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It’s a good time to be a Chuck Palahniuk fan! This week his new book Snuff, a story about a girl on a quest to complete a 600 person gang bang, is set to come out. Here’s a fantastic trailer (mildly NSFW) for the book. Hilarious!
This summer we’ll be treated to Sam Rockwell staring in Choke, which just happens to be one of my favorite Palahniuk books. Looks like the current release date is August 28th. We’ll see.
While looking around on IMDB.com today I saw that Chuck also has another movie in the works. His book Invisible Monsters, a story about A disfigured fashion model and a pre-op transsexual go on a road trip of revenge and recovery, is listed as being in development. It says it’s going to be released in 2008, but there aren’t even any actors attached to the project on IMDB, so I’m not buying that.
Now, if we can just get Chuck back to Vegas for another speaking engagement, I would love to ask him if he has used the Easter morning story I told him the last time he was here at any dinner parties. If you don’t know the story I’m speaking of, it’s probably better you don’t ask.
Where’s the blood?
I went and saw “There Will Be Blood” on Sunday with Ashley, Craig and Ryan. With a title like that, I’m expecting to see blood. Lots of it. By the gallon. I’ll bet I’ve seen Disney movies with more blood.
Daniel Day-Lewis is a phenomenal actor. If he doesn’t win an Oscar for this performance, I’ll be amazed. As good as he was in Gangs of New York, he’s equally as good if not better in this one. I can’t say that I loved the movie, but it was certainly worth seeing. There’s no doubt it’s a good movie, but it’s not your typical movie. It’s over 2 and a half hours long, and there is a lot of story telling and not a lot of action.
I’m gonna Choke on 8/1/08
It’s been a long time coming! Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke is about to hit the big screen. OK, that’s not really news around these parts. But, the part that may be news to you is the fact that we now have a release date. August 1st, 2008. It’s still a bit away, but it’ll be here before we know it.
Chuck Palahniuk, for the 3 of you who may not know, is the author of Fight Club. Aside from Fight Club and Choke he’s written several other great books that are not your typical everyday stories and usually contain a fair share of fucked up characters. I have a hard time trying to decide which of his books is my favorite, but Choke is definitely one of them.
Choke was recently shown at the Sundance film festival and has received great reviews. Plus, here’s a short video interview with the director of Choke.
If you are unfamiliar with Choke, BUY IT NOW!
I hate being sick!
What a horrible way to start the new year. In the early afternoon on the first I started feeling pretty crappy so I decided to go lay down in bed for a while. I ended up sleeping for most of the afternoon and woke up feeling really, really sick. After a few hours of talking myself out of puking, I decided I would probably feel better if I just got it over with. So, I headed to the bathroom to force myself to puke. But, by the time I got there, my body needed no forcing. Vomit out the nose is no fun at all! Right back to bed I went. Happy New Year.
Since I had just taken 9 days off work (counting some weekend days), I didn’t want to call in sick on the first full day back. So, I set the alarm, got up, got dressed and headed on in. I was still feeling bad, but was going to give it a try. 2 hours later I was heading back home and to the comfort of my bed. I was back in bed by 9:30 AM and didn’t leave for longer than 5 minutes all day.
I ended up watching 4 movies yesterday. They were:
SuperBad
This movie is so damn funny. I’ve already seen it about 6 or 8 times. I’m pretty sure this is one that I’ll be able to watch over and over again.
The Departed
Awesome movie and a great cast! Even though I already knew the ending (everybody gets shot in the head), I could still watch this movie several times.
Transporter 2
What a huge steaming pile of poo this movie is. To give you an example, in one scene Frank sees the reflection of a bomb stuck to the bottom of his car that he’s forced to get in and drive. While driving he sees a crane with a hook hanging on it. So of course he hits a ramp that rolls his car upside down and the hook from the crane knocks off the bomb 1/2 a second before the bomb is detonated. Oh, and the car finish the roll in mid air and lands back on all 4 tires. The only thing worse is when I found out that they are going to make a sequel to the movie Crank, another Jason Stathom movie. At the end of Crank, Stathom’s character “Chelios” falls out of a plane and hits the ground. In my mind, that equals DEAD! But, not only does Chelios obviously survive that, here’s the story outline for Crank 2: “Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.” Wow.
Lucky Number Sleven
I have owned this movie on DVD for over 6 months, but for some reason I had never opened it. This movie was so good. I really enjoyed it. Good story, great cast and the interaction between the characters is fantastic. I have to say that I pretty much liked everything about this movie. If you haven’t seen it, make sure you do!
Thankfully I made it back to work today. I don’t know that I could have handled another day in bed.
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