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This is an archive collection of entries from my main personal blog, My Mundane Mid-Life.
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This collection of entries is from January 18, 2003.
Saturday, January 18, 2003
Trading Spaces Las Vegas Live Reveal
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This was a normal Trading Spaces episode, taking place in Henderson, sort of a suburb of Las Vegas, but the twist was dubbed the Las Vegas Live Reveal. This how was heavily hyped for the Live Reveal, prompting commercials featuring dance numbers and appearances from each of the cast members. The homeowners fortunately live across the street from each other, making the Day Zero setup for the crew a little easier. Now, remember, only the Reveal would be live. Usually, shooting a typical episode produces about 20 hours of footage that is edited usually six weeks later. Day Zero was Wednesday, shooting was Thursday and Friday, leaving Friday night and Saturday for editing the show before it was broadcast at 7pm locally. The neighbors spent Friday night in Vegas somewhere, isolated from the other neighbors, cast, and crew so the reveal tonight would be a surprise. Stephen and Caysi, the Green Team with Hildi did their neighbor's family room, while Jeff and Kim, the Red Team with Doug did their neighbor's bedroom. (Tonight's carpenter: Amy Wynn Pastor.) Well, a few Las Vegas celebrities stopped by (including an Elvis impersonator) and the live reveals went off on time without a technical hitch. The rooms, I thought, were just OK, and when the reveals were done, it just seemed like any other Trading Spaces show, not really worthy of the effort to produce a live reveal.
(Now, if any of you saw the episode before the "live one" (from Austin, TX), Hildi struck again by putting-up over 4,000 wine labels (from a Texas winery) on the walls of a kitchen of an associate pastor at Morning Star Christian Church, doesn't drink or want alcohol in his home, so within hours of the big "reveal," the labels were steamed off the walls. The next day, the damaged wallpaper had to be torn down and the kitchen painted. This story is here in the Austin American-Statesman) « hide the extended part of this entry
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The Fellowship of the RingSpent the afternoon watching a TiVo recording of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Oh, boy, I am out of the loop on this. I have read the trilogy back in High School and loved it. I watched the movie this afternoon and hated it. I'm still trying to figure out why. Perhaps the trilogy has lost its luster on me over all these years. Perhaps its because (I feel) the CG effects, specifically any in dark scenes, look like crap. (I've always felt this about watching a movie on television. If I see it in a theater, though the image is much larger, the color rendition and contrast is different and the effects just seem to work better.) Perhaps it's the friggin' length of the movie (178 minutes... God the special expanded edition is 208 minutes) that has a story with so many details, that I found it tiresome. Perhaps it was the audio levels that were all over hell and back that made it uncomfortable to listen to with a furnace and humidifier turning on and off, masking the lower levels and frequencies. Perhaps that gargantuan pork fajita burrito from Chipotle just made me too uncomfortable to sit for that long of a time (Ads on the website say "It would be a delicacy if it weren't so damn big", "Burritos so big they should be called burros", "Burritos the size of speedbumps" "20 ounces isn't the drink. It's the burrito", and my favorite "Ours goes to eleven"). Perhaps I'm just an idiot and wasn't in the mood to watch this thing in the first place...
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