Some Photos From Metallica

Heavy Metal

Tonight I will have the pleasure of attending a Metallica show at the Honda arena in Anaheim, joined by fellow colleagues and bosses. I'm not a huge Metallica metal head fan, but I can appreciate a band and their important place in music. Hey, it's a classic.
I will be wearing something very very similar to this. More pictures to follow after I rock n' roll this evening. Ciao.

Christmas Things List

Dear Santa,

1) Beer Glasses

2) Robots
3) Puppies
4) Cona Coffee maker
5) Stumptown coffee
Love,

Jody

Movie Update

Over Thanks Giving weekend I had the pleasure of watching 3 fabulous movies. The first was by director and master-creepy-mind David Lynch, Inland Empire. It was one of his tamer films which made it a little more enjoyable for me to watch. We were so inspired by the "Lynchian" way of directing, that we made our own version of Inland Empire. I'm sure Sister Dailey will be posting it on her blog Blinking Against the Brightness shortly.

Same face the whole movie. Brilliant.

The second movie we watched was called Ballast. I really enjoyed this film, but if you're into resolved endings and a strong plot line then I wouldn't suggest this movie. It's very slow and very realistic. There isn't much dialog or soundtrack either. I know i'm not making it sound very good, but honestly it was a beautiful movie and a really moving story.

Lastly, I went and saw Wes Anderson's new movie: The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Holy Moly! Such a good movie. All stop motion animation which is just such a feast for the eyes. You must go see this movie!

Titanic, ADVENTURE OUT OF TIME!!!

During my internet perusing this evening, I was trying to find the game Chips Challenge that I have such fond memories of playing on the old PC at mom and dad's house quite a few years ago. After not being able to find an online version that I could play, I remembered a game that I loved maybe even a little bit more than Chip's...Titanc: Adventure Out of Time. Now I don't consider myself a gamer by any means, my family to this day doesn't even own a dance dance revolution. The closest thing we came to mario bros, was computer games. I had all the good ones: Magic School Bus-Body Adventure, and Space Adventure. Then I graduated to the really good stuff and I purchased the Titanic game. This is no magic school bus my friends.
Visually INSANE. You could explore the entire ship and walk up to people and they would talk to you and give you clues. The goal of the game was to collect all of the special objects, get off the boat with out drowning, and to not get killed by one of the not so nice people on the ship.

I never actually made it to the sinking of the ship part because A: Our computer kept crashing due to the shotty software, and PC-ness of it all, B: Because this game took DAYS to play, and C: Because I could never seem to get past the scary man in the boiler room with the gun that would shoot and kill me every time. SO ANNOYING! And let me tell you, this game was creeeeepy. So scary. Honestly I think that David Lynch had a hand in developing it. Even the music and lighting was creepy.

All that to say, I sinserely miss this game and would give my right arm to have an updated version for my Mac. Hats off to you if you ever played it too.

Give Thanks

A few photos from my Thanks Giving weekend. The first few days was spent in Lake Arrowhead, and the latter half was spent in Santa Maria.

The Kemp Boys

Palm Springs

A few weekends ago I went to Palm Spring for the first time. It was my dear friend Ham's birthday and we celebrated in style. I am a huge fan of Palm Springs and I hope to go back and explore more soon. The Ace hotel was great and their restaurant had a super eclectic menu of goodies.