TALES FROM THE START OF MAY!

So no new podcast this week. I apologize profusely. It’s been quite a busy week/end to be honest. And the brain-scrambling heat waves haven’t been a huge help either. I realize that I never posted anything about Mother’s Day at all. Think I’ll be talking about it in this post, as well as a medley of things pertaining to life and what have you.

As I blogged of earlier, there was a special Isotope showing of Star Trek at the Balboa theater. We did end up going. And by we I mean my mother, my sister, Tori, and myself. The momster had an excellent time. She met my good friend STORM and got her complementary Spock ears, which she was digging. The movie itself was amazing. I’ll try not to go too in depth on it, for fear of spoiling it for those who still haven’t scene it (grimace). It’s really a “get the team together” story more than anything. It was quite artfully done though. It updated the Star Trek mythos, replacing things that may have seemed out of date and tacky in the original with sleek new additions. If there was any eye-rolling tackiness left, it was done very tastefully and very self-aware. There was a bit of fan pandering, dropping in certain lines and what have you directed towards Trekkers themselves. But what good nerd movie doesn’t have a bit of the fanboy porn? The bad ones. So I repeat, If you haven’t already seen this movie, make sure you hit the theater right now and take a glimpse. You won’t regret it.

I was on a movie roll these past two weeks. Not only did I have the pleasure of seeing Star Trek, but was able to see Angels and Demons as well. Full disclosure here, I actually haven’t scene all of the Di Vinci Code movie, nor have I read all of the books. But I was quite surprised at how much I enjoyed this movie. It was a good suspenseful thriller. The religious overtones were interesting, and drove the plot, but one could easily imagine replacing religion with something else entirely. Religion was merely a vehicle for the story to be told through. I would give it about an 82 on the overall.

Lot’s of comics reading getting done. One of the best pages of the week can be found within the new issue of Nick Fury’s Secret Warriors. “Hello White Men. Thirsty?” is going to be a page that lives on in my memory for awhile. Still haven’t read all of them yet, but it was a huge week. I’ve gotten through about half my stack, and there really hasn’t been a terrible book in the bunch quite yet. Wolverine was pretty good, but so far was the weakest of the bunch. If you pay attention to the site, you’ll note that the I Kill Giants trade came out this week, and is the first book in the Accidental Book Club. Better get to reading that sucker. It’s supposed to be fracking awesome.

That kind of sums up this week or so. I mean AP testing happened, so school is sort of coasting. There’s still a tad bit of work to be done, leading to finals, but there’s definitely a more lax tone to it. Stay tuned to the website for more blog entries and, Rocket Raccoon willing, a new podcast next week. But for now, I’m Tristan Leder, and I will be seeing you soon. GO TEAM!