I was skimming through DVDtalk.com and ran into a reference to a movie called Winter Kills (imdb) being out on DVD. I was pretty psyched and quickly checked on Amazon to see if they had it, which they did. I saw this movie in high school for a film study thing a teacher of mine used to run. It’s a wonderfully twisted conspiracy movie. It’s got many holes, and the plot kind of jumps around at times (It feels like it could have been an even longer movie), but I still enjoy it when I catch it on TV. One of my favorite conspiracy movie moments is in this film, having to do with Jeff Bridges watching a woman ride by the car he’s sitting and blowing a bubble (when you see the movie you’ll know it when you see it).

Also, when looking at the page for Winter Kills, it was offered along with another movie from that very same film class, The Killers (imdb (1946)). Criterion has released a set that has both versions of the movie. Oh well, two more movies to add to my wish list.

I’ve got one more movie I want released on DVD: Head Office. I so want to do a double feature with that and Office Space.

Did a bit of ripping in the last few days. I was going through some old boxes and found a few CD3s from years and years ago (’88ish) that I included in this bunch too.

• Cowboy Bebop – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door OST (w/cowgirl ED OST)
• Cowboy Bebop – OST 1
• Consolidated – Consolidated
• Consolidated – Hear and Now
• Big Audio Dynamite – No. 10, Upping St
• The Clash – London Calling
• Colourbox – Best of 82/87
• Colourbox – Colourbox
• John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
• Squeeze – Footprints CD3
• Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians – Ballon Man CD3
• OMD – Dreaming CD3

The thing that blew me away about the CD3s was that they were listed in CDDB. I guess for some reason I never expected these little singles CDs to actually end up in there. Pretty keen.

Today I found a notepad type app for OS X that is the closest to what I’ve been looking for in a generic note-taking app. It’s called VoodooPad. Here’s a bit of the description from the product page:

VoodooPad is a new kind of notepad. It’s like having your own personal hypertext library, where you can jot down notes, web addresses, to-do lists… Anything on your mind. VoodooPad automatically links each page together, to form a miniature world wide web, on your desktop! Anybody familiar with the WikiWikiWeb will feel right at home with VoodooPad.

I love the whole Wiki aspect of it. It’s kind of like having a personal single user Wiki for taking notes.

Back when this blog was managed using Radio, I had a number of categories for posts. One of those was for cooking related posts. When I moved over to Movable Type I ditched the categories because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with them. Now I’ve created a new section for recipes.

It was actually quite the pain to get this set up. First, I’ve discovered that my archives are in pretty crappy shape. A bunch of the formatting got mucked up when I brought stuff over. I’m not fixing everything right away, but I’ll be working on it as time goes by. I also discovered a post or two that didn’t make it over for some reason. Very odd.

Here’s a pretty good article on Raijin Comics Weekly. The article gets a few things wrong though. Raijin Comics Weekly is not the first Japanese manga to be translated to english (though it (or Shonen Jump) may be the first comic in this format to be translated)). It is amazing how much the manga market has grown in the last year though. The number of titles being translated is growing rapidly.

Personally I’m enjoying both Shonen Jump and Raijin. And as far as other titles I’m enjoying Marmalade Boy, Kare Kano, and Chobits quite a bit.

Port and Chocolate. Usually dark chocolate, but tonight I’m finishing off this chocolate bar that I got a while back as part of a bunch of different chocolates. This one is milk chocolate and macadamias. Mmmmmmmmmm. The only thing missing from tonight was ice cream (and not weird ice cream like in that last post).

Tonight I finished up watching Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto. It’s definitely one of the nicest, mellowest anime shows I’ve ever watched. It’s about a teenage girl who is an apprentice mage. The show takes place in a modern world where mages exist, but they report to a central agency. When someone wants magic done, they submit an application that explains what they want and it is assigned to a mage. The show follows Yume through her summer apprenticeship, where she learns a great deal about being a mage (despite some mis-steps along the way). There really isn’t a lot of action or adventure going on here. It’s a short simple show. I’m sure some might find it a little bit boring, but I really enjoyed it as a nice change of pace (especially after the nonstop action of the second half of Kiddy Grade).

I love ice cream. But I don’t think I’d like any of these ice creams. I can’t decide which one disturbs me the most though. (via Boing Boing)

Well, I had the first non-suicide casualty in the war on mice. Right before I went out to Dunkin Donuts today I glanced down at the snaptrap I’d gotten the other day. The mouse had eaten most of the peanut butter from it without setting it off. On one hand I was happy that it hadn’t been killed, but on the other I was a bit frustrated. I had have a heart traps for months, and up until recently they’d never caught anything. So I finally decided to make the switch, and it wasn’t working either.

I got home from Dunkin and was just about to whine to a friend of mine about how the mouse was winning the war when I glanced over towards the snap trap and it was upside down. I peeked more and saw the bottom half of the mouse sticking out from under it, feet up. Okay, I wasn’t prepared for having to deal with this part. I’m not big on the whole killing thing. Oh well, hopefully this is the last one. Three mice, that’s enough, right?

(Yes, I admit it, I’m a wimp.)

Before I try and go to bed (again), I just thought I’d point to a page with a review of the new Zelda game, as well as a page with some movies. This really is one of the best games I’ve played all year. Edges out Dark Cloud 2 by a bit (which I’m stalled on because I just can’t kill this one boss).