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that there are greater ones....but hey....why don't you blog about it if you disagree!
and all other artists of that ire....or you could listen to Bloc Party and hear the sound of 20 years of rock & new wave funneled through the band's capable & rock n rollin' hands.
Moby's Play is more than an album, its a spiritual epiphany that coalesced into an album.
Already, there is considerable internet buzz surrounding recently deceased Heath Ledger's final complete role as...drumroll please...The Joker. So much buzz in fact, that everyone, from film critics to established comic geeks everywhere praised Mr. Ledger's brief appearance in the latest trailer release, citing a possible post-humous Oscar recognition for his work in the sequel, in spite of the fact that the much anticipated sequel to 2005's "Batman Begins" has still another several months before its July 18, 2008 release.
For going on about a year now, myself and the rest of the internet forums were abuzz whether up and coming actor Heath Ledger had the panache' to contemporize and portray the Clown Prince of Crime in a manner that was more in tone with the "grounded" and "real-world" feel first established in "Batman Begins" (read: not chessy).
Well....I'm here to sell to you the prospect that here is a role that I'm convinced would do for Heath what the role of Capt. Jack Sparrow did for Johnny Depp (for the record, Depp DID get nominated for Best Actor for his role in Pirates). Trust me when I say this ladies and gentlemen: This IS the performance to watch this year.
And in true High Fidelity fashion, I have a short list on why:
1) Ledger's take on The Joker: "a psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy." --- Ok, forget what you've seen in the past. Caesar Romero as the Joker in '66? campy? yes. But that was the '60s. Campy to a fault? absolutely. Jack Nicholson as the Joker in '89? A tad overrated in my opinion. Now, I love Jack's work to death, but his portrayal was less menacing sociopathic and more...old perverted uncle Cletus, if you know what i mean......On the other hand, Mr. Ledger has done his homework, citing inspiration from definitive Batman titles such as The Killing Joke, as well as cues from the Sex Pistol's anarchistic
My point: Ledger was dead set on re-interpretating the Joker as it should be portrayed: as an entity, believing only in unbridled anarchy.....which leads into my 2).
2) The Oscar academy rewards actors who play characters that are, ahem, morally bankrupt. --- In recent years, the Academy (and i think the public as a whole) has since equally embraced both the role of the antagonist as well as that of the protagonist....
To put it another way, "villains drive the plot. Besides, who do you think causes all those explosions?" lol (thanks to The Venture Bros for this quote). Need more convincing? ....ok, courtesy of Wikipedia:
3) Well....He also died recently. --- Now, I don't mean he deserves a pity award for dying and all. What I precisely mean by that is that it'll be nigh impossible to draw parallels between his anarchic performance in the Dark Knight and that of his own inner turmoil during his final months. In other words, whether this is simply art imitating life, a eerie portent of his evidentual downward spiral, or simply the public's fascination with conspiracy theories, it is intriguing to ponder nonetheless.
4) Mr. Ledger's future in acting had legs. Like a catapillar has legs. Well, at least the female percentage of his viewing audience thought so. But I'm comfortable enough in my manhood to acknowledge that the man had acting chops. If you've seen him in 2007's I'm Not There, then you know he has the chops to pull this off, with panache' no less.And 5)
Monday, 3.3.2008 2300 hrs....5 min. into the "season finale" (I use that term loosely since its more likely its the last episode before 'the strike') of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles...
JB: "I'm guessing Obama sidestepped the whole debacle simply en-nobling him as just "Mr. Russian Guy-ovitch."
Denis (points to his secondary laptop): "Yeah, heres his name."
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the creator, the band, and the fans 
But, when the credits / closing song finally 
Note: JB effigys are probably soon to follow...lol
And with that....Hello, my full name is Jan Nil Andres Bonifacio.....and I'm an addict (lol j/k). I'm a 26 year old banana (*cough* yellow on the outside and white on the inside *cough*) and I spend an unusually (well, unusual for anyone not used to responsibility....lol j/k...i'll stop now) large portion of my day-to-day activity employed as an Associate Civil Engineer for the Seattle Branch of Parsons Transportation Group.
I live in Northgate with college roommate Denis Ha, who, along with myself & his brother Tom, have made "arrested development" not just a way of life...but a survival trick (shhhhhhh.....thats fancy prose for "bachelor life" ....end quote). You can find any or all of us on XBox Live playing Call of Duty 4 or Halo 3 under the clan names, "CAMP" or "CTU Northgate" on almost any given day of the week. And just so we make this clear, we aren't shy about letting loose ethnic slurs / making punk bitches suck it down during a session of gameplay.
In the simplest terms....in the most convenient definition....I find interesting things....interesting. I can't help but SEE stories....no no no....tales.....no no no.....parables in anything and everything in my immediate surroundings. And for some inexplicable reason, I feel that it needs to documented in blog-form, at least in the short-term. I can only hope that in the end, my posts are more "blog" and less "rant."
To what end is this blog hoping to reach? Just what is my MacGuffin? Well, at the risk of sounding overtly abstract, I'm hoping to find "where the streets have no name." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_The_Streets_Have_No_Name)
Note: this whole Pop Culture reference motif is gonna be a recurring thing with me.
