raving lunacy - oxymorons for the 21st century

Having Upgraded to WP2.5.1 I have regained control of the Media Library(stupid fuckin name), which gives me the ability to post photos. A deal breaker in my world.
I may have mentioned that in my world the top things (in order) that bring me pleasure are sex, movies and remodeling.
Since remodeling has become my day job, I am not getting any, and my movie jones is moving along, I decided that I needed to build some cases for my collection, which is getting relatively large. Last DVD count was somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 discs. Yes I buy my movies.

Tuesday is New Release Day across the US, and recently I have switched to Best Buy as the low price leader. Cheaper than Target or Wal-Mart. And it hurts me to give Best Buy any sort of attaboy. However back to the cases…

What is available commercially, made out of particle board and shelf paper is not worth the time to buy and use. Just like the so called ‘computer desks’ designed by idiots whose closest encounter with computers consists of those cardboard boxes that are printed to look like computers.

Being handy with tools and having built version 2 of the New Temporary Workshop, I designed and built the Serious DVD Case.

This case is a bit shy of 24” wide, 82 1/2” high and 6” deep. Using 1 sheet of 18mm-3/4” 7 or 9 ply plywood and one sheet of 5/16” sanded ply, yields enough parts for two cases, with very little waste.

This unit has 9 shelves, which holds 324 clamshell DVD Cases.

The openings between the shelves are a 1/4” taller than the case, and shelves a 1/2” narrower than the case, for fingertip action and dust control.

I am in the process of building a home theatre as well.

catching up on things. Frank has published his list of rides I thought I had some bad rides….

HD TV is better. My 42”Visio is outstanding. Hell even the commercials look good, Still stupid in almost all cases,as Jeneane points out, (my personal monster dumb is the new Jeep commercial with the guy driving and singing, and getting invaded by woodland critters to provide a chorus).

My son got married last saturday.

It was a great ceremony, and I got to see a lot of folks I don’t see regularly. My friend Ed and his wife Denise took pictures for the kids. He has a Fuji S3.

I have been up to remodeling for others, and lining up folks for work on the casa lemurzone. This time next week I will have a new block fence, 2 rolling gates and 70′ of new driveway. Shortly thereafter I will replace my electric panel, and finish off my new media room. It was going to be an office, but I have a 42” tv, and 500 DVD’s which look pretty good on the big screen.
Hope to post some notes on the movies I have gotten over the last few weeks. Speaking of which, in addition to the annoying FBI copyright nonsense, studios are now including a 5 second blurb stating “This DVD is for Sale Only” The entertainment industry oughta look up the meaning of the word entertainment.

My taste in reading and visual entertainment runs to scifi and fantasy, so I am not chained to total reality based entertainment. If you can get me to buy into the plotline, like Firefly with spaceships and 6 guns, I will usually follow along.

I’m like the guy who says the worst day fishing is better than the best day working, in terms of watching movies. It is not often that I will take a beating when buying movies, but occasionally a real turd shows up.
Absolute Zero The name says it all. Acting, Plot, Photography, Absolute Zero. This is a disaster movie dealing with Mother Nature turning off the heat. Evil corporation screws with the planet, the planet screws back.

The only reason that you would buy this movie, is to educate yourself on what a bad movie is.

You have been warned. Absolute Zero around 7 bucks.

When you have been surfing the web too long, and your brain is about to explode from the Web 2.0 Cheerleaders, screaming that if you don’t join the latest Social Network and get an electronic porkchop around your neck, nobody will play with you, you are sick and tired of the whining of the PR Flacks who are still trying to find a place at a table that has moved into the next county without the benefit of a forwarding address, it is time for a movie.

You need to get away. Not just any movie. You need a movie with Chinese Mystics, Kim Catrall, starring with clothes, and a Hero with a Freightliner.

Kurt Russell stars in this John Carpenter directed action comedy which has no hidden subtext, powerful message, or tries to be anything other than 99 minutes of entertainment.

You can get it here: Big Trouble in Little China

I love movies. Not all movies, mind you, action, adventure, science fiction, some horror and the odd fantasy. Given a choice between surfing the web and watching movies, movies win. I do not go to theaters. The last time I went to the movies, Lethal Weapon 1 had just come out. I currently watch them on my computer on a 19” wide screen LCD monitor. I don’t own a TV with a DVD player. my tv has a vcr as I still have around 250 VCR movies. I have a little over 250 DVD movies and coming up on a dozen TV series sets. Some folks collect cards, so folks do dope, I mainline movies.

Watching movies on my schedule is a plus, because I can watch them any old time. (tech tip: when using your computer to watch them, as soon as the disc begins it spin, you can click the chapter button and usually get to the menu, by passing the copyright notice, and the previews.)

Sitting down and watching a complete season of a TV show is a pleasure as well.

I wouldn’t mind a HD TV like this Samsung LN-S4095D 40″ 1080p LCD HDTV. Yes I know I will have to get one those player/surround sound/ toys to go with it, but until I have such a tv, I will wait. Expect movie reviews as a regular feature here

300 is a great movie. The accuracy of the historical events non withstanding, it is a feast for the eyes. I bought the cheap version, the single disc one, as I am more into the movie than hours of backstage stuff.
but here is the link for the 2 disc version

300 (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)