are you feeling orthagonal today?

[theladyrose]

I now have a cell phone with a New York City area code of all things. My father is being stubborn and refuses to let go of his old cell phones and our weirdo lousy cell phone coverage, so it's much cheaper for my Uncle Doug to add me to his family plan. As he lives in Staten Island, my cell phone number has the same area code as his.

And a random trivia fact for your amusement:
-In the Singaporean version of the film, [the Incredibles], the company "Insuricare" is translated into "Black hearted insurance company" in the Chinese subtitles if read literally.

The IMDB was extremely unhelpful in my ongoing "How much of The Incredibles was actually scored by John Barry?" project, so I'm still pretty much on my own here. The multitude of missing cues on the soundtrack make this all even more difficult, so sometime I'll probably buy the DVD and find some way to record the missing cues. The most annoying thing is that the soundtrack omits 2-3 second cues in the midst of certain tracks like "100 Mile Dash." Why couldn't these cues have been featured on the soundtrack? I'm not in the mood to do audio splicing as the audio editing program I have has a really lousy user interface, i.e. I'm too dumb and lazy to figure it all out.

On a different note: I need to figure out a better method of remembering birthdays. I've managed to miss three or four within this past week alone. If it's not in May or August, I'm guaranteed to forget it even if people remind me every day two weeks straight. Any tips for remembering these things???

Comments

[a-mire.livejournal.com]

My cell phone plays Secret Agent Man, but I had to program it in myself a note at a time. I only use it when I get a flat tire, so most of the time I forget it in my car, LOL. Other than flat tires I find it completely useless.

The thing is, I don't WANT people to be able to call me anywhere I am. I don't even want them to call me at home. Everyone important knows my email address.

[a-mire.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I use a program called Talking Time Keeper on my computer to remind me of things. When the alarm goes off it pops up a reminder and your calendar. You can program it to open web pages or programs at certain times or play an mp3.

There is even a PMcG theme for it at C3, but after 30 days if you still want it it costs $20. I bought it, but I never leave the computer so a paper calendar doesn't do squat for me.

(I'm not in league with them financially. I just love the program so I packaged it with a Paddy theme and stuck it in the downloads in case anyone else wanted it. There must be a free calendar reminder program somewhere if you look at CNet downloads or something.)

[zedhaus.livejournal.com]

Only you would have such a cool and weird cell phone...

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Because I'm so special, and you know it :P

[horosha.livejournal.com]

On a completely shallow and unintellectual note, I LOVED The Incredibles. It's become one of my favourite movies and I have rips of both DVDs on my HD. Now that you have a cell phone you need to call me more often. Meanwhile, I will check the DVD to see if I can find any useful information for you. It's been a while since I've perused the special features.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Yay for the Incredibles! Heh, I already saw the "making of" video recordings of some of the scoring sessions which unfortunately last for about five minutes and forty five seconds. Still, just catching that bit (I rented it already, hee!) helped me figure out some of the orchestration stuff because I'm notoriously bad at identifying various brass instruments. Thanks for your help, though.

[horosha.livejournal.com]

I just realized: you can claim all the pretentiousness of a New Yorker without even being there just by distributing your area code.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahaha, you've got a point there...

When I'm in Boston I'll probably be lynch-mobbed for that, though.

[thehashmark.livejournal.com]

New York...heh

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Staten Island, to be more precise. Not that anyone really cares about the details.

[leflyingolive.livejournal.com]

Hello Andrea. I am in bio and I am very bored. Are you as bored as I am? I seriously doubt it. The Wag's voice drones on and on right now...like a foghorn. Anyways, my brain is falling asleep as I look at one of her fugly pictures. It looks like a liquor bottle on top of a squashed bird. Anywyas, I am going to stop saying strange things.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

The thing that cracked me up the most about this comment is that I was reading it while you were typing it. So there, dearest future brain surgeon whose brains I wouldn't entrust in your care :P