Bruce Campbell @ MindSay 
Jack Of All Trades
OK, Jack Of All Trades was a TV show produced and created by none other than the tandem of Robert Tapert and Sam Raimi and featuring Bruce Campbell. Sounds like a winner? Well, maybe. Basically, from the 2 episodes I actually watched, this show is just good, but not great. Perhaps if I had watched it when it was on actual TV, it would have resonated more. Instead, you get fairly low production values on a sort-of sitcom about Campbell's Jack running around creating havoc for Napoleon Bonaparté. Bruce Campbell and his one-liners are very present and very funny in that Art Carney sort of way but the rest of the show around him is nothing to get too excited about. Bruce Campbell, as I said, is the king of bad jokes and goofy puns but they don't mesh well with the material. The man needs a proper show to call his own.
Half Nelson
Ryan Gosling was up for an Oscar for this portrayal of an 8th grade teacher in the inner city who is battling some inner demons and drug addiction. Filmed in faux documentary style, Half Nelson could have and should have fell on my good side. Instead, it bored me to tears. I knew where the movie was headed and sort of appreciated it but it failed to keep me from dozing off every few minutes. After giving it about 50 minutes or so to pick up steam, I gave in to my urges to play Xbox and tossed this DVD back into the sleeve. I don't know what exactly bored me but I failed to care about anything going on.
The Panic In Needle Park
Another faux documentary-style entry, only this time it is the film that launched a certain actor that goes by the name Al Pacino into the consciousness of critics everywhere. Here, Pacino plays Bobby, a heroin addict who hangs out in Needle Park with other drug addicts and prostitutes. He meets a girl and they fall in love, despite growing turbulence involving his series of stints behind bars, her growing addiction to heroin upon him getting her hooked and her selling herself to keep their addictions intact. The first 1/2 hour is slow and takes a while to get off the ground but through the sluggish beginning and the seemingly random jumps from scene to scene, The Panic In Needle Park manages to keep itself together just enough to provide an interesting viewing. It's a fairly provocative movie that came out during a time when cinema was definitely changing to a more street level form. Once again, Al Pacino is brilliant, as per usual. Nothing to shocking from the person I consider to be the greatest actor ever to walk the Earth. While not Pacino's greatest film ever, it's definitely worth seeing.
Well besides once again not immedatly drawing pages of my fan manga series ive been allowing a fun passion of mine to slowly come back. Im talking about my DragonStrike games! The figures, the imagination of being the dragonmaster. Ahhh..wonderful times. :) Dont worry though i havent slacked off on my drawings.there defently starting to take shape too.
To help my yugioh club out i just sold them almost all of my rare cards. Im not quiting the game just starting from scratch with mostly common cards. I think my members will be very very happy when they see the binder full of prizes for them.
Its been a real jungle for me buying certain D+D Miniatures to spice the game up even better with the budget i got. You would think 100.00+ could get you many figures...well your wrong. Ive been spending hours apon endless hours just pricechecking and shoping smart. Thats right good ol advice from mr. bruce campbell lol.
Never hurts to price check on a budget. but anyways thats all i got to say for now.
thanks for reading.
A whiff of someone's too strong cologne in the office just made me think of this recent ad for Old Spice. I laughed, and then I had a chilling thought.
While I love Bruce Campbell, I really hope there aren't mobs of Evil Dead fanboys out there buying up all the Old Spice products they can get their hands on, even for a laugh. It's still an awful scent! (Sorry Dad!)
However, he really is so perfect for this ad, isn't he? :)
So Sally and I decided to have a flat Halloween party and it so didn't go as planned (we meant to have a real party...). I mean, we only spent about 7pounds total (put together) on decorations and candy and cherryade (blood, you know, lol). And then I brought my laptop out and we listened to my 'All Hallow's Eve' mix on iTunes:
1. Hall of the Mountain King (rock remix)
2. Hedwig's Theme (Harry Potter)
3. Thriller (Michael Jackson)
4. You Know How I Feel (Michael Buble)
5. Bad Moon Rising
6. Something Wicked This Way Comes (Harry Potter)
7. Great Balls of Fire (rock cover)
8. Witchcraft (Frank Sinatra)
9. Monster Mash (rock cover)
10. I Put A Spell On You
11. Ghostbusters (rock cover)
12. Celebrate
13. Little Red Riding Hood (version from the movie 'Cursed')
14. Time Warp (rock cover)
So we listened to that, bounced around a little while making and then eating dinner (rossotto or something like that. It was gross until we put ketchup on it, lol), then we sat at the table (me in my witch's hat, Leroy in his cape and Bruce in his pirate hat - I'll show pictures later) and basically ate loads of candy, drank fizzy and played Rummy and chatted. Yah. Not a real party, I know, but it was still fun.
Later on, we went into Dan's room, wanting to watch Evil Dead II. Sally and I ended up playing a Tony Hawk Playstation game (which was fun but we suck at it, lol - Dan was dying, trying to get us to shoot fireballs at each and teach us the controls when all we wanted to do was explore and randomly push buttons :P Somehow I still won that game, though) then we played a game called Monster Attack or something, where you can play like Godzilla or King Kong or a Dragon or something and then fight each other and again all Sally and I wanted to do was explore and push random buttons. Somehow though we ended up fighting each other and Sally somehow won. Then Dan and Tom took over to show us 'girls' how to play a 'mans' game. lmao. Whatever.
We did end up watching Evil Dead II, though. And then we went to sleep (hey, we had 9am classes the next day!). Again, like I said, it was a dull Halloween yet it was still fun.
It was one of the best Halloweens I ever had.