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Last night I met up with Lorin and Rachael (sp??) to go see Ray, the film about… well… Ray Charles. Here’s what you need to know about the movie.

• The music is hot. Not a suprise, but easily the best thing about the movie.
• Cinematography was beautiful, and I enjoyed the look of the movie very much.
• Do not expect a narrative proper.
• Do not expect a documentary proper.
• Expect to see an hour and a half long music video and 45 minutes of disjointed narrative, both of which are salted with 15 minutes of documentary.
• All times are estimates.
• I enjoyed parts of the movie, but as a whole, I was dissapointed.
• If these facts sit well with you, you’ll probably like the movie.

While waiting for the movie to start, Lorin and I were talking back and forth about his dillema posting between friends.brainscat and his livejournal. In the end, I don’t see the reason for him to split the two, as it only makes it harder for his readers, considering that the topics he posts about are commonly present in both versions of his blog. I really truly believe that there’ s no point to making a spinoff blog, unless you are going to write enough content for muliple sites and you’re going to follow through on segregating the content between them.

The Star Wars: Episode III teaser is now available. I found out through FilePlanet. Note: FilePlanet requires login.

Check out Sarah McLachlan’s new video. It’s thought provoking to some extent, and I can’t decide whether or not if it lies on the side of being sincere or subvertantly preachy. I guess I don’t like being put on a guilt trip, but then, isn’t that part of the point of the guilt trip? By way of Tim Bray

• World On Fire (for iTunes users)
• World On Fire (everybody else)

The Incredibles. With all the to-film adaptations of comic books around, it seems Disney and Pixar wanted to get in on the act, or rather poke fun at it. Methinks I like it.

Kill Bill Volume 1 may very well be a film-nerd’s wet dream as Justin proclaims but I was too busy watching a fucking shitkicker of a movie to notice. This movie draws on the concepts of honor, revenge, unescapable karmic fate, poetry in death, prose in combat, and drenching you in buckets of hot Tobasco style. In the short breaks between crushing you with an eighty pound sledgehammer of kung fu and kenpo funk Kill Bill Vol. 1 might be whispering something about another movie.

Once again the movie’s soundtrack uses real music to remind you that you’re watching something special without resorting to yet another techno track during key moments. As many Tarantino fans know, this is one of the things he does best and this movie does not dissapoint. I’ll be purchasing it and pretending I’m the Black Mamba while walking to work in the near future on sidewalks near you…

The fighting in this movie is a flat out beautiful dance to watch. Yuen Wo Ping’s best work since Fist of Legend. For those of you who aren’t in the know, that means Kill Bill Vol. 1 has the second best martial arts choreography of all time.

You try to use a sissy gun, you die. You try to kill someone without warning, you die. You oppose the will of God enacted through a hot blonde package, you die. Never has a movie existed where you knew revenge would be had so sweetly, and against such ludicrously impossible odds. The best part is you know something fantastical, something impossible and insane is going to happen, and you love every moment of it.

All I can figure is that Quentin Tarantino made a script and then asked John Wayne, Akira Kurosawa, Jesus, James Brown, Sailor Moon and Yeun Wo-Ping to get together and add a little flavor and immediately sold his soul to Satan to cinch the deal.

1. Lorin has never and will never punch anyone in the face, even if that person is a shitty movie.
2. Lorin was right about the Grey Album.
3. Tony Hawk Underground’s sick mode is impossible.
4. Jay-Z’s Black Album is boring.
5. If you like cigars, try a Montecristo #2.
6. You’re breaking the law by downloading the Grey Album.
7. Norah Jones Feels Like Home actually makes me like some aspects of country music.
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is refreshing.
9. Justin is a smart man who knows lots about movies.
10. Natalie Portman is definetly hot enough to make me want to see a shitty movie like Garden State.
11. The Beatles have been butchered in the Grey Album.
12. I wish Johnny Cash were my grandad.
13. I will buy the Matrix Trilogy despite the creamy shit center that is the second movie.
14. If you smoke cigarettes don’t fucking tell me my cigar stinks.
15. Jim Carrey is a good actor.
16. Justin likes some shitty ass movies.
17. I wish I had a lightsaber.
18. Disney stole almost every story it ever made a movie of.
19. If you can do 40 fliptricks in one combo, you need to go outside.
20. Natalie Portman is definetly hot enough to make me want to see a shitty movie like Star Wars Episode III.
21. Disney is rich. DJ Danger Mouse isn’t, and can’t sell his album.
22. I liked Top Gun.
23. Good cigars are only tobacco. Cigarettes have all kinds of added chemicals in them.
24. I’m no better than Justin.
25. I hope Lorin punches somebody in the fucking face, one day, I really really do, and knocks them out cold.