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03 June 2010 @ 08:57 pm
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1) Nine more days until Stonehenge Apocalypse!!! It stars Misha Collins, Torri Higginson, Hil Harper, Peter Wingfield, and Brent Stait. That's a lot of something for everyone. Sadly destined to be a horrible Syfy movie of the week crapfest but it's going to be awesome seeing favorite actors trying their best to convince me that Stonehenge is out to END THE WORLD.

*sigh* Once again the archaeologists are cast as the bad guys as they seem to kick off this version of the apocalypse.

2) O HAI Robert Wisdom! Supernatural's Uriel is now Burn Notice's Vaughn. Nice to see him again, this time in suits properly cut for him. He's looking good but I find it hard to trust him.

3) A Quick Guide to Understanding the Channel Mixer by [livejournal.com profile] nomadicwriter -- Handy tool, that channel mixer. Extra happy making is the Teal'c icon on the tutorial.

4) Spent today at the Houston Holocaust Museum. The architecture, more than reminiscent of a crematorium, was disturbing. That was the point of course, but the psychology of willingly walking into it was unsettling; just the first of many, many disquieting experiences. The audio tour was narrated by Mandy Patinkin and was one of the better ones I've ever heard. No point in lingering on the bad other than to say that it never fails to horrify and depress me. I'd heard about Denmark's remarkable actions before but now I know more. One of the few moral bright spots in a dozen years of depravity.
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[identity profile] luvmax1.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 05:13 pm (UTC)
I love cheesy Syfy channel movies. Tomorrow they're repeating something with Michael Shanks and JR Bourne that I've never seen before. Last month they repeated the Shanks classis Megasnake. Now that was terrible!
Mish: J/D -- Early[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 06:37 pm (UTC)
Michael Shanks AND JR Bourne? That must be the one they made with Doherty. I've never actually seen that one. *sets DVR* :D
[identity profile] luvmax1.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 10:30 pm (UTC)
That's the one. Tomorrow at 4, Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon. I can't wait! Now if they would just show the one where he goes to the planet ruled by women and the men are only there for slave labor and breeding. I think it's called "Sumuru" or something like that. Apparently MS apologizes for it often at sci fi conventions.
Mish: DeeJ -- Sex?[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 10:41 pm (UTC)
I'm looking forward to seeing the movie finally.

That's Sumuru, all right. It's not a SciFi feature, alas, so it's unlikely to make it on the channel. I don't think it has ever been released for American viewing. I bought a copy from the German-language Amazon and watched it on my region-free player. It's BAD. Really, really, really bad.
[identity profile] luvmax1.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 10:45 pm (UTC)
Sometimes bad can be enjoyable. Maybe not with the one I mentioned previously, Megasnake, which was bad-bad, not good-bad, but still, I like the idea of MS as a sex object. But alas, I have only my American DVD player, so I'm stuck with what cable airs or American Amazon sells. I did catch him in Living Out Loud on the Hallmark channel, where he plays the husband of a woman with breast cancer. I thought he was great in that.
Mish: J/D -- Wanna Play?[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 10:59 pm (UTC)
Very true. I watched a great bad movie with Don Davis on the sci fi channel a while back. Sumuru was old school boy-fantasy scifi. Women running around hot deserts in metal bikinis (can you say fried nipples?) and fighting amongst themselves in the most cliched of manners. I thought that Michael Shanks as sex object was compelling, too. Alas, he grew the most hideous chin rat for the movie. It was REALLY bad. There's a reason he has been apologizing for years for it.

I've liked him in most everything else I've seen him in. Excepting Megasnake. And whatever the wasp movie was. Just...no.
[identity profile] luvmax1.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 11:04 pm (UTC)
ON a different topic in your e-mail (sorry for the abrupt change), have you ever been to the Museum of Jewish Heritage in lower Manhattan? I went there with my mom when I still lived in New York, and I found it to be a very moving experience. Here in Southern Florida (in Miami, actually) there's a small Holocoaust memorial in a park. It's basically just a statue of a hand rising up, with a small display of pictures and articles, but it's really very nice.
Mish: J/D -- You Can Stay With Me[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 11:30 pm (UTC)
I haven't been. Every time I go to NYC, I inevitably end up lingering in the Met. I tend to spend most or all of my museum time there. The Egyptian collections suck me in for days. The Greek/Roman collections, too. And those aren't even the time periods/cultures I studied. I've managed to make forays into the Cloisters and the Morgan Library but I still haven't even made it to MoMA or the Frick, two museums I want very badly to see.

One of my dream vacations would involve a month in NYC, touring the museums, and a month in D.C., exploring the museums. If only I didn't need to work or spend money, it would be awesome.

Edited 2010-06-04 11:31 pm (UTC)
[identity profile] luvmax1.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 11:34 pm (UTC)
I lived in New York for 35 years, and I never really saw that many museums, apart from the Museum of Natural History. I went to the Met during a high school trip, and it was frankly the most boring thing in the world. I think that had more to do with the woman showing us around, rather than the museum itself, though. We spent half an hour in front of one damn painting as she droned on and on and on. Even my teacher was looking bored.

I've been to the Brooklyn Museum several times. They also have a very nice Egyptian display, and I used to linger there for as long as I could. On another school trip to DC we went to a couple of wonderful museums.
Mish: J/D -- Hands (anim)[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 11:43 pm (UTC)
I'm so jealous! I get maybe 4 or 5 days, max, in NYC and I always want to see friends, relax in Central Park, see parades, etc. The audio tour is my favorite innovation in museum technology. I think I've heard maybe one gallery tour that I thought added to the museum experience. The great majority were awful. I have made it the Brooklyn Museum once. They have some really nice Cycladic figures and some of the same Mesopotamian panels that the Met does. It was nice to see more of them. :) I'm lucky to have a native friend, [livejournal.com profile] jalabert, who plays tour guide for me.

NYC definitely has the most amazing museums.
[identity profile] luvmax1.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 11:49 pm (UTC)
The thing is, I lived in Brooklyn, not Manhattan, and I really didn't go into the city too often. When I did, I usually went to Forbidden Planet and The Strand, two fantastic bookstores right on the same block. The Strand, especially, is amazing, all the used books you could possibly want, plus another million or so. Plus, I occasionally went to Broadway shows. I remember seeing Annie with a young igenue named Sarah jessica Parker in the lead. And of course we went to the Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Radio City Christmas show. The last one was a bit of a surprise, us being Jewish and all, but it was quite enjoyable.
Mish: J/D -- Eyeing each other[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on June 5th, 2010 12:03 am (UTC)
It's strange that we don't explore out own cities more, isn't it? I don't go to NASA and I still haven't fully explored the whole new building our MFA built ten years ago.

I was in NY during December once for work. The city is magical at Christmas. Wish I'd had more time to explore and see shows but sadly all I had was one night after work. Hee! I "met" Sarah Jessica Parker when she was starring in Square Pegs waaaaaaaay back when. I bet she was an awesome Annie!
[identity profile] luvmax1.livejournal.com on June 5th, 2010 02:05 am (UTC)
To be honest, I was so young when I saw Annie, I don't even remember how good she was. Probably very, but I can't say for sure.

I wish I had explored New York more when I had the chance. The town I live in now is not really known for anything cultural. I suppose I would have to drive to Miami, about an hour away, to really visit something museum like.

My dad wanted to move to Houston when I was a kid. My mother heard from somewhere that they had roaches the size of dogs and put the kibosh on that pretty quick.

I did once to go Cape Canaveral, when I was 18 and visiting Disney World with my grandparents, sister and cousins. it was by accident, though- grandpa got lost going back to the motel. And it was late at night, so we couldn't exactly explore.
Mish: J/D -- No Words Necessary[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on June 5th, 2010 03:24 am (UTC)
Large tree roaches? Yes. The size of dogs? No. I imagine you have the same issues where you are now. I'm originally from Florida but we moved when I was quite young. I still have a lot of family in Florida (our family apparently does everything backwards since most Floridians start elsewhere and move to the state). In one of my recent-ish visits, my mother, my youngest cousin, and I went to Cape Canaveral. Expensive but so completely worth it. I got to see one of the shuttles on the launching pad. I give it two thumbs up.

There's Mission Control here and it used to be a pretty interesting trip. Now that NASA has contracted out and turned it into Space Center Houston, though, I've been only once with folks visiting from out of town. *shrug* The Saturn rocket is still damned impressive.

The last time I was at Disney World was before Epcot, which I think means I'm aging myself.
[identity profile] luvmax1.livejournal.com on June 5th, 2010 04:12 pm (UTC)
The first time I went to Disney World I was 8, and they were still building Epcot. We even took a tour of the unfinished area.

As much as I love space/sci fi shows like Stargate and star Trek, I've never really been interested in the actual space program. It costs a fortune, and I always thing that the money would be better used trying to fix the problems on this planet before going to others.

I haven't seen too many roaches here, but the lizards are something else. The ones by us arenn't too bad, but at my sister's friend's home in Pompano, the iguanas are the size of dogs!

I lived all my life in Brooklyn, until we moved here 20 months ago. It's a different way of life, that's for sure.