Movies, books, musicians, games, athletes, whatever…
Project Gotham Racing for the Xbox: completely under the radar and freaking outstanding in every way. I’m addicted.
The Game starring Michael Douglas: Totally original concept, had me fooled until the very end, thought it was terrific… can’t get any of my friends to watch it.
Well, this might not be what you were thinking, but: the color triad of green, purple and orange is awesome for decorating. Gaudy, you say? Not at all. The comforter on our bed is a relaxed abstract print of very pale, very muted tints of brown (which is just orange with black or gray mixed in), sage and smoky plum on an ivory background. We will soon paint our bedroom walls a soft cocoa.
Our guest bedroom will have walls of light-to-medium smoky purple (some kind of faux finish), with furniture of natural mahogany (off which I am currently stripping the old, ugly paint) and accents of light-medium sage.
It’s a very sophisticated, soothing palette that lends itself to colors already common in many homes. (Wood is generally orange/brown, and houseplants are, of course, green.) I don’t get why it isn’t used more often.
The movie The Truman Show. IMO it’s one of the best films of the past 10 years, yet it’s not even in the IMDB Top 250.
The JoHan Chrysler Turbine Car model kit. Originally tooled in the Sixties, with excellent scale appearance and incredible detail for the time: opening doors, hood, and trunk; poseable steering; and wonderful detail engraving on the bits. It’s easily better than ninety-five percent of the kits being made today.
Best feature of all: Molded coil springs that are really coil-shaped. Must’ve taken at least a three-piece mold.
Oh, and JoHan’s packaging was specifically designed to prevent parts from chafing against each other (at a time when AMT and Monogram were just throwing the sprues into the box).