Just in Case You Forgot

When will they meet again? It could happen at any time...

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Round 3

Ledger Wins the Oscar

It had to happen. Like I said earlier, if Heath Ledger didn't win a posthumous Oscar for his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight, Hollywood was gonna burn.

It was destiny.

Chris Jericho Attacked, Understandably Freaks Out

These people need to be arrested and beaten. I mean more than just the simple pie-face and punch that these idiots received. I've seen Chris Jericho in person (and don't just mean at a wrestling show) and he is a decent, stand-up guy. He does care about the fans. As I work for an independent wrestling company up here in Canada, and we had Jericho come into town as he and his band, Fozzy had a concert here. He went out of his way to accommodate everyone he could, and then some. Some of these fans are just simply nuts. You should see the lengths they go through just to get an autograph or picture.

Yeah, some wrestlers are dicks (I've seen that too)Jericho is not one of them. I see this stuff all the time. These people clearly deserved what they got, female or no female. It was self-defense, pure and simple. If he gets any legal troubles for this, it would be a travesty and a joke.

The Joker

It had to happen. Since the Joker is now my second favorite comic book villain behind Electro (don't ask me why, I just find him cool) I had to post a tribute of some sort to Batman's arch-nemesis; and yes it is because of Heath Ledger's recent resurrection of the character. What can I say, it was brilliant. And, by now, you know I'm not the only one.

But since I'm a Spiderman guy mostly, I haven't paid all that much attention to other superheros. Although, like anybody else, I do know the basics on most of them. Certainly the major ones. So of course I know the history of the Caped Crusader and most of his enemies like most people, but I just lack the knowledge of the character to do so.

But I ran across this column by someone with the user name, Achilles over at RetroJunk.com, a cool little site that is chalked full of memories from my pre-teen years-especially the commercial clips.

I enjoyed it and learned a few things. This guy clearly did his research and his intricate knowledge shines through.

Phantom of the Paradise

When I was a kid, around 10 or 11, I was sleeping over at a friend's house and we stayed up til around 2 A.M. just to watch this movie that was coming on called Phantom of the Paradise. All we knew was that it was (probably) about some guy with a cool, silver helmet that wore a lot of mascara.

To make a long story short, we were a little confused at the end, not totally understanding the adult-theme premise. But we thought it was one of the coolest movies ever! By the way, this buddy of mine, Todd, who I haven't seen for 30 years-last I heard he was in Calgary; is the same guy I saw my earliest, coolest movies with-all on VHS of course. Conan the Barbarian, The Warriors and This flick come to mind. This guy even had Planet of the Apes dolls. How cool is that?

Anywho, I thought nothing of my (what I thought was) normal appreciation for the movie since.
I even liked the soundtrack-nothing wrong with that.

So skip ahead 30 years and I'm at a friends house just shootin' the shite, and the subject of Phantom came up. My buddy asks me, "You know the only two cities where that did well; where it made a lot of money?"
"Where," I said.
"Winnipeg and Paris, France"

So naturally being from Winnipeg, I thought, "Hmm." But basically just thought it was a cool coincidence, and maybe he didn't know what he was talking about.

That is until I see this. Read it. If nothing else it's just a good little article on some strange occurrence in the realm of entertainment. Or it could be a source of pride that not only am I just one of 450,000 or so people that actually like this movie (cause it's cool) but that this so-called "phenomenon" happened in my hometown.

I'm good either way.