So a quick run down of the week.. Saturday night Cassie and her roommate Ashley were over which involved chronic abuse of the Wii and Guitar Hero 3… While everyone else stayed up til 3/5am I was drained and passed out somewhere between midnight and one. Sadness.

Sunday was Mother’s day so was in Oak Brook with the fam for lunch (parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, a whole slew of the Conover clan.. frightening!) After Molly came over after to crash for the night and spend the next few days pretending to look for jobs and hanging out.

You know.. while most of the females in my life read it’s rare lately that any bring a book to my attention I didn’t have yet. So Rose.. thank you. Clown Girl is one of the best novels I’ve read in quite awhile and amazingly how close in style to Chuck Palahniuk. This is a must pick up book. I haven’t read a novel that was able to drag me into it so readily in quite awhile. I actually skimped on video games and sleep to get this finished since I wanted to know where it was going. Buy this one if you enjoy reading! It’s dark, cynical, and worthwhile in every way possible. It doesn’t go with the strange over the top twist Chuck does but I think it works better with the slight differences in her writing style.

Today is a day for great movie news! That and I’m lacking on anything interesting going on yesterday to bother posting about

On Geekdom:
So they added more images of the cast for G.I.Joe which can be seen here. So… when I saw Snake Eyes previously I thought ‘cool!’ .. and when I saw _blank">Scarlet after that, after I drooled a bit, I said HOT!.. That’s.. pretty much as far as my excitement looks like it’s going to go. The rest of the cast they have shown.. I just don’t know. *sighs* I think after the first two my expectations were huge and now.. not nearly as much =/

On Horror:
After Dark.. the newly yearly film fest for horror movies is now going to move on and start to produce their own movies! I’m such a glad this is becoming a hit since they’ve had a huge hit or miss (with more misses) in their fest. As long as what they make qualifies with the hits… I’m a fan. I suppose more horror movies in general I’m just a fan

Just Funny:
I’m not a fan of Uwe Boll. His movies ruin franchises and hurt the brain, eyes, soul, and a part of you will die inside if you watch any of his movies. So he claimed he will QUIT MAKING movies if 1,000,000 people sign the petition at this page. He really did. All of the information can be found right here. This is actually old news. The FUN new news is that Stride Gum will give a FREE PACK OF GUM to EVERY person who signs the petition. They are willing to waste a million packs of gum to have this man stop making movies. How random is that? How great is that? If I was a gum chewer I would switch to this brand .. today!

Aside from all of that I’ve mainly been working / sleeping / playing CoD 4 since the last update… soo.. yea..

So check it out… I learned something new with html. It’s very VERY simple. It’s something I should have looked up about a year ago. I feel kind of like an idiot for not having looked it up earlier… but I discovered I should add CLEAR=ALL at the end of my br statements. What does that mean to you? Not a whole lot aside from fixing some formatting issues on anything I type that I put next to a picture. Something you really probably didn’t notice and wouldn’t… however I enjoy learning new things.. such as simple things. I should have known. Years ago. *cringes*

I got off of work for the day of my previous post. Zombie Walk. Chicago. Sweet. I wonder if it’s anywhere near my condo… they really need to post where it’s going to be..

If your even a semi-regular reader of my blog you may have noticed that I enjoy the show House M.D…. The main character is bitter, cynical, and many other fun such attributes. However did you know he wrote a book? Yes… The Gunseller by Hugh Laurie is a pulp styled detective novel set in London and a few other areas of Europe in the same style with which he acts. (Personally I want to see a movie of this with him playing the main character..) It felt like a light version of any of the pulp styled movies with more cynical humor. If you enjoy reading you would be doing yourself a favor to pick this up. It’s a light read, a quick read, you won’t get overly attached to the characters.. but you’ll love every chapter of it.

Sunday I introduced Neil to the TV version of Dune that Sci Fi put out. (The low budget first mini-series and the much higher budget second mini-series.) As a fan of the original movie he was instantly interested and quickly got caught up in the remake. (DID I MENTION THERES A MOVIE COMING OUT?!?!?! SCORE!) We were under the impression this was because the budget was spent on William Hurt as Leto for the first mini-series. At any rate. I’ve been saturated with Dune mythos from Sunday to Tuesday night and am fully into the series again. Damnit. There’s nothing else to read or watch right now. Gah!

So Molly came over Wednesday on my day off to hang out. We hand a light lunch, ordered pizza for dinner, showed her the new place, killed a lot of time talking, and went up to visit her friend that lives on the 11′th floor (so strange we’re in the same building.) Oh yes and most importantly we opened up my 50 pack set of 30′s-50′s horror movies and watched Bluebeard!

Probably one of the first movies with a character to be based loosely on Jack the Ripper. I was quite entertained though as usual any ‘horror’ movie from that era I stick in the suspense or drama category. Still it was an entertaining movie.. though I’m not usually one for a flick that puts you in the eyes of the killer unless there’s a huge twist at the end.. and let me tell you.. there wasn’t. Twists in movies I don’t think were invented yet Still.. for a movie that none of you will EVER watch.. enjoyable for a black and white flick with no semblance of special effects!

…I feel like I’m forgetting something

…Sweet. I will NEED to take that Saturday off work. That is all.

Well.. aside from the movie it’s been work.. so.. after work Neil, Molly, and I went to go see:
Iron Man. Here’s what you need to take from my feelings on the movie… Like action movies? You should go see it. Like comic based movies? You should go see it. Like cynical humor? You should go see it. This has become… my favorite comic book based movie to date… which is strange because I never really liked Iron Man when I read comics! If a guy doesn’t have super powers I was more a fan of the crazy vigilante (Batman, Punisher, etc) over someone who was rich and made himself an expensive toy to fly around in. This being the case the acting was great. The special effects were amazing. The plot line was solid. The bonus at the end of the credits was perfect and will probably be at the end of a few of the upcoming Marvel movies. Ok back to the casting for a second: everyone who knows me already knows that I feel Robert Downey Jr. was perfectly cast for Iron Man and I have to say that honestly my opinion hasn’t changed and was only reinforced. PERFECT for the role. Terrence Howard as Jim Rhodes I was worried about. As an actor I like him but I usually see him in a softer role not a tougher military role (I can’t get him in Crash out of my mind.) This is a movie that shows that he can act as he fit the role exactly how I would have wanted it played. Gwyneth Paltrow… cute but I’ve never felt was overly attractive. Totally blew me away in this movie. The look was just stunning. I don’t buy into the drooling over actresses usually but just.. .. yum (oh yes the acting was great too.. just the drooling overtook it. She also perfectly fit the roll. Great acting everywhere!.. why isn’t 2010 sooner for the sequal?)

(totally unrelated… the trailers for the new Batman and Hulk movies made me want to see them that much more!)

Ok not too much Stu news to mention right now. I’ve still got some biggies coming up but it’s been mainly work and conserving money still. What is new? Well… House started up again and is just as hilarious as always and the latest episode of Battlestar left me a little let down just from the lack of any real developments. I was hoping for no filler episodes this season *sighs* Also I ended up picking up Rose from the airport last night (causing me to miss out on 10 cent wings and cheap booze.. boo!) Oh well I owed her for when she drove me to and from the airport last year.

Aside from that my Dad got a new car. His Nissan is gone and replaced with a Prius. With all the driving he does he needed to do something to get a discount on gas and what better than having the most gas effective car on the market. My cousin is also now officially in IL. That’s neat Now to help her find a job and place to live *laughs* and finally.. Rob started playing CoD 4.. not local Rob but Tn Rob. Nothing exciting.. no reason for you to be reading.. move along~