Soon

It's in limbo for a day or two. Hence, enjoy Vagrant's list until I put mine up.

Favorites

Speaking of lists...where's yours, Brock? I'll probably do a short one that I'll just slap up here. I see Jeff Buckley's Live at Sin'e is on there a couple times. I just got that last week, the Legacy Edition, and it's quite the treat for Jeff Buckley fans.

One more thing...

Speaking of Rocky, Vagrant records compiled a list of their favorite albums of 2003 and Suicide Medicine gets mentioned numerous times on the list. Cursive pops in as well...

Suggested Viewing

Rocky will be coming back to Arizona to play two shows, one in Tucson at Club Congress on the 27th and another in Phoenix at Nita's Hideaway on the 28th. Whether he plans to headline the shows or open up for Limbeck and The Pale remains to be seen. However, if you're looking for something to do those nights, and you live in or around one of those two locations, think about checking it out. He's always worth your time.

It's away

Gabe and I have sent our mixes, let's hope that everyone else has as well.

Harshly Spoken

Yeah, "Big Miss" is probably too harsh on my part. It honestly wasn't that bad. Ewan McGreggor was pretty good actually. I'll tell you though, I'm especially excited to hear that Johnny Depp is slated to be Willy Wonka. Honestly, any actor Burton could have picked would have ridden on the coat tails of Wilder's performance. But at least Depp will have his own unique take on Wonka.

Movie Magic

Ouch. "Big Miss" is probably too harsh. This may be noteworthy - the screenwriter of Big Fish was also the screenwriter for both Charlie's Angels films.

Edward Scissorhands may be my favorite Tim Burton movie, but he may change that with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Oh yeah, can't wait for that one. Johnny Depp is slated to play Willy Wonka. I didn't know what to think about that at first, but after seeing him in Pirates, I'm excited to see him do it. Gene Wilder will probably be the best Wonka ever, though.

You can catch the teaser trailer to M. Night's The Village at Yahoo Movies. Apparently it's supposed to be attached to Return of the King but it didn't play when I saw it. Brock, when you saw it a second time, did it play? It feels too much like Signs. I look forward to it though. Many movies to look forward to!!

Alternate title

You could have also called it "Big Miss".

...heh heh...

Little Big Fish

Tim Burton's latest, Big Fish, is a visionary delight. However, I feel it's only a bit more than that. The majority of the movie brings to life the tall tales of Ed Bloom. In the background is a story of a son who feels as though he was robbed of time and truths during his childhood. Normally, such an issue would be central and important. It feels, though, that both son and father don't care that much about it. It can almost be summed up like this:

Son: "You told lies and you were hardly ever there."
Father: "They were stories and I was a busy man."

Father is dying. Son finds out stories were exagerrated truths.

Father (dying): "Tell me how I die, in story form."

Son makes up story how father dies. Father dies. Son cries. Everything's good.

I really would like to have seen the issue between father and son explored more deeply, or at least, feel more real. Therein lies the weakpoint of the movie. However, the visionary extrapolations of the stories were fun, and visually exciting.