Mike Browne’s Blog

Remember Troy Hurtbise of the wonderful NFB documentary called Project Grizzly? I sure do. I have the VHS and DVD version of the doc. Anyhoo, the kookie scrap metal yard owner is back with a new suit called The Trojan which he claims bulletproof and explosive proof. He says he can make them for $2000 a piece and wants to sell to the armies of the world. Good luck Troy. He’s so enthusiastic.

While watching Mr. Hurtbise in the above video the Medication Valse from that oh so unsettling film One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest began playing in my head. Click play below to hear it in your head too:

You can play the music over him talking as well. It kind of drowns him out a bit but I’m not sure that’s a bad thing.

Droopy Moosh, originally uploaded by MikeBrowne.

Here’s a picture of Moosh that I took when we lived in Maple Ridge. She looks like she just got yelled at or beaten up (which has never happened). Perhaps she thought she was in trouble for murdering the stuffed toy beside her. Who knows. Whacky dog.

She’s feeling better by the way. Thanks for all the good thoughts sent by folks.

For those of you who don’t know, we came close to losing Moosh this week. We thought she’d had a stroke when she fell off the futon this week and couldn’t get up. When she did she was dizzy, her eyes were going her head was cocked to one side and she kept falling sideways. Luckily it was only vestibular disease which seems to be abating.

The vet said she thought Moosh would be okay in two weeks, but she’s bounced back very quickly and is left with a bit of a wobbly walk and a slight head tilt at times. Better than the alternative. We thought our gal was taking her final ride to the vet, but not so. All is well.

They can fix anything in post. I love technology.

Kill me now.

I’d been seeing links to articles and videos advertising this film on sites I frequent. I got this particular one from Horror-Movies.ca. Since I liked Silence of the Lambs a lot and the subsequent sequels a little I thought I might as well check out the above trailer. I’m so glad that I am becoming a discerning consumer who does his homework.

My initial reaction: *yawn*. What a soulless unnecessary piece of prequel garbage. The actor playing Lecter is doing a horrendous Anthony Hopkins impression mixed with another odd accent that I can’t quite nail down. Although the cinematography looks pretty I’m sure that’s about it as far as anything worth seeing goes in this dog.

Do you think it might be a bit of a money grab? Perhaps, one last attempt to cash in on a successful franchise? Of course it is.

Hey studios! Here’s an idea. Give a nobody filmmaker like myself the money you threw at this vacuous effort so people can see something a little more original. Then promote the crap out of my film like you would a 19th Mission Improbable with Tom Crazy and we’ll have another hit but one worth seeing.

We’ve hit the wall of boring films enough times. Let’s turn left and make something fun.

Meet a sheepdog who’s afraid of sheep, but has a definite affinity for cows. Guiness may not be the hardest working farm dog, but her family loves her just the same. You can watch here video here:
Atom Films: Useless Dog

I’d have posted the whole video on my site but they only allow a preview with pop ups, so no thanks. The video is fantastic anyway. Anyone who has ever had any kind of relation ship with a dog will love this short film.

The picture pretty much sums up the road trip thus far. The smug looking jackass ‘thumbs down’ chick actually makes the whole picture. I’m sure what my creative mind sees isn’t what she intended at all. Ptooi on the Sens.

Three eastern Canadian teams up, and three down. Leafs, Canadians and Senators all beaten by the Canucks. Luongo has let in only 2 goals in the last 101 shots! Go Bobby Lou!

The coolest thing about watching this road trip so far is being able to hear Canucks fans chanting “Go Canucks Go!” in every building. How friggin’ cool is that?

Next up, Buffalo on pay-per-view tomorrow night. I doubt they’ll hear much friendly chanting there. Even though the new logo looks like the banana slugs we find hiking here in beautiful Lynn Canyon Buffalo is an awesome team.

After the hard fought win tonight I’m not too sure what kind of gas the Canucks will have in the tank to be honest. The Sabres have had a day off and you can be sure they’ll come to play (lookin’ all sluggy). Vancouver could win, after all the Canucks are on a fairly decent roll so why not?

To celebrate these wins here’s a little ditty by a guy who wants to make love to Vancouver Canucks. Kind of creepy but click play anyway:

How very Borat!

Sometimes the front page of YouTube has video worth watching. It’s all fun and games until someone gets punched in the head.

Here’s a link to their website: wickedawesomefilms.com

Tick tock, tick tock. It’s now 5 minutes to midnight on the doomsday clock. Here’s an article about why.

Kind of unsettling, but strangely enough my fear of nuclear annihilation isn’t as great now as when I younger. In the 70’s and 80’s we lived with the constant threat of nuclear war between the USA and USSR as a result of the Cold War and arms race. Nothing happened then but it was fairly stressful to live with that kind of fear. Looking back on it, I’m not sure we were ever really that close to the end. Perhaps we all bought the hype, but savvier now we have a “prove it” attitude. Hopefully this jaded skepticism won’t be our downfall. Maybe it’s time to start paying attention again.

Yikes! One of my favourite directors Danny Boyle, who’s work includes 28 Days Later, Trainspotting and Millions, is at it again. I posted before about his upcoming movie called Sunshine, then promptly forgot about it until I saw this trailer on ainitcoolnews.

With all the attention being paid to global warming right now the premise of a mission to “reignite the sun” is definitely timely. The idea of a sci fi film without Earth being threatened by some (excuse the pun) half baked alien force is kind of refreshing. If the the rest of the film is like the trailer there’ll be plenty of hot action and tense situations. I like scary.

Methinks not everybody makes it.

I’m looking forward to this one. You can see lots more video images and trailers via the movie’s blog at sunshinedna.com.