it was kind of nuts coming home from seeing war of the worlds last night and looking out my window to see what is normally a clear view of the downtown LA skyline replaced with a dark cloudy fog. that’ll make you do a double take alright.

the movie itself i can’t go on at length about, because although in terms of craftsmanship regarding directing, acting, effects, and so on it was great, i still found myself largely indiferent toward it as a whole. afterward i decided as we discussed some of spielbergs decisions (specifically regarding the end of this one), that his overall motive for making movies has been to illustrate how the power of love always wins. disagree if you like, i stick by this one.

more exciting to me, and further illustrating how cool i am (disagree if you like), i snagged the second volume of batman cartoons on dvd, which has me all aflutter. more so because joe scored it for me at a sweet insider warner brothers studio discount before his most recent film job ended. i am totally watching hours of caped crusader over this long weekend when i’m not drinking beer and/or enjoying the sun.