Todd Bradley’s Galaxy

I can’t believe it took me so long to figure this out. The actor who played Saruman in the Lord of the Rings movies and Count Dooku/Darth Sidious in “Attack of the Clones” is the same guy who played Scaramanga, the assassin, in “The Man With The Golden Gun.” I realized this watching the opening scene to Golden Gun on TV just now. I’ve seen this Bond movie probably 20 times, and the LOTR movies a total of 10 times, and “Clones” 2 times. And I just now put it all together. Christopher Lee rocks! According to IMDB he’s been in 222 films in his career.

Speaking of movie connections, I watched “Batman the Movie” yesterday. The beautiful Lee Meriwether plays Catwoman in the film. And here’s an interesting tidbit I learned from IMBD. She’s the same woman who was in the Star Trek (the original series) episode as the woman who can kill people with one touch – the source of one of my favorite lines from the series, “Mr. Scott, there’s a strange woman who knows the entire plans of the Enterprise. AAHHHH!” This follows the “I am for you, Mr. Watkins” line.

Ebola Monkey Man – This guy has an unusual pastime.

Yahoo! News – Report on USA Patriot Act Alleges Civil Rights Violations – Oh my, civil rights violations! Who would’ve imagined such a thing?

Politech: John Gilmore: I was ejected from a plane for wearing “Suspected Terrori – It’s nice to see someone stand up for what’s right.

In my book, the three funniest movies of all time are “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, “Fletch”, and “Airplane”. I decided I should own those, so I ordered them used from Amazon.com. Maybe I’ll have a marathon laughfest party sometime and play all 3 of them in a row.

BiGHA, inc. – I was thinking the other day of buying a bicycle. This one looks pretty nifty. Of course, it costs about 10x as much as I’d want to spend.

Yahoo! News – Ex-Inspector’s Book Attacks Bush, U.N.: “Scott Ritter” – Wow, a Marine who criticizes the Commander in Chief! He must feel pretty strongly.

For my money, I think I’m more impressed with the sound design of Nine Inch Nails’ “The Fragile” 2-CD set than any other musical release I own. It’s been almost 4 years now since this was released, and every time I listen I still think it’s probably Trent Reznor’s masterpiece. I have no idea how he could possibly top it. The songs all go together so well (with one exception – Starfuckers) that I think it even beats “Dark Side of the Moon” as a concept album. And the arrangement, mix, and mastering are unsurpassed by anything I’ve seen. What really impresses me is the mix of instrumental and vocal pieces.

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Here is a pretty cool advertisement for a car. I don’t think you’d ever see this on American TV. It’s a 2 minute long film of a Rube Goldberg contraption created using parts from a Honda Accord.