spiderman, spiderman, does whatever a spider can

Spins a web, any size
Catches thieves, just like flies
Look out! Here comes the Spider-man!

Is he strong? Listen, Bud!
He's got radioactive blood.
Can he swing from a thread?
Take a look overhead.
Hey there, there goes the Spider-man!

and if you couldn't sing along with that, then stop reading now and delete this site from your cache.
immediately.
because peter parker is hot, even if tobey maguire isn't.
(tobEy. with an E. are you fucking kidding me?)

as i'm sitting at work today around 10:30 am, one of my favorite blasts from the past drops by to tell me what his life has become. these moments are the reason that i still do what i do. you can always find me- same time same place like your favorite cartoon after school. except i can't spin a web; nor do i have wolf blades flinging from my phalanges (mmmm... hugh jackman- now there's a fucking super hero)

anyway...

i work with some of the most amazingly intelligent people in the universe, and i love that even when they leave, they return to tell me what music i am missing out on, what books are kicking it live, and what movies i need to go see. they even bring me tv shows to watch.

out of the love that i work with comes the ecstasy of a season of firefly on dvd and the accompanying motion picture serenity. i am pumped. joss whedon (speaking of joss) is a demagogue of screen writing genius, and i have been trying to fit these little pups into my viewing kennel for a good 3 months.

as well, i may be getting access to titus- let me know if this is a good thing. i've heard the writing is pretty hot.

sooo.. chatting with my peeps, and i watch the trailer for spiderman 3.
no shit, the words, "It’s a symbiote that bonds to his suit." flies out of someone's mouth.

you probably had to be there.

but it was funny as fuck that a person knows enough about a movie coming out in 9 months to use the word symbiote.

then we watched the trailer for the fountain. looks enticing. the most interesting thing i learned was that the movie is made with little to no CGI's.

what are cgi's you ask.
yeah.
well so did i.
apparently with a dumbass look on my face (as per usual).

so watch the trailer and appreciate that it is film.
like real, chemical smelling plastic kodak moments manipulated by something other than a computer. and that the guy who is behind it did reqium for a dream and pi.


here is a super long article on the movie.

clip from the above article...

Aronofsky noted earlier while on set, "When I started the film I said no computer graphics, let's find one of those old time guys and see what they've been doing."
They found their guy in Peter Parks. Parks specializes in macro/micro photography. Funded in part by the Bahamas government, Park's company goes very deep under the sea, pulling up microorganism and photographing them in 3D.
"He showed us one of these images which was a larva sea anemone eating a larva shrimp in 3D," said Dawson. "Some of the most amazing stuff."
Parks is no stranger to comics, either, having provided the visual effects for "Supergirl." He's received Technical Achievement Academy Awards twice in his career, in 1982 and 1987, and was presented with the Gordono E. Sawyer Award in 2004, an award which according to the Academy's Web site is presented to "an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry."
Dawson said that staying away from CGI for this film has presented them with some huge challenges. "Using CG is really the easy route because it's so prevalent and the tools are great. What it did was really force us to come up with creative solutions to solve a lot of our problems. We sort of ended up in visual effects somewhat by accident. We know the technology, but we also come from this sort of do it yourself world."