If the choice was ours alone then why'd we both choose letting go?
Guys, this years award for worst attempt at an English accent goes to Maria Bello, Rachel Weiss' replacement as Evelyn O'Connor in the death of the Mummy franchise, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. This is a terrible film. There was one point, when the action wasn't too blurry to see what was going on where I thought "wait, I'm enjoying this bit!" but then like two seconds later they threw in what I can only assume was meant to be humour. Guys, it wasn't. It was just suck and no-one wants their action sequences spoiled by suck.
PLOT! Rick and Evie O'Connor have now retired from a life of action and are incredibly bored. Their son has grown up remarkably quickly and - without their knowledge - taken over their life of tomb raidering*. He uncovers the tomb of Jet Li's dragon emperor who has the most ridiculous curse upon him - if he is ever awoken he becomes super powerful. Which is, I guess, the same curse as was used in the first Mummy film, but this film isn't good enough for that sort of thing to be overlooked.
Gah, I have other stuff to say but I just want to stop writing about it now. This is a bad film. Not 10,000 BC bad, but still pretty awful. Don't watch it.
Lots of people come to the box office and ask to watch The Black Knight instead of The Dark Knight. It was amusing the first time but now I just let it slide. What surprised me, though, was when some guests came up to me saying they thought there was a 17:45 showing of Batman but they couldn't see it up on the boards. I turned round and right there, The Dark Knight - 17:45. They didn't know the new Batman film was called The Dark Knight. And yet somehow they'd not only existed in the world for the past month at least, they also managed to find out times for it. I am confused.
THINGS THAT AREN'T FILMS. I always like having enough gigs planned so that when I go to one, I know which I'm going to next. (THESE THINGS ARE MUSIC) And now I have four left for the rest of this year, with two potentials. Kill Hannah, Taste of Chaos (Atreyu/Story of the Year/As I Lay Dying/MUCC), Funeral For A Friend and Dashboard Confessional. Plus, Feeder tickets go on sale tomorrow, and they're super expensive but Feeder are one of the bands I wish I'd seen when I was really into them and maybe it will be nostalgic? Also, Elliot Minor, but only because Anberlin are supporting.
MORE THINGS THAT ARE MUSIC EXCEPT THIS THING IS ALSO WEBSITES. Jimmy Eat World have overtaken Brand New on my last.fm charts, and Angels & Airwaves continue leaping up. I think Dizzy is my favourite Jimmy Eat World song now. I mostly skipped past it before I saw them play it earlier this year, but it was one of those experiences where you realise that this song is one of the most overpoweringly awesome songs in the history of both awesome and overpowerment. Firefox recognises Overpoweringly as a word, but not Overpowerment. Also, it doesn't recognise recognise or derivatives thereof. Stupid 'Z's (pronounced Zeds).
But I digress. Last.fm went through a big site redesign a month or so ago, and I like the way the charts work now - rather than show me what I listened to last week, it shows me what I listened to in the last 7 days. This means I can fall asleep listening to Funeral For A Friend and wake up to see that I've still listened to more All-American Rejects than FFaF this week, but then a day later it'll be the other way round because I listened to the AAR much ealier in the week and now those plays have dropped off the charts and guys, it is all updating in realtime and this is good.
I have to look for houses now. Have a good day. Don't watch new Mummy film.
*I am referencing the game. My grammar is correct.
PLOT! Rick and Evie O'Connor have now retired from a life of action and are incredibly bored. Their son has grown up remarkably quickly and - without their knowledge - taken over their life of tomb raidering*. He uncovers the tomb of Jet Li's dragon emperor who has the most ridiculous curse upon him - if he is ever awoken he becomes super powerful. Which is, I guess, the same curse as was used in the first Mummy film, but this film isn't good enough for that sort of thing to be overlooked.
Gah, I have other stuff to say but I just want to stop writing about it now. This is a bad film. Not 10,000 BC bad, but still pretty awful. Don't watch it.
Lots of people come to the box office and ask to watch The Black Knight instead of The Dark Knight. It was amusing the first time but now I just let it slide. What surprised me, though, was when some guests came up to me saying they thought there was a 17:45 showing of Batman but they couldn't see it up on the boards. I turned round and right there, The Dark Knight - 17:45. They didn't know the new Batman film was called The Dark Knight. And yet somehow they'd not only existed in the world for the past month at least, they also managed to find out times for it. I am confused.
THINGS THAT AREN'T FILMS. I always like having enough gigs planned so that when I go to one, I know which I'm going to next. (THESE THINGS ARE MUSIC) And now I have four left for the rest of this year, with two potentials. Kill Hannah, Taste of Chaos (Atreyu/Story of the Year/As I Lay Dying/MUCC), Funeral For A Friend and Dashboard Confessional. Plus, Feeder tickets go on sale tomorrow, and they're super expensive but Feeder are one of the bands I wish I'd seen when I was really into them and maybe it will be nostalgic? Also, Elliot Minor, but only because Anberlin are supporting.
MORE THINGS THAT ARE MUSIC EXCEPT THIS THING IS ALSO WEBSITES. Jimmy Eat World have overtaken Brand New on my last.fm charts, and Angels & Airwaves continue leaping up. I think Dizzy is my favourite Jimmy Eat World song now. I mostly skipped past it before I saw them play it earlier this year, but it was one of those experiences where you realise that this song is one of the most overpoweringly awesome songs in the history of both awesome and overpowerment. Firefox recognises Overpoweringly as a word, but not Overpowerment. Also, it doesn't recognise recognise or derivatives thereof. Stupid 'Z's (pronounced Zeds).
But I digress. Last.fm went through a big site redesign a month or so ago, and I like the way the charts work now - rather than show me what I listened to last week, it shows me what I listened to in the last 7 days. This means I can fall asleep listening to Funeral For A Friend and wake up to see that I've still listened to more All-American Rejects than FFaF this week, but then a day later it'll be the other way round because I listened to the AAR much ealier in the week and now those plays have dropped off the charts and guys, it is all updating in realtime and this is good.
I have to look for houses now. Have a good day. Don't watch new Mummy film.
*I am referencing the game. My grammar is correct.