I polished off OTH S3 a few days ago and really, really need S4 to arrive in my mailbox soon.

I finally watched The Sarah Connor Chronicles S1 recently and it was really good. Lena Headey bores me greatly, but I will continue to give her a chance. Other actors have grown on me over time, so she might grow on me too.

Butch Walker has a new CD out. Check out some samples here and then go forth and purchase it.

Aidan and I went to see Changeling last weekend. It was his idea that we go see it, which surprised me because he’s usually more of a cheesy horror movie nut. We both thought it was a really well made and well acted on all parts, especially by Angie and Jason Butler Harner who played Gordon Northcott. I hadn’t realized how skinny Angie was during that time, but she was just skin and bones. It worked in her favor though because it added an extra layer of fragility to her character and all that she went through. Jason was just too creepy for words. (WARNING: The rest of this entry contains some slight spoilers regarding Jason’s character and how some of the scenes were filmed.)He played his character differently in almost every scene (this actually worked really well), but he always had this underlying child-like quality in there too and it just added to the creep factor. How he could take such a disgusting person from real life and play him in so many different ways and manage to bring a slightly human quality to such a monster is beyond me. I do hope that if I see him grace a screen again that it’s in a friendly role even though I know darker roles give an actor more of a chance to really act. Kudos to Clint Eastwood for not showing any real gratuitous violence or nudity or some of the other unspeakable things that happened to those poor little boys in real life. Even though he didn’t focus in on these things on camera, he did show a few scenes like the little boys screaming (the terrified bloodcurdling high pitched child screams that are the most disturbing thing in the world) in the chicken coup while Northcott is chopping (you can’t see what he’s chopping, but you know it’s a kid) with an axe with blood splattering all over his face. These scenes were highly disturbing and gave me chills and had many of the people in the theater were crying. If you are thinking of checking it out, I say go for it. Do your research on the real story though, either before or after you see the film. It’s both a fascinating and horrific story that deserved to be told. I’m just glad that it ended up in the right hands with the right cast and was handled in such a way that didn’t showcase things in a disgusting way.