Published January 25th, 2009 at 9:34 pm in commentary, movies with 8 comments
Tagged with bill nighy, kate beckinsale, michael sheen, rhona mitra, underworld
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans is the movie Underworld 2 should have been. That’s not to say that it isn’t a very flawed experience (it is), but it’s not the train-wreck-with-no-survivors that the other film was. For what it was, a b-movie fantasy flick, I enjoyed it.
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Published January 24th, 2009 at 10:01 pm in brooklyn, exposition with no comments
Tagged with associated, monolith, obama, reel box, supermarket
I remember where I was when I saw it. It may be vitally important to remember these details- the last moments of the before now that I’ve been plunged into the after. What I have seen cannot be unseen.
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Published January 23rd, 2009 at 3:00 pm in books with 1 comments
Tagged with buy the ticket, f. scott fitzgerald, fear & loathing, gonzo, hemingway, herman melville, hunter s. thompson, poo, take the ride, terry gilliam
For reasons I can’t fathom, I never read Hunter S. Thompson. Any of it. I don’t know why. I just never got around to it. Well, finally, after watching two Thompson documentaries over last weekend, I find myself staring at a copy of the Modern Library’s volume of Fear & Loathing.
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