This is something I got tagged for on Facebook. Since I’m feeling lazy, I figured I would just port it over here for today’s post. I’m not tagging anybody here but feel free to leave a comment about any particular album or song that sticks with you.
15 in 15
Posted by Dennis the Vizsla on August 29, 2010
Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged: blog tag, memes, jim is lazy, music, albums, facebook | 2 Comments »
Review: “The Brothers Bloom”
Posted by jamesviscosi on August 22, 2010
So this weekend I saw “The Brothers Bloom”, a caper movie along the lines of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, only with a little more jaundice. I say “I” saw it because my wife was not around for it, which means I can’t say how long it took her to fall asleep, so I’ll just have to estimate it instead.
Posted in Comedies, Reviews | Tagged: Movies, Reviews, comedies, capers, the brothers bloom, dirty rotten scoundrels, adrien brody, mark ruffalo, rachel weisz, maximillian schell, rinko kikuchi, con men, robbie coltrane | 2 Comments »
The Early Years: Jim Thinks The President Gives A Crap That He Likes School
Posted by jamesviscosi on August 8, 2010
From the “I’m Chevy Chase And You’re Not” Department:
Posted in the early years | Tagged: elementary school, children, the early years, assignments, scans, president ford, i like school, chevy chase, playtime | 5 Comments »
Scene-Of-The-Month: “Father’s Books”
Posted by jamesviscosi on August 1, 2010
The results are in and we have a new winner for Scene of the Month: Father’s Books, another of my unpublished horror novels. Although (unlike perennial winner The Wolf) this one is finished, I’ve decided to stick with doing the scenes in order; and because the first scene is so short, I’ve decided to include two of them.
Posted in Books, Excerpts, Scene of the Month, horror | Tagged: Books, Excerpts, father's books, homecomings, horror, hospitals, morgues, scene of the month, unpublished | 2 Comments »
Review: “Inception”
Posted by jamesviscosi on July 25, 2010
So this weekend we went to see “Inception”, the new trippy mind-bender from trippy-mind-bender-specializing director Christopher Nolan. If you think “Dark City” meets “Matrix” meets “What Dreams May Come” meets “The Spy Who Loved Me”, you won’t be far off. (But don’t think “Dreamscape”. Aside from involving dreams, the films are nothing alike.)
Posted in Movies, Reviews, fantasy, science fiction | Tagged: christopher nolan, cillian murphy, dark city, dreamscape, ellen page, inception, joseph gordon-levitt, ken watanabe, leonardo dicaprio, marion cotillard, Movies, Reviews, science fiction, the matrix, the spy who loved me, tom berenger, tom hardy, what dreams may come | 4 Comments »
The Early Years: Jim Shares Too Much Information
Posted by jamesviscosi on July 11, 2010
When I was a kid we took regular trips to nearby attractions, “nearby” meaning “The Northeast and Atlantic Seaboard”. One of our favorite destinations was Washington, D.C., home of (at the time) very clean subways, some parks, the Smithsonian, and an unusual concentration of memorial sites. Oh also there are a lot of lobbyists there. But when I wrote this letter to my grandmother, I had bigger things on my mind than stuff like that.
Posted in the early years | Tagged: children, the early years, vacations, nana, washington monument, tmi, washington dc, toilets, orphan orange, letters, holiday inn, squirrels | 6 Comments »
Scene-Of-The-Month: “The Wolf”
Posted by jamesviscosi on July 4, 2010
The votes are in and the winner for the next Scene of the Month is (surprise!) The Wolf. Now I know I’ve been teasing everyone with promises of more werewolf mayhem; there isn’t any in this particular scene, but in the very next one after this, the fun really begins. I’m not sayin’ you have to vote for The Wolf; I’m just sayin’.
Posted in Excerpts, Scene of the Month, horror | Tagged: Excerpts, horror, monsters, pelts, scene of the month, the wolf, werewolves, writing | 1 Comment »
Review: “Thank You For Smoking”, AKA “The Insider’s Evil Twin, Skippy”
Posted by jamesviscosi on June 27, 2010
So last week I finally got around to watching “Thank You For Smoking“, the satirical 2005 film about the tobacco industry and its efforts to lobby Congress and the public about its products. Not being familiar with the source material, I at first didn’t realize that it was set before the massive settlements between cigarette companies and the government; once that became apparent, I kept waiting for Russell Crowe to appear in the background to leak secret industry documents to intrepid reporters. Instead Aaron Eckhart (in a great performance that manages to make his smooth lobbyist character, Nick Naylor, not come across as smarmy) sleeps with an intrepid reporter, but that’s okay, too.
Posted in Comedies, Movies, Reviews | Tagged: Movies, Reviews, satire, comedies, thank you for smoking, aaron eckhart, cirgarettes, tobacco | 2 Comments »








