Indiana Jones is a funny guy! Feels like they picked up on the relationship drama from the previous movie, and really built upon it with this one, with the assistance of an Asian kid and a bunch of animals.

It starts elsewhere (Shanghai), but most of the movie takes place in India, features a hysterical girl (Willie, played by Kate Capshaw) and an evil cult of Kali worshipers who have in their possession one special stone. There's a bit of a loose end with how it starts with vengeance that... isn't ever fulfilled, but I guess they never learn do learn that Indiana is actually still alive. At least not in this movie... nor in the ones that follow. Bit of a loose end.

Disregarding potential plot hole, it was a good movie. Not as good as the last one, with new sceneries; plenty of animal life and people. It was exotic and foreboding in a way the previous wasn't, and features some impressive stunts, and memorable fights... even if they are mostly of the oldskool punch-swapping types. The music seems a little less Star Wars inspired in this one too, so I guess this is where the franchises branch apart.

I liked mostly everything about this movie, but I did like the former one even better. Just something about the Nazis, maybe? The ever so villainous and menacing? Was going to point out that I'd rather the former had won an Oscar than this, but it looks that one won four! I'm not alone. :O

Either way, this was worth the view, even if it's mostly underground; with few grand views of the former sorts. Compared to that one, it had considerably more comedy though; some entertaining train track trips and tunneling tragedies. And when they do finally get outside, the views are grand. Forget the crocodiles and their cloth-chewing endeavors, the heights are the real thrill. Great watch.

 rated 4/5: fo shizzle

The first Indiana Jones movie! The one that started it all! And yes, it was awesome. It starts in the jungle, just like you'd expect, with one grand and incredibly short trip into a tomb, but soon moves back to campus, and soon back to the wild again. This time it's to the sandy dunes of Cairo, where a search for the Ark of the Covenant (the one the ten commandments were carried in) is underway. It's not just a race to find the Ark, but a race to find it before the Nazis. Oh, and there's a girl too: Marion, played by Karen Allen. Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones (if you didn't know).

The music seems almost Star Wars inspired, the stunts are fantastic, the props realistic (all those spiders and snakes look pretty real though), and I'm thoroughly enjoying the oldskool milieu! This was the movie with the fabled face-melting scene too, incredibly well done; entirely without special effects. Even the occasional special effects don't look bad for a soon forty year old movie, from a time when special effects usually did look pretty lousy.

It's an adventure movie in class, with cleverness and comedy and great caliber. If my impressions are great because this is how I remember it or because it really is great is a different matter entirely, but considering this franchise has kept going strong for so long I assume it's the latter. Great watch.

 rated 4/5: fo shizzle

At least, I plane a new path on this atlas
A slash with my cutlass and that's a sliver of dead
A shivering red just slithering like quicksilver and led
Running down

• What are you doing?
• Why do you do it?
• What do you want to achieve?

I'd like to do so much!
But some days I'm just out touch
Like I can't keep up with my goals!
I stroll away, from flow and soul

I woke up thirsty. So thirsty I felt hungry. Sweaty from tangling with all too warm covers in what had apparently been an all too un-windy night, the room stuffy despite the window just slightly ajar - it's mid-winter. The sun shone behind the curtains though, glimmering on the morning frost.

Of course, I couldn't actually see this with the curtains closed, but I gulped down a half cup of honey water fortunately left on my bedside table with great greed, and promptly jumped up for a preview. Looked out the window for a moment, turned on Windows, closed the window where in no wind go in a window of time. And now, indoors and windowed like a lone widow, the new day begins!

This is actually the third place I start typing this post. First at 750 Words, then at 100 Words, and now here - slightly revised with each new rendition of the "I woke up thirsty...".

So, what's on the tray today? New music, that's what is, and that's what's up with the title. I posted a bunch of previously unposted work just now, and thought I'd let you know. And maybe post some direct links too. There, that's the dose for the day! Enjoy! And as always: Comments much appreciated.

In other news, Detective Conan just reached 800 episodes. Woah. 800. Episodes. 800 x 25 / 60 = 333. That's 320 hours of the best detective fiction you can find! Or in other measurement: 20,000 minutes! 40 working days! 8 working weeks! 16 days with barely any breaks and just a couple hours of sleep! 2 months worth of all day/night weekend watching that'd totally cause you to oversleep on Monday and probably do worse than that! If you haven't seen it... you might not want to start because that's an immense amount of episodes to catch up on! I've tried. I'll probably try again some day too.

It's also a new month, last month of the year... feels like there's a lot I'd like to, need to and hopefully will do before the year is over; new vows be made. Ciao for now.