I’m thinking give it 30 years or so, then get this kid and Old Man Bale and lash out The Dark Knight Returns. Magic.
Oh god… in getting that TDKR link, I found out that Frank Miller is writing a prequel called Holy Terror, Batman!
The plot revolves around Batman defending Gotham City from an attack by Al-Qaeda. According to Miller, the comic is a “piece of propaganda” in which Batman “kicks Al-Qaeda’s ass.”
from banging my noggin against the Free Rice game. It’s one hundred levels of vocab-testing madness! And for a good cause.
Actually, I don’t know how many levels there are. I’ve never made it past 49 (which still makes me pretty smart and handsome if you ask me) and it gets damn punishing. I hope the skinny bastards know what I’m going through here just so they can have their leisurely brunch in the sun.
In other news I remain superlatively tired, having never gotten around to a proper night’s sleep since Batman Weekend. Or long before, for that matter. Still: no time. There’s celebratory Antics to hit tonight, podcasting tomorrow and whatever’s going on on Friday on Friday. I shall trust in jaegerbombs and ProPlus to get me through.
This week I have been not so much burning the candle at both ends as chucking the candle into a bonfire. One might think a nice relaxing weekend would be in order… but no.
The plan tonight is to break open a few bottles and watch Batman Begins and Gotham Knight. There are a few reasons for this – firstly, any excuse to watch Batman Begins, secondly none of us have seen Gotham Knight. Thirdly, and most importantly, we’re preparing for tomorrow afternoon, when 12 of us will be toddling along to Cineworld to see The Dark Knight.
I’ve been waiting for this for a very long time. I can safely say I’ve never been so excited about a film in my life. I’ve always loved Batman, been properly fascinated with the character and the world, and the first time I saw the ending of Batman Begins (“Take this guy…”) I broke into a cold sweat. This is a big, big deal for me.
The reason I didn’t go see it on Wednesday (and again on Thursday, and again at lunchtime today) is because we decided we should make an event of it. This entailed getting the old crew together, from various parts of the country, and the only way that was going to happen is if we waited til the weekend*. It is nice to go on a Saturday, though, because that means we have an entire night to drink and analyse and recover, and in some perverse way the extra few days of self-imposed waiting is adding to the whole experience.
I was going to write a bit more about the hot tub/pool table/Mario Kart/barbecue party on Sunday, but can it really compete with Batman? Nothing can compete with Batman. So I shall leave it there. Have a good weekend everybody.
*Has anyone ever noticed how badly tenses get mangled in Hiberno-English?
Secondly: the new Dark Knight trailer was put up yesterday. There are some things in it that I maybe didn’t strictly speaking want to know, so you might want to avoid it. It occurred to me after watching it that I had decided, more than a year ago when the first teaser came out, that I didn’t want to find out too much, but that seems to have fallen by the wayside. In my defence, they are throwing down a pretty relentless campaign.
Thirdly: a new Nine Inch Nails album was released today as a free download. The first few tracks are not necessarily anything special (I’m undecided) but it gets very good. Includes spiffy post-apocalyptic triptych.
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