updates! check out my interviews with awesome photographers nicholas routzen and kevin ito on sofisticati.com. i’ll be contributing to the mag on a regular basis, so look forward to more stuff like “wittgenstein and russell: where it all went wrong”. nah, just kidding, it’ll be art and music and films.

in other news, big NEWS (see how i did that, ann curry?) coming re. i love geeks…i can’t say anything until - well, i can’t even hint at it, so it’d be useless to use a euphemism. what’s gotten into me today?

finally- how wrong is it that marc ecko entertainment was involved with i love geeks (the video game) for the states? i mean, seeing that rhinoceros sticker right next to the words “geek” and “nerd” is like…like…sticking urkel on a dirt bike and telling him to do a hart attack.

i want those red glasses.

sadly, i won’t be able to make it to SDCC this year. i know, i know, you’ve been dying! at least i already had neil gaiman draw me an awesome depiction of the dream sequence at the end of carrie.

and have i mentioned how i long to be successful enough to act as, er, eccentric as james ellroy? the phrase “out of left field” doesn’t even apply to that man - it’s more like, “out of that field that’s right by the docks, you know, the one littered with condoms and broken mirrors.” glorious. when i saw him at BEA, he kept insisting he’s a megalomaniac, but i suspect that’s all a front to simply act as bizarre as he wants to. if not, mr. ellroy, email me! i aspire to be a combination of you and betty white, and will gladly take tips from a truly successful megalomaniac.

please to note: i only like “hackers” when they benefit me.

and in this case, there is nothing beneficial here.

um, yeah, can anyone tell me WHY my twitter account has been suspended due to “strange activity”? i mean, if “strange activity” is defined as posting about chuck bass, the nerd herd, urban outfitters’ schizophrenic merchandising, and how hot zachary quinto is as spock (and sadly, since twitter inexplicably took it upon themselves to suspend my account - have i mentioned that? - i was unable to post about how FRAKKIN’ AWESOME karl urban is as mccoy!), well then.  perhaps my wallpaper of cheery bumblebees was considered offensive by some?

i understand this is becoming a common problem, confirmed by a trip to getsatisfaction, from which i hope to, well, GET SATISFACTION. needless to say, i am pretty ptfo. people are saying it’s been taking weeks verging on months to get their accounts back. anyone have success with reinstatement? email me.

i demand an explanation from myself as to why i’ve not updated in so very long. i have to ask gently, as i don’t always respond to on-the-spot demands. could it be jet lag? wait, no. that was back in march. could it be the whole “i’m closing down my site wait haha april fool’s!” no. because not only was that back in april, but those kinds of “pranks” are un-funny and predictable. could it be that I’M un-funny and predictable? ah, how myself likes to sabotage me.

well, seeing as how an explanation doesn’t seem to be forthcoming - myself can be stubborn and difficult - i shall launch into my current likes and dislikes. just for, you know, the hell of it.

likes:

megumi sato as hatsune misawa in l: change the world.

my dreamy friends notepad that states on every single page: “a delightful day. my mind is paralyzed.”

finding my pink nintendo zelda watch.

asia dog, my friends’ weekly party in which they grill hot dogs with toppings like kim chi, japanese curry, pork belly, and - of course - asian slaw.

my interview in technikart - indeed, i sound better in french.

dislikes:

the battery is dead in my pink nintendo zelda watch.

sick, again!

twenty seven hundred thousand days of rain.

only $13 left on my b&n gift card. hell’s half acre, i’ll get you yet!

busted superdrive. =(

wait, wait, there’s one more thing i like. oranges. i really, really like oranges.

my friend carrie borzillo-vrenna (who is thisclose to signing her new book deal, btw) informed me on march 15th that i love geeks was #11 in relationship books on tower.com! that is sort of…well, awesome. i must confess that i don’t check things like that too often because i get a little weirded out. honestly, i can’t explain it, but it feels funny to have success measured in such a…visible way, for all to see. if i fail, you’ll know it. if i succeed - yeah, that too. if people are coming down on me for “why did you include that and why not this and that’s stupid” or “thanks so much for this book, i needed it!” then that’ll be pretty obvious as well. but as long as some people have really enjoyed the book and maybe gotten something out of it, or picked up a video game or a comic because of it, then i’m happy.

although, i sort of still want to jump on oprah’s couch like tom cruise…..so buy a couple more copies, will ya?

i just taped a new segment of comic news insider called VERSUS. it examines two or three different mediums of a series - in the case of death note, manga vs. anime vs. live action film.

i had tons o’fun…although the company, wine, and chocolate bars (for mello, duh!) helped just a teeny tiny bit.

thanks as always to the illustrious jimmy aquino, and big ups (as the kids say….right?) to joe, mike, and rich. i do wish i’d talked about my favorite characters, though (mello, L, and matt, in case you’re wondering) and my dislike of light vs. my like of kira. because they’re not the same, dammit!

VERSUS will be released saturday, so go check it out, please. until then, in the words of misa misa, “i’ll do my best!”

so, i’m going to paris next week - all i know how to say in french is hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and i love it. will that be enough to get by? can i just run around saying “i love it!” the whole time? i think so, yes.

while i’m there i’ll be stopping by the technikart offices to pick up some copies of their geek issue, which features a little interview with me! yay! cool! i love it! somehow i think i’ll sound so much better in french.

i’m confused. i’m not sure whether or not i should like the watchmen: the film version. yes, i know “do” and “should” are two different things…so does it make me either a) a traitor, or b) honest that i thought the movie was just….meh?

let’s start with the bad. the music was completely cringe worthy. i have no idea who supervised that, and i suppose i could look it up online, but it’s not even worth the energy. trite, heavy-handed, and often far too loud, overpowering whatever was happening on the screen, it was almost painful at times. “visionary director” zach snyder’s “little extras” (creative license, is it called?) – let me eschew any florid language and just say, ugh. no spoilers here, but did we NEED the pool table? did we NEED the extra brutality in the prison scene? did we need what i thought was a particularly tasteless and gratuitous punch in the stomach to a random woman rioter by the comedian? we get it, the comedian is a Bad Person ™. we read the book. we know. i’ll tell you what we DID need – half of the original ending that didn’t make it on film. again, no spoilers here, so i won’t mention what parts were sorely missed - at least by lil’ ol’ me.

the good? well, the casting. although rorschach’s voice PAINED me until i got used to it. far too “where’s-the-drugs?!?” i’m-disguising-my-voice-batman-esque. but billy crudup’s “giant blue junk”, as it’s been called, did not offend me. sure, some of the acting/lines were stilted, but c’mon – spiderman 2’s dialogue made me laugh out loud. we’re talking superheroes here, folks – they’re supposed to be grandiose. laurie made me want to kickbox the hell out of some bad guys, and while i wasn’t exactly pulling for dan (i think he loses some sympathy in the film without his interaction with hollis mason and a sense of humor; he just seems a little too pitiful), rorschach gets my undying love.

so, in the end, i dunno. i didn’t leave…INSPIRED. exhilarated. the way i did after seeing the dark knight, jumping up and down the street saying, “did you SEE that?” don’t tell me it had to do with the subject matter, either. honestly, i went into the film with zero expectations. i don’t see how anyone who didn’t read the book could follow the film easily (that was a horrible sentence, sorry). but i didn’t hate it. it didn’t make me angry – for the most part. that scene with “99 luftballoons”, that made me angry. so angry I’m going to put on my silk spectre costume and give those balloons a well-deserved beat-down.

and bring me solo and the wookie, while you’re at it.

what?  i tried to make one of those snowmen where you stick a carrot in it for the nose, but my hands got cold and i discovered that i’d inadvertantly created some sort of smiling jabba the hutt-looking thing.  so, i went with it, and happen to think he’s rather cute.  YOU try making a snow creature with your bare, frost-bitten hands!  i might just shed a tear when he eventually melts into oblivion.

happy blizzard!