Back Home Again...

[kybearfuzz]

Happy happy birthday to the very handsome susobear. I hope you had a great one!

After driving 750 miles all over Eastern Kentucky's winding roads and hills, I was thrilled to finally get home and sleep in my own bed. I slept until 8 AM and then napped from 11 AM to 2 PM. It feels so good to be home.

I saw a bizarre fact while watching The History Channel today about a town that had a fire burning in a coal mine that will burn likely for 100 years more. More, I thought? The town is Centralia, PA. Apparently in 1962, some burned trash in a strip mine caught a vein of coal on fire, the vein ran underneath the town and continues to burn to this very day. The burning coal veins have released toxic gas and other problems to the point where the town has become a ghost town over the years as people have had to leave. Studies show that the burning coal veins could potentially continue to burn for another 100 years. I found a this website with lots of photos and information about Centralia.

I caught a matinee of Hoodwinked today. It was a fairly entertaining film. The animation was a bit like something from JImmy Neutron. The movie's main characters are voiced by Anne Hathaway (Red Riding Hood), Glenn Close (Granny), and Patrick Warburton (The Wolf). It's a basic whodunit, trying to determine who is stealing all of the goody recipes from the forest, so you get interviews with each of the character's who put their spins on interweaving storylines. The main detective is Nicky Flippers, a dapper-looking frog who looks and acts strangely like Nick Charles (i.e. The Thin Man). Favorite scene: five chipmunks dressed up like the Village People. Keep a sharp eye open for that or you'll miss it. The hyperactive squirrel photographer is fun too.

Overall, I enjoyed the movie, I liked the interconnected stories. For a theater full of kids, everyone was reasonably well behaved, so the movie experience was pretty nice. Not to ruin the movie, but there is no extra scene at the end, just a bit of animation for the movie company logo.

The rest of the evening involved watching "Joan of Arcadia" on DVD. This show was really well-written and well-acted. I'm surprised it didn't last longer than two seasons.... Just proof, I guess, that any show of witty and entertaining quality will likely not last very long.

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[artsycub.livejournal.com]

Another weird fact about Centralia:

There's an upcoming horror/suspense movie that has the working title Silent Hill: Centralia (according to IMDB). Something tells me that the film will just be called Silent Hill, and that the Centralia portion of it might've just been a log floating through the rumor mill.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I looked up the movie website and entry on IMDB and it seems the movie is based on a video game. I thought maybe the movie was set or filmed in Centralia, but IMDB lists it's filming locations as Brantford, Hamilton, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Strangely enough, I've been to Brantford before (it's the hometown of Wayne Gretzsky).

[artsycub.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's based off of one of my favorite game series. After looking at some of the images from the Centralia link you posted I can see how the desolation could translate well into the story, but I don't see how else it'd tie into it. Oh well, only time will tell.