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I’m having trouble figuring out what to talk about today for my blog post. There’s not a whole lot on my mind right now that I feel like posting about.

I already talked about Watchmen… And it’s sticking with me. Sometimes media will stick with me after I’ve “consumed” it, be it movies, books, music or video games. When I say sticking with me, I mean it kind-of takes up a temporary residence in my memory. Spoiler Alert Like the scene in Gears of War 2 where Dom finds his wife and basically has to kill her because she’s been broken by torture, that stuck with me for about a day End Spoiler Alert. So Watchmen has stuck with me for a bunch of reasons, be it the story, the romance between two characters… Even the graphic novel stuck with me.

I can’t talk yet about the photo shoot that Laura and I did last night for Project: FH – March 2009. Although you can preview it a little with this post on her blog. The final result of that shoot will be awesome.

I did see No Country For Old Men the other day on my XBox 360 via Netflix. It was a good movie, but the ending wasn’t quite what I was looking for. But oh well, it’s a Cohen brothers’ movie.

Let’s see, what to talk about… I think I’m going to get a wireless bridge for the entertainment center downstairs, that way I can network all of the devices there to our wireless network. Our wireless router sits upstairs and I’m not running cable all the way down to network, so a bridge will suffice. Want to get coach lights and bar lights for the house sometime soon… Blu-Ray player and home theater PC eventually…

I wouldn’t mind getting Street Fighter IV either, as well as The Lost and the Damned expansion for GTA IV. I’ve chewed through a good deal of my Christmas video game haul thusly:

1. Beat Fallout 3
2. Guitar Hero: World Tour play continues on
3. I’m done with Need for Speed Undercover
4. Not done with Dead Space, but it’s intermittent when I play for various reasons (creepiness indeed!)
5. Defeated Gears of War 2 campaign and have moved on to online play (Horde mode FTW)

I’ve got some other XBox Live Arcade games I’m in the middle of a bit too:

1. Braid, I’m a few worlds in on this one
2. Portal, I want to start doing some of the challenges

Well, there’s a recap for you.

Oh, and I tried to make an artistic look at my Zoolander photo from Project: FH – February 2009. I couldn’t make one work very well, there’s too much detail that needs to be kept from the original photo to make it work. Sorry Katie & Sarah!

I think a movie called Watchwomen would have gotten even more men in to see it than a movie called Watchmen. I mean, what guys would want to watch men, seriously? I guess it all depends on what the men are doing, I guess.

Which in Watchmen’s case, they’re kicking ass!

I actually thought the movie was pretty damn good. I read the graphical novel late last year when I started seeing the Watchmen ads on TV, and I thought the graphic novel was great. The movie was pretty great I thought too.

Aside from one point in particular, the movie was almost spot-on in adherence to the original. The styling of the movie mostly matched that of the original, and even the nakedness of Dr. Manhattan is recreated. Yes folks, that is a giant blue penis. Yes folks, that is a set of 4 giant blue penises in one scene.

Big blue schlongs aside, the action was good, but too gory for Laura. The story, since it was largely kept from the original, was also spectacular.

It was a very rated-R movie and I was surprised to see so many kids there. I mean, there’s a lot of nudity in it by way of Dr. Manhattan, so I wasn’t so concerned about that. We shouldn’t be attaching such a negative stigma to the human body. But there is a lot of gory action and language in that movie, which even I think is inappropriate for small children. This movie was probably relatively close to an NC-17 rating, so… Leave the kids at home, ‘eh?