Zabriskie Pointless (or how I spent my weekend)….

Updated on September 4, 2007 By Ken Begg 8 Comments

I hope everyone enjoyed their extended weekend.  (I won’t say ‘long’ weekend; mine didn’t seem that way, certainly.  Wait, that’s not true.  It seemed very long indeed while I was watching the Cubs ‘play’ yesterday.)

I finally overcame my techno-phobia and installed the new Acer flatscreen monitor I bought with funds from the recent donation drive.  It’s huge!  I had no idea.  And the fact that I was able to install it with a minimus of fuss indicates an extremely high user friendliness factor.  Anyway, the new monitor is the bee’s knees, and takes up so much less space on my work area.  So thanks for that, gang. 

Of course I farted around much of the weekend, although I did finally at least begin the Zabriskie Point review Pip Vandergeld requested of me.  (Hence the hi-larious pun in the title of this post.)  Yotch!  It’s going to be a slog, folks.  I’m about twelve minutes in and the movie’s nearly two hours long and I’ve got that pain in my forehead I got while reviewing The Trial of Billy Jack.  Pip, if you were a man, I’d punch you in the face.

So I’ll continue working on that, at the threat of my sanity.  And yours.  I doubt it will be finished by this weekend, but I’ll at least get a nugget or something up.  Then it’s on to the oft requested Hawk the Slayer, and then a sponsored review that seems to be turning into a trilogy of pieces (or one very long review), so…that should take me through October, anyway.

Speaking of Zabriskie, I was wondering if one of you more creative types wouldn’t mind running me up a “Warning: This review contains Hippy-Bashing” banner or sign or something of the like.  Might as well give newbies a flyer before they start reading the peace, so that they can give it a pass if that’s their druthers.

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  • Chad R.

    I want you to put up a Hippie-Bashing banner so I can seek those pieces out, and I don’t even hate hippies all that much. I just like watching you hate them.

  • Patrick Coyle

    I don’t know of making banners, but a screencap from Futurama featuring one of the Free Waterfall family might be a start for someone else to work with maybe?

    I too don’t mind the hippie bashing at all. I’m hard pressed to think of any artifact of American culture as naive, embarrassing, or quickly obsoleted as the hippie.

  • Pip

    Love is all you need, Ken.

  • Well, I’m about twenty minutes in after last night, so I think I can authoritatively state that the ZP review will not be up this weekend. This is generally the worst part of the reviewing process, because the beginning of a film, with all the establishing material, takes forever to recap. Generally things start going faster about half way through, as the plot starts kicking in. (On the other hand, with a basically plotless movie like this…) We’ll see.

  • The Rev. D.D.

    I wish I could say I enjoyed it, but we spent the whole weekend moving. As we did the week before.

    Worst Labor Day EVER.

    We all agreed we’re not moving again until we’re rich enough to afford people to move everything for us.

  • silverwheel

    Wasn’t this movie scored by Pink Floyd? I think that the album “Obscured By Clouds” was the sountrack to this flick.

  • fish eye no miko

    ken said: “Generally things start going faster about half way through, as the plot starts kicking in.”

    … The movies you review have plots…? I’ll be damned.

  • Axolotl

    silverwheel, “Obscured by Clouds” is the soundtrack to an obscure French film named “The Valley” (or its French equivalent). Pink Floyd was on the ZP soundtrack, but so were several other psychedlic bands including, I belive, the Grateful Dead.