Sept Movies

It's not often that September has this many movies I want to see but most likely a few of them won't even make it here till october so I should be O.K.
The first week of September has one that I will wait for a rental with in Crank. Jason Stathem has become this generations Bruce Willis as the go to action guy. And as long as he keeps up the work ethic I can see him becoming a pretty major action star.


Sept 8th sees the opening of Hollywoodland. Can Ben Affleck shake the doubters in this George Reeve's biopic and prove that he has a career left in him. Adrien Brody should elevate the game, and who doesn't want to find out more about the Superman curse?

Sept 15th. Many of you will run out to see the Black Dahlia. Sure Brian DePalma usually delivers and Scarlett Johannsen is about as A-list as an young actress can get right now, but I think I'll wait and see the audience reaction before i go to this one.


Sept 22nd What a busy weekend, I wouldn't be surprised if one of these gets pushed back. For the boneheads we have Jackass # 2, and then Jet Li's final Martial arts movie Fearless. On the other side we Have Michel Gondry's The Science Of Sleep. Can't wait for that one. Sean Penn's wannabee oscar movie All the Kings Men about corrupt politicians and Flyboys. What in the world to go see? and why all on the same weekend?

Sept 29th The LAST KING of Scotland. Forrest Whitaker as a real life dictator. Finally a role worthy of this actor. This should be one of the best drama's this fall.

and my pick for movie that will only play in large cities and be blasted by fox news.
The Us versus John Lennon.


soo many movies. What will you see?

Battlestar Galactica # 1, Loveless # 10

BSG # 1 well it only took three months to come out after issue # 0. Was it worth the wait? Yeah I think if you like comics and you like BSG then you'll aprecieate this series. The art could be better but tells the story and Pak writes some nice pieces that just add to the universe. Hopefully they do things with the book that you cant get away with on a tv budget.

Loveless # 10. Although I think Fell has replaced this as my favorite book this is still the prettiest dirty book I could buy. I can see more and more of this story coming together. And it's a nice violent ride.

Didn't pick up Alan Moore's Lost Girls. 75.00 is just too much. did anyone else get it?

coming soon. we get a cartoon.

why i hate technology upgrades.

o.k. I'm a football junkie. Love my East Carolina Pirates. Used to be able to listen to them for free from afar on the internet. Last year CSTV got the rights and I had to pay for the service. Fine. Everyone needs to make a buck. This year getting ready for football and I log in and guess what? No freaking Macintosh users allowed. WTF? seriously 20 percent of the internet if not more are Mac users. This is B.S. and I want to watch my pirates play. degrade your system. If Mac users worked last year, how can an upgrade make it impossible for them to watch this year. bad business.

for my birthday

I got this awesome stuff for my birthday, plus a yupo board and color sharpies to draw with, some new socks, huckleberry jelly beans. yah! i'm 28. feels like not a day over 16.

Little Miss Sunshine.

Went to see Little Miss Sunshine tonight, and I think it's got to be in the running for best screenplay. it's cute where it needs to be and sad where it needs to be. Greg Kinear is great but he's got to stop playing these losers. And Steve Carrell shows a much larger range as an actor than I thought he had in him. Very good movie that could of easily slipped into the cheesy category but thanks to it's cast and crew won me over.

got 42 seconds?

Fell# 6 AXM#16

Fell# 6 missed it last week but now i've got it and boy is it good. I love snowtown. I love richard fell. I looooovvee mayko. and yet is this really the dark gloomy place i want to love? heck yeah. I admit it. Warren Ellis writes like no other.

Astonishing X-men #16. Kitty Pride kicks major butt. Some space stuff. Wolverine in british dialogue. Only Joss Whedon would torment us so. and all i've got to say is yeahbutwhat? really. I agree.

Stargate Sg-1 Cancelled.

Huh. First let me say I've never really been a fan of the show, mostly from not having cable and only seeing it scattered episodes on reruns. Plus the whole military thing never really worked for me. But from the outskirts this seemed liked the Sc-fi show that would run forever. It had it's first chance of cancellation way back in season 5 when Showtime pulled the plug. In came Sci-fi to save the day and the show went on to its now running final 10th season. The actors changed many times even with main star Richard Dean Anderson (yes macgyver) leaving and yet the show continued to plug along. It even produced a spin-off show Stargate Atlantis, which oddly enough Sci-fi just renewed for it's fourth season. I guess I just got used to the thought that Stargate would run on the cable network forever. I mean what did they have besides Battlestar Galactica that anyone wanted to see? Giant Snakes from Alctratraz part 3? It must of come down to money. Think about it. You've been producing this show for how long now? Ten years. Your going to want to get paid. In fact the producers are now saying the show will return in some format, (my bet is a movie, either cinema or direct to dvd style) and either way that means larger cash for less work than a weekly series. As much as I'm curious and maybe a little saddened that one more sci-fi show has left the airways, I'm also wondering if in this day and age, any show will last as long as Sg-1 did. It was a nice run. Enjoy your ten seasons.

updating the past

ive updated some of the out of print releases on luckycreature.com
you can now click on their covers for a little more info on those items, before you go hunting on ebay for them.
hope that helps. how's your day going?

weekend fun

watched first two episodes of new dr. who on dvd. finally the look has caught up to the humor. b+
murderball. nice documentary. MTV made this?
legend of zelda, majora's mask.
sleepy.
gamejew.com
lots of chinese food. lots.

Peas Join in on Cafe Press Madness.

So I thought this little guy, Bob we used to call him was ready to come out of retirement. And what better place than on t-shirts, bbq aprons, and bibs? Hey if you can remember when i did PEAS, then you owe it to yourself to wear one. Lucky Creature at Cafe Press



In other news I can't bring myself to go see Snakes on a Plane.
I am thinking of the number three.
and I 'm wishing upon all the fracking stars.
That you'd all come over for tea.

Cafe Press. We join the masses.

O.k. so far its just our little creature man on shirts and stuff. But if you can't get enough Lucky Creature, then by all means hop on over to Cafe Press and get your self a t-shirt, button, totebag with your friendly Lucky Creature on it. We will try to add new designs as time goes by.

iowa state fair 06

Well Iowa State fairs are a little different than Nc State fairs. these are all about the cows and the vegetables. But where elese could you see a Butter Cow or yes even a Superman made completely out of butter. Too weird. Pretty fun time though, and ate way too much as usual.Feet are tired. Went to funny book store when I got home. No more copies of Fell left for me. rats. it's not a wenesday without funny books, but hey did i mention the butter superman?

deadwood on dvd,

about half way through the second season of deadwood on dvd. it's such a good show and I wonder why they got pulled after the current third season from HBO. Do they jump the shark later this year and get weird? I just don't see the quality going downhill.
Ian Mcshane as Swearagen should be winning awards.

high speed.

i just got high speed. i got to say, i feel like a mutant leaving the dark ages. wow. i can do so much more now. which means i can bug you all sooo much more. curently watching all the videos on you tube dealing with east carolina football. i can watch the games this year! awesome!

to be evil, all you need is a sash. maybe facial hair.

Scanner Darkly

This was pretty neat. Is it really animation though since evrything was filmed live and then colors added afterwards? Either way it creates a very disctinct look for the film and a very nice adaptation of Philip Dicks story. I enjoyed it very much and thought the actors were casted perfectly including, I hate to say it Keanu. Very enjoyable movie, and I'm still a little surprised Warner Bros didn't give it a wider release.

We welcome Quimby's to the stores selling Lucky Creature

Hey for all you Chicago kids, the wonderful Quimby's is now selling our comic Lucky Creature Attacks
Here's the info so you can go check the book out.
Quimby's Bookstore
1854 West North Avenue
Chicago IL 60622
Quimbys on the web

today.

pictures are of quimby the monster cat, a great katamari costume, of montreal from last nights show, and a sculpture in cedar rapids. ia.

found today in our journeys
lp's of a james bond soundtrack and a tracey chapman album,
4.99 copy of A Very Long Engagement on dvd
Civil War Frontline # 5 still very good.
and we checked out the next disc of season 2 of deadwood and woody allen's match point.
very good india buffet at exotic india.
scanner darkly in two hours!

new web board.

o.k. so our webboard wasn't working quite right, now we think we've gotten it as we changed hosts. so hop on over and leave some discussion tidbits, start a new one, and also advertise your site in our website section. going to see of montreal in 20 hours. better get some sleep. new web board is Here

Lucky Creature

Hey so we just redid our site. everything not done yet. but we think it's a little easier to navigate now and we hope you do as well. let us know if anything's giving you problems or if somethings not where it should be.
thanks
lucky creature

anime iowa 2006: elevator action.

Just got back from Anime Iowa 2006, very nice con, with very nice people. Have to admit my fandom for anime is not extreme like my fandom for sci-fi or comics, but there is a periphery(sp?) knowledge because of cross-polination. I know the basics, and can tell my Ranma's from my Rick Hunters. So yeah it was a nice weekend but I took more of a laid back aproach to everything, since I really wasn't as in to it.
Friday was pretty fun, glad i preregistered as the line for others was pretty long. The elevators at this hotel were too few and I learned pretty quickly how to navigate the 16 floors of the con by stairs by late friday night. Opening ceremonies kicked things off and I attended a room party panel to learn some ins and outs. Played some Smash Bros, watched some Anime, watched some Karoke got a new Lupin Radio and some Pocky in the dealers room and headed home.
Saturday was the long day for me. Got there pretty early ate plenty of rice throughout the day, played some Pachinko, watched Kamikaze Girls(awesome live-action movie by the way). Played in an apples to apples tourney, went to a great panel by Lea Hernadez, and headed out to watch the cosplay at the beautiful Paramount. This theatre is amazing. I hope Cedar Rapids uses it. After this I got a drink at the Gojira party and went to see some great skit readings by the folks at Gaurdian Sun Studios It was really funny stuff. Headed upstairs to see Final Fantasy:Advent Children which I had been meaning to rent. The Computer Animation is like nothing I've seen before and since FFVII was so important to us video game geeks the movie was really pretty good. 3:00am lets drive home for six hours of sleep.
Took today really easy. Watched some anime, that wasn't really that good, went to the Anime Improv, went to a j-pop music panel and did one last hunt for pocky. Next years Anime Iowa will be closer in Coraville, so I guess I'll be heading out to that then. I'll put up pictures tommorow. Pretty good con out here in the middle of corn.

hotness

moon knight # 4 nice.
ubisoft seven wii launch titles. seven? that's almost more than the entire gamecube launch.
football less than a month away.
bibim-bop.
exclusive trek figures.
of montreal, tuesday night.
scanner darkly wenesday.
three days off. whoopee.
spending those three days with my fellow geeks at anime iowa.
watch out for cat girls, and day old sushi. I hate taking a bite out of day old sushi. yuck.
so yeah, i'll be at anime iowa for the next three. searching for pocky in all its glorious flavors.

August Movies

So this month kinda sucks for me and film. A lot of you will run out and see Talladega Nights, and World Trade Center. not me. the first movie looks like redneck heaven, and the second one is to me a disgusting way to capitalize on a tragedy many of us aren't over yet.
I'm still waiting for a Scanner Darkly to get to a theatre here and Little Miss Sunshine with steve Carrell Should be showing up this month. Snakes on a Plane will have the fanboys going in droves but will it be any good?

My picks.
August 18th Illusionist,. Paul Giamitti, Edwad Norton. O.k. I'm there.

Aug25th Idlewild. This may suck. It's possible. But it's a musical. With Outkast. If nothing else it will be different. and that's something too many movies aren't anymore.