Observations I Made at the Movies

-American Gangster is surprisingly good.
-They don't turn the lights off during the trailers. Come on! First the commercials before the trailers and now this blasphemy?
-The new I Am Legend trailer features a Clint Mansell score. This time with a track from The Fountain. Further proving that Clint Mansell makes any trailer 10X more awesome. Also, I like how the director copied and pasted the demons from Constantine into his new film. Looks awesome.

Guilty Pleasures

-the Dave Matthews Band
-Michael Bay movies
-re-watching re-runs of The Simpsons/Arrested Development/Futurama an unhealthy number of times
-Family Guy
-90s one-hit-wonders (The New Radicals, The Verve, etc.)
-Entertainment Weekly (previously Maximum PC)
-movie trailers
-watching Steve Jobs' bi-yearly addresses/reading rumors about Apple products
-computer graphics technology
-checking gizmodo.com/slashdot.org/ve3d.com/facebook.com/my gmail all day
-AIM conversations
-socks and sandals (when will society accept this practice?)
-breakfast tacos
-recording classic films I probably won't watch
-thinking about what to post on my blog during the Bergen Philharmonic

Cloverfield: Good or Bad?

The full trailer of Cloverfield was released. Still hard to say if this is the awesomest movie ever or not. The idea is Blair Witch if it had a huge budget. Children of Men already mastered the first-person, live action cam horror. Still, looking forward to this more than the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. Why Jason Lee?

Democrats Micro-managing the War?

I still cannot wrap my head around Republican complaints that Democrats are trying to micro-manage the war. Announcing an end to a war is about the most macro-managing action one can take. The two most macro actions in a war are starting and ending it. Micro-managing would be the Democrats deciding what awful food that we contract Sodexho to feed our soldiers (lets hope it's not as bad as the food they provide our nation's universities, I am sure they still charge $6 for an awful cheese sandwhich).

Recent movies that should have grossed higher

-I Heart Huckabees
-The Fountain
-The Good German
-Sicko (come on America)

Trailers that pwned the actual film

-Bubble (I assume)
-Vanilla Sky
-Phantom Menace/Attack of the Clones
-The Fountain (though the movie is really good too)
-Marie Antoinette

Albums that I do not need to skip tracks when listening in the car

-Every Radiohead album except Amnesiac
-Flood - They Might Be Giants
-Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - 1st album
-Is This It - The Strokes
-American Idiot - Green Day
-Glassworks - Philip Glass
-Vanilla Sky soundtrack
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack
-Once More with Feeling - Buffy musical
-Reveal - R.E.M.
-O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack
-Play - Moby
-A Mighty Wind soundtrack
-Any Beatles mix CD - Love, Anthology, etc.
-Cat Stevens best of CD
-The Life Aquatic soundtrack

(living) Directors I Really Like in Approximate Order

-Darren Aronofsky
-Wes Anderson
-Alfonso Cuaron
-Stephen Speilberg
-Christopher Nolan
-Spike Jonze/Michel Gondry
-Stephen Sodebergh
-Tim Burton
-Michael Moore
-Alejandro Amenabar
-Terry Gilliam
-the Coen Brothers
-Errol Morris
-P. T. Anderson
-Peter Jackson
-Brad Bird
-Andrew Stanton

Blockbuster Top 100

How for the past months have Crash, Derailed, and Failure to Launch been the top 3 rentals? They all came out in 2005! Either Blockbuster users are behind in their rentals (possible since everything seems to have a "long wait") or they have a million copies of Failure to Launch to get rid of.