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now i've never seen jurassic park 2: the lost world, but i think i understand enough for the following theory to hold water. JP1 ruled. JP2 comes along, they try to make it work like JP2, but the scares are cheap, and the plot is more cumbersome than the T-Rex it stars. JP3 comes along, they learn from their mistakes. They take the simplest thing from JP1 that worked: the dinosaurs, and scrap the stuff in JP2 that didn't: the plot. We get a stupid movie, constantly plowing ahead with mindless action scenes and glorious dinosaur shots. There is no plot. There is no honest suspense. There is nothing that makes you feel like you're watching a well-crafted film, but it's an entertaining ride. There is no real climax and the ending is the most abrupt piece of shit ever. The movie has no real structure, the minute they land on the island, our stalwart travelers are instantly attacked by two huge fucking dinosaurs. Moments later, there is trouble with a pack of raptors, etc. Jurassic Park 1 was an exceptional suspense movie, and it looks like fucking citizen kane next to this schlock. But hey, it's good schlock, with dinosaurs. The action scenes were equal part thrills and outrageousness that made us laugh. But good god, seeing tiny pterodactyls pecking at a person just makes me feel all fuzzy inside.

Looks like i'm picking up a second job. Hopefully, next week sometime i will begin calling BC alumni during dinner time to ask them to donate money. Woohoo. Something about an extra $100 at the end of the week makes me feel all fuzzy inside.

The Pernice Brothers album sat really damn well with me today. Cleanly produced gorgeous pop. I figured from the live set last night that it might be what the album was like, but last night was a wash of loud noises, hard to hear vocals, and feedback and sloppiness and shit. Not a bad set, but i had a feeling not the best showcase of the pernice sound. Posies album was nice too, it was a live recording, but infinitely more clean than last night's performance, which was cool because i got to appreciate the music more than i did sitting on the stage last night. but i'll say this, they put on a fucking rock show. it was great, even if my ears had trouble distinguishing most of it. The chamber strings last night sounded like a rockabilly act mixed with some 60s strut and swagger. Album reviews suggested something completely different, but i wasn't about to drop $12 just because i thought i had read that it was really pretty and stuff. Not that they were bad, but it was a far cry from anything remarkable.

Some fun people in the front row for the posies last night. There was idiot bearded dwarf man standing right near me. He's the guy who somewhere along the line, found a connection to the band, and spent all the time that a band wasn't performing dropping names. He even made some comments to the singer dude about sending his brother a tape of a show or something, and he just kept going, "john" this and "john" that, and john was very curt in his replies and i gave him a look and he gave one back to me like "yeah dude, i wish this asshole would just shut up." Bearded dwarf name dropping guy also played air guitar during like every song. Then there was non-chalant taping dude, who had a mic stealthily taped to his shirt and wires coming out of his crotch. And he stood front row and tried to keep a low profile, every now and then pulling his machine out of his pocket and keeping it below his waist trying to look at it without being noticed. Unfortunately, due to his retard preoccupications, he stood the whole show in the front row looking barely interested. And then there was epilectic dancing guy. This dude, looked like someone i've seen before, and spent the whole show kind of teetering towards the stage and away from it, doing some weird retarded epilepsy dance. And also there was way too happy looking asian girl who had this huge fake smile and was mouthing along with that look like "wow, i'm so into this and filled with pure joy that i'm going to explode." and she looked dumb.

like, i guess the posies don't tour much and they're supposed to be broken up or something, and apparantly we got a good show last night. unfortunately, i was familiar with none of the music. But from hearing exclamations of surprise and looking at one guy off in the corner, we were treated to some pretty unexpected songs during the encore. They guys were also piss drunk, knocking back audience donated tequila all night. the encore was like 6 songs. the last 2 with the house lights on and music playing. that's pretty fucking cool. they're past the time they're supposed to be off the stage, the house lights are fucking on and they're just like "fuck it, we'll just play louder than the house system." makes me feel like i was part of something cool.