One: I will admit, the trailer for the new Indiana Jones film made me kinda giddy. And I’m not a dude who uses “giddy” lightly.
Two: Last summer, I saw The King of Kong and enjoyed it. Watching it at the time, the conflict at the center of the film seemed like the sort of thing that, were it not in a documentary, I wouldn’t find credible.
Joke’s on me, evidently — these three pieces make a pretty convincing case that said central conflict was
I’m left with the urge to order some hot sauce.
Three: High Places released a singles compilation through eMusic. Sweet.
Four: Speaking of eMusic, I’m now writing audiobook reviews for them. First up, John Burnham Schwartz’s The Commoner.
That’s a bummer about King of Kong. Usually when you hear stuff like this, it’s a whiney subject who really was an asshole who makes a stink after the fact precisely because he or she really is an asshole. This just seems like a story that had no middle unless the editors got creative. It’s still a successful film, just not a successful documentary.
In short, Greg Kinnear will kill as Wiebe.