Seven steps to Kevin Bacon

You all know about the game where you need to trace a connection between a Hollywood actor to Kevin Bacon in a maximum of seven steps. I've found a way to make the game easier - Watch X-Files.

Jack Black (School of Rock), Kurtwood Smith (70's Show), Jewel Staite (of Firefly fame), Lucy Liu (Ally McBeal - she's actually speaking mainly chinese in her role in the X-Files), Tony Shalhoub (Monk), Terry O'Quinn (John Locke from the excellent show Lost), Christine Willes (Dead like me) and Willie Garson (the gay buddy from Sex in the City, Stanford) are just to name a few since I've been watching X-Files (again) starting with the first season and it is just astounding how many now-famous actors have graced the show with their cameos and minor parts. I'm now in season three and those names popped in my mind just while writing this.

Of course, X-Files was a really big show at that time and it had a different thing going on every episode with different people. I'm sure it has been a great springboard for many young actors to come.

Real busy again, hitting off to Riga in a few weeks, setting up the new apartment and moving in on April Fool's. Hope it's not an omen.

I am Victory

Whew. Got my thesis finished on friday. Huzzah!

Now I'm faced with boredom, so much time, so little to do - which is really rare. I'm constantly on the edge of getting up and starting to do something, but then again, I haven't had a lot of chances just to relax lately, so why not indulge myself?

Yesterday we went to see the Rat Pack, the remake of a classic show with Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin and damn that was a sweet show. They performed with a full big band, besides from the violins, which were synthesized - but in general the guy who they were "imitating" sounded just like the real thing (never actually hearing the person on stage alive though, but at least they had the mannerisms correct.)

They will be in Helsinki for another week, I suggest you go and see it.

Now back to Duke Ellington and his groovy razzmatazz.

Ta ta.

Writing, geeking, marketing.

Aw shucks. Although writing is really nice and creative and all that stuff, it has one bad side - it takes time to write and since Mind Itch will not become a link festival or a news copy room, I'll actually have to think of what I write. I do realize that no one actually cares about generic things, like what somebody has done for the last week or anything of that sort - we are always looking for some benefit, be it the fact that most people read personal blogs that show a picture that is poorer than of those of the readers'. You know, you feel better because someone is doing worse than you?

At least it looks like we'll have a hosting facility and then we'll just get our geek squad to start laying out the techy bits to make the blog worth the while.

np: Paranoid from the album "Hidden Treasures" by Megadeth (har, har, har)