who watches...

....the Watchmen?

I am so happy this is finally coming to the big screen! It's been months of nervous hand-wringing and waiting, since the preview came out alongside the Dark Knight movie last fall. This looks to be quite possibly the best comic-turned-movie ever! My favorite thing about it is that what you see is taken straight from panels in the book.
Like this scene, where the comedian gets thrown out a window:Here's one with Archie (the flying ship), Nite Owl, and the Comedian:
And this one, with Ozymandias in front of his fortress televisions:
John's reappearance as Dr. Manhattan (in the cafeteria):
And Dr. Manhattan's glass structure he builds on Mars:
The Comedian (seen here, in a flashback from Vietnam) was one thing I was worried about. Someone so vile had to be true to character, and they really nailed him:If you like gore and action and superheroes with huge gaping flaws, you MUST see this movie!
And by all means, go out and buy the book, too!

Who watches the Watchmen?

I'm so excited! Unfortunately we'll have to wait almost a year for it.
If you have the opportunity I recommend you find the graphic novel. It's amazing how many of the scenes are straight from the panels!

Morning After

So I'm 27. It's just like 26. Except older.

My birthday went well. I spent most of the morning goofing off online and opening presents from my family. I received the most awesome awesome wooden wall chicken (I have a thing for chickens) and a multi-eyelet kit (for leather), AND a huge box with polymer clay goodies. Beads will be a-happening around here for a bit. With my new bead rollers and baking rack I will be entertained for hours! The beads pictured are in my other Etsy shop Blenderbach. The eyelet kit is interesting as well. It comes with three different sized eyelets in a myriad of colors and a gun. It claims that it can be used on leather, cd's, paper, vinyl, and "everything" so we'll see how it goes.After all the goofing off I went into the store for a bit to finish up two pairs of purse scrap sandals. But not before picking up some Sal's pizza on the way. Sal's may replace Cardello's in my pizza-love, but really only because it's closer than Cardello's with it's greasy pizza goodness.
Once my birthday lunch was devoured I worked on a custom pair of sandals for an online customer. I should have them finished by today (hooray!) and once they're complete I'll need to get started on two more custom orders and than some more purse scrap sandal orders (which i hate doing - they're so repetitive).
Once that was over Allen and I headed to movie night with our laminating machine and bullhorn (supplies for the AlleyCat race on Saturday). The feature of the evening was Motel Hell, which looked promising and was entertaining for the first 40 minutes until the VHS tape crapped out on us. So we had to resort to another episode of our short, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

The Simpsons

After 18 years I am still in love with this show. Actually, it's been longer since I remember seeing them on the Tracy Ullman show way back when. I remember being Bart's age and watching the episode where he was going to fail his test and have to repeat the fourth grade - but at the last moment he wowed Ms. Krabappel with a tiny bit of trivia about George Washington and passed with a D-.
How can this show keep me mesmerized and watching, from elementary school through adulthood? Maybe it's all those jokes.

Ralph Wiggum: " Your toys are fun to touch. Mine are all sticky."
Also Ralph: "Hi, Super Nintendo Chalmers!"
Also Ralph (to old people): "You're wrinkling. Somebody should iron you!"

Last night for movie night we watched the movie (which I had seen before with Allen) but even repeats can make me smile. Matt Groening, you have done a fine job, sir.
And I miss Futurama. That show was fabulous and if you don't think it's funny you should remove the wadded up balls of dirty socks from your head and replace them with a brain that understands satire...Spider Pig, Spider Pig..... Does whatever a spider pig does!

Moonwalker!

Tonight we're watching Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for a Tuesday Night Movie Night feature. I'm insisting on a costumed event, also, so hopefully we'll be swarmed with Michael Jacksons of all shapes and sizes! If everyone doesn't puss out I'll post some pictures. I may just find more films to show from the Hospice 50 cent video bin.