tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12958866404756237002024-03-12T16:05:27.223-07:002011: A Space OdysseySiphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786737057913720032noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1295886640475623700.post-76784827092897084492011-03-07T11:28:00.000-08:002011-12-31T20:35:03.420-08:00Songwriters I love music. It's my favorite form of entertainment, and artistic expression. I have a pretty varied taste in music ranging from rock, blues and jazz, to classical, flamenco, even a little (very little) hip-hop and just about anything in-between. Today I want to cover some of my favorite songwriters. This list, like all my other lists, is in no particular order.<br />
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Bob Dylan. You can't have a credible songwriter list without putting Dylan on it. He is the best songwriter of our time period, and quite possibly any time period. You would be hard pressed to find any musician or band who wasn't influenced by Bob Dylan, either directly or indirectly.<br />
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Bradley Nowell. Nowell is one of the most underrated songwriters ever. He is a rarity in which nearly every song he wrote was fantastic, with very few, if any, bad songs. I understand that not everyone is into <i>Sublime</i> and their type of music, but if you can look at it from an unbiased, open-minded perspective, I'm sure you would agree with me.<br />
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Jeff Buckley. Not many people even know that this guy ever existed, which is kind of astonishing to me. It may be due to the fact that he only recorded one studio album, <i>Grace. </i>Almost everyone has heard his remake of <i>Hallelujah, </i>in various films and television shows, although they may not even know it. Even though he only produced one album it was ranked by <i>NME </i>as the 23rd greatest album ever.<br />
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<i> </i>Jimi Hendrix. Of course I put Hendrix on this list, he's my favorite guy ever. To refrain from rambling on about Hendrix for too long, I will just say that he is probably the most innovative force in rock music. If you don't believe me then go listen to <i><u><b><a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/black-history-month-jimi-hendrix.html">Machine Gun</a></b></u>.</i><br />
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Neil Young. Another folk/rock musician. From Buffalo Springfield, to Crazy Horse, To CSNY, and his solo work. Neil Young consistently puts out excellent music, not only lyrically, but musically as well. He was even dubbed the "Godfather of Grunge".<br />
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Roger Waters. Waters is the Mad Scientist of rock music. He was the driving force behind the post-Barrett <i>Pink Floyd, </i>with albums like <i>Dark Side of the Moon, </i>and <i>The Wall, </i>and so forth. He draws from his darkness within to create these thematic masterpieces. It's even become a "cool thing" to wear <i>Pink Floyd</i> shirts, even if you know next to nothing about the band. By the way, it's not cool. If you do this, then you are a douche bag.<br />
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Johann Sebastian Bach. Not to be confused with that asshole from that shitty 80's buttrock band. While Bach probably wouldn't be considered innovative. He built upon the pre existing musical structure, and paved the way for a lot of artist to come after him.<br />
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Bob Marley. Marley is usually know (often ignorantly) for his marijuana use. Which is a shame, because he was an amazing songwriter. Marley liked to write songs about peace and love. But he also wrote political songs, and songs about internal conflict and struggle. I find it disturbing that so many people think Eric Clapton wrote "I Shot the Sheriff". He didn't, it was Marley damnit!<br />
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<i> </i>Ok, that's most of the ones that I could think of off the top of my head. I left a lot of great ones out, mainly because some were more "group efforts" rather than individual efforts, Led Zeppelin for example. Please refrain from leaving "hey you forgot _____" posts. Instead please let me know some of your own favorite songwriters, group, individual, or otherwise.Siphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786737057913720032noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1295886640475623700.post-60860120599508163692011-03-05T22:21:00.000-08:002011-03-05T22:21:32.890-08:00Cartoon Characters I may be 22 years old, but I still love to watch cartoons. Cartoons tend to run longer than live action shows. One of the reason is because no one changes unless the writers want them too. Babies stay babies, old people don't get older, everyone stays the same age. A good example is Maggie from <em>The Simpson</em> who has been a baby for 21 years. Anyway, I'm going to talk about five of my favorite characters, I'm only going to pick one per show.<br />
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Ok, that's five characters for you, I may do more in the future but probably not. Feel free to leave a comment on some of your own favorites.Siphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786737057913720032noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1295886640475623700.post-2190571960334185642011-03-04T04:50:00.000-08:002011-03-04T19:54:07.483-08:00Nintendo 64 In High Resolution. Recently I've discovered the wonderful world of high resolution texture packs for N64 emulation programs. Basically what they do is replace the old crusty texture files with new shiny ones. While I love the crusty old textures, it's nice to see some of my old favorites with a new look. And after talking about some of these games I really want to go back and play through them again and this is a great way to inspire me to do that. While only a handful of games have a decent texture pack, the ones that do look great. Here are some photos to give you an idea of what they look like.<br />
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<div align="center"> <i>Mario 64</i>. </div><br />
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This got me really excited, I haven't owned a hand-held since the Gameboy Pocket, but this has made me consider upgrading my crusty old GB. Especially with a <i>Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time</i> remake being one of the launch titles.<br />
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If you liked that then please check out Gekobot's blog, he has a lot of cool posts like this one.<br />
<a href="http://gekobot.blogspot.com/"><u>http://gekobot.blogspot.com/</u></a>Siphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786737057913720032noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1295886640475623700.post-9742148891682198792011-02-26T16:07:00.000-08:002011-02-26T16:07:42.305-08:00Nintendo Nostalgia Part 4 For part 4 of this series I'm going to do an all racing game edition. Again, this is not a best of list or anything like that, it is only a few of my favorites, and in no particular order.<br />
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<a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/nintendo-64-nostalgia.html">Part 1</a><br />
<a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/nintendo-nostalgia-part-2.html">Part 2</a><br />
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Ok guys that's part four, I hope you enjoyed it. I may have one or two left in me, then I might move onto NES or SNES games.Siphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786737057913720032noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1295886640475623700.post-49390873167555875062011-02-25T16:10:00.000-08:002011-02-25T16:10:32.280-08:00Zelda the Movie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_iRlA8kZbSfnmSFr2hA4gwLUs-LbMAB1ncm9_GEUIx5Recx4g0DzV3Z1Qqrr0JDONnTrmh0ivhKlaC41EP41BGFI1UyHOn3C9bSqO90ebhqXtY-pl_mS6GIyLkL7jUm0MZcGUA8BSUgk/s1600/legend-of-zelda-movie-trailer-20080331113645371.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_iRlA8kZbSfnmSFr2hA4gwLUs-LbMAB1ncm9_GEUIx5Recx4g0DzV3Z1Qqrr0JDONnTrmh0ivhKlaC41EP41BGFI1UyHOn3C9bSqO90ebhqXtY-pl_mS6GIyLkL7jUm0MZcGUA8BSUgk/s640/legend-of-zelda-movie-trailer-20080331113645371.jpg" width="432" /></a></div> I've been thinking about video game movies lately. The first video game movie I remember seeing was <em>Super Mario Bros.</em> and what a glorious piece of shit that was. For the last several years Hollywood has been on a remake kick, with comic books, old T.V. shows, old movies, and of course video games, I guess they just ran out of originality and have to ruin our old favorites.<br />
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On to <em>Zelda. </em>Since the <em>Mario </em>movie, Nintendo hasn't been dishing out the rights to Hollywood for their major franchises. And I am very grateful for that. There have been some fan made <em>Zelda </em>movie trailers, which are good for what they are. But not every video game needs to be made into a movie. <em>Zelda </em>isn't about epic battles and thick storylines. It's about engaging gameplay, some puzzle solving, and a fairly generic "rescue the princess" storyline. Some (all) video games just need to stay games. Please don't take a shit all over one of the most loved video game franchises of all time.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5aLOZ1Ok6vk71MMM75RT41lV51yGCaRS0pcBl0egF9JfSoZ9XyxUz6fXm9DUXXN_zZmmkUW4ToWj3IIp6GEMtsB6xKFUpRkF2G8zf5cc5-baOfPJs7sHeBDxrgldQm3RQ__IHPdSHtec/s1600/317255-link05_super.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5aLOZ1Ok6vk71MMM75RT41lV51yGCaRS0pcBl0egF9JfSoZ9XyxUz6fXm9DUXXN_zZmmkUW4ToWj3IIp6GEMtsB6xKFUpRkF2G8zf5cc5-baOfPJs7sHeBDxrgldQm3RQ__IHPdSHtec/s200/317255-link05_super.jpg" width="121" /></a></div> That being said, there is no conformation of, or real plans of a <em>Zelda </em>movie, just a few rumors. This is more of a rant about video game movies in general.Siphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786737057913720032noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1295886640475623700.post-88042971329737286602011-02-24T14:18:00.000-08:002011-02-24T14:19:34.057-08:00Sublime<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvp-GCPQm0AYdD5nBZNcpBPD4_H0AMWpCfT2Ybsf1TZZQiRQt8QeZ3unqg2Q__rSz88UygGVA1wFyyMQvvjSWZYP4UVSiIxSMm_7SX6k7OAOsz5XiahskHP9trGTuW9zxXAYeLYagLZO4/s1600/Sublime.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvp-GCPQm0AYdD5nBZNcpBPD4_H0AMWpCfT2Ybsf1TZZQiRQt8QeZ3unqg2Q__rSz88UygGVA1wFyyMQvvjSWZYP4UVSiIxSMm_7SX6k7OAOsz5XiahskHP9trGTuW9zxXAYeLYagLZO4/s320/Sublime.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Today I'm going to talk about one of my favorite bands, <i>Sublime. </i><i>Sublime</i> was a three piece reggae/punk band from Long Beach California consisting of Brad Nowell on guitar/vocals, Bud Gaugh on percussion, and Eric Wilson on bass. <i>Sublime </i>mashed together many different genres of music to get their own sound. They sampled a wide variety of artists from Bob Marley to Just-Ice.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/cJvUfglkZAc?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div> Unfortunately front man Brad Nowell would die before they reached a high level of fame and success. Since his death, <i>Sublime </i>has become one of the most well known bands to come from the 90's. <i>Sublime </i>is a rare band wherein every member is exceptionally talented, instead of being carried by one or two talented musicians. With awesome drum tracks, amazing basslines, great guitar playing and vocals, and brilliant song writing, sublime sticks out from the crowd of grunge and garbage pop from their decade. If you haven't heard them, and you enjoy this kind of music, I highly recommend giving them a listen.Siphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786737057913720032noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1295886640475623700.post-9551893921414058932011-02-23T14:32:00.000-08:002011-02-23T14:32:43.862-08:00American Movie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7xnDrSLZ-zzCpal0rD9OLmLkknyB8EWvU9F8JOQQtj2qA-QFC4zA9BqZoq_p8J4aT8eCgtKV4fhHiaA02qK43UAQPiNsO5Eenkj0pr58u6uNs1oBWnAXkqi2ZWXcI3IiPAO7B87w58is/s1600/Americanmovie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7xnDrSLZ-zzCpal0rD9OLmLkknyB8EWvU9F8JOQQtj2qA-QFC4zA9BqZoq_p8J4aT8eCgtKV4fhHiaA02qK43UAQPiNsO5Eenkj0pr58u6uNs1oBWnAXkqi2ZWXcI3IiPAO7B87w58is/s400/Americanmovie.jpg" width="262" /></a></div> Today I'm going to talk about one of my favorite movies, <em>American Movie. </em>It is a documentary film by Chris Smith, that follows Mark Borchardt as he tries to reach the American dream. Mark is middle aged guy, working as a paper boy and cemetery grounds keeper, who only passion is film making. The film documents Mark as he tries to finish his movie <em>Coven</em>, which he had started several years previous, in order to make enough money to make his dream film <em>Northwestern. </em><br />
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This film is a masterpiece. The characters are lovable. And the movie is endlessly quotable. With Mike Schank, the burnt out right hand man of Mark. And uncle Bill, the senile old man. This film has you laughing your ass off. While inspiring you to follow your dream. If you haven't seen this film before I highly recommend it.<br />
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Also thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday, for those who asked I turned 22.Siphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786737057913720032noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1295886640475623700.post-2970081496267714742011-02-21T14:04:00.000-08:002011-02-21T14:04:04.326-08:00Birthday Post It's my birthday so I'm not going to do a full post. Instead here is a video of a flying scorpion.<br />
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<a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/nintendo-64-nostalgia.html"><u>Nintendo 64 Nostalgia part 1</u></a><br />
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<a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/nintendo-nostalgia-part-2.html"><u>Nintendo 64 Nostalgia part 2</u></a><br />
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<a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/nintendo-nostalgia-part-4.html"><u>Nintendo 64 Nostalgia Part 4</u></a><br />
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Ok, that wraps up part 3 of <i>Nintendo 64 Nostalgia. </i>I hope you enjoyed it, and maybe thought about some good times from your past.Siphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786737057913720032noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1295886640475623700.post-18950440788761930812011-02-19T14:31:00.000-08:002011-03-04T05:19:28.147-08:00Black History Month: Dave Chappelle Earlier this week I did a post about <u><a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/black-history-month-jimi-hendrix.html">Jimi Hendrix</a></u>, and I figured I would talk about another one of my favorite people. Everyone has watched <i>Chappelle's Show, </i>or at least heard of it. The show sold more DVDs than the <i>Simpsons. </i> Below is a video of a bit called Kid's Cartoons. This video is NSFW!<br />
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But what I want to talk about is his stand up. Many comedians talk about real issues that plague society, George Carlin probably being the most well known to do so. It's easy for me to just get depressed while listening to Carlin spit the unadulterated truth at me. But Chappelle is very subtle about it. He may slip it in, and if you're not paying attention you might miss it. Not only that but he keeps you laughing the entire time. He has the perfect mixture of thought provoking material, originality, and of course some doo-doo humor.Siphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786737057913720032noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1295886640475623700.post-77607287052849789792011-02-18T15:00:00.000-08:002011-03-04T05:15:48.877-08:00Nintendo 64 Nostalgia Part 2 Since everyone seemed to enjoy my <i><a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/nintendo-64-nostalgia.html">Nintendo Nostalgia</a> </i>post, I thought I would follow up with a few more. Again this is not a definitive "Best" games list, it is simply some of my favorites that I enjoyed as a kid, and is in no particular order.<br />
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Ok, thats five more for you. I still have a good bit more which I will probably get to eventually. I also have a lot of NES and SNES games that I can get to if you guys want to see some of that.<br />
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<u><a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/nintendo-64-nostalgia.html">For part 1 click here</a></u><br />
<a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/nintendo-64-nostalgia-part-3.html"><u>For part 3 click here</u></a><u> </u><br />
<u><a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/nintendo-nostalgia-part-4.html">For part 4 click here </a></u>Siphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786737057913720032noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1295886640475623700.post-79956328440327476942011-02-17T14:58:00.000-08:002011-03-04T05:13:06.271-08:00Nintendo 64 Nostalgia Earlier this week I posted a blog about <i><a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/nfl-blitz.html">NFL Blitz</a>, </i>so I figured I would post some of my other favorite N64 games, mainly for the nostalgia. This list is not necessarily a "best games" list, just some of my favorites that I remember, and in no particular order.<br />
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Let me get some of the obvious ones out of the way first.<br />
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Okay thats 5 games, I'm going to end it here even though I'm not even a quarter of the way though my list I made. If you guys want to see some more, leave a comment and let me know.<br />
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<u><a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/nintendo-nostalgia-part-2.html">For part 2 click here.</a></u><br />
<a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/nintendo-64-nostalgia-part-3.html"><u>For part 3 click here.</u></a><br />
<u><a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/nintendo-nostalgia-part-4.html">For part 4 click here.</a></u><br />
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I also found this Xbox 360 case mod, which is pretty cool but... if you're playing <i>Half-Life </i>on a console, then you're doing it wrong.Siphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786737057913720032noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1295886640475623700.post-91218094779860671422011-02-15T17:39:00.000-08:002011-03-07T13:22:23.555-08:00Black History Month: Jimi Hendrix In honor of Black History Month I'm going to talk about my favorite person ever. Many people would agree that Jimi is the greatest guitarist of all time. Whether you share the same sentiment, or not. It's hard to deny that his influence was greater than any single guitarist. Nearly any rock song you hear from 1970+ was influenced directly, or indirectly by Hendrix. And the fact that he did all this as a black man in the 60's, is an accomplishment in itself.<br />
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Machine Gun is my favorite song. Every time I hear it, my mind is still blown away by the sheer badassery.If you are a fan of music, and you haven't listened to Jimi Hendrix, then what are you waiting for? Kick back and listen to some of the greatest sounds ever recorded.Siphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786737057913720032noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1295886640475623700.post-73675884770449189562011-02-15T03:22:00.000-08:002011-02-16T14:02:41.292-08:00NFL Blitz Awesomeness<div align="left"> <i>NFL Blitz</i> is the greatest football game ever. Before <i>Blitz, </i>football video games consisted of titles like <i>Madden </i>which tried to simulate the sport in a realistic fashion. That may work fine today, but for me it just wasn't fun. It was tedious and frustrating.</div><div align="left"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ9rz8igyBjizX1SOPs1-vyOYf4yZVqTrcVrb9PJKNqjRGa_mZZwr_MDW2m1xqKZfW47xB-M0iW-wB3zMgbUhtGp1u7a545huD_fHC_mZp6DO-67hNMaWAa8or0dlC2z0SuS8IYr-Cqns/s1600/Image012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ9rz8igyBjizX1SOPs1-vyOYf4yZVqTrcVrb9PJKNqjRGa_mZZwr_MDW2m1xqKZfW47xB-M0iW-wB3zMgbUhtGp1u7a545huD_fHC_mZp6DO-67hNMaWAa8or0dlC2z0SuS8IYr-Cqns/s400/Image012.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="left"> Do you remember those old <i>Blitz</i> arcade machines with the memory card readers? You could play your own team on an arcade machine. How many games have done that? Although it seems a little redundant, it's just icing on the awesome cake that is <i>Blitz.</i></div>Siphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786737057913720032noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1295886640475623700.post-60642205010943118142011-02-14T21:07:00.000-08:002011-02-16T14:03:35.088-08:00The Dawn of Man<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODeucE-OcwdEPFfrqLlhc0fsk_FRYL2MWH5jmSQNPrcTpeYdgyljpQLLpwT87g1bUVgU_Wxc5uLM6v3-u5wAE-q7nkiEPt9UaCHSohF7k6Bu-VUDeKyrjnsqfTKkThYellIhw4Dw5-dw/s1600/dawn02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODeucE-OcwdEPFfrqLlhc0fsk_FRYL2MWH5jmSQNPrcTpeYdgyljpQLLpwT87g1bUVgU_Wxc5uLM6v3-u5wAE-q7nkiEPt9UaCHSohF7k6Bu-VUDeKyrjnsqfTKkThYellIhw4Dw5-dw/s320/dawn02.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> After two minutes of black screen and suspenseful music. I began to wonder if I was watching a movie, or listing to an orchestral record. Having just watched <i>Rocky, </i>I was ready for some action. After a few more minutes I understood. I wasn't watching a standard, mind numbing, action movie. This was a long journey, and the introduction is necessary to set the pace of the film.<br />
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As clichéd music scores play in the title, I have to remember that they weren't so at the time.The cinematography is excellent. The scenes are beautiful and further help to set the mood and pace. Although the "monkey suits" seem a little fake, the actors do a nice job of seeming ape-like. It was interesting to see a primitive social structure. The cheetah killing one while the others watched, and the interaction between the two groups both made me laugh, which seemed to happen more than I expected.<br />
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<b> Intro</b>.................................................................................<i><a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/2011-space-odyssey.html">Click here</a></i><br />
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<b> Part 2</b>................................................................................<i><a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/">Coming soon</a></i><br />
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In 1989, I was born. And now in 2011, 43 years after its release, I watch it for the first time. This is going to be a little review or something. I'm going to try to give new perspective, on an old classic, and see how well it holds up today.<br />
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<b>The Dawn of Man </b>.............................................................<i><a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/2011/02/dawn-of-man.html">Click here</a></i><br />
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<b> TMA-1</b>................................................................................<i><a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/">Coming soon</a></i><br />
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<b> Jupiter Mission</b>..................................................................<i><a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/">Coming soon</a></i><br />
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<b> Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite</b>.........................................<i><a href="http://siphil.blogspot.com/">Coming soon</a></i><br />
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