Yearly Archives: 2003

What’s your favorite Peter Jackson Movie?

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Me, right now I am looking for the extended version of The Two Towers to climb to the top. It will be the 3rd Jackson movie that I’ve seen. The first two were Fellowship of the Ring and the short form Two Towers. And soon, perhaps, the last of the Trilogy will make its case. But there is a new challenger.
I have paid no attention to Jackson’s earlier work and today find out that at least one person thinks his early movie Dead Alive is his best:

Come to think of it, “Dead Alive” and “Lord of the Rings” can both be read as a young man’s quest for power through knowing the truth. Call me perverse, but as far as I’m concerned, “Dead Alive” is Jackson’s most personal and convincing work. “LOTR” is more about father figures, where “Dead Alive” is about Mom. And for all the visual splendor of “LOTR,” it seems to me that Jackson connects much more with the Evil Mother than with warring fathers. In any case, “Dead Alive” is certainly my favorite of his movies.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with this movie you might want to note the following before heading to the video store:

I don’t want to spoil the film for you, but let me say that unless you’re as fond of zombies as I am you probably shouldn’t see the movie on a queasy stomach. It’s one of the most extreme splatter movies I’ve ever seen.

I don’t think I’ll be watching with my wife.
Via Michael at 2blowhards.

The rest of Today

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There may not be any more blogging here today.
Power has been out in our neighborhood since 6:15 AM and we have no positive indication as to when it will be back.
Reading by candle light will be fine but I haven’t figured out how to use those particular photons to reach the internet.
For your reading pleasure check out the recently updated folks at the top of the blogrolls in modulator’s right and left sidebars.

XMAS Gift Suggestions for the Infamous

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From Betty Bowers. They are good for a few chuckles but some of you may not find all of them humorous.
Sample:

Do you have someone on your list who claims, with no apparent acquiescence to plausibility, that women routinely enter his hotel rooms without summons or discussion and spontaneously have sex with his irresistible 48-year-old body, leaving him without any charge or clue as to what has occurred?
For Neil Bush: A laminated “Do Not Disturb” sign for your hotel door, dear.

Via Atrios.

Reason’s List

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Yea, I know this is the 3rd list in a row. It’s just the way the day has been going.
Reason Magazine pays tribute:

…to some of the people who have made the world a freer, better, and more libertarian place by example, invention, or action. The one criterion: Honorees needed to have been alive at some point during reason�s run, which began in May 1968. The list is by design eclectic, irreverent, and woefully incomplete, but it limns the many ways in which the world has only gotten groovier and groovier during the last 35 years.

I found this one most entertaining:

John Ashcroft. If Donny and Marie Osmond were a little bit country and a little bit rock �n� roll, the current attorney general is little bit J. Edgar Hoover and a little bit Janet Reno. Whether it�s prosecuting medical marijuana users, devoting scarce resources to arresting adult porn distributors, or using tax dollars to create USA PATRIOT Act propaganda Web sites, Ashcroft has managed to create an unprecedented coalition of conservatives, liberals, and libertarians around a single noble cause: the protection of civil liberties.

Via AnarCapLib.