leviathan

i’m not sure what to say about this book. it’s good, but it just didn’t quite resonate. there are some great lines/phrases/concepts in it, but as a whole, it never really cohered for me.

samurai champloo

andy and i watched through this series in a day, bringing back fond memories of the summer of 2003, when we powered through cowboy bebop (by the same director as this series), and trigun.

the adult swim site for this movie has a mini-game that invites you to “walk a mile in mugen’s shoes. his wooden, ass-kicking shoes.” i found that amusing.

the island

sci-fi goes hollywood. it’s like a hip logan’s run. not as good as, say, the minority report, but not all bad, either. for extra fun, watch through it with bay’s commentary on for some self-important-prick enjoyment.

sadly, there is no line in this movie even half as good as logan’s run’s “kicker.”

saw ii

silly horror flick. the worst thing about it is the cover, actually.

dirty pretty things

in recent tv news

lots of olympic watching was done over the past few weeks. i liked snowboarding, especially the snowboard cross. lea liked short track speed skating. i will now summarize the olympics. the best thing about the olympics: an american named ’seth’ won a gold metal. the worst thing about the olympics: dick button.

the new line of mcdonalds commercials for their premium coffee, in which people wake up to their lives, has a sufficiently dark enough undertone that i find them quite enjoyable. i loathe most mcdonalds commercials, including the still-running “add a little spice to your life” line.

trip-hop is still well liked by the people who pick songs for tv ads. the new victoria’s secret spot sports a portishead song, and some other commercial is playing hooverphonic’s “this strange effect.” it’s only a matter of time before somebody is gutsy enough to run something like tricky’s “christiansands,” which has a very cool sound to it.

shane, on survivor, is bat-shit crazy.

40 year old virgin

i saw this in the theater as well seeing it now on dvd, but apparently didn’t write it up then. it’s a pretty good comedy. there’s not really much else to say about it.

thunder snow

for some stupid reason, i decided to shovel off our sidewalk this morning. (it probably has a lot to do with the fact that many other walks were shoveled, which is directly correlated to the number of retirees that live on our block.) by the time i left for work, about twenty minutes later, the sidewalk already had a noticeable accumulation on it. the weather web page says 5-7 inches throughout today, and there were already 3ish inches on the ground from last night. snow, snow, snow, i guess. the creepy thing was a lightning strike with accompanying peals of thunder right before i left for work. walking to work means no snow days. sigh.

wedding crashers

a nice comedy, with a predictable romcom story arc. it seemed to be pretty high on quotable lines, though i couldn’t say for sure, since i don’t tend to repeat movie lines much any more.

snow crash

perhaps not as good as the diamond age, but it still is kind of cool to see how people were imagining the internet/Metaverse back in 1992.