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has it been that long since i last posted... seeing how there's more action coming from spammer "commenting" on an old post of mine, i figured i'd get back into the blogging game... this will just be a random thoughts post, which i may elaborate on some of later, but for now... these are things i've either wanted to blog about, thought about either recently or for years, or just... wanted to type... so without further ado...

random thoughts:

- i don't really like the Grateful Dead. i actually think they have some okay songs, but i just never got into it. maybe it was because the Dead, to me, were a lot like Jimmy Buffett (at least at my high school where someone would inevitably want "What a Long Strange Trip It's Been" as the end of year senior class song) - not musically, which i think they definitely have a leg up on Buffet with, but in terms of the people they attract. that said, I have known some really passionate Grateful Dead fans, who followed the music not the "atmosphere." I will admit to thinking the video for "Touch of Grey" is completely awesome (and i don't really even mind the song...

- speaking of "the dead," I really enjoyed DC comics recent "Blackest Night" event. Really. A lot.

There were definitely some problems I had with it (the outcome, where certain heroes and villains

were brought back from the dead, was well played, I just wish they had brought back some more than

others...). I'm really interested how this is going to play (mostly i just want to see a new Aquaman ongoing),

but again: the ending was top notch. And really, I have to say that this is where DC comics, i think, really

beats Marvel in their crossovers.

With Marvel, the last few "Major Events" (since civil war) have been kind of ham handed, and really didn't

seem to be interested in "change" - yeah, it looks like some of this upcoming "heroic age" will be a big,

permanent deal... but i still half expect "Seige" to have a huge cop out ending where the key to defeating the

now batshit insane "Sentry" is something they've had all along. With DC, although it has felt like each crossover

has just been serving to lead to the next big event, they actually have impact. (of course, Marvel does a

significantly better job with timing, whereas with a DC book, you can never tell when in relation other books

are taking place to the big event, and sometimes you get events spoiled for you. Marvel definitely is a little more

disciplined, though I think Luke Cage taking over Thunderbolts would have been a better thing to find out

when Seige was all over...

- I still have no real interest in sitting down and seriously watching James Cameron's "The Smurfs" "Avatar."

Similar to my aversion to "Cloverfield" if someone convinces me... but otherwise. I think it's less to do with the movie

itself and more to do with my loathing for most of the work of James Cameron (and, bluntly, the man is a

ridiculous asshole, but i only object to how that seems to come across in his movies). I like the first Terminator

just fine, and Aliens (although it doesn't hold a candle to the first one), but i seriously cannot name another James

Cameron film i truly like (the Abyss might come close, although, hmm, no. not really.) Also, as much as i sort of

like 3D (i think for some movies, like Coraline, it has worked really well), i'm not too terribly into seeing a 3D

movie that, as has been largely pointed out elsewhere, is either stealing the plot from disney's "Pocahontas" or something

else (Dances With Wolves, Fern Gully, etc.) (or, as many critics from various ends of the political spectrum have stated, is

an extremely ham handed political analogy of anti-imperialism/racism/environmentalism/younameitsomepoliticalhackhasfounditsm).

nope. not for me.

(and really, it's the smurfs. sorry.)

- it's sort of awful how bad i want to see iron man 2. i never really liked iron man as a character. even now. even post

movie. even with all the, admitedly very cool, thing they have done to him in the comics (asshole iron man is better than

bland "rich guy uses money for superheroics" iron man any day. and now he's having to redeem himself. a lot.) i just

have little real interest in reading him.

- i don't understand tween pop stars, especially those churned out through the disney or nickelodeon machines. i'm also

a little disconcerted that there's a nickelodeon "tween" machine now. but seriously, all the tv shows are overacted, overly

broad comedy and the music just tries to hard to fit in some popular niche of music, that it all seems really trite and boring.

and i know this is how various elements of the entertainment industry has always worked (a manufactured pop star is a

manufactured pop star. period). but... ugh...

- "true" by spandau ballet is a terrible song. just terrible.

- if Marvel is bringing Jean Grey back, and i sort of hope they are, they had better not do it just to kill her in a few years.

it gets old. fast.

- even though they explain it in Darkest Night, i would have liked to see all of the unnecessary deaths from "Identity Crisis"

undone for brightest day (Firestorm's was a start, but i'm talking sue and ralph dibney). i also think they should have had - or do

as some sort of parody/one shot kind of thing, the dead black lantern versions of all the unnecessarily/ridiculously killed off

characters from the past couple of decades in DC history and have them attack the writers/editors responsible...

- all for now. more to come...