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I just finished watching the movie Death of a President, and am truly impressed and disturbed. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a fictitious documentary about the assassination in October 2007 of a certain US President that you may be acquainted with (see you tonight, Secret Service…I’m talking about a movie, idiots).

In it there are fictitious interviews with White House staff, FBI agents, and many other folks involved with the President. In addition there are interviews with the families directly affected by the assassination.

Unfortunately I can’t really say too much more about the plot without giving it away. I will say though that it’s a surprisingly realistic interpretation of what such an event would produce in the media and in the prosecution of the assassin. So accurate from my standpoint that it was truly shocking and disturbing.

If you haven’t seen it, it really should be on your rental list. Or in your Netflix queue.

If you’re a horror fan, I wanted to direct you to an indie horror flick that sounds pretty good. It’s been in production for quite some time, and is finally starting to be screened in preliminary previews. It’s called The House at the End of the Drive, and is about paranormal goings-on in the area surrounding the Sharon Tate mansion where the Manson murders occured in 1969.

I have not seen this movie mind you, but have followed its progress through its website (http://www.thehouseattheendofthedrive.com). I hope that the preliminary screenings go well and that this film makes its way to theatres. There’s a screening going on in LA next weekend, but I’m going to be out of town unfortunately. Check out the website and sign up for the mailing list for more info on that.

Man, can Americans be any more intolerant and ignorant? After seeing the Borat movie for the second time, I am embarrassed about being an American and living in the same country with the ignorant racist homophobe hicks that Borat meets on his trek across America.

I have to admit, the movie was indeed hysterical. The people that Borat meets and the situations that he puts them in were all pretty damn funny. I did indeed laugh my ass off at many points in the movie, but in many parts I found that the ignorant hicks and their outdated intolerance almost killed the comedy. Living in California, it’s hard to imagine that people like that still live in the United States, but after seeing the movie I realize that it’s still an epidemic.

Despite the fact that voting machines are junk and if you vote the “wrong way” your vote will be discarded or switched electronically, remember to vote tomorrow, Tuesday November 7th, 2006. Despite widespread voter fraud, we have to turn out in record numbers and make our voices heard.

The conspiracy theorist in me wants to think that all of this widespread media hype over vote fraud is just an effort to undermine public confidence in our election system and keep people away from the polls. It could also just be that this is finally coming into the mainstream and is truly vote fraud by those in power, but who really knows. Either way the best way to fight it is to be educated about it.

HBO has released their documentary “Hacking Democracy” on Google Video, and I highly recommend watching it. I have embedded it below, or you can watch a bigger version by clicking on this link: Hacking Democracy

Last night my friends and I had a wine and cheese and horror movie party. We had dinner, had some drinks, and watched some horror movies.

The first movie we watched was “The Omen,” the one that came out on 06/06/06. It pretty much follows the story of the first one, only takes place in 2006 intead of the mid-70’s, which would make sense since it’s a “remake.”

One of the reasons that I am such a horror fan is that it takes me away from reality, and allows me to forget everything in a freaky strange world where people have problems much bigger than mine (beacuse being tied up in famly drama bullshit is much less disconcerting when you compare it with being the parents of a little Satan). I was a bit bothered, and was momentarily prevented from going to my…uhhh…happy place(?) beacause of the filmmakers’ decision to use footage from the WTC collapse, the Columbia disaster, and the Thailand tidal wave to set the foundation for Damien’s coming. It seemed a bit out of place and awkward to me, plus the constant profiteering from these disaters makes me sick, although that’s a topic for another post.

Unfortunately, as creepy and suspenseful as the first Omen was, this one failed to capture the feeling and suspense of the original. I have slowly come to the conclusion that the horror of the ’70’s is unbeatable when it comes to overall feeling, mainly because of the low budget nature of the effects and that ’70’s film quality that just seems so homemade and freaky.

The Omen was not bad, but just didn’t capture the magic of the first. The bottom line is if you really want to check out The Omen, rent the first one.