My Life As A Geek: 1/3/10

Saturday, January 9, 2010

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" is a fantastical morality tale, set in the present-day. It tells the story of Dr. Parnassus and his extraordinary 'Imaginarium', a traveling show where members of the audience get an more »irresistible opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom. Blessed with the extraordinary gift of guiding the imaginations of others, Doctor Parnassus is cursed with a dark secret. An inveterate gambler, thousands of years ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr. Nick, in which he won immortality. Centuries later, on meeting his one true love, Dr. Parnassus made another deal with the devil, trading his immortality for youth, on condition that when his daughter reached her 16th birthday, she would become the property of Mr Nick. Valentina is now rapidly approaching this 'coming of age' milestone and Dr. Parnassus is desperate to protect her from her impending fate. Mr. Nick arrives to collect but, always keen to make a bet, renegotiates the wager. Now the winner of Valentina will be determined by whoever seduces the first five souls. Enlisting a series of wild, comical and compelling characters in his journey, Dr. Parnassus promises his daughter's hand in marriage to the man that helps him win.

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From the opening scene I thought it might be a bit to far out there but the story was actually very easy to follow and made sense. The visuals were stunning and the acting was good. It's your typical Gilliam movie, off the wall, not main stream. If you like Brazil or Time Bandits or The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Then you'll probably like this film. To me it was at bit bizarre at times, but I did enjoyed it, so did my Dad who I saw it with. Would I see it again?? Maybe once but I don't think I'll be adding it to my DVD library.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Knights of the Guild Ep11 pt2

Show Notes:

Here it is Episode 11 part 2 of Knights of the Guild. We hope you enjoy it.

Today’s show features:

* First up we have a Vorkism.
* We are LIVE in studio via UStream
* We discuss Behind the Scenes of Season Two Christmas Special
* We have a great fan Interview with the one and only Geekycookies baker himself Leo
* We have our Listener Feedback
* Then we have our final words and we say goodbye.

This podcast was recorded live, you can watch the video on our UStream channel - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/knights-of-the-guild You do need a password to access it. The password is KOTG

Thank you again for all your support, we do this podcast because we are fans and more importantly for the fans.

Kenny & Jenni

Thursday, January 7, 2010

AVATAR

I finally got to see this tonight.. I went after work. I did see it in DPL 3D.

I have one word for this movie.. EPIC!!! okay well I have more words. I loved this movie. It was beautiful, I could have sat there for hours watching them explore Pandora. The acting was great, Zoe who played Neytiri was awesome. I loved the story and the details about the Na'vi people. We really got to know these people. I love how they explained the connection of the planets, people, animals and the world. And did I mention that every shot of Pandora was BEAUTIFUL. You couldn't tell that the majority of this was CGI. The Na'vi looked so real and the world they lived in was fantastic. I did see this in 3D and wow what an experience. But I do think they movie would be just as beautiful and great in 2D. This wasn't your typical 3D, just so they can poke items into your face. This 3D actually made you feel like you were standing with them in their world. There were times when bugs, dust or ash was floating inches from your nose and want to swat it away. Several times when they would be looking down from a high distance my stomach would go queasy, it was so real.

I know there are people who hated the story or call it racist and I so don't understand that. But of course human beings can be cruel and intolerant at times, proof in this movie.

I can't wait to see this again and next time I want to see it in IMAX 3D. Can't wait to get back to Pandora.

Property Taxes

Today I made my first property tax payment on our house. Our bank will be making the regular property tax payments but this was a special supplemental payment because we are the new owners of this house. I opted to split the payment into two payments. But this should be the only supplemental payments we have to make. Oh the joys of home ownership.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

PGA Awards

Today I voted for my favorites in The Producers Guild of America Awards. It's fun to be part of this guild. Not only do I get DVD screeners of current movies but I get to be part of a very important award show.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

My Guild Secret Santa

Today I got my secret Santa gift from my Guild gift exchange. I got a really cool Star Wars lunchbox, a cool bottle of "candy" potion and a yodeling pickle. Still don' t know who my secret Santa was but love the stuff.. thanks

Monday, January 4, 2010

New Who Preview

Here's the new trailer of the new Doctor Who, with Matt Smith taking over as the Doctor.. what do you think?? I'm excited... Can't wait!!!

Wait... What!!!

Today as soon as I walk into work Lee (building manager) informs me that they will be removing windows from the south side of the building... tomorrow. Now they have been doing construction on this place for the past few years but most of it has been in the back building and really didn't effect us up front.. well now they are starting to work on our section. They did the windows on the north wall but that didn't really effect us as we don't have anything of our offices on that side.. but the south walls we have our loggers and machine room there. I was told that they would give us a few weeks notice on when they wanted to do this. Of course over the two weeks holiday would have been best since there weren't many people here but no.. that did not work for the construction company. So I walk in and get this news first thing. First I have to go talk to my loggers and inform them that a side of their wall is going to be removed.. it's going to be loud and smell of burnt metal... oh and this is going to happen tomorrow early morning. I then had to deal with our machine room with all the $$$ machine that can't get dust in them. We also had to disconnect some of them and move with 3 feet away from the wall.

Sometimes I don't think this company really communicate with each other.. this is going to be a long day.

Clean Shaven

What do you think?? I haven't been clean shaven in awhile. Figure it's a new year, so I'll give this a try and see how long I can keep it up..

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Doctor Who: The End of Time

Today Harry and I watched the final Doctor Who with David Tennant as the Doctor. We watched Part 1 of this the day after Xmas and really enjoyed it.. so I expected part 2 to be good and it didn't disappoint. I really enjoyed this episode, I liked how we got to see all the companions (Jack, Martha, Donna, Mickey, Rose...) it was like a final goodbye to these guys as we more then likely won't ever see them again. Loved The Doctor and Wilf interaction, Wilf would have made a great long time companion. It was interesting to find out that the Time Lords aren't a good people, totally didn't expect that. I was never fond of the Master and he was such a huge part of this two part finale but it didn't bother me. Who often makes me cry and this was no different.
I think it was a great ending to a wonderful run, but I'm not sad to see him go... I'm ready for a new doctor... I loved Christopher Eccleston and wasn't fond of David Tennant but grew to love him.. I expect it will be the same with Matt Smith. Can't wait for Spring and new WHO.

Recording a Podcast

Today Jenni came over and we were able to finally record KOTG Episode 11 pt2 (we did pt 1 a month ago) We also recorded Episode 12 part 1 and 2 and did a promo as well. We did this all live in Ustream which you see here. (Password is KOTG) I was really excited to get these done as I hate feeling like I'm under the gun to get a new podcast out.. now we are good until the end of January.

KOTG Microcast #14 Quest for Poetry

A few weeks back we put a contest call out for listeners to create a “Guild” themed Haiku, Limerick or Poem and boy did you guys deliver, we received 38 entries. Then for one week we had listeners vote for their favorites in each category and on today’s microcast we will announce the winners. Not only will we announce the winners but we will also have every poem, haiku and limerick read aloud.

I want to thank all those your contributed to the contest: Joshua Buckner * Jen Rhodes * Jim Miller * Alan Douglas * Danielle Souza * Robert Collier * Andres Zornosa * Karen D * Caitlin Bennett * Jerry Tavis * Cameron * Brandon Noble * Brent Latham * Jeremy Williams * Jerod Bennett * Anna Fruen * Adam Linden * Harky Lentil * Markus Hunt * Ryanne Harding * Amber Shirley Thank you all for writing such wonderful Poems, Haiku’s and Limericks.

Some of the writers were able to read their entry out loud but most were not so I put a call out for help and here are the listeners who helped Jenni and I read the remaining entries. Spidra Webster * Derek Reynolds * Caitlin Coyne * Eva * Jerod Bennett Thank you guys for helping us out.

Hope you guys enjoy this Microcast,