Conversation I am overhearing as I type this:
“Well, I know I would NOT take the Metro right now.”
“Oh, I know!”
“It’s just….there’s no way it’s safe.”
It has now been ten minutes of co-workers discussing how scary modern life is, and what places are safe and what places are riddled with terrorists.
“Well, I know I would NOT take my Christmas vacation on the Gaza Strip right now.”
“Oh, I know!”
So tired: Had weirdest dreams ever. Woke up and thought “What? Nooooo. That’s not how it’s supposed to go. We’re trying that again.” Thus, late to work, but JUSTIFIABLY.
May have had a late-night phone call, but I don’t remember how it ended. Signs point to BADLY.
Mystery Men was incredibly disappointing. I’m sorry, everyone, but you’re all wrong.
Things I need to do:
Laundry
Get new shoes
Get tea
Lay out a bunch of shirts and bumper stickers
But right now:
Coffee coffee coffee.
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Music:
Handsomeboy Technique may SOUND like the Avalanches and the Go! Team, but they are neither. Mostly because both of those bands would cut off Season of Young Mouss two minutes before HT does.
But I don’t care. I need Avalanches so much so much so much. Must own this album.
Also, why has no one told me about The Juan MacLean?
They’re DFA, they’re crisp, and they’ve got the old lead from SIX FINGER SATELLITE.
Thing I like: Looking up reviews for totally random music I find and saying “Holy crap, you compared it to the Avalanches and Go! Team, too? Hooray! I need others to validate my opinions!”
Mystery Men was incredibly disappointing.
It is the sort of movie nobody should talk up, ever, and then one day you can just stumble across it and be like, “Hey, a movie with William H. Macy as the Shovler and Ben Stiller as Mr. Furious and Jeanne Garafalo having an argument with her dad, a skull encased in a bowling ball! And Geoffrey Rush is a Casanova Frankenstein! This is the best movie ever!” And although you realize it has about ten bazillion faults, three plotlines, and only one really good joke* you can be a Secret Fan, and never tell anybody, but just nod approvingly when your friends find it too.
*”Lance Hunt wears glasses. Captain Amazing doesn’t wear glasses.”
I specifically remember either you or Luke telling me that joke, and I laughed and laughed when it happened.
But. Yeah. Hank Azaria. Hell, Dane Cook even showed up. A seemingly endless number of possibilities for plot, a huge budget….and….it ended up being entirely forgettable and not remotely funny. The general theme of the humor reminded me of the fun of starting a new game in City Of Heroes.
“Hahaha, wait, no, so, he’s got a belt, that he thinks is magic, but it’s not really. He’s called Captain Belt. Hahahahahahaha. Okay, um, let’s go do something else.”
I don’t need a whole film of “what if superheroes had real problems and failure issues and crappy powers, haha” just like I don’t need a whole film of “OMG it’s a fairy tale where people fart how irreverent!” (yet they insist on producing more Shrek movies).