hmm, i was going to wait for tomorrow morning to post, but right as i was ready to go to bed, i forgot i had put clothes in the washing machine hours ago and never transferred them to the dryer (side note: how come you can say ‘washer and dryer’, and you can say ‘washing machine’ but no one ever uses the term ‘drying machine’? oh yes, these are the things i think of when i find myself suddenly robbed of an extra 45 minutes of sleep).

so anyway, this will become the movie post i was saving for later in the week, after which i am sure to have seen live free or die hard, no matter how non-R-rated or cheesy it may be.

in place of reviewing that, i’ll share with you my first ever video posted to youtube instead. see, a few days ago, spencer and i were chatting over the ol’ computer, and he sent me a link to the trailer for the new PTA movie, there will be blood. it’s a pretty cool preview. very intense. but as we discussed it and re-watched it, it became ridiculous in its melodrama and pathos. we started laughing at it and couldn’t take it seriously anymore. the dam really broke when he suggested substituting another word every time the narrator uses the word ‘people’ in his monologue, after which i said, ‘dude, i have imovie, i can make that happen.

this is the result, on the same level as overdubbed swear words in televised movies. for full effect, i strongly recommend watching the original first, but there you have it: my first contribution to the world of online video sharing.

because i still have a good half hour to kill, how about i also list off my top five looked-forward-to movies of the rest of the year, at least as far as i know so far. we won’t count die hard cause it’s out this week, and the transformers can stay safely tucked away as cool childhood toys and not shitty bruckheimer productions, thank you very much. so wait, i guess that just makes for four, really.

4) superbad: i haven’t seen a good high school movie in ages, and this one’s a judd apatow flick that held an R rating. guaranteed gold.

3) stardust: can’t not go see a neil gaiman novel turned into a film starring claire danes, that’d be like an outright betrayal of my own high school self. plus de niro as a pirate. come on.

2) no country for old men: i didn’t even know until today that the coen brothers had a movie coming out this year, and this looks like a return to form. fingers crossed — ladykillers, i’m looking at you.

1) war inc: might end up being cheesy, but i’m hoping the trailer is just dumbing it down a little, as this could be a sort of spiritual successor to one of my favorite films ever, grosse pointe blank, which would absolutely kill.

okay, i did it. time to retrieve things from the drying machine and get the fuck to sleep.