I can’t think of another movie that should really be the front runner for all this 3D mumbo jumbo, especially Dances With Smurfs!  And when your inner geek stops squealing, embrace the fact that Daft Punk is scoring this.  Oh yes, it shall be good if only for the reason that it will generate a thousand more of these.

My only gripe is the release date.

End of line.

We went out for a goggle flight a couple nights ago and my instructor, never one for the milk runs, wanted me to run us out through Victorville and over into Salton Sea.  It was a nice night to fly: smooth, clear, quiet and zero moon illumination.  Nada, zip, zilch.  This meant absolutely no ambient light in any direction for a good ten miles around Salton Sea.

That just happens to be an unlit airport.

And really more a dirt strip than an airport.

Surrounded by other dirt that happens to be the same color.

This means you have absolutely no contrast, which means very little to no depth perception.  Now go try and land there, never mind simply finding the place.  What’s that, I forgot to mention that because it’s a dirt strip you get all the dust you’ve ever wanted and then some, kicked up by a 22,000 lb contraption that creates its very own tornado?  Yeah, about that.  Just keep your eye on the aircraft that’s a disc and a half in front of you while you’re enveloped in the cloud.

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You carrier jockeys can come talk to me when you land on that postage stamp at night with no lights.  In formation.

Try and get this one out of your head

I wasn’t the biggest A-Team fan but it idled away the hours. Sometimes. I’m not grinning over Murdock (which you shouldn’t be surprised I have an affinity for), but there wasn’t much of him there so the jury is still partially out. The one I feared the most though, ol’ Liam, seems to have pulled Hannibal off pretty damn well.

There was a Christmas gift transaction at work in which I had to play the middleman and transfer funds between people.  When the total charge came through, I thought I’d be cute and demand the total sum be deposited in unmarked ones and fives.  The second after I hit send on that text, my brain immediately reeled with the vision of her sitting there laughing maniacally and avowing that “it was on like Donkey Kong” to no one in particular.  Quickly running through a damage control assessment I realized it was the day before New Years and there was no way she’d be able to get to a bank easily enough before she saw me today.

My assessment skills in damage control suck.  Having completely forgotten about the debacle this morning, she walks into the office and tosses a brown paper bag in my lap.  Sure enough, in the bag is a neatly stacked bundle of ones and fives totaling $548.  At least I hope there’s $548 there, I can’t count higher than 312.

Well played, madam.

The Warrior Dash

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Anyway, similar to District 9 and how it came about as a short film before garnering the attention to turn it into a feature length, Panic Attack is coming from the music video genre believe it or not.  The original music for a band called Snake has been replaced by the main chorus from 28 Days Later which works pretty well surprisingly.

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I’d see this long before watching Transformers 2.  Besides, we all know you’ve wanted to see just how evil The Iron Giant could really be.  And if you’re scratching your head on that one, you’re dead to me! Hear me? D-E-A-D!