10:18 am
….and the aftershock, just to let the heavy sleepers in on the fun.
ps - the State Journal-Register really needs to beef up their webserver, or look into load balancing.
4:40 am
Is it just me or was there just an earthquake?
Edit: Yep. (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/at00851141.php)
Jefferson has holes. Watch out.
http://www.humzoo.com/Russ/photos/4/1/
24 out of 50…
…plus 24 more with a little help from the magic Google machine.
The SJ-R Movie Quote Quiz is back, and is pretty tough, as usual. I did a little better on my own than I did last year, getting 24 right off the bat.
The ones I knew were 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 13, 16, 17, 20, 23, 24, 26, 27, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 41, 47, and 49. Thank you, Netflix! Numbers 31, 34, 37, 40, 41, and 47 are gimmes, so even if you aren’t a movie buff, you won’t get shut out.
Of the remaining 26, I was able to find all but 2 on Google…hey there was nothing in the rules about not using search engines!
Links…
- Yellow-tinted shooting glasses - CHECK
- Custom dog tags - CHECK
- Canvas hunting vest - CHECK
- Beard - PROGRESSING NICELY
- Haircut - THURSDAY
- Folger’s can w/ blue lid - SEARCHING
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Movie Geeks - Angels with Dirty Faces
This month’s Movie Geeks screening will be Angels with Dirty Faces, the 1938 gangster classic starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. Check out the new Movie Geeks site for more info.
Trivia From IMDB:
* The Dead End Kids terrorized the set during shooting. They threw other actors off with their ad-libbing, and once cornered costar Humphrey Bogart and stole his trousers. But they didn’t figure on James Cagney’s street-bred toughness. The first time Leo Gorcey pulled an ad-lib on Cagney, the star stiff-armed the young actor right above the nose. From then on, the gang behaved.
* Because of the controversy over gangster films, the film was banned outright in Denmark, China, Poland, Finland, and parts of Canada and Switzerland.
* To play Rocky, James Cagney drew on his memories of growing up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. His main inspiration was a drug-addicted pimp who stood on a street corner all day hitching his trousers, twitching his neck, and repeating, “Whadda ya hear! Whadda ya say!” Those mannerisms came back to haunt Cagney. He later wrote in his autobiography, “I did those gestures maybe six times in the picture. That was over thirty years ago - and the impressionists have been doing me doing him ever since.”
* A montage features a shot of gangsters bombing a storefront. This shot is actually an alternate angle of the bombing of a store in The Public Enemy (1931).
* For years, viewers have wonder whether or not “Rocky” Sullivan really turned yellow as he was being strapped into the electric chair. Some have wondered if he was faking it in order to keep his promise to Father Jerry. When asked about the scene years later, Cagney says he chose to play it in such a way so that the audience could make their own decisions as to whether or not he was faking.
* Some segments of this movie were remade and modified for the Home Alone (1990) and its sequel. In the two movies, Kevin watches them as “Angels with Filthy Souls” and “Angels with Even Filthier Souls”.
Wikipedia entry for Angels with Dirty Faces
Dear city plows…
Movie Geeks (Supplemental Edition)
This Saturday (WHAT? I DON’T ROLL ON SHABBOS!!!) Jan 19, 2008 2pm - The Lebowski Experience at Strike and Spare West.
Late Jump (as usual) on the Christmas Cards
Here are some shots from our impromptu photo shoot tonight…
Rewound to Wordpress
The great 2007 Drupal Experiment is over, and Springfield Rewind is going back to WordPress. In fact, the switch has already happened.
Drupal was fine, but the admin side was not nearly as intuitive as WordPress, so it became a burden to update the site. Now that SR is back on WordPress, expect more frequent updates.
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