Diamonds!!

I can't stop laughing at this goofy ad from Old Spice!

I'm On a Horse!!

Dan O'Bannon

I was revisiting some scenes from Dark Star on youtube and saw in the commentary that actor/writer Dan O'Bannon had passed in Dec 09. This information made me pause for a few minutes. I find that I have these moments of reflection when someone in the media dies , more so these days I guess. When Patrick Swayze died, it was more than just a passing thought for the day. I mean how many movies did I see growing up with him in it?

Dan O'Bannon had a list of creative efforts : from wiki

• 1974 Dark Star – writer, special fx, editor, prod design, co-star
• 1977 Star Wars – special computer effects
• 1979 Alien – writer
• 1981 Dead & Buried – writer
• 1981 Heavy Metal – writer of two segments, Soft Landing and B-17
• 1983 Blue Thunder – writer
• 1985 Lifeforce – writer
• 1985 The Return of the Living Dead – writer, director, voice
• 1986 Invaders from Mars – writer
• 1990 Total Recall – writer
• 1992 The Resurrected – director
• 1995 Screamers – writer
• 2010 Silvaticus 3015 – co-screenplay writer

One of my favorite movies ever has been and prolly always will be Alien. To this day 31 years later I can still watch this movie from beginning to end and be in awe of it's execution. I was so terrified of the commercial, I told my parents I wanted to see it. I was 8 yrs old! I remember telling my father 30 min into the movie that this was not scary at all. However, by the end I must have been practically frozen in terror. I can remember talking about how it scared the ever living shit of out me in 3rd grade lunch.

For years, my dreams would incorporate the Alien as a symbol of some anxiety. Along with HR Giger's art, and Ridely Scott's direction so much of what I like/produce artistically has a footprint from that movie. So thank you Dan O'Bannon for making it happen.

Wonder Stranger

This is the nose piece for the nitrous at the dentist. It stinks of super sweet strawberry. Kinda funny they give it to the kiddies as a play toy to remember their visit to the dentist. Of course, I have to wear it too which makes everything smell like strawberry for 20 min.



It's still snowing a couple of inches once a week. Just enough to coat everything in white and remind you that the huge piles from 2 blizzards in Dec aren't going anywhere.



My two goofies just happy to be outside and in their own worlds :)
It's fun to be in the park when no one else is there.



Give me a kissssss!!

And I found an interesting artist the other day. Plaid actually did a remix for her, but her original song is pretty interesting too.

VIA TANIA

Flunitrazepam

That's the real name of the Rufenol or the 'rufi' drug that the guys in The Hangover had. I finally watched this movie last night. It cracked me up in some parts, but didn't have me in stitches like I Love You Man.

I didn't even realize a trailer for Toy Story 3 is out. Looks pretty good!

Check It!

Tough Guy

Do you ever hear people having discussions about facebook? He said, she said, oh no he didn't! That's what the dentist and her assistant were doing when they were putting in my daughter's filling today. I wasn't offended by this, it just reminded me of those stories you hear about people being under in surgery and surgeons having insane conversations about their patients. That stuff really happens ya know.

I asked if that was UV light they were using to cure the filling. My dentist said, "What ? Oh yah...very perceptive of you!" hahahaha I said my fillings were so old they prolly used radioactive material in them and she let out the "horsey" laugh! You know deep and guffawy ( is that a word?) Which kinda surprised me cuz it doesn't match her at all. Ultimately, it went well and all is good.

My local outfitter store sends me a newsletter every so often. The woman who writes it works there and she really puts a lot of effort and creativity into it imo. It always has at least one interesting side story in it. Scuba diving in Nebraska and having an eagle snatch a fish out of your hand, pictures of hunter with a 8ft 200 lb moutain lion, a photo of a massive 10 inch Morel mushroom, and a link today for the Tough Guy competition in the UK.

I really enjoyed shooting sporting events when I had the chance, but this event in all its craziness would be such gold! Who wouldn't want to see Robocop running through fire and mud?!! You can read about it here. Here's one of my fav pics from the event.

The Ole Bago

Remember that night on the border in Texas!!!

Yom Yom Yom

I ate a ton of bad food this weekend for sure. Lots of cookies, Ihop, Smashburger, and more cookies! Watched some Olympics even. Both the ladies and mens mogul skiiing was pretty cool to watch.

Valentines day was chill as it was dog butt cold outside. I was feeling really blah doing laundry,cleaning ,talking bout taxes, spending large amounts of money on non fun things, and talking bout moving. However, I did get my 'dork' shoes the other night and was eager to test them out even though my ankle was feeling a bit off the other day. So I ran 2 miles in the VFFs and it felt really good! No discomfort, and maybe a slight sense of being more connected and free at the same time. I was really charged up after working out and felt great!

Later, I was rebooting my router in frustration when I spied an orange glow out the corner of my eye. A faint sun pillar was showing on the horizon. In the mere minute it took to grab my cam, change lens, and go upstairs, it died down a bit, but still a slight glowy blob remained. When I moved here I thought I'd see some glorious sunsets, but it's always some weird atmospheric stuff. Well that and apocalyptic clouds of doom!!