July 23rd, 2007 John
Last night I finished reading Deathly Hallows (yes, it took me like 2 days) and now Harry Potter is all I can think about. I’ll hold off on a review where I actually talk about story details until more people have finished it, but there are so many parallels to other stories, I kind of found it interesting. Voldemort and the Death Eaters are pretty much Nazi’s, with their race cleansing (and talk of pure blood), shortsightedness, arrogance, and attempted slow march to world domination. The Ministry of Magic situation is very similar to “1984”, suppressing anything but the official government line. The Star Wars comparisons flow like wine too. Voldemort is a dead ringer for Darth Vader. He wants to rule the entire galaxy, and instead of building his Death Star for immortality, he seeks the Elder Wand. Harry, the Order of the Phoenix, and the rest of the Wizarding community who fight back remind me of the Rebel uprising in Star Wars. The Harry, Ron, and Hermoine trio is Luke, Han, and Princess Leia pretty much exactly, right down to the romance between Ron and Hermoine/Leia and Han. Harry is Luke, the unlikely hero from apparently modest beginnings (but turns out to have important parents), who always fights for love and friendship, and never considers using his position for power, shades of the mental battle against the Dark Side of the force. Even Harry and Voldemort are linked on a very basic level, much as Luke and Darth Vader were, not as father and son, but something equally as powerful.
JK Rowling wrote some fantastic books, and it’s certainly not a knock on her that she borrows so much from Star Wars or Lord of the Rings (did anybody else notice how Dementors are pretty much exactly the same thing as Ringwraiths?), because certainly her books have a life of their own and while they may parallel those stories they are undeniably very original. It’s interesting how so many of our beloved epic stories resemble each other. I think it’s something about the black and white struggle between good and evil that we all identify with. I often wish life was cut and dry like that, with obvious good guys and bad guys. It seems somehow simpler. No matter how all powerful the evil is, there is never a doubt what you should be fighting against, or fighting for.
-John
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July 20th, 2007 John
In anticipation of Deathly Hallows on Saturday, I can’t stop thinking about Harry Potter. Thus, I shall give my take on the Order of the Phoenix movie that came out last week.
***SPOILER ALERT!*** You’ve all read the books, right? I doubt I’ll spoil anything for you.
I think OOTP (Order of the Phoenix, just to save me lots of typing) is a tough book to turn into a movie. Sure it has the epic battle in the Ministry of Magic at the end, and the book was 850 plus pages, but it is really a transitional book. It’s all about the impending fight with Voldemort, and getting ready for it, and what it means to Harry’s world. Which makes it hard to make a movie about. Plus, each Harry Potter movie has been frusturatingly different than the previous one, as they keep bringing in new directors. I think the Prisoner of Azkahban movie was the best thus far. The director, Alfonso Cuaron, also did Y Tu Mama Tambien, which was basically porn. Remember that slow motion diving board masturbation scene? So he was an odd choice to direct a Harry Potter movie, but I think he knocked it out of the park by embracing the darker aspects of Harry’s world, making the movie appeal to the older kids that like the books, like me, as well as the younger kids. Cuaron also directed Children of Men, which I haven’t seen, but I’ve heard is fantastic, and is directing the upcoming The History of Love. Just a side note: The History of Love is one of my favorite books ever, so I’m very excited about the movie natch, and I’m glad to see it’s in the hands of a capable director.
So anyway, I think the darker tones of Prisoner of Azkaban led them to switch directors again for Goblet of Fire. This time Mike Newell was brought in, yes that Mike Newell, who is responsible for such masterpieces as Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Mona Lisa smile. Give me Alfonso Cuaron back. That said, Goblet of Fire was not bad. I think Newell must have had orders to find a happy medium between the very kids-y early Harry movies and Prisoner of Azkaban, because Goblet of Fire feels very uneven, as the moods are constantly shifting from very dark to silly. It makes it hard to settle in and enjoy it. Although, there were some really genuine moments that resonated with me. After Cedric gets killed and Harry takes the port key back to Hogwarts for instance. What happened seems to hit Harry the second he gets back and as he breaks down the crowd cheers because they have no idea what happened and they think he just won the Tri-Wizard tournament. It’s just a very strong moment of despair for Harry, and it was one of those random movie moments that just touched me. Also the Quidditch World Cup match at the beginning is spectacular and so is its swift turn to destruction when the Death Eaters show up.
OOTP had yet another director, David Yates, who I had never heard of, but apparently does a lot of British TV. Interesting choice, but he does quite well. I’m definitely OK with him being signed on for Half-Blood Prince too. In all honesty, I love Harry Potter so much, it would be very hard for me to not like this movie. It would have to be along the lines of the Ring 2 for it to really let me down.
1. I loved all the awkward moments. Yes, this is about Harry hitting adolescence and as we all know, adolescence is awkward, and leaving in awkward moments just for the sake of that seems odd, but Yates handles them well and they got me to crack up every time. Plenty of glorious awkward silence between Harry, Ron, and Hermoine.
2. The subplot of his government being run into the ground and not focusing on the right things is really interesting and was brought to life well in the movie. The Ministry of Magic refuses to believe that Voldemort is back, and spends all their time discrediting Harry and Dumbledore instead of focusing on the matter at hand. Harry’s frustration with his world came off as very real, the worst possible thing that could happen is happening, and nobody will listen to him. It helps that in real life, we have a government focusing on the wrong things to help us relate to this.
3. The acting is mostly top notch all around. I loved Hellena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange. Carter was in Fight Club and Charlie and the Chocolate factory, and good in both of those. She didn’t get a lot of screen time in this movie, but she came off as genuinely evil and insane, and creepy! Ralph Fiennes as He Who Shall Not Be Named With No Nose, turns up the creepiness to 11 and that works too. Note that one scene where we swoop into Harry’s brain and it has Voldemort standing there with his wand looking nonchalant, then he swoops his hand forward and sticks out his tongue. Henry and I cracked up. Imelda Staunton was very good as Dolores Umbridge. She was so creepy with her cat plates and how she smirked at everything. Pure evil behind that niceness, she seemed to capture the character really well. I liked Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood, she played spacey really well. I also liked the fact that she is a huge huge Harry Potter fan, apparently that helped her get the role too. That’s got to be the thrill of a lifetime for her. It’s akin to me getting to play an mid level important elf in The Two Towers or something. The twins were pretty entertaining, as was Ron. It’s a kick to watch all these actors grow up from movie to movie. Even Emma Watson as Hermoine was better, doing much less acting with her eyebrows.
4. Daniel Radcliffe as Harry keeps it solid too. I didn’t find his acting super inspiring, but he’s definitely solid as Harry and he’s gotten so much better since the earlier Harry movies. I did like his disheveled look in Goblet of Fire much more than this new more ripped, more butch Harry.
5. A lot of was left out from the book, most notably Quidditch and that weird subplot with Ron being super jealous of Harry. Also where was Lavender Brown? Nevertheless, I can see why a lot of it was left out. Keeping all that stuff in would have put this movie at around 3 and a half hours at least, and while I would have been OK with that (see the theatrical release of Return of the King at 3 hours and 42 minutes), for people that are less hardcore Harry Potter fans that would have been overkill. The end result is that the movie breezes by, and while I would have liked more detail, I was OK with the run time.
6. A moment that stuck with me was after Harry sees Ron’s dad get bitten by Voldemorts snake in the Ministry in his dream. Harry wakes up in a panic and ends up in Dumbledore’s office. People are fretting about what to do and in the middle of the chaos Harry screams at Dumbledore “Look at me!” Everybody goes silent, surprised at the outburst, probably doubly surprised that it was directed towards Dumbledore. Then after a tense moment, Harry breaks down and asks “What’s happening to me?” It really hits you how everything in Harry’s world is going wrong. He’s growing up and dealing with that, Voldemorts back and the government is directing all that attention towards Harry rather than the Dark Lord. Even his life in the real non-magic world is not a refuge. Things are bleak for Harry, and you really feel for him at that moment.
7. I wanted more screen time for Ginny Weasley, she becomes a major character yet I could hardly tell who she was.
8. It’s never explained why Dumbledore avoids Harry for most of the movie. This is explained thoroughly in the book and renews our faith in Dumbledore. Here, he just seems aloof until he saves Harry at the end in the movie, and it is never explained why.
9. The term “snogging” for making out absolutely has to make it across the Atlantic and to the US. Consider me spokesperson for the “snogging” movement, I’m spearheading it.
10. Any time I read a Harry Potter book, or watch a Harry Potter movie, it makes me sad how I will probably never be a wizard. Given one wish I would use it to become a wizard.
11. Being a squib would be the worst thing ever. You know about magic and wizards and witches, and by all rights you should be one, but you just can’t. I can’t imagine anything more frustrating.
12. WHERE WAS THE QUIDDITCH?
13. Azkaban was briefly shown, and it was so cool. Exactly how I imagined a wizard prison would be.
14. The dementors got way more intense and scarier.
15. Dudley was just ridiculous. Fat wannabe hip hop kid? I think he was even wearing bling.
Well, I’m revisiting this a couple days later, and I lost focus. So here ends my abrupt movie review. I apologize. It was a solid movie about a fantastic book. Better than most movies I’ve seen this summer surely. The important thing though: DEATHLY HALLOWS TONIGHT!!!
-John
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July 13th, 2007 John
Harry Potter will come to a close when Deathly Hallows is released next week. I’m very excited to read the last book, and very sad to see it come to an end. In this series, J.K. Rowling has written some of my favorite novels I’ve ever read. I love fantasy novels and obviously the magic and fantasy made me love these books, but what really sets them apart is how at their core, they are about real life things. The theme running through all the books is love. It’s such a subtle undercurrent too, the books don’t have devastating love stories between the characters, but step back from the whole thing and what sticks with you is love and friendship. (It confuses me how some of the Christian right people can hate the Harry Potter books, and call them evil and the like, when those are the main themes, but that’s another story.) Those are the things that sets Harry apart from Lord Voldemort and allows him to fight evil in every book.
Love and friendship help Harry overcome the death of his parents. Love and friendship help him stay alive during the Tri-Wizard tournament and Lord Voldemorts return. When Cedric Diggory, a friend, dies, it resonates with everyone and just feels so sad. When Harry’s government turns its back on him, his friends get him through it. As love and friendship overcome the most powerful dark magic, Rowling shows us that not only are those the most powerful forces in Harry’s world, but in our world as well. Love and friendship can get us through anything, and I think thats a message to remember.
-John
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July 11th, 2007 John
SPOILER ALERT! Don’t read this if you are worried about plot twists in either Transformers or Live Free or Die Hard. You should probably read this anyway because the plot matters not a whole lot in both of these films.
Transformers is assumed to be the biggest event of the summer right? I was with you when we all thought “What could be cooler than fighting robots?” I would have thought of nothing that could be cooler than fighting robots before I saw these two movies. Well let me tell you right now, you are WRONG if you think that. Live Free or Die Hard out Transformered-Transformers in pretty much every sense. I’m actually 100% sure Bruce Willis could destroy the Deceptacons on his own. I saw both of these movies in the last two days which probably means that I experienced more explosions in two days than I had in my whole life.
Reasons Live Free or Die Hard was the most intense thing of my lifetime (thus far):
1. Bruce Willis is a MANIAC!!! He shot through his own arm so he could shoot the guy behind him. Yes, you read that right. BRUCE WILLIS SHOT THROUGH HIS OWN ARM TO SHOOT THE GUY BEHIND HIM!!! If you can think of something more intense please let me know, because I can’t.
2. Throughout the entire movie every time he does something cool or something bad happens to a bad guy (Cyberterrorist!) you heard Bruce saying like “Yeah!” or something along those lines. It made me laugh every time. Heroes tend to be so stoic and modest, I like a hero that impresses even himself and actively gets excited when a bad dude gets shot or falls into some kind of wind turbine that has spikes on it for no reason other than apparently to chop a human body to pieces.
3. Justin Long a.k.a. the Mac guy in those “I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC” commercials was Bruce’s sidekick/comedic relief. Due to this I really felt like the entire time that the head bad guy/Cyberterrorist was going to be the PC guy!!! That would have been so excellent too, he got so tired of the smug Mac guy, and how he always “just works right out of the box” that he decides to bring down Mac guy and the entire US with him!!!
Unfortunately the mastermind was not PC guy, but it didn’t stop me from enjoying it that much more because of this wild scenario in my head.
4. The stunts in action movies just keep getting more ridiculously intense as to keep pushing the envelope. A guy jumping out of a building loses it’s luster after awhile, thus we have Bruce blowing up a helicopter by driving a car off a jump and diving out at the last second. We have Bruce driving a car through a government building, through various walls, running over the “Kung Fu Bitch”, and then driving the car down an elevator shaft. We have Bruce jumping out of a semi truck off a crumbling highway onto a crashing fighter jet plane, and then sliding to safety on a falling piece of highway. We have Bruce SHOOTING THROUGH HIS OWN ARM TO SHOOT THE GUY BEHIND HIM! All of this for our viewing pleasure. I’m not even sure what happened in the rest of this movie, these epic stunts blew my mind!
5. There’s an awesome Kevin Smith cameo (channeling Jack Black?) as “Warlock,” who is apparently “like a virtual Jedi”, but just seems to play a lot of video games. Does that make me a virtual Jedi?
6. Bruce plays his part perfectly. He knows not to take it too seriously. He knows he is too old to be playing that role anymore. So he just acts crazy and yells a lot and tells stupid jokes. He knows this is a mindless movie that is all in the spectacle. This could have come off really awkwardly with Bruce trying to hold onto his action hero days and being way too serious about it. I am pretty bummed though that they decided to keep this flick PG-13, making it so Bruce could only say his catchprase once (it definitely came at the perfect time, see list item #1).
Now, I thought Transformers was alright, not bad, but considering the subject matter it should have been much better. I vehemently argued this at work today using the old “1-10” scale, which as we all know always works. I gave it a 6, which was the lowest rating at Niketown, with only Ryan close with a 7. Most everybody else had it at an emphatic 10!. Yes, that’s 10 with an exclamation point.
Reasons Transformers was just ok:
1. Optimus Prime had flames painted on him. That’s just not ok, he never used to have flames!
2. Steven Spielberg could have directed this himself, but rather went out and got Armageddon mastermind Michael Bay to direct it. Michael Bay is a hack. If you ever want to see lots of explosions with guys running away in slow motion, check out a Michael Bay movie. I am putting all the blame on this movie being sub-par on Michael Bay. He had all the elements to make a great movie, robots, & Tyrese. Bay was the only director that could have taken this movie so seriously, which brings me to my next point…
3. Transformers takes itself WAY too seriously. Come on, this is a movie about fighting robots, and a cube that all life comes from (and can turn non animated electronics into mini-Transformers, which could be a handy skill). This seriously needed to take a page out of Live Free or Die Hard’s book and not be so darn serious. The old Transformers TV show was basically a commercial for the Hasbro toys. The 1984 Transformers movie had Orson Welles as a talking planet, randomly cut together scenes, and Weird Al Yankovic on the soundtrack. I’m sorry but you just cannot make a serious movie out of that subject matter.
4. I know I enjoy a good long movie and the trend these days tends towards 2 hour plus movies, but there is no doubt in my mind at least 30 minutes could have been cut from Transformers and nobody would have missed it. Even the people at work that were on the high side of the “1-10” scale conceded this point of mine.
5. Tyrese did not get nearly enough screen time. Don’t tell me you didn’t laugh like a maniac at his acting in 2 Fast 2 Furious (especially since it was opposite Paul Walker). Anybody remember him pressing the eject seat button and yelling “Eject-o seat-o, cuz!”? That had to be the highlight of 2 Fast 2 Furious. Transformers could have used much more of Tyrese yelling stupid stuff for me to laugh at.
6. The movie opened up with the line “Before the beginning of time”. What?
7. We got the helpful subtitle “Qatar - Middle East” about 20 times too many.
Reasons Transformers was actually OK:
1. It’s a movie about fighting robots. I can think of very few things that are cooler.
2. Shia LeBeouf (which I am pretty sure translates in English to “Bless the Beef”) was the only person who didn’t take this movie too seriously and he came off all the better for it. He was quite funny and kept in mind that this is indeed a movie about robots that turn into cars fighting mean robots that turn into cars over a cube from which all life comes from. He’s also a much better actor than I thought he would be. I loved Even Stevens but I never figured him becoming a movie star. I’m definitely hoping he is indeed Indiana Jones’ son in the new Indiana Jones movie. Also, this warrants me seeing “Disturbia” even though it is the exact same movie as Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” and nobody seemed to notice, or care.
3. Megan Fox is wildly attractive.
Basically, I’m way more excited for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix than either of these.
-John
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July 5th, 2007 John
I offended a couple of people with my list of things I hate, and I want to say I’m sorry. My intentions were not to offend anybody, but to blow off steam, and you know, maybe get people to think a bit. I get overly frustrated with things and sometimes they all come out at once. While I stand by my words, I apologize if I offended you by anything I said, or my general negative attitude in that post.
-John
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July 5th, 2007 John
I went to the beach for the 4th of July with my family and I had a wonderful time. There’s nothing better than friends and family, and my family is the worlds best. That’s science too, it’s been proven. I would argue that my friends are the worlds best too, but that has not yet been scientifically proven, we are waiting for our grant to be renewed. Anyway, I wish I could spend more time my family.
We played a lot of Boggle, and while I will admit I didn’t win a game, my success rate was decent. I certainly did have fun, as I usually do in competitions. I maintain however that Boggle is the homeless man’s thinking game. Which doesn’t mean that homeless men play it, what that means is that Boggle is like a step below the poor man’s thinking game (which is obviously Scrabble). Boggle is basically a word find puzzle. When was the last time you did a word find puzzle? I’m going to say somewhere between 1st and 4rd grade.
The Anti-Boggle movement starts here, and I’m spearheading the movement. I’m not saying Boggle isn’t fun, and it sure as hell is worlds better than something atrocious like Sorry or Trouble, yet the perception of Boggle needs to change. Nobody wants children’s puzzles masquerading around as intellectual party games. Nobody.
-John
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July 5th, 2007 John
My summer internship has been a lot of fun, and quite beneficial too, now I just wish it was paid. So it goes though, plus the experience is worth its wait in gold. I wasn’t doing anything important, but I made my TV debut on Monday. You can see it at www.better.tv, go there scroll to the right a bit, click on relationships and I am in the “First Date” video.
The reviews have been rolling in for my performance and thus far they have been mixed, ranging from “You are funny,” to “You are more awkward than when Radiohead was on the cover of Rolling Stone.” Ok, so nobody actually said that, but I imagine somebody thought something along those lines. Luckily I don’t have any illusions of acting grandeur, but let me know what you think.
Also, poke around a little bit and see what Better is all about. That’s the show I work for, it’s online as well as airing every morning on channel 12 (TV for Portland people only for now, it goes national in July). It’s definitely interesting to work for an entertainment show, especially one that is heavily geared towards women, rather than a straight news show. A show like that (entertainment, not necessarily womencentric), would definitely be something I look at when I graduate. Straight news obviously has its place, and I definitely enjoy it, but I like how you get a little leeway to have some fun on entertainment shows. The Daily Show & Sportscenter remain my dream jobs, which I guess are somewhat of happy mediums between straight news and entertainment.
UPDATE: During one of my Summer league lacrosse games, somebody actually recognized me from this, helmet and all.
-John
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July 1st, 2007 John
Things I hate:
1. I keep telling myself I am going to “polish” (as the package of cleaner claims) my computer. I often eat at my computer because I like to read the news while I eat, so naturally it doesn’t stay pristine. I have been planning on cleaning it for at least 6 months now, and even as I type I still have yet to do this.
2. The light switch in one of our rooms downstairs has been broken for probably over 10 years. This hasn’t been an issue because nobody needs to use the overhead light, they just use the one on the table. I’m not even sure if anybody else in my family is aware of this broken switch. It’s broken and needs fixing though. I guess I like things to work properly.
3. When people chew with their mouth open, or speak while chewing food. Enough said.
4. People that are so negative they feel the need to make lists of things they hate.
5. The fact that I can apparently only write in list format. I don’t think that “list” actually qualifies as a writing format, but consider me a pioneer of it.
6. I’m pretty sure I work more than anybody else my age I know, with the possible exception of Paul Srofe. I realize this sounds like a quote from an essay possibly titled “Examples of Self Pity”, but I’m not the only person that thinks this. My friend Kherli Kehrli recently told me that she thinks I’ve spent over half my childhood at Niketown (where I work). My mom is always making undertones about how I should find a different job, my suggesting all these other jobs I could be doing (I know, not that subtle). This has been compounded this summer by the fact I have an internship too. Internship + Niketown = (In this particular example) 1 day off out of 17.
7. That seemingly overnight, everybody in Portland became a Blazer fan. Thanks a lot, Greg Oden. These fair weather people should have to go through a rigorous training period (most likely taught by me) about what it takes to be a Blazer fan. There will be yearly tests and you better believe it will take time to become a true fan. I not only followed the Blazers throughout these tough years (that includes when we were still making the playoffs but had Ruben Patterson on the team), but I LOVED the Blazers during these tough years. I was emotionally invested in a team that not only lost on average 3 times as many games as they won, but were a disfunctional mess. That wasn’t always easy, but I could probably name you every Blazer player in the last 6 years. I sure as hell have earned my status as a fan.
Note: It must be stressed that I carry no malice whatsoever towards Greg Oden. I couldn’t be more excited about us drafting him and the future of the franchise. I guess I just don’t like it when something I love gets super popular and people just decide they like it too because it’s popular.
8. When something I love gets super popular and people just decide they like it too because it’s popular. Examples: Lord of the Rings, Entourage, Barack Obama (although this is good because he needs to be popular to become President), Brand New, Macintosh computers (my Mac S/E sitting on my desk right now can attest I was an early adopter), Nalgene water bottles, Lacrosse (just on the West Coast), and the Blazers.
9. Having to be nice to somebody at work even though they treat me like I live to serve them. When asking to try on a shoe, the proper way to do it is not picking up a shoe, waving it around, and yelling across the room at me “Yo, 11,” usually while I’m talking to somebody else.
10. Putting up with Charo Chicken (and peeling chicken there) because I got decent tips, and then inexplicably going through a 2 month or so period where I got stiffed an inordinate amount of times. Tip your delivery guy.
11. Not having enough free time. See #6, plus add my obsession with exercising every day.
12. Paying over $3 a gallon for gas. Actually make that paying over $2 a gallon for gas. (How quickly we forget…)
13. Nobody ever emails me about things I write on here. I like to hear responses to my (admittedly meandering) opinions. This could be partly due to the fact that maybe three people read things I write on here.
14. I have yet to do anything great in my life. Yes, I realize “great” is extremely objective but in my opinion I have no come close to achieving anything great. I want to change this possibly more than anything else.
15. People that are too loud.
16. When I am mad for no apparent reason. I usually end up taking it out on somebody completely undeserving over something completely ridiculous.
17. Going too long without a rainy day, or at least a grey day. (Weird, I know.)
18. The war in Iraq.
19. Teachers that seem to hate students and the fact that in my estimation this comes out to probably about 1/5 of all teachers I have ever had.
20. When people are referring to making out and they say “mo”. As in the abbreviation M.O. for make out, but they cant even say the seperate letters, they say just say mo, like the stooge. Why this bothers me so much, I have no idea. But I’m warning you, if you say it, I may not react but I will tell you my inner monologue will be screaming at you.
21. Sometimes I think out loud and come off as completely maladjusted.
22. When I think of a joke about 3 seconds after it is too late to use it.
23. I somehow think my day is not going to be a good day unless I read the newspaper (or at least some kind of news) in the morning as I eat breakfast.
24. That I inadvertently designed this website to look EXACTLY like a xanga page. I had never even seen a xanga page until I started re-stalking Howard and read his xanga page. I think even the fonts are the same
UPDATE: Reason 24 was related to my old website.
25. Seeing a movie at the cinema costs way too much.
26. It’s not socially acceptable for me to say that. Somebody will probably laugh, and think I’m trying to be British by saying “at the cinema”. I wish people normally said things like “at the cinema” or “mobile phone” on this side of the Atlantic.
27. I don’t excel at any instruments. I’m just ok at lots of them though…
28. Chinese Democracy, the long rumored, alleged Guns ‘n Roses masterpiece will probably never come out. New Guns ‘n Roses material will probably never be released, and I want nothing to do with Velvet Revolver. That’s just a mockery.
29. Los Angeles.
I’m going to cut this off before I get to 30, because I fear it’s getting kind of overwhelming for my average reader (who is very likely, nobody). You can bet I will make another list of things I hate, but I also will at some point make some lists of things I like. Because not only do I really like a lot of things, nobody wants to read all gloom and doom.
Cheers! (Unironic British speak, just trying to make it part of the vernacular.)
-John
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