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This week at the funny book store Penny Arcade 25 Cent edition. A nice quarter sampler of this daily strip about video gamers and their silliness. I enjoyed these very much and if you play games you most likely will as well. 25 cents for fifty strips notbad at all .

Infinite Crisis # 3 O.k. Im done with this book. Im selling all my issues on ebay right now. Boring. Too many storylines. I’m afraid the Dc Universe is truly headed down a crappy road.

Acme Novelty Libary # 16 Chris Ware”s first new Libary in four years is a huge new hardcover. It’s really quite the graphic designers comic, every panel laid out and thought through. If you like Ware you’ll love this and if you hate Ware you’ll hate this. How’s that for spoiler free review?

Serenity DVD Please Buy It!

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Please Go out and buy this dvd. I was busy yesterday. I took Jessica to the airport. worked for 8 hours. watched four hours of football. went drinking with friends. went to perkins till 3am. Still found time to watch all the special features and this movie again. I want you to go buy this. it’s 17.99 at beAst buy, and you can get it for 8$ if your also picking up battlestar galactica. I want you to go buy this so i can have more of this. This movie puts star wars to shame. It’s budget 30 million. Star Wars 180 something. Come on people! Sure the cover art is horrendus and the trailer was bad, but if ever marketing didn’t reflect a movies quality this is it. I want more Nathon Fillion, More Adam Baldwin as Jayne, and more Gina Torres. God people wake up and support the only true Sci-fi picture made this year. It’s fun, it’s big and it’s messy.
what more could you want?

my sweetie gave me

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chapstick

new scarf

new hat

framed artwork

panera gift card Yummy

AQUA TEEN HUnger Force VOL 4!

Paints and Canvases
cool nintendo belt buckle! and more!

today i bought serenity(my favorite movie of the year) and battlestar galactica vol 2.
It’s going to be a good christmas. Bowl Season starts tonight!

syriana

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so yes i watch too many movies. but i like them alot. Syriana is the type of movie that is really good but may have been better if it had a little less going for it. Theres a lot of storylines going on and I’m afraid some common viewers of film may get lost. I love the interweaving of the different storylines, and overall the film is very effective. It won’t make you proud of the U.S. but it shows that we are not completely at fault for the middle east crisis. But we are defintely at fault. Alexander Siddig gets my top props for his wonderful potrayal of the good prince we label as a terrorist simply because he is doing business with the chinese. He doesn’t get too much screen time but the moments he has with Matt Damon are intense thought provoking pieces. Overall ill give Syriana an A for effort and a high B for entertainment.

I’m taking care of people’s cats this christmas. They all have cable. That’s very dangerous.

king kong and that witch in the wardrobe.

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so we hopped on the bus and went out to see King Kong yesterday. Got to say my expectations were not high and i was utterly blown away. The movie is very good. It’s three hours of fun, good acting and most of all atmosphere. New York City looks great and feels great, the boat scenes are eerie and Kong himself is a marvel. There was this gorilla that me and jessica used to go see at the Memphis zoo. He would sit and watch you and you could tell he knew you were there and that he ws thinking about how to kill you or at least how to get out of his cage. They captured so much of that gorilla in Kong. It was very good and surprisingly very very fun.

we snuck into The lion witch and wardrobe afterwards and it brought back the childhood memories of reading the books very very well. Jessica commented as we were leaving that neither of these two movies could have been made a few years ago and she’s right. Their beautifully done, the Cgi is not a distraction as it has been in some films such as the phantom crap menace. They are creating digital characthers that breathe. It gives me hope for the movies.
And the spectacle.

is punk dead? nah but a thought.

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Do you think it’s possible that punk or indie more precisely is dead? When the first post hardcore bands showed up they brought an air of original instact action to the table and lately it just seems like theres plenty of bands that are copies of the norm. Where is the unusual sounds of a nuzzle, the energy of early texas is the reason, or the new dance motions that the faint unleashed on us? they are covered up by copycats and bands happy to play a sound that is safe and secure. Sure every band has been influenced by the ones before them but it seems like the whole punk/indy scene is in danger of becoming as stagnant as pop music right now. When sites like pitchfork who used to report true underground sounds, now report the same thing as maxim, where are we to go to find out what the new sounds are. There has got to be creativity going on through out this country but whose house show can you find it at? What are the new genres that are developing to replace the synth, the emo, the hardcore as the next musical progression? i remember around 99 when so many ‘punk’ kids started becoming ‘ravers’ and i could see the trendy people right away. I felt a changing of the gaurd going on, but yet now the club kids are back in the shadows and the indy kids are all the rage. I kind of feel like the dance scene has benefited from this and the indy world is lost in a sea of megalabels, and publications more concerned with ad money than covering noteworthy bands no one has ever heard of. that was the point right? of sites like lostatsea, pitchfork and insound right? to let us hear new sounds. well now every band they cover can just as easily be read about in any newstand. whose sticking up for the little guy anymore? Who is the little guy and what in the world are you listening to? What is going to takeover and eventaully have me complaing about the same thing about them years from now. It’s bound to happen, it comes with being good, and being successful,
I just wish it didn’t leave such a bad taste in my mouth.

a post about nothing.

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saw finding neverland last night. it was good but i don’t see what all the oscar buzz was for last year. anyway it feels like summer with all the movies coming out. saw harry potter on friday and can’t say it was amazing or anything. hope to see syriana, king kong and narnia this week and then memoirs of a geisha whenver it gets here. too many movies for the winter season but isn’t this supposed to be oscar time and not summer blockbuster time?
Read volume two of Astonishing X-men. Cassady’s art is great and Joss Whedon just writes characthers so very well. The Villian was kind of dumb but it did not matter., There’s on three panel page with wolverine and one caption that makes the entire book worth reading. I’m going to buy this book monthly starting in january. So my small pull list is New Avengers, Fell, Infinite Crisis, Astonishing X-men and Loveless. too bad they don’t come out on any real monthly scheldule.
music. lately been listening to alot of old stuff, still life, moonraker, monochrome, dancing punk stuff.
oh well, to work for me.

optic nerve #10

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If you have never read Adrian Tomine’s Optic Nerve then shame on you. It is essential to be a hip indy kid. I read that in a review somewhere. But seriously even though it takes him about two years between 32 page issues(i owned my bookstore and have moved to two states since the last one) this is as good as it gets. Tomine is the relationship and life guy as far as comics go. His art is smooth and sensible and the line is crisp. Number 10 is part two of a three parter and it is the angst ride and forlorning we expect in every issue of Optic Nerve, Tomine’s art is changing and I think for the better but the storytelling is tight, and something so simple like an awkrawd kiss is captured here perfectly. If your someone who says comics can’t be literature, then I say to you read this and name a better short story published this year. You’ll be hard pressed.

just watched christian bale in the machinist. that skinny dude is batman? crazy

milemarker,lords, saviours, show reviews

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Wow, I guess metal is back, The Saviours out of Oakland, Ca opened the show with five long completely orchestrated metal songs. It was tight musically and yes very loud. Local band Humans follwed and they were bright happy jangly pop. Then the lords came on stage. I had heard so many good things about this band I wasn’t sure what to expect. They blast through their metal with insane speed and ambition and had me dancing for the first time in a while.

Finally Milemarker came on. I first saw Milemarker way back in chapel hill around 1998. They were a three piece then and they played your basic post hardcore stuff. I then later opened for them in 2000 at the greenville hardcore fest when they were a crazy 5-6 piece. They’ve retained that mass ensemble thing even though many of the members are different. Their set was good as they blasted through their anthems and they had two drummers playing pretty much in unison through the entire show. pretty neat stuff for the cold winter night.

tired.

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i’m tired. physically, emotionally, tired. I don’t sleep anymore, I’m tired during the days but when i lay my head down at night i don’t fall asleep. I just lay there ready for more. And yet at the same time I’m not THAT tired. I’m excited about the doors opening and closing around me. I want to go out. I want to meet new people, and old ones again, I want to stay up all hours watching movies, or just playing games with a friend. I like this feeling of my eyes barely open as i type because I’m running on three, maybe four hours sleep. I miss being tired. I miss watching my friends pour themselves another drink, I miss watching the couples, and the people who move in and out of our lives, I miss having a late night snack for no reason except that you don’t want to go home yet. I think I’d brave anything just to be with all of you, out on a porch on a summer night, watching the stars go down, ready for more.
always ready for more.