Olivia Tremor Control! Cheeseballs! Face Huggers!

I'm seeing Olivia Tremor Control tomorrow. I'm pretty excited about that. Opening for them are the Tall Dwarfs, whom I'm excited to see after reading this entry at the WFMU blog. Note to self: buy goddamn earplugs.

At some point prior to that show, I'm going to see The Aristocrats with my sister. I'm pretty excited about that, too. I suspect that's a movie on which we'll be able to agree, thus avoiding another ugly Air Force One incident. Holy crap was that a bad movie.

On Thursday I will pick up another of Amy Sedaris' smokey cheeseballs. I will eat it before it gets moldy. Am I excited for that? Yes. There's also the revenge element adding to it. I will eat that smokey cheeseball and will thereby show other smokey cheeseballs that if one of them decides to go bad before its expiration date, another will be sacrificed in its place.

Since receiving the Alien Quadrilogy: Special Groomsmans' Gift Edition the other day, I've watched the directors' cuts of Alien and Aliens. Alien was almost impossible to get through because *SPOILER WARNING* I knew all the characters were doomed, except for *DOUBLE SPOILER WARNING* Sigourney Weaver and the cat, and I felt badly for all of them. They were just space truckers; they didn't have a chance!

I don't feel as badly for the characters in Aliens; they were heavily equipped military personnel who *ENOUGH WITH THE COMPLETELY POINTLESS SPOILER WARNINGS* should have been able to handle themselves.

There are so many plot holes in both films that I get annoyed trying to think about these movies to any serious depth ... so I shan't. In the future I will get drunk and air my grievances, I swear. I preferred Alien to Aliens in part because with Alien there was only one movie's plot holes that annoyed me; in Aliens they came in with all of Alien's plot holes and then tossed in their own, so that's like two movies' worth, but considering how much all these plot holes annoyed me, I suspect that plot holes are incremented exponentially, so that by the time you finish Alien Resurrection, you've had to endure the equivalent of 16 movies with massive gaps in logic. (I prefer Alien over Aliens for reasons other than plot holes, but the over-use of "plot hole/s" and "Alien/s" in this paragraph has set my brain back twenty years so the best I can say at this point is "It's just better, OK?"