The Kri Database & Kri's Movie Club

07/18/2026

After going to a Goldeyes game last week, I was inspired to rewatch The 2005 Bad News Bears that me and Kri watched at his house on Cullen in 2005. We laughed our asses off at this movie and while I was looking for lists of baseball movies I noticed that most people did not like this film at all! Kri and I found it so hilarious that he gave me the DVD. This is just as funny as I remember with rude swearing children who are totally convincing with tons of funny lines, Billy Bob is in his Bad Santa element being mean to kids, Greg Kinnear as a jackass dad. It is gold! Now I will have to watch the old one for the first time to see why people on the internet were so angry about this one which Kri and I will always love. 😂

07/16/2026

Kri's movie pick!! In my beloved brother's honor, Nan and I watched Highlander, which I hadn't seen since Kri's VHS copy in the mid 90s. This is cinematically stunning at certain times, but at other times a bit ridiculous with a pretty lame secondary love story, and some very confusing accents including Sean Connery's, who plays an Egyptian. 😂 But overall it has a marvelous nostalgic 80s fantasy essence, with a very convincingly scary bad guy (from The Shawshank Redemption and Sleepers, who we recognized just as Kri always did for every actor from everything... ) with a magnificent soundtrack by Queen and certain scenes that are just beaituful. I've heard the following Highlander movies are terrible... "There can be only one." Haha. But that won't stop me from watching them!! I think Kri had the 2nd one on VHS too, which means it must be cool in some way. 😅

05/30/2026

I'm learning to lucid dream and the last one that I had about Kri, he told me that he joined the Navy and became a fighter pilot!! So OBVIOUSLY Kri's pick for movie club this week is Top Gun so I will watch it with the fam this weekend which will mark one year since my beloved brother crossed the veil. I wrote a lengthier post about him in the link below because this account is connected to Instagram, which cannot contain my many words hehe:

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05/30/2026

This weekend it will be one year since my beloved brother Kri crossed the veil and it has been the hardest but also most incredibly progressive year of my life. I have been diligently writing about Kri and all my new experiences such as; I receive signs from Kri ALL THE TIME. I have never read more books in one year than this past one, and there is a fascinating book called “The Signs” written on this subject by Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and psychologist for any of you interested in challenging yourselves and your loved ones on the other side. Since Kri-Fest on August 27th, (thank you Michelle Wren Sparrow who kicked it off) I have learned to use my intuition in ways I didn’t even know were possible and hey guess what, anyone can do it. Yes you. More news of this will come later and eventually the uplifting story of “The Kri Database” will find its form(s) as it keeps morphing into something more and more spectacularly ethereal. At this moment, it seems it is going to be a book and workshop for dealing with grief and finding ways to manage loss by understanding that our loved ones are not actually gone, they’ve just taken a different form. In a well-researched, skeptical Kri-type way, there are a lot of current scientific facts included in my writing, following the path of my eulogy for Kri; where I talked about quantum physics and consciousness relating to the afterlife. Who ever thought I’d become interested in neuroscience, other levels of reality and energy frequencies?? Not Kri. And not me. Kri continues to inspire and teach me, and prepare all of us for the losses ahead so we know how to deal with them in a healthier, more euphoric and empowering way. More updates to come as things unfold down this sublime rabbit hole. ❤
I finally updated my Kri Database Youtube Channel to include most (but certainly not all) of the movies, Tv shows and music Kri loved in different lists based on genre (OK, OK, the music is mostly still just one gigantic "Kri's Awesome Songs" list which I listen to on shuffle constantly and I'm sorry Cat Shorey I had to remove the Everlast, it was driving me nuts hahaha), so if you are looking for some Kri-approved cinematic experiences or music this weekend or at any point, please visit https://www.youtube.com/ and if you’d like to subscribe you’ll get notified when more movies, TV shows and forgotten music is added for some fun blasts into the past.
And here are some Kri quotes for you to ponder this weekend:
“I'll take my time anywhere
I'm free to speak my mind anywhere
And I'll never mind anywhere
Anywhere I roam
Where I lay my head is home
And the earth becomes my throne
I adapt to the unknown
Under wandering stars I've grown
By myself but not alone” – James Hetfield (Metallica)
And of course...
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!!” - The Wizard of Oz
I see you Kri. ❤

This channel was created for my late brother Kri, to honour all of his enthusiasm for rock music, Johnny Cash, movies, toys and other things that he loved. Please send me suggestions if you know of movies or music that he loved that are not listed here yet. There are a lot!

04/30/2026

Kri's movie club pick today! I generally don't like watching any sort of violence in entertainlent but I've noticed I make a LOT of exceptions with "Kri movies" which bring me so much nostaligic joy, such as this one. Kri brought home this rental from the video store in 1998. It was perhaps the only German movie we had ever watched at that point of our lives and we were instantly taken by it. We marveled at how magnificently filmed it was with the animation sequences, intense pace, colors, a pioneering non-linear story at that time, and the upbeat electronic soundtrack some songs which are sung by Franka Potente...Lola! I brought the soundtrack dubbed onto cassette to Europe in 2001 and listened to it repeatedly on my walkman (😅) during my first trip to Germany, and stumbled upon Lola's costume in a museum in Berlin. This VHS movie which was purchased soonafter our first viewing, its soundtrack and certain German lines from it, became known in our household and stayed with us for decades. De tasche. De tasche. De tasche. De tasche. If you haven't seen this shining jewel, revel in 1 hour and 21 minutes of historical 90s film making artistry.

Run Lola Run soundtrack: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTFQbGm88i2iJKNme4GYx-p7Banicvmm1&si=XJNI4XuFzZcEGJMO

04/04/2026

Because of Kri's aptitude for understanding computers, we got the internet in 1994, before everybody else. This of course gave me a wicked addiction to internet chatlines during highschool, with which I nearly failed all my classes! I however knew nothing of hacking. Kri was the tech guy in our house who spent his entire life in a variety of Tech jobs (after John Blumberg Softball Complex Groundskeeper and Extra Foods Produce Boy. 🤣) One day in 1995, Kri brought home this movie and in spite of his disdain for how they showed the hacking scenes, over the years we STILL adored this movie with its incredible electronic soundtrack, amazing 90s raver wardrobe, believable plot and interesting characters. A standalone 90s classic for sure, it is still a marvelous delight to watch now.

03/09/2026

The next selection for my beloved late brother Kri's Movie Club is the sequel to Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer! I didn't remember ANYTHING about this golden piece of 80s fantasy. Grace Jones (of Bond villainess fame) plays a spectacular warrior, Olivia D'abo (the hippie sister in The Wonder Years) plays a convincing prophetic princess, and Wilt Chamberlain (the NBA hall of famer) at 7"1 is a delight to watch as her bodyguard merely stepping off what looks like a child's sized horse as he makes Arnold look like an average sized guy. This one is more aimed at kids, less gory and more magical than the first, but equally wonderful.

SHOCKER!! I just discovered Kri's beloved wrestling buddy Andre from The Princess Bride plays Dagoth in Conan!? Anybody want a peanut??? Another unexpected synchronicity. Kri continues to give us movie trivia, across the veil. ❤️

03/01/2026

Last week my friend Shawn Fedora recounted a conversation he had years ago where Kri defended the greatness of the 1982 movie Conan the Barbarian starring a young Arnold Schwartzenegger. This made me laugh because Arnie was just one of the many action heroes Kri brought into our very young lives. (For example, I don't think kids were supposed to watch The Running Man before they were 9 years old. 🤣) In spite of the barbaric gore, we adored Conan and still now it is fun to watch, especially for Arnie's badass war paint while going to save the princess (who doesn't want to be saved) and James Earl Jones as the very convincing snake sorceror cult leader Thulsa Doom, in his first major villain role... where you actually see him act and not just hear his voice! Conan the Destroyer will be next week. 🥰

02/25/2026

The Princess Bride was a classic we often quoted and referred to, but Kri naturally had a speciial place in his heart for Andre the Giant. So this is the quote that made it on the wall at Kri-Fest, our fabulously Kri-esque celebration of life for him. In my eulogy that day, I spoke of Kri's strong influence on us as children and a speech I wrote in French in grade 3 about wrestling, for which I won 3rd place in the school division! I still have Kri's Piledriver WWF Cassette tape, just looking for a tape player to relive that... glory. 🤣 We always hated the H***y Tonk Man, but loved Elvis so this song goes out to my mom who liked him because he looked like Elvis. And here is another poster from Kri-Fest... it's funny how these seemingly unrelated things all line up together. What an unforgettable character, my brother. I'll never run out of things to say about him, it's just my aversion to social media that keeps it slow moving! ❤️