My local Walmart (or Swedish equivalent) has plenty of DVDs to choose from. There's American Pie 2, and also American Pie: The Wedding. And if you don't like either of those, there's American Pie Presents Band Camp and yes, even American Pie Presents Beta House! Oh, and if, for some reason, you don't like American Pie at all, there's United 93. But who doesn't like American Pie!!
Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger.
The last time Unky was here in my home he infected me with disease and he also accidentally left a couple of pirated DVDs. And a few weeks ago I was going to watch one of them, the movie adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Stardust, but the picture quality wasn't good so I didn't, and I still haven't, and maybe I never will. And that is reason #8 why Sammy sucks.
Summer ends:
Day 29: Left Lkpg, went to Helsinki (it's in Finland) to visit a cousin (as I said I would). Bought her some vodka-filled chocolates as a gift. Watched I Heart Huckabees (2004) and drank some booze.
Day 30: Wandered around Helsinki, bought a couple of DVDs. Watched 8 Women (2002). Went to the pub, played some games. Met a gay man from Åland.
Day 31: Ate a disgusting pizza, which the Finns tried to make me believe was good (Finns have very bad taste). Watched my cousin's roommate move. Didn't help. Went to the pub, played some games.
Day 32: Bought a comic book for a friend's brother and mailed it to her (I mean the friend, the friend's brother is male). Left Finland, went to Sthlm. Stayed with the Mook for a day. Watched Holy Mountain (1973) and drank a couple of his father's beers.
Day 33: Went shopping in Sthlm (found two OOP collections of Miracleman on Söder - how bout that?), left Sthlm, went home to Falun. Watched The Birds (1963).
Days 34-37: Spent four days alone, mostly watching DVDs and drinking beer and reading comics. I watched the remaining episodes of Ugly Betty (2006-2007) and then I Heart Huckabees (2004) (again), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), To Catch A Thief (1955), When the Wind Blows (1986), Ellie Parker (2005), Cherish (2002), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Rear Window (1954), The Devil's Backbone (2001) and United 93 (2006). (I may review them all here on SUPERBLOG!! eventually.) Read John Woo's Seven Brothers Vol 1 and Osamu Tezuka's Buddha Vol 5 and 6 and 7, and Hellblazer: Original Sins.
Day 38 (today): My summer is over, which is why James Van Der Beek is looking sad. I'll pay some bills and cry and hope to die.
SUPERBLOG!! Link of the Day: Boring Harry Potter Personality Test. I was Gilderoy Lockhart.
Summer continues. Lost of Wikipedia links this time. Aren't those FUN?
Day 16: Bought another fuckload of comics. Continued my nostalgic superhero binge with Secret Wars, which, to my great surprise, held up very well. Weird.
Day 17: Left Lickpig, went back to my apartment in Falun for the first time in 19 days, read Don't Go Where I Can't Follow. Reread The Authority: Kev, and The Authority: The Magnificent Kevin.
Day 18: Read A Man Called Kev, the last part of the Kev Hawkins tetralogy, or whatever you'd call it. Went shopping for food. Reread Punisher Max: From First to Last and All-Star Superman Vol 1. Both fairly excellent. (Level of intoxication: 0.9.)
Day 19: Read Shiny Beasts - pretty fun. Watched Equilibrium (2002) - sucked. Watched About Schmidt (2002) - a moving dramedy, maybe a little too long. But Nicholson has rarely been better. (Level of intoxication: 1.1.)
Day 20: Watched a bunch of episodes of NewsRadio - not very good, but I love some of the actors, especially Phil Hartman. Read The Three Paradoxes - slightly disappointing, cos it's fine but I expected more. (The title refers to Zeno's paradoxes). Watched Secretary (2002), an unusual relationship comedy starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader. The last act wasn't very good, but otherwise I liked it. Watched The Color of Money (1986), Scorsese's worthy follow-up to The Hustler (1960) (given a one-word review in Part 8 of The Year of Watching DVDs). (Level of intoxication: 1.3.)
Day 21: Finished I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets - The Comics of Fletcher Hanks - brilliant and insane. Watched Final Destination (2000), which I got from Sammy for my birthday. Dr Arzt from Lost and Ali Larter from Heroes (dissed in Part 19 of my DVD-watching extravaganza) are in it. The tacked-on ending super-sucks. The alternate version, available on the DVD, is much more satisfying and and gels better with the rest of the movie. A short documentary featuring interviews with the film executives on why the ending was changed is an interesting case study of how to suckify your movie to reach it's commercial potential. Watched Hoffa (1992) - okay, not great. Jack Nicholson is very good as Jimmy Hoffa, but Danny DeVito is wrong for his character, and the script is one of David Mamet's weaker ones. Watched Next (2007). Nic Cage sees up to two minutes into the future, is hunted by Julianne Moore. Jessica Biel is girl of his dreams. Fascinating premise (based on PKD story), pedestrian execution. Like, you know, pretty much all PKD adaptations. (Level of intoxication: 1.3)
Day 22: Left Falun, went to Sthlm, continued to Nyköping and then Prestwick, Scotland. Then Tiny Troon. Hung around in a hotel bar. (Level of intoxication: 3.6)
Day 23: Left Troon, went to Glasgow. Wandered around. Bought 5 DVDs and a book. (Level of intoxication: 2.5)
Day 24: Left Glasgow, went to Skavsta and then to Lkpg. Bought a book and a DVD.
Day 25: Didn't do much. Watched a few eps of Ugly Betty and Veronica Mars for reasons that remain hazy.
Day 26: Went out. Finished Thinks... by David Lodge.
Day 27: Never left the house. Watched more Ugly Betty. Read some.
Day 28 (yesterday): Finished Basket Case by Carl Hiaasen. It was okay, I guess, but not very good. Cover by Charles Burns! Went to Ryd and watched The Illusionist (2006) with some people - fun evening but somewhat disappointing film.
Hello my children! How are you? We are in Glasgow, Scotland. They have corn here. Also chicken, fried in Kentucky, the Kentucky way. This is us sitting in the hotel lobby typing. Do you make music? Hello!
Now it is time to leave, soon. Shortly. We will go out and paint the town red with the blood of innocent Glaswegians. Or maybe they will, with ours. Blood, that is.
An ugly man just passed by. (There are a great many ugly people here in Scotland.) Let's go out and hunt them down. With britney spears.
