Are all these books wrong?!

I will say that this newest Suicide Squad trailer blew brains away in all sorts of great ways.  I’m excited for everything about this movie (except for Will Smith, poor me).  Jared Leto and Margot Robbie (swoon) look great!

The new Wonder Woman footage also pleased me but that is a post for another day.  

I think I’ll watch George A Romero’s Dawn of the Dead in a little bit.  Why the heck not says I?  Much of this stuff was written during another time entirely.  It feels so distant now. 

There is computerized voice on the telephone crying for help.  I am utterly terrified.  I am taping up my door but I truly think something is going to get me.  

Why is the apocalypse on everyone’s mind all of a sudden?  Is something going to happen soon?  That black planet looming just behind us…I don’t know if I can take that.  It wakes me up in the middle of the night.  Something is going to come from the sky.  I think our faces are going to be melted off while we are screaming.  

Scott Walker’s first solo album has so many gems on it.  I was driving around in a motor vehicle the other day and when I entered the McDonald’s drive thru to order a 6-piece Chicken McNugget meal I was struck by how great the arrangements and songwriting truly is on that release.  

Don’t we all have a fetish for women crossing their eyes?!  Is it just me?!  That just does it for me! 

I spent the afternoon watching Robert Dyke’s 2008 sci-fi classic Inalienable.  I purchased this film back in the day because it co-stars Marina Sirtis.  I follow all of Sirtis’s work and I enjoyed her part in this.  In fact she was recently in an Asylum produced picture called Little Dead Rotting Hood.  It was about as good as it sounds (maybe slightly worse) but it now belongs in my collection thanks to Ms. Sirtis’s presence (sadly only in the opening scene though it was a memorable cameo).  IMDB says Dyke is coming out with a new motion picture next year called Moontrap Target Earth which stars Sarah Butler who was inMalek Ahhad’s 2014 flick Free Fall which co-starred another hero of mine in D.B. Sweeney which means it also holds a proud place in my collection!  It’s not easy being me which explains all the gun licking I’ve been doing these days.  I fear I will spend all my life searching for a copy of Annihilation Earth.  I really do like Inalienable. 

You are going to be in everything from now on.  

What were you think about, Egypt?  Yeah.  If only someone would jerk the handle that I may die in my dreams.

There were two World War 2 movies released within six months of each other in that great year of 1998: Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan and Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line.  Ryan was the one that cleaned up at the Oscars but it is painfully obvious that Line is the far superior film and I truly feel that decades from now our grandchildren will know the truth.  

I recently purchased the recently released Criterion blu ray of Wim Wenders 1977 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1974 novel Ripley’s Game (the third novel in the Ripliad) though it is important to note that Wenders retitled it The American Friend.  It is one of my favorite feature films of all fucking time and Criterion’s 4k color corrected remaster is sumptuous and beautiful.  I have it watched 7 times in a row every night for the past 5 nights, bursting into tears each and every time.  The two leads – Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper – do superb work and the lovely Lisa Kreuzer does excellent supportive work and brings genuine depth to what could have easily been a one-note character (is it sexist that I called her lovely?  She is!)  But I do want to single out Hopper for a moment: he has forever been one of my favorite actors and in a long zany career that includes manic performances in things like Blue Velvet, Easy Rider, Mad Dog Morgan, Speed, Hoosiers, Rumble Rish, Apocolypse Now, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and many others I may pick this movie as my single favorite Hopper performance.  It is big yet small, in your face yet subtle, colorful yet painted in stark black-and-white.  I say with 100% truth this performance breaks my heart every single time I see it and the amount of character building he does with comparatively little screen time is stunning.  Out of the five actors who have played Ripley (all greats including Alain Delon, Matt Damon, John Malkovich and Barry Pepper) Hopper’s may resemble the literary version the least but he is by far the most complete and compelling version realized on screen time.  

She turns and walks away in hong kong.

I’m writing about the CLF.  Do you understand what I mean by that?  CLF?  Am I talking about Cliffs Natural Resources Inc?  Hang out on that message board for a while if you desire some zany antics!  Or am I talking about something different?  Something far greater?!  Ah, the jade pendant is coming back around on itself yet again, how wonderful.  Do you give up?  

Britney Spear’s 2007 album Blackout really is great, super icy pop, still sounds about perfect.  Aphex Twin’s 1994 album Selected Ambient Works Volume II is also beautiful.  But I listened to Station to Station a few dozen times today.  How is it possible that he was so far ahead of everyone else?  And how so little has even come close – or how so few have even made the attempt – since then?  

I suddenly have a devastatingly strong desire for Trix cereal.  

One of the most delightful things I heard recently is that he rejected an offer from Coldplay to collaborate and appear on one of their songs, responding to them by saying about the proposed song, “It’s not a very good song, is it?”  This delights me because I am a small, sad petty man and I’ve always maintained that Coldplay are quite awful, one of the very worst.  

One of the most interesting things I heard recently is that Kanye West may be planning an album of David Bowie covers.  Despite West himself having not confirmed or denied, there are already articles appearing claiming West is the only one of today’s artists capable of pulling off such a feat and on the flipside there is an anti-West petition making the rounds in an effort to stop this from happening.  I have not yet made up my mind how I feel but I think the part of me that wants it to be true outweighs the part of me that does not.  I love at least a couple West albums. 

I am still awful; absolutely nothing has changed with respect to that.  I am likely more awful now than I was before.  Certainly, the world is more awful now than it was before.