GREY GOODENS

Hello, Sunday. Hello, sulfite headache. Hello, coffee. What else do you have in store?

If you don't know anything about the SIMS foundation, it's time to educate yourself. They do good things. I don't know much about this t-shirt company or the place its happening, but it seems like a good time. An adventure perhaps?

High Society are hosting their infamous 8th Grade Dance tonight at Beauty Bar, too. Awful fluffy skirts and poorly tied ties a must

And the ever awesome culture proliferating machine known only as Church of the Friendly Ghost is having short film night tonight! Wee! Films of short length! Hooray! It's happening at the always air conditioned Salvage Vanguard Theater tonight at 8

In other news, I saw Drag Me to Hell yesterday. Wow. Just wow. If you even remotely like scary movies, this is the one you have been waiting for. Not exactly good PR for gypsies, but whattayagonnado? Also happy birthday to Ms Krista, Chel-k-mon, and Jen. May your days be merry and bright

A JOURNEY ROUND MY SKULL

One of my lovely girlfriend's friends turned me on to this blog about a month ago and I've been hooked ever since

WITNESS

A Journey Round My Skull offers its readers a plethora of work illustrators, foreign, rare, and often forgotten. The level of careful analysis and "book fetishism" the author displays is truly amazing and serves to add another layer of intrigue to what is undeniably some of the best eye candy around. Be warned, this blog is truly addictive and the archive is extensive

BONUS LEVAR BURTON MUZAKS

MOVIE REVIEWS

Before the 2nd wave of summer movie releases hits, I thought I'd give you folks a few brief movie reviews. They are mostly pictures

WOLVERINE

This movie made me feel pretty much like that. Such pain. Such a piece of crap. It's nice they chose to include all these fan favorite mutants that got left out of the other X-men films, but why does everyone have "Matrix" type powers? These characters are supposed to be mutants, each with a unique, strategic ability. That should preclude somewhere around %99 of them doing the flippy flippy bang bang stuff that was cool like 10 years ago. That particular brand of stylized violence is not only untrue to the spirit of the comic, it's just a lazy way to make an action film. And way to try to turn one of the most famous anti-heroes in comics into the story's main moralizing force. What a poor poor decision in the name of kid friendliness. Ol' Hugh is great at playing a nice guy, but put in context, it smells wrong and serves to make the title character a lame duck through much of the film. Most of my other complaints revolve around key plot points, so for brevity and decency's sake, I'm going to remain silent. Let me just say this though: Liev Schreiber runs like a gazelle. Alot. At the drop of a hat. Every chance he gets. At times, it almost majestic. HOWEVER

STAR TREK

That's the feeling the new Star Trek movie gave me: warm, glowing, and covered head to toe in highly stylized poly-cotton blend. Ultra satisfying, with truly amazing action sequences, the film managed to stay true to the characters I grew up with, while making them available to the viewer in an entirely new way. That being said, from the first 5 minutes, you can tell it's not your daddy's Star Trek, but hell, it's not your creepy crumb-faced neighbor's either. Trust me, that's a good thing. The film probably didn't need to be 2 hours long, but part of me is glad it was. J. J. Abrams can restart my franchise anytime - vaguely sexual undertone intended

Happy Mother's Day! One. Week. Of. School. Left.