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Where the Hell Has The Time Gone?

It's been a long time since I last blogged. Last I left off I was embarking on the long trek to Los Angeles, CA by way of my car. There are a ton of pictures from that trip and some very interesting blog posts that I could write about (who knows maybe someday I will) but for now we're skipping ahead to the present day.

It's October 30th 2009 and I've been living in LA for almost FIVE MONTHS. I found a job doing temp work in a doctor's office, which has been a great way to get paid but not creatively fulfilling in the least. I work with a variety of people: women to young to have children but already have three, tall Hispanic men that speak mumbled English and middle-aged mid-western women who have big hair, big thighs and loud voices. The office is pretty busy, housing three doctors who are all Internal Medicine practitioners as well as Nephrology specialists (if you don't know what a Nephrologist is I hear there's this amazing thing called a "Google" that answers your questions, mostly accurately, on this series of tubes called the Internet).

The day job has kept me afloat these last few months and allowed me a lot of free time to work on my own stuff when I'm not in the office. I've been taking on a lot of lettering projects, over-seeing the (slow but awesome) development of my graphic novel "Detectives In Space" (DUE OUT.....er....I don't know, I'll do a whole separate post about the current status of DIS), writing a tv pilot, shopping another pilot, working on several screenplays and putting some final edits on a script was waaaaaaay back. Needless to say I keep busy but still find time to watch a lot (too much) of TV, movies and comics (technically reading but whatever). So I figured I'd use this unusually light day do one of my favorite blog tricks: Bullet points!

• Paranormal Activity/Saw VI - The former was a huge chunk of crap. It was boring beyond belief, not scary and, worst of all, horribly written/improved. I don't usually flat out slam a movie, if I hate it I just never speak or think of it again, but this movie is the exception. Maybe it's all the hype surrounding it. Maybe it's because people kept telling me it was going to be better than Blair Witch (I hated that movie but found it actually much more enjoyable than Activity was). On the flip-side sits SAW VI, here's a movie I NEVER thought I'd enjoy. I watched all the films just before the summer and, while I like the first I felt they got successively dumber and harder to watch due to the excessive gore. When I went in for Saw VI I was expecting to watch the whole movie with my hands over my eyes during the torture and my head spinning during the "story" parts. I was wrong (oh shit, I think a pig just flew by my window) this movie was the MOST enjoyable of the series to date. Sure it was waaay to on the nose with the Financial metaphors but it was fun and lite and NEVER took itself to seriously.
  
• TV- In the time away from the blog the summer ended and the great FALL TV SEASON is once again upon us and moving along nicely. I have some shows I love and I'd like to recommend them to you now (in no particular order): Modern Family (the best sitcom of the season - it is a comedy with a ton of heart), Community (discovered how great this is last night and now I'm hooked), Fringe Season 2 (much improved from the first run of episodes. The best stuff moves the larger story along but the stand-alone installments are getting better), Dexter (this is the best season yet, this show gets better with every single episode ever since season 1 episode 2).
  
• The Muppet Movies - recently re-watched all the films. It's VERY CLEAR at what point Henson died and his son, Brian, took over. Not that the Brian Henson run films are bad (I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE A Muppet Christmas Carol) they just don't have the same feel as the films his father was making. If you haven't seen them in a while I highly recommend re-watching all these films (even the post-JH ones)

Tonight is Devil's Night, a holiday I didn't even know existed until I saw a movie that would become I favorite of mine, The Crow. This is a classic revenge flick, years before Uma Thurman would try to Kill Bill, Eric Draven clawed his way out of his grave to avenge the brutal murder of his girlfriend, Shelly. I would request you all curl up tonight in your favorite movie watchin' spots, rest up for a night of Halloween fun by watching The Crow. You can thank me later.

Enjoy!