I think I found the name of the movie, I remembered it had Maureen Stapleton in it, its called the Electric Grandmother. Has anybody seen it?

And thank you Darth Poop, I sure don’t feel my age! Only 2 years to go till *sob* 30!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Jackie @ 01/15/2006 1:16 PM

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Electric Grandmother sounds like a name of a shooter to me.

When you first described it, I was reminded of this other weird movie that my cousin used to rent when she babysat my sister and I. There was like this genius kid who made a robot and his dad’s ghost was inside the robot? Or maybe the dad made the robot. And then the dad-ghost-robot tucks in the kids at night and IT FREAKED ME OUT.

Happy Birthday!!

Chestnuts roasted by Lizzy @ 01/15/2006 1:50 PM

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Mtrox – I guess it depends on what you call ‘literature.’

squee – I know, I made the spoiler mistake when I mentioned to a friend the other day that I was watching Firefly. He didn’t know I hadn’t seen Serenity yet. Spoilers, ah well. I think I have 3 discs of Lost to get through yet, but after watching the one where Sawyer and Kate go swimming in that pool…well, it was almost enough to make me never watch it again.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 01/15/2006 3:00 PM

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I should borrow that tape from my grandmom and tape the Brain Games off of it.

Chestnuts roasted by Jackie @ 01/15/2006 4:09 PM

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Jackie: I do remember the HBO 8:00 movie theme. It was the coolest thing. I also remember the HBO Comedy Hour theme. They need to bring those back.

Not to long ago, I across a website that had those network themes (that HBO theme, that CBS "Special" theme, etc.) I don’t know the address anymore since I went through them.

BrainGames ROCKED. I definately remember old Egghead and those games were fun. I also loved Encylopedia and those Jim Fyfe specials.

SNL sucked last night. Scarlet Johanson is a good actress, but she was very wooden last night. Most hosts at least attempt to act like they aren’t reading the cue cards.

The two best things last night (the Duluth song, and Andy Samberg’s quick impression of the Swedish Chef) everything else sucked.

I do remember the HBO version of the Electric Grandmother. Haven’t seen it in years. However, the Twilight Zone also did a version that gets played on Sci-Fi once in awhile.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/15/2006 4:32 PM

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Hey everyone! I’m back–my IP erronously wound up on a ban list, and Matt wrote me to let me know the problem was fixed!!! So hence, I hath returned!

So, what’s up? I went for a job interview last Monday in Rittenhouse Square/Center City/Philadelphia at an ad agency (my 3rd interview). This one is really promising!! I’ll keep everyone posted!!!!

What else? Today was my graduation party–we had a nice big bunch here–my boyfriend, my twin brother’s girlfriend (who gave me a really nice gift), my mom’s aunt and uncle, my mom’s brother and sister-in-law (my uncle/godfather and aunt), my best friend, her husband, and their nearly 2-year old son, my parent’s friends, their two kids, and two of their extended family members, and my cousin/godmother, her husband, and their son. Nice packed house. It was a nice day.

Happy Birthday, Jackie–my boyfriend will be 28 in August, so don’t feel so bad.

SNL completely sucked last night, except for the cartoons and "You gotta buy a chandelier!"

The boyfriend and I watched "Wayne’s World" last night–jeez that is a classic movie! Or at least, classic in the sense that it was so popular among my age group, and we had no idea it came from SNL. I was 9 at the time I saw it, and I used to quote the apartment scene constantly. I remember saying "ribbed for her pleasure–ewww!" and having NO IDEA what I was saying!! Found out 2-3 years later–I think it was after seeing a condom commercial on MTV.

When SNL sucks, I pull out the "classic" collection (I have a great collection of cheap, out of print SNL annuals I used to buy at Suncoast in the late 90s).

So, I’m back, and you can guarantee I’ll be here alot now! At least till I get work. But, you’ll still see me on here.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/15/2006 10:14 PM

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SNL sucked last night. Scarlet Johanson is a good actress, but she was very wooden last night. Most hosts at least attempt to act like they aren’t reading the cue cards.

The two best things last night (the Duluth song, and Andy Samberg’s quick impression of the Swedish Chef) everything else sucked.

Those were great too, as well as the Chandelier ad. The Duluth theme taking up the whole show gave me good vibes of the James Brown in The Hot Tub sketch, where all Eddie Murphy did was sing about going into the hot tub, and that was it. I was gonna post more, but I pressed the "post" button too quick and didn’t want to double-post.

The Pat Robertson cartoon was funny (and is this the first episode that had a cartoon as the opening sketch?), but the Darwin one…not so much. Even though before, during, and after the cartoon it’s on a Christian Network, I found the previews for the other cartoons much funnier (like the Gay Embryo). The Hanna-Barberra parody worked when they poked on Michel Jackson, because his life is basically a HB Cartoon to begin with.

Well, Here’s hoping to next week’s SNL is better…The Strokes are the music guest.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/15/2006 10:53 PM

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Yes, Invader Norbert, I believe that this is the 1st time an animated sketch was the cold opening. Woo-hoo! I hope next week’s SNL is better–like I said, when it sucks, I wind up pulling out the classics, which are the jewels of my collection. I watched "The Best of Robin Williams" yesterday. The videos I purchase were dirt cheap ($4.99) videos which are in poor quality but are extremely good. NBC put this company out of commission in making SNL videos, and they made their own extremely-overpriced collection. Lions Gate came through in a big way though, with their DVDs coming in @ $9.99-$14.99 (Best Buy prices). But, they lost their lisence to put them out, so go out and grab them while you can–NBC Universal will be putting them out soon, and I heard something along the lines of $19.99 (I hope Best Buy will be cheaper).

Also, I was watching In Living Color on Friday night, and they showed that crazy "Home Alone" parody where Michael Jackson shows up at Macauly Culkin’s house. "Come on, Macauly, we can play with my monkey, or better yet, we can blow bubbles." "Come on Macauly, you can play with the Elephant Man’s bones, we can sleep in my oxygen chamber–I wanna see you Moonwalk."

And for anyone that’s interested–I got "Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix"!! My boyfriend was on Ebay, and found it for $50, brand-new (it was sealed up and everything!). so, he bought it (it was a buy it now item). He was gonna save it for Valentine’s Day but knew I’d be so excited to have it, so he made it a just-because present (don’t worry, he doesn’t shortchange on all the important gift-giving days). It’s alot of fun–I’m enjoying it so far, and getting a GREAT workout on some classic Mario songs. They even have this mini-game where you run (by simultaneously stepping on the left and right arrows) to run down a path, and jump on the up arrow to pull the flag on the flagpole. I got 5000 points on Friday night (I hit the top of the pole–yea!). they even play that cute victory song when you finish! And, you ALWAYS get fireworks (remember how you had to do certain things, like finish on a certain time or get a certain amount of points or coins to get those–I was always that kid who could only muster 1–count it–1 lousy firework!).

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/15/2006 11:06 PM

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I’m back with another random posting I really have to try to force myself to remember to do this regularly but my stupid videogame addicition always makes me forget my computer for days at a time until I get stuck and need a faq >_< .

Anyways, Gozer did you happen to also notice that the mom in Home Alone 3 was none other than chain smoking Marla from Gremlins 2?? *sigh* Right now I’m bored out of my mind the only thing I could find worth watching on TV was the anime flick "A Wind Called Amnesia" on AZNTV. It was a pretty interesting movie based on a novel by Hideyuki Kickuchi who also wrote vampire hunter D, Wicked City, and Demon City Shinjuku. For those who haven’t heard of it the basic plot is that one day the memories of the human race are wiped completely clean to the point that no one even remembers how to speak. It follows a young man who at the beginning is in the same boat as everyone else till he meets a boy who was immune to the wind because his brain was replaced with a computer. The Boy gives him a crash course in language and survival he also gives him the name Wataru ("traveler" in japanese) and true to the name tells him he must travel the US for reason I couldn’t quite pick up on.

It’s not a terribly original concept but even dubbed in english it was compelling enough that I watched it start to finish without flipping the channel. I have to say its one of the better anime movies I’ve seen on the channel. Most of the anime movies I’ve seen on AZN since they did their format change from being "The International Channel" are just really dated 80′s stuff only made worse by bad dubbing.

Chestnuts roasted by The Krypt Angel @ 01/16/2006 12:20 PM

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JLAJRC:

Yeah, it took me a long time to look at Sean Astin as Sam and not "Sean Astin," that guy from "Encino Man"

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 01/16/2006 2:36 AM

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Doesn’t anyone think of The Goonies or Rudy when they see Sean Astin? That’s my problem.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 01/16/2006 9:28 AM

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How about Dom in this week’s Lost, begging for a break from hiking? I know I wasn’t the only one thinking about second breakfasts.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/16/2006 10:17 AM

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