More Crap

I almost forgot I rented Old School and guess what? It sucked! It suffered from a problem that plagues many comedy movies these days: it wasn't funny. Avoid.

Today, another sure-to-suck movie on deck: Die Another Day.

Vive le blog

All-around awesome commentator Lew Rockwell now has on his site a "team blog," filled with his incisive comments and those of other intelligent folks. It's even cooler than my awesome blog, if you can believe it.

Krewe of Apathy

Ok, my long bout of blog apathy seems to have cleared up. Or maybe it's just that I finally went and got more Celis White to drink and need something "productive" to do while I drink it. Watching this horrible movie with Ann-Margret and Louis Jourdan just isn't cutting it.

Speaking of movies, it's time for the latest movie roundup. A couple of weeks ago I rented Adaptation. I think I may have been the victim of the "everyone says this movie's great" syndrome. It wasn't. To the extent it made any sense, it was yet another "too-postmodern-by-half" effort of self-indulgence.

I also watched The Emperor's Club, which to all appearances looked liked it would be Dead Poets Society II. I didn't expect much from this movie, and I wasn't disappointed. It wasn't DPS II; in fact, I couldn't really detect a coherent theme in it, unless it was that "Politicians are dirtbags. and their kids usually end up the same way." Certainly true, but not enough to carry a nearly two-hour film. The allegedly inspiring teacher of great integrity was likewise a butthead. Oh well.

Finally, there was The Pianist. This movie was well made -- I expected that from Polanski, who I think is a tehcnically brilliant filmmaker, even when his movies misfire -- but it didn't seem to say anything more than "Damn, those Nazis were inhuman bastards." Maybe I've just had my fill of Holocaust movies, but I couldn't really muster a high level of emotional involvement with this film. Still, it was good if this is your sort of thing.

I'm 32!

As of Monday, I am officially One Year Older. My co-workers were nice enough to provide me with both lunch and dinner (including beer). I should have birthdays more often. Birthdays without that aging part, of course.

Ahhh...

At long last, a nice, warm, sunny day to sit outside, and the lawnatic isn't even out (yet). Unfortunately, the wasps are. Clearly I need some kind of death-causing chemical to keep these things from disturbing my tranquil beer-sipping and Internet surfing. It seems a slacker's work is never done...