It's true.

Some days he is dead on the money. 'Spy Kids' for example.

Other days, I just don't get where he is coming from. At all.

We went and saw 'Josie and the Pussycats' tonight. I had read Ebert's review, and I had heard that our friends Connie and Colin saw it and didn't like it (except the soundtrack, of course), so I was a little worried.

I shouldn't have been. It rocked.

You see, it's all about expectations.

Ebert, in all his silver-screen wisdom, was expecting to see a movie lampooning teen bands and the pre-fab music that inundates us every day. To quote:

"But 'Josie' ignores bountiful opportunities to be a satire of the Spice Girls and other manufactured groups, and gets dragged down by a lame plot involving the scheme to control teen spending with the implanted messages."

Okay, Rog, old boy. Take a pill. This isn't some indy film with a low budget and lofty ideals. This is JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS.

honk if you love pussy... cats

Obviously the Rog-meister has never read an Archie comic in his life, strange as that may sound. The Pussycats are a girl band that goes around solving strange and silly mysteries. Fake ghosts, pirates, diamond smugglers... fiendish record company executives?

Not a big stretch there.

There was plenty of lampooning mind you. The movie stretched the art of product placement to it's most bizarre extreme, taking place in a world that every spare inch must have some brand name attached to it.

I'm not sure why Connie and Colin never got into it, save the fact that I think Connie said she never really read Archie either.

Fact is this movie was for those of us who were weaned on it. I've read Josie for as long as I can remember. Lisa still picks up a Betty & Veronica 'Double Digest' once in a while as a guilty pleasure - which I then read, of course.

This movie is about three good friends, who play in a band, and get caught up in a crazy mystery.

And that's it. That's Josie.

Well, I still don't have a job. The one design company I'm really hoping for is not rushing to fill the spot I applied for. They said they would decide last week. This week they say sometime this week. Next week...

Ah well. Something will come. My resume started going out in earnest last week, so something will happen soon. My counselor has very little to fault in my interviewing skills and my resume. I'm as good as I can be in those areas apparently.

So I continue to send my resume out, make calls, do research... Ugh.

Over in the forum:

Oh, my poor neglected forum. I just don't have the energy... Maybe next week.

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