I'm not even supposed to *be* here today.
By all rights, I should be in San Diego right now.
This weekend is sort of a perfect storm of geekiness, and I’m missing it so I can spend a few hours in a tent with clowns. (Goddamn clowns.) At least the tent is air-conditioned. Or so I've been told. It's possible I'm being lied to. It's happened before.
Anyway, I posted about this at length on MySpace a few weeks ago (link coming later – I can’t access that site while I’m at work - here ya go). Suffice it to say that while I readily acknowledge CdS is impressive, unless there’s a chance of having sex with a contortionist, I’m not particularly interested in seeing it live.
Meanwhile, I’m missing out on a shit-ton of cool stuff at Comic-Con. Watching G4’s “live” coverage (they’ll be live, but I won’t be seeing it until Sunday – thank you, TiVo - since I’ll be traveling when it’s on, and even if I weren’t, it’s airing at 8PM EDT on a Friday, by which time I’m usually out of my mind on Kahlua and looking for action down at the docks) simply won’t be the same as actually being there.
On top of that, Clerks II comes out tomorrow. I’ll have to delay gratification on that until next weekend (when I’ll be house/dog-sitting back home and won’t have much else to do – Lancaster, PA isn’t exactly known for its nightlife). I can barely contain myself. Seriously, I think I just peed a little.
Speaking of peeing, there’s the pissing match going down between Kevin Smith and bitchy drama queen Joel Siegel. Go here and here for various takes on what went down. If Siegel really didn’t like it, he should’ve kept as quiet as possible about it – he’s been in the business long enough (“30 fucking years”, apparently) to know that any publicity is good publicity. If nothing else, his outburst and the subsequent controversy simply raises awareness of the film. Well played, Siegel!
Also out this week – Lady in the Water. Okay, Sixth Sense was pretty decent, Unbreakable was tolerable (at best), and Signs was wretched and completely useless – the cinematic equivalent of prison rape, in that afterwards I felt dirty and used, and not in the good way. As such, I felt no compulsion to see The Village, and from what I hear I didn’t miss much. I don’t think I’ll be checking out “Night’s” new one, either.
This weekend is sort of a perfect storm of geekiness, and I’m missing it so I can spend a few hours in a tent with clowns. (Goddamn clowns.) At least the tent is air-conditioned. Or so I've been told. It's possible I'm being lied to. It's happened before.
Anyway, I posted about this at length on MySpace a few weeks ago (link coming later – I can’t access that site while I’m at work - here ya go). Suffice it to say that while I readily acknowledge CdS is impressive, unless there’s a chance of having sex with a contortionist, I’m not particularly interested in seeing it live.
Meanwhile, I’m missing out on a shit-ton of cool stuff at Comic-Con. Watching G4’s “live” coverage (they’ll be live, but I won’t be seeing it until Sunday – thank you, TiVo - since I’ll be traveling when it’s on, and even if I weren’t, it’s airing at 8PM EDT on a Friday, by which time I’m usually out of my mind on Kahlua and looking for action down at the docks) simply won’t be the same as actually being there.
On top of that, Clerks II comes out tomorrow. I’ll have to delay gratification on that until next weekend (when I’ll be house/dog-sitting back home and won’t have much else to do – Lancaster, PA isn’t exactly known for its nightlife). I can barely contain myself. Seriously, I think I just peed a little.
Speaking of peeing, there’s the pissing match going down between Kevin Smith and bitchy drama queen Joel Siegel. Go here and here for various takes on what went down. If Siegel really didn’t like it, he should’ve kept as quiet as possible about it – he’s been in the business long enough (“30 fucking years”, apparently) to know that any publicity is good publicity. If nothing else, his outburst and the subsequent controversy simply raises awareness of the film. Well played, Siegel!
Also out this week – Lady in the Water. Okay, Sixth Sense was pretty decent, Unbreakable was tolerable (at best), and Signs was wretched and completely useless – the cinematic equivalent of prison rape, in that afterwards I felt dirty and used, and not in the good way. As such, I felt no compulsion to see The Village, and from what I hear I didn’t miss much. I don’t think I’ll be checking out “Night’s” new one, either.
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