I Need New Clothes, I Need Somewhere To Stay.

Heaven help me, but I liked Ratner’s version of the X-Men. I liked it better than either of Bryan Singer’s two films. The concept of curing mutation was very interesting to me, as was the whole Jean-Grey-as-Sybil bit. I think characters, especially those with superpowers, are at their most interesting and most human when they don’t have their shit together, and the X-Men in this film totally lost their shit. I’ve also got to respect a film franchise that takes a look at what, or who, made the franchise successful and then says “let’s get rid of that and see what happens.” The overall effect is dark. Empire Strikes Back kind of dark. Having lavished all that praise, I must say that the failure of the series to include Apocalypse is disappointing. Freakin’ Apocalypse! The next film needs to be him waking up, resurrecting the characters what died in this film, turning them into his evil horsemen, and then going buck-fucking-wild on humanity. That’s the X-Men movie I would buy on DVD. Not some damn Wolverine prequel. Backstory is all fine and good, but the series is picking up momentum, and going backwards to see how Logan got where he is today is not nearly as interesting to me as seeing where he will be tomorrow. If you really want to clog up your franchise with pointless backstory, incorporate it into the plotline, like J.J. Abrams has done on LOST. In the meantime, I’m going to go ahead and call for a moratorium on prequels.

In other news, this week marks the beginning of my last month in my apartment. Ah, the memories. Gameday traffic, fireballs from my oven, tales of Moussaoui, dumbass undergrads in my parking space. I’m gonna miss that shithole.

So, I guess I’m going to have to find someplace else to live. Anyone got any ideas? I have, of late, become annoyed with paying rent. It might be time for me to upgrade from dwelling in shitty apartments to living in a shitty house. Apparently, there are some really cheap houses in Oklahoma City. Who knew? I guess I’m going to start looking at condos and houses. It does not sound at all like something I’m going to enjoy.