Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

Sunday, March 31, 2013

I Think I Love That Clara...

And I don't care what any of you internet snobs think. She kicked ass as did the Doctor. The adventure was goofy and scary with music that took me over the top. If I was 14 this would be the greatest thing I had ever seen. It's smart and I hurt for those who just don't go with it. I find I enjoy this latest incarnation of Doctor Who so much better the second after I stopped bitching about it.

Jenna Louise is golden. She's a one in a million find like Rose Tyler was. This is going to be fun. I love the doctor's purple coat and that special, one of a kind bowtie. Sweet hoverbike and an ending that makes me wish I could move foward in time one week to see what happens next.

Happy Easter To You All

They Always Leave Your Car Smelling Moosey Fresh

Marge Knows The Horrors That Live Under The Sea

Supergirls By Stanly Lau

Riddle Me This

I am doing the A-Z Challenge this month and I am not sure if I should follow one theme or do a photo essay on a different individual topic per day. I won't torture ya'll by dropping captioned kitty post all day. I want to get followers, not drive them away.

Well, there will be cosplay.

There will always be cosplay.

"What Are You Boys Drinkin'" "ROCKET FUEL SIR.'

Canada Gets Some Panda Bears - For Display And Not Consumption, Unless Of Course They Should Die But That Is Another Topic For Another Time

'Hey buddy. Call me Ping. I have always wanted to visit your fine country. I hear you have Polar Bears and Poutine. Can I possible meet and consume these cutltural treasures?"

“It is a great honour to be entrusted with Er Shun and Da Mao, two of China’s national treasures,” said the Prime Minister. “Their presence in Canada today and for the next ten years will remind us of the strong relationship between our countries and will delight the many Canadians who will visit the zoos to see them.”

http://pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=5381

Saturday, March 30, 2013

How Can I Wear Any Other Ring After Seeing This One?

This is a ring made from dinosaur bone, meteorite, and gold.

The Rematch You Have All Been Waiting For

Labyrinth

I just learned of this production and have the chance to download the first of 3 episodes. I think I will give this on a chance and let you all know what I think.

The series follows two women, modern-day archeologist Alice Tanner (Vanessa Kirby) and medieval Alaïs Pelletier du Mas (Jessica Brown Findlay) who lives through the Crusades and Cathar massacres in medieval France and their quest to find the Holy Grail. Alice, a volunteer at a French archaeological excavation, discovers the skeletal remains of two people in a cave, as well as a labyrinth-engraved ring, which attracts the attention of unscrupulous individuals. In 1209, newly married Alaïs is living in Carcassonne, a stronghold of Cathars who have been declared heretical by the Church. Alaïs and her father are protecting three sacred books that reveal the secret of the Holy Grail from the Crusaders.

The Making Of 'Oblivion'

I am not a fan of Tom Cruise but this background look at the design features of the movie really interested me in seeing this picture. I love the term, 'beautiful desolation'.

http://fashionnaction.blogspot.ca/

One Of The Many Entrances To The Cave Of Cool

In the far east of Russia, on a peninsula called Kamchatka, are stunningly surreal-looking ice caves that are formed under incredibly interesting conditions. Fire and ice are involved, or volcanoes and glaciers. As EPOD states about one, “It was formed by a stream flowing from the hot springs associated with the Mutnovsky volcano. This stream flows beneath glacial ice on the flanks of Mutnovsky. Because glaciers on Kamchatka volcanoes have been melting in recent years, the roof of this cave is now so thin that sunlight penetrates through it, eerily illuminating the icy structures within.”

G.I. JOE: Retaliation

There are some movies that you see where you know that if you have a bad time it's your own fault for seeing the film in the first place. Lincoln this is not and thank the gods for that. This was the exact kind of matinee that I needed in my life today. Dumb, loud, goofy but a hell of a lot of fun. That is what I thought of G.I. JOE: Retaliation.

Now as usual, my opinion counts for crap because I freely admit that I loved the first GI JOE movie so I was primed to enjoy this one too. I hope those truths don't mean that I haven't lost too much of your respect as a reviewer of popular culture.

The story involves one of these crazy over complicated schemes that Cobra Commander is famous for. Trust me, if the whole evil plan can be defeated by a push of a single button at the last minute then it's not such a great plan to begin with.

Build in a couple of REDUNDANCIES ya numnut!

I truly was hoping to see more of Cobra Commander. His look and voice were great and of course he managed to escape to fight against the Joe's another day, maybe in the sequel where he can be the villain at the centre as opposed to Zartan, who was the real bad guy in this one. He needed to be more hand-on with this operation. He left too many opportunities to have the JOES mess with this plans.

Poor planning kept CC one second from taking over the world, AGAIN! How does he sleep at night with the memories of all his failures? It's okay if I fail but I am not aspiring to be another Napoleon like Cobra Commander is. I have an excuse to be a failure. With all his resources, Cobra Commander does not. But I digress.

The movie certainly doesn't drag and that battle on the mountainside is really fun and inventive in it's stunt work as was the confrontation between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, arguably the favorite characters on each side of the conflict between the Joes and Cobra.

Some may say these are the only scenes that you really need to see, so here they are. Just promise me that some wet Sunday in the future, you will look for this one and enjoy an hour and a half of fun with Bruce Willis and The Rock.

I can promise you that in a couple of months I will download this and have it going in the background as I multitask online. I had alot of fun with this one. I hope there will be many more of these to come.

GO JOE!!

Though to be totally fair, this mash-up of the US and COBRA flags looks pretty sweet. I would join that stupid organization just to get one of these in their membership kit. It would look pretty keen in my arctic lair.