Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Summer Reading: Dr. Gaiman or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Post 9/11 America

Three things.

That are kind of four things.

Kind of first thing: I saw Public Enemies, starring Misters Depp and Bale. The director has done something really incredible. He took the two sexiest, coolest guys in Hollywood, put them in the coolest setting for a film, (Gangsters) and made the dullest thing I have ever seen in my life. Don't go see it. If you have to, watch it online. Just don't support this atrocity by giving it money.

Real first thing: I just watched Let The Right One In. It's this Swedish vampire movie and to say that it is beautiful isn't doing it justice. It is for real the most gorgeous thing. Restored my faith in movies, art, and vampires. Stephenie Meyer can go die.

Second thing: The Dead Weather CD, Horehound. I might just be in love with Jack White and everything he touches, but this album rocks my socks off. The end.

Third thing: I finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Totally awesome. It's a great narrative, and you can read into it a million different ways. (English major yay) Personally I'm diggin' the globalization allegory, but it's an incredible barrage of ideas and a wonderful straight story too. Good stuff, this is what art should be.

In conclusion, I thought that what I said about Ms. Meyer was kind of harsh, but then I remembered Twilight and no it's not.

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