Archive for July, 2008
Back from vacation
I do believe a week away was exactly what I needed, and now I’m back. 
I’ll try to discipline myself over the next week or so to actually write about what I did while I was away. To start with though, here’s a quickie for you.
While we were in the “Sky Church” at the Experience Music Project, I started hearing a song that I immediately started humming along with but didn’t immediately place. Turns out it was an artist named Petra Haden doing an almost completely a cappella remake of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Belivein’”. Turns out there was a competition for creating videos to go with that song and the others on the same compilation album, and YouTube has the video for this one. I don’t particularly like the spoken word portion. It doesn’t fit with the hyper-accuracy of the rest of the song, but I forgive it anyway.
P.S.
This song was recorded for an album full of “guilty pleasure” songs. Bonus points for the first person to recognize and comment on the other guilty pleasure song reference in this one.
I am a feminist
Yes. I am a feminist.
Thanks to Amy for pointing this one out.
The redshirt
I feel like just about everyone who reads this site has seen the movie Galaxy Quest. I found it on the TiVo tonight and watched it again. It’s just spot-on brilliant parody.
You all know that, though. This post is about Guy Fleegman, the character in the movie who we learn played the part of “Crewman Number 6″, who was killed in one of the original Galaxy Quest episodes. All throughout the movie Guy is mortified that he’s going to be killed. The rest of the Galaxy Quest cast constantly try to console him, and Guy does indeed make it to the end of the story. As a reward for his help and to prove that he’s an important character, they give Guy a role in the new adventures of Galaxy Quest. That’s all back story. What I didn’t realize until just tonight is that I think the joke goes one layer deeper. I’ll let you guys decide if I’m right.
Guy’s character in the new series is “Security Chief ‘Roc’ Ingersol.” If the new Galaxy Quest series is basically Star Trek: TNG, does anyone else remember the Enterprise D’s first security chief and what happened to her in the very first season?
I could be reaching, but I don’t think I am.
Dude.
while watching The Big Lebowski, which Amy and I have never seen before…
Me:
Wow. He’s gonna unpimp her auto.