Last night, I went with a friend to see "The Ice Harvest". Kind of a dark movie. Not only in humor, but in lighting, as well. The movie was just OK. Didn't help that I could see a microphone boom four different times either, that's just sloppy filmmaking. Could see this plot developing a mile away. Oliver Platt was pretty good in this movie, probably better than Johnny Cusack or Billy Bob.
While at Crocker, we sort of did a mini pub crawl. Blake's has expensive drinks, as we just missed happy hour. Geez, I thought I was at the House of Blues. Three drinks, not rounds, cost over $21. And I'm used to the "hard pour", so it felt like it was goin' down like water, because it probably was. We didn't eat there. Went to Claddagh and it's tough finding something to eat there, because it all looked so bland. We had some beers and some pub fries. We ended up at Champps for the Steelers-Colts game. By that time, I was on Corona Light. But we had some sort of Asian crap on a stick or something. And the hot and spicy sauce for the Asian stuff was really good. I was glad I ate something.
Meal of Links
Duke Cunningham finally admits to bribery charges. Geez, he took a lot of stuff. I think that Rolls was a hint that the gettin' was good.
Michael Philip Jagger and the boys are going to perform at the Super Bowl. They toured everywhere but here. BTW, Queen hits Cleveland in March 2006.
W finally addresses illegal immigration. Men on horseback?
Exercise Yard
The Mets are keeping busy by signing Billy Wagner. With he and B.J. Ryan now signed elsewhere, the Tribe should be entering the closer sweepstakes pretty soon.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
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I went to Blake's in Chagrin Falls. Nice view of the falls. Paella was excellent. Meal prices were expensive, drink prices rediculous. I believe I paid $7.75 for a frickin' bloody mary.....and it was in small glass. Maybe they charge like this to get rid of the riff-raff like us! PFS
Booms are in many frames of many movie. You see, on the reel, each frame of film is taller than what is planned to be projected (I think this is because when they decided to make movies wider with cinemascope and whatnot, they didn't want to re-tool all projectors). So the projector is set to screen off parts of the frame. A bad projectionist (these days most theaters are non-union, and it's just a poorly trained manager doing this) can mask it imporperly, showing the wrong pat of the frame.
So not only did you get annoying boom mics in the shot, but you missed whatever was intended to show in the bottom of the frame.
Also, re: Claddagh -- Irish food is _supposed_ to be bland. :)
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