(12:06 am)

i just shot my father in the face and then lit my mom on fire!!!!!!!!!

april fools.

oh man, just heard the new weezer single, "dope nose."  there's very few bands that i'd buy two completely new albums from in the course of one year (not even radiohead), but weezer is one of them.  april 29th is the release date for the new disc.  should be great.

okay, you know that afterglow effect feeling you get when you see a REALLY good movie?  i've SO got that going on right now.

i got off work early tonight, and passed up jenny's with michelle and some other people, opting to go check out panic room.  the flick started at 9:30, i got off work at 9:02, so it worked out perfectly.  i entered the theatre just as the opening trailers were running.  unfaithful looks terrible, spider-man looks terrific.  can't wait.  anyway, movie starts, and the opening credits are worth the price of admission, swear to god.  though they're not as cool as fight club's, but i made the decision going in that i wouldn't compare this to that movie.

things really pick up halfway through the movie.  you spend the first half hour or so thinking "they're safe.  no one can touch them."  then it swerves.  i won't spoil it, but it's definitely cool.  to get an idea of what the climax is like, imagine kubrick directing home alone 2: lost in new york while on a morphine binge or something.  it's that cool.

dwight yocum was surprisingly good.  jodie foster...well, she's jodie foster, of course she turned in a great performance.  jared leto, say what you want, i like him.  after making fight club and requiem, how can you not like the guy?  forest whitaker, awesome as always.  the cast was excellent, but you knew that when you saw the billing, right?

so, walking across the parking lot, i asked myself the question i tried to avoid all through the movie...better than fight club?

no.

i don't know what fincher will do to top it.  i thought the same thing when i saw fight club for the first time though...will it top seven?

it did.

so, maybe, sometime down the road, fincher will top the nihilist vision that was fight club.

but panic room doesn't.

as close as it gets, it doesn't top fincher's last movie, which was a modern-day masterpiece.

but, then again, few do.