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Catching Up
I forgot to crosspost so I am addding the blog posts that I missed. I know they are dated but it was easiest to just copy and paste them all...
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Indiana Jones Movie (contains spoilers)
Now remember, I said this post contains spoilers so you may not to read this if you have not seen the movie.
I saw the movie the night it came out—waited in line to get tickets and everything. WARNING: MY OPINION FOLLOWS: The short answer is walk to see this movie, but don't run. It was good, but not great. It was really awesome to see Indy in action (the beginning of the movie is fantastic) again and you have a good amount of chase scenes in the film. And having Miriam from the first movie come back was really kind of cool.
The part that was lacking was the mystery or solving of the puzzle; there simply was very little done with the concept that I feel made these movies so great, especially the first and third movie. Indy puts all the clues together to solve the secrets and save the day. Also, the alien concept was a little bit of a stretch for me as well which I feel was not like the other movies.
Still as I said, see the movie and enjoy it for what it is—Indiana Jones back on the big screen. There are a lot of good memories there worth revisitng if noithing else.
Ironman still holds the number one slot for the best movies I have seen this year—the question to be answered will yet "another" Batman film dethrone the man of Iron? Hmm….
Take care,
Tony
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Of Balticon and Bathrooms
On the road tomorrow for BALTICON; I will have a table in the dealer's room which I will be sharing with Tee Morris. My panel schedule is not too hectic so the majority of time that will be where you can find me. So please stop by and say hello! My panel schedule is:
Friday 7PM Outlaw Panel
Sat 2PM Smoking Tobacco (oh boy…)
Sat 9PM How to not make the second book of your trilogy a letdown.
Sat Midnight Vampires
The Bathroom Project! Yes, I've been quite mum about this one. It's the reason I haven't gotten much writing done over the past several months (or a good enough excuse). My house was built in 1927. It has three bathrooms which is great. Two of the three had been renovated and look pretty good. The downstairs bathroom had not been so it was decided to be the first project. Initially I foresaw removing the tile from the floor (so that I could level it off some because it was sloping about an inch) and walls and re-tiling and some painting and maybe replacing a fixture or two. Not that big of a deal…after all I have had lots of practice with this kind of stuff.
Anyway the demolition began and so did the headache…(to be continued…I have to get to work in the bathroom)J
Everyone have a safe Memorial Day Weekend and please take a brief moment to remember why we have this weekend.
Take care,
Tony
Monday, May 19, 2008
Front Porch Time and Indiana Jones
The weather has been gorgeous and I have discovered the front porch of my home. When I moved in about a year ago, there was not much time to get acquanited with any forms of "restfull" activities because as we all know, moving is such a fun endeavor. But now between the bathroom renovations, yes--that saga continues...the newest diasaster is the faucet but that's a story for another time. Anyway, so in between that and whatever else life throws my way, I think I will have to fit in more porch time.
Anxious about the Indiana Jones movie this week! I hope they didn't mess it up by adding to much cliche type material for Harrison Ford to dish out--that would be such a dissapontment but not unusual for Hollywood. Speaking of such I watched Escape from LA, a Kurt Russell film, and the sequel to the cult classic and one of my all time favorites, Escape from New York. I've seen it before, I'm referring to the sequel, and I always hope it will get better, but sadly it doesn't. Such a shame when Escape from New York was such a classic film and the character of Snake Bliskin had so much potential! Anyway, lets hope that Indiana Jones fairs better. I'll let you know because I will be one of those people standing in line to see it on Thursday!
BTW, I also saw the sequel to Narnia this past weekend--it was okay. Didn't get me going as much as I had hoped though.
Don't forget about Balticon this weekend!
Laters.
Tony
www.tonyruggiero.com
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Indiana Jones Movie (contains spoilers)
Now remember, I said this post contains spoilers so you may not to read this if you have not seen the movie.
I saw the movie the night it came out—waited in line to get tickets and everything. WARNING: MY OPINION FOLLOWS: The short answer is walk to see this movie, but don't run. It was good, but not great. It was really awesome to see Indy in action (the beginning of the movie is fantastic) again and you have a good amount of chase scenes in the film. And having Miriam from the first movie come back was really kind of cool.
The part that was lacking was the mystery or solving of the puzzle; there simply was very little done with the concept that I feel made these movies so great, especially the first and third movie. Indy puts all the clues together to solve the secrets and save the day. Also, the alien concept was a little bit of a stretch for me as well which I feel was not like the other movies.
Still as I said, see the movie and enjoy it for what it is—Indiana Jones back on the big screen. There are a lot of good memories there worth revisitng if noithing else.
Ironman still holds the number one slot for the best movies I have seen this year—the question to be answered will yet "another" Batman film dethrone the man of Iron? Hmm….
Take care,
Tony
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Of Balticon and Bathrooms
On the road tomorrow for BALTICON; I will have a table in the dealer's room which I will be sharing with Tee Morris. My panel schedule is not too hectic so the majority of time that will be where you can find me. So please stop by and say hello! My panel schedule is:
Friday 7PM Outlaw Panel
Sat 2PM Smoking Tobacco (oh boy…)
Sat 9PM How to not make the second book of your trilogy a letdown.
Sat Midnight Vampires
The Bathroom Project! Yes, I've been quite mum about this one. It's the reason I haven't gotten much writing done over the past several months (or a good enough excuse). My house was built in 1927. It has three bathrooms which is great. Two of the three had been renovated and look pretty good. The downstairs bathroom had not been so it was decided to be the first project. Initially I foresaw removing the tile from the floor (so that I could level it off some because it was sloping about an inch) and walls and re-tiling and some painting and maybe replacing a fixture or two. Not that big of a deal…after all I have had lots of practice with this kind of stuff.
Anyway the demolition began and so did the headache…(to be continued…I have to get to work in the bathroom)J
Everyone have a safe Memorial Day Weekend and please take a brief moment to remember why we have this weekend.
Take care,
Tony
Monday, May 19, 2008
Front Porch Time and Indiana Jones
The weather has been gorgeous and I have discovered the front porch of my home. When I moved in about a year ago, there was not much time to get acquanited with any forms of "restfull" activities because as we all know, moving is such a fun endeavor. But now between the bathroom renovations, yes--that saga continues...the newest diasaster is the faucet but that's a story for another time. Anyway, so in between that and whatever else life throws my way, I think I will have to fit in more porch time.
Anxious about the Indiana Jones movie this week! I hope they didn't mess it up by adding to much cliche type material for Harrison Ford to dish out--that would be such a dissapontment but not unusual for Hollywood. Speaking of such I watched Escape from LA, a Kurt Russell film, and the sequel to the cult classic and one of my all time favorites, Escape from New York. I've seen it before, I'm referring to the sequel, and I always hope it will get better, but sadly it doesn't. Such a shame when Escape from New York was such a classic film and the character of Snake Bliskin had so much potential! Anyway, lets hope that Indiana Jones fairs better. I'll let you know because I will be one of those people standing in line to see it on Thursday!
BTW, I also saw the sequel to Narnia this past weekend--it was okay. Didn't get me going as much as I had hoped though.
Don't forget about Balticon this weekend!
Laters.
Tony
www.tonyruggiero.com
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