[this is me, staring at you]

So I just got back from watching Spider-Man 3 with Tim because he’s cool and likes superheros and will go see movies that involve superheros at 12:10AM on their opening date and not care that they don’t end till around 3:00AM.

I won’t give anything away in case you’d like to see it; I’ll just say it’s pretty good, save some random dancing weirdness in the middle and Tobey Maguire’s awful emo hair as a result.

On a side note, don’t ever read The Road if you’d like to sleep a peaceful sleep for a while. I seriously got nightmares and have been thinking about post-apocalyptic survival for the past 48 hours. It doesn’t help that Cormic McCarthy offers suicide as the only possible salvation. It honestly seems a sweet option if such a thing as his plot were to unfold. I attempted telling myself that it’s just a story and things don’t happen like that to real people living in the real world, but the really crappy part is that the entire environment of the novel is the real world in the most horrific reality; that things you take comfort in being normal and substantial- like your favorite TV show or your email or the post office, mundane things - are completely obliterated. I guess if it evokes such a strong reaction, you may think it’s worth a read…but jeez. I threw away my copy this morning, after finishing it. I’m not passing it on to anyone else and I’m terrified I’d read it again for some masochistic reason.

I’ve only ever thrown away one other book before.

Hey jane and mel, stop me whenever I start to show an interest in end-of-the-world flicks/books again. This always happens.

I guess it’s time for sleep, or something like it.

By: dismarum | 2007/05/04 | movie news & reviews - random | Trackback | Comments [RSS 2.0]

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ben

Comment by ben | 2007/05/04 at 08:50:36

You threw it away???? You could have given it to me! Or sold it to a used bookstore place.
dismarum

Comment by dismarum | 2007/05/04 at 14:09:53

Ohhh I’ve been meaning to send you stuff. I can mail it to you if you want. It’s still the only item in my wastebasket.
jane

Comment by jane | 2007/05/04 at 19:25:43

Damnit. You told me you were giving it to me. I have the Y! message archive to prove it.

And how is The Road a side note to hot guys with emo hair?!
ben

Comment by ben | 2007/05/04 at 21:43:44

Well…I suppose if Jane has dibs on the novel, she can have it. Unless you want to deny that you ever told her she could have it, and send it to me anyway. Possession is 9/10ths of some oft-mentioned law, and you could always claim that she forged those chat logs.
thredd

Comment by thredd | 2007/05/05 at 02:20:04

what was the other book?
dismarum

Comment by dismarum | 2007/05/07 at 00:31:17

Ohh some awful splatterpunk book called “Drawing Blood” or something like that. It was based mostly off of sex and violence and pretty much lacked all substance.
thredd

Comment by thredd | 2007/05/09 at 20:25:32

oh.
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i stopped reading that book about the demon possessed girl??? [who played with quiji board] on page 89. [whutever happened on page 89 was like way too much fer thredd and it aint in the movie, I ASKED]
i think i was like 12.
..
it’s famous, i have blocked the title out of my head. linda blair played her in the movie/ WHICH THREDD DID NOT SEE.
.
i am just realizing that i read most all philospoflies like kafka and heidegger and hegel and knt
and neetzee and whutever right along side the Good Book when i was like 5, and that was probably worse then the excorcist. OMG! that made me remember the name of the book i stopped reading on page 89…
..
reading is dangerous.
but i aint no book burner.
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i like blue. sometimes red.