Buffy Season 8?
For those fans of this show (I’m not one really), I hope you got the first issue of the long awaited comic book.
Reads nice.
From The Top
This is a test post from the latest version of MarsEdit. Supposedly, it can now post to the new blogger. Here we go…
Can’t spell Philippines
If you had watched the Amazing Race this past Sunday, you’ll know that the title tripped up the great Rob and Amber. Don’t worry it was the bane of Magellen as well.
Now who to root for? Terri and Ian! Charla and Mirna? F no! That girl is scary. But most likely, it would be those anonymous couple Dani and what’s his name? They’re under-rated.
Free Coffee Days
Passing along some coffee nerdery news for those that imbibe.
Starbucks tomorrow, March 15, has their coffee break special where they’ll give you a free cup of joe from 10 to 12.
Also, March 21 Dunkin Donuts will be giving away free iced coffee all day in celebration of the vernal equinox.
(ht to Jaded Wings)
March Madness
Filled out my tournament bracket. I have Louisville losing to Kansas in the finals with a score of 86 to 79. Why did I pick Kansas who are known to lose big time? Perhaps because that coach is now at UNC?
Oregon and Texas round out my final four.
I don’t think I’ll be getting far this year.
“But you’re not kissing a married woman.”
Tossing and turning throughout the night. It was too hot, because it was too cold. My furnace was running all night long. I woke up at 3. I woke up at 5. I woke up at 8.
It was when I was waking up at 8 did I get another dream. With I. I thought I was through with her. Yet the heat got to me.
She’s visiting. I don’t really know why. Knowing what I know about her I ask, “How’s your little girl?” “She’s good.” And we’re off talking about her family.
Yet, we end up in an embrace. She’s on my lap now, and I am kissing her half-hearted.
“I don’t feel comfortable kissing a married woman with kids.”
“But you’re not kissing a married woman.” She wants me to show her how.
And we embrace in an even more passionate way.
I miss that. The feel of a woman. Their body next to yours.
Why do I feel the need to write these down? Why do I post them on the internet? Anyway, I thought the quote was great, something Barbara Stanwyck would say.
Zodiac
Season 3 of The X-Files had one of the most memorable episodes of its run, Jose Chung’s “From Outer Space.” In it the titular author, Jose Chung is writing his non-fiction science fiction account of the abduction of two teenagers. He interviews Agent Scully (Wow!), but the whole abduction thing has a Rashomon effect and the truth is not so cut and dry. In fact no one knows exactly what happened. It is a mystery. As the interview with Agent Scully (Woot!) wraps up, she tells him that at least it has an ending, which is more than she can say for the rest of her cases.
That’s how Zodiac seems to have been. At least it has an ending. And at least we get some kind of closure. But (SPOILER ALERT) if Arthur Leigh Allen didn’t do it, there’s plenty of circumstantial evidence to have the fingers pointing at him.
What I found as I watched is that, in this very age, detective television shows such as the X-Files, CSI or Law and Order make it tough to watch police procedurals at the cinema. Each week Law and Order solves a crime and brings to justice the perpetrator. Zodiac neither solved the crime or brought to justice the perpetrator, but it had an ending whether satisfying or not Scully would’ve approved.
Zodiac still felt like an episode of Law and Order. It was divided into two parts. The “Order” part wherein Mark Ruffalo’s detective tries to piece together a case, and the “Law” part with Jake Gyllenhall picks up the case and identify the true killer and his motives so that he can be brought to justice. And that’s just the story’s structure.
Again like detective television shows, I expected the CSI to nail the villian. He couldn’t have been too smart to get away with it. There is always evidence that will incriminate. Yet, the detectives couldn’t find any. I was wondering if they didn’t have decent crime scene investigators in the 70s.
All in all, Zodiac felt more like television. It strikes out trying to be a film because it feels too much like crime shows on tv. If only they put the ominous chords associated with Law and Order, it may have been good.
3 of 5 stars.
UPDATE:
Matt Zoller Seitz really captures exactly what I wanted to say with his review.