Movie : Van Helsing

The movie starts out in black and white... and then there is something about Dracula wanting to do something with Frankenstein's monster, but I'm not completely sure what because a minute into the movie I started losing interest. And then the movie turned to color (like that Wizard of Oz movie!), but at this point I was only half-watching and I started to play around on the internet with the movie on in the background. I think some blue winged women that were sexy in a creature kind of way flew around and hissed, and then I checked out some stats on the unbeaten Colts, and then I watched a few Strongbad Emails. At one point in the movie the main chick (who was a princess? or maybe searching for her brother?) was dancing with I think Dracula, and then Van Helsing swung down from a trapeze, and then I laughed and brushed my teeth and went to bed.

Recommend? I'm sure it's a fine movie.

Posts: This Post

This is the 101st post to this site. It is a short post and is pretty much self-referential with little to no basis or content outside of its own nature.

Recommend: Not really. Kind of shallow, maybe a bit flat. Really, you should skip this post and save the time it takes to formulate the letters contained therein into coherent meaning if you haven't made it this far already.

Music : Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans

My favorite Sufjan album so far. Just slightly tamer than the Michigan album, but in a nice way. Simple and pure. I am amazed at how all his albums are so great, and every song works with the rest. Seven Swans is a grand album.

Recommend? I've had it on constant repeat for almost 24 hours now.

RPG : Dragon Quest VIII - Journey of the Cursed King

Dragon Quest VIII is doing everything right. And Old-School. It's the best RPG I've played in a long time. Much better than, say, Final Fantays X-2, which wasn't very good at all. And Final Fantasy X, which was okay but not good enough to bother finishing. Or Morrowind, which was not much to my taste. It's the best RPG since consoles were 32-bits, that's for sure. This, of course, is excluding games I haven't played. Maybe there were some fine RPGs I missed. If this is the case, I am sorry. I will make it up to you by not playing them and continuing to play the crap out of Dragon Quest VIII. I mean, I've gotta catch that rascally Dhoulmagus. And I need to find more alchemy recipes. And I gotta work on my party's skills.

Recommend? Yes, the story line is simplistic(thus followable and engaging), the graphics look like a cartoon, and the world is huge. And you get to fight slimes, and metal slimes, and healslimes and...

Book: Maus

For those of you who don't know, Maus is a graphic novel about a graphic novelist writing a graphic novel about his Jewish father's experiences in WWII. The big twist is that all the Jews are portrayed as mice, the nazis as cats, the Polish are pigs, a la Animal Farm. Winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize - kind of shocking for a graphic novel, Maus is an insightful and unique portrayal of the events of the holocaust OUTSIDE the concentration camps, instead focusing on the Jews who survived in hiding a la a system much scarier than the underground railroad.

Recommend: Deep, unsettling, funny, well-drawn and well-told, I highly recommend Maus to anyone, particularly if you don't normally read graphic novels - not because it doesn't compare well to other graphic novels, but because it is a highly accessible piece that packs quite a punch. And besides, look at the cover. You've got to read something with a cover like that.