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::movie:: INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
::music:: ACHILLES' LAST STAND ~ LED ZEPPELIN

Do you ever have the dream where you Fred Penner, and you're like shooting the start of the show? You know where you're walking through the woods, over the rock in the stream, and then through the log to your secret little place in the woods. Its been a reoccuring dream of mine since I was a kid. I wonder how many takes it took to film. I envision Fred slipping on the rock and falling on his ass in the stream, or maybe he got a few twigs in the eye and cursed a blue streak and they had to cut. Or maybe his back went out while crawling through the log and he had to get air lifted to a hospital by Doc Roberts from Danger Bay. And did you ever notice that Fred's not wearing the same shirt for the entire opening. What the fuck is with that? Are you supposed to be led to believe that his secret spot in the woods is miles from civilization, and that it takes several days to reach, when you know that it was probably shot in some cbc studio backlot? Anyway....(segway/copout)

Saturday I had a moviethon. I caught some of THE ADDAMS FAMILY on space.(ACHTUNG! here comes another childhood dream story...) I used to have this dream where I was working with Uncle Fester and Dr. Greta Pinder-Schloss to try and break into the vault, but we kept on pulling the wrong chain and were subsequently flushed out of the house. I even had this huge crush on wednesday....well not really wednesday, but Christina Ricci. I started going to see every movie she was in, no matter how gay....for example Casper, Now and Then, and Gold Diggers. The latter of which even had Vada from My Girl in it.

After The A. FAM. I watched Bull Durham with Kevin Costner. I think it was like his 22nd baseball film to date. The man only makes three kinds of movies: Baseball, Westerns, and Post-Apocalyptic movies where he may or may not be a fish.

Then I put Jurassic Park on for kicks. Was anyone else scared shitless by the Kitchen scene when they were a kid?...How about now? No, well me niether.

Time for an nerdy/obscure reference:

The kid that Dr. Grant scares shitless in the beginning of Jurassic Park (think velociraptor story) is the son of the accountant dude Tully from The Addams Family. At the christmas play his mother, margaret, is wiping his face clean when she says something like, "you're so cute I could eat you." and Morticia interupts and says something like, "Oh no Margaret, too young."
Maybe I watch too many movies....

* Fred Penner originally appeared in blog on June 9 2004.

Very few cartoons are broadcast live. It's a terrible strain on the animator's wrist.