Tuesday, December 18, 2007

I'm awake. Barely. And the headache I hoped to leave behind with sleep is still with me. I feel like I have a hangover, and I haven't had even a sip of alcohol in over a week. Maybe that was delayed hangover whiskey?

So I tried to watch Voyager before bed. I've slogging through Season 3, which has moments of horrific writing, while most episodes seem really good, but are nothing at all when compared to average episodes of other Treks. One of the exceptions to this crappy season, is the finale episode, "Scorpion, Part I", which I loved when it aired, and continue to enjoy...only I can't. I finally made it to this episode, but it stopped half way through and I was shocked to find a big scratch on the disc! I've loaned these discs out to dozens of people, and I don't even remember who the last person was. This was before I implemented my non-lending policy for similar problems. Now I only rarely lend things out, and it's always with the fear at the back of my mind that I'm going to be screwed over. I hope the machine at work can fix my disc because I'm not paying for another season of Voyager.

So...to amuse myself, I watched clips of Sarah Silverman on Youtube. I've never really seen her stuff before, though I've been aware of her for years. She actually appeared in two 'ok' episodes of Voyager's 3rd Season and because of my memory for all things Trek, I've remembered her in everthing I've seen her in since then, as that girl Rain from those Voyager episodes. I noticed her in "School of Rock" & "Rent". Anyways, some of her stuff was really funny. Then I watched the Pamela Anderson Roast, which amused me to no end, watching people be so blatantly rude to Courtney Love. ;-0)

I didn't get to sleep until about 11am at the earliest. I should have known I was going to have trouble sleeping this week, as this last Saturday I slept beautifully, and that's a rare thing for me that's balanced out by really crappy sleep paterns for weeks afterward. Blah. Oh Well.

I just read that Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh will be producing the new Hobbit movies! That's very good news! Producers do so much to make a movie a success, and I feel their knowledge of these books will make them invaluable resources to the production. I hope they're writing it as well though. I don't mind at all that they aren't directing them per say. It's been said that one of the movies will closely follow The Hobbit, while the other film will combine lore from the books to bridge The Hobbit with the other LOTR's movies, which could be fantastic!

In other movie news, Ewan McGregor (who is one of my 2 celebrity crushes) has signed on with Jim Carrey to star in "I Love You Phillip Morris" about real life partners who met in prison: Steven Russell & Phillip Morris. I love Ewan because he's hot, he can sing, he's not afraid of full frontal nudity, and he has no qualms about playing gay characters...at all. We need more like him. 10 of him would be great. And I'm not just being selfish; I'd share them.

1 more item. Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, the sequel to Alien vs. Predator, and prequel to the Alien movies, opens next week on Christmas day if I'm not mistaken. The movie looks like a lot of fun. Anyone avoiding this one because they had a bad experience with the first (which I actually enjoyed) will most likely enjoy this one a lot more. I've heard this one wrapps up the Earth based stories of the Predator sequence (Predator, Predator 2, AVP's 1 & 2) and that it sets up a space saga that could bridge the gap between the new film and the first Alien feature. Sounds cool. I'd love it if they did that, and then did future sequels set between the Alien movies, and helped set up a grand finale in an Alien 5. But I'm a big sci-fi geek who doesn't know any better. lol. There's a new international trailer for the new film, but be warned that the spots with subtitles are not in english, but you still get to see some new shots from the film. Overseas the film is apparently known as AVP2, while in the states it's referred to as AVP: R. Check It Out.

I'm supposed to hang out with Michael today...though it looks like LATE today will have to suffice. But in order to do that...this pain has to go away...pronto. And more sleep would probably help, so I'm going to attempt that. Wish me luck. :-0)

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