Gods but Stephen Harper's web site fascinates the shit out of me.

I just stare at it.

For hours. (Well, minutes.)

Time to admit to my nature and charley up to the fact that I am, indeed, so excited about the Matrix blu-ray release this week that I can barely speak when thinking about it. I tried looking at the films again earlier this year and it was the first time my brain clicked over and said "nah, wait for the BD." Those early-in-format standard DVDs (Matrix 1 particularly) are sort of wonderful, laughable relics of the pre-LOTR early days of "what can we do with DVD?" They're chunky, and awkward, and they don't know how to present special features except to know that they want to present a lot of 'em. The Matrix is now the only film I've owned in three formats, which doesn't just beeline nicely into the overall vogue around the film's technology/reality mishmash, but also serves me as a standing, unconscious tribute to those days early in 1999 when me and Steve woudl hijack screening rooms at York while slaving through the Absence cut and just watch the Matrix trailer a few times really loud, back when the majority of our peers were still giving the "Johnny Mnemonic? Fuck that!" line about the flick. Man. Good old days.

I've also got Kingdom of the Crystal Skull coming, which I kinda regret before it's even arrived, and I'm still crimping and saving to be able to get When We Left Earth, which basically looks like Planet Earth for NASA.

Anyways, it's too nice a day to sit around blogging about shit. Go enjoy the October! (season, not revolution)