The Demonweasel Speaks

All December long I’ve had a hard time figuring out when the holidays were. Really? Christmas is next week? Really? New Years is when? Tomorrow? In fact, I think it started on Thanksgiving. That seemed out of place. Too early, too late, I can’t remember, but it felt out of place.

I’m not sure if I’m happier or sadder that the Giants almost beat the Pats on Saturday. I was expecting a blow out, a game that I could turn off at halftime, but to everyone’s surprise, the Giants took it too them, becoming a team that I didn’t recognize. Leading at the half? Leading going into the third quarter? Unsane. Watching the game was made better by texting with Nick and reading the Steve Martin autobiography during the whole thing. It’s funny because when I got home from work, I just remembered that the game was on and that it was Saturday, and then Nick texts me a reminder. Good times, man. Good times.

The holidays were fun. Short, but fun. I took the day off after Christmas and cleaned the house. I must be growing, because I didn’t mind it, per se, I was just happy to have a clean house. We just rearranged the living room a couple of weeks ago and it feels like a new place, which is nice. Better flow, or fake eastern thing, or what have you.

My ridiculous goal for the end of the year was not met, and that’s fine. I’m not going to beat myself up about it, but I’m going to try to be more realistic about my goals this year and be more vigilant about meeting them. Basically, I’m not going to set any goals. Well, except or the usual suspects.

At what point do your goals just become habits? Is that achieving them, or is that just a coke-machine mirage?

I’d been watching Hex, the British supernatural series, and I’d been happy to find a show that was going to run just two seasons (or series, as they say in British) and tell a whole story. I love that Brit TV does that. Shorter seasons, more constructed stories, etc. I got to the last episode and I was all excited for the finale, and then…cliffhanger. I was confused, until I checked the series out on Wikipedia. Turns out the series was canceled after the second season.

Well shit.

I must admit, in my hubris, I found myself watching and reforming it, turning it into a US series, fixing the things I didn’t like or felt needed more exploration. I do this, and I try not to think of it as a waste of time, but a writing exercise. Y’know, without the writing. I do it to watch TV without feeling guilty. I did the same thing with Witch Hunter Robin, and it was as equally pointless and let-downing.

All things considered, 2007 was a pretty great year. A lot of shit went down, all good. Can we make 2008 better? Maybe. It’s hard to top marrying the woman the woman you love…

So after disappointments tonight watching the Giants play like asses against the Redskins, and then finally getting to see the end of the Mayweather-Hatton fight and see that Hatton looses to that jackass, I kinda felt like there wasn’t anything good that was going to happen tonight.

Then I get online and there’s the new trailer for “The Dark Knight,” the new Batman movie.

It lives here. Watch it now, won’t you?

Holy shit-fuck on ass-crackers. If anyone had doubts about Heath Ledger playing the Joker, this should shut them the hell up. I admit, I was one of them, thinking it was kind of a weird call, and then even weirder make-up, but then I saw the stills of him in the full outfit I remembered the Batman Begins people gave us the most perfect Batman film to date. It looks like with this trailer, they’re going to blow the last one out of the water.

Of course, they made Fantastic Four 2 look good, so who knows. Maybe this is just delayed disappointment.

The again, there’s the Speed Racer movie, directed by the Wachowski Brothers, the very notion of which makes my skin crawl. Then, they put out a trailer.

Well crap. Now I kinda want to see that too.

And of course, there’s the granddaddy of them all, coming out the soonest, “Cloverfield.”

Do that thing with the widget it wants, so I can win the contest and get a private screening or some shit.

Thus concludes the movie trailer portion of the evening.

We had a really, really good day at the store on Friday. Best non-street fair day we’ve had, which was doubly good because it wasn’t because someone came in a bought the huge amount of stuff in their file. There are always file people, but a big day that remains a big day when you take a certain purchase out is really good. Of course, then it snowed like the bejeezus this weekend, so that’s kinda sucky, but that’s life in Ohio.

Last weekend I saw part of this show called “Hex” on BBC America. With TV gone, I’m branching out to find new stuff to watch. It looks interesting, and I’ve watched the first couple of episodes but I can’t tell if I really like it or not. Kind of slow, like it wants to just develop over time, but I’m not sure how much time I want to give it. Kenz and I watched “Tin Man” yesterday, and it was six hours of mediocre television we’ll never get back. The concept was alright, and the execution was okay, but there were a lot of plot and logic holes, not to mention they had six hours and I didn’t really feel like all the characters got as much story as they could have. Lots of little dialog bits that could’ve been changed, and if you took out all the flashbacks to things that we already saw and knew, you’d have about a half-hour more to have an actual conclusion, instead of the abrupt “Yay we won,” Voyager-style ending. We also watched “Paranormal State,” which was interesting and added to the DVR list, but I don’t really buy it as anything more than fake reality TV with a semi-interesting constructed plot.

Then, of course, there’s Project Runway. Yeah, I watch it, and I had to snark at Travis a couple of weeks ago over it, but hey, I can have my football and my runway, too. Few things leap out at me this season, but I will say if Christian wins, I’m not watching it again. The guy who won last year(I’m blanking on his name)Jeffrey was an ass, and I don’t want to see it go this year to someone who comes off as a gay male Paris Hilton, with a shit-attitude, a giant ego and and an entitlement complex. I just find that kind of person repugnant, and I feel like they get pushed through on reality shows because they make “good television.”

Maybe I should stop worrying about other people’s entertainment and work on my own, huh?

After a grueling bit over the past few weeks we pulled off something pretty kickass at the store. We hosted a Guitar hero Tournament (at Kenzie’s suggestion), and it worked out pretty damn well for us, especially given the level of work that went into it. After a shit ton of flyering, press release writing, photocopying, finagleing with our neighbors at the music store over prizes, we had an event that had a pretty solid turnout, as well as netted us an article on the front page of this past Sunday’s Dayton Daily News, as well as a video feature on their website.

It was fun, but not something we’re going to do again for a while.

Moving on…

Inspired by this post in Kenzie’s MySpace, I’m going to try something similar. Namely, some of my favorite movie scenes. Enjoy.