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I get no kick from Mustard…

So another week, another post. Let’s get to it:

Random news and notes:

The new Warner officially announced yesterday that the next Batman movie will be titled “The Dark Knight” and will star Heath Ledger as the Joker. Awesome title. As for the Ledger, I don’t have a problem with it. The guy’s a good actor despite not always choosing great roles *cough* Four Feathers *cough*. So far we haven’t really seen him do anything we could compare to this role. But I have faith he can put in an interesting performance. It’ll take a lot to beat the quintessential Joker performance which is of course NOT Jack Nicholson but rather Mark Hamill’s portrayal in Batman the Animated Series and it’s subsequent spinoffs. Nothing again Nicholson but Hamill added menace to the insanity while Nicholson just acted over the top crazy. I hope they stick closer to Timm’s version in the new movie. My personal pick? Benecio Del Toro. Check out his Jackie Boy in Sin City and tell me he couldn’t have pulled it off.

Just a quick IT help notice for you: If your Norton Antivirus keeps popping up and error message saying “Norton Antivirus 2006 does not support the repair function”, it’s just a bug in the last update Norton released. Just run liveupdate and it should automatically download a fix for it. The more you know…

Heading to the Guster concert tonight featuring Ray LaMontague and Rogue Wave. Awesome…

Even awesomer: Virgin Music Festival at Pimlico in September. A few in the lineup: Kasabian, New Pornographers, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Keane, Thievery Corporation, The Raconteurs, Gnarls Barkely, The Flaming Lips, The Killers, Red Hot Chili Peppers and a little band known as THE WHO!!!. Tell me this isn’t the greatest concert ever. You can’t do it. Not only does that list contain some of the most innovative artists of today with Jack White, Wayne Coyne, AC Newman and DJ Dangermouse but it got one of the greatest artists ever in Pete Freaking Townshend. Think I’m a little excited?

Caught Little Miss Sunshine last night at Georgetown (I love living in DC, all limited releases make it here). Not only is this is easily the funniest movie I’ve seen this year, it’s easily the funniest movie I’ve seen in the past couple years. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so hard at a movie. It’s just brilliant. This just shot past Thank You For Smoking as the best movie I’ve seen this year. The cast is just amazing: Greg Kinnear as the hapless Dad trying to pilot his own self-help program. Alan Arkin as the foul mouthed, heroin sniffing grandfather. Steve Carrell as America’s premiere Proust scholar who has recently tried to commit suicide. Paul Dano as the Nietzsche loving son who has taken a vow of silence. Toni Collette as the mother with frayed nerves trying to keep everyone together. And the remarkable performance of Abigail Breslin as the young Olive whose hopes of winning the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant is the catalyst for the movie. I don’t want to give anything else away but let’s just say the solution to how to drive the van with a broken clutch is genius and provides multiple instances of amusement. This movie is just amazing. The minute it comes close to you, drop everything and go see it. It’s rolling out over the next few weeks and should be pretty much everywhere by August 18^th. Check here for when it comes by you.

Alright, until next time:

“So we're gonna take all these to the studio”

“Unless you think we're gonna look like schmucks driving the same car.”

“ No. We'd be schmucks in Jettas. In Aston Martin's we look good. And independently wealthy.”