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Watched Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events this past week and was just thrilled with it. Sadly, it hasn’t gotten that much of a positive review by people that have read the books. It turns out that the movie is a total bastardization of the original books. Many reviewers are furious with the original author for allowing these books to be so mangled with this movie. I guess this won’t have the success as the Harry Potter series did. Still, the production design, cinematography, and acting were just a feast for the eyes. Jim Carry was his normal genius self, the kids were adorable, and the props were timeless. I’m actually glad I didn’t know of the books because I really did enjoy this movie!

Also of note, the sister in the movie is played by Emily Browning who was also the ghost girl in Ghost Ship just a few years ago. I’m even more impressed with the film now that I realize that Emily is actually around 16-17 years old and they still manage to make her look a lot younger.

I was introduced to a couple of songs on this album last year by a co-worker and laughed my head off. I’ve been listening more and more over the past month and I have to say that Jack Black is a rock-‘n-roll genius. I was impressed with his film School of Rock and was aware that he did a lot of his own music but this album is just incredible! He manages to write VERY good tunes while making fun of rock in general. I actually can’t get some of his tunes out of my head. I hear rumor that there’s a movie in the works in response to the album and that I look forward to seeing! If you like rock, you’ll be pretty impressed with this album.