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Mar. 17th, 2008
Movie #11: Footloose
Mar. 17th, 2008 12:00 pmFootloose (Wikipedia, IMDB), despite what it claims, is not a movie about dancing and rock'n'roll. It is a movie about country values vs. city values, and misguided religious intolerance. Don't get me wrong, there's lots of dancin' and half of the Billboard Top 10 hits from the 80's were written for this movie, however those things are a metaphor. The dancing and music serve as scapegoats for the town leaders, including the preacher, just as do the references to banning and burning books.
Plot is mostly cliche and insipid, and even the music failed to energize me this time, though I think that's more me today than the music itself. I do like 80's music, and I like knowing where it came from. Despite the music being actually written for the movie, it often felt out of place to me where it actually came in - that's the drawback to knowing the soundtrack of a movie before seeing it. For example, "I Need a Hero" is the music during a game of Chicken with tractors! WTH?!
Wikipedia doesn't say whether Kevin Bacon did most of his own dance scenes - there's an impressive one in a warehouse where he's railing against the restrictive culture of the small town, and simultaneously is torn about a girl he likes. I'd like to know if he did the whole thing (other than the stunts) or not.
My favorite part of the movie (of course, see icon) is when Kevin Bacon at a town meeting moves to strike a law from the books, and speaks to his motion by quoting from the Bible about dancing. Classic! :-P
Plot is mostly cliche and insipid, and even the music failed to energize me this time, though I think that's more me today than the music itself. I do like 80's music, and I like knowing where it came from. Despite the music being actually written for the movie, it often felt out of place to me where it actually came in - that's the drawback to knowing the soundtrack of a movie before seeing it. For example, "I Need a Hero" is the music during a game of Chicken with tractors! WTH?!
Wikipedia doesn't say whether Kevin Bacon did most of his own dance scenes - there's an impressive one in a warehouse where he's railing against the restrictive culture of the small town, and simultaneously is torn about a girl he likes. I'd like to know if he did the whole thing (other than the stunts) or not.
My favorite part of the movie (of course, see icon) is when Kevin Bacon at a town meeting moves to strike a law from the books, and speaks to his motion by quoting from the Bible about dancing. Classic! :-P
continuing .wma saga
Mar. 17th, 2008 10:34 pmI bought a .wma player - SanDisk's "Sensa Clip" 1GB for $40. I figured that buying multiple audio books will cost lots more than that, so why not?
I couldn't install the OverDrive program on my PC b/c I needed an internet connection to download the other parts of OD. So I shlepped the PC out to the living room where I could actually wire it into the router. Have I mentioned it's so old it barely is able to handle WinXP? And by "barely" I think I now mean "it doesn't". Crashed Windows Explorer multiple times. No programs really want to run, whether Windows Media Player (tried to burn CDs), or the OD program (to transfer the files). So I installed upgrades, crashed a few more times, updated virus scans, locked up the screen for long delays, am currently defragging everything and will do a scan disk next.
Meanwhile I plugged the .wma unit into my laptop, transferred the files (via drag'n'drop) from my USB thumb drive to the unit, and am now charging it - I can't actually *play* them yet b/c the stupid thing needs an OK from Overdrive or another Windows box to tell it it's allowed to play them. Friggin'. I only have the books "checked out" for another few days, what do you want to bet I'm not allowed to play them after that date, even though I transferred them? So since the PC is still puking all over the place, and I'm going to campus (over Break!) for a meeting tomorrow anyway, I'll try plugging the thing in to my work PC and see if it'll play nice.
Meanwhile the Roomba is either sick or on drugs, as he's making small circles in reverse, as opposed to actually vacuuming a room. T$'s turn to call that one in.
I couldn't install the OverDrive program on my PC b/c I needed an internet connection to download the other parts of OD. So I shlepped the PC out to the living room where I could actually wire it into the router. Have I mentioned it's so old it barely is able to handle WinXP? And by "barely" I think I now mean "it doesn't". Crashed Windows Explorer multiple times. No programs really want to run, whether Windows Media Player (tried to burn CDs), or the OD program (to transfer the files). So I installed upgrades, crashed a few more times, updated virus scans, locked up the screen for long delays, am currently defragging everything and will do a scan disk next.
Meanwhile I plugged the .wma unit into my laptop, transferred the files (via drag'n'drop) from my USB thumb drive to the unit, and am now charging it - I can't actually *play* them yet b/c the stupid thing needs an OK from Overdrive or another Windows box to tell it it's allowed to play them. Friggin'. I only have the books "checked out" for another few days, what do you want to bet I'm not allowed to play them after that date, even though I transferred them? So since the PC is still puking all over the place, and I'm going to campus (over Break!) for a meeting tomorrow anyway, I'll try plugging the thing in to my work PC and see if it'll play nice.
Meanwhile the Roomba is either sick or on drugs, as he's making small circles in reverse, as opposed to actually vacuuming a room. T$'s turn to call that one in.