S. Darko is THE WORST!

I really love "Donnie Darko".  It was so great.  I can pick it up at any time on cable/satellite and just watch from that moment.  I love everything about it.  

So with that in mind, I picked up "S. Darko" at Blockbuster.  I didn't have high hopes, but I couldn't believe that it was actually worse than I expected it to be. 

a.  Briana Evigan from "Step Up 2: The Streets"?  I half expected her at any moment to start popping and locking in the roadway.   

b.  Daveigh Chase looks pretty much the same.  The best part of the 'sequel' was the flashback to her Sparkle Motion performance.  Maybe she and SU2:TS-girl could have done a little Notorious dance remix. 

c.  The metal "Frank the Bunny" on "Iraq Jack"... who just happens to be the grandson of Roberta Sparrow.  "My grandmother told me you would come?"  What, when she was catatonic eight years ago?   WTF?

d. Weird ass  actors.  The dude from "Gossip Girl" is a hideous Joaquin Phoenix wannabe.  The motel owner is the Jewish store assistant from "Deadwood".  And literally, the movie was nearly over before I realized that Jeremy was the actor from "Twilight" [Jasper] playing exactly the same role of a dead-faced, strangely confused psycho, just minus the incisors and looking strangely like the guy who wore the Frank the bunny costume in DD. 

e.  Why are all the people touching the meteorite getting itchy and the 'gnarly rash'.  What the hell?  

f.  Gossip Girl man, who could afford a camaro until the car crash, rides his bicycle up a mountain in the 'end of the world' meteor attack sequence?  Huh??

g.  "We're perfect".   "Immaculate."   Dialogue that did not need to be repeated.  Again.  And again. 

h.  WTF:  why are there two MIB guys walking into the diner, and around the town, and trying to look so unnoticeable, in a 5th grade stage performance sort of manner?

i.  What's with the "12 Monkeys" and "Strange Days" playing on the marquee... can we choose some titles that are a bit more cliche?

j.  Oh wait,  time travel, in reverse, now the marquee is... backwards!  WOW!  What great screenwriting!  

The worst piece of film-making I have witnessed in a long time.  There are movies which should never have a sequel and/or prequel, and DD was one of them.  

The only thing I've seen lately that is worse, is the current DVD which Dan has playing right now, which is some ridiculous Samurai movie called "Azumi" in which the lead character is a girl warrior with a purple minidress, and white Nancy Sinatra boots on.   Whatevah!

Vacation yields rest, and a bit of the crazy

 I slept in until 9:55 AM.  I refused to leave my bed until 9:56, which seemed that much closer to 10:00, but far less close to my kidneys exploding.   It was glorious in a "wish I had the bladder stamina to sleep until noon like the old days" kind of way.

It was at Walmart, where I took the boy to spend his $20 on a new DS game, that I was overcome with memories of my Walmart rules of order.  That was one of my first blogs, and yet, here we are some 500 entries later, and I'm still stunned by the weirdness that is Walmart.    We're standing in the toy aisle when I hear this woman in the next aisle mumbling something about "where is it?" and then a crash of toys to the linoleum tile and all hell breaks loose.  

"I don't SHIT money, Mikey!!"   She screams out. 

Say what?!  Is this really appropriate behavior for a public discount department store at 11:15 on a Friday?  Good lord.  What is the world coming to? 

Back home, I'm cleaning the bathroom, when the boy comes running in, panicked.  "I was outside, and the DS was in my pocket, and I leaned over, and it went in the pool!"

"What?! Where is it?"

"It's here... it was closed; I took it right out."

And then we used the hairdryer to no avail.  There goes the $20 game, and the $179.00 DS.  

Jesus.  If only I did shit money.  That'd be a superhero power that would be useful.  

Treb-Ra: Princess of Power

So our school's website is being redone in the form of a comic book.  I think our new counselor had no idea what she was getting into when she opened this up to staff with "can you create this page for me with who your superhero is" instructions... clearly she doesn't know the English department or the core group of teachers well enough yet.  You can't give us a 'can you create' direction and let us go... it's dangerous. 

Anyway, I spent most of my first day of vacation on marvel.com making up my own superheroes for me, my husband, my son, and some friends.  It was too funny.

Here is my  superhero.  Treb-Ra ~ Princess of Power

Once member of the Clan McCannus and agent of the sept ruling Adelphia. She then discovered  that she was the long-lost twin sister of Prince Markus of Milwaukia, having been stolen by the clan’s leader, Jopa Karenus , as a baby. When her real identity as Princess Trebeschius was revealed, she was granted the Sword of Proofreaderus, which paralleled He-Man's Sword of Power, and gained the power to transform into Treb-Ra. As Princess Trebeschius, she then joined the rebellion that seeked to free Sierravistia from the Traweekians...though only a few other heroes know that she is in fact also Treb-Ra. Treb-Ra is known as the Princess of Power. As such, she has superhuman strength and lazer eyesight, highly resistant to editing mistakes. She also possesses superhuman speed and agility, as well as the ability to speak with animals telepathically. All her powers derive from the mystical Power of Numbskull.

Also, here's 'Aidan Man'  and 'Dan-O' to enjoy: