From my new favorite photoblog “If Charlie Parker Was A Gunslinger, There’d Be A Whole Lot OF Dead Copycats“. If anything, it’s got one hell of a title.

In honor of Mike’s 404 page. The Road Warrior chase slammed against Nine Inch Nails’ “Meet Your Master”. Isn’t Youtube awesome?

Okay, time to get back to work.

Karen O solo project. Loving it.

EDIT: Sorry, video is now fixed.

Theres a Home Movies clip to explain everything.

Five pages into the final script. Doing stuff I’ve never done before, which I hope keeps happening over the course of the issue (48 pages is something I’ve never done before come to think of it). The opening is a kind of straight, irony- and meta-free take on 60s spy fiction. And at the same time it’s inspired by Wes Anderson and Edgar Wright’s editing styles. And blah blah blah. Anyway, I’ve got an intro I like, time to get some momentum going.

I didn’t get any decent sleep last night. I think I’m getting sick. Fuck. Sick.

I was planning on writing something about bastard vs. bastard stories, but it’ll have to wait. But think about it, all of the best stories you can think of coming out these days are about two people doing everything they can to fuck each other over, destroying the lives of everyone around them. Just so they can to hurt each other more. And these films and comics and shows break box office records and win awards. It’s a great time to be alive.

Blerg. Think I’m running a fever so sorry if none of this makes sense. Gonna work on the shit anyway. In theory. In theory communism works. Maybe I’ll just try to finish up the last 100 pages of Spook Country.

The end will come eventually, hopefully by the hand of some kind of Heaven’s Gate-style failure at making a film version of Jack Kirby’s 4th World, and all the director will say is “We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane. Because of Metron.”

-Tucker Stone, making me laugh like a jackass.

Just saw Dark Knight again. It holds up, as I suspect Hellboy 2 won’t. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure I’ll still like it but I think I liked the live action Miyazaki-ness and the amazing effects so much that it blinded me to the flaws in the film. Dark Knight has flaws, but its the kind of piddly crap that fanboys bitch about. Not that it’s perfect, but the weird tonal stuff in the script makes a lot more sense on the re-watch. Especially the Harvey Dent arc.

I love that Gary Oldman’s Gordon is the moral voice from Miller’s Year One. Oldman, who I identify so much with the kind of unhinged mania that you see in The Professional, is playing the stable emotional center of the film. Which is even more interesting to see his one scene with Ledger, who seemingly took a pretty major chunk of Stansfield while building the perfect Joker.

The entire middle sequence at the hospital may be my favorite fifteen/twenty minutes of a movie this decade. Pure cinema right there. “Introduce a little anarchy”.