Someone please stop me before I post another inane quiz!

Your Movie Buff Quotient: 80%

You are a total movie buff. Classics, blockbusters, indie favorites... you've seen most of them.Your friends know to come to you whenever they need a few good DVD rental suggestions.

Are You a Movie Buff

I hope this doesn't drive you over the edge, Lori. I'm so out of control with this quiz thing that this might even be a repost.

English Sub-titles Used In Hong Kong Films

1. I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
2. Fatty, you with your thick face have hurt my instep.
3. Gun wounds again?
4. Same old rules: no eyes, no groin.
5. A normal person wouldn't steal pituitaries.
6. Damn, I'll burn you into a BBQ chicken!
7. Take my advice, or I'll spank you without pants.
8. Who gave you the nerve to get killed here?
9. Quiet or I'll blow your throat up.
10. You always use violence. I should've ordered glutinous rice chicken.
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Via Reddit

At Least We Don't Have to Shovel It!

The rain has been constant all fall but today's deluge was a true piece de resistance. The basement is flooded, the bathroom ceiling is leaking and collapsing once again and I have to wear hip waders to take the garbage out.













But I refuse to give in to the elements! I shall not build an ark! No, I'll spend hours looking at pictures of celebrity plastic surgery gone wrong. I just know that'll make me feel all sunshiney inside. Take that, weather gods!

The Alma Drawings

I watched Jeremiah Munce's award-winning documentary The Alma Drawings on my great big TV tonight. It was very intriguing. Alma Rumball's paintings resembled acid paintings done by hippies in the psychedelic era. She was a devout Christian who lived a sheltered life in Huntsville, Ontario. She started creating her powerful paintings when she was in her 50's. The documentary asks the question, was she psychic or psychotic?

French surrealist André Breton once coined the term “psychic automatism” to describe this kind of phenomenon. The more contemporary interpretation would be that Alma suffered from schizophrenia. But even if it's true, this doesn't explain where, exactly, the extraordinary images in her drawings came from.
Why do some pictures appear to contain symbols from Tibetan Buddhist tradition – something of which Alma knew nothing? Why did she fashion a strange work depicting the fall of Atlantis? And what were the dangerous spiritual secrets she sometimes claimed to have been told?
Alma Rumball died in 1980 – and the answers died with her. Was Alma connected in some way to the spiritual world? Or caught in the grip of madness?

Just What I Need For the Christmas Season

Next week Christie's will auction the iconic little black dress that Audrey Hepburn wore in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's.
That simple but instantly recognisable black gown, designed by Hubert de Givenchy, is expected to fetch about £70,000. It is a modest prediction for what is, arguably, the most copied piece of clothing in film history.

Via Arts and Letters Daily

For This I Got a 40-inch TV?

Good God, why isn't anyone else commenting on this?
Last night I caught a bit of the "entertainment" featured at the Liberal Convention in Montreal. Guys in suits gyrating to the dis-synchronous beating of drums? It just happened to be the first thing I watched on my brand spanking new 40-inch HD TV and it almost ruined the viewing experience for me. At first I thought the TV was defective but, thankfully, other channels were not afflicted with this unique brand of Liberal awfulness.
I'm guessing someone thought that frenzied flailing would be an appropriate stage setter for the Howard Dean scream. Someone forgot to tell them them that Dean scrapped the scream from his act when it lost him the Democratic nomination.

Whining Over Raw Milk

Doesn't our provincial government have more pressing issues to attend to than the sale of raw milk? Premier McGuinty is agonizing over what he considers to be a major threat to Ontarians' health (forget air pollution, global warming, TB in homeless shelters, etc.) and Finance Minister, Greg Sorbara, has even gotten into the act (he sings Legalize It in the background). He is, as usual, floating around the perimeter of conflict of interest as his wife owns a share of the cow in question - no kidding. The law says one can drink raw milk if one owns the cow that produces it.
While Dalton looks on, looking as anguished as if he had just downed a cup of e-coli contaminated raw milk and needs a bathroom pronto, a farmer who produces the wretched product has been on a hunger strike for more than a week. Too much whining over raw milk, methinks.
I'm sure there are those who, if they could, would commune with nature by sucking the warm, yellow, fat globule laden elixer directly from the crusty udder of Bessie the bovine. I don't ride with that posse.

Hold the ham - and the turkey as well

Canadians are being warned not to eat cooked ham and turkey products from an Ohio-based company that could be contaminated with listeria. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says products from The Honey Baked Ham Company could be contaminated with listeria bacteria, which can cause high fever, severe headache, neck stiffness and nausea.

I've been feeling uncharacteristically ill (fever, headache, neck stiffness, nausea, the whole nine yards) the past couple of days. Today I took my first sick day of the millennium. Could swear I had listeria poisoning only I haven't had any honey baked ham or turkey, or at least none that I know of. However, I do have relatives in Ohio. Hmmm...

Boars Run Amok In Bavaria

...unlike in my town where bores run amok.

They certainly weren't to blame for the damage as they were trying to escape from hunters. I might bite people and knock them off bicycles if I were trying to save my bacon.

Films at Shaw 2007

People are coming to my blog looking for information on the upcoming film series at the Shaw Festival Theatre and have, until now, been getting last year's information. It is hard to find anything online but here is a list of confirmed films that I came across in the Niagara Advance:

• December 9 Little Miss Sunshine
• December 16 Catch a Fire
• December 23 Joyeux Noel
• December 30 Shut Up and Sing
• January 6 Marie Antoinette
• January 13 Snow Cake
• January 30 Volver

There are 5 more yet to be confirmed. Sounds good doesn't it?