day. Smiley face emoticon here.
themadhatter26, drinking Yuenglings and playing Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Video Game, which I far prefer to SP in comic or film formats. I chose to play as Kim Pine, because someone I know she'd be sympathetic toward my hatred of Scott himself. Also, because she's played by Allison Pill, who was frickin' brilliant on the Gabriel Byrne show IN TREATMENT.PHASE 2:
PHASE 3:
fiveseconddelay, tazira, tompurdue, and latecomer tommx. Not as strong as the original Lost Skeleton--a film which itself isn't universally beloved--but with enough hilarious moments and quotable lines to make it well worthwhile. "Let's go this way! It could be a trap!"PHASE 4: Sobered up and watched Stingray Sam, the new film by Cory McAbee, frontman for the band The Billy Nayer Show, and creator of his previous film, The American Astronaut. I love Astronaut, but Stingray Sam surpasses it in pretty much every way. But it's hard to say how, if you haven't seen either. Both films are damn near indescribable.
I've heard American Astronaut described as "Eraserhead era David Lynch making a Firefly musical with Flash Gordon serial FX." That's a start. But it doesn't really capture the unique brilliance of Cory McAbee's first film, much less his superior second.
Best way to sum it up is... well, here, watch the first ten minutes of Stingray Sam yourself:
It only gets better and better from there. It's been a while since a film ended and I immediately thought, "I wanna watch that again! Now!" I almost never feel the need to buy DVDs anymore now that I have Netflix, but I damn well am buying this one. And American Astronaut, I need that one too. Plus the soundtracks. I'm just gonna devour them incessantly for a week.
PHASE 5: Came home, reunited with Henchgirl--who spent the day making cookies for us, with a batch to send to
box_in_the_box, who needs cookies--ate cookies, had a Johnny Go martini, and got totally obnoxious with the gal I love. IN SUMMATION: A good day. Smiley face emoticon here.
