Movie : The Omen (1976)

Wow! Creeeeepy! (said with two stresses on the E's, like Creeee-Eeee-pee) The original Omen movie is probably the most spooky movie I've seen since The Blair Witch Project. And it was made two years before I was born!

The creepy boy. The red-eyed dogs. The things in the coffins. And what is up with hiring a Nanny who has a grin like Steven Tylor? It just goes to show that nothing good comes from swapping your wife's baby with the demon-spawn of the devil.

Recommend? Yes! Watch it with the lights out, and then re-evaluate your desire to have children.

Movie : X-men III

Not a bad movie but it lacked the spark of the first two. It was like a mutant movie that was hit with the X-gene cure and turned into a normal movie.

And we were reminded that people getting ripped into molecules isn't really gross... it's more like exploding Legos.

Recommend? If you think the third Matrix movie was worth seeing to complete the 'trilogy', then you will think this last X-men movie is worth seeing.

Movie : Harakiri

Would you disembowel yourself with a piece of wood? I am pretty sure I would not.

Recommend? Yeah, this movie was excellent. I didn't know 1962 movies could be so rough!

Book : The captain is out to lunch and the sailors have taken over

The book is a fucking laugh riot, it's the journal of an old curmudgin. I laughed so hard at some of the parts of the book cause hey I have thought some of these things at one point an time. One of the many funny parts is where he began the sentance by " I should clip my toe nails but I just don't have the time gottta get to the track. Damn they hurt and I know I gotta clip them....."I probably did some ad libing there but hey. On the bonus side it has some illustraitions by R. Crumb.

Final note The book is really good and also I heard that theirs a song about the author Charles Burkowski( not to sure on the spelling)

P.S. I know this is off of the intent of this site but you guys should check out youtube and search robot chicken cause the made fun of ff7 and lots of other things.... just a great friggin show from the guys who do family guy.

Movie : Mission Impossible III

IF you can get past the campy, cheesy first ten minutes of this movie, you will find yourself having a grand time! Mission Impossible III delivers! In that kind of way that Arnold movies used to deliver when you were ten. Scenes were so intense that I got a horrible tension headache! And I like Tom Cruise. He has a good "there's a bomb in my head about to explode" face.

Recommend? Sweet Bajeezus if I can find some Tylenol I'm going to see this movie again!

movie: audition

This film is more proof that other countries should leave torture to China and Japan. Talk about creepy. When the pins get stuck into the dude's eyes, woah man. Plus you'll never look at dental floss the same way again.

Recommend: This is the way torture should be done. Except maybe without the weird twenty minute hallucinatory dream sequence that recaps the entire movie.

The R. Crumb Hand Book

First a big shout to Murf for inviting me onto here!!!
Well I was a bit unsure what to post about but this is a great thing I think everyone should know about. This little book was a great find for anyone has a one point an time been into collecting comics. Robert Crumb is considered the grand father of the indie comic.
First cool feature the book comes with a free sample cd of his band that he has, the band plays a lot of traditional tunes e.g. in the pines' and some other old timey song mixed in with some of their own.
The book is mainly about his thoughts and telling about his influences which span from his older brother to some of the old school comic artist and pop culture. He also talks about his perversions and what he thinks about his over all life. A cool thing is the book has some samples of the various comics that he did. His work is fairly deep in subject matter and also some of it really pushes the boundaries for being shocking back during the time it came out in.

Verdict: The book was a great read for anyone wanting to learn about R. Crumb and get a chance to look at some of his work. I believe that his work really influenced a lot of the way people viewed what you could make a comic book about. I can see his influences in Jthm, squee, south park, and lots of modern cartoons and comics.
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Movie : Azumi

Azumi is a very cute Japanese girl who is a badass assasin. (Is there any reason to go on? I mean, really, I don't think there is. That should pretty much sell you on it. I might add that she kills some ninjas, along with about 200 other people, and that she fights a guy dressed in white who carries a long-stemmed rose around for most of the movie--how manga is that? She also fights bandits that could have been in The Road Warrior. Why aren't you trying to track this movie down right now? I mean, really.)

Recommend? When we finished Azumi, we went straight out and rented Azumi 2.

Movie : The Quiet Family

This Korean family buys a mountain inn for cheap. By the end, many people are buried in the woods.

Recommend? Yeah, it was quite funny.

Video Game : Tomb Raider: Legend

After a crappy day at work I came home, went to a party, scaled a building, and then killed an entire Yakuza organization. All while wearing a skimpy, torn cocktail dress and shooting two pistols at once.

Recommend? Yeah, good graphics, lots of jumping and shooting. It's like playing Indiana Jones mixed with James bond. With less clothes.

Movie: Silent Hill

One totally sweet hour as good as any horror movie ever made including classics like Alien and Jaws. Another totally sweet hour as good as any b-horror movie ever made. The first hour is baddass and totally rocking. The second hour is still pretty sweet but just not quite so tight and well constructed. The introduction of dialogue causes some unintentionally funny moments. The story get really convoluted but I still thought it was pretty sweet. The second ending of the movie is better than the first. I can't say much more without ruining anything.

Recommend: Yes. You must see it. It helps if you've played the games, but you don't need to. It rules. Some of the freakiest things I have ever seen in this one. And I've seen it twice. Its better the second time.

Book: Underground

by Haruki Murakami. Full title = Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. Incredibly interesting examination of a terrorist attack. Murakami includes 60 interviews converted into narratives of survivors of the gas attack, ranging from those who nearly died, to those who stopped to help, to some of the family members of the deceased. The second part includes about a dozen interviews with the Aum cult, the cult who orchestrated the attack, though none of the members interviewed were involved with the attack. Interspersed are critical analyses of the larger themes present in the accounts.

Recommend: Rather disturbing, at times greatly depressing, but a fascinating view of both psychology and perspective. Murakami hits dead on with non fiction.

Music: 10,000 Days

by Tool. Totally awesome. Not so heavy as their others, but its got a great bluesy feel sprinkled throughout it. Also 6 and a half minutes is a short song on this one.

Recommend: Most definately, I do.