Posts Tagged ‘Outside’

1. They’re all sold out.
2. I read the fine print, AT&T is bonkers, and I’m not paying $500 for a phone that’ll be replaced in a year.
http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/specials/iphone-info.jsp

Yeah, screw that. Shame really, since having used the iPhone for a good hour I must say it totally kills my BlackJack II which is running Windows Mobile 6. I guess I still have the 6.1 update to look forward to though I imagine I probably will be seeing the v3 iPhone by that time and come March will grab one of those .

Saw 300 tonight, was totally awesome. If you’ve got an IMAX showing it, see it there. Certainly was cool. Anyway, I heard this one piece of the score and knew for sure I had heard it before. Got home, popped in the Titus DVD, tried not to get pulled in, then sure enough it’s basically the same. Hear for yourself, first the Titus version then 300’s. Then I searched for more info to see if there was some underlying classical music tones similar to Nike’s campaign with The Second Coming and Mozart’s Lacrimosa. You know sometimes this stuff comes from all over. So much sampling and borrowing is done in music today that it’s impossible to really know who’s actually done what. Heck I bet at the heart of it all they do it to make us do just that, try and remember exactly what came from what and it’ll stay with us. So congrats on a job well done.

The search ended up revealing this bit of review:

“Returns a King” brings in the first appearance of the powerful choral pieces Bates wrote for the film, though fans will note similarities to Elliott Goldenthal’s Titus score. The choir cues are impressive, sung in a phonetic language and epic on scale.

Ya think!? I mean “note similarities”? You mean other than the few extra notes and more up to date recording? ROFL. Please. Rather than think that Bates’ is copying Goldenthal’s score as well as using similar musical tactics as Zimmer, I’d rather think or hope I guess, that he’s paying homage to Titus and Gladiator. The former of which I happen to think was an underappreciated yet awesome film.

All that being said, see 300 in a theater, it was great.

UPDATE: Looks like Warner Bros. has released an official statement saying sorry for their knowledge that the music was taken from Elliot’s Titus score… “Warner Bros. Pictures acknowledges and regrets that a number of the music cues for the score of “300″ were derived from music composed by Academy Award winning composer Elliot Goldenthal for the motion picture “Titus.” Warner Bros. Pictures has great respect for Elliot, our longtime collaborator, and is pleased to have amicably resolved this matter.”

Was following a thread on a forum and someone posted the following.

Lance: Still got your Malibu?
Vincent Vega: Aw, man. You know what some fucker did the other day?
Lance: What?
Vincent Vega: Fucking keyed it.
Lance: Oh, man, that’s fucked up.
Vincent Vega: Tell me about it. I had it in storage for three years, it was out for five days and some dickless piece of shit fucked with it.
Lance: They should be fucking killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution.
Vincent Vega: Boy, I wish I could’ve caught him doing it. I’d have given anything to catch that asshole doing it. It’d been worth him doing it just so I could’ve caught him doing it.
Lance: What a fucker!
Vincent Vega: What’s more chickenshit than fucking with a man’s automobile? I mean, don’t fuck with another man’s vehicle.
Lance: You don’t do it.
Vincent Vega: It’s just against the rules.

Pulp Fiction aside, it’s mildly amusing, annoying, frustrating, whatever… that I get away scot-free from a near nasty accident during the first snow of Redmond after some guy nearly rear ends me. Only later, to have some buffoon key the hood and drivers side. I don’t get why anyone would do that really. Unless they wanted to boost their ego in front of some drunken friends or whatever. Who knows. It’s not like they saw the look on my face after the fact. In so many ways I wish Seattle and the US in general was CCTV’d up the arse like London is. I’d hope that there’d be the day where you could actually file a police report, give them the time the car was parked at the location then they’d just review the CCTV for those times and get a nice picture of the perp.

Of course with 20/20 hindsight I could say that we should’ve taken Julie’s car. Who would really mess with a college student’s a to b car, especially when it’s a cute little Chevy Aveo with a bubble butt . We could’ve probably parked it in the same exact spot at the same time and the person would’ve left it alone. Or we could’ve not gone to the next pub after seeing her brother-in-law perform and been out of there before the incident happened. Who knows… It’s only a car, sure, it is however for most the second most valuable investment behind a house.

Anyway, what can you do. It’ll be a couple hundred bucks to fix, and hopefully won’t affect the premium on the insurance despite them shelling out $2200-2700 to fix it. Oh and not to mention that it’ll affect the trade-in value if I plan on selling the best car ever anytime soon but hey, it’s the best car ever. Don’t think that’ll be happening for some time to come (like when the Tesla is about the same price).

After following the madness on Gizmodo. It really makes you wonder. Out of all the units sold so far, exactly how many are or will end up on eBay within 48 hours of the purchase. Insane.

Will be returning in more ways than one on October 9th, 2006.