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| Thursday, June 9, 2005 11:09 AM |
| Lists Within Lists |
 by Fëanor |
- First of all, in case you didn't stop by Sarcasmo's Corner today for some reason (shame on you!), here are a couple links of hers that I enjoyed:
- An anime-style Flash music video for "Maxwell's Silver Hammer." I always knew what that song was about (although I never did know all the lyrics--so the subtitles here are handy), but it's so cheery and fun that I never really imagined the story in all of its gory detail. The person who made this video, however, has imagined just that, and the results are just a bit disturbing...
- Here's another music video sort of thing, this one about Ninja Robots! The music sounds like a video game soundtrack, and the video features many sound effects and visuals from video games. And there are Daleks! If it had also had a Lovecraftian connection--like maybe a quick cameo by Cthulhu--it would be the best music video ever!
- Now, the standard movie-related linkage:
- Some interesting details are leaking out about X-Men 3. I like the Dark Phoenix story, so I'm glad to hear they're going to focus on that; the mere suggestion of that storyline at the end of X2 was one of my favorite things about that movie. I've also always been distantly fascinated by the whole Silver Surfer thing, so that's cool. I'm vaguely disappointed that Gambit isn't a big character, as I always loved the idea of using energy-charged playing cards as a weapon. But then again, Gambit's accent was always really annoying, so maybe it's just as well. I had a soft spot for Angel for some reason when I was a kid, and used to try to draw him all the time, so I'm pleased he'll be a big character. And "tougher, grittier" is always good news. Anyway, we'll see how the movie turns out. I'm trying not to let this news sway my expectations either way, as expectations can often make or break a movie for me. But I'm kind of excited.
- Reviews are coming in on Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Batman Begins. Smith isn't sounding too good, but Batman is currently 81% fresh, which ain't too shabby, and it's getting some extremely positive comments from some reviewers; Roeper's calling it by far the best Batman ever. This is about what I expected to hear about Smith, but surprisingly encouraging news about Batman.
- Okay, now for some politics. A couple posts back, I mentioned the thousand dollar bounty that somebody'd put on getting a "Yes" or "No" answer out of Bush from a question about the Downing Street memo. Well--and I think it was actually later that same day--somebody did finally ask the question, of Blair and Bush together, and both of them, of course, simply denied everything, which is their so far fool-proof tactic whenever anything like this comes up. They didn't even bother offering any kind of explanation--like, for example, that memo is a forgery, or the guy who wrote it was lying. Nothing like that. They just said, not true, end of story, next question.
That, and dje2004's insightful but rather downbeat discussion of similar topics, really kind of deflated my excitement over this issue. I mean, what can we do? Evidence like this came out, evidence that I thought was shocking and damning and should be front page news, and nobody even talked about it. When somebody finally asked the question, they just flat out denied everything. And now it will probably just fade slowly away. Most people probably never even heard about it, and the rest probably don't care. Not that I'm exempt from that kind of attitude; there was a story yesterday about some dude "fixing" climate reports for the White House, in order to play down links between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, and I couldn't even make myself care about it. I was just like, "Sure, of course, so what?"
Last night, some of us were talking about the Downing Street memo and such, and Yagathai asked, "When are you guys going to run out of outrage?" Well, I think I'm just about there--again. It's kind of a cyclical thing. Some new issue comes up and I get all shrill and indignant again. Then it just gets twisted around and suppressed, and I get sullen and hopeless and apathetic again. Yay for apathy!
- And now, in a complete shift of topic, check out the totally scary picture of Joe Jackson that's next to this article. No wonder Michael's so messed up!
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