Has anyone seen Kings yet? I was rather skeptical at first, what with the Matt Daemon look-a-like, a title akin to HBO's "ROME" or Showtime's "The Tudors", and a slew of ambiguous advertising. But it was 3:00 am on a Wednesday and I had nothing better to do, so I popped a bag of popcorn grabbed a beer and plowed into the 1:23 minute series premiere ( Read more... )

Take the first sentence (or two) from the first post of each month of 2008. That's your year in review.

Jan: if you haven't seen Juno yet

you really must

Feb: HEY KIDS!
ever wonder what it would be like to stay up all night, sick, and drinking nothing but redbull, then pop some adderall and race against the clock to turn in a college ( Read more... )

Egads!

I just spent six hours in a movie theater. After Thanksgiving dinner I went to the cinema to rot my brain with The Transporter 3. (By the way, any movie sequel that has to use a number instead of thinking up a new title is destined to blow. Anyhow…) I ended up running into my friend Kaan who was seeing the same movie. Well, after two hours of ( Read more... )

I went to see James Bond: Measure of Sadness on opening night. Those idiots at the ticket booth sold me a senior ticket, because maybe only old grandpas are senile enough to put pirate hats on their heads and pretend the escalator is a bewitched staircase from beyond the seven seas. In any case, the ticket collector (read: huge angry bouncer) was ( Read more... )

Well frack, I guess today is just the day of letdowns. I just *ahem* acquired  the new Faint album. listened to it. pondered, and then played to it two more times for good measure. Here is the only review I can come up with.

The Faint // Fasciinatiion
2008:

"4 years for this? I want my what.cd ratio back! The only thing fascinating is how royally they ( Read more... )