Sunday, August 1, 2004
Smoot froothie for breakfast: blackberries, cherries, nectarines, banana, milk, ice, sugar. I paid bills. Met Sam at the Century 20 to see Spider-man 2. We all liked the movie a lot. A nice twist at the end makes this film an atypical treat over other superhero films. Snack: smoot froothie. Patrick worked on Second Island. Read Tony's blog/journal and viewed a lot of his photo albums. Dinner at home with Patrick: hearts of romaine with cucumber, mushroom, tomato, green goddess dressing. Watched a lot of Simpson's episodes. For the record, a couple of days ago we were watching a Simpson's episode and a commercial came on for The Chronicles of Riddick. In typical movie trailer style, it showed a quote from a news source, then another bit of the movie, then another quote from another news source, then a bit of the movie, then another quote from a news source, then another bit of the movie. I said, "Hey, wait a minute—those 3 quotes were all from the same source!" We rewinded and sure enough, yes—all 3 were from Shawn Edwards of FOX TV—the same Shawn Edwards who has become known for being overly enthusiastic about ordinary (or worse) films so he can increase the exposure of his name in movie ads. I didn't write them all down, but one of them was: "ONE OF THE BEST SCI-FI FILMS EVER!" Moral of the story: Don't trust Shawn Edwards or FOX TV or The Chronicles of Riddick.