i’m in love with the superman returns teaser trailer. Marlon Brando voice over is awesome. I don’t even like superman in the comics, he’s so one dimensional. But the trailer all 30 seconds of it is so symbolic of movie making that it has me more excited for this film than any other next year. And that is just crazy to me. How am i excited about a superhero i find boring in the comics? one name. Bryan Signer. You can already tell from the look of this film what he is doing, it looks fabulous and just as he did x-men i think were going to have a good time at the movies next summer, Speaking of x-men. I’m horrified about X3. X2 was sooo good and was ripe for a followup but im afraid were going to get utter crap out of Bret Wagner as director. I hope i am so wrong. I really do. but we will see. Anyway im off to watch the trailer for a 10th time. Hey at 30 seconds thats only 5 minutes of my life. I’m not that big of a geek. Maybe.

Good Night and Good Luck, a film by George Clooney. Very nicely done film about edward r. murrow’s battle with Mccarthy and fighting the government’s witchhunt for communists. David Straithan plays Murrow almost perfectly and the surrounding cast including Robert Downey jr. all turn in fine performances. Very good political film which Americans should watch closely during this hunt the terrosit age we live in. Also remeber that CBS pulled the plug on Murrow for being too political for the sponsors. Well we all know sponsors hold more power now so who exactly is paying for your news now? And how does that affect the content. Good Night and Good Luck America. We need it.

im surrounded by stuff. These things I do not need. These books I will never read again, these cds i will never play again, dvds that look nice in their shiny package but do i have the hours left to watch them again? It’s part nostalgia, part consumerism, but we keep these things on our shelves, and then they do what? they sit there looking pretty, or in my case often tacky. I can always justify it to myself that thanks to ebay i can always sell them later when they dont look so pretty to me anymore. In fact half of the money for the next cd lucky creature is putting out came from ebay sales such as this. I do like my stuff, and i guess that’s all that matters. but at the end of the day it is just stuff. funny how affected we are by such unalive pieces of plastic. funny and kinda sad.

Current Fave, Warren Ellis’s email mailing list Bad Signal. &
Mark Schwaber “The Killing Card” cd Out Soon!

Last night I got to go to an early screening of Stay, a film by Marc Foster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland), and starring ewan mcgregor, Naomi Watts, and Ryan Gosling. This film is Foster’s most artistic so far, and he uses visuals more than spoken words, something he talked about after the screening. There are some really cool transitions between scenes that in some movies may seem a little too artistic but since this movie is about two characthers and their paths to one spot in time, it all makes sense at the end. I won’t ruin the end for you but it’s a nice twist ontop of the usually twist we have all learned to guess. This movie combines Ghost, and some Hitchcock, is fun, enjoyable, and the actors are great except for Watts, who seems preoccupied with something else, maybe a 2000 pound ape. O.k. check it out. One interesting comment from foster, he had not seen a movie till he was a teenager. The first one he saw, Apocolypse Now. Ouch!

todays lunch hour spent buying batman begins deluxe edition. even comes with a mini graphic novel! and i got a haircut.
now reading: current punk planet, now listening, make believe. still playing viewtiful joe 2, just finished watching children of dune miniseries.

went to see history of violence this afternoon and then attended a intermedia art show that was pretty cool.
im sure you’ve heard plenty about the movie by now so i’ll just give a quick review

the violence. Quick. it’s the aftermath that’s painful.
Viggo; he should be nomitated for an oscar for this. His facial expressions are downright scary, and very real.
Overall: B+ a solid movie from David Cronenberg, One note, do not see this if for some reason you can’t handle sex on screen. this movie is lucky it didn’t get an x rating, alltogether an enjoyable outing, that kinda just leaves you on edge.

Now Reading, Top Shelf Under the Big Top.
Tommorow I’ll tell you about a stuck up Photobooth.

I know that Bond usually makes the actor, not the other way around, but Daniel Craig? I would have much rather seen Brosnan for one more go around than Daniel Craig(layer cake, road to perdition and gasp Laura Croft:Tomb Raider,ughh,) Anyway, at least the director of Goldeneye is doing this one so it shouldn’t be cheesy but maybe it’s time for 007 to dissapear for a good long while. Heck I’ve never heard of so many actors turning down a role. Good luck Mr. Craig, Daniel, Daniel Craig.