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Reconfirming that Charlie Kauffman is either absolutely brilliant or in desperate need of therapy, "Synechdoche" is yet again another amazing, reality bending film that has a lot of fun running around, this time almost literally, in a Freudian sandbox, diving into some wicked psychology gone absolutely mad over the edge. Is it an illustration of what happens when infinite insecurities meets unending resources? Is it a blurry mindscape of a sad sack totally losing it? Is it Sim City gone apeshit? Is a synechdoche of himself, like his prior work Adaptation, except without the crazy (but completely rational) 3rd act? Wherever it may go, it's an amazing film, one I can easily and happily get lost in.

Losing my job and not having another one :-(

Inglorious Basterds: Pretty cool for the most part albeit a bit expository heavy, even for Tarantino, but required IMHO as the story is not as straightforward as prior promotionals suggested for the film. Considering the Basterds themselves played a much smaller part than alluded to, most of the film's extensive dialogue was needed to be able to funnel all it's characters into the movie's killzone to bring about some sort of closure, even if it's a hillariously absurd, comically inaccurate, brutally violent sense of closure. Though keeping with Tarantino's love for homage, his attempt at props for Nazi's, G.I.'s, French Resistance, and Spaghetti Western's, Basterd's wasn't nearly as good as his prior work in movies like Kill Bill or Death Proof, though it did have some particularly notable work by many of it's actors, in particular Christopher Waltz as officer Hans Lamda, exuding all that was creepy and mechanical of the entire Nazi party.

District 9: Most likely the best Science Fiction film this summer that hardly anyone had heard of, dare I say one of the best summer films as well. Often mistaken as a Peter Jackson directed film, District 9 was merely produced by Gandalf, while the well deserved directing creds lie on Neill Blomkamp in this amazing effort as his first theatrical release. Though ultimately an alien film, it's social overtones in racisim, social oppression, all against the irony of taking place in Johannesburg, made District 9 a remakably human film despite being filled with creepy insectoid E.T.'s and some pretty badass offworld technology.

The Mist is one seriously fracked up movie.

me: have you ever taken apart a vibrator? The technology is quite facinating!
C: nope
me: super simplistic, it's a basic motor with an offcentered weight at the end of it...it's basically a drill, but because of that little weight on the end of it that's what causes it to ossilate...
C: yeah that makes sense
me: while the strength of it is determined by the size of the motor, the mass of the weight, and how off center the weight is. if I could do this I could probably make a graph of dildo technology...
...likewise if you wanted to, I could probably hack your silver bullet so that it could break concrete
C: yeah that's what im looking for: a broken vagina
me: HAHAHA
I think I'm posting part of this convo in my LJ
C: woop woop!!

man, what an amazingly cool movie "Ali" was. Late kudos for Will Smith for such a fine job!

That would be Jake Gyllenhaal as The Prince of Persia, named after one of the finest videogames to have graced the likes of the Sega Genesis and the Dreamcast. Normally I'm not so stoked at watching Hollywood (yet again) fail miserably at trying to make a movie out of a videogame, but I noticed that Jerry Bruckheimer is doing this one. Figure if he can make a Disney ride into a multi billion dollar franchise featuring swashbuckling pirates with long hair and swords, he might be able to do the same with swashbuckling middle easterners with long hair and swords...

can you PLEASE stop with the whole retirement thing and return to us to make more Calvin and Hobbes?!?! I can appreciate you disappearing to become the next Bob Ross and all, but the world is in dire need of the perspective of an overactive kid and his stuffed tiger! That and I'm running out of make believe material in my skull since you stopped making these strips over 10 years ago!

PLEASE COME BACK!!!! THE WORLD NEEDS YOU!!!!

/this may or may have not been induced by me forgetting today was Tuesday and was really looking forward for the next XKCD. Stupid calendar...

I really miss the crew of Firefly sometimes!

I only wish this clip didn't have the "Replacement Killers" credits rolling in the background, but even that little nuisance carries some cool memories and inspirations for me.

Have a great weekend all, I'm off to the lake!

Just in case that I'm not the only one that DIDN'T get today's XKCD joke about Paul Erdos:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_by_Erd%C5%91s_number



/Much more vague than usual. Like "Manos: The Hands of Fate" vague...
//and yet, almost as hillarious now that I get it!

maybe it's been like this all along, or maybe it's the economy as I love to blame, but it would seem that more and more the seeming "be seen" events that I used to enjoy are becoming pretty fucking lame...like buffet lame.

I had more fun chilling out at a cigar promo bullshitting with a bunch of dudes over bad margaritas and a deli plate with braunschweiger than mingling in the better side of town at a vodka charity event with so called pretty people. It's either that or I preferred the liver sausage over the P.F.Whangs.

k so I have a hard enough time when I'm shitstorm fucked up trying to stay upright let alone form a coherent sentence...

this may reflect how little I understand about drag lifestyle, but I wonder as to exactly how hard it is to stay in drag when you're good and cunted...

...and just so as to not bury myself as homophobic, I'm talking about the attitude, not the style. Which, I guess, in the truest sense of the definition, I guess you you either have it or you don't, so it should still come through if you're fucked up or not.

I guess I just can't physically see me being able to keep stable in shoes like that as wasted as I get. Kudo's to anyone that can, girls and dragqueens alike :-)