WTF?

2007 is almost gone and tonight I wasted 10.5 minutes of what is left watching The Fountain. Here is my three letter review. WTF?

We watched Dark Side of the Rainbow on Christmas day and the same three letter review applies here as well. One difference though, we watched the whole movie. But that probably has to do with we both like Pink Floyd and the Wizard of Oz.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I haven’t seen it and more than likely won’t. A barber who slits throats and has a downstairs neighbor that grinds up the carcasses to sell. WTF are people thinking? A musical?

How does someone whose name is Brian, who has a blog, and its main focus is Miatas, go undetected by me? Three letters. Briansworld.

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Deny Crane. Denny Crane. Denny Crane.

So as to make episodes of House not seem so repetitious we have decided to inter space those DVDs with episodes some different TV shows. First up was Disc 1 – Season1 of Boston Legal. We watched 15 minutes of the first episode, Head Cases, and turned it off. Too quirky.

We were sitting in the living room eating dinner off the coffee table. Popped the DVD out and surfed for entertainment. Couldn’t find anything else on the tube to watch, so Donna suggested trying to watch some more of Boston Legal. I said OK, and put the disc back in and started at episode 2, Still Crazy After All These Years. I don’t know if this episode was less quirky or we recognized guest star Elizabeth Mitchell from Season 3 of TDTVS and liked her, but whatever reason, we hung with it. We then watched episodes three and four to finish off the disc.

I’ve added the rest of Season 1 to the TV queue. Thanks for the suggestion D.J.

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Double Down

Had a cholesterol follow up with the doctor yesterday and as always, I’m close, but no cigar.

  Chol HDL LDL Trig
Goal <200 >31 <100 30-150
12/12/07 175 38 104 165
07/17/07 185 36 117 162
03/05/07 195 39 123 167
09/19/06 167 37 103 135
04/06/06 168 37 106 126
12/08/05 182 35 120 137
07/28/05 177 30 113 169
06/17/05 164 31 85 238
05/06/05 174 27 108 194
01/10/05 176 33 110 167
09/21/04 209 24 131 271

No more monkeying around with the Red Yeast Rice supplement, the new course of action is to add another statin, 20 mg of simvistatin (AKA Zocor) to the 48mg of Tricor and see ya’ in March.

Monk Moment

We spent a frustrating 2 hours tonight searching several stores for a 32oz insulated water bottle with a big enough opening on top to except ice cubes. They are in every store, on numerous aisles as long as it isn’t Christmas time and Donna had the misfortune of dropping her water bottle and breaking it this morning December 27th.

To ease our suffering we dined on Carnitas at Marias. We were seated at a booth by the window with a lovely view of the laundromat next building over. As I looked through the faux wood blinds, it came to my attention that several of the slats were tilted different from the majority. Reflexively, I nudged the offending slats into line with the rest.

Adrian would have been so proud.

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Merry Christmas

Please accept — with no obligation, implied or implicit — my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable tradition of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your preference. In addition, please enjoy a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008.

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He Say You Brade Runner

BladerunnerI’m sorry Ridley, I think I like the 1982 theatrical release better. The voice over narration gives it a real noir feeling. Plus, after watching all that dark and rain and smoke its nice to get a happy ending, no matter how contrived.

I’m re-watching the theatrical release version now. Afterwards I’m going to give the Final Cut version a look, who knows, after watching all the “making of” stuff I might get all the symbolism and think that the final cut is better. But don’t hold your breath.

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Didn’t See That Coming

Trans-Siberian Orchestra LiveProud Mary? But then again if I knew to read that Wikipedia entry before going. This afternoon’s Trans-Siberian Orchestra started a little late for one of two reasons, the band arrived late or the basketball floor wasn’t taken up in a timely manner, both of which we heard while waiting to get into the arena, but there wasn’t any official word.

Photo by JerseyJJ

They made up for it by playing for about 2-1/2 hours. The first half was an enhanced version of Christmas Eve & Other Stories. Then they introduced the band and used Proud Mary to segue into non Christmas TSO music for the second half.

A few things have changed in the 3 decades since I went to a live music concert. First, the only smoke in the stadium was generated by the band’s special effects crew and didn’t have that familiar sweet smell. Secondly, to show appreciation people used to hold up their lit butane lighters, now you have the glow of thousands of cell phone cameras. The trouble is, the glow only shows to the crowd, but the band is obliviously aware they were missing out, because towards the end they asked everyone in the crowd to hold up their cell phones towards them for a whole song.

Good show. Loud, kind of made listening to one of their CDs seem too quiet no matter how far to the right you twisted the volume knob.

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