Tuesday, March 22, 2005
AMBER BOCH: You're more likely to be laughing at
people, not with them. You're a bit moody -
sometimes you would rather go out and have fun,
and sometimes you'd rather be left alone with
your beer. You consider yourself an
'intellectual' smart ass, and you take an equal
pride in the beer you drink.
The Greatest Beer Quiz, ever!
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Hmm, I guess that sounds about right, although I've never had Amber Bock before.
Speaking of which: today I bought some beer at Hy-Vee and did not get carded (I almost never do, though I have been old enough to buy alcohol for only about nine months), but immediately thereafter at Mr. Movies I did get carded for renting an R movie (I have been old enough to rent R-rated movies for four YEARS and nine months). People must look at me and figure that I'll be mature enough to handle alcohol, but not mature enough to handle the ideas and concepts raised by R-rated movies. Which is hilarious, because pretty much the opposite is actually the case.
So one of the movies I got (not the R one) is The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. I remember watching this movie many times as a kid and being really inspired by it; fortunately it proved to be just as inspiring upon this evening's viewing. It's one of those movies that was good when you were a kid and is actually still good when you grow up, like The Muppet Movie. And it's always weird watching something as a cultured adult, realizing, "Hey, it's Eric Idle! It's Uma Thurman! It's Robin Williams!" My only gripe is that the big waltz melody in the score and in the end credits is stolen, lock stock and barrel, from the "Progulka" from Prokofiev's semi-obscure Children's Music Op. 65. There's generally a hell of a lot of plagiarism in the film scoring business.
