Arndrake

Poor Romano never had luck with helicopters. First his arm, then 2 years later, one falls on him and kills him.

 

I stopped watching it about 3 years ago. Prior to that, I used to watch it religiously, but as the original characters left, I found less to keep me hooked. I started watching it again this season and was amazed how much has changed. Even the intro, with James Newton Howard's haunting theme, is gone. I almost get the feeling that Crichton and Wells aren't even involved with it anymore other than collecting a paycheck from it.

If they are trying to make fun of the whole political-correct, racial-divided, or preconceived-notions concept, they failed utterly.

 

When I first heard the 'keep your penis in your genus' joke, I thought it was slightly amusing, but on further review, I decided that it wasn't.

 

Character development flat. Writing stunk. Nothing funny.

QUOTE (pt2112 @ Sep 9 2007, 08:56 PM)

Is the Bowie song Heroes the theme song to this by any chance?

"There's something on the WING!"

 

"Wanna see something really scary?"

How in the world did this end up on YouTube? I figured shows like this were lost forever.

 

I only recall seeing the pilot and maybe a few other episodes. But the whole adventure angle was definitely interesting to a 11 year old kid. Sadly, as is usually the problem with period shows at the time, production was too expensive to continue if the viewer numbers were not high enough. So it only lasted a year.

 

I remember CBS tried their own adventure show, "Bring 'Em Back Alive," based on the old Frank Buck serials. I never got to see it because we couldn't receive the CBS affiliate where I lived.

 

*spoiler*

 

Remember that the Gold Monkey idol was actually brass? As it turned out the real Gold Monkey was MUCH larger.

I have to say Cygnus X-1. Most of the others listed, he never gets higher than a high A, but in X-1, he reaches a high B.

I must be a guitar junkie. Because today I went ahead and picked this one up.

 

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/arndrake/lespaul.jpg

 

I remember stating before I was a little leery of the of the Chinese built Epiphones, but I read the reviews and figured, 'What the hell.' After all, they are being QC'ed and set up back in the U.S.

 

I played with this one for a while a few days ago, didn't buy it, went back yesterday, tried it out some more, and decided to go for it. It sounded pretty good and played pretty well too, as well as I can tell with my limited experience.

 

When I discussed getting it with my guitar instructor (I just started lessons on Monday), he suggested I get it. One comment he made is that you can upgrade parts, just like hot-rodding a car. I read some comments that some people replaced the AlNiCo pickups with BurstBuckers and got a sound close to the real LP.

 

Maybe some day if I become a very proficient musician and I have the money saved up, I may get a real Les Paul. Until then, I think this will do nicely.

 

I like the black as it compliments my white Strat nicely.

About a month ago, I bought a new Mexican Strat HSS and a 15W amp. Since then, I have been practicing and trying to learn the proper fundamentals. I usually have been putting in about 15 to 30 minutes a night either exercising, playing scales, or just trying out a few chord progressions.

 

Currently, I have learned the major CAGED chords and the major scale, although I am still a bit sloppy on some chord progressions. I almost have all the different modes of the major scale committed to memory. I also have been working on exercises to improve my finger strength and dexterity. However, I think the fastest I can play most of them accurately is about 120 bpm, which I am guessing is still too slow.

 

I guess I'm just concerned about my progress and worried I am not advancing as fast as I think I should.

 

Now I realize the general responses will be that different people learn at different speeds and that it is also dependent on how much you practice. But it is kind of disheartening when you go into the local GC and see a 13 year old kid just wailing away on a SG. Now I realize he may have been playing since he was 10, but still. It can make you feel unworthy.

 

One of my concerns is that maybe my hands aren't well suited for guitar. I seem to have short wide fingers. Some have referred to such as 'sausage fingers.' The concern is that when I fret some notes, my finger may accidently touch and mute the string below it.

 

I guess I am hoping that I will eventually have a breakthrough. Maybe some day while watching someone play or reading some tab, I could just see the notes and patterns and say 'Oh, I get it now!" Instead of having to be lead by the hand and slowly shown each note and finger position.

 

Maybe I'm just expecting too much too soon of myself.

QUOTE (Necromancer @ May 13 2007, 12:25 PM)

QUOTE (1-0-0-1-0-0-1 @ May 13 2007, 02:56 PM) I agree with all that. Nothing to add.  There's NO way that scene with walberg is REAL.   Yeah... you know which one i'm talking about.   The one where he does that cool dive. I'm sure it was a stunt man. I'm sure you got a few of us on that one.   Funny question is, suggesting that most people have a fixation on something like that, like the money shot, does that suggest that we have some latent homosexual issues, or that we're just fascinated with the unusual, even those things that we're taught to be repulsed by?   In my case, until about six months ago, I had not seen this movie, but I had seen the discussion about it on VH1's 'I Love the 90's.' And, of course, they discussed the final scene, and showed it while graphically blocking the prop. So, while I was watching the film, I knew the scene was coming, I knew what it was going to show, but instead of looking away or skipping past the scene, I watched anyway. Maybe it was just a curiosity of how big the prosthetic really was.   btw, what a name. Doesn't it just make you think of acres and acres of Midwestern wheat fields?

Nice shot. We don't have cardinals over here and it's a shame.

 

Right before Christmas last season, I was on Interstate 5 between Seattle and Portland, heading to my sister's home. The weather was overcast and rainy; average winter day in the Pacific Northwest. Then, when the rain stopped, I happened to see this phenomenon which reminded me of a specific Rush song, and snapped a couple of shots while still driving.

 

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/arndrake/jacobsladder2.jpg

 

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/arndrake/jacobsladder.jpg

I've been avoiding this sub-forum because I never considered myself a musician. I had a Sebring SB300, a Korean strat copy. This one was jade green with a black pickguard and it looked beautiful. Unfortunately I hit a wall, and I just stopped playing. Five years ago, I sold my guitar and amp and hadn't touched a guitar since.

 

For some reason, over the past couple of years, something in the back of my mind kept telling me I wanted to learn and play. So lately I have been looking at different low to middle level guitars. A coworker suggested the Fender Standard Strat HSS. Considering that two of my favorite guitarists, Stevie Ray Vaughan and David Gilmour play Strats, it sounded like a good choice. Plus I have been thinking I want to learn how to play blues lead. Now, I realize that these specific models have been constructed in Mexico, but the word on them is that they have been constructed decently and sound good. Hey, you gotta figure that the country that gave us Mariachi and is the roots of Carlos Santana must know something about building guitars.

 

As much as I have been curious about Gibson models, namely the Les Paul and SG, they are out of my price range. I'm a bit leary of the newer Epiphone models of those styles as they are now being constructed in China and there hasn't been any word yet on their construction or accoustics.

 

So today, I got a good deal ($350) on what is now my new baby: a Fender Standard Strat HSS, Arctic White with a maple neck.

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/arndrake/fatstrat.jpg

Yes, I know. I haven't taken the stickers off yet. But isn't it beautiful? With the pickup configuration it has, it should be versatile also.

 

Unfortunately, as it was closing time, the salesman gave me the wrong gig bag (bass) and forgot the tremolo bar. So I will have to go back there tomorrow and get the right bag.

 

What good is an electric guitar without an amp? The salesman also gave me a deal ($160) on a Vox AD15VT amp.

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/arndrake/stratwamp.jpg

Nice little personal amp. Maybe not Marshall or Roland, but it should do fine for just personal playing. Cool part is that it's pre-amp section can duplicate one of eleven different popular tube amplifiers and it has eleven different effects.

 

Now if I can just learn how to play properly and continue to grow, maybe I'll stick with it this time.

QUOTE (liquidcrystalcompass @ Apr 5 2007, 02:05 PM)

Mystery Woman:  You contemptible pig!  I remained celibate for you.  I stood in the back of the cathedral, waiting in celibacy, for you, with three hundred friends and relatives in attendance.  My uncle hired the best Romanian caterers in the state.  To obtain the seven limousines for the wedding party, my father used up his last favor with Mad Pete Trullo.  So for me, for my mother, my grandmother, my father, my uncle, and for the common good, I must now kill you, and your brother.

Mercer: Hi! You wanna hand me the mike? Thanks a lot. Hi, this is car... what number are we?

Mount: five-five

Mercer: Car fifty five. Umm... we're in a truck!

Police dispatcher: Use of unneccessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers... has been approved.

QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Mar 21 2007, 07:16 AM)

What is the DEAL with George Lucas?

Interesting to consider the track records of the filmmakers who are/were involved.

 

Darabont - Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile

 

Spielberg - need I say more?

 

Lucas - three words: Howard the Duck

 

That being said, I would venture that if Lucas hadn't axed Darabont's script, not only would the movie have been made by now, but it would have probably been considered the best Indiana Jones film ever. Now, if it does get made, it probably won't be any better than Temple of Doom.

I'm not familiar with copyright law, but I suspect that if you are going to do a parody, it has to be of your own design. I think the only exception is that you will not profit from it, in which case it is artistic license. A TV show like Family Guy definitely does not fall into that category. From what the story says, all they did was copy her 'cleaning lady' character, which she has exclusive rights to.

QUOTE (1-0-0-1-0-0-1 @ Mar 15 2007, 02:09 PM)

from Blue Velvet: Dorothy: Hello, baby. Frank Booth: It's "daddy" you shithead, where's my bourbon?

I used to find it very amusing when Joel Hodgson was the lead in the show. He and the 'bots just seemed to have a good flow. When he left and Mike Nelson took over, I thought something was missing, even though Mike had been the head writer for the show since the beginning.

 

Then after the show moved to Sci Fi, I couldn't follow it at all. I think at that time Trace Beaulieu, who played Dr Clayton Forrester and was the primary producer of the show, abandoned the show at the same time. It just wasn't the same.

 

I seem to recall the most amusing episodes were "The Killer Shrews," and "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786940999.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V59670242_.jpg

The Dragonlance Lost Chronicles Vol 1

No Spice Girls on the list? For Shame!!!!

 

Can you really say that Fleetwood Mac is a Brit band, considering two of the members are American? I realize their first level of success was as a Brit blues band, but their mainstream success came after hiring Buckingham and Nicks.

I was six when it originally aired. I remember it was a big deal at school as geneology was a hot topic at the time. I recall my mother wanted to watch this, but my stepfather did not as he was a racist and bigot and didn't want to watch a story about a bunch of 'n____'s on TV.' So I think she only got to see the first episode (he wasn't home at the time). And this was before VCRs were available cheaply on the home market, so she couldn't have a friend record it for her.

 

I don't remember seeing much except one scene. The slow motion scene of Kunta on the beach surrounded by the slave traders, netted, shackled, screaming in rage and despair as he knows he is no longer a free man.

 

A couple of years ago I borrowed the DVDs from my sister and got to watch the whole series. Some of the writing was a little dated, but otherwise it was a very good story.

Something I just read on MSN stated that New Line, which got the right to produce the movie from MGM, who will distribute it, will not hire Jackson to make The Hobbit.

 

Apparently this has to do with a current lawsuit between Jackson and New Line regarding money owed to him from DVD sales of Fellowship. He stated he didn't want to discuss working on The Hobbit with New Line until this was resolved. So they told him they are going on without him.

QUOTE (Batman @ Nov 15 2006, 02:12 PM)

Anyone still watching this. I am loving the new doctor.

Probably one of the most interesting things about the first two films was the ability of Carpenter to scare the pants off everyone and show some pretty violent deaths without showing a lot of blood and gore. His music definitely did a lot to create the mood. The films are almost Gothic horror.

 

And of course all fans know that the mask was William Shatner.