Spnak

Yesterdays news of the great Syd Barretts passing led me to dig out my copy of Pipers at the Gates of Dawn this morning and now, as always I have the tune of Bike running through my head. I don’t know how he did it but that song makes me want to ride a bike. Me Mr Unhealthy wanting to go for a long bike ride in the country. Go figure.

I have quite a bit of Syd stuff that I have never even listened to, so That’s on my mp3 player now is is being digested slowly as and when I can get through it.

I have been listening to a lot of older music this past few days. Led Zep’s first three albums the whole Doors catalogue and of course Pink Floyd is liberally strewn around my player. There is more modern music on there… Meatloaf two Bat out of Hell Cd’s are on there somewhere, but that is about as current as it gets to my current play list.

I did try listening to Radio 1 recently to try and find out what the kids were listening to these days and turned it off within 20 minutes. The pride I felt was overwhelming when i got that far without launching my PC through the window. I just don’t get rap and RnB music, it’s boring and repetitive. I guess i am stuck in my musical ways and I doubt I will ever change.

I do find that there is an album from a new artist that I really enjoy and will listen to again and again, the last being American Idiot by Green Day. Having said that I still don’t get the concept behind the album yet. Maybe I need to do with it what I did with The Wall and read the lyrics as I listen to the record.

I have mentioned before how much music has meant to me in my life and it still holds a great deal of meaning but for very different reasons. These days music is part of my therapy for Bi Polar disorder. Obviously I still love music for musics sake but now it gives me a means to feel better and take me out of that dark hateful place that manic depression puts me in some times.

On that note (did you see that.. did you see what I did there.. oh never mind!) See ya round like a record….(see I did it again.. I know don’t give up the day job)

What can I say that hasn’t already been said about this film.

For starters it has to be said that I eat up anything Superman. I watched all the movies (including Quest For Peace), I have heard a lot of the old radio programmes, I have seen the George Reeves TV show, Hell I even had the T-Shirt at one point.

That being said, I haven’t read many comic books at all. I kinda begrudge paying so much for something that will take me less than an hour to read and then never get read again. I much prefer reading the graphic novels of full story arcs. The one I really got into was the whole Death of Superman storyline. There was no way I would have kept up with the individual comics being released so when the graphics came out I was made up.

Anyway back to the new movie. I waited with baited breath to see this. It was hyped to be big and better than anything we had seen before. Except I got the distinct feeling that I had seen it before. The land grab story is along the lines of Superman The Movie. Lex Luthor is still Mad Bad and dangerous to know, but Kevin Spacey’s Lex seemed slightly Kevin Spaceyish to me. He was great but I had seen American Beauty and Spacey’s character was kinda generic.

The new face of Superman Brandon Routh was a wise choice, he looks and sounds like Christopher Reeve at the right times and yet still gives a great individual performance that will only help make Superman Returns stand out in an already impressive line up of Men of Steel.

Kate Bosworths Lois Lane, was not as feisty as Margot Kidder or any other Lois for that matter but no other Lois was a mommy. Bosworth’s Lois stood out as someone who had aged and had grown up from her infatuation with Superman. But masks are hard to keep hiding behind.

The guy playing Jimmy Olsen is just plain annoying. He is mercifully not used much after the first hour of the movie. Jimmy as a character is supposed to full of beans but this guy is one big fart. Truth be told he was the only one who did really get on my nerves.

This film was always going to be compared to it’s predecessors, which I think is slightly unfair. They pretty much covered the Lex Luthor story in the Christopher Reeves movie, I think they should have moved on to another villain, wherein lies another problem… What other villains are associated with Superman? I am a fan and I can only think of Doomsday (the monster that kills Superman) and that story is to long and detailed and couldn’t be done justice in 2 and a half hours.
If the Superman franchise is to go on then there has to be new villains and adventures that don’t seem like they have been done on film before.

I know I have pointed out a lot of negatives in this, but don’t forget I am a big fan and I just felt like there should have been so much more that I got from the film. I guess part of the blame should go to Bryan Singer the director, it was his vision and his take on the Superman mythos that we see this year. He did great on bringing The X Men to the big screen, the reason being?… No one had any preconceived ideas of what a movie version would look like. Superman Returns had a brick wall to climb over before it was even released and that was what everyone else remembered from the past.

All in all Superman Returns isn’t all it could have been for me, but it’s a great movie for those not so anally retentive )

For the first time since I started blogging back in May of 2004 I have missed an entire month. I am ashamed.
But if the truth be told I had diddly to write about. I could have pumped out more useless twaddle but would you have loved me for it?… I doubt it.

I have had a couple of walk in commenter’s lately and I wanna say HIIIIII to those guys. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you still around… to the few people who used to read my blog semi regularly.. hellooooo you still there?

As I say, nothing much has really be happening. I am back working again and getting through it day to day, my medications are all working.. no major relapses for a couple of months now (god bless Lithium) and with the exception of having to find somewhere new to live in the next month and having people chase me for money things are Groooovey.

I will be moving before the end of August so things will be a little quiet around that time again, but hopefully I will be able to post AT LEAST once a week from now on. I am going to go back to what I used to do when I was blogging with Blogger and post pictures and film reviews as and when they spring forth from my imagination.

Anyway I have rambled on long enough for now.

Until Next Time….