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[grindmonkeh]

Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.

Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
- William Blake - Auguries of Innocence.

I just spent the last several hours of the evening moving a couple hundred wet and muddy cases of beer, ice cream, and soft drinks out of a convenience store. My cousin was having a cookout this evening for his wife's birthday, but the store he works in at the next town north of here was flooded with 3 feet of water overnight and we both went to work instead. His son's baseball team plays against Mason's, so recently we've gotten back in touch after a decade of lost connection. I've been mucking around with my grandma's pc that has the Vundo virus for a few days...my grandma who I've never really had a large amount of contact with due to family dysfunctionality and despondency. It's been a bit of a long past due reunion of sorts with my dad's side of the family. I think I've had a reunion with my dad's lower back problems as well, although I've been in denial about it.

I'm watching Dead Man (with Johnny Depp and Iggy Pop). I picked up the soundtrack about ten years ago to complete my Neil Young collection, and have just now finally gotten around to watching the film. Thus far it's very good...and the kind of good that's a bit off the beaten trail. (I've since sold my entire Neil Young catalog to help finance the purchase of my Dean guitar a year or so ago.) The main character in the film is mistaken for the poet Willaim Blake (killer of one Charles Dickinson) from which the above quote is taken. Lately I've also watched Diary of the Dead (Romero), Interview (with Steve Buscemi), and Dungeon Siege: In the Name of the King. Of the three, Interview was the most decent...although...Dungeon Siege was too entertaining in a train-wreck way. The complete mis-use of an all-star cast and wanna-be Lord of the Rings cinematography was way too epic to walk away from. Burt Reynold's misplaced American dialect (portraying the king!) stands golden among a universally English one in the film. Ray Liotta's sorcery is a bit awkward to everyone involved (including the viewer), and Matt Lillard's performance in the film is exceptionally terrible. Uwe is a juggernaut of genius.

I'm tired and half-drunk.

Comments

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

I picked "Dead Man" up from the library once but never got around to watching it. I'll have to give it another chance.

[charasan.livejournal.com]

I'll see your "Dead Men" and raise you one "Comic Book: The Movie". I watched it last night. Movie by Mark Hamill, starring Mark Hamill. About a comic book fan filming a DVD documentary of the movie version of his favorite Golden Age comic character, Commander Courage. The whole film has a DVD featurette feel to it...and wow...it's as good as it sounds. On the plus side, it's historically accurate with the non-Commander Courage info about comics, and there's tons of cameo appearances in the flick (Stan Lee, Kevin Smith, Matt Groening, Bruce Campbell...it just goes on).