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	Captain Tripps	George Orwell blew it with 1984..  No mention of "Karma Chameleon", "Ghostbusters", "The A-Team".  What the heck was he thinking?  Stick to writing about talking animals, fella!   Posted by Captain Tripps on October 12, 2009 - Monday - 10:25 PM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	And don't forget the Karate Kid! Hai-YAH!   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 12, 2009 - Monday - 10:36 PM [Reply to this]

	da®a	OMG ITS FULL OF STARS   Posted by da®a on October 12, 2009 - Monday - 10:28 PM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	Stars? On Ice!   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 12, 2009 - Monday - 10:39 PM [Reply to this]

	• jim • Teh Jim	haha! great blog. actually 2001 is my favorite science fiction film of all time. it's about 40 years old and i think the special effects still hold up today. today's science fiction films are a bunch of crap if you ask me.   Posted by • jim • on October 12, 2009 - Monday - 10:58 PM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	What? Chronicles of Riddick is a crap movie? Say it isn't so!   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 12, 2009 - Monday - 11:03 PM [Reply to this]

	• jim • Teh Jim	eh, it was o.k. better than average i suppose   Posted by • jim • on October 12, 2009 - Monday - 11:08 PM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	Are you kiddin' me? I was bein' sarcastic! That movie sucked!   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 12, 2009 - Monday - 11:10 PM [Reply to this]

	Retro Electro	Sci FI ?! 2001: A Space Odyssey is a documentary you silly kinks ! Especially the part with the hairy monkeys !   Posted by Retro Electro on October 12, 2009 - Monday - 11:01 PM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	No, 2001 can't be a documentary. There's no Geraldo Rivera voice-over narration in it.   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 12, 2009 - Monday - 11:05 PM [Reply to this]

	Retro Electro	Luckily to me i never watched Geraldo so this conversation is over due to the lack of bad culture mutual base. Also I want to remind you that i love you with all my heart. <♥> <♥>   Posted by Retro Electro on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 7:58 AM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	Hope you love cupcakes, too!   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 10:08 PM [Reply to this]

	Ms CosMod	Cupid, I saw this at a drive-in movie theater at the ripe old age of about  5. ha! I think that explains a lot. HA! Xo Ms CosMod   Posted by Ms CosMod on October 12, 2009 - Monday - 11:11 PM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	I didn't know they had drive-ins that long ago. j/k ; )   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 12, 2009 - Monday - 11:21 PM [Reply to this]

	Retro Electro	They used to go there riding their dinosaurs back at the day kinks, I was sure you would know that. But Cosmod does look good for someone who was a fresh year student in the middle bronze age ! HA!   Posted by Retro Electro on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 8:01 AM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	Eat up, Crunch Boy!   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 12, 2009 - Monday - 11:23 PM [Reply to this]

	Mr. Wood	Yuck!   Posted by Mr. Wood on October 14, 2009 - Wednesday - 3:21 AM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	No, a Yamaguchi is when you put a sweet potato in a real expensive handbag.   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 12, 2009 - Monday - 11:25 PM [Reply to this]

	TRANSPARENCY	Back in prehistoric pre-internet times computers were perceived as these monsterous anti-human oppressive things. There's even an anti-computer Dragnet episode, with punch cards and all the trimmin's. If you want a great David Bowie soundtrack, check out Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" which is not a great movie overall, but the father/son plot of Bill Murray and Owen Wilson is really superb -- and except for a couple minutes of the guitar from 'Queen Bitch' near the end, David Bowie isn't even on the soundtrack, but a whole bunch of his songs are, as sung with Portuguese lyrics by someone named Seu Jorge. And it's easy to tell that Wes Anderson really knows the extensive David Bowie catalog, because at the key central moment of the movie sings one of my extreme favorite Bowie songs, "When I Live My Dream" If you don't know this masterpiece, here's Bowie himself singin' it, from 1966 or so. (Till Saturday by the fountain at the L.A. Music Center. Tee Hee!) But what I'm gettin' at is that what's important about the 2001 soundtrack is that it made the world much more familiar with Gyorgy Ligeti (who was the greatest livin' composer until he died in 2006) and whose music gives 2001 most of its style and mood.  I was lucky enough to see an all-Ligeti concert at that very same L.A. Music Center, and he was there! He was like a little kid who got so excited at hearin' several pieces of his music played that he would run up to the stage after every piece and hug all the orchestra members. He was awesome! 2010 is supposed to really suck.   Posted by TRANSPARENCY on October 12, 2009 - Monday - 11:57 PM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	Yeah, the soundtrack for 2001 is pretty good, Ziggy Stardust or not. Back in the days of MIDIs (remember those?) I used to have one of Also Sprach Zarathustra... zarathustra.mid The Blue Danube is one of my favorite pieces, ever. I used to have a MIDI of that, too! danube.mid Of course now in the post-2001 Apocalypse we're livin' in, MIDI files are like the dinosaurs of the audio world. Nobody uses 'em any more. But I still like to listen to 'em every once in awhile : ) They have a certain 64-bit charm, if you know what I mean.   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 12:16 AM [Reply to this]

	TRANSPARENCY	MIDI is still very cool. My dad's last job before he retired was monitorin' space junk for TRW in Manhattan Beach. Johann Strauss (waltz king) and Richard Strauss (who also wrote some waltzes but who is known for all this heavy orchestra stuff (includin' Zarathustra) and fifteen operas. The tinkly sounds in the orchstra here always give me a major buzz - and they dress just like Alessandra!   Posted by TRANSPARENCY on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 12:35 AM [Reply to this]

	The Banana King	Posted by The Banana King on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 4:57 AM [Reply to this]

	if youre gonna ride my ass, at least pull my hair!	Hey! I liked the movie Shallow Hal! Hiya Kinks!   Posted by if youre gonna ride my ass, at least pull my hair! on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 12:51 AM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	Hi! :D   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 10:09 PM [Reply to this]

	Diane Germano	Dear God, what have I done now?   Posted by Diane Germano on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 1:25 AM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	You should have known better than to get Geraldo Rivera involved, girl.   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 10:11 PM [Reply to this]

	Kevin D Smith	Hey Cupid, I’m glad we never got any HALs in 2001 (the year, not the movie, cause it had one, like you already said).  That unit was a maniacal little bugger and I wouldn’t want my laptop plotting my demise!  A cool thing to do is go one letter forward in the alphabet with each letter in HAL, although both Arthur C Clarke and Kubrick said this has nothing to do with the name.   Posted by Kevin D Smith on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 2:27 AM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	You think that's somethin'? It's even funner to go one letter backward from HAL. Now that's what I call a mind-bender!   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 10:13 PM [Reply to this]

	TRANSPARENCY	"One letter back from HAL" ???? What does THAT mean / refer to? Sorry.  Duh... .   Posted by TRANSPARENCY on October 14, 2009 - Wednesday - 7:22 AM [Reply to this]

	Constance X	Hmm ... Big Blue, you say?   Posted by Constance X on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 3:10 AM [Reply to this]

	Mr. Wood	This is from Jennifer, but she's too lazy to send it right now. But she's naggy enough to tell me how to write that. I wanted to write: "This is from Jennifer. But she's too lazy to send it right now." But then she told me I shouldn't start a sentence with but. But I don't care. Now she's saying I should have put the butt in quotes. As in you shouldn't start a sentence with "but". Now she thinks I spelled "butt" wrong. Whatever.  We actually came up with the idea of sending this at the same time anyway. She can apparently read my mind, though. Since she thinks she thought of it first. Anyway we'll stop having a lover's tiff on your blog. :)  This is Jennifer now!!! I'm taking this over! Stephen is retarded!!!! :P And I thought of it first!   Posted by Mr. Wood on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 3:22 AM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	Happy Birthday, Jennifer!   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 10:14 PM [Reply to this]

	Mr. Wood	Jenn does look cute in that polka dot box... but do you really think I'm that fat?   Posted by Mr. Wood on October 14, 2009 - Wednesday - 3:18 AM [Reply to this]

	The Banana King	Posted by The Banana King on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 12:15 PM [Reply to this]

	Savior Self	every time I try to watch it I fall asleep. (true story)   Posted by Savior Self on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 4:15 AM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	I think you just made that up, fella.   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 10:14 PM [Reply to this]

	The Banana King	Posted by The Banana King on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 4:50 AM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	Too little, too late, HAL! Tee hee!   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 10:17 PM [Reply to this]

	The Banana King	Posted by The Banana King on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 10:37 PM [Reply to this]

	Pony Bob Pony Bob	Hello Ms Club We used to have a monkey at the petting zoo, and whenever he heard the intro to Also Sprach Zarathrustra, he would fling his poo with the same energy that the monkey guy smacks around that bone.  It came down to either getting rid of the monkey or stop playing Also Sprach Zarathustra. No more monkey. Your Buddy Pony Bob   Posted by Pony Bob on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 4:53 AM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	Monkeys can be such a nuisance sometimes!   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 10:18 PM [Reply to this]

	The Banana King	Posted by The Banana King on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 4:55 AM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	Hi, HAL! :D   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 10:19 PM [Reply to this]

	porfle	Kubrick's vision was accurate--we just failed to live up to it!!!   Posted by porfle on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 5:12 AM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	I think you're right!   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 10:19 PM [Reply to this]

	Sunboi Slimz™	2001 was pretty good considering it was 1969.  Thanks also to Arthur C. Clark, don't forget, for the original idea.  Kubrick did a good job.  This was Kubrick's simplistic way of saying a higher power or intelligence came onto Earth to shift the evolution to humanoid ape animals into a more developed human.  Obviously, I don't think it went down with a large 0 domino placed by the Creator in front of the pre-neanderthals.  Mysterious, weird, fine for a cinematic moment but totally unrealistic.  2010 came out in 1984 and for a 10-year-old kid it was an alright sci-fi with Roy Scheider, Yakoff Smirnov, Helen Mirren, John Lithgow, and a few other semi-famous actors.  When I saw it again years later I couldn't stop laughing at Roy's ridiculous narration throughout the movie.  I won't spoil for you, you'll see what I mean when you watch it.  There's some other silliness that goes down but you'll have to see it to know what I'm talkin' about.   Posted by Sunboi Slimz™ on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 6:57 AM [Reply to this]

	Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer	2001 really is an awesome movie, one of the best! I really like Kubrick's films a lot. I dunno about 2010, though. I think it's probably gonna be a real yawner.   Posted by Cupid the Pink-Nosed Reindeer on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 10:21 PM [Reply to this]

	Sunboi Slimz™	More like a laugher.  It's not a boring movie just a bit silly.   Posted by Sunboi Slimz™ on October 14, 2009 - Wednesday - 3:11 AM [Reply to this]

	The Banana King	Posted by The Banana King on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 12:17 PM [Reply to this]

	Dusty Dollhead on a Stick	Hey Kinky Here is a great Pink Floyd/2001: ASO sync.  Have Echoes (Meddle, 1971) cued and paused.  When Dave shuts down HAL the screen fades to black and a title screen (Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite, I think) appears.  As the title fades, start Echoes.  If the sync is right, the first ping corresponds with the first image of the final scene, or act or whatever.  The Stargate scene, anyway. Party like you're a Starchild! Dusty   Posted by Dusty Dollhead on a Stick on October 13, 2009 - Tuesday - 2:23 PM [Reply to this]

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