Here's one more trailer for you guys, Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds. It looks pretty cool to me. I like the visual at the end of the trailer with the horizon aglow in fire and ash as suburbia looks on. Very cinematic.
This would have been a cheap trick, but I also thought it might have been cool to have a piece of the original Orson Welles narration running over the trailer instead of that current narration. It's still powerful though.
Here's the very bizzare trailer for Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
I'm giving up my baby. No, not the human baby. My Gibson SG Standard that I longed for so long. It was too good for me. Plus, I'm really liking the drums. PLUS, once I sell that and my amp, I'm going to use the dough for the same Panasonic mini-DV camcorder Josh has.
I will keep my acoustic for sure. I figure if I actually write any songs and need some electric, I can head to Josh's and track that. Right, Josh? ;-)
Chairs scraping, the hum of vending machines and the hollow din of a scant few people chattering to one another. I'm sitting here at a computer in the barren school lounge, typing this post, after having the most unexpected experience of the day.
Tonight I was supposed to take my English exam, but no more. Did the teacher get sick? Nope. Did the school have a fire? Ha! Nope. I got a good grade on my last research paper, that's what. I was completely astounded. That's not to say I typically do a poor job on my work, but I didn't expect to do a good enough job to be exempted from the final exam. That never happens. And in this semester, this semester of trial and temptation and stress and tribulation upon my wildest dreams, I utterly did not expect to get a good grade in English. A respectable grade? Sure. A passing grade? Well, even at my worst I'd hope to at least "pass". But hey, things turned out all right.
Now I'm here in the cavernous school lounge, unloading the adjectives I would have used on tonight's exam here on my blog.
So the Grammys where announced. Like the Oscars, that's no excuse for an award show - the categories are meaningless and the selections pandering. BUT, something happened this year that I think few people expected. Ever.
Yep, Modest Mouse snagged some nominations.
Float On was nominated for "Best Rock Song" and "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" was nominated as "Best Alternative Music" album. They have stiff competition for "best alt album" from Bjork, Wilco and Franz Ferdinand and in best rock song they're going up against the likes of Green Day, U2 and Velvet Revolver. Unlikely that they'll win, but still, it's nice. I never expected the band who sung about eating snowflakes on paper plates to get this far. Craziness.
