{"id":489,"date":"2006-07-16T17:54:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T17:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2006-07-16T17:54:37","modified_gmt":"2006-07-16T17:54:37","slug":"mind_candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/mind_candy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Candy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Sunday afternoon here and I&#8217;ve finished all my chores.  Washed, claybarred, polished and waxed my horribly dirty car, did laundry, vacuummed, cleaned the bathroom and kitchen.  Whew.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nGuess it&#8217;s time for a mindless movie! <\/strong>  I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.com\/homevideo\/ultraviolet\/index.html\">UltraViolet<\/a> on DVD.<br \/>\nThe acting was not that good and the story was not much better.  Five things saved this movie.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/uv115.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/uv115.html','popup','width=568,height=1238,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">Milla Jovovich<\/a>, great wire work, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fashionoffice.org\/motor\/2006\/bmw6-2006.htm\">BMW motorcycles<\/a>, Shanghai location shoots and <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.co.uk\/images?q=milla%20jovovich%20ultraviolet&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wi\">Milla Jovovich<\/a>.  I wouldn&#8217;t have paid US$10 to see it in the theater, but it would&#8217;ve made a good in-flight movie.<br \/>\nMuch better than that horribly-PC flick, Aeon Flux (the old animated shorts are MUCH better), that they&#8217;re showing <em>ad-nauseam<\/em> on most of the mainline carriers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Sunday afternoon here and I&#8217;ve finished all my chores. Washed, claybarred, polished and waxed my horribly dirty car, did laundry, vacuummed, cleaned the bathroom and kitchen. Whew. Guess it&#8217;s time for a mindless movie! I watched UltraViolet on DVD. The acting was not that good and the story was not much better. Five things &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/mind_candy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mind Candy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-topics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-7T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}