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1. I hate things like this and think self-evaluation is for the weak. But I’m doing this to avoid writing my movie and it won’t be very introspective.
2. I always wanted to be a calf-roper but ain’t never had the coordination.
3. I CAN talk “proper” English but think people who do are fake because we’re all from somewhere and each area has its own brand of lingo.
4. If I had to take only one dvd with me it would be Lonesome Dove
5. My girlfriend is pregnant. I’m not really scared unless I think of the possibility of it being a girl. How in hell does one raise a girl?
6. I want to breed American Bison someday.
7. I want to learn how to break horses.
8. I tend to cry in guy movies but hardly ever in movies you’re supposed to cry in.
9. I’ve loved a handful of gals but been in love exactly once. Will be in love with her forever. Couldn’t change it if I tried. Had my heart broke just the once, too. Same girl.
10. I wish I was any count at riding a bucking machine.
11. Thanks to Jason I’m beginning to dig more rap.
12. I hate working out and generally refuse to – but I’m probably gonna have to play a roll soon where I’ll have to be in a lot better shape. Fuck.
13. I have a phobia of snakes.
14. I’m even more afraid of needles.
15. I LOVE the Dolph Lundgren version of “Punisher” and loathe Tom Jane’s rape of the concept.
16. I hate-hate-HATE “Citizen Kane”.
17. I used to like Star Trek TNG until I finally got to watch ST: TOS and found out TNG is a fucking abomination.
18. I love God but tend to attempt to experience the underside of the human experience as much as possible because it’s more interesting. I wanna go to Heaven but think a life w/o sin is a life not lived.
19. I want to build a house with my own hands.
20. I want to make the western that reminds the world that it is THE American Genre and that Visual Storytelling belongs to the cowboy and the horse.
21. When I move back out to the country I’ll miss the taco-stand Tacos Austin has to offer.
22. I want to open a REAL steakhouse in Austin since they don’t fucking have one.
23. I’ve always thought of myself as being particularly lazy but find little quit in me compared to those around me and have also been informed that I’m the friend who can be counted on for help.
24. Since I’ve moved to Austin I’ve been legitimately sick on average of once every 3-4 weeks and never the same type ailment twice in a row.
25. I think part of me wants to turn into an alcoholic.
There’s been a lot of net speculation for the 3rd Batman flick. I’ve stayed away from it til now. This is what it needs to be.
Dark Knight was fucking amazing. Of course. Everyone assumes Riddler is next and that Catwoman is a possibility. These sound good to me but the villain in the next movie HAS to be Batman. We got zero hero character development in DK – that’s cool because what we needed was to see Jokers, Harvey Dents, James Gordons and Gothams progressions as individuals. Now we need to see how those effect Bruce Wayne.
Riddler would be a very fitting vehicle for this. And I think what would be even more perfect is if Joker is in league with him. We should never see Joker, though. He and E. Nygma (or whatever Goyer and the Nolans come up with – honestly they could call him Shirley and I wouldn’t give a fuck) should conspire through letters or email or messenger pigeons injected with methamphetamine or something. And I could see Selina Kyle getting thrown in the mix a little but maybe she should really be saved for later down the line. (And she should NEVER be called Catwoman. She should be a female cat burglar named Selina Kyle and that’s it.)
But, as I said, the criminal element should be a vessel – an object for Wayne to fixate on(yes i said ‘on’ at the end of a sentence, fuck you). The story needs to be Wayne losing himself. He becomes one self-destructive motherfucker. Bruce Wayne starts to exist less and less and he increasingly slips into being The Batman – becoming the shadows.
Thomas Wayne’s little boy died many years ago in that alley when Joe Cool fired two shots from a cheap revolver. How could he remember what he was? How could we possibly expect him to? Revenge/justice/whatever – he built himself into a tool – in both the positive and negative senses of the word.
Now his 2 major rays of light for ever finding who he was again are gone – Rachel Dawes and Harvey Dent. These are also great fuel for wallowing in self-destruction… (hmmm maybe I’m making this a little too much about me…)
anyways – Bruce Wayne lost everything he loved in the world once when he was a little kid. When that happened he ceased to exist and eventually invented Batman. Now it has happened again. How does he go further than bottom? That’s what we need to see. At the beginning of Number 3 Alfred needs to be overseeing the final reconstruction on Wayne Manor. Bruce needs to blow him off any time he brings up the subject. Bruce needs to be more and more often leaving his WayneCorp responsibilities to some young consultant who contradicts Lucius Fox at every step. This could be where Riddler comes in. Edward Nygma/Nashton/Shirley could be the consultant with Wayne’s confidence. It could be, as many have theorised, the Mr. Reese (“Mysteries”) character from DK. The problem there being that Warner Brothers is sure to want Riddler to be played by a name – which either means they recast or WB will put Joshua Harto in a headliner role before the next flick. I’m sure Nolan will do something before then so there will be ample opportunity.
Bruce feels guilty for surviving and this should manifest in him seeing Alfred as a sort of mirror and resenting him for surviving too. Wayne Manor is the same thing. It and Alfred are the only relics from his life prior to the murders. So he refuses to pay the reconstruction any mind.
Lucius Fox will realize that he is being asked to neglect his managerial responsibilties to the detriment of the company in favor of building shit for Batman like whatever the new Batmobile will be.
So Bruce will start seeing interpersonal pushback in his two most trusted relationships.
Then, the Riddler comes into play. And this is how that should go down: Some big, violent crime is perpetrated – then the next morning an anonymous riddle is published in the Gotham Times claiming responsisblity – this should be just like the Zodiac letters back in the day. And of course Goyer and the Nolan bros should put a lot of work into coming up with some really ingenius fucking riddle material. That should go w/o saying but I said it anyways.
Then Bruce tunnelvisions on the Riddler case, setting our narrative into motion.
Through the duration Bruce puts more and more of his energy into breaking the case. He gravitates more towards Gordon and the underworld and alienates Alfred and Lucius, going to them only when he requires their services.
The Riddler, with help from Joker, should monitor and evaluate Batman’s methods of investigating the crimes and the series riddles hitting the front page.
The public is already against The Batman for supposedly killing Harvey Dent. The riddles should serve to increase the fervor of Gotham against their Knight. This will add to the confusion in Wayne/Batman’s head.
I want this to explore the evolution of the meaning of the “Mask”. It should ask as many questions as it answers.
This is where the conflict will be found. It’s Bruce Wayne having to deal with what Batman has become to himself – the sort of Frankenstein’s monster he’s created or whatever. He’ll have to learn, in his lonesome world, how to put Batman in his place and BE Bruce Wayne. Of course that means he’ll have to find the who/what of Bruce Wayne as well as The Bat. If Dark Knight was about the outside (upper and lower) limitations of the collective character of Batman and Bruce this one needs to get to a definition between the seperate personalities.
And then he can pull Riddlers brains out through his nose or whatever the next level is that (I hope) Christopher Nolan is able to push the PG-13 rating to.
"I love you, Sonny Corleone!" Why wasn't that a 70s T-shirt slogan?
I was tellin folks at work how much dinglefritz looks like the aliens from John Carpenter's "They Live"
this is a promo for the actual show:
I think I told you this back when I was alive but….
When we were little and did the traveling between parents thing, Adam had the top bunk and I had the lower one in mom’s apt in Austin. There was a big window opposite said bunk bed. I always wanted the curtain closed before I would go to sleep. Wasn’t sure what I was scared of but it was something.
One night I wake up in a dream. The curtain’s open and its just black outside. Why’s the window open? Did I forget to pull the curtain? How could I have forgotten? I always remember when everyone else forgets. The light’s on in the room. Why in the hell is the light on?
Then there’s a man at the window. I’ll never know his name but when Ethan Hawke says the poem in Dead Poets Society about the “sweaty toothed madman” I always think of the wiry-haired scraggly fucker with the killer eyes who stared at me through that window that night and all I could think was, “don’t let him know about my brother on the top bunk”.
The man starts banging on the window-glass. He’s coming through.
I wrapped myself in a sheet and started screaming and rolling on the ground to distract him from what I hoped was hidden by a mound of blankets on the top bunk.
I heard the window-glass break.
…
So, yeah, that was fun. I couldn’t get to sleep for dick after that UNLESS I sang the Ninja Turtles theme to myself and knew Rafael was somewhere keeping an eye out for the sweaty toothed madman.
So, I’m about to go my ass to sleep last night when I get a text from my boy Rusty.
It says: “Marky Mark is Max Payne?” in reference to the trailers for the May Payne flick coming out soon. You wouldn’t think this simple text would lead to
The Most Funnest Text Conversation Ever!
– but it did. Here’s how:
Well, we talked some shit about the movie but, of course, in the end I had to say that I’d watch Marky Mark do anything. Which lead to us fighting over Mark Wahlberg for a whole minute. And then….
Rusty: Fine, you can have him, I’ll take Matt Damon.
Me: You can have Good Will Hunting if I can have my Dirk.
R: Ok but i also get my Banky Edwards
M: And I get my Edward Norton.
R: Ok you Bastard but for that I get Dafoe
M: Fine then. Guess who I get.
Sean.
Patrick.
Flannery.
R: I figured you might. Good thing I have already procured Michael Cera.
(that one hit home for me.)
M: Fuck. Y’know what? I got me some Charles Bronson, circa Great Escape.
R: Then I’ll take the freecreditreport.com guy — he’s so dreamy
M: You brought this on yourself: William Shatner.
R: I did want to say Chuck but you don’t choose Chuck, he chooses you. So I think I’ll take Adam muthaFuckin West!
M: Oh damn that’s good. I was stuck for a second, then: Stephen Root.
(this is when it got “weird”)
R: I’ll take William Shatner and David Hasselhoff’s lovechild as a pick to be named later.
M: You can have Michael James Shatnhoff. I take Michael J. Fox.
R: Great Scott! I’ll take Chistopher Lloyd.
M: John Cleese and Darth Vader’s offspring, Tim Skywalker.
R: Legolas Lovitz
M: Donatello Prime.
R: Tommy Lee Duvall
M: Fuck you. I was going there. Burt Selleck.
and here’s when I fell asleep, plus also Rusty gotta pretty damn good zinger so he won:
R: Snake Plissken + John Wayne = DUKE PLISSKEN.
