God's Own Crunk

I was going to see that new Olsen girl thriller about the house shot in “real time,” but the person I went with wasn’t up for a horror film, so we decided on Wanderlust instead. Why Wanderlust? Well, it has Jennifer Aniston … need I say more?

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Well said by Jonah Goldberg, more to come no doubt:

I’ve never known someone, perhaps with the exception of Drudge himself, who had more of a savant’s sense of media, old and new — but especially new. In the early days of the Drudge Report there was a lot of talk about how Drudge made the news, and that was often true. But he could only do that by understanding the news and how it worked at a visceral instinctive level. Matt saw this same gift in Andrew, which is why he hired him. The two of them changed the course of the massive river of news for literally billions of people. That’s no exaggeration, even venerable enterprises and institutions that despised the Drudge Report and pretended it didn’t exist  had to change course because of it.

via Andrew RIP – By Jonah Goldberg – The Corner – National Review Online.

I was saddened to hear of Andrew Breitbart’s death, not only for the family he leaves behind, but for all the work he had left to do. He was an incredible advocate for honor and honesty and an enemy to all who chose to use their power to deceive and eschew culpability. He will be greatly missed:

Thomas Paine once wrote, “He who dares not offend cannot be honest” and as far as I’m concerned, that’s what Andrew Breitbart was all about. When a journalist accused him of carefully editing an NAACP speech to make a black woman look racist, Andrew relentlessly hammered the guy and proved it was the media who had cherry-picked the quote. When the liberal media was hemming and hawing about rape accusations at OWS, Breitbart ran up to the protestors and screamed, “STOP RAPING PEOPLE” in their faces. You don’t forget a guy like that.

via Andrew Breitbart: 1969-2012 – Taki’s Magazine.

I’ve watched more movies in the past two week than I have in the past year – television too. It’s pathetic, really.

However, having watched so much television I decided to use my forces for good rather than evil – I quite eating carbs* a week ago, have forced myself into ketosis, and in six days have lost 20 pounds, so J-Craig/WW/NutriScam/Beachbody et al can suck it.

As for the TV watching…

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Boom.

I watched The Human Centipede last night and for the first time in my movie-watching existence, I took a shower after my viewing was complete. If that’s not enough, I called a friend at the 65-minute mark to chat for a few minutes while the movie was on Pause, because I needed a break.

Pretty heady stuff for a 90-minute, low-budget horror movie, no?

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So, I made my bi-annual trip to the movie theater this afternoon to see the American production of the Swedish publishing/cinema juggernaut The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. My interest in the American version of a remake of a film adapted from a book set in Sweden was twofold:

1. Rooney Mara
2. David Fincher

I’ve seen the Swedish films, though I’ve not read the book. As far as my interest in seeing them goes, it’s been a good 24-hours for Mara-related things in my life considering that a) The Giants won the Super Bowl and the Mara family owns the Giants and b) Rooney Mara is drop-dead sexy and, as was expected, doesn’t so much steal the film as dominate it. Fincher’s direction is good-not-great, in that it doesn’t feel like a Typical Fincher Film, though it does have the Mindfuck Fincher Opening Credits, which was good.

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