~ it’s no secret to those close to us that napster [w] is an important part of everyday at the angry red offices. the r.i.a.a. can rest assured that today’s news will simply have us pack the mazda with zip disks and drive down to our local t1 and fill them up from now until friday. at this point, we will switch to gnutella [w].
~ it’s as hot as a mug in los angeles today, but the heat could not stop us from posting a few more specimens to the dingbat scene report.
~ what is the deal with spider-man’s current scripters? parker’s wife died six freaking months ago, and the still have him moping around and pretending that she is just being hidden from him. why he has not gotten back out there swinging, so to speak, with the likes of the the black cat, glory grant, or jill stacy is incomprehensible. if we have to read one more panel of his belly-aching over the fact that all those close to him are destroyed…..
~ the angry red image log has finally been updated, and has been separated into scenes, so the download time to enjoying the daily images from the past log entries is lessened. (flash required)
~ don’t let it be said that the angry red planet has never boosted los angeles.
~ [www.buddyhead.com].
~ [www.makcenter.com].
~ [www.koos.org].
~ [so.cal.inflight].
~ as we were fixing the broken link to the dingbat scene report, we noticed in the reflection on our monitor that someone was standing near our car. We walked to the door just in time to see another parking ticket shoved under the windshield wiper.
~ i was *forced* to wait 1.5 hours to see ‘x-men’ and *had* to sit in the third row from the screen, but the movie was suprisingly worth it. having been an unabashed collector of marvel comics for the past 16 years, i have seen repeatedly the shameful adaptations into live action: ‘captain america’ (video), ‘nick fury – agent of s.h.i.e.l.d.’ (television miniseries), ‘fantastic four’ (to my knowledge only bootleg copies exist), ‘blade’ (starred wesley snipes). even a true-believer should be ready for the worst. however, apart from an initial impatience with the back story that had to be spelled out to the philistines who hadn’t picked up an ‘x-men’ comic in the past 35 years, i was more than pleased with both the personalities and the accurate relationships in the film. the good examples of the love-triangle between cyclops, jean grey, and wolverine or the personal respect/professional animosity between xavier and magneto both outweigh the tender footed portrayal of storm by the vapid halle berry. i happen to know that technology is capable of better effects than we are given, but logan’s claws looked totally righteous, even if it seems that the x-men never existed without him…
~ does this week’s news [npr.org] unfair to anyone else? if you live in florida, and are actually stupid enough to misunderstand (and stupid enough to admit it) the dangers of smoking, you now get a piece of $145 billion; on the other hand, if you were forced into slave labor during the holocaust, you have to make due with only splitting $4.8 billion…
~ are *still* you looking for the photos of the new home for the southern california institute of architecture? in seven weeks, this building (*link removed) will be converted into the most intense, ‘avant garde’ graduate and under-graduate architectural school in downtown l.a., if not the world….
~ ‘x-men’ was sold out hours before we arrived at the theater, so we had to move along down santa monica boulevard and see ‘time regained’, a fetishist’s absurd adaptation of proust’s final volume. today….
~ i added a few photos to the dingbat scene report.
~ first we get another citizen beaten by police in philadelphia, and now the u.s. government has just been cleared of its guilt for the waco massacre [cnn] & [l.a.times]. just two more reasons to set it off in los angeles next month…
~ happy bastille day….the angry red planet is celebrating along with stereolab, air, brigitte bardot, and, of course, the vidal band. tout le monde, descendez…
