Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) and Efren Ramirez (Pedro) did a bunch of advertisements for the Utah State Fair. If you like Napoleon Dynamite, check these out; they’re pretty much the best state fair ads ever.
Hmm, I have (had) some free time, tonight.
Catch up on some work? Um, nah. (hah)
Work on some websites for fun? Nah.
Work on some websites for money? Nah.
Watch a movie? Nah. No more.
Learn a new song? Nah.
Write a new song? Nah. Can’t.
Go out and take pictures? Nah.
Stay in and take pictures? Nah.
Look at houses online? Nah. No more.
Surf Flickr? Nah. No more.
Clean up? Nah. It’s not too bad in here.
Listen to music? Nah. No more.
Sleep? Probably, soon.
I want to do most of the above, but when I start to (or attempt to start to) do them, I have this strong urge to not be doing them, almost instantly after I start them. You know something’s out of whack when relatively easy money doesn’t even motivate you. I need to reboot myself, somehow. Blah? Nah.
I like really weird movies that make you think; Primer is one such movie.
I found out about it from Jason Kottke’s site, and bought it just from reading this paragraph:
Anyway, if you’re even a little bit of a geek, I’d urge you to check Primer out (it was recently released on DVD). It’s challenging in the way that Memento and Donnie Darko are, pays off in a human way like The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind does, and it gets my highest recommendation.
I really liked all of the movies he referenced, so I thought I’d take a chance and just buy it. It won a few awards at the Sundance Film Festival, and sounded interesting from Kottke post, so I bought.
From the Primer website:
PRIMER is set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe and Aaron, are members of a small group of men who work by day for a large corporation while conducting extracurricular experiments on their own time in a garage. While tweaking their current project, a device that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by blocking gravitational pull, they accidentally discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities–ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.
There’s a few timelines available for you to try and figure out what happened after you watch it once. If you read those first, you’ll probably spoil some of the elements that make the movie so good. ‘Good’ wasn’t a word I would’ve used last night after watching it once — I was speechless and totally confused during the whole thing, but now that I’ve gone through the timelines, it makes sense now.
If you are interseted I highly recommend it; go rent it or borrow it from me if you are close by.
I’ve used this for a while, and had a request to put it online for others to use, so I figured what the heck. There are two sizes; the first will work on LiveJournal and most discussion forums; the second will work with AOL Instant Messenger.
LiveJournal version:
AIM version:
(click to make it your buddy icon)
I don’t remember where I got this, so I can’t credit them. Thanks to James for helping make it work in LiveJournal, with their size restrictions.