Scooter Chronicles

On Saturday Marcia and I watched “Scarecrow” starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino. (Yes, our “Pacino-Fest” is nearing it’s end … still need to watch “Serpico”.)

The movie was done in 1973, between Pacino’s appearances in the first two part of “The Godfather”. It follows Max (Hackman) and Frances, aka Lion (Pacino) as two drifters thumbing their way from the western US to Pittsburgh and Detroit. Max has money in Pittsburgh to start a car wash after serving six years in jail, and Lion is heading to Detroit to see the child he has never met after spending...

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The only reason this has really caught my attention is because we have been watching a lot of episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine narrated by him the past couple of weeks. (He is better then Ringo Starr or Alec Baldwin … though Baldwin isn’t really bad, just not as good.) Marcia got a couple of collection for Nigel this weekend and made a point of getting at least one that was done by Carlin. Strange how things like that happen.

Over a month ago we had been watching another train video with Nigel and there was a folk song at the end of one of them that had been growing on me. I looked the song up only to find out that the songwriter had died the week before.

I can’t say I was a huge fan of Carlin, but always...

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Collective Soul - “Collective Soul”

Tracks:

1. Simple
2. Untitled
3. The World I Know
4. Smashing Young Man
5. December
6. Where the River Flows
7. Gel
8. She Gathers Rain
9. When the Water Falls
10. Collection of Goods
11. Bleed
12. Reunion

This is the band’s second album, from 1994, but it was the single “Shine” from their debut album the year prior that brought Collective Soul into mine, and everyone else’s consciousness. I saw them twice for free before the release of this album. I liked what...

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On Father’s Day Marcia and I watched “Dark City” starring Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connelly, Keifer Sutherland, William Hurt, and Richard O’Brien.

Thanks to Chris Makrozahopoulos and IMDB for the plot description:

John’s life has become a nightmare. He (Sewell) is hunted by the police (Hurt) for a series of murders he knows nothing about, a woman (Connelly) who claims to be his wife is after him, and so is a mysterious “doctor” (Sutherland). But his worst trouble is the Strangers, a series of vastly powerful beings who seem to manipulate just about everything in the...

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Back on Saturday afternoon Marcia and I watched the movie “Strangers With Candy” starring Amy Sedaris and Stephen Colbert most notably.

For those that don’t know, this movie is a prequel for the TV series. Sedaris plays Jerri Blank, a 46-year-old ex-junkie, ex-con, that goes back to high school to start her life over. In the movie she is spurred on to do this because her father is in a coma that was brought on by trauma, and the shock of her doing something good with her life may bring him out of it.

I never watched the series, though I knew what it was about. And...

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Over a week ago Marcia and I watched “The Kite Runner”, a movie based on the BOOK by Khaled Hosseini. The movie stars Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi, Shaun Toub, Atossa Leoni, Zekeria Ebrahimi, and Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada.

From Amazon.Com, here is the plot description:

Amir is a young Afghani from a well-to-do Kabul family; his best friend Hassan is the son of a family servant. Together the two boys form a bond of friendship that breaks tragically on one fateful day when Amir fails to save...

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On Wednesday at lunch, I finished reading “Last Dragon”, the debut novel by J. M. McDermott.

I mentioned in a meme before that I have never received an “advanced reader copy” (or ARC’s for short) of a novel before. I have come across a few people on the internet that have enough clout that they do get them. Well, by luck, I am a member of LibraryThing.Com and recently members have been able to sign up for ARC’s of certain books. They are sent out to you directly from the publisher. Though it seems that it is AFTER the book is released. My thinking...

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Wanted to pass along my wishes for a Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there! Especially my brothers, my brother-in-laws, my internet friends, and most especially to my father.

I will be spending time with Nigel, the reason I am a father. Mostly that will be in the morning while Marcia is playing at church.

And I am sure...

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Hockey has hit a bit of a sad state. I am talking about it being on the general consciousness of the public. Was watching Jeopardy! a couple of nights ago. There was a Sports category. One of the questions needed the answer/question “What is Formula One?” The contestant had the question as a daily double and got it. Yet the $2000 question/answer in the category dealt with what league the Minnesota Wild play in. All three contestants had blank stares.

To more happy stuff, two Red Wings picked up more hardware at the NHL Awards Ceremony last night. Niklas Lidstrom won his sixth Norris Trophy as the league’s best defenseman, and Pavel Datsyuk won both the Selke Award for best defensive forward and the Lady Byng...

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Six game winning streak. Just in time, too. I took on the first place team this past week (Los Angeles Highwaymen). Turned into a 925-830 victory. Even with my team grabbing more points these last few weeks, I still expected to lose. Is it just me or is victory sweeter when you have low expectations?

This coming weekend will be another important match. I will be taking on the Richmond Dragons, who currently are one place higher then my Philly Freedom. Here is the ladder: