So I went to Comicon and was determined this year to finally get through the ENTIRE dealers floor. CONGRATULATE ME!!

That said, I still spent an inordinate amount of time hanging around the publishers area. They had goodies, lots of goodies, and bags, oh so many  lovely lovely bags...Anyway! Went to the Del Rey booth and got my badge scanned, and ( Read more... )

Mike and I went to see "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", old type adventure exploration ftw!

I can recommend the film, I can't say my review is too great this time, advance apologies.

Amazingly solid run of previews! "Hancock" & "Hellboy 2" were highlights, with a couple other I can't think of right now. I'm sad I'll be missing

I saw "Speed Racer". This movie was made for Robyn. When it comes out in Japan, Robyn must see it.

Its like "Cutie Honey" if it were about Mario Kart. No one else would know about "Cutie Honey"...

I saw it twice.

I saw "Forgotten Kingdom", the long awaited feature starring both Jet Li and Jackie Chan. Oh Jet Li, how I adore you.

edit: Its actually "Forbidden Kingdom" but "Forgotten Kingdom" is such a great slip, I'm not changing it.  :D

I had heard that "Fearless" was to be Jet Li's last wu shu, period film. After seeing this, I'm going to continue hearing ( Read more... )

I saw Iron Man. I will recommend that you see it too. It was made of magnificent. And I'm not saying "it was good" (read: I liked it); I'm saying "It was good" (ITS FREAKING AWESOME! GO NOW!).

It is a technophile's wet dream.

Tony Stark is what every mechanical engineer dreams of being. <-- at least I sure did.

Susanna (often seen in this journal's comments as "Anonymous") and I, have created a co-blog. Reunited across time and space through our mutual love of watching shitty action movies and tearing them down, we have joined forces to produce (largely by accident), Arterial Spray: In which we suspend our disbelief (disclaimer: duration of the movie only ( Read more... )

I finally broke in an bought World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. I saw it over a year ago at the bookstore, but since I was (and still am) hating on oversized books, I was waiting for it to come out in mass market. I gave in yesterday and went ahead and bought it anyway, and I'll have to say it was worth it. The extra money, the extra ( Read more... )

That previous entry was nowhere near done, I left before it was finished and I have reason to believe my sister posted it. The ending before I left stated "I am Vicki durrr", and it was deleted in favor of "I AM VICKI I AM STUPID HAHAHA!!!!!! durr", similar in flavor, but still a very different thing. Accusations will be leveled upon her return.

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Today I attempt to explain art as I see it. I feel I am in a fairly qualified position, having suffered through VADA and their tyrannical integration of art and academics in addition to my experiences as a jaded traveler. I am also feeling very pompous today.

First on my list, 1793 "Death of Marat". Indeed, this is a fine piece of work, depicting ( Read more... )

Did I mention I saw Doomsday a while back? Cause I did. Yes, I know, with jewels such as 10,000 BC, Doomsday, and the Bank Job, how could I pick just one? But I did, the promise of a plague post-apocalyptic action flick was too much for me to pass up.

When I saw the preview for Doomsday I naturally assumed that it was a bastardized jumble of 29 Days ( Read more... )