"Watchmen" is an excellent piece of cinema. There, that's all you really need to read. It has a unique cinematic style which revels in ultra real yet ultra fantastical violence. It succeeds entirely in translating the comic book feel to the big screen, even though some of the changes were not necessarily for the better, I'll leave that to the ( Read more... )

Hi Live Journal! It's been a while, but I'm alive. Are you? ARE YOU LIVE JOURNAL?! Going to college, reading things (MANY THINGS!), and just generally being more social in 3D (reality) than the internet (AKA the interweb). But yes, I say hello to you all, if there is any "all" to say this to ( Read more... )

I've seen Fitna, I'm sure most people have by now. It shows Muslims at their worst, combining all those lovely clips of radicals cutting heads off and giving speeches about converting heretics by force and all that. Of course, now those very radicals who were just cutting heads off are offended and hurt that someone would portray them as the head ( Read more... )

It snowed on the Spring Equinox... A lot. If this doesn't prove the existence of a higher power that hates every living creature on this earth and delights in tormenting them like a child with a magnifying glass and an ant colony, then I don't know how much more evidence we need. Maybe a giant high powered beam of solar energy arching down from ( Read more... )

Bored, bored, bored... Spring break is boring! I wish I was some place odd and amazing. Like Greece, in a Lovecraftian ruin of some sort. It would be truly Cthonic. No one even wants to see a movie. I want to see Juno damnit. It's supposed to be good. I need to get watching movies, they're all going to pass me by, and I hate that. HATE.

I just found the most amazing nerd rock band ever, thanks to Penny Arcade I will admit. It is called Melt Wizard, as the title of my entry may suggest. They apparently disbanded around four years ago sadly, but damn they are wicked awesome. I'll throw the link down to their two free songs. The rest, I have sadly not heard, because I'm cheap and ( Read more... )

It is amazing really, how quickly a person forgets who their best counsel is, their most knowing friend. The person that knows everyone best is themselves. When a person says that someone else seems to "know what I'm thinking before I even say it" that is because that person has allowed definition to come to their lives from that other person. ( Read more... )

I just read through a link on the crazy Harry Potter ladies web site that I got from ftsor's site about how Magic the Gathering. This one probably has a point, I mean, Magic is super cool and you do, as the site so aptly quotes a card at times "Sacrifice a White Creature". Then again, it's fantasy! It's not real. I don't ever remember ( Read more... )

Perhaps not the most interesting of subjects for me to decide to write again. I almost feel repetitive in typing two in a row with religion... But there is the "other stuff"! As quoted from above. But here's the thing... It's going to be short and sweet, it's really more something that is making me curious more than anything else. In Greek ( Read more... )

I know this is rather offensive to someone of a Judaic faith base (Christian, Muslim, Jew) but I have been reading the novel "The Handmaid's Tale" and its idea of a theocratic fascist state is preposterous except for one fact. The world this story is set is so very polluted that it has become very difficult for humans to produce without still- ( Read more... )