love that green one, dark and fish for morenaza (won't be held responsible for my tractions!)!

The new trailer for Wonder Woman premiered online this morning and I watched it while drinking black coffee and consuming scrambled eggs and a piece of wheat toast.  I don’t want to allow myself to get excited for this movie but I love this trailer just as I loved the first one.  Yes on color and beauty and positivity!  I also dug the little reference to the original Superman movie they slipped in. Those sly dogs!  Please let this movie be good!  Please! 

At the exact same time I watched the trailer I also learned that The Dark Tower movie has been pushed back from February 2017 to a summer 2017 release.  This news actually pleases me as it could mean the studio has more faith in its potential than before though that is not necessarily true.  It also gives me more time to reread the series before watching the feature film.  It also gives me more time to eat double stuffed Oreos.   I was driving around today and listening to Scott Walker’s 2006 album The Drift which I consider to be a dark masterpiece.  It’s impossible to pick a favorite track but were I to venture a guess I may go with Cue.  Listening to it makes me wish an alien disguised as a comely human woman would whisk me away to her spaceship disguised as a building where she would then murder me.  What a song, album and artist!  I was missing something before I found Walker.  It’s a very shaved down work.   That last world series game was a real doozy!  One for the ages!  I’m pleased the Cubs won.  Baseball is my life. 

I finished reading the book White Noise by Don DeLillo earlier today.  It is the second DeLillo book I have read, the first being Cosmopolis.  In both cases I found them to be very challenging reads that only became more difficult as I progressed and there were large chunks of both which I did not understand.  I’m not sure when I will read another DeLillo book but when this happens I may try Underworld.  Though that one may destroy me.  Incidentally, Cosmopolis was adapted into a great feature film by David Cronenberg (swoon) a few years back.  I saw the movie before I read the book and for that reason I purchased the copy of the book which had the movie tie-in cover even though I hate those.  Whenever I am made aware of a book through a movie I always purchase the edition with the movie tie-in cover so I can be repeatedly reminded of my ignorance while reading.  To my knowledge there has been no adaptation of White Noise though there is a bad horror movie with Michael Keaton called White Noise that has no relation to the book.  I saw that film in theatres opening night with a dear friend and own a copy (I remember I had breakfast with a jerk the following morning where I consumed pancakes and bacon.  I also remember the name of the restaurant).  But see, it’s all related!  Because, though I wouldn’t realize it until much later, my actual first exposure to DeLillo’s writing was back in 2006 with the release of a fantastic little indie flick called Game 6 with a screenplay that he penned.  This is one of my favorite films; I watched it today in fact!  And it stars none other than Michael Keaton!  What an endlessly bizarre fucking world we live in!  It also features Robert Downey Jr. and these two actors will be reunited on screen next year in Spiderman: Homecoming which I now view as a de facto sequel to Game 6.

My Criterion blu ray copy of Fellini’s Amarcord arrived in the mail today.  I watched the first ten minutes of it – right up until the burning of the witch scene – and the I promptly took a nap.  Sometime later I made and consumed a ham sandwich.  My copy of Ludovico Einaudi’s 2005 album Elements also arrived in the mail today and I have listened to it back to back nine times, finding it to be a thoroughly engrossing and haunting work. 

Having finished White Noise I am currently reading Off Season by Jack Ketchum and at roughly 200 pages in I am finding it to be just delightful so far!  I would describe Ketchum’s writing as clipped, hardboiled, gritty and raw which is an altogether very effective writing style for horror though of course not the only effective writing style for that genre.  This is the first Ketchum novel I’ve tried though I’m betting my bottom dollar it won’t be the last. 

Ah, la Morenaza del fuego.  I know who you really are.  You are everything.  If only…the bridge.  And when Maria Victoria was the maid.  These experiences are not my own.  But as I said before: she was wearing an orange shirt.  I can’t forget that.  Codewords.  She’s a peach.  Time is all jumbled up now.  You seem like a really nice person.  That other person finally married though, right?  Coastal Culture, that is a band for the ages. 

I love that everyone is a hypocrite.  Boy, do I despise people. The human race is an awful thing.  He was right, homo sapiens have outgrown their use.  I don’t believe in myself. 

This album Elements is amazing!  What a stupid person I am.  What’s going to happen when the moon start’s talking to me?

I believe all those moonbeam levels will ultimately be my way back inside.  I have missed you so.  You are crucial to everything functioning properly.  But how unexpected and delightful to find myself rejuvenated by a work thought lesser in the past.  How much did I take for granted?  And now this new power soul is gripping me in luxurious beauty.  Because when u love somebody.

I wish to doff a hat to young Alan (or is it Allen?) here.  Truly one of the greats.  Could hardly ask for better.  It is a raw deal but hopefully it will all work out for the best.  I will think of you if and when I drink an aqua velva again.  The next round is on yours falsely. 

What’s Goin On.  One of my all-time favorites. 

I’m going to be shitting turquoise very soon.