Sure, we’re only three weeks into this whole thing, but I just wanted to go on the record as saying that I’m already more enamored with 2008 than I was with 2007. Granted, 2007 ended with unemployment for me and it happened during the most depressing season of the year (not to mention that i have the birth of a new child and the election of a Democratic president to look forward to in ‘08), but I’m always looking for that flash of optimism to get things going in the right direction.
Hell, maybe if I start writing more, someone will notice me and offer me a lucrative career as a pop culture jackass. If Perez Hilton can do it, ANYONE can.
So, here are a couple things that I’ve seen so far in aught-eight:
1. The Judge Dredd prophecy is being fulfilled:
According to the latest issue of Wired magazine, the Chinese are in the process of building Mega-City One under the guise of “saving space” or “rescuing the environment.” Personally, I think they have their minds set on full nuclear aggression and they figure their people have a better chance of surviving the mutants in the radlands if they can set up a place where the only wars will be between the Abe Vigoda and Ernest Borgnine blocks. Of course, if nothing in the previous paragraph made any sense to you, you’re probably not a Judge Dredd fan.
2. Age + plastic surgery + fading fame = hilarity!
Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians is my favorite new blog.
3. This album is pretty good, I think.
This is the cover art to The Cinematics’ album, A Strange Education. Flaming typewriters kick ass. I friended them on MySpace (does anyone still go there?) and asked them where the photo came from because I wanted to get a framed print of it. Like most bands looking to up their cool quotient, they ignored me. Awesome. So I found it on the photographer’s Flickr set instead. I’m such a Rockstar.
4. My love for Olivia Munn will never die.
I was gonna write another haiku, but words fail me. My only hope is that someday she’ll Google herself (and I mean that in the purest sense) and see all the hits from this meager blog. And maybe she’ll stop by to say “hey.” Or at least one of you could pretend to be her just to get my hopes up. ‘Kay? Thanks.
The Cinematics don’t run their own myspace any more, sorry to say. Now it’s someone who works for their label and actually quite dislikes the band, so I wouldn’t be surprised by the lack of response.