Couriers movie?! Excellent! :) http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9760

Labels: Comic Books, Movies

It's been hit-and-miss now for a while... but mostly miss.

Aeon Flux was not good.
Bewitched was pretty terrible... (I should have known...)
Ice Harvest was bad.
Simpsons/Family Guy/etc were reruns.
The Snmnmnm concert should be cool but is probably too expensive. (yes it's only $15) and... boo on Christmas.

I did end up reading The Stranger again. And it's a zillion times better now than it was in the dumbest high school in America. Many great quotables.
"I might not be sure of what does interest me, but I am sure of what does not interest me, and you do not interest me."

Or however it went. Very hilarious.
-"Marriage is serious."
-"No."

hah.
hah.

And what else is good? Harvey Pekar's most recent. The Quitter.
I never really got into American Splendor, but this book works really well. Being self contained is nice. And now I'm starting into Tropic of Cancer b/c Scott said to read it and shortly thereafter, I saw it in a drawing in The Quitter. It was a sign.

As much as I dislike "jam bands," I really want to be on this year's jam cruise. Les Claypool and Digable Planets... sweet. Then again, I'd just as soon be in San Francisco for NYE. I don't think Filboyd Studge will be making a repeat performance this year.

But Southern Culture is playing, and they were fun last time. Although I might get outvoted and end up with The Avett Brothers. Which would be fine, but probably not as much fun.

It's really cold in here. No snow tho. Of course. I want snow. I got Hate #1 at the comic sale when I went back late on Sunday. Score.

Labels: Books, Comic Books, Movies, music

Carowinds is far far cooler when you never have to wait in line. Don't think we waited longer than, like, 15 minutes for anything other than the Borg on Sunday. And the Borg kind of sucked. Especially compared to Top Gun. Or even Thunder Road. But not as much as Vortex. Boring. Top Gun is the best. In the front seat. The best.

Have I even mentioned Sin City? I don't think so. But it was great. Being, as it was, a film adaptation of a comic, it couldn't be beat. I think everything I would say has been said before, so I won't say much. As a movie on its own it would have been, perhaps, a little disappointing. But since it wasn't that, it was phenomenal. Acting, dialog, visuals... everything was fantastic. Seen it twice, and I might have to go again. Maybe. But I *am* trying to save money... we'll see.

And Muse. Muse were awesome. Occasionally, Matt's voice faded a bit, but it didn't bother me too much. 2nd/3rd row center. I can't complain. Dispite the mtv cameras in my face most of the night. So I, therefore, spent most of the night with my middle finger expressing my opinion of mtv to the camera for me. I'm still not sure if that's going to make it more or less likely that they'll actually put me in some ridiculous montage. Tried my best to look like I was bored. Dammit. I would have gladly paid twice the ticket price to not have mtv there. Razorlight was...fine, I guess. I thought I liked them at first when their Mic Ronson lookalike opened the set, but I don't think I liked the lead singer. At least not after he stripped for the last song for no discernable reason and brought his smelly ass down into the crowd and stayed about two feet in front of me. Annoying. But I think I was supposed to dig it. Oops. But I did get to yell "Pearl Jam" when some dude came out to talk about mtv and had on the red pj shirt with the apeguy and the gun. Circa Yield, right? I dunno. But good for him.

Audioslave tour = another reason the Charlotte music "scene" sucks.

Just listened to the Garden State soundtrack for the first time since actually watching the movie. Very underwhelmed. And very very disappointed with the Iron & Wine cover of "Such Great Heights." It was terrible compared to the original. But, I suppose, I&W is more depressed than the Postal Service and, therefore, fit the soundtrack better. Boo. Not for me. Not for you. If you hate something, don't you do it too.

It turns out that I kind of dig the Strokes tho. So now I'm kind of excited for their almost complete new album and summer tour. No Green Day on Wednesday either, I guess. Too expensive to buy sold out tickets. Besides, there's a new South Park.

Picked up an old CD the other day... a band called Sticklaw out of Raleigh. Met them through a friend who took me to the Brewery to see them once. And then to Johnson City. Where he got to scream backup during one song. We almost fell off of Iron Mt. during on ice storm on the way there, but we made it. And it was cool. And I still like the CD. The lead singer and guitar player took off years ago, and it was hell trying to find info about them online. Finally found the bass player on ncscene.com and found out that the remaining members have formed a new band called Down Cycle. Kind of fun finding people from years ago. Wish I could find out what their old lead singer is doing these days tho. But I'll take what I can get.

Labels: Movies, music

I hate Tuesdays.
Almost more than Mondays.
Especially now that 24 is over.
Tuesday is like Monday except that I'm already tired from doing stuff I don't want to do (i.e. "work") on Monday. Megatokyo doesn't update on Tuesday. RPGWorld doesn't update on Tuesday. Comics don't come out until Wednesday. It's still too far away from the weekend to really be excited about that... The only thing Tuesday has going for it is that Ozy and Millie is usually updated. And I could always read that on Wednesday. I guess new CD's come out on Tuesday tho. And they ARE rereleasing Diamond Dogs today... which I still don't have. Tuesdays still suck.

Seen a lot of movies in the past week... for me, anyway. A Mighty Wind, 21 Grams, and Lost in Translation. All were very entertaining, and I'd watch them all again. 21 Grams had Sean Penn being an asshole, but he was damned good at it. And Benicio is a really good actor. Now I want to see Traffic again too. AND he's going to be in Sin City! Being an avid Daredevil fan (the comic, not the movie), I LOVE Frank Miller. And his Sin City series was very very cool and perfect for a movie adaptation. Off-subject, I guess, but whatever.

A Mighty Wind isn't sticking with me so well. I like Best in Show better, but this one was still really funny. Although it was also kind of sad, which I wasn't totally looking for. Again, tho, definitely worth watching...

Lost in Translation, however, is sticking with me more and more. I had a bunch of people tell me not to watch it... Shame on you. This movie is perfect for the way I sort of feel or whatever. Yeah, I love Bill Murray (and might have to see Garfield just to hear him talk), and Scarlett is definitely a cute girl... But the thing that I took away from the movie was how the two of them were able to just BE in the NOW. No, their lives weren't perfect, and no, they weren't doing anything that was, say, "totally rad," but I really liked watching the two actors create their characters. And seeing the characters be able to just be happy with their present was really cool.

So, I guess that I'm saying that, all the "triffling truisms clothed in great, swelling words" notwithstanding, I still don't get the whole idea of letting the past go. So stupid. So, somehow, that's what I got out of that movie. And I want that feeling of just really not having any cares at the moment and just being somewhere... and being happy with just being there. Dunno if it takes a trip to Japan, but I wouldn't mind being completely uprooted and just leaving everything behind. Even if only briefly.

And, actually, that kind of goes back to something I talked about long ago in reference to a Peter Milligan story (Human Target #1) where the character was supposed to be at the WTC the day it was blown up, but he wasn't. But noone knew that he wasn't, so he just pretended that he was... everyone thought he was dead, and he just disappeared to recreate a different life elsewhere. Despite the obvious hardships of such a move, that has SO much appeal...

Anyway. Now I want to see Lost in Translation again. And, frankly, it could do without the semi-nakedness.

Labels: _self, Movies

Yes, Eurotrip sucks.
Oh. And Eurotrip sucks.
It's no old school...
It's not even Road Trip.
It sucks.
Don't go see it.

Labels: Movies

Primative Radio Gods were an awesome band, btw. Rocket is one of my favorite albums, and White Hot Peach is up there as well. I can only imagine that releasing Standing Beside a Broken... as their first single killed them. That song is WAY "poppier" than anything else. The people that liked the song wouldn't have liked the album, and the people that would have liked the album wouldn't have bought it b/c of the single. If you're wondering why I bought it, I hadn't heard the single... it was just the cheapest CD in the new releases section, and I was almost broke. Very serendipitous. I've still got a lot of catching up to do with the bootleg database. I should have this weekend to myself tho, so hopefully I'll get a chance to get everything updated. Saw the Making the Video for Avril last night. I think I'd like her a lot more if MTV didn't like her so much. She certainly came across as... well... an 18 year-old girl. :-/ (No offense to all the 18 year-old girls, of course.) Finally bought and watched Lawrence of Arabia. Hence the new quote at the top. AMAZING movie, and he was an amazing man. I have a copy of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom on the way. If I'm ever able to actually slog through damn-near 700 pages, it'll be a miracle. But anyway, if you haven't seen the movie, you should. They definitely diefy Lawrence, which seems a little strange, but it really is a great movie, and Peter O'Toole really was amazing. Not to mention Alec Guiness doing a FANTASTIC job as Prince Feisal. All in all, it just pissed me off that the Arabs weren't ever able to unite and that they're still in the same situation today. The Arabs, as a people, really were a great people. It's so sad that the Middle East has become such a political hotbed. Not to say that a lot of it isn't our (Britain, France, US...) fault, but still. Now. CIF. I have a really good show that I'm dying to upload, but it hasn't been a month for the Potbelly's show yet. The number of hits I've been getting lately is declining, so I'm assuming that most everyone who wanted Potbelly's has already gotten it. I'm going to try and get this new show (Charlottesville, VA - March 7th) uploaded sooner rather than later. It's soundboard, and they even got Howie to come down and play a few songs with them. Overall, I think it's one of the better shows I've heard. Except that I really wish they'd quit playing Moonshiner live. It's such a downer...

Labels: Cast Iron Filter, Movies, music