OBSESSED.

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I’m love with them, thks Jimmy <3

KICK-ASS!!

Okay so I’m kinda late in the game to obsess over this awesome comic, but the hardcover just came out a couple of weeks ago.   Now that I have a little more time on my hands I finally got around to reading it, and I loved it.  The art had me engaged, and it looked just as brutal and honest as the story.  The story was great, I love how this was basically made for geeks. This comic justifies being an “inside” kid.  It did a great job of capturing the horrific embarrassment of adolescence.  Dave Lizewski is our hero, someone who fights the good fight and gets his ass kicked doing it, that is a whole new league of hero.  The characters have depth and I can’t wait to peel more of the onion and see all of the layers.  I read all of Book 1 in one sitting and was riveted with the story, not since the Runaways have I loved the story and characters so much that I wish I actually knew them.  Hit Girl is one of the most brutal characters ever written, to see her go from beheading a guy to wanting to be held in almost the same breath had my head spinning…I can’t get enough of it, and have been counting down the days until the movie comes out!

Normal people unite, and start Kicking some ASS!!

-jbro 

Duffy- Smoke Without Fire, from the film An Education

I kind of became obsessed with this song and soundtrack after seeing the movie this past weekend.  I really liked the movie which was kind of unexpected, but I really liked the soundtrack, I love 60’s music, so this soundtrack is the sort of mix I would make.  Great tunes including this one from Duffy, and others such as Ray Charles and Brenda Lee…If you get a chance check out the movie An Education, it’s British and set in the 60’s and if that doesn’t get you then maybe the Saaarrrsssgard fellow is appealing.  I really like a lot of Nick Hornby books, he usually has a way of writing alienation that appeals to me.  I liked that the story was different than what I expected, I mean I wasn’t shocked with the ending, but I liked the way this female character questioned her position in life.

-jbro

I was in fourth grade when I first became obsessed with Haim, Dream a Little Dream just came out and I was in love, I liked Feldman, but was in LOVE with the Haimster.  I had a best friend in Mr. Miller’s fourth grade class at Mt. Pleasant Elementary, and her name was Jaime Ray Jasper, she was a Canadian and a full fledged fangirl of the Coreys, especially Haim, because they had the Canadian thing in common.  I remember owning the single of Michael Damian’s cover of “Rock On” that was featured in Dream A Little Dream. We bonded over that cassette single and my life forever changed.

My obsession fully developed over my adolescence, I had his posters from Big Bopper and Teen Beat plastered all over my walls, I watched everyone of his movies, even the really bad ones, such as, Prayer of the Rollerboys, Fast Getaway, Dream Machine, Just One of the Girls, The Double O Kid, and Blown Away just to name a few.  The only actually good movies he did were: The Silver Bullet, Lucas, License to Drive, The Lost Boys, and Dream a Little Dream.  He actually did far more bad movies than good, but I didn’t care I was in love that at that time that love was unconditional.

Then came the aftermath of the fame and drug use, Feldman went kind of Wonky doing those reality shows and was pretty shameless about it, and Haim fell off the planet…Those were the dark years, and then a couple of years ago some genius thought up the idea of getting the ol’ band back together, the band being “The Two Coreys” and at first I thought the show was really going to be something, maybe even a comeback…alas, I was tricked again, it was totally a sham, and even though I watched every episode and laughed till I peed a little, it was still a little sad to know that the boy I grew up loving had turned into a circus act.  I still had high hopes, I could see during the second season that he was clearly relapsing and his chances of being taken seriously as an actor were dramatically dwindling, but still I had hope…

Well that hope died along with a little piece of my childhood when I was awoken by 3 texts this morning at 8am telling me that the dynamic duo has been forever split apart.  Haim was pronounced dead at 2am this morning, at a hospital in Burbank, CA of an apparent drug overdose…nothing special in his death, just another childstar statistic.

He was something special to me, so here’s to you Haimster…May you always ROCK ON…

-jbro

Ed Westwick! I can’t tell if I like the English or American accent more. He makes a character like Chuck Bass lovable. I don’t care if you hate Gossip Girl… he is excellent.

xxjan