The Bananaverse

How would you like to have a sexual encounter so intense it could conceivably change your political views?

I love John Cusack. He’s fantastic. That’s all. (:

Yay! They think so too!

Oh wait, that’s not flip flopping, that’s an “evolving view” or “strong leadership” or some such bs. whatever.

And while I’m being political, I really think the way to pass the gay marriage thing is to not make it about gay marriage but about a constitutional amendment. You can be against gay marriage but be even more against monkeying with the constitution. There is a very important difference there. Anyway.

Awesome!

This is cute in a very NSFW kind of way. I’m so amused!

(for those who know him, I wonder if Tha Mostah ever took notes like this. hee hee hee!)

what do YOU use to keep track of DVDs? Of CDs?

I’m looking for something that meets the following criteria:

* free (or easily “obtainable”, cough cough)
* hooked up to imdb or amazon or something to get art and info
* sendable to my palm or at least saving in a format I can mojo across and carry the list around with me.

I’d really appreciate any and all suggestions. Seriously.

Dear Quizno’s:

Please PLEASE stop taunting me with that sandwich. It’s so good and I want to eat them all the time. I can’t afford that kind of habit, even at three bucks at a time.

Thank you. That is all.

In case you wanna know what’s happening up there, you can see it virtually live and it’s interesting to see. So there you go.

I named my new familiar Jubblies, the 3 pound fuzzy dice.

I have quite the collection now.

Sonny the cocabo,
Leon Phelps the mosquito,
and Jubblies the fuzzy dice.

(:

So photomosaics are those ones that are one big picture made up of a whole bunch of little pictures. (that’s two different links, btw)

It turns out that with the right software you can make your own! In fact, there are pictures lovingly created of our leaders. We have George A Bush, as well as George “The Dubya Stands For War” Bush. Not to mention Porn Ashcroft and Abu Rummy.

If that isn’t patriotism, I don’t know what is. (:

My dear friend Digital Droo (that’s the link to buy his CD) has released a new remix for you. Please check it out. If you dig it, pick up his CD so he can do more mixing.

I love this new one. FUCKING CRAZY! hehehehehe!! This one’s based on a phone message and boy is it ever a phone message! To say that this is NSFW is putting it mildly.

Also check out the Monkey Developers link, a delight all it’s own.

And now back to your regularly scheduled ranting. (:

So here’s a place that compels me to spend money. THIS is why I need a job. mmmm.

Tell No Tales is a good website about Pirates Of The Caribbean and it is awesome. This is from the same guy that put up the Doom Buggies site, one of the best Haunted Mansion rides out there.

How can you not love My Little Borgy? This rules.

An advertising museum of Apple Ads and they are fun to see.

She put up a good website of stain removal tips and so far it’s pretty comprehensive.

Meet Kevin Sites. If you haven’t yet, start now. If you have, catch up on what he’s been up to. He’s well-written and I like knowing what he is up to.

Look! Random audio just for you!

What IS the best gadget bag? I think it might be a Timbuk2 bag, but something MUST be said for a site where the first entry in the faq is “I bought your bag and I don’t look like a dork anymore! What can I do to regain my dorkly charm?” (:

How have you gone this long without it? eeeee!

heh. Thanks, Senor Unaball! This is quite the link. (:

Need…job…badly…

GR!!!

Who, pray WHO do I have to ____ (insert verb here) in order to obtain a copy of White Light Rock & Roll Review??? WHO????? yarg!!!

what exactly IS a “nutty buddy ghetto princess”?

I just said it and we’re pondering what it means. I’m coming up empty. Any assistance would be appreciated.

Any of you anime types out there, answer this too, while you’re at it:

Is “Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!” not the coolest title of a cartoon EVER???? Cuz um, yeah.

So the new John Waters movie (complete with blog) apparently references The Big Book Of Filth. Additionally, this new film is NC-17! I’ve only seen one other NC-17 movie, and I hope A dirty shame is better than the other one. (No Senor Unaball, I don’t mean the VIP edition, just the film itself.)

This is interesting because The Scoot received this book as a gift a couple of years ago from Frog, because The Scoot likes naughty because it’s naughty, not always because it’s a particular type of naughtiness. I hope that makes sense.

I’m really amused. And I guess I have some reading to do!

I feel really run down today. I thought I’d rest up, so after making lunch for The Scoot and sending him off to work, I went back to bed. My body was rebelling against me, and I wasn’t sure what exactly was going on…sort of that barfy but not quite enough to actually hurl. So I laid in bed and eventually drifted off to sleep. Then I woke up and couldn’t figure out what the deal was. I realized what woke me up was Bush giving a speech on TV. Shortly after realizing what was on TV I realized my tummy had sorted itself out and was rejecting food.

That’s right.

Hearing the President speak made me vomit.

Thank you.

That is all.

tirkzilla
Klingons would have preferred a different recount procedure in the last election: “On the home world, if there had been a contested election between Gore and Bush, the honorable thing would be for Gore to kill Bush.”

Verso
hahahaha
YES!

tirkzilla
hehehe

Verso
with one of those curvy blade things that I can never remember the name of.
today is a good day to die!

tirkzilla
hehe - and of course with the Star Trek death match music

Verso
yes!!!
and since it’s America, it’d be pay per view.

tirkzilla
Ooh - yes

* I feel really crummy today, but the extra sleep made me feel better. Not well, but better.

* Today it’s not a babydaddy episode of Maury! Today it’s jackasses that control they women. They took them to a funeral home and showed them a dead woman beat to death. They looked all sad and came back all apologetic, but I doubt it will last.

* This woman on Jerry Springer was saying this guy was stupid and had to take a DNA test because he was drunk all the time so he goes “DNA test?” and she goes “Drug N Alcohol, dummy!” heh.

* Some comments on my Star Wars rant, they were not too bad. I’m glad I got some feedback. I like to think I’m being rather levelheaded about this.

I have more to say that deserves an entry by itself. keep watching!

I have read the reviews and the lists of changes and all that sort of thing, and now I can say I’m glad I didn’t buy them for four big reasons:

1. Greedo still shoots first even though they tried to fix it.

2. Hayden is now the ghost at the end of Jedi (instead of Sebastian Shaw, who is the face we see on the landing platform and USED to be the third hologram next to Ben and Yoda.)

3. Jabba, while improved, still looks dumb in the ‘bonus’ scene.

4. Boba Fett has been re-dubbed by Temuera Morrison, who played Jango in the prequels.

Those are the big ones. they took out Luke’s yell that was added in the SEs, which is good, and while they did some things that make some sense (hi, I’m actually Ian McDiarmid’s giant talking holographic head instead of an old lady with monkey eyes) they didn’t do the things they should have done, imnsho.

1. Greedo should stop shooting first. I can ONLY blame this on Lucas because if he had the technology in 77 to make him shoot at all, he had the choice to make him shoot first and didn’t do it. Han’s evolution throughout the trilogy is virtually nil now because if he shot in self-defense he was really a ‘good guy’ all along. I love that about the OT, maybe he isn’t the goody goody, you know? More of a “swash swash buckle buckle” kind of guy who eventually becomes a leader and a better person. It makes him less interesting to be the same guy all along.

2. Why Hayden? More Force bullshit you’re making up to suit your purposes? Like it wasn’t bad enough we found out that the Force is a virus?

3. Jabba’s scene is pointless because all that information is repeated elsewhere since they cut it the first time. It brings the pace to a screeching halt just as things really get going.

4. OK, continuity, that’s fine. But you have forcibly removed the second coolest voice in the entire universe and I’ll miss it.

So there you go.

This is clearly NOT the definitive version of the films. Biggs and Luke on Tattooine, the original ending of Jedi, I could go on and on but they aren’t on the discs at all. And when you consider that “Empire Of Dreams” is a 2.5 hour documentary and they tout over four hours of extras on the bonus disc, how much ‘extra’ are you really getting? My hunch is that a six pack will come out after ep3 with two discs apiece-look at all the things that didn’t make it into this version. If the next film comes out in 05, then two years would be a decent amount of time. That’d be 07, coincidentally the 30th anniversary of ANH…

It would have been possible to give me the originals on these DVDs too, but the arrogance to forsake the versions of these movies that paid for the next three and Skywalker Ranch and THX and and and and and is just appalling. I despise Uncle George’s current attitude for the following reason: I am why you get to do this (not just me, but others like me). I love that version and I want to see it beautifully restored. Expensive? SO? I know nine other people who are big fat fans and I’m sure the ten of us alone could put a serious dent in financing a restoration of the originals in what we’ve paid for Star Wars paraphernalia over the years. I hated Phantom Menace and I still saw it like 11 times IN THE THEATER-and you know that motherfucker was a starred attraction!!! No matinee prices here. I saw it twice the first day. I bought the VHS. I bought the DVD. I bought figures and games and books and movies and Taco Bell happy meals and Pepsi cans and lightsabers and Micro Machines and Trivial Pursuit and shirts and keychains and card games and Legos and movies and screen savers and annotated screenplays and trading cards and lunchboxes and 12″ action figures and ships and puppets and stuffed toys and Trapper Keepers and folders and notebooks and lightsaber pens and novelizations and comics and the Thrawn Trilogy and the cursed bloody Anderson trilogy and all the Tales Of Books and Shadows Of The Empire and movies (yes I have three sets) and Nintendo games and C3P-O’s (the cereal) and Ewok books and nylon banners and I planned my trip to New York based on the Star Wars: The Magic Of Myth exhibit and my parents patiently waited in the hour-plus line for Star Tours on our Disneyland trip and bought the Ewok village for crying out loud and I did so willingly-and that’s just ME, that doesn’t count the related items I’ve gotten as gifts. And I’m not a superfan. I mean I am really into the films and the mythology and all that sort of thing, but I don’t drop cash on EVERYTHING that says Star Wars on it just because it says Star Wars.

I’mma get real deep here for a minute. I adore these films THIS WAY. You wanna know why? I’ll tell you why!

My mom and my dad and my brother went to the drive-in in 1977 to see this movie called Star Wars. We had just gotten my brother so he wasn’t all that into the film, of course, but I was thrilled. I wasn’t very old but I really liked it. My mom was trying to take care of my brother, but my dad and me got to see the whole thing. Vader was scary, Chewbacca was scary at first but it turns out he’s a good guy, and the droids were really interesting. Can I talk to them in real life? I know it’s pretend but those are real people, are those real robots? (dude, I was like three and a half. It was possible!) Yay! there’s a girl too and she gets to do stuff just like the boys! Cool!

My dad took me to see that movie again, too. Then my parents split up. I won’t get into how weird that was (basically we were never told anything, just that Daddy moved away but never why) so I only have some vague memories of my parents together and happy. One of those times was at the drive-in. So for me this movie, and this VERSION of this movie, remind me of one of the happiest memories I have. And when we suddenly got HBO for awhile (seriously, one day channel 4 stopped being black lines and started being movies) they were showing Star Wars a LOT, and it was really neat to get to see it a lot. I have a lot of life tied up in these films (one of the few non-girly toys I ever got was a 12″ Princess Leia dolly since I wouldn’t play with Barbies) in a lot of ways (one of the few times all my cousins and I got together and got along was going to see Jedi) and that’s what I want to relive. No matter what happened at my house, the Death Star always blew up at the end. No matter how sad I was about my parents splitting up, the good guys always won. When I got picked on in school for being smart or fluffy or whatever, I would think of Princess Leia and how she didn’t take any crap off of anyone, and I shouldn’t have to either just because I’m a girl. If I got worried about trying something new and being bad at it, I would think “Do. Or do not. There is no try.” and go for it. If I ever had a problem having faith in something I would hear “I don’t believe it! That is why you fail.” in the back of my head. My life is tied up in these versions, and every time I watch one I am replaying the movie, but I’m also replaying some very happy parts of my life, too.

I don’t want to sound sappy or retarded or anything, but I am deeply attached to these movies and I want to see those versions because those are the ones I am attached to.

I don’t mind changes being made, I really don’t. Clean up the sound, great! Fix up those matte lines, even better! Add a few more stormtroopers and TIE fighters and asteroids and aliens, fantastic! I can’t wait! But don’t change the plot. Don’t add useless stuff. Don’t turn the ultimate swashbuckler into a wuss. Don’t suddenly decide that a totally different guy should be photoshopped in because you are changing the rules. Please. And if you’re going to go ahead and do that, give me the option to see them the old way, slugs and shoes and potatoes and all. I do not begrudge those who believe these are great changes. I know I’m in the minority here by not being unbelievably excited to get them on DVD at all. But I think Uncle George can do better and should do better. I was a fan in the Dark Ages, the late 80’s and early 90’s before the EU became a force worth paying attention to, after the last vestiges of Droids and Ewoks had faded from most memories, before Thrawn, when I got mocked for liking those dumb old movies as much as I did. So when rumors of new films started to circulate, and Usenet came up with theories and discussions and questions and interesting angles on possible explanations, it was thrilling to find more people like me. Those people, like me, were heartbroken when it came out that changes were being made, not just cleanups. Add to that the two films foisted off on us as prequels, and I am going to turn into the person I never wanted to be, which I have already written about.

So that’s what I think. And I still won’t buy one. Even if I object, I guess they’re still worth having, but I can’t bring myself to do it.

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how come the Wal-Martians in this ad are like “when we go to the lake we need to get there as fast as possible! We go to wal-mart supercenter where we can get everything, get in, get out, get to the lake…” If you’re so sure you want to go the freakin lake, why weren’t you at wal-mart yesterday you retards? How hard is that? If I’m leaving town I know the day before I’m going to go.

I guess if you’re all about shopping at Wal-Mart then prior planning wouldn’t occur to you…