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Jaws, The Big Screen And The Orpheum Theater

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On July 13, 2016

In New Orleans, Random Musings

Quick: Name the movie with this popular line.

“You’re going to need a bigger boat.”

Simple, right? That was Titanic.

All right. All right.

Any movie buff that’s worth his/her salt knows that’s from Jaws.

Until recently, all of my viewings of Jaws were restricted to a small screen. After all, I was negative-10 years old when it first came out in theaters way back in 1975.

That all changed on a recent Monday night when I saw Jaws — on the big screen, mind you — at The Orpheum Theater here in New Orleans. It was a free showing thanks to the Orpheum Summer Film Series presented by the Tipitina’s Foundation.

I’ll say this: There is just something about seeing a great movie on the big screen that seeing it on a regular TV doesn’t do it justice, no matter how big that TV is.

For the life of me, I can’t think of a movie someone my age could watch 30-40 years from now that would leave the same kind of impact.

The aforementioned Titanic? Possibly. Just because of how big the scale of it is.

Mad Max: Fury Road? As much as I loved it, I have a feeling it’s fine on a TV screen.

I honestly don’t think I can name one. If you can, let me know on Twitter and if you need my handle, just check on the right-hand side of the page (@tylermayforth).

I don’t want to sound like I’m waxing poetic, but they just don’t make movies like they used to. And yes, I’m saying that about a movie that came out 10 years before I was born.

Fantasy Baseball, Video Games and Random Musings

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On July 28, 2015

In Random Musings

As I was driving home from work, a bunch of different ideas came to me for a post, but none of them I could really flesh out. So here are those thoughts in bullet form.

This is what we’ll call another ‘Random Musings’ post from yours truly. Away we go.

  • Like most males my age — or most males in general — I get pretty good at video games. About 10 years ago, the greatest baseball game of all-time came out (MVP 2005). Being half-decent at baseball in general, I picked up the game pretty well and six months to one year later, I was ranked No. 3 in the world on PlayStation 2 online. I shouldn’t be too proud about that since I probably wasted a lot of time playing that game. Speaking of which, one of my addictions a few years ago was Mass Effect 3. My old roommate got me hooked on the online multiplayer aspect of it and I cracked the Top 100 of a few leaderboards. I’m truly embarrassed to admit how much time I spent playing that game. I just looked it up — 706 hours, 15 minutes, 45 seconds.
  • Video games are an every-now-and-then type of thing for me now, but I’m quite fond of fantasy baseball as a way to kill time. Only in one league this season, but that’s more than enough. Currently I’m sitting in first place, 7 games up on second place. We go H2H, compared to Roto (if you can’t tell). My team isn’t anything special, so I am thinking we’re just getting by on smoke and mirrors, which is all right with me. Just traded for Bryce Harper and Manny Machado so we’ll see how that works out the rest of the way.
  • Did you read my tome about the CONCACAF Gold Cup? I had a great time writing about my thoughts and an even better time at the game. Check it!
  • Trivia Playoffs start this week! Even though we missed last week because of the game, the host assured we were in the running. We won earlier this summer and finished respectably the rest of the way, so as long as we hold our own, we should be able to make some noise. If not, we’ll bomb out. As our team motto goes: “If you’re going to lose, lose big.” It’s how you learn.
  • Played disc golf last week for the first time in a while. Needed to clear my head and that’s a great place to do it. Shot even par and should have went under par if it weren’t for a lazy approach on No. 16. Damn you, disc gods!

I don’t have much else. Thanks again for reading my random musings on this post.

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