EverydayOrdinary

This year is shaping up to be a good year for movies:

Ghost Rider (16 February 2007)
300 (9 March 2007)
Spiderman 3 (3 May 2007)
Shrek the Third (18 May 2007)
Pirates of the Carribean 3: At World’s End (25 May 2007)
Fantastic Four Two: Rise of the Silver Surfer (15 June 2007)
Transformers (04 July 2006)
The Simpsons Movie (27 July 2007)

… and I think I may have missed a couple.

And in the “Maybe” Category:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (23 March 2007) … eh. I’m not too impressed by the trailers.
Evan Almighty (Summer 2007)
Live Free or Die Hard (29 June 2007) … if reviewers say it doesn’t suck.
I Am Legend (Late 2007) … if it’s closer to the book than “The Omega Man”

But I dislike going to the movies alone. I’ll probably be able to drag my brother to a couple of these, but variety being the spice of life, anyone in the IE area wanna be my Movie Buddy? Maybe I should start a club. “The Inland Empire Society of Motion Picture Aficionado’s” or something.

Looks interesting, no?

I can’t model or animate in 3d yet, but I’ll learn …

https://www.nextengine.com/indexSecure.htm

… eh.

Much hype, okay episode. I haven’t been watching Smallville this season, so I don’t have much to compare it to. I didn’t really watch the show last season either. I know, I’m a heretic. But it was kind of … repetetive. Meteror-powered superfreak of the week shows up, Clark stops it. Romantic tension between Clark, Lana, Chloe, etc. Lex almost finds out Clark’s BIG SECRET. Deus Ex Machina devices abound. But, you know, it’s a comic book basically. It’s guilty fun.

“Justice” was pretty good. But they’re running out of T-Shirt Colors. Red (Impulse), Blue (”Boy Scout”), Orange (Aquaman), Green (Green Arrow), Grey (Cyborg). Let’s see … Black? Batman. Yellow? Wonder Woman. Purple? Barney; purple’s not a real color name. Violet? Dunno. Metamorpho? The Question? The Wonder Twins?

Any more heroes after that fter that, they’ll need to re-use T-Shirt Colors. Green Lantern, Plastic Man (Was he Justice League, or Justice Society?), Martian Manhunter, Blue Beetle, Blue Devil — all represented by colors already used.

I think I digressed from my review of the episode. Anyway, there seems to be more depth to the show now, with two running plots as near as I can tell, one re: the Kryptonians & the phantom zone, and the other re: Lex & Luthorcorp & 33% or 33 1/3 or 33.1 or whatever it was called. Which is a step up from the freak-of-the-week format.

Lex is a full-fledged bad guy now.

And Lionel’s a good guy? The wha … ? And he knows Clark’s BIG SECRET. Is he really good, or is he just up to his old shenanigans, playing both sides, or working his way toward manipulating Clark for his own ends?

It’s no Heroes, and certainly no Buffy, but it seems to not suck as much as it did. I may start watching it again now.

I’d certainly like to see more of the League.

Oh, and did everyone catch the Fanservice bits? The references to “JL International” and it being a “Satellite” of Queen Enterprises and Chloë was the “Watchtower” …

And didn’t Chloë’s role seem a bit reminiscent of Barbara Gordon’s as Oracle?

So, my bottom line: Plot was okay. Acting didn’t suck too bad. The obligatory “Hero Walk” shot was cheesy, but all-in-all, the episode was enjoyable. 2 1/2 stars out of 5.

After an inexplicable delay in shipping, I’ve got my new phone finally.

It’s charging right now. I got the black-and-silver model, not the black-and-red one. The red one is kinda sexy, but it’s not my style really. I’m more laid back and subtle, like the black-and-silver one.

I can use it, besides, you know, actually talking to people, as a wireless modem for my Laptop (and, I think, maybe my PDA) so I can get near-broadband internet connectivity anywhere on Sprint’s network.

Yeah, I’m a geek.

Anyway, I switched providers, so I’m no longer mooching off of my parent’s account, which makes me feel better. But my old phone wasn’t quite off-contract yet, so I’ve got a completely new phone number.

I’m not going to post my mobile number for all the Web to see, so if you want my seven (ten? eleven?) digits, holla at yer boy.

Just don’t call me before 7pm pacific time on weekdays. I’m cheap and only got 200 anytime minutes.