I woke up this morning to Any Way You Want It, which I thought was weird, because my radio alarm is always set for 680News and at first I couldn’t figure out why they would be playing a rock song from 1980 instead of giving me traffic news. But then the chorus just kept on looping over and over again…and I realized that it was just all in my head. The radio wasn’t even on – I had completely forgotten to set my alarm last night and I had overslept 20 minutes, only to wake up all on my own…with Journey in my head. And my only exposure to that song from recallable memory was from that Will Forte video in my last post.

A rather bizarre way to start the morning. But then when I got to Fairview Mall (because I had woken up too late to get a spot at Finch) the gate that bars you from entering the normal mall parking lot in the morning was open, so I saved myself three entire dollars! Life is sweet.

Now here are a few links.

– I’m going to give it at least a week for me to come down from the usual movie high I get from watching ANY semi-entertaining movie before I comment about Iron Man, but my initial impression was that it could have been my absolute favourite comic book movie ever. It was certainly right there with Batman Begins, X-Men, and X2…but we’ll see if I still feel the same way in a week’s time. In the meanwhile, here is some super duper concept art for the movie done by comic book artist extraordinaire Adi Granov. I love stuff like this.

– In related news, Marvel has announced its next four movie release dates, including Iron Man 2, a Thor and a Captain America movie, and finally a full out Avengers one in July 2011. Hard to get excited about movies that aren’t coming out for another three years (I mean, who even knows if I’ll still be alive by then?) but still very cool nonetheless. In other news, DC’s movie division continues to sit idly with it’s thumb up its ass.

– Ah, just kidding. Here’s some new posters for The Spirit, featuring Samuel L Jackson as The Octopus, Scarlett Johansson as Silken Floss, and Eva Mendes as Sand Saref. No, this doesn’t look like Sin City at all. Not even a little bit. …at least there’s no Comic Sans MS this time.

– Also, here are the two brand new television spots for The Dark Knight, here and here. UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

– Just kidding – here they are for real, here and here. I’m such a fag.

– Jimmy Fallon has officially been announced as the replacement on Late Night when Conan leaves for The Tonight Show in June 2009. The apathy I feel for this announcement is of incalculably massive proportions. It is behemoth in scope, and I suspect it could generate it’s own gravitational field that would cause smaller celestial bodies made of less apathy to orbit it, creating an entire solar system of disinterest.

– More news! Didn’t think it’d be this soon, but I think I’ve already found a real life news story that trumps that earlier one with a guy trying to cash a cheque for $360 billion dollars. 13 Year Old Steals Dad’s Credit Card to Buy Hookers. Which doesn’t sound completely outlandish at first, but when you start reading the article…

• they paid two escorts to just play Halo with them
• their explanation for being such ballers was that they had won a World of Warcraft tournament
• the father was planning on taking his teenage son to Disneyland
• they told the escorts they were actually circus midgets and not 13 year-olds

…then the story just crosses from the realm of absurdity and into the realm of being truly epic. Texas, dreams of becoming a politician, Halo, a blatant lack of common sense and respect for parental authority, Dr. Pepper, Fritos, and Oreos…sorry, there’s no way this kid isn’t white.

– Why are they even asking this kid what his future career ambitions are in the first place? What an odd question to ask. But I’m not complaining, interviewing kids after they commit crimes is always entertaining. That grandma’s going to fucking wreck that kid’s ass, that much is certain. I mean it’s crazy to think that we live in a world where stuff like this isn’t even really that unexpected, but at least in this one particular case, I’m certain that justice will be served, and there’s at least some small level of consolation in that for me. Thank God for black grandmothers.

– The small bit with the cop in the last video reminds me of Patton Oswalt’s bit on COPS, so I’ll just link it here as well, just for completion’s sake.

Any way you want it
That’s the way you need it
Anyway you want it