Thinking Morning Future Movies

February 18, 2007 2:05pm

I’d like to see a movie made from the original Dragonlance books. Or at least, I always thought it would be a great idea, perhaps a trilogy, Lord of the Rings style. Of course, the more that I watch LOTR, the more I realize that Dragonlance is more or less plageurism of those books in nearly every way. But I read the Dragonlance books and, aside from a handful of Tom Robbins books, they’re about the only books I’ve ever finished. I once got pretty far through a book title K9 but I can’t explain to myself the reasoning behind it at all….

Also, a movie about The Legend of Zelda would be grand, right? If they could join the epic flavor of LOTR with some Labyrinth/Legend style stuff.

Okay this post was gay…

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again chad 20 Feb 2007

i was thinking we should make a movie where we’d talk in the old propaganda movie voices, wear suspenders, dote over our pipes and challenge each other to races across the world. and then film those races

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nathan 20 Feb 2007

Let’s do it!

Shawn and I were speculating the awesomeness of he, yourself, the Notorious STE (ve) and myself all going out to meet up with Kuhar in his mountain wilderness…

We weren’t drunk, so the amount of enthusiasm was realistic. (That being abundant from me but subdued so as not to freak my companion out, who was not showing overt levels of interest in pursuing the idea in realtime).

But you could definitely film some races from here to Taho…e

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chad 20 Feb 2007

i would like to do that no doubt but i really can’t afford much this year. probably the only way i could do it would be if i combined it with going to ryan’s wedding in CA this spring. but i don’t know if that would work for you. steve would be out there too at the time but i don’t know how much time he or najeda would have for anything other than the wedding.

it could be fun though to film some random places around my house and pittsburgh and play them off as all over the world. think thaddeous lowe and his war balloon if you can

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nathan 20 Feb 2007

oh i can.

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chad 20 Feb 2007

there’s this one place behind my house that if there wasn’t already a real live mordor, it would be it. it’s very symbolic of mordor as well since it’s this place back in my woods where the path splits off to three or four choices and determines what kind of experience the travelers will have: grassy trail, rocky downhill, bombadil bouncy. at the same time the intersection is a dead end and all the paths you choose from go either 90 degrees left or right at first. and as you approach this spot, you emerge into a clearing with a bright view. but it suddenly dawns on you that the only reason you can see ahead of you is because all of the forest has been leveled, and the only thing you can see ahead of you is black waste.

one time adam and i slept in a tent in my backyard. we jumped awake with the dawn and, ehem, donning the worst/best possible boots, boldly burst back deep into the familiar, uh, brush. (okay, from here on out, no more literary techniques)

well the long and short of it was that we ended up walking to munster. it was actually a hilarious scene because when we finally made our way out to civilizaton we were greated with a tiny dog barking it’s mangled fur off. bold as we were, we were a little intimidated. not to be intimidated, i raised my walking stick into the air with ferocity threatening a wicked wallop. in my foresight, the dog was supposed to wimper off back home and curl up in his owners neck scarfs. instead it was adam and i doing our best walking imitation (to save face) while running away from the only more (i never thought it could have been possible) agitated, unleashed canine.

to end this literal story, adam and i had to walk about 5 miles back on the highway where we were finally picked up by my mom or something, coming home from work. (reminds me of the time we rode our bikes 20 miles downhill way out of town and then stopped at a little store and called my parents to come get us. we weren’t about anymore to ride 20 miles up! oh, the lessons we learned) but so this was the part of the walk that the boots were the worst things to wear. i was slugging these loose-fitting rubber, metal toed mining boots which mercifully (you’ll see) came up to my knees. the problem was that they were too loose, however, and oh the blisters did form.

and now to the part of the story where the wearing of these boots was the best of fortune, and, intertwiningly, the part where we get back to the impetus of this anecdote, that of that about ye old black sooty mordorish plain.

but, as my mind tires, i’ll just tell it out now straightforward. but this is to explain the breadth of the sludge. it feels almost like a desert, it stretches on that far, and it’s mostly just black earth. nowadays, monstrous bulldozers plow the shit around and double-jointed cranes similiarly fill their evil jaws. you can hear the rumbling of the machines throughout the valleys and now and then you’ll be startled by the shriek of rusty 5-ton tailgates swinging and banging.

they’ve done quite a number back there. the destruction has expanded about 10X over the last five years and i’m starting to fear that my paths will be cut off.

oh, yeah, the sludge and my boot. so we were about 100 yards into the mess on our way straight across it, and suddenly i sunk in to above my knee. as i tried to pull my leg out, my other leg sunk in part way too. as i recall adam didn’t really try to help me and i gave up for a few minutes after only being punished for my efforts to free myself. eventually, though, i used my elbows or something and got out. from there we climbed to the top of the hill of the blackness and fixed ourselves a snack. it was a great day

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chad 20 Feb 2007

that place can be the end of the earth, where the winners will gather

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nathan 21 Feb 2007

Damn, sounds like a patoot of a good wicked journey.

I’ll definitely wear something special, maybe an amulet of all-knowingness or at least one of respectable knowledge.

I’m picturing you up to your check in quicksand/mud and find it hard to believe that you just “elbowed” your way out.

Perhaps the scene will reenact itself.

Speaking of which, 20 miles out of town? Barking dogs? Riding bikes? It sounds to me like you’ve had a great childhood.

So are you going to have a great this week and come up here?

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chad 21 Feb 2007

it seems like it

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nathan 21 Feb 2007

Sweetness – so tomorrow then?

Hopingfully.

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chad 21 Feb 2007

i’m leaning that way. unless i get a hold of steve and he thinks some other day is better

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nathan 21 Feb 2007

For Steve to join the combo would be liquid like lemonaide on a old man’s porch.

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again chad 22 Feb 2007

well, he’s no good on tomorrow. i didn’t get to ask him if sunday was better but i know that that’s when his classes are. mon through thurs.

did you know his b-day’s t-morrow

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nathan 22 Feb 2007

Bummer. So does that count you out as well?

I wasn’t aware that the Wolfman would have a birthday on a day that mortals also existed…

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again chad 22 Feb 2007

i’m thinking i might be out actually. it just isn’t the best day to come down. how long do you have tristan-free?

and i think the in the wolfman diaries you’d read that being a wolf raised by the gov’t he never knew his b-day and so chose the first pres. washington’s to be “mine own” as he put it

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nathan 22 Feb 2007

Ah I see.

Well, that’s a bummer.

I’m T-free until Sunday I believe.

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chad 22 Feb 2007

ok, then i’m coming tonight

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Wolfman 22 Feb 2007

sometimes WM pretends its his birthday to derive attention to his philosophies… when he thinks the world is getting too stupid

-WM

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nathan 22 Feb 2007

Word!

I’ll begin thinking about getting a shower then…

Give me a ring when you figure something out and, Wolfman, nice website.

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