I believe I have seen more films than ninety percent of people my age. I really do. I’ll watch anything and with anyone at any time of day. I have since I was about four. Well in the past three days I’ve added six more pictures to my list and they are as varied as they come. Watched Million Dollar Baby finally the other day. I stayed away from this picture for some reason. I’m glad i finally sat and watched it.
Saw Walk the Line at the New Strand on Friday which was very very good. Then last night watched Sexy Beast with Jessica. Ben Kingsley is scary. Then I popped in Godzilla, Mothra and King Giddorah All Out Monsters Attack for some fun Japanese monster laughs. We are housesitting for some friends and they have free Video on Demand so tonight we watched Jim Jarmusch’s Coffeee and Ciggarettes which i thought was very good and National Treasure with nicolas cage. National Tresure tries to hard and would have been a better film with Michael Bay as director. Honestly if your going to do a big action flick, go ahead and do it with blow stuff up Michael Bay. Not John Turtletaub.
O.k. See I like movies. I really really do.

last night we had some friends over for dinner. heres some pictures.





have a good day.

so sony is getting sued by the city of philadelphia for grapfitti ads. Heh.
New Avengers 14 Spider Woman, you darn traitor. Heh
Loveless # 3 Me likey this civil war comic.
Memoirs of a Geisha, going to see this afternoon
Fog Of War, Great Documentary The Philip Glass Sountrack is awesome!
Mario Kart DS! Metroid Prime Pinball DS! Crazy Taxi Dreamcast. FUN!
Battlestar Galactica season 2. yeah.
Beer of the moment. Smirnoff Grape.
Y the Last Man. This is one messed up story.
The New Yorker current issue.
My kitty cat araby,
my new sweater.
Arise Chicken! Arise.
Land of the Dead. Gory fun.
Eggs.

o.k. 2005 is almost done. heres my top 6 movies of the year and also my bottom five.

#1 Serenity. My favorite Sci-fi Film possibly ever. That’s a pretty shiny accomplishment.
# 2 Batman Begins This is sure to change our superhero films for the better.
# 3 Kung Fu Hustle Stephen CHow is a genius and hopefully we here in America will get more of his zaniness soon.
# 4 Hustle and Flow, Terrance Howard is brilliant,
# 5 and 6 Good night Good Luck, and Broken Flowers, Amen to David Straithan and amen to Bill Murray’s fine acting this year.

Worst Five of 05.
#1 High Tension, This may be the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Ever.
2: Be Cool, yeah sorry even Travolta and Uma couldn’t save this one
3 Fantastic Four, Not so fantastic.
4 Elektra, Uhoh bennifer # 2 ruins another marvel characther, Two marvel movies in the bottom five even worse,
5: Miss Congenialty 2. Well Shatner is in this and for that i Give it a star and a half. Thank god he was in it.

So not that you care but I highly recommend the top six and please for your sanity as a lover of film don’t watch High Tension.

Please Go out and buy this dvd. I was busy yesterday. I took Jessica to the airport. worked for 8 hours. watched four hours of football. went drinking with friends. went to perkins till 3am. Still found time to watch all the special features and this movie again. I want you to go buy this. it’s 17.99 at beAst buy, and you can get it for 8$ if your also picking up battlestar galactica. I want you to go buy this so i can have more of this. This movie puts star wars to shame. It’s budget 30 million. Star Wars 180 something. Come on people! Sure the cover art is horrendus and the trailer was bad, but if ever marketing didn’t reflect a movies quality this is it. I want more Nathon Fillion, More Adam Baldwin as Jayne, and more Gina Torres. God people wake up and support the only true Sci-fi picture made this year. It’s fun, it’s big and it’s messy.
what more could you want?

chapstick

new scarf

new hat

framed artwork

panera gift card Yummy

AQUA TEEN HUnger Force VOL 4!

Paints and Canvases
cool nintendo belt buckle! and more!

today i bought serenity(my favorite movie of the year) and battlestar galactica vol 2.
It’s going to be a good christmas. Bowl Season starts tonight!

so yes i watch too many movies. but i like them alot. Syriana is the type of movie that is really good but may have been better if it had a little less going for it. Theres a lot of storylines going on and I’m afraid some common viewers of film may get lost. I love the interweaving of the different storylines, and overall the film is very effective. It won’t make you proud of the U.S. but it shows that we are not completely at fault for the middle east crisis. But we are defintely at fault. Alexander Siddig gets my top props for his wonderful potrayal of the good prince we label as a terrorist simply because he is doing business with the chinese. He doesn’t get too much screen time but the moments he has with Matt Damon are intense thought provoking pieces. Overall ill give Syriana an A for effort and a high B for entertainment.

I’m taking care of people’s cats this christmas. They all have cable. That’s very dangerous.

so we hopped on the bus and went out to see King Kong yesterday. Got to say my expectations were not high and i was utterly blown away. The movie is very good. It’s three hours of fun, good acting and most of all atmosphere. New York City looks great and feels great, the boat scenes are eerie and Kong himself is a marvel. There was this gorilla that me and jessica used to go see at the Memphis zoo. He would sit and watch you and you could tell he knew you were there and that he ws thinking about how to kill you or at least how to get out of his cage. They captured so much of that gorilla in Kong. It was very good and surprisingly very very fun.

we snuck into The lion witch and wardrobe afterwards and it brought back the childhood memories of reading the books very very well. Jessica commented as we were leaving that neither of these two movies could have been made a few years ago and she’s right. Their beautifully done, the Cgi is not a distraction as it has been in some films such as the phantom crap menace. They are creating digital characthers that breathe. It gives me hope for the movies.
And the spectacle.

saw finding neverland last night. it was good but i don’t see what all the oscar buzz was for last year. anyway it feels like summer with all the movies coming out. saw harry potter on friday and can’t say it was amazing or anything. hope to see syriana, king kong and narnia this week and then memoirs of a geisha whenver it gets here. too many movies for the winter season but isn’t this supposed to be oscar time and not summer blockbuster time?
Read volume two of Astonishing X-men. Cassady’s art is great and Joss Whedon just writes characthers so very well. The Villian was kind of dumb but it did not matter., There’s on three panel page with wolverine and one caption that makes the entire book worth reading. I’m going to buy this book monthly starting in january. So my small pull list is New Avengers, Fell, Infinite Crisis, Astonishing X-men and Loveless. too bad they don’t come out on any real monthly scheldule.
music. lately been listening to alot of old stuff, still life, moonraker, monochrome, dancing punk stuff.
oh well, to work for me.

watched today: 4 minutes of eagles football, before sunset (ethan hawke Julie delpy), one episode of forever knight.
read today the newspaper, spx2003 collection, cicada by josue menjivar.
worked today 8.5 hours. moments spent daydreaming. plenty.

My east carolina pirates beat UAB yesterday to go 5-6 on the year. Far from the glory days i lived in the 90’s its nice to be competing again, and I look forward to touching down in greenville, nc on game day again. I miss the festivity of it all.

going broke, going for gold. loving each moment as we burn the candle on both ends. let’s not hold back any longer.