I saw the movie The Invisible. It was bad. Really bad. It’s filled with plot holes. I have not seen a movie this poorly developed in a very long time. And I’ve seen some bad ones. Characters do things with no apparent motivation. The movie makes you ask “why?” But don’t wait for the answers. I’m all for suspension of disbelief, but this one passes the threshold too much too often. Any answers you do get are one-dimensional and unimaginative. Worst of all, I spent much of the movie hoping that what I suspected would happen wouldn’t. Because it would be ridiculous. But no they didn’t spare me. Watching it on DVD, my friend Shane and I were reeling. We’d yell why is this happening. Most disappointing to me is how misleading the trailer turned out to be. The trailer touts that the main guy (Justin Chatwin) will have to solve the mystery of his death. There’s no mystery as the circumstances are given up right away. Don’t worry though, the scenes with the old man from the trailer explaining this are omitted. I didn’t expect a great movie even with that trailer, but it was still horrifyingly worse than I could have imagined. The tough girl is touted as a victim of circumstance, but I didn’t see any reason to feel sorry for her. There’s no heroism in caring about those who care about you, it’s much more moving to care about those who don’t. Skip it!

If you didn’t notice, there was a new episode of the SketcheeBook Podcast last week. The next new one will go out this Tuesday! I’m having some problems with the audio recording quality that I didn’t have before. Hopefully I can get them squared away soon. For these two episodes, it will have to do.

My friend Shane got me this poster. We saw Superman returns together in Imax remember, and it’s an awesome movie so:

And I put it here on my wall. Sorry about the flash, my room is so dark:

Thanks to everyone who suggested date ideas back in … wow, October. It’s hard to get him convinced to do any these things so we end up doing things which I think are getting a bit less exciting than I would like. I really hate to complain too much about it so I’ll say it brief… It’s really only cause I feel like I’m not really included and out of place. In which case, it’s almost like why am I there when the whole point is to do something together. I want to feel like I can contribute, though I don’t mind being in a subordinate role at times

My suggestions of things to do are really quickly rejected. It’s like okay let’s just do all the things that you usually do alone and I’ll just stand around and watch. Who knew that watching someone sit at a computer flipping threw car websites wouldn’t be fun. That’s my fault though, I should have just said okay I’m going home. Bye.

Next time I go over there, I’m packing my camera, maybe a book, sketchbook. Times like these where a laptop seems appealing.

Keep your suggestions coming because now it’s winter and it’s like, outdoor things seem less appealing. Movies and TV have been good as have intimate contact, but that only goes so far and I’m frustrated. I thought we were going to try things like bowling and pool, but I guess we’re not now because we’re poor.

I saw this movie last night. It was really good. Larenz Tate AND Ryan Phillipe. Come on, that’s hot. Sandra Bullock is really good at being a b****itch, but she just has that one “I’m mad” facial expression. Brendan Frasier as a District Attorney? It only works because he (his character) probably got the job through nepotism or because he’s rich and daddy paid his way to the top. Ludacris did a good job too. I know it’s always commented on when someone moves from music to acting, but it’s still performing. Musicians, singers, speakers, it’s all theatre. I’m not going to spoil the movie for those who haven’t seen it.

Star Trek sighting! Counsellor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) as the Iranian wife and mother. It’s worth watching it just to see the Greek actress playing the small role. She said in an interview that she didn’t even audition, they called her up from seeing video and she really doesn’t know why they didn’t cast an Iranian actress.

I went to the movies alone yesterday! Yay. Well my mom had an appointment and I had to take her there. She was planning on getting lasik but the insurance company didn’t send the thing they were supposed to send so she delayed it until April 6th but she had some preliminary stuff done today. She tried to get my pregnant sister [who is due in a couple weeks] to give her the money for the baby but I told my sister don’t do it! My mom never pays back.

While I was waiting I saw The Pacifer. Well okay I went to White Flint mall since it was right across the street from where my mom was at the doctor. There were these two asian teens kissing right in front of the ticket booth. Naturally, no one was in the ticket booth … probably avoiding the nasty teens in the empty corner of the mall. The lady saw me. I think she had Parkinsons and she was pretty nice. She got the other guy to man the booth and I asked what was the soonest movie I could get into and it was this one. I missed about 10 minutes which he was was basically the previews so I was like fine fine.

Who cast this movie? Has Vin Diesel or that girl from American Dreams ever been in a comedy before? Lauren Graham from Gilmore Girls was the principal and she had a way of taking the lines and making it funny .. That’s about it. The script might have worked if it was done more tongue in cheek, but they played it straight and it was really bad and predictable. Vin Diesel is hot, but that’s about it. It got interesting when the son was suspected of being a Nazi.

I always loved X-Men. I have a box of X-men comics and I loved the cartoon and movie and everything.

Here’s a cartoon dude did. You know him from the chat I go to.

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PART 1, part 2

I recently did a painting of this name, but I’m talking about the movie this time. I just watched it. Ahh, I was so moved. Being a movie about a Polish Pianist, of course we got a bunch of Chopin. I loved the scene where he played the first Ballade. At first I was thinking, if I was asked to play a piece by a German soldier and I was that terrified I wouldn’t pick that Ballade! Anyway, the ending credits entirely set to video of the Grand Polonaise orchestral version was very smart. I mean the video itself, but throwing a piece in a major key at the end was definitely needed to life spirits.

The movie itself being about the oppression of the Polish Jews from the perspective of a pianist was heavy, but it’s exciting to wonder what will happen next. That war was just entirely sad on grand scale. What evil lies in the hearts of men and all that. Even here in America, there are places you wouldn’t want to be and yes people who fear for their lives and rightfully so. As if just the regular world isn’t scary enough without knowing all that.

Anyway, I guess it’s best that we concentrate on enjoying those good moments, because no matter who you are there will be tragedy in your life. If you love anyone, they will die or worse. If you never do love, then that’s a tragedy in itself. I’m sure you can think of your own. Blah blah blah. I liked the movie. It’s good to think.

I hate this movie, but loved watching it. So I’d recommend it then. Macaulay Calkin and Seth Green did great performances. The guy from My So Called Life (Wilson Cruz), Dylan McDermott and Marilyn Manson–who I didn’t even recognize until the credits… My copies quality must not be great because I thought that was an actual woman. Anyway, they did a good job. We also got the guy who plays Fez as a very macho straight guy who is as suprised as anyone when he suddenly has Macaulay as a boyfriend. Isn’t that one of my most recognizable fantasies.

I can recognize why it got mixed reviews. Most movies force feed us and tell us what to feel so directly. You don’t have the opportunity in the modern polished cinematic form to have to ask yourself what you feel. I really felt so much empathy from the characters. It’s based on the book based on the true story. So at the beginning they tell you everything is going to happen and so you feel like there won’t be any suprises. Then you realize, wait how can the guy who wrote this book be dead. So like the characters in the movie, the movie itself plays with the superficial to hide what’s real. The movie is funny though. I mean they quickly set up too many serious things but the comedic setup at the beginning should have been a clue. The characters in the movie all continually do the wrong thing and know what they’re doing is wrong. It was so sad. I think what was worse is that even when their actions had bad consequences, they continue with the same behavior. That is how real people act often.

Empathy is my worst character trait probably. But it’s unique in some ways and so I try to work with it. This movie makes me think about myself. I mean, I’m not like the gay people in this movie and I’m not talking about that. I really dislike the flamboyant mannerism of gay men but it didn’t bother me here. The ridiculous costumes weren’t too appealing but ring true unfortunately. What was I saying. Ah yes, people who know me from my college years know me as a much more put together person. Back in high school those were crazy times. I make a joke out of it when I tell people and say oh I wasn’t really crazy, but it was a series of misunderstandings. Whether or not I was sane, I wish I showed more respect then. Lessons learned in all that. That’s wear I empathize. I can see how one can live with bad choices. We all do it to some degree somewhere. We know that something we’re doing is wrong but keep on doing it. It’s the status quo. Sticking to the comfort zone. In Party Monster, the character of Michael is comfortable with the outrageous attention he gets.

The drug scenes are arguably a case of excess and not necessarily anti-drug. Still, here again often one can’t always recognize their own excess. That working with what I was saying about living with your faults without a will to change and the rest of the story wrote itself, even if it is a true one. The author being high on drugs at the time had obviously had some missing memories which explains how the resolution came about. It’s sick that “he” was still alive–spoiler avoided. Anyway watch this one. You might hate it!

I give this movie a definite gotta see thumbs up. I didn’t think I was going to laugh because I wasn’t in the mood but I couldn’t help it. This movie is hilarious. Plus I love when things deal with race relations and crap and it barely bothered me that they kept getting high. At least it was a clever film and clever humor. It’s just fucking funny.

Last night I felt not so good so I went to nap at around 6:30-7pm and here it is 6:30am and I’m finally up. I had some pretty odd and sometimes scary dreams. Yesterday though, Ali stopped by. It was cool talking to him in person. I’m pretty boring I know We decided to see a movie and White Chicks was timed conveniently so we saw that. It wasn’t bad although I wish they’d have cut up on high society more. I mean come on, if you put some average black men into above average wealthy social society as white women well there’s got to be a joke in there somewhere.

So one of my dreams involved time travel. Well at first I’m in the woods saving these girls from this guy who I guess might be an ogre or maybe just a big villain and then the girls are one by one escaping and running into the woods or somethig. Then I had to save this one girl and she and I escape to a 1920s house or something and we disguise our selves by me putting on a purple hat and I don’t remember but I think the ogre dude followed us. Another dream involved my old house except it was haunted! My mom is at the top of the stairs and says there’s a ghost and I look and I see it too. It looked like a white mage from Final Fantasy Tactics though. Anyway in another part of that ghost dream I find that I can’t leave my moms room because ifI try I teleport back there and then I see a map of the house with arrows and I figure I have to walk sideways down the stairs to the front door but when I’m outside it’s a foggy morning in the neighborhood so then what do I do! I had another dream but I can’t remember anymore right now!