Archive for the 'Cinema' Category
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Peter Jackson, yes the bloke who made the Lord of the Rings movies collects miniatures. This isn’t news, he got the Perry Brothers to sculpt an entire unit of ANZACs in some weird scale. That’s right he paid to have each model hand sculpted, none were cast, he just displays the masters. It’s nice to [...]
Posted in Cinema, Miniature Painting |
and Tagged: ANZACs, credit card, fraud, Lord of the Rings, Michigan Toy Soldier, Perry Brother's, Peter Jackson, Robin Williams, scam |
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
…movies, miniature painting, and sleeping in. I play my guitar too. [drumroll][/drumroll] Actually I’m trying to do even more looking for a new job, but sometimes there just aren’t any new jobs to apply to. I looked at well over a hundred yesterday and applied to one. Today there wasn’t near as many piled up [...]
Posted in Blogging, Cinema, Guitar, Marketing, Miniature Painting, Online Social Networks, Self Marketing |
and Tagged: Facebook, job search, LinkedIn, online profile, online reputation, reputation, resume, social media, Twitter |
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
I remember seeing ads and possibly a trailer for this film, but had forgotten it until it made the new release wall at Happy Bats. It was quite good and surprisingly long. It is superior to “Sukiyaki Western Django” despite lack of participation by Quentin Tarrantino. The film opens basically with a battle on a [...]
Posted in Cinema, East Asia, Korea |
and Tagged: Chinese, film, Japanese, Korean, movie |
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Sunday, May 30th, 2010
I just applied to four or five jobs, hopefully come Monday morning someone will notice in their inbox. On Monday morning I have to try and get up early and phone the government. I’ve been sick the last 3 or 4 days, even opted out of the Sadies concert. Now I’ve dragged myself to Bean [...]
Posted in Cinema, Literature, MMA, Music |
and Tagged: Avatar, Bitch Slap, Dark Angel, Hulk, Sadies |
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
Since I’m back at Bean Around the World on Main, I might as well update my blog. I haven’t done terribly much since my last update, read about Crusaders, played some Civilization, watched a couple of films, worked on my guitar playing, the usual. I’m still looking for a job, I applied to the odd [...]
Posted in China, Cinema, Literature |
and Tagged: Brad Pitt, Cafe, John Woo, Joseph Campbell, Red Cliff, Sabertooth, Tony Leung, Troy, Wolfgang Peterson |
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