Sporadic Movement

Well my blog has been sparse lately and will probably remain that way for a while. Putting the nose to the grindstone with my writing. Take care till the next episode!

Dyno-mite DVD

Last night I watched a great movie. "Straight Time" starring Dustin Hoffman. I learned of this movie from an episode of the Word Balloon podcast featuring an interview with writer Ed Brubaker.

Hoffman plays Max Dembo, a just released ex-burglar trying to get back on his feet. Everything looks to be going great until his dimwitted friend played by Gary Busey gets him into trouble. Max loses hope and turns to his former profession.

I don't want to give too much away, so give this movie a spot on your netflix queue.

Read of the Week

Criminal:Sinners #1 by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

After a pretty good wait Criminal is back with Tracy Lawless back at the forefront.

I love Criminal. From the great story to the fantastic art and colors, right down to the back content that has lead me to great crime movies.

This series focuses on a mystery surrounding major mob players getting executed one by one. Tracy's boss sticks him with the job of investigating the hits. It's looking to be an interesting series.

I just applied for the Italian Police

Two officers of Italian police, left and right, and their Swiss colleague pose near a Lamborghini Gallardo of Italian traffic police 'Polizia stradale', which is told to be the world's fastest police car, at a highway rest area in Bellinzona, southern Switzerland, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. The Lamborghini will be presented at an international police meeting in the Netherlands.

(AP Photo/Keystone/Karl Mathis)

ENJOY THE WEEKEND

Be back Monday, going to enjoy the weekend to the fullest. Hope you all do too!

Reads of the Week

Little late with this edition but just got to finish up my books tonight.




Green Lantern 46- Sinestro proves he's the ultimate bad ass. Johns continues his epic Blackest Night tale and it keeps getting better




G.I. Joe:Cobra Special

The G.I. Joe:Cobra Mini was my favorite of the three Joe titles. This special features tomax and xamot, the mirror twins in Cobra. The story is split in two feature the point if view of each twin. I would be fine if the Cobra book was the only Joe title.




Batman:Widening Gyre 2

I'm really liking Kevin Smith's Batman. Cacophony was a fun 3 issue series but this one is already becoming better.

Batman is getting help by a goat masked vigilante that seems to be able to give bats the slip. After thinking about all the kids he has trained he is intrigued in taking on an adult partner instead of jeopardizing another young life.

I really like the flash backs of him and the original Robin. Pick this up of you want some Bruce Wayne Batman.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

http://savethetatas.com/

http://rethinkbreastcancer.com/

Susan G. Komen for the Cure: http://ww5.komen.org/

Boobyball: http://boobyball.com/

Weekend Cinema: Zombieland

Checked out Zombieland last night and boy what an expierence! It all started out with a row of snarky college kids sitting directly behind us. After filling them with some Holy Ghost, the movie starts with slow motion zombie chasing human scenes with Metallica's "For Whom the Bell tolls" blaring in the background.

The cast is pretty much perfect. Jesse Eisenberg plays the awkward 20 something with ease and is very funny. Woody Harrelson plays the dimwit badass with a passion for twinkies. Emma Stone plays the streetsmart sexy con artist along with Abigail Breslin as her sister partner in crime. Also noteworthy is Bill Murray's cameo as himself.

About midway through the movie we got a shock. An audience member began to violently shake and make what ironically sounded like zombie moans. After he continued to shake people realized he was having a siezure. The movie was stopped , the lights brought up and the paramedics tended to him and carried him out on a stretcher. Hope everything is ok with you pal.

The movie is fired back up and it didn't take long for the laughs to start back. This movie is enjoyable from start to finish. Would definetely see again. Go have fun and see it!

Have the Nineties returned?

Almost fifteen years following their last self titled album, Alice and Chains have returned sans the late Layne Staley on vocals with "Black Gives Way to Blue". William DuVall from Comes with the Fall has filled the role singing mostly Harmonies with band backbone Jerry Cantrell.

The sound of this album has elements of classis spooky ol' Alice but some of the songs venture into new territory. On my initial listen, the title track that comes in at the rear is dedicated to Layne and has piano by Elton John. Coming in at about 3 minutes, it's gone before you know it. Just like Layne Staley.

My next listen is going to be Pearl Jam's new album, which I have heard is their best in years. Are the Nineties taking over the Eighties as the cool retro decade? We shall see.

Reads of the Week

Superman: Secret Origins #1

Geoff Johns, check. Gary Frank, check. Superman at it's best, check. This book is fun and beautiful to look at. I expected this to be great and it is.










Spider Woman #1

I love Bendis and Maleev together! I'm just about finished on their Daredevil run and this book seems more like the Bendis I love. Hope it stays that way.

Since I liked so many books this week, I also want to throw in that the Old Man Logan conclusion was great also. Kinda like the Unforgiven with Superheros. Can't wait till my hardcover comes in where I can read all together at once. (Mark Millar book)

A Slip of the Tongue

Celebrating F-bomb drops on national TV. SNL this weekend being all the buzz, also added a couple of my favs. Enjoy

MMS has landed on iphone

My first MMS sent on iPhone.

Writing update

Looking forward to getting some writing done over the next few days. Issue one of the project by Kenny Keil and I is a few pages from being in the can. Wanted to be finished by now but have been bogged down at the day job.

I also have two new ideas in the plotting stage and hope to work on those soon after I get a few issues done on the current project.

That's it for now, maybe I'll have more detailed info to give out in the next update.

Reads of the Week

Blackest Night #3

If your not buying this book are you really a comic fan? Nuff said!







Punisher #9

Lot's of plot twists in this issue that I won't spoil. Rick Remender is killing it on this book.

Tales from the TiVo

Current Season Passes

1. Sons Of Anarchy

2. Community

3. The Office

4. Dexter

5. Fringe

6. Heroes

7. House

8. Dollhouse

9. Glee

10. Entourage

11. Grey's Anatomy

Obama: The Newest Jedi Knight?

President Obama was spotted wielding his custom blue light saber on the South lawn of the White house. I'm curious how often he uses his Jedi Mind tricks to push his policies through.

Spiritual Fruit

A Buddha shaped pear is displayed at an orchard in Weixian county, Hebei province September 10, 2009. Hao Xianzhang, a local famer, spent six years to perfect the process by growing the pears inside moulds, local media reported. The pears cost around 50 yuan (7.32 USD) each. Picture taken September 10, 2009.

REUTERS/Pillar Lee (CHINA AGRICULTURE RELIGION)

2010 Itenerary:Part One

Chicago- Will be headed to the Windy City in Early Summer for a Series of Cubs baseball at Wrigley

San Diego- Once again I'll be headed to Cali for the San Diego Comic-con International. July 21-25th

Twitter: The Sucessful Big Brother of Social Networking?

Well it seems that Facebook is taking their favorite features from their rival Twitter. Facebook has implemented the @ tag popularized by Twitter. They also launched a lite edition more along the lines of Twitter. It's quite obvious facebook has a hard on for , you guessed it TWITTER!

You Tube has also jumped on the bandwagon with trending topics.what's next 1 min 40 second videos!

Do these other platforms want to be Twitter when they grow up? It looks to be that way.

Read of the Week

This week's pick is The Unwritten from Vertigo. Written by Mike Carey and art by Peter Gross. This story strays from the Tommy Taylor story and follows Rudyard Kipling's story of working for the Mysterious group that have literary figures doing their bidding and in return do favors for them. Appearances by Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde really take the book's cool factor over the top. I highly reccomend this issue, the whole series for that matter.