Recent Events

For the past couple weeks I’ve been thinking “shit, nothing’s been going on for me to write about here,” but then I realized I was just being lazy.  I mean, I haven’t really felt like writing a serious movie review, but there definitely has been some stuff worth mentioning, at least.

I saw Chromeo play at the House of Blues here in San Diego last week, which was awesome.  It happened to be P-Thugg’s birthday so they brought a cake out and sang for him.  Immediately after that they did a short Journey tribute.  Totally rad.  Here’s some video I took of it… sorry it sucks.

Later this month I’ll be seeing Radiohead and next month I’ll see Ratatat.  I can’t wait for those shows.

Before that was Comic Con.  My objective of not spending money was a devastating failure.  I bought Tachikoma, Fuchikoma, EVA-01, Paragoomba, and Bob-omb action figures, as well as 8 Samurai Executioner books and 2 Hellboy books.  Overall, the show was a laid-back experience.  We didn’t make a big effort to get there early on any day, and didn’t go to many panels.  The three panels I attended in full were Watchmen, Pixar, and Kevin Smith / Seth Rogen.  We tried to go see the Ghostbusters Game panel, but it was cancelled due to a “scheduling conflict” with the talent (aka Dan Aykroyd).  I also got some awesome t-shirts.  Among them are designs featuring Donkey Kong, Megaman, Watchmen, Ghostbusters, and Marathon.

Aside from that, I’ve gone to see some movies.  The highlight has to be the Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, which I’ve seen twice now (once in IMAX).  This was the Batman film I’ve always hoped for.  Heath Ledger steals the show and sets the tone of the movie.