Diary of an up and coming sociopath

So. A day ago I downloaded a load of Zwan tracks, hoping to sample the album. About 4 or 5 tracks in, I realised that bar the single, “Honestly”, every song consisted of about the same 2 or 3 lines repeated for 3-4 minutes. Now - either Billy Corgan and his mates needed an album REALLY fast, or I’ve been severely duped by someone with a sample of each track and a wave editor. Looping the same section for a long enough time managed to fool me for a couple of tracks, but by god, it won’t fool me forever! My suspisions are compounded by the fact that no track has an actual beginning or end, they just fade in and out respectively…

You’ve won this time, internet, but I’ll have the last laugh! Somehow.

Also, earlier, I saw Daredevil. I hadn’t expected it to be worth seeing, but to my surprise it was actually very good. Huge amounts of comic fanboy moments, including Stan Lee and Kevin Smith cameos, a list of “hitmen” actually being Daredevil comic writers, (Miller, Mack, Bendis) and the appearance of Daily Bugle reporters, though now I think about it I don’t think they were actually stated as working for the Bugle. Probably Spider-Man copyright or something. Other great moments include the Bullseye\Elektra fight, and indeed, Bullseye himself.

You can see loads of the more recent Daredevil stories influencing this screenplay, of course. Along with Frank Miller’s “Man Without Fear” origin and Elektra story, you get a healthy dose of Smith’s run (including the Guardian Devil line near the end) and the playground scene made me think of David Mack’s run. Bullseye and the Kingpin were really great to watch. The only problem I have with this film is that it crammed years of story into a short space - obviously in the comic the daredevil\elektra\bullseye relationship is much more developed. Besides that, I commend it for avoiding arguably the biggest problem with Spider-Man and X-Men, that is, trying too hard to start a franchise. The film is of course left slightly open, but you don’t get the feeling that you just watched half of the story.

So yeah, utter fanboy heaven, really. I’m glad I went and (like it needs to be said ;-) I’ll be getting the DVD when it comes out.