Futile things I've learned this week...

1) Nobody has a copy of the soundtrack to "The Professional: Golgo 13". I spent hours and hours and hours sifting through the internet trying to find information on it, and have found this much:

A) The singer of the theme was Cindy Wood, who may or may not be the Playboy Playmate.

B) The end theme is called "Golgo 13 and I".

C) There's an incidental song called "Love's Mistery". Yes, with an I.

D) The movie came out May 28th, 1983.

I did find a Japanese site apparently selling the old vinyl single for the three songs, but whether they'll understand me when I ask them if they still have it in stock or not is beyond me. And some schmoe on Last.fm has one of the songs on his playlist, but it's probably some audio rip from the movie itself. A waste of my time, through and through!

2) "Smokey and the Bandit Part II" is a really, really crummy film, and an even worse sequel. But Jackie Gleason was as funny as ever, so I decided to see if anyone had some find of fan copy of the unreleased part 3 version called "Smokey IS the Bandit". Several hours of searching turned up nothing, save for one guy mentioning he saw a blooper reel with scenes from it. Is said reel anywhere online? Of course not! So, I figured, hey, someone has to have a picture of Jackie Gleason playing Burt Reynolds' role of the Bandit, right? Again, hours and hours and EONS of searching turn up nothing. But I did learn Gleason appeared in the Bandit costume on an episode of "Entertainment Tonight" back around the time of the movie's filming. How does that help me? It doesn't. More wasting of my time!

You know what's disturbing? The icons here on TV.com. Way too many guys have girls for their icons, and vice versa. When I read a forum post or something, that image is subconsciously reflected back to me as how they "look". Way too many guys want to be identified as women, I tell ya.

Speaking of women, I'd be doing a show guide for Nubeluz on TV.com right now... if, you know, I actually spoke Spanish... and the episodes actually had titles... and I had more than 100 episodes of 10 Billion total there were...

I revived my old Power Rangers Spoiler Warnings site, at last:

Lots of overly detailed, over-written, overblown summaries of Power Ranger episodes, with cast & crew lists so accurate they make IMDB weep. It's ironic, I hate novelizations of movies and shows, and yet I ended up writing what amounted to such.