Saturday, May 20, 2006

I was looking over reviews for X-Men & X2, and those 2 movies, which I consider the best superhero movies of all time, for the most part, didn't get very good reviews. Even in reviews that were mostly positive, they kind of ripped on the movies for the number of special effects (which seem stupid considering the storyline), or the number of characters (which I think they've handled very well in the films). So, reading those reviews, makes me suspect that the 3rd film won't be reviewed very well. The first X-Men film is actually very short, and I now consider it an extended prologue to the 2nd film. And the 1st film doesn't seem that remarkable, until you take into account that it inroduced the whole world of the X-Men without seeming stupid! But that's pretty much all it does. The 2nd film is fantastic! I'll be seeing the 3rd film a week from Tuesday; most likely with DJ & Mollie. I hope it's good.

I started reading the first of the Star Trek "A Time To..." books. This series of 9 books, sets up the unexplained character developments that ran rampant through the 10th trek film; allowing those moments resonate instead of annoy. So far I like the first book; it's not great, but it's not horrible; it's like an average Next Gen episode in that way. I've read fan comments that say the series gets a lot better as it goes, so that's something to look forward to. I've also heard in recent days that the crew of Star Trek: Enterprise appear in one of the upcoming books, so I'm excited about that. Reading this book is part of my new plan to constantly be reading; I used to read like that all the time, and somewhere along the way I stopped; hopefully I can get back on track.

I didn't go back to bed after my last entry. I've been sleeping at night, usually early evening, and waking between 3 & 5am. It's an odd schedule, but I kind of like it. Work was fun on Thursday; I worked with Bryan & Nate - and later Heidi & Andrea which was so much fun! And we had an amazing assortment of upbeat, funny, thoughtful customers!!! It was fabulous. And District Manager Gloria called to tell us what a fabulous job we were doing.

Mollie now has the internet again, and opened her own myspace account, which pleases me. It's easier to stay in touch with Mollie when she's online. We have really great cell phone plans that help us out, but sometimes we just end up playing phone tag. When we have access to each other's blogs we can see why we're having trouble communicating, and that's great.

Supposedly I might be hanging out with Elvis & Tracy #4 today, but I haven't heard back from Elvis, so probably not. That's just as well, because Mark has a bunch of errands to run today.

ALIAS ends on Wednesday. Desperate Housewives season finale is on Sunday night. JLU ended weeks ago. Nip/Tuck, and The L Word won't be back for like a year.

I was reading this article about gay characters on tv shows, and I watch almost all of them; I always assumed there were more, but apparently not. Also, this season will be the first network television season with no lesbian/bisexual female character on any tv shows (or none worth mentioning) since Ellen came out 10 years ago. That sucks. Also, Paula Marshal played a lesbian character on some show last season that wasn't picked up for another season. I've only seen Paula Marshall in 2 things; the first being Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth - and she made me enjoy that movie more than anything else in the film. I know she was in Warlock 2, but I didn't love the first one, so I never saw the 2nd. She was in a wacky Werewolf movie called Total Eclipse(?); at least I think that's what it was called. Anyways, I like her. And there's a picture of her in the article, and she still looks fantastic. I guess I could just look her up on IMDB, and then I'd know what all she's been up to. Yep, there she is. Full Eclipse was the name of that movie. She's been in a lot of stuff. hmmm.

Anyways. I'm gonna get some reading done, or something. Anything to get away from this dread machine. (Oh, Giles...)

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