belated happy new year

Happy New Year. I bought you a cactus, internet!

Enjoy.

So not much going on right now; I'm unemployed and largely uninspired, and still not quite back to my normal operating standards.

But once I am! Oh boy oh boy party time will commence. Commencer, madamoiselle.

There are some things I feel I've researched just poorly enough to give my insightful amateur opinions about in an internet blog.

First off, apparently actor Joaquin Phoenix, who I loved as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, has taken a hiatus from his acting career to start a rapping career. Having never heard him rap, I won't say that he's doomed or anything--I will just point out that most actors who try music (Bruce Willis, Corey Feldman) see nothing but wonderful failure. Plus, what a strange genre to try out. I just didn't expect rap from Mr. Cash; rock, maybe, because honestly he sang Johnny Cash's songs better than Johnny Cash did. But rap? Wow.


Also, as a huge Jason Voorhees fanboy, I had a little happypartydancathon when I saw the latest batch of Friday the 13th (2009) pics. Correct me if I'm wrong but I do believe that this marks the first time an Asian guy has had a role in a Jason flick. Yay, diversity!

Also, apparently there's a third Ice Age flick coming out this year? Am I living in some parallel dimension where Ray Ramano, Dennis Leary, and Queen Latifah have profitable careers? Apparently the Ice Age franchise has made over a billion dollars worldwide; um, okay. I still say the movies would be better if they were only about the rat squirrel thingy that's always after that nut.

I'm gonna wrap up this post with a little note on movies. I recently watched Gone Baby, Gone which cemented my opinion of Casey Affleck as a damn good actor. It is a very good movie, great acting, writing, direction, and hey, Morgan Freeman. I also watched Oldboy, which was great, and a nice dip into Korean filmmaking. It was weird, it was cool. I loved it.

So yeah. Hope you're all doing well.


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Ttyl.