Just got the latest
Lord of the Rings Fan Club magazine, and found one quote from Peter Jackson quite interesting. He was asked what deleted scenes he regrets having to excise, and he mentions the Púkel-men who guide the Rohirrim through the mountains:
I always found it kind of slightly weird and creepy with those wild men with Ghân-Buri-Ghân and the way they intercept the Rohirrim when they are trying to get to Minas Tirith. It has that great pagan kind of quality to it. It was not something in the way that we structured the film that we could ever afford to do, so we never shot it. It is not something we even have for the DVD unfortunately.
This is quite ironic, since during the days of build-up to the movie’s release the Ghân-Buri-Ghân rôle was one of the few that were listed in IMDB’s cast list for
Return of the King. It is quite bizarre that Wi Kuki Kaa (
The Bounty,
Kingpin), despite being one of the few actors listed on IMDB’s original
ROTK page, was evidently never filmed for the movie.
And speaking of
The Lord of the Rings, what could be better than reading the book or watching the movies? Dressing like the characters as you read the book or watch the movies!
Museum Replicas has a line of handsome and official replicas of Ngila Dickson’s
costumes from the Peter Jackson film. What’s more, they also offer official replicas of the
costumes from
Monty Python & the Holy Grail!
What’s the scariest, most unnerving thing you can think of? Naked photos of me? A Bush second term?
Joe is back home again. He left Ecuador at seven this morning, with a lengthy stop at Miami. His American Airlines flight touched down at 10:13 tonight, and I brought my camcorder with me when we picked him up at the airport…
There are some who feel Frolixo‘s hobbit, which he created for Wizardry 8, looks like me…
Jesu Christo, I can’t believe how long it took to make this entry! I captured this video Friday night, from the Late Show on CBS, but I mistakenly recorded it as one of ATI’s stupid propietary “.vcr” files. And since then I’ve spent the weekend downloading various shareware and freeware utilities trying to convert it into something useable! (TMPGEnc was no help at all, but VirtualDub at least allowed me to make some progress.)
I’ve completed the first week of Phase Two again, and, like last time, my results have tapered off. In fact, I only lost half a pound since the last weigh-in, with my current weight at an even 218 pounds.
I really doubt Ralph Nader visits this site. As a renowned consumer advocate, these pale attempts at content would be the kind of thing he would be trying to shut down. But, nevertheless, on the off-chance he might visit here (perhaps, say, searching for pictures of naked fat people, which is usually what brings people here), I would like to say to him: Sir, for the love of all that is holy, please stay the hell out the presidential race.
If this latest video installment is to teach us anything, it is that the Brothers Chaps rule all and, more importantly, The Cheat is not dead.
