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NetFlix Rentals and Disappointment

The remake of Day of the Dead starring Mena Suvari and Vingh Rhames didn’t impress me.Watching the movie you could tell that all they we thinking about was “Let’s turbocharge those zombies”.Failing yet again to grasp what is so effective about authentic zombies in the first place: they’re slow,yeah, but they add up fast and soon you are overwhelmed and cornered.Then they git you.

In 2008’s effort the zombies are so revved up by their infection that they crawl on the ceilings,digitalized of course. Another grave mistake(ha ha) of the big brains behind this project. You don’t digitalize zombies!!
Please stop using animation to replace real things: deer,ghouls, zombies- I don’t care, just stop it.

Did they use fakery in 28 Days Later? Did that movie still scare the pants off of me? Yes, it did. And that is all that horror is supposed to do. These days big movie makers just want to impress you with how much $$$ they’ve paid the animators.

Whatever.
The biggest mess up was that I had already rented this flick off OnDemand (Video OnDemand) via cable.
I was under the wrong impression that there had been yet another remake of a zombie film, saw it listed in NetFlix, ignored the actor list and put it in my queue. Got it, whacked it into the dvd player, caught on that I’d already seen it and kicked myself.
In order to get Day of the Dead to even be in my queue I had had to return The Diving Bell and the Butterfly unwatched.A movie which by all accounts must be 1,000 times better. But I have a tender spot in my heart for the zombie genre and so there you go.

Some NetFlix Specific Whining

Why does it take them so long to get new flicks? I’m waiting on 4 months 3weeks and 2 Days for ages now but it has come and gone from Video OnDemand…! What are they, like last in line for new releases? The BlockBuster 14 blocks away is beginning to seem worth the haul again.

NetFlix Rental: Shameless Season 1, Disc 1

I’ve tried watching this show on Sundance but it’s just too hard to follow a show that seems to air at 3am. So NetFlix to the rescue.I was disappointed that disc one contains only 4 episodes but it was great to see how the whole Fiona and Steve thing got going.
I’d seen episodes from Season 2 and no Steve apparent. Of course not. James MacEvoy became a star and moved on.
The other good thing about watching this show on disc is that I can have subtitles on-not that the accents are so thick you can’t understand what they’re saying but once in awhile the actors approach incoherence.
I’m not a fan of sitcoms but I make exceptions for UK sitcoms. Maybe you do,too.
I liked the story premise enough to order disc 2.That’s a recommendation, by the way.

Ohh Pen Tool

Last night I spent a pathetic 2 hours trying to follow a simple tutorial from SitePoint on using the pen tool to make these really deceptively simple looking curved shapes.Simple? Not hardly. But I will get it.I hope.One day.

What’s Happening this Week

I’ve been forced to be a normal person since Sunday night which means hanging out with real live people and going to bed at a normal hour.I think hanging out with real live folks is harder on the system and therefore when normal bedtime rolls around I am actually tired and ready for sleep.

5 of A.’s BFF’s from his kibbutz are staying with us for 10 days.Luckily they brought an airbed and we bought an airbed so with one really big couch and 2 airbeds they are finding places to sleep just fine.

I had a fight with D. because he insisted I’d told him 2 people were coming for 2 weeks not 5 people for 10 days and he just kept saying “No,No you said 2 people for 2 weeks” and he was all freaky and angry which made me angry so the problem is unresolved. I ask you:why would I say only 2 people were coming? Did I hope he wouldn’t notice? The problem is an old one. Because D. isn’t a very good listener, facts tend to suffer a loss of accuracy.The worst part is that D. and I had this fuss in earshot of our guests.
Now D. is refusing to pay rent.The original deal that A. generously proposed was that he would pay D.’s rent for May but D. said they could split it–now he is saying he won’t. D. has a new amour and spends most nights over at the amour’s house anyway.And when he is home spends all his time in his room with the door closed,guests or no guests. I fail to see how great an inconvenience this can really be for him.But for some reason he’s decided that I lied to him and so that is that. I feel I deserve a little more credit than this since D. and I have known each other for 13 years.
Oh well.

Bozzio is in heaven because now he has more people to love.
Last night a few of our guests and A. and I went out to eat at Mojitos.