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Nice, thanks for the pics.

Thanks for the headsup, would like to check this out if I get the chance ... though probably not for a while yet in this part of the world.

Hahaha that's great. Body snatchers.

imdb reports the same thing though ... anyway it doesn't matter, I was just commenting that if filming does begin only in September, it's just amazing what computers can do these days.

In February 2007, composer Tyler Bates revealed that he would begin scoring for Watchmen in August, a month prior to the conclusion of filming. Bates said he would view footage provided by Snyder to create ideas for the score based on the film's characters. The director hoped to begin production in spring 2007,[11] with principal photography to begin in June and conclude by September.[14] The production settled in Vancouver,[15] with filming to begin in September.[16]

That's from Wiki.

a bit of a thread derail but is there anyone who doesn't like murakami?

i would be quite interested in hearing why. i have read only one murakami short story so my opinions are yet unformed. but everyone seems to love the man's work, does he have his detractors?

I've wondered that myself. Honestly I checked out Murakami because he was one of the "it" writers then, when I was looking for stuff to read outside of my usual sci-fi/fantasy genres.

While I enjoy some of his books, I'm also skeptical about all this hype around him, especially among non-Japanese readers. After all, how many Japanese writers reach a critical mass of readership in Japan so they get translated into English for the Western market? Besides Haruhi, I've only read Banana Yoshimoto and Ryu Murakami myself, but surely there are more Japanese writers who remained native (and are conceivably as good or better?), and people like Haruhi Murakami and et al just happen to be the ones who're translated. I'm saying this because I think a lot of Murakami's (as one of the few translated Japanese writers) popularity is just hype.

Personally I don't think Murakami is palatable all the time, or for everyone. Most of his stories give me a sense of surreality, dream sequences seagued together and interspersed with day-to-day normality. That's what I enjoy about reading him. He makes the unreal and dream-like feel matter-of-fact. There's always a feeling of stillness and suspension. But that's how I read Murakami: I don't think too much into his stories or look for hidden meanings between the lines. If and when they come, they come, otherwise it's like a dream, I don't ask.

Well my friend hates Murakami because his characters are paper-cut and two dimensional, they don't respond (emotionally) enough to what goes on around them. The same dream-like feeling I get from reading Murakami, ensnares his characters--they appear detached and going along with whatever Murakami plans for them. Oh but she loves Hemingway, who is a far different writer from Murakami. So that might give you some sorta reference.

This characteristic shows up especially on the film version of Tony Takitani. Beautifully shot with a poignant score from Ryuchi Sakamoto, the short film is somewhat sedated and pastel and its protagonist hardly ever shows enough of anything. It was an enjoyable film but there the feeling of detachment is always present and somehow just stopped me short of throwing myself into the film. I'd still recommend the film for any Murakami fan or film buff though.

Have you read Norwegian Wood? It's semi-autobiographical and not as metaphysical/convoluted as his other stories, but I enjoyed it.

Just finished Hardboiled Wonderland and am now on to A Wild Sheep Chase. Murakami is a genius.

:D Probably Sex and the City as well.

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Are those drums leaking water? Wicked picture

Batman & Watchmen both being released...2008 should be a good year for movies

Production is amazing these days now that we have the raw computer power to crunch numbers and do all that fancy 3D shit. Only heard about Watchmen after 300, and filming on it only begins in September, and it's targeting a 2008 release!

Season 4's started??

I just finished Eriskon's The Bonehunters. Its plot is probably the hardest to follow in the Malazan series, but otherwise, Erikson continues to awe me.

Reading Alain de Botton's On Love. He also wrote How Proust can change your life. In On Love, Botton created a fictional love story and uses that as a premise to dissect the process of falling in, being in, and falling out of, love. My ex recommended it to me, so yeah.

Gonna pick up Rudy Rucker's Mathematicians in Love tomorrow. Err totally unrelated to the former, this is about two mathematicians in love with the same woman, at the same time the two mathematicians discover a set of theories or something that re-write reality (?), and inter-dimensional aliens come knocking on the door. Sounds like a fun read like Nylund's Signal to Noise and Stross' The Atrocity Archives.

That looks good.

[Edit: I was referring to the katsu sandwich, but damn all the food in here look good.]

Why don't you size down one instead if it's giving you that much grief

i listened to all y'all by sizing down two sizes, i'm usually a 30 i took a 28 in new standards...and i couldn't even close them so i have to send them back to apc! thank you!

Mine which are sized down two are wearable after a week and getting more comfortable, except they're still tight around the thighs and crotch. I couldn't button up either when I first tried them on; buttoned up what I could and used a belt to hold the top together.

am I the only one that thinks the new suit makes Batman look like RoboCop?

Beat me to it

With wine and snacks

$350 from what I remember? Thereabouts. Too bad you missed the sale on Friday, but I didn't check if the jeans were on sale.

That's entirely different! The Batman equips himself only with the necessities. In The Dark Knight Returns, he had on a power suit as well. But come on, in both examples, he was up against some badass alien hunter/killer and Superman.

Only for the day, had to report to camp 'cos I was being charged for defaulting on my remedial training

Agreed. Ledger looks absolutely wicked. But Batman's suit sucks. Batman was never about all these fancy armor plating and crap. Just stick him in some black spandex and slap on a utility belt! He looks like Iron Man or War Machine now!

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Cheers. Those NS are only 4th day of wear ... still a WIP

Not bad, article feels truncated at 2 pages though.

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