Out of boredom, and in part inspired by this post from Generik, I’ve set up a new blog for captioning pictures. Everybody’s invited to make with the funny. And if you have no clue what this whole capping thing is all about, you could do worse than to check out Inventing Situations and Mr. Grant’s Capper National Laboratory.
The Friday Random 10, “Guess the Lyric, Win a Kewpie Doll*” Edition:
The back porch where we first kissed is where we said so long[“The Way” by Scott Miller & the Commonwealth, guessed by HilleviW]Don’t put your faith in love, my boy, my father said to me[“Lemon Tree” by Peter, Paul & Mary, guessed by John]The guy’s got a nose that’s four foot long[“Nosey Joe” by the Brian Setzer Orchestra, guessed by HilleviW]- Luego de tu adios senti todo mi dolor
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor[“Brain Damage” by Pink Floyd, guessed by Betty]They say that all good things must end some day[“A Summer Song” by Chad and Jeremy, guessed by HilleviW]The kiss my lover brings, she brings to me[“And I Love Her” by the Beatles, guessed by Nyssa]And now I understand what you tried to say to me[“Vincent (Starry Starry Night)” by Don McLean, guessed by John]Well, Shakespeare, he’s in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells[“Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again” by Bob Dylan, guessed by Nyssa]It’s at times such as this she’d be tempted to spit if she wasn’t so ladylike[“All This Useless Beauty” by Elvis Costello, guessed by HilleviW]
* If kewpie doll is unavailable, satisfaction of a job well done will be substituted.
A couple of things from Sci-Fi Wire. First, more from your friend and mine, Emmanuelle Vaugier, fast becoming the Best. Hollywood. Pitchman. Ever:
“So slowly things start to develop. Animals and things are dying, and people are disappearing, and all of a sudden we see the creature attack. We start running away from the creature and try to figure out how to kill it and how to get everyone out of there safe. Unfortunately, not many make it out, as is usually the case with these films.”
And some words on Doom apparently the thinking-man’s movie of the season:
In the video game Doom, creatures from a literal hell invade our dimension. But for the movie version of the game, hell is more a state of mind than an actual place, the film’s creators told SCI FI Wire….
In the Doom movie, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson plays Sarge, whose Rapid Response Tactical Squad heads to a science lab on Mars where an experiment has gone horribly wrong and demons are killing people. “The movie [takes] a more cerebral approach,” Hollenshead said….
I dunno. Unearthed might be okay. Vaugier might not be as dumb as she sounds in print. And Doom might not just be the same stupid shoot-’em-up crap we’ve seen time and time again. Stranger things have been known to happen.
Heather points out via e-mail that Amazon appears to be offering the Season One Battlestar Galactica DVD set in a package deal with the 2003 miniseries that spawned the show. Which is all fine and good, except the Season One set already contains the miniseries among its many hours of bonus features*. The savings you get for taking the deal pretty much cancel out the cost of buying the miniseries separately, so I guess it’s a good deal for the completists out there. But otherwise, it just seems a little silly.
It looks like it may only be Amazon’s Canadian site that’s offering the deal. (The US site, for some reason, is offering Season One with the 2005 straight-to-video horror movie Fallen Ones.) So if you’re one of those completists and not a Canadian resident, keep in mind the exchange rate.
* A fact not lost on those of us who already bought the miniseries. Grumble grumble.