DON'T PANIC
Howdy from the small blue county called Travis. I just got back from seeing the movie National Treasure with my brother & nephew and had to send up a flair. The Hitch Hiker's books are still some of my all-time favorites. I reread Hitch Hiker's Guide... and Restaurant... a few years ago, and laughed at all the same spots I did back in high school, while pretending to listen to Mrs. Pollack, of course. Hopefully the movie will do it justice. Ya know, I've always thought that reading those books, and laughing, was far more a badge of nerdliness than knowing Mr. Sulu's first name (Hikaru for those of you keeping score) or deriving an equation to determine who, if anybody, was cooler than Joey Nelms.
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Anyway, everybody make sure you've got a clean towel handy, because come May, you're gonna need it.
posted by Walter @ 3:33 PM
9 Comments:
At 8:00 AM,
R said…
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No way man!
At 9:09 PM,
cvo said…
The answer is 42 of course.
At 9:13 PM,
cvo said…
By the way, how was National Treasure? I heard it sucked despite the huge box office it's getting.
I have said this in a previous post, but I can't recommend "Sideways" enough. Lark, Deline and I saw it in L.A. a couple of weeks ago and it was really good.
Kyung and I saw "Kinsey" today and it was pretty good. Great cast. Interesting biopic about a guy I didn't know much about.
Brought a lot of interesting thoughts on the repressed sexuality of Americans in general which I will try to explore in a new post sometime soon.
Nice to see you on the blog Walter.
At 4:49 PM,
Walter said…
National Treasure was OK for it was...a reworking of the third Indiana Jones movie. About all it had going for it was the inclusion of some actual historical
incidents and artifacts that lend a little bit of ligitimacy to the plot, but not enough to make it worth more than $1.00. I agree with you completely about "Sideways". It's in my top five movies of 2004, which are, in no particular order...Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Saved, Napolean Dynamite, Team America: World Police, Garden State, and Sideways. I know that makes six, but I've never heard of a top six list before, so deal with it.
At 5:42 PM,
cvo said…
I agree with you on all of your selections with one MAJOR omission - Kill Bill, Volume 2. It is my favorite of the year and probably one of my favorite of all-time. I've seen it 3 times and could probably watche it a couple of more times without getting tired of it. I just love the characters and their interactions. Say what you will about Tarantino's over-the-top violence, but I really enjoy his ear for dialogue.
At 9:18 PM,
Walter said…
OK, OK, top seven.
At 8:56 PM,
Anonymous said…
Howdy All,
I liked National Treasure. I agree with Walter and liked how it tied in actual historical facts. Your Indiana Jones comment made me laugh, because that was what I was thinking about the whole time I watched the movie, besides wondering if Nicholas Cage's hair piece would get blown off. But Nat'l Treasure is re-designed version of the Indiana Jones movies from the last century!
At 10:56 AM,
jmeriwether said…
Hero was certainly pretty to look at.
At 7:56 PM,
Unknown said…
I haven't seen any of the movies that you have mentioned above. I do, however, look forward to the Hitchhiker's Guide movie. Rare is the book that makes me laugh out loud when I am reading alone, but I did that a lot with the Hitchhiker's Guide books.
I remember regularly going to Greg Shaw's house to watch the television show.
As for nerdiness, I recall wasting time in government class not by talking but by trying to figure out from what we had just learned in calculus what we would be doing the following week.
Oh, and then there were my attempts to break into the library during pep rallies.
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