a couple things.

i just caught this trailer for southland tales, the new flick by the guy who made donnie darko. if you said to me, ‘it’s a movie about the end of the world starring the rock, sarah michelle gellar, sean william scott, and justin timberlake’, i’d be guaranteed to laugh in your face. but watching the trailer, it looks really interesting, and amazingly, potentially really good. i think a really admirable quality in a director is to take very average actors and bring out the performances no one ever thought they were capable of in a well-written story (the difference between jessica alba in sin city and jessica alba in good luck chuck or fantastic four, for example). although i’ll admit i always thought the rock had a lot of charisma and could really break out if he finally stars in an actually good film. i’ll definitely be keeping my eyes on this one.

over the weekend of course, the USC football team whipped up again, and we had a great time hanging out drinking beers, talking shit and watching them stomp on washington state. but i realized sunday when i watched the 3rd quarter of the bears game, that i am a really spoiled sports fan. the only team i watch religiously is my college football team that plays 12 or so games a year and has won about 95% of them over the past four or five years. watching the bears screw up and turn a close game into a blowout in a single quarter just made me sad, but also guilty for not being a very well-rounded person used to the disappointment a lot of better sports lovers must feel on a regular basis. i’m so sheltered in my trojan bubble. could it be symptomatic of an overall level of comfort, contentment and security in my life that is making me a weaker man? maybe i should become a bruin fan for a while to put some hair on my chest (TAKE THAT TED YOU UCLA FUCK!–inside joke).

then a final nerd note: last night, i finally finished bioshock on my xbox. hooooooooly fuck. up to now, i’ve been hesitant to plunge as far as doing lengthy game reviews on here to reserve myself from going fully geek-core (‘far too late,’ i hear you saying, and yet i cling to dignity…), but i think this one might merit it. i’d get into it right now but this post is already too long. i’ll just say two things: i’m glad i finished it before getting distracted by the halo 3 storm, and again — hooooooly fuck.