The Highlight Reel

Crossed the two month mark in the license suspension, only ten to go :)

Quote from Scott Pilgrim vs The World: "Scott, if your life had a face I'd punch it". Posted it on my facebook page and a friend immediately replied, and i'm talking like seconds after posting it: "Who said that to you?" Second friend replied: "God". The love flies around like bullets.

Almost pissed myself laughing when Robert Downey Jr wailed a 10-yr old in the stomach in Due Date. Todd Phillips is a genius. I find nothing funnier in movies and tv shows than random acts of violence.

Music tracks, in no particular order: Echoes by The Rapture, Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks by The Rapture, Creator by Santogold vs Switch and FreQ Nasty, Pictures (Tonite Only Remix) by Sneaky Sound System, Blue Blood Blues by The Dead Weather, Daylight by Matt&Kim, True Afffection by The Blow. I r diverse!

Pre-birthday fun with D. Absolutely loved that the reason both of us wanted to see the most recent Harry Potter movie was because Emma Watson's hot.

Leaving for Maine in six days. It really is like the Siberia portion of a Russian prison sentence. And I've talked to a couple of ladies who hail from Siberia and it doesn't sound to me like it's as bad as Maine in winter. This time around Maine is going to be work, exercise, continued studies in personal and business finance and Romanian. I've been a horrid slacker since returning to California from New York. Trips to Maine have become my way of slapping the blinders on. It forces me to right the course of my ship which is notorious for veering toward anything shiny. I really am like a 33 year old 6 year old.

I marvel every week now at The Misfits because it's British and hilarious and great. I would debate anyone that the trio have not met since the Monty Python troupe was at their best.

Reading: Bret Easton Ellis - Glamorama, Dubner and Levitt - Freakonomics

Movies: from Sweden, the Millenium trilogy, so I'm up on my shit when Fincher's American versions start coming out and now I'm absolutely in love with Mara Rooney. From Britain, the Red Riding trilogy about the Yorkshire Ripper murders and 20 years of investigations and trials. I think watching movies in foreign languages or with funny accents makes me more cultured :) I started the newest Nightmare on Elm Street remake but bailed 10 minutes in to watch the Sons of Anarchy season finale, which was great. I'm concerned the Elm Street remake will be the second of these horror remakes that I've disliked. Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 was the first. I've watched a lot of terrible movies in my day and it ranked way high up on the list of biggest pieces of shit ever. And I'm a big fan of his. Sons of Anarchy is still the greatest Shakespeare adaptation ever to be put on tv. Elm Street will eventually get watched because of the aforementioned Mara Rooney (head back, drool, mmmmm). And the only good movies Michael Bay has ever been involved with have been the recent horror remakes. Fucking hack.

After refusing to watch the final episode of Lost for almost six months I finally gave in. I didn't want the series to be over and now it is. And after hearing everyone groan and bitch about how terrible the finale was all I can say is: it was the perfect ending to the series and I loved every second of it. And I'm not ashamed to admit I wept like a baby at times. I'm always impressed when a series is so wonderfully constructed and written that the characters end up feeling like friends and you can feel their emotions. This was a wonderful example of television being a work of art. It doesn't happen often.

The Social Network was incredible. The exact same movie as Citizen Kane but much more entertaining and watchable. And I always love movies and stories where these titans among men have everything they could possibly want, the entire world in the palms of their hands, and the thing they desire most is something simple that they once had but lost while they were empire building. For Kane it was the simplicity of his childhood, for Zuckerberg it was his relationship with a girlfriend he lost (oh, Mara Rooney, now I'm convinced you're following me around). I think the relationship angle is much more poignant personally. Good on you, Fincher.

Looking forward to The Black Swan. Guaranteed to be the greatest movie ever about ballet dancers. Good on you, Aronofsky.

A recent Facebook quiz has revealed that if there was a zombie apocalypse I would survive. I'm a badass. The Walking Dead is the best new show on television. I love the fact that the focus is veering away from the big guns, big tits comic books to the stuff that has actual literary merit. Some of the best literature I've ever read has been in comic book form. Perusing IMDB seems to point to the Y:The Last Man movie falling apart. Pity. That is great literature.

Hmmmmm... I guess that's enough all-over-the-mapness for the time being.