I'll believe a release date when Martin says he's actually finished the damned thing.

No no, you can pre-order it from Amazon! It's totally a real book that really exists!

...you know...eventually...

It wouldn't be so frustrating if he hadn't put the author's note at the end of Storm of Swords that said the second half of the story would be out "sometime next year." IN 2005.

Oh, man. Chak De! India was awesome and gave me allergies at least three different times.

Saw Planet 51 at Ye Old Dollar Movie. What fun!

Chak De! India was awesome and gave me allergies at least three different times.

Girl power sports movie!

I sleepily watched Doubt last night. I have concluded that it was not very good. Also, that people had doubts.

Good god, Pitch Black is a hard movie to vid. I never quite appreciated the plethora of changing lighting and atmosphere and elements segmenting until now. Red light on the ship, overblown planetside, blue sunshine, orange eclipse/sunset, green flares, blue wire light, orange torch light, blue phosphorescent bugs, blue blood, rain... I'm sure I missed something.

Went on a Twohy kick and watched The Perfect Getaway. I was spoiled inadvertantly going in (thank you IMDB with your "Continuity/Goofs/Trivia" having a spoiler right there on the main page. But that was fine, because it saves me from having to watch it a second time. But even then I missed some things, and on further inspection, they held up. So, tight writing, even if the overall feel left me a bit cold, and this is the first time that I haven't been turned off by Olyphant. He was wonderfully crazy. Coulda done without the overly long flashback. There's a sequence near the end where the editing gets kinda awesome for a minute or so with the sound effects.

But I didn't feel like I was watching a Twohy movie until the end with the helicoptor flying over the island at sunset.

Okay, no, I take it back, it didn't leave me cold, I was totally invested in Nikko and Gina making it out alive and felt the Hollywood jokes worked here far better than in Lady in the Water (which I still adore). soem good laughs.

I went and saw Loss of a Teardrop Diamond this afternoon, the movie made by Memphis local Jodie Markell from a lost and rediscovered Tennessee WIlliams play. Turns out an angsty Flapper-era period piece was just what I needed. Bryce Dallas Howard was great as the heroine, Fisher Willow. There was also a great performance by Ellen Burstyn, and Ann-Margret... was there too. And happily Chris Evans didn't embarrass himself while attempting a Mississippi accent.

The kids and I watched Persepolis tonight. I wasn't sure if CJ would get into it with the subtitles, but he was very attentive all the way through. We had to pause it a few times to talk about what was happening. I enjoyed it but was having a bit of a cognitive dissonance in that it is a French film, all the dialogue is in French, but the characters are mostly Persian and "should" be speaking Farsi. There was also an Iron Maiden call out. Made me happy.

So I just watched Oldboy.

I really had no clue what the movie was like. I only knew about the infamous hammer scene, so I assumed it was some sort of martial arts revenge flick with lots of punching and kicking, but, er, no, it was way cooler! It was suspenseful and mysterious and intriguing! Lots of stylistic flourishes I enjoyed.

I think it may be the most fucked-up movie I've ever seen, though. Holy shit. Like ita, I'm not sure I could actually watch it again, but I don't regret seeing it, because it was really good.

I loved that movie, Suzi.