I finally captured the first episde of "Samurai 7", the retelling of Akira Kurosawa's samurai masterpiece Seven Samarai. I was expecting a traditional approach, which is not the case. It is not set in a medieval Japanese setting, instead in some sort of unrealistic futuristic setting. Unrealistic in that sword-fighting coexists with cyborgs and ( Read more... )

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A coworker of mine (the same one who lured me toward MySpace) is apparently a pirate, and referenced the well-known fact that pirates do not get along with ninjas. So I decided to research the whole pirate/ninja rivalry, and find out why they just can't get along. In a funny coincidence, it turns out that my birthday falls on the Day of the Ninja ( Read more... )

Amanda and I saw X-Men III on Sunday night. It was decidedly OK. They threw a lot of characters into it that you'd have to watch the credits to figure out who all were. I like the guy, Vinnie Jones I believe, from Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch as the Juggernaunt. The most disappointing thing for me though was that I was hoping ( Read more... )

Out of the blue on Monday my best friend's wife calls us up to invite us to our little Goddaughter's third birthday party. I haven't talked to them since around Christmas, and we still had all of his kids' Christmas presents here. When my buddy who is still in Korea right now was home just after Christmas, we weren't able to get him to return our ( Read more... )

One thing I'll have to emphasize to my children is that we Rogues play by a different set of rules. Honesty is the Policy of Last Resort ( Read more... )

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Mwahaha. I'm thinking about ditching LiveJournal for MySpace. To be a teenager again.

Molly Morgan Doss.These are the two photos they gave us from the ultrasound. The technician would only commit to a seventy-five percent chance that it is actually a girl, though. The shy little bugger wouldn't open her legs, though she was rather energetic with her arms. The really important part, though, is that everything seems normal and ( Read more... )

It takes me a few days to make up my mind about a movie. We went to see Silent Hill on Monday, as planned. The movie is good enough for fans of the series, but really not that great to be honest. It ends up having the feeling of an haunted house, like each scene is a set piece. The monsters also lack the context from the games, and are pulled ( Read more... )