we’re all listening
more on that Shorpy tip. it’s really neat, I’m telling you.
movies! again!
just saw ‘Watchmen’.
it looked great, and all sorts of things exploded. there’s also a lot of full frontal male nudity, obviously for the ladies. the movie had its moments. I once read that ‘Watchmen’ the graphic novel was called unfilmable. well. they filmed it. and I’d give it a B minus.
right now, ‘Doom’ is on TNT. if I recall, I also gave ‘Doom’ a B minus when I reviewed it for the Indiana Daily Student. my reasons were all my own!
anyway, ‘Doom’ has Rosamund Pike in it. the only other film I can name off the top of my head I’ve seen Rosamund Pike in was the latest adaptation of ‘Pride and Prejudice’. that movie starred Keira Knightley, who looks like she can dislocate her jaw. I guess some dudes might go in for that, haw haw haw.
Knightley was also in a movie called ‘Atonement’ with James McAvoy. I didn’t see this, but someone overlaced clips from it with ‘Moonlight Mile’ by the Stones, which I was trying to find on Youtube once. I think that’s all I’ll need, instead of actually seeing the movie. but it’s a very nice song, for when you get lovestruck and are liable to walk into traffic. and the chorus is great.
McAvoy co-starred with Forest Whitaker in ‘The Last King of Scotland’, in which Whitaker brought his A-game as Idi Amin and won an Oscar. Whitaker’s ass has been in a lot of good movies (and even in ‘Bloodsport’) so maybe the Academy was throwing him a bone because he’s so accomplished, in the same way that Scorcese won Best Director for ‘The Departed’. or maybe not. but Whitaker, an 1980s workaholic, was in ‘Platoon’, which was a real ensemble movie. your boy Johnny Depp was in ‘Platoon’, and later this year he’ll be John Dillinger in ‘Public Enemies’, which I’m looking foward to, but a few years after ‘Platoon’ he met director Tim Burton and starred in Burton’s ’Ed Wood’, which I’ve never seen. I don’t really know much about Ed Wood the director on his own, and I’m not particularly drawn to learn more. but that’s okay, that’s what we’ve got IMDB for.
because, see, Terrence Howard was in ‘Ed Wood’, too, and he, coincidentally, was in ‘Frost/Nixon’, which came out this past year. I’ve meant to see this film, but I’ll be real, it’s not too high on my Netflix queue either. I tend to aim for lower fare. samurai flicks and Greek myths retold in claymation.
and you know who else was in ‘Frost/Nixon’? Kevin Bacon. oh yes.
that’s six degrees. go ahead and count it. and then give me a dollar.
hoops
tonight was a great night for hoops. looking back on today, I feel like I got nothing done. but no, I did. even if most of it was done in front of a television. the Big East tournament is always great to watch. in the petty, overmarketed world of college sports allegiances, I’m supposed to pay more attention to the Big Ten, but when my team sucks (and oh do they ever) I turn elsewhere. and so, tomorrow it’s Syracuse — six overtimes Syracuse – and west by god, and all I have to do is drop off a bunch of old clothes at Goodwill and write up my taxes.
I hope his ass dies of lung cancer so I can get some sleep
out of the window to my left and farther up the building, my neighbor’s boyfriend is sticking his head out of their window to smoke. does he see me? I think he does.
oh boy, is this awkward.
