Operation Disc Drop - How it Works

There's nothing more satisfying than sharing the joy of music. Disc Drop is your chance to turn a total stranger on to the tunes that changed your life. Who knows? Maybe you'll change some-one else's life while you're at it.

STEP 1: Make a mixed CD of your favourite tunes. Somewhere on the disc write: "DISC DROP - cbc.ca/thehour"
Be sure to include a track-listing so people can track down more music by the artists on your disc.
STEP 2: Drop off your disc in a random public place.
STEP 3: Go to the "I Dropped a Disc - What Now", click on the comments, and write down where you dropped off your disc and the track-listing. Check back later to find out who picked it up, and where it's heading next.

More at http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/blog/drop.html

This caught Tara's eye and she let me know about it - it reminded her (and me) of the time we rented a car and found a disc in the CD player left over from the last person who had rented the car--a mix CD, no less.  We listened to it and bizarrily it was a perfect combination of stuff she liked and I liked and we vowed to make a mix CD of our own and leave it in the car for the next person to find who rented it.  And we did.

I made my mix CD yesterday and intend on dropping it...somewhere...on Friday.

From...somewhere:

If Earth's population were shrunk into a village of just 100 people – with all the human ratios existing in the world still remaining what would this tiny, diverse village look like? 

That's exactly what Philip M. Harter MD, at the Stanford University School of Medicine, attempted to figure out. This is what he found:

• 57 would be Asian
• 21 would be European
• 14 would be from the western hemisphere
• 8 would be African
• 52 would be female
• 48 would be male
• 70 would be nonwhite
• 30 would be white
• 70 would be non-Christian
• 30 would be Christian
•  89 would be heterosexual
• 11 would be homosexual
• 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States
• 80 would live in substandard housing
• 70 would be unable to read
• 50 would suffer from malnutrition
• 1 would be near death
• 1 would be pregnant
• 1 would have a college education
• 1 would own a computer

And therein lies my grievance with contemporary casting agencies.

1. Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel
   
2. Ghostbusters
3. Young Catherine
4. Muriel's Wedding
5. The 'burbs
6. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
7. The Exorcist
8. Return of the Jedi
9. The Birds
10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
11. My Fair Lady
12. Scrooged
13. Outrageous Fortune
14. Sister Act
15. Batman Returns
16. Paris, Je t'aime
17. Anne of Green Gables
18. Going My Way
19. Gremlins
20. Chicago

The TTC currently is running an ambiguous advertising display of some kind showing taglines about teens not thinking for themselves, all selling a fictitious product called "Obay".  They're all over the place and it's just another instance of this stupid viral marketing craze that's everywhere these days (see: Cloverfield and Star Trek official movie sites). 

Anyways, it just reminds me of Grade 8 and a series of annoying TV commercials of an airplane taking off against a voice saying "It's coming..." and a countdown to the days left before whatever "it" was.  And then it turned out to be McDonald's personal pan pizzas, and they lasted what--maybe a year?

Enough said.

Stolen from scottyt2...

I had a debate with someone and wanted some outside opinions.

I stumbled across this online tool:
http://www.ljbook.com/ljbook.html

You can convert your entire LJ into a PDF to be printed.

• Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
• Bold and italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.
• If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).

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For the last 2 months I've been sitting on--well, not literally--2 DVDs of the original 50s Twilight Zone that I had rented from Zip, thinking they would be as fun and enjoyable as Alfred Hitchcock Presents only with exciting, sci-fi twists but ... they weren't. Matt and I made it through maybe 4 episodes and I just didn't enjoy them at all. So I sent the discs back, unwatched, and in it's place...

T.J. HOOKER. Yepp, William Shatner at his early-1980s, Trek-hiatus best!

Oh, and I'm also getting some early "lost" Doctor Who episodes from the mid-60s. Judging by Zip's selection, no Region 1 releases exist of the first episodes. They're probably lost like the original first season of The Avengers (stupid short-sighted, irresponsible networks!).

Superman Returns was pretty good. I really liked how they used the original score, and the opening was wondrously retro and brought me back to my childhood and loving the Christopher Reeve movies so much. Of course, I couldn't make it through them now...

Brandon Routh did well, though I'm not sure if he's more than just a pretty face. A credit to Bryan Singer, though--he really knows how to cast extremely good looking guys in a way that's way beyond typical Hollywood force-fed hunkfare. X-Men 1 and 2 showed this too.

Kate Bosworth's role was rather pointless though. I mean, there has to be a Lois Lane, that's a given, I just don't like the character. I hated Margot Kidder as Lois too. Teri Hatcher did an okay job, but now she's just too annoying because of Desperate Housewives. Woooooooooooah! Anyways, Bosworth didn't wow me or stand out. She could've been Kate Beckinsale or Rachel McAdams or even stupidhead Katie Holmes and I wouldn't have known the difference--they're all just a type that seems to run together in my head, kind of like how Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff do, and Chad Michael Murray, Nick Carter, Jesse McCartney and Josh Hartnett. They're just all the same variation of the same irritating tune.

Fuck, I'm getting older and older by the nanosecond.

Back to the movie, the most impressive performances were by Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor and Parker Posey as his wench, Kitty. Parker Posey is just...Parker Posey, and I am just so thankful for it. She had me laughing out loud several times which is extremely rare. Her outfits were fantastic, too. I'd buy the DVD just for her parts.

Matt thought it was cheesy and just "alright," while Elizabeth liked it. She hadn't seen any of the previous movies before though, so I'm not sure she really got it. She's one of these inexplicable types of people who somehow missed the major cinematic events of their generation--she had never seen any Star Wars or Indiana Jones films. The weird thing is, Tara's like that too.

Note for future reference: avoid Varsity unless going to VIP room - there were at least THIRTY fucking minutes of commercials and crap before even the goddamn previews started. PLUS they showed the same stupid Superman-themed Duracell commercial about 6 times within the span of 2 minutes--and I'm not exaggerating at all.

...I've just got way too much time on my hands.