Twilight

I'm watching TWILIGHT. It's like reading the book extremely fast and with the lingering moments mostly cut out. Still, there's no doubt that Bella is Bella and Edward is Edward.

Whether they be let down by cheap effects or bad
screenwriting, the two central actors pull it off.
  • Current Mood
    awake

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Everybody knows the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight is fixed
The poor stay poor and the rich get rich
That's how it goes

Everybody knows the boat is sinking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody's got this broken feeling
Like their momma or their dog just died
Everybody's hands are in their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long stemmed rose
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that it's now or never
Everybody knows that it's me or you
Everybody knows that you'll live forever
When you've had a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Ol' Black Joe is still pickin' cotton for your ribbons and bows

Everybody knows you love me, baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
Give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you've been discreet
So many people you had to meet without your clothes
Everybody knows
  • Current Mood
    pessimistic

Asylum

Drank coffee today and barely ate. Not good. Head all spinny and weird.

Showered, worked on screenplay, slept, felt horny, thought about past, watched SUPERNATURAL.

"Am I making you uncomfortable?"

"Get outta me."

Saw some pics from the making of the film I wrote. It looks fantastic and sexy.
  • Current Mood
    depressed

A Week Off

Spring Break starts today, not that I'm going anywhere.

I'm back on X-Box Live, where I downloaded the Watchmen arcade game and a bunch of other cool stuff.

A DP came in and talked about his career tonight in class. It was really inspiring.

I'm happy with my work, but weary.
  • Current Music
    silence

Bleh

Getting better at playing Rock Band in Medium since we got the game last Friday.
I've been playing solo and practicing a lot. The game has rekindled my interest in
1970s-80s heavy metal acts like Quiet Riot and Black Sabbath.

Soon, entire albums by the likes of Nirvana and The Who will be available as game downloads.

I just spent my Rock Band fortune making my rocker mo' British looking.

I'm going to be evaluated for antidepressants soon. I haven't been doing well lately,
and I'll pretty much try whatever.

It's 7 am.

I just watched the enjoyably moody horror film SOLSTICE, which starred the guy who plays Jimmy Olson on Smallville and Elisabeth Sarnois, the beautiful actress from POINT PLEASANT.

Cooped Up

Rainy day.

Popped awake at 8:30 am this morning.

Had Dunkin Donuts for breakfast.

Played Assassin's Creed until my eyes bled. I have reached the end.

The game is essentially an age old conflict made flesh...reason versus
the occasional madness of religious faith.

Researched my Supergirl painting. I looked at face shots of Sylvia Kristel,
Japanese photographs of female models hanging weightless underwater in the deep ocean, and ballerina sketches by Degas. I made some choices, did some early doodlings.

My hair is growing wild.

Poof Day

We went out to dinner with my father-in-law tonight and then saw CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR.

Pretty interesting shit, a true story about politics in the early 1980s. It was cool
seeing Tom Hanks hang out in coke dens with strippers, drink Scotch constantly and
say "Fuck" a lot. And Phillip Seymour Hoffman is, as ever, a genius.

The real Charlie Wilson is pretty fascinating, and the connections between the politics of then and now are startling. In the film, the goal is to train and arm Afghani citizens to fight back against the Russian invaders. It was a great effort, but we left Afghanistan immediately afterwards, leaving them to pick up the pieces of their shattered country, crushed by the Russians.

And who was one of the heroic Afghani soldiers we trained in military action and armed with
Soviet weaponry? Osama Bin Laden.

Tomorrow is our first annual Poof Day, our private pre-Christmas gift giving night.
I got Shosh two nice presents and one small things. We ran into Mark and Jocelyn twice
while shopping at seperate stores.

Two-Face

As was spilled online several months ago, there are at least three villains in THE DARK KNIGHT, Christopher Nolan's sequel to BATMAN BEGINS.

The Scarecrow, last seen fleeing the Narrows on horseback, returns for more drug-induced hijinkery. He'll be played again by Cillian Murphy.

The Joker is all over the promotional materials, obviously.

Aaron Eckhart plays ambitious and idealistic Gotham DA Harvey Dent, the new boss of Rachel Dawes, now played by Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Eckhart confirmed in several interviews that Dent would get burned
by acid somewhere in the film and become duality-obsessed supervillain
Two-Face. In addition to elements of The Killing Joke, the film seems to
borrow from The Long Halloween, which features both Harvey's destruction and rebirth and also the rise of "the freaks" in Gotham City, much to the chagrin of the entrenched mafia.

In Nolan's more realistic approach, I wonder if uneasy and temporary
supervillain alliances are possible?

Under the cut....

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