9/11 ...This is not funny, I apologize.

Firstly, this isn't going to be long, but it's not going to be in the funny variety.



I am a Long Islander. I don't live there anymore, I lived in Nassau County for the majority of my life before moving to Bumfuckville, PA. I lived in New York (Long Island) until 2005, so I was there for the tragic events of September 11th, and I remember it all too clearly.
I was going to school at SUNY Farmingdale and I was in Psychology class when the class let out and everyone went their separate ways. That was the last time I ever went back to SUNY Farmingdale (I have since went to another college), so 9/11 was the straw that broke the camels back - so to speak - and it just piled on top of all the other shit that was going on at that time. Not to trivialize or anything, but 2001 was right after High School. Literally graduated in June and went right to College in September. It might sound normal for most people, but I hated High School. I couldn't wait to get the hell out of school and move on, but I should'nt have jumped into college like that, not me, and that will forever be my mistake.

Like anything else, I hopped into the car (at the time a 88 CSC) and turned on Don & Mike on WNEW. Honestly, having not heard anything, there was news on...No Don & Mike, no nothing. I went home, turned on the TV, and my parents were home and told me about the first tower. Immediately it was like a movie, slow motion, the news was like something out of a disaster flick. Albeit unnerving, but also surreal. I remember watching the news and seeing the plane hit the second tower. It shocked me, it put me in a point where I was scared. As you watched the events unfold, people were leaping out of the building on the top floors and falling to their deaths. It was crazy, absolutely crazy.

This was 7 years ago. Seven years. For the better part of a decade we've been in a war that has no end, because we wanted it, because someone came in and fucked the greatest city up. It's absolutely unbelievable to me that it took a disaster such as 9/11 to bring the world together, and it's sad actually. What's miraculous is that New York City took a fucking beating and it's still standing.

It is, by far, the worst thing that's ever happened in my life time. I hope that it stays that way. I can't imagine something worse than the day 9/11/2001. It literally changed all too much.

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The "Watchmen" debacle.

Watchmen is a graphic novel written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons. Moore and Gibbons created arguably the greatest graphic novel of all time when they decided to write a controversial story about anti-heroes, heroes with ridiculous flaws about them. 

The graphic novel has now been turned into a film, a film that looks so good, that it could be the 

Godfather of all superhero films. Every comic-geek's wet dream is comprised of visuals of Silk Spectre II, daughter of Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre. To be completely honest with you, when I saw the trailer I got goose bumps, I saw in the movie what the film was all about: last ditch efforts to save what you believe in. 

I remember reading Wanted by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones and thinking to myself (this is about the time they announced the film was being written/released) that this flick could kick some serious ass. I mean, a born loser becomes the greatest assassin alive. It was the embodiment of the loser book, you rooted for Wesley even though he was killing people. The graphic novel (that's how I read it) is so good, you read it through without putting it down. The film on the other hand starring James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman and Common is nothing like the graphic novel and it's depressingly bad. The director is actually a good one too, a Russian guy named Timur Bekmambetov who directed a couple of great flicks called Night Watch and Day Watch. I couldn't understand what happened to this flick, the generality of it was deafening, it was just an action movie, there was nothing special about it. The graphic novel got left at the door and the writers just kind of threw a gigantic piece of cinematic regurgitation onto paper. 

I can't imagine this is what's happened to Watchmen though and that's because I trust Zach Snyder with my life. Snyder career in film making started with his Dawn of the Dead remake, which honestly wasn't really that bad. It had it's moments, but it was a zombie movie after all. Now, I don't know who he sold his soul to, to helm Frank Miller's gory Spartan epic 300, but I'm glad he's soulless now. I loved 300, because once again, I had read the graphic novel (it's rather large) and knew the material. Snyder apparently did too, because he hit the nail on the head and delivered one of my favorite movies of 2006. With a backdrop of an eerie song "The End is the Beginning is the End" by The Smashing Pumpkins, the trailer flows with an energy that leaves you wanting to see this movie today, right now, this second. My brother and I went to see The Dark Knight and I marked out when the trailer came on in full movie theater quality. I got goosebumps again and watched as the characters that Alan Moore created were brought to life by Patrick Wilson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Malin Ackerman among others. 

Then I heard that FOX is suing to keep Watchmen from the fans, because they bought the rights to the book back in the '80's. Now Warner Bros. who owns DC, picked up the rights (they own the majority of them FOX only owns a bit) and they've gotten the movie made. Now they're going to court over the entity that is Watchmen and FOX is trying to keep the movie from hitting the screen in March of '09. I don't know if I can live without seeing a movie that's finished...the apparent Godfather of superhero movies...on the big screen. It'll sadden me quite a bit. 

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