Cosmic Ghost

It’s been about six hours since I finished watching Inception and I still cannot get it out of my mind. Not only that but I’ve had the score by Hans Zimmer on repeat all day too. I can’t think of a better movie right now. Action packed but very sad, suspenseful yet exciting. Great acting, great rapport between everyone, amazing special effects and as mentioned, quite a soundtrack. The most outstanding part? After all the hype and build up, the movie met and exceeded expectations. Everybody in the theater knew we were in for something special and to be honest it seemed like everyone in the movie knew they were in a masterpiece. And what a masterpiece indeed.

It’s too much to to digest at once so any more about Inception will have to wait until later. I think another viewing is in order as well.

JGL

Here’s my  simple list. It’s filled with future A-listers and current underrated actors. Anybody on this list is enough for me to watch a movie just based on them being cast. Just thought I’d write them down. In no particular order:

• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Matthew Goode
• Anna Kendrick
• Sam Rockwell
• Ken Wannatabe
• Tom Hardy
• Lou Taylor Pucci
• Idris Elba
• Ben Foster
• Sharlto Copley
• Chiwetel Ejiofor
• Viggo Mortensen
• Rupert Grint

Note: Nathan Fillion tops all my lists so he’s excluded.

FaceTime

My new iPhone was delivered at 2:30pm today and around 5:00pm I was able to test out FaceTime for the first time. Definitely as amazing as it sounds, something out of Minority Report or Star Trek. It’s unbelievable , it really is. Leave it to Steve Jobs to change everything again. Appropriately that’s just about the new motto of the iPhone.

Downsides? Only one really. FaceTime requires both users to be on iPhone 4′s and that both be connected on Wi-Fi. I wouldn’t expect AT&T to be able to handle a video call alone since even a voice call seems difficult. But it would be nice if both users didn’t need brand new iPhones. I’m sure we’ll eventually have more access, say through Skype, webcams on the Macbooks or iChat. But for now, in it’s first iteration, it’s pretty damn special.

The Box

Tomorrow completes the Apple trifecta for me… when the Fed Ex man arrives I’ll have my Macbook, new Mac Mini and iPhone 4. It’s honestly been a shock to me how long I’ve had my Macbook. I bought it when I graduated college which is amazingly 4 years ago already. Since when I got my first computer I’d always be taking it apart or upgrading it. I was never satisfied with the speed or what I had in it until it had reached it’s maximum potential. I’ve only had 3 computers prior to the Macbook, 2 of them shared with the family. I made dozens of changes and upgrades to each of them, leading to the destruction of one computer when the motherboard blew. After 4 years with the Macbook, I’ve only made one modification- upgrading the RAM once to it’s max, doubling it from the original configuration. Until now at least, which required me to get a new laptop battery since the original had run it’s course.

The mini has become my main computer and I formatted the laptop so it now runs OS X and XP Pro through Boot Camp. And yes the Mac runs Windows faster than a PC does.

Now comes the redesigned Mac Mini which I picked up last week and the new iPhone 4, scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. Hopefully tomorrow will be a great day for many reasons, not just because of Apple products.

P.S. My arms are still hurting from mounting those 3 TV’s. The first 2 weren’t bad but the 3rd I had to screw the large bolts into the wall by hand, proving extremely difficult… but I got it done.

For now, though, I’m re-watched Richard Kelly’s 3rd feature film…

Reverse Cahill

I realized that lately I’ve been in bed by 10:30pm and asleep around 11, getting a pretty good night’s sleep on a daily basis. At first I couldn’t figure out why because most nights I’m out, more than I’ve ever been since I’ve lived in Philly. But when another friend said the exact same thing we took a look at what we had in common and figured it out. We both have our nights back since 24 and Lost have permanently ended, and most other shows have finished their seasons. It’s actually been pretty nice overall, I wake up rested and I get plenty done during the evening. No real point to this, just kind of funny how small things affect your life in big ways.

So the iPhone pre-order… what a complete mess that was. When I awoke Apple and AT&T’s website had already crashed but during my commute it came back. By the time I got to work things were being weird with both websites. Within 30 minutes Apple had their website up and running strong. The problem stayed with AT&T for days and is still continuing. You could fill out pre-order items for the iPhone 4 but when it came time to handshake with AT&T’s website it just fell apart. I tried many times a minute all through Tuesday from 8am on. I was also trying to order directly from AT&T as opposed to just Apple, which I did last year. Sometime early after I managed to get through on AT&T’s site and was able to order the phone. For a few days I wasn’t even sure if it had gone through as I had no confirmation e-mail. I did print the screen saying my order was put in however since then not even one e-mail even though others were saying they were getting them. Eventually it showed up on AT&T’s order status, right around when they announced that the iPhone had sold out and anybody who ordered it after 4pm PST would get their phone sometime in early July. The persistence paid off bigtime and today the phone shipped for most likely a Thursday delivery.

This past Thursday I got a call from Carolyn who ‘surprised’ me with the news she’d be in Philly as soon as Friday, staying until Sunday. I say surprised in quotations because apparently during my NYC trip she told me at the bar and I must have forgot. Or blocked it out so I’d be surprised later.

This past weekend I found myself with what seems a new part time job: mounting TV’s on the wall.

Somehow I lined up installing a full home theater Saturday and then mounting 2 more TV’s on the wall for Alli and Amanda on Sunday. Today is the Monday after. And my arms hurt. The end.