"Shining"

Okay, another fun one from boing boing. According to this New York Times story, Robert Ryang entered this fake trailer for "Shining" in a contest and won. The idea was to take visuals from a film of any genre and make a trailer for a new film in another genre. He took Kubrick's "The Shining" and turned it into a Cameron Crowe-esque dramedy.


CLICK HERE to watch the video.

New TV is Here At Last

The wife and I have a TiVo season pass for most of these. I'm looking forward to Lost, obviously. We're the only people in the country who didn't watch a single episode last season, so we're netflixing the first season on DVD now (thru 8 episodes so far) and we're TiVo'ing the second season so we'll be able to catch up. It's a great show. Also, House's new season is great so far. Hugh Laurie was robbed at the Emmys.

SUNDAY
The West Wing 8pm
The Simpsons 8pm
Family Guy 9pm
American Dad 9:30pm

MONDAY
Arrested Development 8pm
How I Met Your Mother 8:30pm
Two And a Half Men 9pm
Medium 10pm

TUESDAY
House 9pm
My Name Is Earl 9pm
The Office 9pm

WEDNESDAY
Lost 9pm
CSI: NY 10pm

THURSDAY
Smallville 8pm
CSI 9pm
Without A Trace 10pm

FRIDAY
Threshold 9pm
Numb3rs 10pm

Legos for the 21st Century

Great use of technology by the folks at Lego. Visit the Lego Factory online and use their virtual designer to create a virtual lego project. Then, (this is the cool part), send them your design online and they'll send you the lego parts necessary to build it!

Face Transplants

BBC News: US Plans First Face Transplant

This is pretty scary. There's no telling where it could lead. What if a mesomorphic supervillain decided to steal the identity of a slightly bigger family man? Of course, he'd need to disguise his voice somehow and completely change every other aspect of his appearance in order to fool co-workers and family, which is, let's face it, kind of impossible, but we're headed down that road, people!

It Was Only A Matter of Time

Pick these up over at bustedtees.com.

SIN CITY & THRESHOLD

I was pretty excited when I heard SIN CITY was going to be made into a film by Robert Rodriguez. But, as it often does, life got in the way and I didn't get to the theater to see it. I'm sure it was a much better experience on the big screen but I thought the movie was pretty amazing. I watched at home this weekend. The DVD doesn't have a commentary but these guys have fixed that. It was a Carla Gugino weekend here at the Townley household. She was featured in "Sin City" as Lucille, Marv's parole officer, and again in the new CBS Sci-Fi drama, Threshold. I watched the two-hour premiere and I'm hooked. Got myself a season pass for that one.

Vacation + Reunion

We've been back from vacation since Labor Day. I had a "short" week at work that seemed extremely long. I've finally gotten vacation & reunion photos posted at flickr. If you're interested,
CLICK HERE.