Quick Summary

Quick Summary

I'm sure the suspense was killing everybody, so I'll just bullet point what has at this point become passe to me: I was in a car accident. My car was totalled, but everyone involved was fine. Even the little dog in the other car was okay. (He seemed more than okay, in fact. I think he was just excited to meet someone new.) Anyway, below is a picture of my new car. He's a brand new Honda Fit named Argo after the ship and--more recently--the horse in Shadow of the Colossus because I'm a nerd of mythology and video games.

 

In more pressing news, I'm watching Henry Fool right now, and I seem to recall a time when the United States had an independent film movement. Where did that go? Did I miss something in the few years I've been working for The Man? When I was in college, I seem to recall American Independent film. In fact, I took a class on it. Where'd it go? Do I have any detectives out there? I'd love to hear about any off-the-cuff movies that have come out recently that I might not be aware of. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Watching:

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (I really didn't think I'd like this one. I was wrong.)

Henry Fool

Peeping Tom

Clerks II (Shocking that the man is married and in his mid-thirties and making movies more juvenile than his first picture. Shocking and sad, really.)

Day of the Triffids

Hard Candy

What's Up, Tiger Lily? (Not as funny as I'd remembered.)

Howl's Moving Castle

The Departed (Scorsese's best in...decades, I guess. I refer you to my review of the original Hong Kong film upon which The Departed was based, Infernal Affairs.)

Flushed Away

Stranger Than Fiction (I probably enjoyed it more than any other movie I've watched that came out recently.)

Reading:

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter

Religion and the Decline of Magic, Keith Thomas

Seven Soldiers of Victory: Vol. 1, Grant Morrison (Finished.)

Seven Soldiers of Victory: Vol. 2, Grant Morrison (Finished.)

Seven Soldiers of Victory: Vol. 3, Grant Morrison (Finished.)

Jack Kirby's The Forever People (Finished.)

Jack Kirby's Mister Miracle

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