You Shook Me All Night, Long(a Long-Fellow Serenade)

This weekend, I saw Accepted -- that movie about the kids that invent a college, perhaps you've seen the previews? Turned out to be a much better, smarter film than one would have suspected. The benefits of walking into a movie theatre with low expectations, I guess. Plainly put, I loved this movie. Plus, it features a fun punky band -- in a nice, quiet way, like when the Plimsouls were in Valley Girl, or actually more like when The Yardbirds were featured in Blow Up. Yeah, I just referenced an Antonioni film... smell me. Anywho, the band's called The Ringers, and they have a new album coming out, which I'm buying on basic principle. Give them a listen -- you should love them, or at least be a little amazed that I love such chaotic music. Yeah, I'm an enigma.

Accepted features the uber-charming Justin Long, who has this Borg-like likeability (resistance is futile), and whom I've loved in everything I've seen him in. Look at that mug: How cute is he? I even loved him in the otherwise-not-as-funny-as-we'd-hoped Dodgeball, so there you have it. He's also attached to the upcoming Die Hard 4 pic (aka Live Free and Die Hard), and lord knows I love me a Die Hard movie. And a Bruce Willis movie. Heck, if we get Samuel L in this one too, it's like a trifecta for me.

I know now that I'm going to have to go back & watch dreck like Galaxy Quest, and even rent Herbie: Fully Loaded just to get my Justin Long fix. [Sidebar: From time to time I get a random fixation, and have to watch as much as possible from a particular oeuvre. Since I've frequented the same Blockbuster since 1998, I know the staff's tastes and admit to more than a passing embarassment when I bring crap up to the counter. Case in point? When I rented everything Freddie Prinze Jr had made to date, in a misguided attempt to figure out why he gets work. I still don't know why. Is America still trying to make it all better that his daddy died? Yeah, I said it.]

My favorite movie of Mr Long's to-date had been Jeepers Creepers. Perhaps you've seen it at the video store? Just rent it. Don't ask, JUST RENT IT. Again, a much better movie than it let on it was. They had me from "hello" -- more appropriately, they had me from the opening shot. The long, slow shot of the winding road. It gives you that instant sensation of something not quite being right... an otherwise serene shot that you just know is lying to you. And, my friend, it is. So rent it, already!

Me? I'm going to go buy some hobo-stab insurance. :)

Besos a todos, K