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I couldn’t take sitting home trying to enjoy the final 24 hours of my vacation before the coming hail-of-shit storm. I tried cleaning my room but I had knots in my Godsdamned stomach…

So I went to see Hollywoodland, which is a story dealing with the death of Superman actor George Reeves — not to be confused with Christopher Reeve, who portrayed Superman in the movies. (I wanted to see All the King’s Men, but that doesn’t come out until the 22nd, so I settled for this.) All in all, it wasn’t a bad movie. The movie was stylishly done and the cast was pretty strong. The plot was predictable, but solid. The one thing I wasn’t overly fond of was Ben Affleck, though he did a decent job as playing the sick-as-hell-of-being-stereotyped Reeves, and he did get Reeves’ mannerisms down fairly pat. (I remember watching the Adventures of Superman back in my own youth when they were being re-run on Nick-at-Nite, so the movie did bring out some nauseating nostalgia in me.) The only good thing in the movie was, well, Adrien Brody. Other than that, the movie could have easily been an HBO special, since there was nothing there that made the movie a theater-only experience.

After the movie, I walked into my Best Buy to make sure the place hadn’t burned down. (Oh, I would pray for that, but prayers are nothing but an exercise in vocal and pseudo-spiritual masturbation.) Much to my astonishment, everything was running fairly smoothly and there were only a few minor issues I was brought up to speed on. Armageddon didn’t come… yet. While there, I picked up the special box set of The Office and the new tin of the original and unraped Star Wars. Finally, versions of the original trilogy that the revisionist hack-fuck-frakwit George Lucas didn’t pervert with his CGI revisionist jihad. Georgy boy needed to realize that art is only abandoned and never finished. And there was nothing wrong with the original trilogy anyway, except for the Ewoks. (And, no, calling them muppets is an insult to muppets everywhere.)

So that’s where I’m at.

Good night, and good luck.