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June 28th, 2007
X-Men 1.5
I bet you thought I wouldn't get a review in today. Well guess what, I did. Up tonight is X-Men 1.5, the first of many comic-book movies I have to get reviewed and posted. I think the next review I will start working on is American Dad, though I doubt it will be ready by next week. Next week I may post the Family Guy book review I completed recently in its place so at least something will go up. Anyway, I'm tired and I need to get off the computer and start working on this week's TPL which hasn't even been started yet! Have a nice night!
June 28th, 2007
DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore
Hey all,
I have been quite a lot lately and decided to actually review some of the trades I have been reading. In fact, I posted one on my other blog and its also on my website. It was called DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore. I have read Watchmen recently and was on an Alan Moore kick so I had to pick this one up, and I was not disappointed. I have some other books I am reading, or will read in the coming weeks that will be posted soon, including a recently finished DC: The New Frontier, Batman: The Long Halloween and a Family Guy book entitled, It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One. Its been funny so far. I am also working very hard on X-Men 1.5 DVD review so it will be ready by Friday night, but it will be down to the wire.
June 27th, 2007
On Broadway
Tonight I saw Phantom of the Opera for the first time on Broadway and man what a show it was. I have been on a Broadway kick lately, hitting up 4 shows in the past 3 months. There was Rent on April 29th, Rent again on June 4th (freaturing Tamyra Gray of American Idol fame), Les Miserable on June 13th and finally Phantom tonight on June 27th. Each show was awesome, but if I were to rank them (which I like doing) I'd go Rent, Phantom, Les Miz in terms of my overall enjoyment. Rent is just an amazing show. It's content isn't for everyone but it is unlike any show I have seen and definitely seems more hip than the other "stuffier" shows. Speaking of these more high-brow shows, I have seen two of the most beloved Broadway shows in history, definitely the cream of the crop in terms of Broadway. Les Miserable was very good though I thought the first act dragged at times. Phantom was just an amazing show. The Majestic theatre was just beautiful and it featured the best set pieces I have ever seen. The show's been running since 1988 (an unbelieveable amount of time) and in those 20 years you have one finely tuned show. I recommend this to anyone as the music was great and the performances phenomenal. I still want to see more Broadway plays, too. We have Rent tickets for July 30th, when Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal return to the roles they originally started back in 1996 as Mark and Roger. We plan on going a couple of times before the wedding, too, to try to win lottery tickets for the show. We also want to see Wicked and Avenue Q, both which I heard was great. One thing I suggest when going to the play is to maybe listen to the soundtrack first just to get an idea of what the general story is about. I find that helps my overall enjoyment of the show.
"Sing once again with me
Our strange duet
My power over you
Grows stronger yet
And though you turn from me
to glance behind
The phantom of the opera is there
Inside your mind"
June 26th, 2007
Chris Benoit
I haven't watched wrestling in a good 5 years but today's news was just shocking when I read it. Chris Benoit, one of my favorite wrestlers, was dead at the age of 40. Now, when I first found out I thought it must've been an overdose of some sort since that's what most of these wrestling deaths are. Then I heard his wife and son were also dead and I thought it was bit odd. Then the news comes out that it is being investigated as a murder-suicide and Chris himself may have killed his wife and 7 year old son over the weekend and then himself on Monday. That is just scary. What could've caused this man to do that? I guess we will all await details as they come in but this news is just shocking. I wonder if the WWE will continue with ther McMahon death storyline and how they will deal with the circus surrounding an employee murdering his family and then killing himself. What is it that causes these wrestlers to die so young and do such crazy things?
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