Today’s soundtrack: tell me something I don’t know
Today at 12:02pm: setting up photography lights


On Friday I saw King Kong, the movie about a woman who gets kidnapped by an ape and develops Stockholm Syndrome. When my friend Tony quietly made this observation during the movie I almost laughed out loud, but didn’t because I am still aware that I live in a society. Which is more than I can say for the couple to Tony’s left, who talked out loud, made lame jokes and guffawed like they were in their own living room. Between schmucks like these, the seat kickers and the twelve-dollar tickets it’s enough to swear off cinemas altogether.

I wasn’t really blown away by the movie, but I’m admittedly a tough critic. One thing I was impressed by was that director Peter Jackson had so much clout the studio gave him total creative control for this movie. Still, you know at some point in the process they tried to mess with it.