Oops, I crapped my pants.

Oops, I crapped my pants.

So Night Watch looks awesome, no? I didn't see Constantine, but Night Watch looks to be thematically rather similar to it. There looks something more to this movie than its special effects, though. And first in a trilogy of horror? If the movie is anything like the trailer and the next two are anything like the hopefully trailer-esque first movie... Damn. I guess I'd just be pleased as punch.

Also, watch Roman Polanski's The Tenant. It's like Polanski's tribute to Hitchcock with strong references to Rear Window and Psycho, except in Polanski's film you actually get to see the transformation of Norman into his mother. It's keen.

[UPDATE: I don't know how many of you guys are watching the American version of "The Office"--or even own a TV for that matter--but you should try and check it out. In fact, if you have a computer and the know-how, download the third episode that premiered last night. While the first two episodes were pretty uneven, the third episode...good Christ have these guys stepped up their game. This episode is so much funnier than any of its British couterpart. Absolutely hiiii-larious.]

[UPDATE-UPDATE: Undead looks to be another fine looking horror film. The tagline, however, is embarrassing.]

Reading:

Invisible People, Will Eisner

Powers, Brian Michael Bendis & Michael Oeming

Watching:

When Harry Met Sally

Cannibal Holocaust

Tale of Two Sisters

Marathon Man

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Scary Go Round

Scary Go Round

I don't know if I've mentioned it, but I've been reading a webcomic called Scary Go Round lately (like the past few days), and it's all that and two bags o' chips ('cuz the art's real purdy). It's got the "South Park" art style with eleventy billion times the sophistication and great characters ta boot...and zombies...and killer, sentient gases...and stuff. Read it. Love it.

Watching:

The Quick & the Dead

Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS

The Tenant

Reading:

Total Sell Out, Brian Michael Bendis

Ghost World, Daniel Clowes

Powers, Brian Michael Bendis

Art and Beauty #1, Robert Crumb

Listening to:

LCD Soundsystem, LCD Soundsystem

Ardular, M.I.A.

Ye Olde Space Bande, The Moog Cookbook (And God help me, I don't know why.)

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Bad squid, good comedy

Bad squid, good comedy

Not a whole lot going on here at the moment. I did get bored the other day and--after watching Oldboy again--ate squid for the first time. While my squid's tentacles weren't flailing about my eyes, cheeks and chin (because mine was dead when I bit into it), it also wasn't that good. Neither was the Peking duck. In fact, that buffet sucked.

Well, the broccoli chicken was okay, but everything else tasted like the Grade B it earned.

I worked a country music video today, too. When I showed up, I discovered I was hand-picked to be the groom (the main principal role besides the girl who actually had to audition). Unfortunately I was too short for the bride, so they choose one of the other, taller dudes. Goddamn you, Hollywood. Why are you superficial about my height when I need you to only be superficial about my looks? I got the consolation of getting to hang out with a bunch of NASCAR fans instead. (They were nice NASCAR fans, but that doesn't absolve them of that particular sin.)

In addition, I got caught reading The Comics Journal by one of the other background kids again today. After the inevitable, "You do stand-up?" I had to turn the journal toward them--the panels on the page inevitably being some illustration between loving and consenting adults--and explain that the journal is about comic books, not stand-up comics. Then the following:

GIRL
So are you an actor?

ME
Actually I'm more of a writer.

GIRL
(beat, poorly covered look of disgust)
How's that going for you?

ME
About as well as my acting.

Hi-oooooooooo! *drum kick* (audience chuckles, applauds)

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I also got to use this line tonight:

ME
Man. If I had a nickel the number of times I've woken up naked in a dry bath tub with a dead hooker in the next room...

JESSIE (my girlfriend)
(stares blankly, waiting for the punchline)

ME
Well, I'd only have fifteen cents, but still...

We watched Dark City tonight. The previous will make sense to all those who have also seen it. Or it'll still baffle you, and I will've just made another gratuitous dead hooker joke. The world just keeps on keepin' on.

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Maybe I'll put up a picture of Jessie sometime soon. Maybe...(if I remember).

Watching:

Dark City

Reading:

Fortune and Glory, Brian Michael Bendis

Total Sell Out, Brian Michael Bendis

The Comics Journal #265

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