Re:View - Temple of Doom

 

"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" was the first Indiana Jones movie I ever saw and I loved it. When I was a little older and finally saw "Raiders of the Lost Ark" I was a little disappointed - it was clear to me that "Temple..." was the better movie. I was surprised to learn that that is the minority opinion.

These days, the only thing that's clear to me is that my favorite of the trilogy is "Last Crusade." "Temple of Doom" is so dark and weird and the action is so ridiculous, judging between that and "Raiders" is a battle between my brain and heart. Or it's a battle between me as a child and me as an adult. Fortunately it doesn't matter and no one cares. That raft thing is so inexcusable though...

Black Out Sick

Today I woke up with my hand in the toilet.

It was Monday morning when a friend messaged me and said he may have had a cold when we were hanging out earlier. I saw that as trouble because I already knew I was feeling a bit "off." All day Monday, I felt a fever rising, a growing weakness and achy muscles.

By the end I could no longer concentrate on anything. I crawled into bed and tried to sleep. Sleep wouldn't come, in fact my fever grew, my heart raced and every muscle in my body was in pain.

Sometime in the middle of the night I got up to go to the bathroom. I woke up lying on the bathroom floor with my right hand in the toilet. I had evidently passed out while peeing and tried to brace the fall, landing in the space between the toilet and the bath. Funny thing about me: I had never stuck my hand in the toilet before so this was a new experience. I was as as disgusted as I could be given that my brain was almost completely numb.

I got up to wash my hand. I woke up again lying on the floor, staring up at the bathroom ceiling. I had passed out again and landed sitting somewhat upright with the back of my head propped up against the wall. Unable to move, I sat there for an unknown amount of time. Two sensations predominated: firstly, I was astonished with how much I could feel the back of my head pouring sweat and secondly, I became aware of a loud swooshing sound of unknown origin, and it wasn't going away. It could be something going on outside my house, I considered the remote possibility that it was from inside my house. I thought there was a good possibility that it was a hallucination, brought on by this fierce unique disease.

When I overcame the nausea enough to stand up again, I found the swooshing noise was simply the faucet still running from my failed attempt to wash up.

Given that I fell unconscious, one time falling forward, one time falling backward and given that everything in the bathroom is solid rock, I'm very fortunate that I did not smash my teeth or break my skull. I seem to have fallen on my elbow and knee - those seem to be new injuries - in the first instance and in the second instance, I don't know if there was any serious head injury because I felt concussed anyway.

Late Show - Harold Larkin's Favorite Moments

 

Head Carpenter Harold Larkin recounts his favorite moments working on the Late Show.

Late Show - Dave Calls Out CNN For Lying

 

This is another video that I had on youtube that was struck for copyright and has now been officially uploaded. I called it "Dave vs. The White House vs. CNN" - is this title better? I don't know. "Dave Calls Out CNN for Lying" is more confrontational, it does have a certain clickbait flair, but still I liked that I captured the fact that it was a Mexican standoff where there were 3 parties involved and one of the was the President.

But also, this version is the full saga whereas I only had the middle portion.

And how hard is it to determine whether you've received a call from the White House? I've lived for thousands of days and for each of those days, I can DEFINITIVELY say FOR SURE whether I received a call from the White House or not. It really isn't that hard.

Rocket Man - Who Did It Best?

 

Whose rendition of "Rocket Man" is superior? It's obviously not Elton John's, I think we can all agree,  but besides that, I can't decide between Shatner and Chris Elliot.

Film Flam - Humble Abose?

 

Abose.