January 19, 2006

Media, Babies, and other stuff

As in: Media
  1. Johnny Cash: American 4: The Man Comes Around.
    I bought this CD for the "Hurt" cover, but found the song that arrests me the most is "The Man Comes Around". I suspect the evangelical Cash would be a bit disturbed by the reason the song affects me so much. As was probably his intent, the song gives me chills and makes me a-feared for Armageddon. The reason it gets my boots quakin, though, is because the song features prominently in the urban apocalypse scenes at the beginning of the remade Dawn of the Dead, which I found far scarier than I like to admit. Cash's deep voice brings to mind the scenes of uprest and zombies that give me chills. I guess I am afraid of the white horse and its rider, as long as the rider's a zombie.
  2. I bought Stubbs the Zombie but haven't played it yet. The humor looks a bit more sophomoric than I originally expected, but that's fine.
  3. I've grown fond of the American The Office, despite my love of the British one too. As I predicted when I watched the first couple episodes of the American one, it works best when it got away from copying the jokes from the other show and introducing its own. Carrel's character is less likeable than the forty-year-old virgin, but there are moments of tenderness, as when he goes home to his empty apartment, only to answer the door for the trick-or-treaters.
  4. When do babies start learning words? I hope it's not at six weeks, because during my shift tonight, I've been watching Glengarry GlenRoss. Let's hope Avery's first word doesn't come from that film.
Posted by briley at January 19, 2006 10:48 PM