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300 is a film based on 300, a graphic novel by Frank Miller. If you recall, Frank Miller is also the creator of Sin City. Just like Sin City, this move looks like it is filmed in the style of a graphic novel. Thus, I am peeing my pants with anticipation.

Yes, that’s Gerard Butler, aka the Phantom of the Opera.

Is it just me, or is this the most latent gay film ever?

I found this update on Dark Horizons: the status of the movies based on Chuck Palahnuik’s novels. Fight Club was amazing, Choke could be a good movie, the rest should remain as books. I can’t blame him for selling the rights; he has said that selling the Fight Club screenplay will make him comfortable for the rest of his life and he only needs to write one book a year.

Survivor
Rights bought by writer/director Francis Lawrence (”Constantine). Palahniuk’s agent said he was really impressed (”it was brilliant”) in regards to their script adaptation of the story of the sole surviving member of a death cult who becomes a celebrity. Concerns have been raised in the past over the ending in which the protagonist of the novel hijacks a civil airplane and crashes it into the Australian outback.

Invisible Monsters
Jesse Peyronel has had the option for years now on the thriller about a disfigured fashion model who teams up with a transsexual to get revenge on the model’s ex-fiance and best friend. Peyronel’s apparently been casting for the film.

Choke
The story of a hustler who resorts to utilising a con at restaurants in order to support his mother’s medical bills is partially cast, and was supposed to start filming back in March. At present they’ve got Susan Sarandon for the role of the mother, but they’ve apparently lost the male lead and are working to re-cast it.

Lullaby
The option was sold this year on this horror-satire about a child’s nursery book containing an African chant capable of killing anyone who it’s sung too either out loud or in one’s mind. A Swedish man who’s made his name making television commercials and music videos landed the rights. The plan is to have “Lullaby” into production in a year and a half, two years at the most.

Diary
A screenplay is set up with an Icelandic producer who’s made a bunch of Harrison Ford movies, and he’s developing it. The story follows a female artists inspired by a new wave of creativity whilst her comatose husband is being hit with lawsuits over psychotic scrawlings he left on the walls of houses he remodeled. Casting is underway.

Haunted
The reality TV satire involves a frame story incorporating 23 short stories. As a result, filmmakers are still trying to decide whether to break them up and sell the stories separately, or sell the whole thing as one big package.

The Chemical Brothers- Loops of Fury

White Rose Movement- Speed

Ladytron- Discotraxx

Ratatat- Desert Eagle

RJD2- Someone’s Second Kiss

Hard Candy was very hard to sit through but even harder to shut off. I’m usually not sucked in to movies like this. Ellen Paige and Patrick Wilson deserve Oscars hands down, but the academy will never recognize them. Talk about one of the worst torture scenes ever.

How did I miss this Terry clip?

I couldn’t stop listening to these today. I’m quasi-embarassed

A.F.I., “Love Like Winter” (I love you Davey Havok!)

Wheatus, “Teenage Dirtbag”

Cartel, “Honestly”

Hole. “Jennifer’s Body”

Guns ‘N Roses, “Get in the Ring”

Skid Row, “Quicksand Jesus”

You know what I found out today? THERE HAS BEEN A WHOLE FOODS OPEN IN HARTFORD FOR A WHOLE YEAR AND I HAD NO IDEA. This is blowing my mind. All this time wasted!

Ah. So today was my quest to find a winter coat, since last night the jacket I had turned out to be as good as tissue paper. You know what that means, a day of consumer consumption. And buying a winter coat is very stressful for me. It’s just so…permenent. My first trip was the Kohl’s- the wet dream for sensible women in their mid-forties. I I really had my heart set on this one, but I’m kind of cheap. It was also difficult to fine something without down, leather or wool. So that made me grumpy enough. I was looking at hats in the men’s department, because I didn’t want something pink or woth hearts on it, and some woman laughed and said, “that’s creative, looking for hats here” as I was trying some on. I yelled “DON’T FORCE YOUR GENDER POLITICS ON ME”. Well, in my mind I did. Then, some genius in front of me decided to bring up loads of clothes and ask the cashier to price check everything and make her decision right there. I had to pretend to be looking at my phone so I would start screaming.

Something else I HATE is when people are unexplicably rude to retail or food service staff. Look, these people are just trying to pay their bills. They are not representing the companies. I stopped and Wendy’s and some embittered soccer mom was tearing the teenage chasier a new asshole because they were out of honey mustard sauce and they didn’t put a sign up. Does it make people feel big and powerful when they bully minimum-wage workers?

And here is another question: why the fuck do people back into spaces? Especially when they take forever? Is it really that important? It would take less time to back out of the space when you are leaving.

It’s official. I can never leave the house again.

My discovery of the band The Lillingtons was purely serendipitous. At the CD exchange in DC, I found a Lookout! Records sampler for 99 cents and there was the song “One Armed Man” that was so incredible I had to check out more. They are hard to find out internet-wise and their albums are pretty much out of print. Their first two albums were incredible, and some of the best pop-punk ever. And by pop-punk I am not talking about the Fall Out Panic at the Chemical Romance stuff. I’m talking early Green Day and The Adolescents and Screeching Weasel. They combine the best elements of the Ramones (simple three-chord riffs) the Misfits (horror-movie themed lyrics) and Social Distortion (a fast-tempo rhythm section). To my absolute delight, they released their first album in seven years. Now, you all know I am usually a fan of musical groups maturing as artists, but sometimes a band should just stick to what they do well. The Lillingtons sound like they haven’t aged a bit. And that’s awesome.

[THE LILLINGTONS; THE TOO LATE SHOW ]

I get Barbie Collector catalogue, and it comes to my work address, so my coworkers all have a jab at me, but then they all grab it and read it before I get to look at it. I like to play “what offensive Barbie are they featuring this month?”

Last month is was “African Princess” Barbie. She has a bird in her hair. No joke.

This month it’s “Wind Rider” Barbie. They may as well have her come with casino chips.

Can’t wait for next month! I believe we are due for some anti-semitism!

Holy shit I haven’t heard this awesome song in about 10 years. I bought the KLF album back in ‘93 probably, and I have been looking for it furiously the last few days with no luck.

[THE KLF, "JUSTIFIED AND ANCIENT"]

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I’m really torn. Findamentally, Entourage drives me crazy. Yet I keep watching more episodes. I think the thing that leeps me watching is Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven’s character). He is absolutely amazing to watch. I’m kind of in awe and sometimes dream about using his conversational and communication tactics in my job. I’ll let you know how that goes.

Vincent Chase is supposed to be a hot actor, but Adrian Grenier is neither hot (sorry, I liked him a lot better when he was younger) nor a good actor. So I don’t buy the fact that he is so sought after.

The whole show is about “the pursuit of p*ssy” and chasing vapid women they could never get anyway. It’s kind of sad.
Sure, Vincent Chase has a manager and an agent, but he does absolutely not thinking for himself. He turns to his manager to every single decision, to like what t-shirt he wears everyday. That’s annoying. He has no thoughts for himself, and no real personality.

The only person that takes things seriously is Eric, Vince’s manager. He actually works for his money and genuinely tried to get things done, although everybody else shits on him.

The other three characters and genuinely unhappy people who treat each other like absolute shit. They are supposed to be best friends til the end? They seem to hate each other. I find it grating the way they find ways to screw each other over and put each other down at every turn. This is supposed to be the epitome of male friendship and every male’s fantasy. That’s sad. I used to hate it when women would say “my friends are just like Sex and the City” and now I have heard men say that their friends are just like Vince’s entourage. Again, sad.

The characters are truly self-loathing and actually incredibly insecure and pathetic. How is this every male’s fantasy life? Supposedly?

On that note…when is Season 3 coming out on dvd?

Well Rush Limbaugh accused Michael J. Fox of faking Parkinson’s, or something like that, right? I can ignore that crap because Rush is probably doped up on prescription drugs and shoving his car trunk full of dead hookers. But then this ad pops up starring a couple of athletes and Patricia Heaton, who I hate more than life itself. More for her shitty show and more for the fact she dares to call herself a feminist. And Jim Caviezel- just because you played Jesus doesn’t make you Jesus. This is obnoxious because this is all actors and athletes- people who rely on being completely able-bodied and healthy for their jobs, and wealthy enough to afford any advanced treatments for any of the disease if they should so be inflicted.

Mxpx is still making music. Shouldn’t this be a good thing? They started out as teens, so making simple pop punk songs was acceptable. But more than a decade later? It’s just sad. The drummer looks like he just had open heart surgery. There’s something called growing as musicians. Look into it. My crush on Mike Herrera isn’t helping the cause. I got their new album, Let’s Rock! (even the title is so stupid) listened to half of it, then erased it from my hard drive, so I won’t even post it here.

Oh my, Good Charlotte has a new video. I liked them before they started taking themselves so seriously. Benji, you are not Tim Armstrong. Go back to hanging out at the Ivy with Hilary Duff. THe song is also kind of a joke. You know, in singing, there is something called changing the pitch of your voice. It’s called notes. Look into it.

Yea, just propogating celebrity worship and crushes. John Krasinski of The Office cleans up real nice.

So it was rully hard to take good pictures, because these fuckers won’t sit still. Glen has turned out to be the needy dramaqueen, and Dale is pretty chill and gets annoyed at Glen. Dale was in my lap and Glen came along to try to push him out, and Dale gave him a kitty bitchslap and then they started rolling around. It was like feline Jerry Springer.

As requested, here is Dale compared to a fork.

And Glen compared to a cd.

Glen eating my foot.

Dale running away from my foot.

Mmmmm, my fingers taste great!

How about with a tampon?

Dale went right for it.

ps fyi, I’m adorable.

In about an hour I am going to pick up two six week old kitties and foster them for two weeks! I am so excited! I can’t wait to smoosh their faces! Either this will be wonderful or they are going to urinate all over my apartment.

Update: their names are Glen and Dale. On the car ride home Glen shit in his carrier and then rolled around in it. I gave them a bath when I got home, and they were pretty good about it. They spent the last half hour crawling all over me. Pictures to come.

Update again:

Pitchfork likes it, I like it, so maybe you will.

[ VIVA VOCE; GET YR BLOOD SUCKED OUT ]

Lily Allen has a new video for “Littlest Things”. She looks stunning.

I need to buy and read every book on this list: 17 essential books about music.

Gwen Stefani is collaborating with Tim Rice-Oxley of Keane. How can he lower himself?

Halloween is a time to be a whore.

THe 50 most essential albums since 2001. I don’t fucking think so.

Movies are getting exciting again (planning on seeing The Prestige, Shortbus, and Running With Scissors this weekend), some casting stuff has come up that has tickled my fancy.

Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd. Come on, Tim Burton, it’s no feat to hire your wife for the lead in every one of your movies. I was holding out for Kate Winslet.

It looks like a Ramones movie is happening. I have heard that Adrien Grenier is being considered for Joey Ramone. Please god no. At least cast a Jew.

Joseph Fiennes will play composer Vivaldi in a biopic. Do me.

Although The Fountain is rumored to be a snoozefest, the soundtrack looks promising. Darren Aronofsky is reuniting with Clint Mansell, the Kronos Quartet, with contributions by the band Mogwai.

Kimber and Stormer record an album together! Jet joins the Misfits! Shayna gets a job designing clothes! The Holograms almost get viciously murdered by the Misfits in every episode!

Supload, which I usually use to host pictures here, is being a total douche and now none of my hot celeb pictures are working. That is hours of scouring the internet that I will never get back. So I guess I’ll have to start from scratch. What better way to start than pictures of Gael Garcia Bernal in a striped shirt checking his messages. Check those messages, oh yea. Do it.

In the absence of Project Runway, I am enjoying Top Chef. Although all the handling of meat is a little stomach churning. The people on it are a little quirkier and nonconforming that most reality show contestants. Although this guy Marcel gives me an urge to attack him with haircutting scissors and a machete. And is anyone else completely freaked out by the host Padma Lakshmi? Something about the way she talks totally freaks me out. You also could land a plane between her eyes. She looks like a goat.

Speaking of judging people superficially on their looks, Sam Talbot, do me! Aw, he’s diabetic. What an underdog. I can see him having to do a challenge where they have to create some sort of dessert, and he has a total breakdown. Cut to him on his cellphone with someone from home.