::Wonders if Big Bird is mostly white meat. Decides it is time to go to bed::

Agreed. May your no longer Snuggle soft sheets haunt your sleep!

Bought some new DVDs yesterday--Airplane, Amadeus, and To Kill a Mockingbird. TKaM has a wonderfully lyrical documentary on it, probably done for the laser disc release at the end of the 1990s. Funniest trivia was that the boy who played Jem really did not get along with Mary Badham, who played Scout. In fact, in the scene in the beginning of the film when she gets into the tire and Jem pushes her towards the Radley house, he really tried to shove her toward a concrete wall in the hopes that she would die in the impact. Unfortunately, from his 13-year-old perspective, she survived.

Airplane disc is not so good--the only extra is the commentary, which is pretty lame, even though it has the Zuckers and some other guy all being very enthusiastic, but they run out of stuff to say about two-thirds of the way through.

Amadeus will be watched most likely tomorrow. I did see the documentary, which was good (I didn't know that Meg Tilly was originally cast as Constanza, but she was injured in a street soccer game with some Czech kids the day before shooting was supposed to start).

The Snuggle bear? But he's so cute, and well.....Snuggly, dammit.

And I'm sure he's just as cute and snuggly while stuffing wads of fabric softener down the throats of the damned in Hell, which he spends his time doing between commutes to make more commercials.

The people behind those ads could teach William Friedkin and Kôji Suzuki a few things about inventing creepy characters.

Trailer for The Life Aquatic, the new Wes Anderson movie, starring Bill Murray.

Even though I'm a huge Noah Baumbach and Wes Anderson fan, that looks even better than I thought it was going to be. A dream cast, too.

Garden State is great. It's just lovely, and funnier than I thought it would be. I'm talking bent-over laughing funny. It's indie without being too indie. It didn't blow my mind or anything, but it's just so simple and sweet and speaking for itself (most of the time...there's only one scene I might criticize as being too verbose and unsubtle, and even then, I wouldn't be too harsh at all). And I've never seen Natalie Portman play a character this weird, so it was nice to see some range from her. Also, the directing is wonderful, as is the soundtrack (Frou Frou at the end!).

about to go see Alien vs Predator i know, i know. but it's a tribute to my cousin who died a month ago today. it's all he talked about when he first saw the preview. i just hope i can stay awake. i took a tylenol with codeine in it about an hour and half ago. *snoooooooore*

also? P-C, i wanted you to know that after i saw your constant mentions of Frou Frou that i finally ordered the cd off of amazon and since i got it, it has not left my cd player. Imogen and Guy are amazing. so, thank you.

Went and saw Alien vs Predator this afternoon. Pete and I went in with low low expectations, so we didn't feel cheated. We mostly went "ooooh, Alien! Neat!" However, I'm pretty sure I could have done without bullet-time facehuggers. Giant floating spider-y things! Gah! And, when the pyramid started shifting rooms and re-arranging, all I could think of was Hellraiser, and kept wanting Pinhead to show up.

We saw a preview for Constantine. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. I'm going to go re-read the small amount of Hellblazer trades that I have.

Simply because I didn't want to be the one to stay home alone, I saw Alien Vs. Predator, at least hoping that I'd be allowed to be snarky. No such luck. Also, we were sitting in about the 6th row. (Not by my choice.) Lots of the action was so fast and in such darkness, I had very little grasp on what was going on. By the end, I was mostly just hoping for a Sooper Seekrit Handshake between Lead Girl and Predator Dude. Something complex with lots of fists. I did call the last shot , though. I think it might have gained me some cred with the boys.