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The Past Month:
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The Past Month:
- My Nephew Came to visit. Grayson lives in Tyler, Texas, so when he's out here I try to edify the greater world around him--this generally entails Lars and Colin beating him, but this year I took him to see Fahrenheit 9/11. I had forgotten that his mother is fairly left-wing, and according to a 7th grader the political climate is decidedly anti-Bush in Texas. Essentially, I took him to see a lot of movies and talked to him about middle school, attempting to pass on the wisdom garnered from my wasted adolescence. Uncle Joe's pretty low-key.
- Anime Expo: 4 days of mediocre fandom. Popular
phrases included master shake's "this... this is asinine", "we're in
hell", and "fuck this place". I was able to procure a non-working
copy of Qbert's WaveTwisters and a barely-working copy of Takeshi's
Zatoichi, which I even now haven't had time to watch. It's almost
as though I'm waiting for someone else to get her own copy so that we
might watch it together, and separate. We did have a nice hotel
room with internet access, so I was able to webcast the piz-arty.
Such as it was. I also got a digicam/camcorder thing about
the size of a gameboy, but further announcements on that
hopefully. Hopefully? videoblog.
- Films: I've seen Dodgeball 3 times (including screening), Spider-Man 2 twice, Riddick a fourth, and I'm seeing F9/11 today, gauging quality by repeat viewing. I want to see Riding Giants, and, possibly, The Notebook, and next week Robot Rampage opens.
- Also, I watched Secretary, Versus, Spartan, City Of God, and
Radio. On Video. Though ending fueled by
convention-via-contrivance, I dug Secretary, and Versus is just this
one dude kicking all these other dude's asses and zombies and shit, so,
rock on. Spartan was asstacular Mamet in seemingly unaware
self-parody mode, and I will write up my take on latter-day Mamet
Dialog later. Radio was inoffensive wank--the kind of thing
they'll take to showing kids in P.E. during rainout days--boring but
broadly appealing and marginally well-made.
- City Of God is bad-ass and I am currently looking into getting region-free DVD action so I can get the international version.
- I watched City Of God , Versus, and Secretary with Kirsten.
We are trying to breach new areas of intimacy possible in spite
of inproximity, the effects of which have yet to be determined.
webcam a go-go.