Indigo Charlie (feat. Khleo) – Never Change Remix (I’ll Never Change)

1. I really like the concept of this video, created with over 1400 still images.

2. Khleo Thomas… Wow, that’s the little boy from the Holes, all grown up.

3. I need a massive cup of tea right now.

I’m on a weird kind of high right now after an afternoon viewing of 500 Days of Summer. It was just as great as I expected, and I’m so glad I wasn’t disappointed. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was great.

My co-worker, Dave, expressed that he would not be seeing the movie because there is no way it could possibly live up to the hype. Well, fortunately for me, that wasn’t the case. In my opinion, the over-hyped-movie title still resides with Shrek and Waitress.

From the beginning of the film the narrator informs us that although this is a story of boy-meets-girl, this is not a love story. I love that 500 Days of Summer was so very grounded in its portrayal of love, or rather, relationships and our expectations of them and the people with whom we become involved. The idea that it’s unwise to go into a relationship expecting to change the other person, to win them over to your side of whatever your core beliefs are, and not expect that that person, in turn, will affect you in the same way—this film explored that idea brilliantly AND it was so very pretty, funny, heartbreaking and squeeful (JGL doing a very relatable portrayal of a stifled artist) to watch.

At first, I didn’t give much consideration to Zooey Deschanel‘s performance as Summer. Now I think that’s a good thing. Her performance wasn’t lacking by any means, and now I realize she did an amazing job of conveying a sense of reservation on the part of Summer, playing a character who didn’t believe in love, but by the end, you see that she truly wanted to believe what it was that Tom (Gordon-Levitt) was pitching.

On that note, here’s this:

“Why Don’t You Let Me Stay Here” by She & Him
Directed by Mark Webb

Monday night I attended a concert at the Saenger Theater.

I was blown away by the opening act, a little band called Jukebox the Ghost. Before they began to play, one of them joked that while eating at Denny’s, they got schooled on the correct pronunciation of Mobile (Moh-BEE-uhl. It’s French.) It is a well known fact around these part that how one pronounces the name of my hometown is a valid litmus test for whether they are a native of the area. Dude, Ben Thornewill, killed it on the keyboards. The drummer was excellent. Of course one would reason that any band with the privilege of opening for Ben Folds was probably be pretty good. Listening to the album now, I much prefer the live version of “Hold It In” better live.

Then came the main act. I remember that he opened with “Annie Waits” and ended with…a song whose title has many asterisks, as listed in the iTunes store.
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So, my 2yr mobile phone plan is finally up, and it turns out I’m eligible to get an iPhone as a upgrade. It’s an extremely enticing offer, since I reasoned that I’d just stay content with my current phone, mostly due to my present economic situation. However, I stand to get a pretty good tax return, so the option of iPhone just became more viable.

But, geez, I’m already looking to see if I can somehow get a MacBook Pro. It’s always important to count the cost of things, though. I already have an insane phone bill for how little I actually talk on it. I currently have 4,999 roll-over minutes, 480 of which expire in the next few days. Yeah.

I have a new favorite show: The Big Bang Theory. I saw one episode and the geek in me melted in squee.

Behold the awesomeness that is Sheldon Cooper:

That being said, Season 1 of the show is currently in my shopping cart on Amazon.com. :)

I also like The Mentalist quite a bit. I started watching it because I like Simon Baker (Something New). I watched the first two episodes of Dollhouse. The first ep was blah, the second still eh, but a bit more interesting. I’m not sold on Eliza Dushku’s performance. She seems really cool, but I don’t find myself investing in her character like I want to fully enjoy the show. Other shows I’m enjoying are Burn Notice and Leverage. Only seen two episodes of the latter, but I really enjoyed the chemistry of the cast, especially Parker and Hardison, and the finale had me hooked.

It’s been months since I’ve seen anything in the movie theater. I broke that habit this weekend, though, as I joined family and friend to take in The Day the Earth Stood Still. It was blah. Not horrible, but not terribly good either. Keanu Reeves was cast perfectly as the emotionless alien. Jaden Smith was pretty good. John Cleese seemed a bit wasted. I got the feeling that the scene with him was supposed to be much longer.

So, the best thing about the movie was the beginning. More specifically, it was before the movie even started. We drove across the bay to The Rave theater. By the time we got into the theater, the trailers were already playing, about halfway through the Wolverine Origins trailer. Funny thing is, most of the group I was with stopped at the foot of the stairs up to the stadium seats to watch the rest of the trailer. I’m not really feeling Taylor Kitsch as Gambit, but I’m glad to finally see Remy LeBeau at all. Liev Shreiber looks to be giving a pretty wicked portrayal of Sabretooth, though.

X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE SD