the dandy warhols, the watchmen and movie reviews

So I found several exciting things on the interweb in the last couple of weeks.

First, the Dandy Warhols are releasing a new album and going on tour. They will be in Chicago in September, and I am working on putting a road trip together. Sweet.

I have listened to the new album on the website, and it’s ok. Several songs are good but it’s not a strong album top to bottom like Gone Down. I’ll give it several more listens before deciding whether to buy it track by track or God forbid, buy the CD, which is so 1998.

For a sampling of their videos and music, go here: http://www.dandywarhols.com/video.php

Also, with positive reports coming back re: The Dark Knight, I have also heard there is a Watchmen trailer floating around. Here is a link to 2’ trailer—http://watchmen--trailer.blogspot.com/

In a word, amazing. Also, I found a website that breaks down the trailer frame by frame and compares it with the graphic novel. http://www.geekanerdblog.com/2008/07/watchmen-movie-trailer-dissected.html

Wow. Here’s hoping the movie is closer to Sin City (frame by frame representation of the original) than to V for Vendetta (rearranged chronology with a terrible ending).

A couple of movie reviews:

The Lookout. Interesting idea. Imagine a subdued version of Memento. The movie really builds on itself with several layers introduced throughout the film. It was ok. Worth seeing once.

The Assassination of Jesse James. What can I say? I’m not getting those almost 3 hours back. Seems like they spend a lot of time on the wrong things. The opening sequence of the bank robbery for one. Anyway, Bob Ford’s character was quite confused and I was as well. As for the final confrontation, according to Wikipedia, that’s how it went down, so it must be true. But seriously, really?

Network. What a film! I saw again last weekend, and if you have not seen it, rent it tonight. An eerie insight into contemporary media. Entertaining information and if that doesn’t work, entertainment at all costs. Whatever brings in the viewers and the advertisers. Faye Dunaway is amazing as the cutthroat bitch. Having sex and programming a TV network. Now that’s focus.

Next week I’ll be in Mississippi. I’m trying to work on my first auto post. We’ll see how that goes.

TTFN.

PS: Brandon, I have been listening to Sigur Ros on Pandora. I haven’t heard a song I like by them but the other bands on the station I like. I’ll keep listening.