When the world ends I'll breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to.

Well, shit. I've found the lull.

Gone a while. Sorry about that. I felt the need to extend my vacation by a few more days. Internets can be work too.

For the third time while living in chicago i've gotten a cold. It sucks and I need to take better care of my self. Namely my feet, hands and face. Also I need to eat better. Today for lunch I had "Wheat-meat" Chorizo and black bean nachos at a vegan restaurant near my apartment.

Things are going good with the new roommate, she's pretty cool so far and seems open to the strange personalities of the other inhabitants. We watched some episodes of the office and Donnie Darko as a household. It was very nice.

I was in Denver to visit the family for the holidays. It was a really wonderful trip. I got to see pretty much everyone i'd needed to see while there. I did miss out on a few friends while home though. For a trip that was supposed to be me sitting around for hours at a time I sure was busy. So if I missed out on your company I'm sorry and hope to see you all soon soon. Oh and Happy belated New year and even more belated Christmas. Hope you got a lot of cool gifts.

I was lucky enough to receive some cool swag myself. My brother gave me an official double sided "Grindhouse" movie poster and some new headphones, which I needed desperately. I got some scrilla too and bought myself the new TOOL video single (amazing) and the Gorillaz:Rise of the Ogre book, which is a comprehensive history of the entire Gorillaz project, with interviews and stories. It weaves the tale of the band members and treats them as if they exist and aren't just cartoons. It's really an interesting little piece of literature, for any die hard fans. Love that shit.

I also bought a lot of beer and food while home. Damn I love food. Oh and I bought my brothers some books I thought they'd like.

While home I got to check out some flicks which I'd wanted to see.

I saw:
Into The Wild - Great companion piece to the book, although I think you might miss out a bit if you haven't read the book first. It's interesting to see the story and characters come to life, but at the same time they can only tell so much, which may work against it. Especially when compared to traditional biopics.

The Simpsons Movie- I have to say I didn't like it as much as I wanted to. Ten years too late is all I gotta say. Seasons 3-8 were so damn brilliant. It's a hard legacy to live up to.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - Really funny, surprising and well done. The music is great the gags are clever and so much heart that sometimes you'll think your watching the story of a real musician's fall from grace. The Apatow crew does it again. See it. If you don't love it you'll at least like it.

I inadvertently stumbled upon:

American Pie: Band Camp - Not really any funnier than the other Pie films, nor is it well shot, acted or directed. But somewhere in trying to be original with story, characters and plot elements they've bumblingly succeeded. Steers clear of AP conventions and does some fun and surprising things. Though I have to say I caught this late night on TBS so all the swearing and nudity was cut out. Even still it somehow kept me watching. I'm going to at some point watch the other shitty sequels. I would have wasted those hours anyway.

When I got back I saw:

There Will Be Blood-Holy hot damn! PTA is a bully who thoroughly kicks my ass on the playground. And save for Magnolia these are all beatings I orgasmically enjoy. A quote from PTA before shooting the first frame of TWBB: "Everybody Shut up! This is how you make a goddamn movie!" See this immediately. I don't care what time it is.

So.....

I don't want to get into all the hairy details but if you didn't know it yet you're damn lucky to know me. And that's all I can say about that right now.

Okay. Okay.... I know I'm more that lucky to know all of you too. Geeze. Let a guy have a moment of hubris here.

The Mars Volta has these wierd little webisodes up at Dailymotion.com in proomotion of their new album(my favorite below). They also have this really lame, but also cool marketing gag of a game over at amazon dot com.

Links:

WEBISODE 4 - Goliath
Uploaded by mars-volta

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000184001

Still very excited about that.

On an unrelated note, I'm going to venture into the science of demonology here soon. One step closer to my dream job of paranormal investigation. If in weeks days or hours to come you find that i've been driven mad and thrust myself into the depths of hades by suicide you can blame A&E's Paranormal State as the catalyst.

What I just want to see some ghosts....know that there's more beyond our "human" understanding of existence. Is that soooo wrong?

That show is really cheesy and childish, but I think I might love it. And Ghost Hunters on sci-fi. More on this to come.

Okay next I'm going to link you to a trailer for a film called "Chocolate". I was going to save this one for my upcoming Kung Fu Cinema Blog, but it just can't wait.


Holy fucking shit! BELIEVE THINGS ARE ABOUT TO CHANGE!


Man there's tons of film news and cool shit for me to catch you up on, but man that's work I'm just not ready to do right now. I'll have to catch up naturally at my own pace.

Serina, Anisetta,Matty, thanks for reading and waiting paitiently for this entry. No, you are not lame cause you read my blog. You are amazing!

Now I'm going to go watch that trailer again.