VIOLENCE!

[satanicharisma]

Saturday's show was pretty amazing, not so much because of the bands (although they were all pretty good, especially Bastardator and Rammer), but because of the attitude behind it. NO bar, no restrictions, just "good, friendly violent fun" in a big necrotic loft. Bastardator gets better and better each time I see them, and even sloppy-as-a-tit-

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[samandarun]

J:

i am tired.
and sleepy.
and also feeling a little exhausted.
did i explain that i'm mildly fatigued?

as for I Am Legend - i couldnt care less, but Luis seems pretty hyped about it.
regarding annoying house guests: people know better than to annoy me, it's never really been an issue. i'm pretty upfront and when i want a person to leave - they usually have the sense not to wait for me to tell them a second time.

[samandarun]

also: you are awesome.

[satanicharisma]

Aw, I do my best, most of the time. You are probably more consistently awesome! :P

I read some more about this movie. Sounds like they changed the story quite a bit and made Will Smith's character into someone who had a direct impact on creating the plague or something and thus he feels responsible for curing it. I think I like the idea of the central character starting out as an innocent bystander much more.

[samandarun]

i hate it when stories are manipulated for the masses.
with the innocent bystander approach, it seems more painful, like the struggle to understand what happened and the subsequent confusion is more human (so yes, by definition, more painful). making him the cause of the problem seems like they're skirting something, trying to take away from the intensity of the original story. yes? no?

[satanicharisma]

Well, it could be pretty intense to think that you caused so many people to lose their humanity .. but on the other hand it is almost too coincidental and convenient that he'd be one of the few to "survive", you know? I'm sure they came up with a reasonably convincing explanation as to why this happened, but to me it just seems as though they want to make his character into a bigshot. He's in the military: of course he'll have better survival skills than most people! That's not the point of the story! Hmm, they really messed up "I, Robot" too, and Will Smith was in that as well. Maybe it's a part of his contract: "y'know, ever since I did that "Independence Day' movie I've had a real hard-on for gun-toting militaristic types! So at every convenient opportunity this is the character I want to play!"

Now I want to see it and learn if cynicism was justified. Argh, that's how they always get the skeptics like us! How come reality TV is so popular even though barely anybody really admits to thinking it's seriously good?