Franklyn

i'm thinking Dark City meets V for Vendetta.

a rant about Beth Cooper

A few months ago I was in Borders (pre-employment) looking for something to sit around with and I came across I Love You, Beth Cooper. I had read some reviews prior to my visit and it sounded pretty cool so I decided to pick it up. So I started it and couldn't put it down for a while but for some reason I kind of stopped reading it. Recently I decided to pick it up again and finish it, which I did over over lazy day. I then asked myself why I had put it down in the first place. Anyway, it reminded me of all these 80's John Hughes flicks if I had read them and not watched them. I mean, that's what inspired it, that and Larry Doyle's teenage years of course. After picking it up again I come across something online about the the movie. Yes, an I Love You, Beth Cooper movie. C'mon. Now I'm sure it's going to be a great since it shares a director with Home Alone, Adventures in Babysitting, and Harry Potter 1 & 2 but there's some stuff in the book that's a little closer to Superbad than anything else and I don't know what the filmmakers are going to do with it. I'd hate for it to get cleaned up since it works so well in the book. My guess is it'll be more like a John Hughes film than, I dunno, Last American Virgin. Let's hope it comes out with a clean R rating.

and here's a still from the movie, if you're interested. Some weird looking kid as Denis Cooverman and Claire Bennett as Beth Cooper.

some of my favorite music related things of '08

So this was a pretty big year for me. I left my comfort zone and took in tons of new, much needed music and artists

-The Dark Knight Score
-Ace Enders and a million different people - The Secret Wars
-Yelle on Halloween. It was pretty sweet, had no idea what she was saying but awesome time
-Anthony Green - Avalon
-Alive In Wild Paint - Ceilings-completely mellow album but amazing nonetheless. Really cool guys too.
-Rancid at The Warfield - it was just about time I got around to seeing Rancid
-Van She - V - 80's synth pop. They're Australian and haven't released an album in the U.S. Have to thank my roommate Taylor for this one. V is one of my most listened albums of the year.
-Person L - Initial
-The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
-Common - Universal Mind Control- fun album but fell way below expectations
-Dan Black - okay, so he didn't release an album but posted a bunch of new demos on his myspace page. 2009 is going to be a big year for Mr. Black
- Q-Tip - The Renaissance - this was a much needed album for hip-hop
-The Color Fred/Ace Enders and a million different people tour
-Cut/Copy - In Ghost Colours
-Britney Spears - yeah I'm not really into her but my friend played here nonstop and it was hard not getting her stuck in my head. Yeah, shoot me.
-Lady Gaga - same as above. checked out her album, it was pretty good.
-Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cardinology
-Tricky - Knowle West Boy
-Death in the park e.p.
-NFG - Tip of the Iceberg /International Superheroes of Hardcore - Takin' It Ova!

This night has opened my eyes

(Except for maybe a few, my entries have been shit. When I decided to start this thing I had a clear idea of what I wanted to present and touch upon. So far it hasn't happened)

In the past I've had ideas which I've written to the point where they've become short stories or notes for something bigger I can go back to later but I think I've got something here, finally. This is the idea I'm going to run with. It's semi-autobiographical only exaggerated to an extent for the sake of comedy.