Movie: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about the Disney release of the modern filmic adaptation of the novel / television series adaption of the radio series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Every concern and care has been taken to provide contemporary and sensitive American audiences, who tend not to recognize their own library card, with an easy and un-thought-provoking ride through a universe as pedestrian as any Hollywood summer fare. Most cynicism has been abandoned in favor of wellsprings of conventional cinematic hope and other such sentimental tripe. Irreverence has been avoided, as to not spur fanatics who tend to avoid movie theaters, as they are typically dark and ask for money up front without making it tax deductible, from avoiding the movie. Most guide entries and other spurts of non linear storytelling have also been nicely culled from this work, making it a more pedestrian and costly affair The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...

So doesn't that make this the Encyclopedia Galactica?

Note:.... Does EVERY (almost every) Review on the web, think they're being creative by titling the review "Don't Panic".... sheesh... If it were a surprisingly faithful adaptation, the invocation would be apt, but with nearly every essence of the original stories gone... (Zaphod being such a violent prick... I don't even recall a gin and tonic ever being mentioned in the film..)

SPOILERS.... Oh, who cares, the film was spoiled by being released. I hate this thing.
I gotta Hitchhiker nerd out over a few things here.

So, I know that this series has changed with each incarnation, BUT, the story always made some sense, even with events flipped around and lines swapped between characters.

One example for right now.... The Dentrassi are never even mentioned.. so who let them on board the Vogon ship? The movie does clarify that Vogons are officious and bureaucratic. Why was Ford carrying a Babel fish in his pocket? Why is he trying to Hitch a ride with some other ship, while still in Earth orbit, wouldn't a vessel friendly to Hitchhikers pick them up instead of the Vogons... (No hyperspace trip to Barnard's star... so we loose the lines

Arthur Dent

What are you doing?

Ford Prefect

Preparing for hyperspace. It's rather unpleasantly
like being drunk.

Arthur Dent

What's so wrong about being drunk?

Ford Prefect

Ask a glass of water.


.... What a waste.

I hate this...

I had at one point thought about bitching about the Gencon organization... why bother. Our family enjoyed Star Wars Celebration. But heres a thought on Geekdom;

Don't be a geek. Society says geeks don't get laid.
Be normal and get married. (Society says married guys don't get laid...)
Whaaa?

Oh WAIT.... Now Dave Letterman has a Top 10 List saying Star Wars fans are LOOSERS!!!

I have Answers!!!

Letterman Top Ten - Questions 2 Ask Yourself Before Camping Out To See Star Wars

10. Why don't I have anything better to do?

Please also ask that of the MILLIONS of people who went to see the Pope's Funeral, the stain on that Chicago underpass, any proffessional sport, any political rally, everyone surfing the internet or even watching late night television. We're all people, looking for something to do on a boring ball of wet dirt. David Letterman should appreciate the money he's made from breaking up the monotiny of life!

9. How many Wookies does my tent sleep?

My tent isn't secure to put into a tree, Wookies should provide their own tent.

8. Will it be more fun than when I camped out to see Miss Congeniality 2?

Yes, you won't be so alone. ($3,055,304 opening day, on 3,183 screens, that's $960 per screen that day... so like less than 2 dozen were in the theatre you saw it in... )

7. Exaclty when did I give up on doing anything meaningful with my life?

After you did Dave, I have a gap in my teeth too, but the posting for reading top ten lists is filled.

6. Will I be teased by roving gangs of Trekkies?

Only if we call the Trekers Trekkies.

5. If I use all my vacation days now, how will I take that trip to ice plant Hoth?

Well... the "Hoth" scenes were filmed in Norway. You CAN go there.... "Finse 1222"
The Hotel, is now a six star resort, PROUD that Empire was filmed there.

4. Does Starbucks let guys dressed as Galactic Bounty Hunters use their bathroom?

The second of Starbucks 6 guiding principles on their mission statement is "Embrace diversity as an essential component in the way we do business." That means yes, they're more open minded than YOU!

3. I wonder how many other guys on line are names 'Shecky'?

So what that Shecky Greene guest hosted the Tonight Show... don't drag Star Wars into it!

2. Should I just pay the extra dollar and use moviefone?

Actually, I did.

1. If I had a girlfriend what would she think?

If I had a girlfriend, I would be castrated and penectomized by my wife.

I have learned one thing from this. Don't wait in any line to ever see David Letterman. It's not that I want to be as whining as everyone else in this pathetic culture has become. But unless it involves alchohol in this country... you're not one of the cool people. In college they tell you to write at a fourth grade reading level. The reason is apparent, emotionally, none of us ever got out of the fourth grade. I'm right there with everyone else here... In the fourth grade I loved Star Wars and Transformers, and I'm damn proud to still love 'em. This whole country would be a lot better if you didn't think your childhood was something you had to forcibly sever from your life. Kepp what you enjoyed about it, and keep in mind how stupid you were a great deal of the time...

You can make fun of Star Wars / Trek / Comic Book / Sci-Fi Geeks when you make fun of ALL GEEKS!!!!! Sports Geeks, God Geeks, Jesus Geeks, Sex Geeks, Car Geeks, Beer Geeks... ALL OF THEM!!!!

shoe geeks, news geeks, beltway geeks, trivia geeks, home improvement geeks (junkies), camera geeks, pet geeks, diet geeks, excercise geeks.... there is nothing that anyone can enjoy and not be a geek about it!

I live in a culture of idiots. I can't go a day without hearing shit like this... or about the culture wars. The culture wars get to pick up guns and bombs and start drawing lines in the sand and killing each other, raping the women and killing the children, leaving burnt cities behind them. If the thought of that turns your stomach, don't participate in the "Culture wars"... If, you are willing to die and moreover kill over shit like Howard Stern, put yourself in an orange jumpsuit and swim to Gauntanamo Bay. America has a place for your kind.

Movie: Sahara

The Slim Fast beverages came out with a 0 calorie Slim Fast about a year ago... made with Splenda... A Slim Fast Lite, if you will. They also made a compromise, half lite version... it was 50% lite... Called Slim Fast Optima... (sounds like a long distance plan).... Well, Sahara is James Bond Optima. Chinsy on the thrills... take a run to pee at the wrong second and you'll miss why the plot matters to anyone besides Dirk Pitt... though the Merovingian is far more threatening to Palmer (Mmmmm Contact, I love that movie) than he was to Neo.

Am I bitching about this piece of mediocrity... Yes. I should say SOMETHING NICE.

This is without a doubt, Penelope Cruz's BEST movie I've seen!!!!!! (She really wasn't in much of Blow..)

Rainn Wilson took me out of the movie as much as some of the bad writing did. I'm not familiar with his work really, but he's on the office, and I hate Dwight. If any character needs to be tossed off the building or shreeded into dog-food by a disgruntled co-worker it's going to be Dwight.

Open Letter to ALL ACTRESSES of note; REFUSE to perform these stupid tired cliche's... It's bad enough a heavy has a gun on our unarmed hero in a scene... we know a surprise cohort will kill the heavy, I'm sick of this one..., BUT she fires the machine gun, and in the reaction shot is SHOCKED to see a gun in her hand. What shit. I though James Cameron and Ridley Scott cured us of silliness and women gun usage in action movies. No one laughs, nor is it entertaining. It takes up frames painting the character as worthless cardboard. I'm not going to go into every cringe inducing moment the female lead was given in this movie... KUDOS though for not having an OBLIGITORY BITCH BATTLE... Those almost always suck. I'm not opposed to women fighting in movies, I'm oppossed to them being required to fight the villian's girlfriend.

Van Helsing was so bad, they had the women fight in the women's bathroom... well it looked like a bathroom... Death by sofa.... (Last years movie, and I can't stop crabbing....)

Sahara... On ANY scale: Middle. 3/5, 5/10, one thumb up... unenthusiaticly... Worth the ticket... Eh... kinda, it'd been a better $2 show.... Sold me a DVD... probably not, but I'd like to see Raise the Titanic again now....

(At this point, The BEST movie of the year is Sin City... Worst is Robots... Favorite looks like Constantine... maybe him and Sin City are very close. Episode 3 and HHGTTG are on the horizon... these flicks will fade from memory fast.

Galactica Finalie....

Oooooooooooooh... nice. MMMmmmmm Enterprise, please have a finale hale that good. Galactica, come back soon... (July). Lucas.... Own up. Sci-Fi TV can work now. The rules are new. Sci-Fi Channel knows them. X-Files helped re-write the book, as did Star Trek TNG. The art has evolved and matured. Star Wars can come to TV, and be good. Galactica proves that there's room for plenty o space opera... Farscape too.... Where's Trek going now that the party has gotten interesting? To sleep on the couch like the old man of the room it is... but there's still love there, when Trek wakes up from it's nap, it'll hopefully be well rested.

TV - X-Play and other G4 rants.

No more Adam.

Dear G4, What are you thinking? Lets face it, X-Play is the reason you bought the Tech TV network, and destroyed it. X-Play is, if you even like videogames, one of the best shows on TV. Adam Sessler was the heart of that show... I don't know waht's going on behind the scenes, but if this is an attempt to get the viewers of X-play to watch just another half hour of G4, you should have made new X-Play episodes an hour long. If this is what Adam wants, well we love him.... If this was some coperate goons idea, it will haunt you. Please don't do Adam Sessler the injustice you commited upon Martin Sargent. I wasn't a fan of Mr. Sargent, but the way you killed his show didn't seem cool.

Oh, KUDO's to Icons for spotlighting Frank Miller!!!!!!! Do More about Comics!!!!!!!!!

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This SUCKS...

I just lost 45 minutes of typing on the ROTS GN to the pop up blocker......

Movie: Sin City

Ouch... I'd said... I'd had FAITH, that this may be the best comic adaption of all time... This is complicated.

I was not a "fan" of the Sin City Graphic novels. I really enjoyed the first one. I just didn't get into the others. Now I love Non-spandex comics, I wish they outnumbered superheroes 10-1, and that we still had the same number of spandex floppies on the shelf as we did 13 years ago. I wish they were all as good as Watchmen and FM's 300... but that's heaven, Japan may have those numbers, but as Manga publishers are discovering, quality is always rare.
Sin City is a REALLY good movie. VIOLENT, IRREVERANT, BRUTAL, and BEAUTIFUL. And I liked Constantine so much more... Constantine was a better movie...? I don't know... apples and oranges. I'll buy both. I hope for awesome multi disc presentations of both, exaustive bonus and behind the scenes material on both. But lets face it... Sin City is like Rocketeer and the Crow, so so so close to the comic, they are exactly as good as the comic, and in Comic Book Movies.... "General, would you care to step outside?" is THE moment to beat. Now that Christopher Reeve is gone... no not gone, passed into legend, it may be impossible to top as sheer perfection.
Mr. Rodriguez, and all the other true filmakers in Hollywood... keep going for it!

Worth Price of Admission: Yea. Hell Yea, but maybe not twice.
Dvd sold: Oh yea!!! 2-3 disc set MANDITORY. BUT, it NEEDS some of those great troublemaker 10 minute schools, and AT LEAST one on cooking. Plus, any live footage of bands at the wrap party....

Movie: Robots (2005)

With a cast sure to shrink the Kevin Bacon game down a degree or so... Actually, it's not worth typing about. Any and every review of Robots is a waste of time. Is seeing it a waste of time? Do you have a few hours to kill? The only warning about this movie... Well two... My daughter commented that it was... Too young... Now that I think about it, it has a Thomas the Train vibe.... She's seven so that stuff is for little kids. My 2yr old loved it, but was hoping Star Wars was going to be shown after it. The movie will kill adult brain cells. Don't worry, there's nothing there to talk about really. Take a kid with low expectations, take a nap, and it'll be a great afternoon at the movies... Especially if you can get someone to buy you concessions.

WPA: NR DVDSold: No.

Personal Notation. He puked on a guy... (this has nothing to do with the movie)

Trailer: Star Wars Episode III (The OC)

This summer in movies looked like such a treat... but as a lifetime long SW fan, I wasn't looking forward to the new movie with the zeal that I would expect to feel. Actually after seeing the first trailer, I didn't care so much. The first trailer went : "Here look at Episode IV... (mmm stroking past glory), hell we're so desperate, look at Episode II... (more past glory) excited yet? No, well don't worry yoda will fight a little, and Wookies and the planet Mordor will be there, give up eight bucks." And you think, I will, I'll even like it, and buy the DVD. Gotta finish this thing out... I mean, I do love SW right? Then came the OC. I had never watched this show before. Now, since I am a geek, and love comics, role playing games and Star Wars movies and the like, I've been accused of being... basically "detached from reality" At least by people who seem like they might enjoy a show like the OC. I haven't seen enough of the show to even know wether I'd like it or not, and can't attest to the week to week quality of the program, but The loves and day to day dilemmas of really beautiful teens with wealthy parents isn’t reality either. Of course the other night as I was buying a soda at the gas station (a daily sometimes twice daily habit) after checking my lottery tickets, (I spend two bucks every week or so… a “what the hell” sort of thing…) the woman in front of me spent $21 dollars on her [weekly?] lottery habit. There’s a detachment from reality. That’s spending 1040 dollars a year… With intrest It’s round $13,500 That she could have had in the bank after 10 years… Another 10 years of this and it’d be 42,504.78!!

Hey asshole! You waste money you could be saving to… Yes. I do. But when I waste money, like most of us, my goal is not to earn money with it. When buying lottery tickets, the goal is gaining money.

TV: 2005 Oscars

Every year, this is one of my favorite holidays, and I try to treat it as such. I love movies, the most visual of all the visual arts, a form that was multimedia nearly 70 years befor the term was around. It's been a life long love affair. There are plenty of comments on-line about the awards... we all root for different teams, that's the fun of watching awards shows, they're the closest these arts come to being sports. Just a few notes to the academy...

If the award is given during the telecast, it's important enough to be given on stage!!! Make-up or live action short aren't real awards anymore? "Here congratulations, next year don't bother getting up." Is the first step to having 3 hours of commercials proceeding a rushed reading of the winners all at once? The Oscars used to sit out on a table, go back to that, rush through a reading of the winners and let them pick up the trophy on their way to the door... presenting off the stage... HOW CHEAP. NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!

Next thing, One song per musical performer. I don't care who it is, it's not a concert of them. If you can't get 5 acts for 5 songs, save us half an hour.

...Oh the stage gathering of nominees... You guy's aren't thinking of having Ryan Seacrest host anytime soon, are you? A yes answer would be bad.

If you're an Academy awards planner or something similar or related, you may be scanning the blogs thinking, just say what you thought of Chris Rock, that's the only thing we care about... Well, you worried about the wrong thing. Chris Rock was fine. He's not a Billy Crystal, but he's far better than Whoopi or Letterman. Although if you want to screw with the format, try Letterman hosting while sitting down. Do the whole show in Late night talk show format. Ask the make-up nominees, they know what respect you have for Oscar...

Oh, BTW to whoever produces Red Carpet shows... the field was basically crap this year, so would someone please do...

Bravo:
"Queer Eye on the Red Carpet" Have Carson at the entrance complimenting and hugging everyone, sayin how fabulous they look. Have the rest of the Fab Five sitting in a loft watching Carson on CCTV speaking the truth about who's hot and who's not. Not just on fashion either, but the whole gossipy showbiz spectrum!!!

G4TechTV:
No solid concept here, but some viewers just don't give a damn who the designer of the gown is. Many of those viewers, who also watch G4, like Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb... This seems simple.

TV: Enterprise

The following was a chat about Enterprise had with a friend, who needs a blog of his own ;)


ladage: so did you see enterprise tonight?
p3orion: Hell ya
ladage: well what did you think
p3orion: In an ideal world it would have been a 4 episode arc, with a whole chunk of action on the Klingon homeworld, and like I originally said, way back when... Have only a big chunk of klingons infected, and have the Klingon augments overthrow the empire... Regardless of that... It still could have felt less rushed... As a 2 parter it felt very berman (get it done in 2) like back in the day.
p3orion: Awesome action with the Columbia though...
p3orion: No real consistency with the Section 31 plot...
p3orion: Felt like the story would have played out the same way if not better w/o it...
p3orion: There's a real sense of cramming in wish lists.
p3orion: With little time to go
p3orion: The Vulcan arc was such high art...
p3orion: These plots with the Andorians and Klingons.. Should have been done over a much longer pace...
p3orion: Feels like a ripoff that the Xindi get over a season
p3orion: and the federation history is getting cliffnotes
ladage: good point
p3orion: I appreciate why they're doing it....
p3orion: Section 31 and Malcom just didn't feel like a 2 parter subplot... It seemed like it was on the table as a Season 5 Subplot
p3orion: Hell the whole Klingon thing and Andorian thing may have been for all we know.
p3orion: I'm not unhappy with the episode... Like any Enterprise fan I'm savoring what remains...
p3orion: but the end is a stick in the craw
p3orion: PLUS SIDE to CANCELLATION!!!!!!!!!!!
p3orion: We're not getting masturbation of the cast episodes every to every other week...
p3orion: TNG, I'm thinking of your season 7!
p3orion: But, that was at the end of a dignified run.
ladage: no we get it in guest spots
p3orion: ???
ladage: Frakes and Sirits in the final episode
p3orion: ya...
p3orion: I told ya... They're sitting around going through a photo album
p3orion: OH shit....
p3orion: NO!!!!!!!!!
p3orion: I BET YOU!
p3orion: They're helping their kid with a history paper!
p3orion: The WHOLE series...
p3orion: Holodeck history for a 4th grade paper on Jonathan Archer!
ladage: that sounds very berman like
p3orion: He's writing the episode...
p3orion: I could cry...
ladage: I know
ladage: well I am going to watch my tape of sci fi channel you have a good night
p3orion: nite

DVD Rented: The Terminal

... I'm at a loss for things to say. You've heard of the movie and know who's in it, if you didn't, what the heck would me typing anything about it matter to you? See. As far as the movie goes... it's okay. I think it's okay. The movie is nice, very pretty, entertaining, if slightly cartoonish... no, not cartoonish... eh like the American President felt like an older movie, this one does to. It’s very romantic comedyish. no "Oooooh, How Spielbergian!"

I'm avoiding the topic.... When I sat down I was a little pissed at this coaster of a rental... It's a total platter. It might as well be a VHS tape! I own a movie or two like this willingly, but Spielberg has this little pseudo war with DVD fans, we love his movies and he won't do commentaries. But on this there's NOTHING. Well there's French... Not even a trailer! Behind the scenes documentaries are more than trivial, if that's the way he may see them, they (the good ones, not the infomercials for the movie) are the greatest way of showing how much effort, and dedication by so many people goes into the movie... Oh fuck that. I'm not going to be sentimental here, Special features are the icing on the cupcake! No one would eat cupcakes without it. People like DVD cause of the candy... WHAAAAAAAAAaaaa. Terminal! Waaaaaa! I Didn't get my candy! Waaaaaaaaa!

Sensless Whining about total shit.

That's a textbook Blog. Can you believe Blog posts are reported as news. They never reported on bathroom graffiti, Ham radio chatter, playground banter, or what their mother was told by their aunt Helen at the hair salon. To think of all the important news we missed before the internet. What percentage of what passes as news today is opinion... usually outrage. I'm offended by the news media reporting every time some inane group is offended. Hear my outrage!!! Report it... someone’s pissed off in America, have an old white guy and a young dweeb in a bow tie yell about it for half an hour...

This was supposed to be about Spielberg's The Terminal.

Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) waited at gate 67 for nearly 10 months to get into America, for his dedication to his father's love for an American form of music that hit it's peak popularity around 70 years ago. 70 years from now, no one on earth will have any love for the rile-media of modern America... unless they're a history buff looking for where we went wrong. I could just fucking cry.

Trailer : HHGTTG...

Over at Amazon they have an exclusive on the new Hitchhiker's Guide Trailer. Now, this summer is just shaping up to be a beautiful treat, practically heaven in terms of movies I've dreamed of seeing for quite some time; HHGTTG, Episode 3, and the surprise treat War of the Worlds from that Animaniac, his holiness. The teaser to HHGTTG while being just music and some graphics was still nearly spot on... so how's the first actual trailer?

Is it going to be to American? Vogon ships... I liked the yellow color... "Express way?" What was wrong with Bypass. A classic line has already fallen.... Okay the Vogon fleet looks SWEET!!! This music needs to be burned... Never in a trailer again... Okay vogon interiors... Nice.. Woah! Pastel Guide. Mac OS 12.... The Heart of Gold, suddenly I have that "Lost in Space" feel, dunno why... Men in Black music started playing and suddenly the air went out of my sail.... I want this movie to rule to badly... But was that the restaurant we got a glimpse of??? I hope the FX are still a work in progress since a number of shots in the trailer looked iffy... And after Spielberg dropped a highway on a subdivision at the Superbowl, Mostly anything won't cut it this summer. Unless Fantastic Four only Mostly Sucks, than it'll suck a whole lot less than I think it will.

New Reese's penut butter cup... Fudge! or ? or ...

I LOVE Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. They are my absolute favorite "candy bar", and I'm not to big on any other candy bar. After years though of normal RPBC, I was initially excited for the variant editions... White Chocolate; a home run, smooth and delightful, though it just doesn't jump into your hand when you hav a craving, it's a treat requiring more conscious thought. But, I'm posting since I just tried RPBC:Fudge. I'm going to keep this beating quick. Many people love and or enjoy the peanut butter cups sold in candy stores, the type we buy Valentine's chocolates from. I don't. I find them boring compared to RPBC. Reeses Fudge, taste's like these more expensive but bland imitators. Tastes really good, and nothing like the brand. They should have put the creamy peanut butter in the fudge chocolate.

Web site request: The 2nd Street Tunnel ... Never Mind...

Is there a website out there, or someone intrepid enough to make one, that covers that LA resident movie star of so many countless films; the 2nd Street Tunnel? It feel like this thing has been in everything. We see it in The Annihilators (1985), Another Midnight Run (1994), The Big Sleep (1946), Blade Runner (1982), Con Air (1997), Demolition Man (1993), Heartbreakers (1984), Independence Day (1996), Jack's Back (1988), Money Talks (1997), One Dark Night (1983), Sneakers (1992), The Terminator (1984), and Young Doctors in Love (1982) according to IMDB (plus a bunch of Television that I didn't include) but I would swear that it's also in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Back to the Future 2...

CORRECTION: After just a few more moments of browsing the IMDB, an amazing site 8), I discover that the Griffith Park Tunnel was used for the two Zemeckis movies I mentioned. I've been using that site for years, and every so often, I learn to love it even more. Now if there were one for Comics and movies... of if the IMDB would just become the IEDB... Internet Entertainment DataBase... That would be a perfect world.

(Since I wished for 24 hour McDonalds and got it, why not shoot high! ;) )

DVD Rented: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (part 2)

Part 1 is an entry or so down....

So here I am with a pork steak watching the special features on ESOTSM, a movie I enjoyed, and respected, and judging from it’s rank on the IMDB a few other people have to. At the time I’m writing this, 17,423 people have given the movie a user rating of 10, that 17 THOUSAND people are 46.1% of the people who’ve bothered to give it a rating…
Some of us I’m sure have paid money to see theatrically, rent a DVD or worst yet, though not in my case here, actually purchase the film. I’m not going to bother getting sales figures for the disc, actually I’d appreciate a good link to where that information is handy… Am I bitching that the movie is well liked? No. I need to put this a different way.

Dear Media Conglomerates,
We the consumer are so endlessly pelted with your constant advertising, cross media tie-ins, and market driven entertainment, that imagination is dying on the emergency room table. Children and adults of all demographics are finally, 56 years after the Howdy Doody officially came on the air, virtually everyone in the country is a zombie without the imagination to appreciate most of the manufactured entertainment you produce.
So please, refrain from putting commercials for the entertainment product, in the product, at least the ones that are disguised as documentaries anyway. Sure we like the inclusion of the original movie trailers, and TV spots, especially on movies we’re nostalgic about.
Suddenly I’m defending commercials in the product… I’m one of their zombies too.
--never mind.

But, it pisses me off when we get refried promotional materials passed off as documentaries, especially on a good movie. So the movie, in this case ESOTSM, is rated R. Kate Winslet says “Fuck” a pretty good deal of the time. In a future entry, I’ll describe what an effective word that is. Since she does say it, on the disc… why bleep it in the documentary?
One last thing, some of the talent were bragging how the film had no “green screens” or special effects. Jim Carrey’s top grossing movie is; The Grinch $260 MILLION. Kate Winslet’s, Titanic with $600 million. Elijah Wood’s Return of the King, $377 times a million, and Kirsten Dunst in Spider-Man which grossed 8 billion nickels. Each of them have had their greatest success with FX movies, and I love the three top grossing, of their top grossing movies. Sorry Mr. Carrey… I’m not a fan of the Grinch… actually I guess I do like you without green screens.

NEW MUSIC (to me) : Serah

Serah
I love finding new music to enjoy and, like a beautiful woman, hopefully fall in love with. Like many fans of The Thomas Crown Affair, I've been yearning to find more of the music of Wasis Diop. Well Serah is apparently a friend of his, so I'll be keeping an eye on her.

DVD Rented: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

This movie would have ruled the earth if I hadn’t heard and read so many good things about it. It would have been even better if I had now idea what the premise was. If only art were an honest process and marketing didn’t exist… then a movie poster or box could say “Trust me, you’ll like it!” Now, some idiot just thought “that’s what marketing is, idiot. Well, aren’t we a pair then, two idiots separated by a computer screen and a few million miles of copper, fiber optics and a whole lot of other stuff? In a universe as small as the Star Wars galaxy, or ESOTSM, we’d run into each other... which was a symptom of the other movie we rented, but watched last night; Collateral. This film is beautiful, just to look at… before Collateral, the only way to see a city like that was with your own eyes. Oh… yea, a review… some movieish small universe syndrome, but it’s a movie, most have it… Fuck, most stories have it… even real life does. Can I say Fuck in a Blog entry discussing rated R movies?

ESOTSM : 4…. Some things out of 5. 8.5 /10 A- …. I’ll come up with a system.
Collateral: 5 out of 5….. 9/10…. A Yea, I need a system.

Obligitory lame first blog entry...

Okay, blogging feels lame and faddish. I've flirted with the notion of doing this before, as to what would even motivate such a public diary for one who has never kept any sort of journal, or even sketchbook for that matter... this is purely experimental. Do people really read these things? If so... [after this point, I typed a lot of nonsense.]