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VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Friday The 13th 4: The Final Chapter (1984…
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | 18 hours ago
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] Wow! What a treat! A rooftop viewing of Friday The 13th 4on Friday the 13th, during a full moon. (The movie was also released on a Friday the 13th, of course.) What a great idea — special thanks to Ian and Angel for r read more
JOURNAL: CAMPING: 20080927
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | October 14th 2008
So we went camping one last time Carolyn really wanted to go camping at least one more time this season so that she can take the kitties while they are still young. After being rained out a few weeks ago, Carolyn was determined to go no matter what read more
JOURNAL: HOUSE: These tiles suck! Advice needed!
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | October 12th 2008
So, our tiles are all scratched up. They started getting scratched up almost right away; I saw my first big scratch in a high-traffic area within a week of Floorcraft’s installation. We emailed Marty and asked him, and his response was simply: read more
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | October 10th 2008
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] Yay, another fantasy movie that we get to watch in 720p! PEOPLE: Mary-Louise Parker is the mom of a troubled family — much like in her series Weeds. Seth Rogan plays the voice of Hogsqueal. Mark Waters, director of Me read more
JOURNAL: PETS: Kittens visit our creek (9/14/2008)
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | October 7th 2008
So Carolyn & I finally got a chance to take both kittens (though you can’t really call Oranjello that anymore) down to the creek. The experience was a little more than I bargained for, because it turns out that the hurricane brought little read more
JOURNAL: COMPUTING: Mosaic Meme
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | October 6th 2008
Time to join the mosaic meme bandwagon! I first saw this at Christina’s blog @ www.amiexpat.com/2008/09/05/mosaic-meme/ I like how mine has a sort of symmetry: Opposing corners are filled with either Clint or Carolyn. 1. What is your first nam read more
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Be Kind Rewind (2008)
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | October 5th 2008
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] I had a vote amongst friends as to whether we should watch this movie, or Click with Adam Sandler. Although we ended up watching Click first, more people voted for this movie. Consider this a random factoid. PEOPLE: Jack Bl read more
JOURNAL: Yea, we got a new kitten.
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | October 3rd 2008
So, we got a new kitten. The one on the right, originally called “Dirty Face”. I’m sure most everyone who reads Carolyn’s blog or looks at the pictures we post on flickr, or my twitters, knows this by now. Now joining Oranjell read more
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Futurama 2 - The Beast With A Billion Back…
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | September 30th 2008
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] Any Futurama fan must watch every episode of Futurama. This goes without saying. And of course we watched this movie the instant it became available! QUIRKS: I am soooooo tired of the “adaptation naysayers” (two read more
ROCCO on WKRS AM Chicago...askROCCO with Sandee & Clint
askROCCO | September 26th 2008 by askROCCO
Click Banner to Listen Every other friday you can catch me striking up some crazy banter with the hosts of the Sandee & Clint show on 1220 AM WKRS Chicago. Give a listen. BTW- Checkout my new Lose 30 in Thirty Fitness Program before the holidays read more
JOURNAL: You know you upload pictures to flickr too much when…
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | September 25th 2008
…when your friends have Flickr-related nightmares FOR you: “Last night I dreamt you had forgotten like a whole 3 weeks worth of pictures and it screwed up your whole process — you were going to have to go back and erase the last 6 m read more
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Pirates Of The Caribbean 3 - At World’s…
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | September 25th 2008
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] We watched all 3 Pirates Of The Caribbean movies 3 nights in a row, which is really how this series should be watched. BAD STUFF: Again, we found nothing bad whatsoever with this movie. A lot of people inexplicably rated it read more
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 - Dead Man’s…
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | September 21st 2008
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] It was nice that we got to watch all 3 Pirates Of The Caribbean movies during successive evenings. Procrastination with movies really pays off. You can understand a franchise much better if you have all the previous movies read more
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Pirates Of The Caribbean 1 - The Curse Of…
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | September 17th 2008
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] When I first saw this at the Arlington Cinema Drafthouse … I had a bit too much wine, nachos, and cigarettes. I ended up remembering nothing about the movie even as the credits rolled. All I remembered is that I knew read more
JOURNAL: COMEDY, STAND-UP: Cheech & Chong @ Warner Theatre, D.C.
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | September 14th 2008
It was decent. The binoculars REALLY helped, since we were in the very last row. Chong’s hot older wife opened. We left late (6:45PM and they start seating at 6:30PM for a 7:00PM show). I spoon fed Carolyn her dinner as she drove, since we were read more
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Shrooms (2006)
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | September 13th 2008
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] A horror movie rated only 4.8? It seems anything involving drugs gets its rating “buried” by the puritan prohibitionists. For us, a movie involving drugs makes it a lot more interesting, and this was an obvious read more
MUSIC: failed attempt to order tracks of Nirvana’s “Nevermind…
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | September 12th 2008
Even with the ability to click on them so as not to forget…. I can’t really do this reliably. Hard choices. 07: Territorial Pissings 01: Smells Like Teen Spirit 04: Breed 10: Stay Away 09: Lounge Act 05: Lithium 03: Come As You Are 02: In read more
VIDEO: List of documentaries watched in 2007
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | September 9th 2008
My documentary watching has definitely tapered off in 2008, now that I watch dvd extras for my favorite shows and movies instead of documentaries. Regardless, I watched a LOT of documentaries in 2007. Here they are, sorted by topic. *** DOCUMENTARIE read more
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Dead Man
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | September 5th 2008
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] Another movie selected via our quest to see every Johnny Depp movie that doesn’t sound intolerable. PEOPLE: Directed by Jim Jarmusch (who directed such terrible movies as Coffee And Cigarettes). And featuring Johnny D read more
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Howard The Duck (1986)
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | September 1st 2008
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] [Wikipedia link] Another low-rated (3.9 on IMDB) movie that you can’t get on Netflix. I really hate how corporations and money manipulate what is available, ensuring people don’t develop alternate tastes (that read more
QUESTIONS: Help me find the type of blacklight I’m looking for!…
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | August 28th 2008
Anyone who knows Carolyn & I know we are fans of alternate lighting — especially blacklights. I am looking for blacklights that fit in traditional light sockets. HELP ME FIND THE LIGHT I WANT! [UPDATE: well, looks like I may have found it, read more
SOFTWARE: Why Ubiquity — a browser command-line — is pretty u…
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | August 28th 2008
I just watched the video on Firefox’s new “Ubiquity” browser-command-line interface, and I gotta agree with my initial thoughts that told me not to watch the video. The whole thing is a big waste of time for me. I don’t need t read more
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Senseless (1998)
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | August 27th 2008
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] Being a big fan of human perception and the senses, this movie had an appealing “What If” gimmick. Two, actually: Super-senses, and losing 1 out of 5 senses at random. The low 5.3 rating on IMDB is not a compell read more
VIDEO: CARTOONS: REVIEW: Lucy, The Daughter Of The Devil [AdultSw…
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | August 23rd 2008
[Wikipedia link (most informative)] [Official site] [IMDB link] [Torrent of Season 1] [Not available on Netflix] [MP3s of all songs in the show]. Cartoon Network’s AdultSwim division brings us yet another in a seemingly-infinite series of adult read more
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across T…
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | August 19th 2008
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] I’d been meaning to watch this movie for… years? I may have seen it as a kid, but have no recollection. My parents got me a VHS for Christmas recently, but this was years after I stopped using VHS. Finally, I sn read more
JOURNAL: PICTURES: Attack Of The Clint Clones
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | August 18th 2008
Click to see fullsize: See also: Attack Of The Carolyn Clones Mood: wakey Music: They Might Be Giants - Take Out The Trash read more
JOURNAL: X-Day, Day #4 & 5 (7/5-6/2008)
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | August 16th 2008
My Parody Religion Is Better Than Your Parody Religion … or: How I Survived X-Day XI [2008] Days Four and Five DAY FOUR: X-DAY OH SHIT!! WE MISSED THE END OF THE WORLD!!! Attending The Rupture is sort of the point of going to X-Day! And it h read more
JOURNAL: X-Day, Day #3 (7/4/2008)
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | August 15th 2008
My Parody Religion Is Better Than Your Parody Religion … or: How I Survived X-Day XI [2008] Day Three SubGenius salute (by Scalpod) EIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIE. This is the SubGenius salute! Remember it! So anway… By the time we woke up in the mo read more
JOURNAL: X-Day, Day #2 (7/3/2008)
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | August 14th 2008
My Parody Religion Is Better Than Your Parody Religion … or: How I Survived X-Day XI [2008] Day Two (READ ABOUT DAY ONE HERE…) As mentioned in day one … we went to bed the drunkest we have both been at once all year. Maybe all deca read more
JOURNAL: X-Day, Prologue & Day #1
ClintJCL's Personal Blog | August 14th 2008
My Parody Religion Is Better Than Your Parody Religion … or: How I Survived X-Day XI [2008] PROLOGUE I first heard about the Church Of The SubGenius on a national WWIV syndicated message board, on some BBS, way back in the late 1980s. The ridi read more
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