November 8, 2002 Archives

The trailer for 25th Hour is bloody cool. I would be embarrassed to tell how many times I have watched it, so I won't. It sucks that the trailer usually isn't a good measure for the quality of the movie.

I look at these people around me, and I'm thinking - these are my friends? I don't even know these people.

It looks like 25th hour could be good though; the casting is great at least. Edward Norton, Rosario Dawson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Brian Cox...

Norton: She is the only girl I have ever kept fantasizing about after sleeping with her. Is that normal?
Pepper: That's a pretty good kind of normal.

It is directed by Spike Lee, but it doesn't look much like one of his movies. Maybe because I only remember Jungle Fever and Malcolm X.

Speaking of trailers, how come Interview with the Assassin can't pick up a distributor? The trailer is intriguing.

The AFI Festival is coming up, and I don't have much time to go and watch the two billion movies worth seeing. Sucks.

Not so many hours ago I was making a lame joke over at Jeremy's blog because he said it was about to rain up there. I should have looked closer, then I would have known it was going to rain here too. It is anyway. Lots of rain. In the southern California style pseudo building I live in, it sounds like being in a tent with the rain pounding down and water flowing everywhere (outside only luckily).

Cops are rough on a black kid in the Subway in New York. Two teachers, a man and a women, sees it and he start taking photos. The cops go really violent on the teachers and arrest them. One cop to another while he was approaching the teachers "Hide your badge!". Seriously. That's what the article says. No, really. I am not making it up. Derek made a copy of the story so you can read it there when Yahoo expires it.

(via Derek)