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Saturday, November 30, 2002

posted by Travis at 12:26 AM

I'm still working on this...so some links might be broken and some margins not exactly right.

Friday, November 29, 2002

posted by Travis at 9:12 AM

Thanksgiving was good. Kim and I sat around the house all day and ate turkey. We also watched The Fellowship of the Ring Special Extended DVD. The extra footage adds some good stuff and it really does not make the movie feel that much longer since a lot of the footage is added throughout the entire movie, and not just one long extra scene. The fight in Moria is longer, and the fight at the end is longer. I do have some problems with it, though. I like to think of the Uruk-Hai as the strongest of the orcs. With that in mind, I was disappointed to see that hobbits armed with rocks were knocking them down. Also, was it really necessary to list every person in the Lord of the Rings fanclub in the credits? There is literally 20 minutes of extra credits for all the people in the fan club. Other than those tiny issues, it was very good. When I sit down to watch the movie, it will be the version I watch. I am keeping my theatrical version DVD, though, for when I find people who have not seen it at all yet.

Wednesday, November 27, 2002

posted by Travis at 12:38 AM

Changes are coming. We are considering taking up more space on your computer screen. 66.71% of the people who come to this site are viewing at 1024 x 768, which is the preferred minimum resolution. However, there is still about 19% of you who are using 800 x 600 or below. Kim, being the webmaster, is suggesting that we stick with an 800 wide page, which we probably will.

Who are you wackos who are using 1153 x 864?

Tuesday, November 26, 2002

posted by Travis at 8:51 PM

Best question for Walken posted so far from our friend Ghengis Ron:

"How does it feel to stand in the presence of Box Office gold? Perhaps you need to speed it up. I mean, here you are, past your prime, crankin' out a turd or two every year or so. I'm in a movie that made a bazillion dollars this year. The difference? In every movie, you're Walken. Me? I'm runnin'."

Come on, the rest of you!

posted by Travis at 8:53 AM

Since Kim and I are going to see Christopher Walken at the screening of The Deer Hunter on December 14th, we'd like to be armed with a question we could ask him. Most people ask fairly mundane questions during these things ("How do you prepare for blah blah role?" "How do you decide what project to do?"). We'd like to ask a question that will elicit a good response or a good story. Since the screening is for The Deer Hunter, questions should probably center around his performance in that, although a good question about another of his performances would not be shunned. Email them to me or post them in the message board under the 'Questions for Walken' thread. WARNING: The guyinasuit forum can be an unfriendly place, so put on your thick skin before wading in there.

Sunday, November 24, 2002

posted by Travis at 12:15 PM

It has been a good weekend so far. On Friday, a friend of Kim's came over and we watched Titus (which is second on my list of best directed movies of all time) and I drank most of a bottle of wine by myself. We took some wine from the recent PTC quarterly dinner. Then on Saturday, Kim and I went to see Die Another Day at the Arclight. It was very good. The more I watched it, the worse XXX got in my mind. James Bond is a better character than Xander Cage. Cage is just rude to people and kind of a brute, but Bond is suave and quiet. It was nice to see James Bond return to form, and Brosnan is coming up on Connery as the best Bond ever. I keep hearing that Halle Berry is going to get a spin-off franchise for the character she plays in Die Another Day. She is just a Bond girl, and does not deserve her own franchise. How is it that The Scorpion King and Jinx get their own movies, but Wolverine does not? It just does not make sense. While we were at the Arclight, we picked up some tickets to a small movie coming out in December.

After Die Another Day, we went over to Sunset to eat before heading to the Egyptian to see the sneak preview of Adaptation. It was also very good. As someone who frequently sits down to attempt to write something, the humor struck a chord with me. After the movie, there was a discussion with Nicolas Cage, Spike Jonze, and Charlie Kaufman. It is still a strange feeling for me to watch a movie then have the main character from the movie walk to the front of the theater. I was checking the Egyptian schedule while we were waiting in line, and I saw this ad:

Needless to say, we bought tickets for that.

Friday, November 22, 2002

posted by Travis at 8:19 AM

This story will be today's daily reminder that religion can be bad for you, and apparently, those around you. I'm not completely anti-religion. I see that it gives people hope and happiness and all that, but anything that inspires someone to stab a total stranger, then place a gasoline-soaked tire around their neck and watch them burn to death needs to be viewed with a certain amount of skepticism. For all the beauty and harmony that "God's Love" is supposed to bring to the world, I see a lot more of "God's Pain and Death" going on. No doubt, someone will find a way to blame the Miss World Riots on Grand Theft Auto III.

Wednesday, November 20, 2002

posted by Travis at 11:05 AM

So, I've had this grandoise post in mind, but I keep doing other things at home. I'll do the pictureless abridged version.

Kim and I went to see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets last Friday at the Mann's Chinese Theater. The theater was very nice, but the overall night could have gone better. On opening night of a big movie, I have a medium to high stress level. Questions like, "What if there is a big line? What if I can't get a good seat? What if there are noisy people? What if we can't all sit together?" run through my mind endlessly. Kim assured me that we were going to eat "right across the street" from the theater and have a "nice dinner" at 8:00pm , so we would have "plenty of time" to get in line for a 11:00pm movie. Well, "right across the street" turned into 4 blocks away, a "nice dinner" was $75 for the two of us, and "plenty of time" was about 30 minutes before the show started. We managed to cut in front of about 300 people or so and Kim secured some good seats. The rest of our party was not so lucky. It wasn't a bad night, just not what I was expecting. As a side note, I'll be on E! on December 16th telling this girl that both the Osbournes and Anna Nicole should be removed from television forever. It occurred to me afterwards that E! is the network that carries Anna Nicole.

On Sunday, Kim, our friend Shane from San Fran, his roommate Greg, and I went to the Wiltern Theater to see Clash of the Titans (not the movie, but rather a comedy show featuring Mr. Show, Kids in the Hall, Janeane Garofalo, and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog). It was very funny as expected. Mr. Show still shines as the "funniest thing ever".

This Saturday, Kim and I are going to see Die Another Day at the Arclight and then head over to The Egyptian to see a sneak preview of Adaptation (trailer) followed by a discussion with Nicholas Cage, director Spike Jonze, and writer Charlie Kaufman. It could be very interesting.

Monday, November 18, 2002

posted by Travis at 10:36 AM

I have some updates to put in here, but they may not get in today. I need to address Clash of the Titans from Sunday, Harry Potter from Friday, and some stuff that is coming up. Also, Kim and I have been looking at the site and there may be some changes soon. More later...

Sunday, November 10, 2002

posted by Travis at 10:56 AM

Kim and I are not part of the LA party scene, but last night we went to the Roxy on Sunset to see Kidney Thieves. They are a band that Kim found and she has taken to them quite a bit. They are kind of a mix between industrial and metal with a girl singer. There were several other bands that played that night as well. Some guys that sucked called Orkest, some guys who were booked with the wrong crowd called Slow Motion Reign, O.H.M., and Otep. O.H.M and Otep were actually pretty good. It looked like most of the crowd came to see Otep, and they were pretty rude to Slow Motion Reign while they were trying to play their light-hearted slow songs. I had never heard of Otep, but I can only describe them as "super metal". The girl lead singer comes out and says to a mosh ready crowd of pierced and tatooed youths, "You guys ready for some combat?". Kim and I braced ourselves for the inevitable surge, and it came on strong. After the first few songs, though, I realized that kids today have no stamina. Not to sound like a grumpy old man, but "when I was a kid" we would mosh through an entire song. Of course, it wasn't the flailing around that is associated with the word today. It was more of a rhythmic pushing. I mean you can't crowd surf on top of 10 guys running around in a circle trying to punch each other in the face. Kids today mosh in 30 second intervals. It is lame.

As strange as this may sound, it was refreshing to see a band like Otep all decked out in Satanic iconography. "The Satanic Metal Band" was something that I thought had died out in the 80s, but these guys are full-on with the pentagrams and the dark stuff. Whether they are true blue Satan worshipers or not is irrelevant, it is just something that goes well with that kind of music.

One last thing, the BMW Film series has started again. The first two they have done so far are both very good, and the last one sounds great. Check these out when you get a chance.

Sunday, November 03, 2002

posted by Travis at 12:48 AM

I archived September and August. You can see the rest of the archives here.

Saturday, November 02, 2002

posted by Travis at 10:58 PM

Spider-Man Picture Extravaganza!

Here are some stills of Kim and I in Spider-Man taken from the DVD. Click them for a bigger version.

This one highlights us so we are easier to pick out.

Kim...the building just blew up. Leave the balloon!

A Glasgow Scottie band member nearly knocking me over.

I'm wondering why they wanted just one other guy running towards the danger.

We also show up in the extras under the Director's Profile section.

Kim and I went to a Halloween party on Thursday. I really had no costume in mind so I had to throw something together. I went as Patrick Bateman from American Psycho after he has just killed a guy with an axe. I'll have to go as something less obscure next year because NOBODY knew who I was. Some of that is my fault. I kind of screwed up the makeup, and I wore my contacts for extra effect. Most people thought the blood was supposed to be mine. One guy even asked, "Are you one of the sniper victims?"

Here is a still of the original Bateman in all his glory.

Me in Bateman costume.

Another...

Kim and I...obviously

Here is a picture from painting. It was sitting on the digi camera.

Friday, November 01, 2002

posted by Travis at 11:16 AM

Yes, I am aware that the forums are being systematically destroyed by pop-ups and huge banner ads. It should go away in a few days. I (read that as YOU) let the Gold membership lapse. I've taken care of it.