For those who don’t know the Alamo fell 172 years ago today. God Bless John Wayne. David, Sharon and I were talking about going to the Alamo. Apparently it’s quite disappointing when you are older and go to see it. I saw it when I was10 and I remember it being quite cool. So I assume perspective is everything! As I told them though it was probably much cooler when there wasn’t so much commerce around it and 2,000 screaming Mexicans were running at it. Perspective again is everything. So COME AND GET IT Mexicans!!!!
Into the wild is one awesome movie. It’s not as good as There Will be Blood (which I swear still haunts me) but very good. The cinematography is so awesome. Sean Penn did an excellent job capturing the beauty of America in the movie. If you haven’t read the book you should. Then see the movie. It was really good. Emile Hersh did a great job in it. Hell he lost a ton of weight to finish out the film. That’s what’s more shocking about him not receiving a nomination from the Academy awards. I just thought it was excellently done. Also Eddie Vedder did the soundtrack and that was really good too. Guaranteed is an amazing song.
Whiskeytown Ryan Adams first band got a Deluxe Edition for their album Strangers Almanac. It’s so good. It came with a second cd that has rarities and unreleased material. It’s a wet dream for a Ryan Adams fan like me. Is that a bit too descriptive? Anyway the album has been remastered with 4 live tracks on the end of it. Every Deluxe edition that comes out is always really well done. I am continually surprised with the amount of extras and things they find. Jeff Buckley’s original 3 ep’s, live at Sin-e had three discs and a DVD so many extras like 42 songs or something. It was really awesome. So it’s really great to have the extras playing in my ear at the moment. The rumor mill also keeps talking about a Ryan Adams box set with all of his extras including suicide handbook and other unreleased albums and songs. Which considering its Ryan I just hope it comes out soon. Strangely enough though I haven’t been listening to a whole bunch of Ryan just a little bit.
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