the hunt for red october '06 fucking ten

ooh

1. Great LA days like this past Saturday (shopping at Amoeba, lunch at Al-Wazir, drinks with ILXors and friends in Pasadena, etc.)
2. Good friend Ben returning to town after being away for some months
3. Cooking! Ever more as I go, and trying to do new things every time.
4. The Great Big Work Crunch ending quicker than expected.
5. An imminent pay raise plus hopefully an even bigger one
6. Playing Mille Bornes with friends
7. The Science Of Sleep -- not necessarily a great film but enjoyable
8. Seeing major discomfiture among those I loathe politically, and holding a gentle hope that more will collapse.
9. Private stuff
10. My mom's shingles attack is ending -- about damn time!

1. isiah 'juice' williams (university of illinois' only hope)
2. the bears
3. samuel adams octoberfest
4. texas hold 'em
5. "angel of the morning" by merrilee rush
6. the plastic cloud- s/t
7. smoked mozzarella
8. anticipation of Inland Empire
9. a horribly cheesy piano bar in chicago called Howl at the Moon.
10. my (almost finished) newly decorated bedroom

10. Still 90F degrees
9. New York in the last 2 on Flavor of Love
8. Kitty being diagnosed with untreateable cancer
7. Anniversary of grandmother's death from untreatable cancer
6. Dying mother being a complete bitch
5. Drug of choice (alcohol) no longer having much affect on you
4. SSRIs
3. Kitty dying of cancer (think I already said that)
2. Mother probably dying, whatever
1. realizing life never gets any better

goddamn I suck.

1 - DJ Harvey returning to Oahu
2 - Nicky Siano signing my red vinyl copy of Kiss Me Kiss Me Again: To Grady- Love Is The Message! Nicky Siano.
3 - Working at one of the world's largets hotels paying off in the form of two room nights and $900 in free spa treatments for my GF's birthday!
4 - LOST is back.
5 - Cheese, after six years of veganism.
6 - GF is getting a paycheck for teaching Yoga after a year of training.
7 - Massive Relocation Expense Request approved! Check is in the mail!
8 - Brennan Green on the remix.
9 - Teaching GF with fear of water how to surf, and GF enjoying it.
10 - Chicago/ NYC trip this Winter.

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Goddammit I've been slack on getting the original one and now there's a second.

1) Ronnie Corbett in the toilets on the latest episode of extras

2) Gödel, Escher, Bach

3) Douglas Adams

4) Good health

5) My brother's 30th birthday

6) Hope for the future (maybe!)

7) Between The Buried and Me

8) Self respect, even if only a little

9) Cats

10) A genuine complement

Nate - can you give me a three sentance review of One in a Million?

best duet ever

Please to share recipe kind sir.

*I already wrote a recipe like this once but I'm doing it again because THAT IS HOW I ROOOOLLLLLLLLLLL

Not entirely, since I've only DL'ed half of it so far and the dude I'm getting it from has a bit of a drag-ass queue. Early impressions is that her voice was pretty much made for Timbaland production and she can do justice to both '01 futuroid R&B&E and old-school Marvin Gaye covers.

I will second JW's love for vanilla vodka + Coke but making it with Cherry Coke = hell yes.

"dr petrov report to my cabin immediately."

(burns orders)

"there's been a dreadful accident..."

I am all about hijacking this thread to talk about said movie. McTiernan's last great effort?

i'm actually gonna go w/die hard 3 on that point, ned, but HFRO is obviously undeniably great.

the thing that always strikes me about connery in this is what a great Movie Eater he is. i dont even know what the hell he's eating in that cabin scene but it makes me hungry just watching him

fuckin love scott glenn in this too

that secret meeting with his fellow defectors he's eating like he's in an underwater country estate.

[chews, stops chewing, looks up]
"more tea, anyone?"
[resumes chewing]

peshinally, I give ush one chance in three.

that secret meeting with his fellow defectors he's eating like he's in an underwater country estate.

[chews, stops chewing, looks up]
"more tea, anyone?"
[resumes chewing]

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lol yes

fuckin love scott glenn in this too

Here's the thing about Scott Glenn's portrayal, and some background -- at the time the film was made, my dad was the second in command of the Point Loma sub base in San Diego; filming for the concluding fight sequence was done using some boats from the base, and the filmmakers and actors were down there at the base for a while. When I saw the film, I thought to myself, "Jeez, did Glenn hang around my dad or something?" It's not that my dad's like that in everyday life, but on duty he was very much a combination of consideration and no-nonsense just like Glenn did the character. So I asked him and he said no (which makes sense -- my dad was after all essentially keeping an eye on the official business of the whole base and was essentially deskbound/land-based), but he mentioned the captain who Glenn had shadowed for a while to get a sense of how to do his portrayal. So what you're seeing in Glenn's role is actually as close as you'll ever get, I'd figure, to a good portrayal of what a lot of sub captains in the US fleet were like for many years -- there's definitely a certain type that the Navy focuses on and cultivates. This was especially the case due to the influence of Admiral Hyman Rickover, who essentially ran the sub fleet as his private fiefdom for decades and ensured that only the officers he thought could fit his very particular mold got the nod -- I'd say it's very, very much a Cold War thing in particular as well. So besides the other personal connections I have to the film, I'll always like that my dad and a lot of his fellows got a bit of immortality that way -- and I have to say a lot of the casual joshing around on the US boat strikes me as true too, especially Courtney Vance as the sonar officer. Those guys DEFINITELY know they're good.

mctiernan is A+ at getting that kind of realism, espesh with HFRO.

that's really cool, Ned. makes me like the movie even more!

lesser flicks would have dispensed with the bit of humorous backstory CV's character was given in the opening scene on the sub.

awesome post ned.

esp the part about rickover... i didnt know that

Yeah that intro scene was SO perfect as three Navy character types -- know it all zinging the new kid, senior officer cuts in but in a way that nobody's feathers are really ruffled and there's lots of good humor and bullshit, along with a classic example of a crazy/random old sub tale. I'd seen or heard variants of all that for years beforehand.

The sub fleet REALLY sees itself as almost the only fleet; they keep quiet and will deal with you on a need to know basis. The running joke for their surface fleet compatriots: "Target practice." I do strongly suggest reading the book Blind Man's Bluff for as good an unclassified history of the post WWII fleet through the Cold War as you can find; a number of officers mentioned after a certain point were either colleagues or classmates of my dad, or fathers of fellow students on mine when I lived on an actual base (Mare Island) for two years.

scott glenn's glasses in this movie own

Rickover was a classic example of monomaniacal focus and political savvy. He cultivated Congress brilliantly to ensure he got his share of the pie and pretty much told successive Secretaries of the Navy to butt out. John Lehman finally got the better of him in the Reagan years and kicked him upstairs to ensure there was more direct control of the sub fleet (understandably so). The story goes that in Rickover's office he kept a photo portrait of Lehman -- turned around to face the wall.

Those glasses! Just as perfect. Definitely not the standard issue horn rims my dad remembered from the sixties when he was a young officer --as he put it, "We called them 'birth control glasses,' because if you wore them, no woman would want to look at you."

i have not seen this.

it owns

actually there's been a pretty solid run of submarine movies since this one was released.

crimson tide
u-571
below
k-19

one of my favorite moments, vv subtle, is when baldwin and JEJ are making small talk about baldwin's family when they first meet at langley, and mctiernan does a slow tension zoom in on both of them, bc clearly baldwin just wants to get to talking about the submarine.

quite the director