Despite their garnering better-than-anticipated reviews from the reviewers-that-matter-to-me, I failed to run out and see either G.I. Joe or A Perfect Getaway, extending my movie-less streak all the way back to mid-May and Star Trek. Though there is some shit on the horizon worth looking forward to. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and admit that I'm gonna go see Gamer when it comes out, for two reasons: a) it's made by the dudes that did Crank and Crank 2, and it's distopic sci-fi in the style of Running Man, such thing for which I am always a sucker.
But this leaves me still more-or-less treading water for the month of August, unless I break down and write more about books (anyone wanna hear about my new theory, based on Don Delillo's White Noise and Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist, that the '80s totally sucked?). And a series of ill-timed internet-based distractions today has me posting this hours later than I was expecting (setting a record this Monday for being on the internet for so damn long)...
Plus, it turns out that the thing I do for my actual job, it turns out I did a major component of that thing in a way that means I have to do it all over again, so I've really gotta go and take care of it, while I'm still on the internet...
I promise! I'll get out of this summer funk soon... (meanwhile, Nick, I'll try to refer back to last week's comments section to re-address your dislike of Push)
Meanwhile, guess what? You get another week to read Michael Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road for the Summer of Booklove Book Club!!!
Gamer looks good. personally, i thought the new Harry Potter (which i forgot to talk about on tomorrow's podcast) was incredible in 3-D / IMAX, so i recommend seeing that.