Thursday, January 17, 2008

Mark's home from work and watching Battlestar Galactica. I'm feeling a bit better than I was...not feeling dehydrated now. I spoke to Michael on the phone, and my friend Bryan too, who wanted to know my middle name so he could write me into a book! How cool is that? I've written like 8 poems about Bryan (back in the day), but I don't think they're on my site as I never did the artwork for them. I should get on that.

Michael and I talked about his school and stuff, including news of this boy that he has a class with whom he "used to have a crush on" who is now hanging out with him and stuff. Sounds like the crush hasn't ended to me. But if he'd be happier with the other guy, then who am I to stop him? We're not married after all. Oh what the fuck am I talking about? lol

Currently, I'm writing this between burning discs for Mollie in my room, while I watch Justice League downstairs. I love the DCAU, and though I never thought about it before, Batman is the lynch pin of the entire thing. He's obviously in DCAU, and though I never thought about it before, Batman is the lynch pin of the entire thing. He's obviously in Batman: The Animated Series and it's continuation + 3 animated features (Mask of the Phantasm, Subzero & Mystery of the Batwoman). He's in "Superman: The Animated Series, Static Shock, Justice League & Justice League Unlimited, Batman Beyond, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker & The Zeta Project. For those that include the webisodes, he's not in Gotham Girls, but he's referenced quite a bit as it's centered around characters that originated on his show. And while he doesn't appear in Lobo, that's about all he doesn't appear in. It's crazed. It's cool. Now if they'd just release the webisodes, Static Shock & The Zeta Project I'd have the whole damned thing! :-0)

Now that I think about it...I think the reason I maybe haven't warmed to the new Chrsitian Bale Batman movies is that I have my favorite Batman already. I loved the old Adam West Batman when I was a kid. And I enjoyed Tim Burton's "Batman", "Batman Returns", and even loved "Batman Forever" (Tim Burton produced that one). The less said about "Batman & Robin" the better. But Batman from the DCAU, has all sorts of things going for him that the previous versions just can't touch. He's complex in most of his incarnations but ony in the DCAU do we see him over the course of his entire life...with so much explored. And he's the Batman I embraced between that last Batman movie, and the over-rated "Batman Begins" which gets the character right, but can just never compete with what the animated version has to offer. The same goes for newest animated "The Batman"; it's ok as is, but it will never have a chance to grow like my Batman. I doubt will ever see the character explored so deeply ever again. Which is too bad I suppose.

Before I spoke to Michael on the phone I was looking at my GLBTQ inclusive dvd collection. Most times I just take it for granted, but I was looking at it and it's really cool on a bunch of different levels. Like, it has all these movies like "Torchsong Trilogy" & "My Own Private Idaho" that were touchstones for me as Queer kid. Plus it shows that even in an inclusive collection there is a huge amount of subject matter and diversity. There are westerns, and dramas, and comedies, horror, science fiction, Christmas themed stuff...it's really neat. It's something that I'm proud to have. And it's something that I was obsessed about for awhile that looking back on, I can say that I'm still happy with the choices I made. There are actually a few titles that weren't available when I started it, that are out now. I mean...like older titles, not all the new ones that have come out since...I should get those. They belong on my shelf.

Anyways. I've got discs to burn and Justice League to watch. Later Kiddies.

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