Raiders of the Lost Blog

Wow, for the first time in forever I’m actually doing a spring cleaning! I’ve started in on the closet, getting a huge pile of clothes to take to the Salvation Army down on Flatbush. It’s a fantastic day out here in Brooklyn, 60 something degrees, sunny with a few clouds. Just makes you feel like getting off your ass and doing some cleaning.

Moxie’s on the back of my chair right now, rubbing her head all over my hair and licking my head. Silly cat.

I’ve got the iPod hooked up into my surround sound receiver with some fun cleanin’ tunes. Weird mix, going from Gorillaz, to The Smiths, to Cowboy Bebop and then off to The Roots. Nothing like putting 1,136 songs on shuffle!

One word - wow! Two words - holy crap!

This was a fun movie. It starts with a bang, and just keeps on moving you along. You never get a chance to rest from the action. I really enjoyed this film! It’s full of marvelous little touches that really raise it up from what could have been a campy comic book adaptation. It’s well thought-out, well written, ends on a great note, and just makes you want to see more of Blade. This one gets the Tom Seal of Approval! (Whatever that’s worth!)

So I saw Resident Evil this weekend in Brooklyn. I thought it was going to suck, but have some fun action. It actually was pretty cool, very moody. Plus Milla Jovovich is so damn hot!

Anyway, it was a lot better than I expected it to be. Something fun to keep you occupied while waiting for Blade 2 to come out.

The best part? The name on the ticket. It was just “Evil”. Heh heh heh.

So today I had a long-ass day trip. I went to Connecticut to South Norwalk’s Maritime Aquarium. It was for Social Circles, a day trip on Metro North.

It was an hour out on the train, then we were in scenic downtown South Norwalk. Teeny-tiny town. Everyone there kept staring at us, a group of about 12 people. No tourists to speak of. The aquarium is the only thing going on in town.

When we got to the aquarium we met the mayor of the town. He was so excited to see tourists, kept asking if we were going to some restaurants, if we wanted to stay in a hotel in town, anything to keep us there longer.

The place was fun as aquariums go. They had a big petting pool full of tiny manta-ray like fish (looked like manta rays, but weren’t them exactly, about a foot long not including the tail). I petted one, kinda slick & slimy.

After that we caught an IMAX movie at the aquarium, one on Shackleton’s artic expedition. I saw the documentary on it that came out last year, The Endurance, it’s really an astounding story. The hardships they went through, and they fact they all got out alive is really inspiring.

And in totally unrelated news, how great are the Gorillaz? Damn that’s some fine music. Been a long time since I heard something that really caught me that way. Good good stuff.

I had one of the busiest weekends in a long time. I saw the Time Machine on Saturday morning with Jude… it ain’t worth it. Ugh! The whole point of having a time machine is to use it to solve your problems. This movie just used it as a means of conveyance. He went to the future and that was it. No attempts to try things over again by going back in time to right wrongs. Hell, even Bill & Ted got it right in their movies. When they were trying to break into the police station they had their future selves travel to the past to steal the keys to the station and provide diversions. In the Time Machine there’s a spot where something bad happens to a girl Guy Pierce likes, and he’s standing next to the time machine. Does he go back in time a couple of minutes to prevent it? Nope! Just runs around like a regular guy. Grr.

After that I had a wedding reception to go to for a co-worker, Wasim. Pretty fun, tasty Indian food too. Sunday morning it was archery time at the Proline Archery Lane. This was for the singles group I’m in, Social Circles. They have an indoor archery range, and we were shooting at about 25-30 feet. I hadn’t done this since Boy Scouts, so it was fun to try again. I was a pretty good shot. Later in the day they brought out balloons to hit, and those of us shooting well were given oreo cookies on our targets to try and spear. I hit mine 4 times, but always on the edge of the cookie, never in the center, so the damn thing survived my onslaught. Death to cookies! Still, very fun event.

That night I went to another Social Circles activity, we all went to see the Upright Citizens Brigade. They used to have a show on Comedy Central. It’s run in a small theater a few blocks from where I work. The lead guy is Matt Walsh, who you’ve probably seen on the Daily Show. Horatio Sans was there from SNL, and a comic from Conan O’Brien, although I forgot his name. It was really funny. Totally improv, they’d just ask for 1 word to start the show, then just go from there in an ever-increasing silly way. Be sure to check it out if you’re in the city sometime.