I got some reports from people who were unable to comment on the brendoman.com blogs because of MT's comment throttling feature. I disabled it, so things should work fine now.

My favorite band, They Might Be Giants, will be playing the Blue Note in Columbia on July 13. Email me if you want to go, too. I'm excited because I've never seen a proper TMBG show. I did see them live during my freshman year of college, but they weren't the headliners. They played at the very end of the night, after the Urge and they didn't get a very long set. It was funny to watch people leaving the stage area after the Urge finished and the geeks just started coming out of the shadows and up to the front. Big Wreck also played at that concert, and I thought they were pretty cool.

Kevin went off today after Moore made this comment:

"(The mainstream media have said), 'Oh, this is a Michael Moore-Harvey Weinstein publicity stunt. They're real good at generating publicity.' Really? Yeah, like when this happened with 'Kids' and 'Dogma,' all that publicity, all the controversy really made the box office soar for those two films, didn't it? They both died."

Here's a bit of what Kevin had to say in response:

Excellent point, Mike. It's not fair to let the readers believe Lying Liars When They Lie. So with that record-straightening spirit in mind...

"Dogma" (budget $10 million; box office gross: $30,652,890.00) did not "die" at the box office.

"Canadian Bacon" (budget: $11 million; box office gross: $163,971.00)? THAT "died" at the box office.

He also says some other stuff, but in the end says he still respects Moore as a filmmaker. I think in the era of "blockbusters" most people don't realize that a lot of those movies don't even make their money back. A lot of the low budget movies, even though they don't make nearly as much money as the "blockbusters", make a ton of profit. Also, these movies are released on a fraction of the screens that the larger films are released on.

Wired News: A Feel-Good Disaster Movie

I want to see The Day After Tomorrow, despite some of the poor reviews. It's a popcorn movie. Also, Jake Gyllenhaal is in it. Anyway, I think I'm going to see Shrek 2 first. I'm going this afternoon.

Right now I am watching some weird John Wayne movie on AMC where he is supposed to be Mongolian. I watched Return of the King last night. That movie rocks even on a TV. Of all the special features on the disc, I enjoyed the National Geographic documentary the best. It compared figures and events in history to figures and events in LOTR.

I just got an e-mail saying my Punky Brewster Season 1 set is on the way, so I am one happy guy right now. It'll be interesting to see how the show has held up over time. I can't even explain how much I loved this show when I was a kid. It was the first non-cartoon I watched on a regular basis. My dad taught me how to tell time by showing me when Punky Brewster was on.

Okay, so the way they make John Wayne look Mongolian is by giving him a weird mustache and dying his hair black. It's pretty funny.

I was wondering why I was getting tons of e-mails and comments about the Batman Begins script. This is why. We rule.