Just a reminder that my other blog is now getting, [week]daily posts. I aim to prioritize my deer hunting blog a bit more this year. I have several related projects that I expect to bear fruit in 2014.
At some point I'll optimize my blog as Matt has suggested in his book: Confessions of an Online Hustler.
Shoot Deer
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
A Worthless Movies Post
Yesterday's post about my favorite movie director's latest movie has prompted me to post some pointless lists of my favorite movies. Huzzah.
Tim's Top 10 Favorite Movies:
Favorite Director:
Favorite Actor:
Favorite Actress:
Favorite Scenes:
Favorite Scores:
Favorite New (to me) Movie of 2013:
I bet this post would get more pageviews if it were titled "top 10 something or other".
Tim's Top 10 Favorite Movies:
- Cowboy Bebop
- Little Big Soilder
- Exiled
- The Good, the Bad, the Wierd
- Once Upon A Time in the West
- High Noon
- Blazing Saddles
- Rocky Balboa
- The Sheepman
- Six-String Samurai
Favorite Director:
- Johnnie To
Favorite Actor:
- Glen Ford
Favorite Actress:
- Barbra Stanwyk
Favorite Scenes:
- The Violent Men- When Glen Ford shoots the gunfighter
- The Sheepman- Final scene
- Return of Sabata- Opening scene
- Cowboy Bebop- Opening scene
- The Good, the Bad, the Weird- the final chase scene
- The Sheepman- Opening scene
Favorite Scores:
- Once Upon A Time in the West
- Cowboy Bebop
Favorite New (to me) Movie of 2013:
- Fulltime Killer
I bet this post would get more pageviews if it were titled "top 10 something or other".
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Johnnie To
I was wasting time, surfin' the 'net and stumbled across an article about my favorite movie director's latest release.
Don't watch any movie from China, or Hong Kong, dubbed. They are all terrible dubbed, watch them subtitled.
Fulltime Killer (full movie):
from the linked article:
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My favorite movies:
Inventing new ways to maim, kill, or double-cross: It's a responsibility that has long vexed 58-year-old director and producer Johnnie To. On the surface, his movies are consistent with the tradition that produced him. Like all the rest, they are stories of loyalty and brotherhood featuring obsessive, hunch-driven cops and swaggering triad gang members and always ending with bodies scattered everywhere, perforated with bullet holes.
-Grantland (article is mediocre)Except for "Heroic Trio," I recommend watching everything from Johnnie To.
Don't watch any movie from China, or Hong Kong, dubbed. They are all terrible dubbed, watch them subtitled.
Fulltime Killer (full movie):
from the linked article:
In 2015, To plans to release the third installment of Election, his classic meditation on triad bureaucracy.Sweet.
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My favorite movies:
- The Good, The Bad, The Weird
- Exiled (from Johnnie To)
- Cowboy Bebop
- Once Upon A Time in the West
Monday, December 30, 2013
Friday, December 27, 2013
Quality
A few days ago I lamented the lack of quality apparent in our culture today.
Recently my dad had a flat tire where the sidewall blew out. He's suspicious the guys at the oil change place overinflated the tire. (He did say that the cop, who waited in his car, was nice enough to illuminate the place where he was changing his tire with his headlights.)
My deer skin got back from the butcher shop recently. I am 100% sure it is not the skin from the buck I killed. This skin has a tag with my name on it punched through an ear, even though I kept the whole head when I left the deer at the shop.
It seems to me that I'll need to be doing all my oil changes and deer processing myself. It seems that these are two more cases of things where I am better off doing them myself.
We could add public safety to that list too. What I've learned about police this month is that they won't help changing tires, they are of no use when we are robbed, and they are of no value in finding those responsible for hit and run damage. Not to mention, just for starters that cops are apparently trained how to minimize their chances at being punished for murdering people.
What good are police?
One more thing that I've noticed about quality comes from my part time job at a sporting goods retailer. Shoppers looking at binoculars are often disappointed when they learn that companies like Leupold, Vortex, and Zeiss have their stuff made in China. These shoppers are invariably the ones that want to buy the cheapest stuff.
You can't complain that binoculars aren't made in America anymore, and simultaneously buy the cheapest stuff available.
Either pay more for your stuff, or stop complaining that in order for their to be cheap stuff available it needs to be made overseas. The reason everything is made overseas is because you are all too cheap to pay for stuff that is made here.
All this leaves me with two questions:
Recently my dad had a flat tire where the sidewall blew out. He's suspicious the guys at the oil change place overinflated the tire. (He did say that the cop, who waited in his car, was nice enough to illuminate the place where he was changing his tire with his headlights.)
My deer skin got back from the butcher shop recently. I am 100% sure it is not the skin from the buck I killed. This skin has a tag with my name on it punched through an ear, even though I kept the whole head when I left the deer at the shop.
It seems to me that I'll need to be doing all my oil changes and deer processing myself. It seems that these are two more cases of things where I am better off doing them myself.
We could add public safety to that list too. What I've learned about police this month is that they won't help changing tires, they are of no use when we are robbed, and they are of no value in finding those responsible for hit and run damage. Not to mention, just for starters that cops are apparently trained how to minimize their chances at being punished for murdering people.
What good are police?
One more thing that I've noticed about quality comes from my part time job at a sporting goods retailer. Shoppers looking at binoculars are often disappointed when they learn that companies like Leupold, Vortex, and Zeiss have their stuff made in China. These shoppers are invariably the ones that want to buy the cheapest stuff.
You can't complain that binoculars aren't made in America anymore, and simultaneously buy the cheapest stuff available.
Either pay more for your stuff, or stop complaining that in order for their to be cheap stuff available it needs to be made overseas. The reason everything is made overseas is because you are all too cheap to pay for stuff that is made here.
All this leaves me with two questions:
- How do I keep from smelling like oil all day after changing mine?
- What do I do with the old oil once its out of the car?
Monday, December 23, 2013
Regular posting at Shoot Deer
Now that my book is out, and one with pictures and better editing is coming soon. And now that the Wisconsin deer season is nearly over. I have more time for posting at my blog
shootdeer.wordpress.com
I do have internet connectivity issues, though so my total blog output may not be as much as I would like.
shootdeer.wordpress.com
I do have internet connectivity issues, though so my total blog output may not be as much as I would like.
Friday, December 20, 2013
Societal News
It seems that some guy on some tv show said something that offended somebody. (Hell of a fad; that show.)
Even when a few of the blogs that I regularly read post about this sort of thing, I can't bring myself to care.
It seems like there have been lots of news stories where everyone gets all excited...and I can't seem to care. (I can't recall any other examples of this either.)
On a related note: it occurred to me recently that I have no idea who any of the current starlets are. If I've heard of some model or actress, then she's past her prime already. (They probably have a short shelf life.)
Wasn't [insert young starlet name here] hot in movie x?
Beats me. The last movie I watched was this one. It was good.
Not watching tv or new movies has its perks. (If Johnnie To's new movies were released here, I could be persuaded to attend one.)
Also:
Even when a few of the blogs that I regularly read post about this sort of thing, I can't bring myself to care.
It seems like there have been lots of news stories where everyone gets all excited...and I can't seem to care. (I can't recall any other examples of this either.)
On a related note: it occurred to me recently that I have no idea who any of the current starlets are. If I've heard of some model or actress, then she's past her prime already. (They probably have a short shelf life.)
Wasn't [insert young starlet name here] hot in movie x?
Beats me. The last movie I watched was this one. It was good.
Not watching tv or new movies has its perks. (If Johnnie To's new movies were released here, I could be persuaded to attend one.)
Also:
"I’d love to meet the market executive who thought the one thing keeping Obamacare from being popular was lack of smug hipsters." -FrankJThat reminds me, what the hell is a "hipster" and why should I care?
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