Random Notes Before Nacho Party Nite
It's funny. When I had a little bitty sporty car (which I only bought cause it had a six CD changer in it...) that could barely fit four people in it, I was constantly chauffering around four or more people all the time. We'd be crammed in like sardines, and people would always kick the back of my seat on accident. So, after the little sporty car got deer massacred, I decided to buy a big, fat ass station wagon. That way I could drive everyone around and pile seven or eight people in fairly easy. Yet, after buying the car, I can count on one hand the number of times I've had over three people in the car.
Similiarly, when I lived with my parents, we constantly had people running around the house. We had all sorts of get togethers, gatherings, and whatnots in my parent's basement. Yet, since I've got my own place, I only host three get togethers all year long: The Watchdogs Christmas Party (recently renamed A Very Cactus Christmas), My Birthday Shindig, and Trick or Treat Night. I've decided, in the spirit of You Only Live Once, that this will not stand. So, I invited Nacho Party Nite. I've cleaned the house up (well, almost) and I've invited the crew over tonight so we can maw on nachos and watch "Brick". Viva!
In other news, I reread "V for Vendetta" over the last few nights. As suspected, the Wachowski Bros. film can't even hold a candle to the book. In fact, I can see why Alan Moore got so pissed off after reading the script. I'd be pissed too if someone was making a movie out of my work and totally missed the whole damn point of it. I knew that they botched the ending up pretty badly, but I couldn't remember how badly until I reread the book. Yeeesh. So, here's my advice, if you dug "V for Vendetta", then head out to your local comics shop and buy a copy of the original trade. It's a bazillion times better.
The weather has been quite bearable lately. Of course, gotta have something annoying the piss outa everybody, and right now that something is mosquitos. Swarms of the damn things. I've got so many skeeter bites I've turned into a giant red bump with a bit of skin attached. If the news is to be believed, me and the rest of Clay County should be coming down with West Nile any time now...
Speaking of movie adaptations, it looks like Frank Miller's "300" may actually make it to the big screen. It's funny, both Miller and Moore have a very Cinematic approach to writing. And yet, Moore's work is virtually impossible to adapt to the screen, while Miller's work can be adapted fairly easily. Why? Well, to put it simply, despite the cinematic approach of Moore's work, his SCOPE is much larger than cinema can handle. Take Watchmen for example. Y'wanna know why the Watchmen movie is 100% guaranteed to suck? Because there is not a SINGLE THING that can be removed from Watchmen without ruining it. And since you can't possible adapt Watchmen successfully in a 2 to 3 hour film, then guess what, stuff will have to be cut. And the movie will lose something because of it.
Similiarly, when I lived with my parents, we constantly had people running around the house. We had all sorts of get togethers, gatherings, and whatnots in my parent's basement. Yet, since I've got my own place, I only host three get togethers all year long: The Watchdogs Christmas Party (recently renamed A Very Cactus Christmas), My Birthday Shindig, and Trick or Treat Night. I've decided, in the spirit of You Only Live Once, that this will not stand. So, I invited Nacho Party Nite. I've cleaned the house up (well, almost) and I've invited the crew over tonight so we can maw on nachos and watch "Brick". Viva!
In other news, I reread "V for Vendetta" over the last few nights. As suspected, the Wachowski Bros. film can't even hold a candle to the book. In fact, I can see why Alan Moore got so pissed off after reading the script. I'd be pissed too if someone was making a movie out of my work and totally missed the whole damn point of it. I knew that they botched the ending up pretty badly, but I couldn't remember how badly until I reread the book. Yeeesh. So, here's my advice, if you dug "V for Vendetta", then head out to your local comics shop and buy a copy of the original trade. It's a bazillion times better.
The weather has been quite bearable lately. Of course, gotta have something annoying the piss outa everybody, and right now that something is mosquitos. Swarms of the damn things. I've got so many skeeter bites I've turned into a giant red bump with a bit of skin attached. If the news is to be believed, me and the rest of Clay County should be coming down with West Nile any time now...
Speaking of movie adaptations, it looks like Frank Miller's "300" may actually make it to the big screen. It's funny, both Miller and Moore have a very Cinematic approach to writing. And yet, Moore's work is virtually impossible to adapt to the screen, while Miller's work can be adapted fairly easily. Why? Well, to put it simply, despite the cinematic approach of Moore's work, his SCOPE is much larger than cinema can handle. Take Watchmen for example. Y'wanna know why the Watchmen movie is 100% guaranteed to suck? Because there is not a SINGLE THING that can be removed from Watchmen without ruining it. And since you can't possible adapt Watchmen successfully in a 2 to 3 hour film, then guess what, stuff will have to be cut. And the movie will lose something because of it.
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There's a storm rollin your way if you're still getting our weather. Baseball sized hail, tornados. Good times. Just wish it hadn't hit on my way home from work on the first night of the state fair. Want interesting traffic (read, "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY, SPEED LIMIT IS 35 NOT FUCKING 3!"), there you go.
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