Warning: very long. And quite late. But better late then never, right?

( Spoilers ahead )

Yesterday portableteejay and I went to see Inception. It was definitely good--we both felt it was one of the few movies we'd seen recently that could be said to actually be worth the theater price. (On an aside--seriously, are movie theaters insane? We are now only a few dollars away from it being officially more expensive to go see a movie than to buy a DVD ( Read more... )

Happy April 2nd everybody. I left LJ off my April's Fool list, but those of you following me on other sites may have noticed that portableteejay and I got engaged yesterday. To clarify: yep, that was of course a joke. We did hang out the other day however, and saw "The Runaways ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to see Patrick Wolf at Le Poisson Rouge, which was a nice night up until I got caught in the rain again and stuck in Penn Station overnight. I also just found out that Patrick is shooting a video in Manhattan today, and he invited fans to audition for extras, but I am too a) old for that sorta thing, b) broke, c) tired to brave ( Read more... )

I did say I was going to get around to this eventually.

Right, Mystery's charms aside, The Game is not a very good book as far as literary value (or even basic writing merit) goes. The author can tell fairly entertaining anecdotes, but is out of his depth completely when it comes to shaping story structure, or dealing with any of the issues of ( Read more... )

Recently I finished The Game by Neil Strauss, which had been on my back burner for a while. It was not what I expected ( Read more... )

For some reason, I am very slow when reading comics. I know that others breeze through comic books at a lightning pace, considering them easy, disposable reading... but I cannot. I go through them slowly, because I cannot simply blow by the pages--I have to take in each panel, my eye gets caught by the details. I pause and consider the dialogue ( Read more... )

So I finally found a John Cusack movie where I thought his character was absolutely adorable, endearingly quirky, romantic, and just all those things I've always heard about John Cusack's characters but had never quite experienced. And it was the first time I found him really, really attractive. Of course it was the movie where he plays a hitman ( Read more... )

I finally saw all of "Juno" today. I had started it before, but was put off by the overly-"clever"-hurts-your-teeth dialogue at the beginning. Luckily people started speaking more normally as the movie went on ( Read more... )

Saw:

Sweeney Todd.Eh, sort of disappointed. Less witty and more monotonous than I expected, although surprisingly genuinely unsettling. I don't consider Tim Burton's work to be genuine horror at all, but this one did leave me rather perturbed in the end ( Read more... )