My blog has been down for some reason, so I apologize for not having posted anything in the last few days. I'm in Los Angeles now taking summer school.

I've found out painfully that the UCLA class I'm taking on Beethoven is a pathetic 10 steps down from my last three weeks at Carnegie Hall, though I should have probably expected that much. The focus of the class is on personal expression and historical context as it relates to Beethoven's music, but it ends up appearing like something more out of a 10-dollar psychiatric experiment.

On a painful note, I saw Daredevil on the plane. I think it would have been a good movie if the Daredevil not been a pansified Ben Affleck, the plot didn't represent a vomit-covered disjunction of formulaic points, there had been a gratuitous implementation of shameless nudity, and the Kingpin didn't represent a gigantic negro teddy-bear. Other than that, it was great.

I'm a bit scared to watch Terminator 3. Please check out Stanley's review if you have time at http://leemur.blogspot.com. I will post some excerpts of it, as it is a very well written review. There is not a soul in the world who is more qualified to opinionize the Terminator 3 movie, as Stanley has spent the last 12 years wet dreaming about Cyborg systems and constructing make-shift terminators out of organic chemistry cell models, much to his girlfriend's disgust and dismay. Please do read his full review.

Problem #1: "One of the most important things is lighting. T2 was entirely bathed in cold blue light, with contrasts of red. This movie is not. In contest to other reviews on the Internet, this movie is not darker. The entire film takes place in broad daylight, or brightly lit indoors. Mastow you IDIOT! A Terminator is a harbinger of death, it shouldn't be bathed in white angelic light!"

Problem #2: "Second, music. Marco Beltrami's score? More like underscore. This guy also scored the Scream movies, he is not qualified to score the Terminator series. The music does not accent the film heartily as Brad Fidel's music did in T2. Mastow thought Fidel's music made you think of T2 too much, but guess what? Mastow's an IDIOT."

Problem #3: "My third complaint is the T-X. She is hot. Too bad that's not the purpose of a Terminator. Menacing she is not. Bland she is. Robert Patrick was hundreds of times more threatening as the T-1000, and unstoppable. I remember feeling dread everytime he got back up in T2. I did not get too much of the 'Oh my God, she absolutely will not stop' feeling from Kristanna Loken."

Pete, if he were at Carnegie Hall:

car LOCO 69: i left it to the other students to buy barenboim a present
car LOCO 69: and they bought him a 300 dollar bottle of fucking wine that i have to chip in for
peterlsb: wtf?
peterlsb: that's some crystal shiet
peterlsb: you better be drinkin that too
peterlsb: watch him down that shit in front of you guys
car LOCO 69: they don't have 40's of wine, dawg
peterlsb: then pour it on the carnegie stage, 'this ones for the homies that couldnt be here'