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Oh well, sounds like I won't be hassling with this. Warsaw would be fun and all, but I'm not camping out for it. I'll just take my Hammerstein Ballroom ticket and enjoy it.

Nice. Was listening to that earlier. NP:

Day Night Day Night, Director: Julia Loktev I caught this yesterday. It was a frustrating, but powerful and worthwhile "indie film" about a 19 year old girl and her preparation for a suicide bombing in Times Square. Frightening stuff. I wrote a little review on my half-assed blog if anyone's interested.

Raimi is generally pretty great, yes. I really like most of his films, but this was not one of them. And yes, it had some exciting moments. But in the end it all added up to a big pile of nonsense. The acting was stiff, though this may have just been the result of the generally painful dialogue. There were way too many plots going on, none of which was developed very well. And, in none of them did the payoffs feel earned. The character's motivations were pretty unbelievable and their decisions inconsistent as we moved from scene to scene. And the bits that were meant to be jokes were just sad.

awesome.

Yeah, Sky Blue Sky is a really, really good album in my opinion. But I am fully expecting more than a fair number of poor reviews as the album is not as overtly "daring" or "experimental" as some of their more recent work has been perceived. Thus it is an obvious target for critical backlash. It is a good album, though, and I love it. That's all that really matters to me. But yeah ... this bitch is annoying. I could hardly finish that. Painful....

That was some great Jazz-Warriors action earlier tonight. Had to love Derek Fisher's Willis Reed-like arrival. Classic.

Saw this today. And...ummm...just thought it was really bad. Rarely do I thoroughly dislike a movie, but ... well ... I thoroughly disliked this one. Overlong, overcrowded, poorly acted, poorly written. The motivations for the characters' actions made zero sense almost uniformly and thus the story grew increasingly ridiculous as this mess moved forward. In fact, the story was really little more than a LONG series of big action set pieces interspersed with badly acted (and just plain bad) exposition. I know it's based on a comic book ... but that is no excuse for the massive amounts of pure

Centro-matic - Operation Motorcide EP

Hot Fuzz was indeed great!

Only have a minute to throw some thoughts down, but you totally hit the nail on the head here, I think. I was a bit disappointed in Planet Terror, though maybe "disappointed" is the wrong term seeing as I've never really been too incredibly fond of a Rodriguez flick, save the first segment (the Mickey Rourke bit) of Sin City. But it was still good fun. I really, really enjoyed Death Proof, though. I loved the dialogue, which was typical Tarantino. It kind of felt like Tarantino was using the vehicle of the girls-in-distress flick/slasher film to riff on Tarantino films themselves, in a way. If

Never seen Will solo either. Seen Centro-matic quite a few times, but would love to catch a solo show. How was this? Anyone?

Oh, man. That really is some bad news.

I got myself two tickets!

Centro-matic - Operation Motorcide EP It is great.

This sucks. Lots of crappy music news today...