terminals

first i destroy my knee skateboarding.
then i dislocate my shoulder severely due to spiders.
then i break out in a rash because i have an allergic reaction to the lounges in my backyard.
then my cars water lines fuck up.
then i blow my head gasket.

keep dishing it out, i’m not sure how much more i can take.
let’s find out.

been watching a new HBO show called True Blood starring Anna Paquin. It premieres feb 2nd of something and has the most convoluted plot spelled out in the simplest ways.
it really is quite weird, here’s a synopsis.

japanese scientests create synthetic blood, meaning vampires no longer need to remain underground and now live among humans as an alternate race vying for equal rights in similar fashion to the civil rights movement.
in a small redneck southern town, the first vampires begin showing up, triggering a wave of murders of girls in the town who are ‘fangbangers’ or people accepting of the vampires.
a civil war veteran vampire falls in love with a telepathic young girl.
her brother is a V addict, a new drug made from the blood of vampires.

this isn’t even half of it. i haven’t seen a show even remotely this involved yet so easy to follow, recommend tons.

whatever, i’m going to start dex s3.

as gay, materialistic or hollow as this may sound, i used to love shopping and it used to make me feel good.
i have an extremely addictive personality, i used to buy so much shit, close to half my paycheck just wasted on records, comics or films.

today i bought new jeans, dvds, books and cd’s and left the shops with a worse knee and feeling like shit.
these days i get happier looking at my money in a bank than having so much possessions…
i go to work because i have nothing else to do with my time so the moneys a bonus hey.

maybe i’m getting old.

whatever, theres more important things, like my work mate and one of my dads best friends just had a baby.
sienna marie, cute name.
dudes had so much shit thrown at him lately so it’s good to know he’s happy.
now they can get on with the treatment his wife needs.

This is going to be a regular fortnightly rant where I just rave about anything that I’m loving tons, anything from films, comics, books, music, tv, art, fashion or architecture. Lets keep it simple first go though.

Watching the Watchmen

It’s a companion peice to Watchmen in the form of a huge coffee table book made by the series’ artist Dave Gibbons. Has a ton of concept drawing, raw scripts, early drafts of issues and the overall story of how the novel came to be. It’s fascinating reading huge double  pages filled with scrawlings from phone conversations between Moore and Gibbons about the novel.

World War Z

Drawing heavily from the Romero school of zombies (and really should there be any other?), World War Z is a fictional oral history of a future zombie war dubbed world war Z as seen through the eyes of many of the war’s key players. Confused? It eschews traditional storytelling to great effect, although sometimes the details remain murky because of the way the novel seems to jump around. The way in which zombies are made believable as a part of our reality is something not even the greatest zombie films seem to capture, but something Brooks seems to deliver through the chilling recounts of panic, war, death, destruction, and ultimately, hope.

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

Fucking hell I love you GDT. This is probably the most complete home theatre experience ever on offer for a regular release. Hours upon hours of bonus footage and special features brings you into the story so much more, and helps you appreciate the hard yards Del Toro puts into his films. They really are a labour of love. The film is actually pretty sick, slays the first one by a mile on every front, better villains, deeper relationships between characters, better visuals, bigger and more believable sets. Nuada is the second best comic book movie villain of 2008. Something is really frightening about a character who is hell bent on destruction, and yet is still able to keep you sympathetic.

Let The Right One In

This film is beautiful. It is also not about Barack Obama’s race to the whitehouse like I thought when I first heard the name, far from it. It got a ton of buzz with aintitcoolnews so I decided to check it out. Basically the film focusses on two twelve year olds, who in the harsh winter of Sweden fall in love amidst some very strange circumstances, the main ones being that the girl has been “12 for a very long time”, “is not a girl” and has a paedophile ‘father’ who drains his murder victims of their blood to feed her. Shes a castrated male vampire, yeah fucked up, but that doesn’t really matter much actually. The end scene is one of the greatest endings since Empire and is already assured iconic status. The use of morse code in this film is beautiful, even if it doesn’t make total sense until the end. Lets hope that Cloverfield CUNT doesn’t fuck up the remake. Seriously find this and check it out, it’s strange, beautiful and terrifying at the same time.

i said everything i wanted to last night.
miss you hey.

i’m depressed.

i don’t think i’ve ever felt so alone.

they all cross their heart hope to die they’re there but it’s just words. you’ll find the next one, forget the last.
you’ll go away and swear it happened so fast that there was no other place for me other than to be left behind.
i don’t even get it, your insecurities even astound me. and of course it was you, you get too defensive when you lie.
whatever, the rest are complicit, hope you find what you’re looking for. when your back you’ll find i’m not.

tomorrows three months..
i’m still wiping tears at the most obscure references; every time i see his writing, every time i open a bill addressed to him, every time i see a guitar. i stopped playing.. it’s too hard. i don’t know what that means for the band i’m in now but like that hasn’t stalled anyways. i think about it every day without fail, sometimes i’m a kid he’s the tallest man in the world. sometimes i’m nine and he’s yelling at me about breaking a cabinet with a chair but can’t keep the grin off his face. sometimes im thirteen and he’s teaching me to play a minor on acoustic guitar. sometimes im grown up, just a few years ago.. wasting time sitting in the sun, appreciating the simple joys of sand beneath your feet, blueberry muffins on balconies and cocktails inside a pool.

i was christmas shopping and looking at books.. i saw a ocean book thats was some national geographic thing. i picked it up thinking ‘my dad would love this for christmas’. i wish i could capture time in a jar because a moment later i realised i’d never buy him another christmas present again or spend another milestone with him again. he won’t be there when i leave my teenage years, when i graduate or when i get married. he won’t be there to tell my kids he knows first aid and the cut doesn’t really hurt. i wish i could have that split second back, because for a second it felt like i was with him again. i broke down in the middle of targets book section, what a joke.

tonight i’m stuck on roundabouts, but someday i’ll find a highway.

knees still fucked, seeing doctors monday, hoping its no permanent damage.
i still have a deathwish to attend to, won’t work as well with wrecked knees.

heres what im doing to pass time.

preacher- dudes rave over this comic tons but i don’t rate it that hard. because it’s counter culture doesn’t excuse the thin thread the story clings to. im about halfway through and it’s really fun to read but i’m not too sure if i’m that into it, i’m a sucker for conventional narrative structure

frost/nixon- just go see it. who would have thought a film based on an interview could be so engrossing. the script is nothing short of genius and Frank Langella is in top form. also the dude from underworld was pretty good, but i find it pretty hard to take him seriously after that film haha.

pineapple express- just hit dvd/bluray. probably one of my favourite films last year, seth and evan are quite possibly my favourite comedy writers in hollywood right now. film is so fucking funny and doesn’t slip into the self parody that lesser stoner buddy films fall into.

world war z- so im kind of late to the party but max brooks has been high on my read list for a while. kinda early to tell but im digging how seriously the dude takes zombies. so excited for the film also. will be the first ever zombie warfare film with a huge budget. go brad pitt.

film ink- latest issue is probably the best put together magazine you’ll have seen last year. cover with tom cruise. seriously get it, the peices on valkyrie, the wrestler, del toro and fincher are more than worth it.

the 59 sound- quite possibly my favourite cd of last year. materful arrangements, cinematic storytelling, contrasting instrument dynamics. this album is the musical equivalent of watching lord of the rings five times.