Check out a bit of a plot summary for this movie Wanted:
25-year-old Wes
(James McAvoy) was the most disaffected, cube-dwelling
drone the planet had ever known. His boss chewed him out
hourly, his girlfriend ignored him routinely and his life
plodded on interminably. Everyone was certain this
disengaged slacker would amount to nothing. There was
little else for Wes to do but wile away the days and die in
his slow, clock-punching rut. Until he met a woman named
Fox (Angelina Jolie). After his estranged father is murdered,
the deadly sexy Fox recruits Wes into the Fraternity, a secret
society that trains Wes to avenge his dad’s death by
unlocking his dormant powers. As she teaches him how to
develop lightning-quick reflexes and phenomenal agility,
Wes discovers this team lives by an ancient, unbreakable
code: carry out the death orders given by fate itself.
Nobody hopes this movie is good more than I do. If you watch the linked preview, complete with McAvoy’s tennis-forehand bullet-curving oh-my-god how-awesome is-that scene, you’ll understand why I have such high hopes. Hard to make any more guesses about the movie for now.
UPDATE: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Shuffle Your Feet will also rock your face off, possibly more so than the previous song, simply because it features hand-clapping.
The return of Dean Allen’s blog, Textism, has been heraldedbysome folks as a big deal. I loved the clean aesthetic on my first visit to his newly reopened site, but it took a little while for the quality of his writing to sink in. Case in point: one of the items from a recent list-styled entry entitled “My father is visiting,” reads:
We got into a fistfight when I was sixteen and he had me
down in seconds
This Mr. Allen fellow does a lot with a little, whether the medium is pixels or words. It’s all a bit like a poem, but longer and you need to scroll and have access to an internet connection.
I am a location scout & location manager for television
commercials, music video & still photography, feature
films, episodic TV, etc - working primarily in the new york
area for the last 14 years or so
The International Herald Tribune has an interesting article: Hedge fund managers get billion-dollar paydays. When the market is down in so many places, it has to be up in others. Incidentally, the reported $3.7 billion bonus for one man in one year would give a $100,000+ bonus to all the families in my home town of Woodbury.
I have no problem with people lucky enough to earn these massive bonuses, but it’s hard to wrap your brain around how big that number is.
