Month: June 2005

Now, back when I was in school, I’d read a a couple of Sue Townsend’s books. The unique thing was that those books are written like diaries or journal entries. While I don’t think that there’s anything inherently wrong with the first person perspective in a novel, it has to be done right, which is exactly not the way that at least one author I’ve read does it.

But, Cheeseburger Brown certainly does it right. Not only in his fiction, but also in his own journal entries, which come off like a story and suck you in (how voyeuristic of me), but also, and mainly in his new jourvel (how else would you combine novel and journal? oh, I guess you can call it blognovel, like CBB does), Simon of Space. Now, here is a piece of writing, an unfolding story, a live journal, that I’m hopelessly addicted to.

So, there’s a knock at the door, and your 7 year old child answers the door to be greeted by two finely dressed gentlement carrying a leaflet. So, when you come to the door to see who your young innocent is talking to, you chase them away in anger. They drop a pamphlet as they run (like girls) away.

And the title of the pamphlet? “Discover Your True Gay Nature”, and it talks about how great the gay lifestyle is, and shouldn’t they consider it now, while they are young.

Yeah, didn’t think so. I dare you, I defy you, I almost beg of you to find me ONE FUCKING example of ” the children who are being zealously evangelized by radical homosexuals.” Please somebody. What kind of delusions is the moral right coming under these days? Don’t even get me started about that stone thing, which seems to be completely forgotten.

So, this weekend we hadn’t actually planned on going to see Episode III. We had, instead, planned on going to Charlestown and Faneuil Hall and stuff. Then the weather happened: it poured and oozed heat/moisture. Really uncomfortable stuff! As it turns out, three of us hated the weather, one of us did not. So the one who did not relented and we all went somewhere air conditioned: the theatre.

As fate would have it, I’d been reading Darth Vader’s Blog all week, so the timing was pretty perfect. Let me tell you, Cheeseburger/MFDH (the Darth Side’s author) has it right. He knows how a tale is to be weaved. And he reminded me of how much I loved Star Wars as a kid. And he did almost exactly the way that Episode 1 did not. Episode 1, in fact, made me avoid Episode 2. Moral, George Lucas is still a fucking hack, but Episode III was really good. I don’t know — maybe it was the darkness (relatively speaking) of the movie with respect to The Phantom Episode — kinda like how Empire was the best of the first 3 (and Jedi arguably the worst — gimme Pigs in Space if you want to give me muppets). Or, maybe it was the fact that now, finally, no more Star Wars movies! That’s a relief in itself, because we can collectively move on.

Hmm, no I’m not negative about it. Episode III definitely had a lot of moments. Some that I liked were:

• Padme’s comment during Palpatine’s congressional speech — where she comments on liberty being lost to the sound of thunderous applause
• yoda — so that is what all you all have been talking about in Episode II
• Chewy
• The 1 second of Millenium Falcon earlier on in the movie

Things I didn’t get (or at least, things which don’t really connect to the first trilogy):

• Wherefore art thou, Han Solo?
• How did Chewy and Han Solo hook up and become partners?
• Actually, that’s all I can think of

Acting wise, Ewan MacGregor was great. I like him, and he did well in this movie. The kid who plays Anakin: can’t act. That’s not so bad I guess, coz the kid who played Luke couldn’t act either.

So that’s about it, for now. Epi 3, all in all, was not a bad movie at all.