Family is bickering over my g-ma’s health care. Went to a funeral last week for moral support, came home, and my aunt called to ambush me. Nice.
Got into a car wreck yesterday (no damage to me and the car needs body work.) I don't know how I'm going to afford the deductable, but I will ...
Work has been very stressful and my nerves are shot.
I have some new tunes on conicalrecords (they were mainly me and the guitar during the Hurricane Ike power outage … batteries, heat, and insanity, etc.)
and another Spacefinger album has been posted on homemade-lofi-psychedelic.blogspot.com.
Watching Tennis and desperately hoping Andy Murray can get through.
Currently obsessing on Neil Young’s “Tonight’s the Night” album for reasons which elude even me. It's ragged, uneven, strange even ... yet, I can't get it out of my head.
Movie reviews:
(I’ll try to keep up with this since I watch a lot of flix and shows)
“Underworld 3: Rise of the Lycans” – Let’s face it, these movies are what they are. Hot vampire chicks surrounded by some decent actors playing out a very farcical story. As someone pointed out that since Beckensale was gone for this one it might be wise to rely on the decent actors instead. Good call, because not even the great Derek Jacobi could save Underworld 2. This movie is a prequel of sorts and works on the level … well, it lowers itself to.
Michael Sheen and Bill Nighy desperately try and out-quirk each other as they steal scenes from their lesser fellow actors. They know this is a paycheck, so they get to have some fun. Why not? Sheen must find it a relief after playing Tony Blair and David Frost (twice … Frost for a year or so on stage.) He certainly can’t object to having a sex scene with Rhona Mitra (who does a decent job of evoking Beckensale, which is part of the plot.)
The DVD quality isn’t great. I found the sound mix was just all over the place, obscuring the dialog and causing me to adjust the stereo almost as much as I spent watching the film. It is dark, probably to obscure the small studios and the massive amounts of CGI. Nothing in this film looks real, even the actors.
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