* I saw Crank: High Voltage on Monday night and Terminator Salvation on Tuesday night; click the links for my take on each.
* Please note that this means I have seen neither the Gossip Girl season finale nor my entirely unironically beloved Adam Lambert’s American Idol finale performances yet. All in good time, my pretties, all in good time.
* Captain Britan and MI 13 has been cancelled. I was enjoying this book more with each subsequent issue, as I got to know better characters with whom I had zero personal history, and as, y’know, Dracula invaded from the Dark Side of the Moon and conquered England. So this is a bummer.
* The ’80s-based Gossip Girl spinoff has been cancelled. This one I’m not so upset about.
* Hail, hail, the gang’s all here except Ivan Reitman: Dan Aykroyd says Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis will be rejoining himself, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson for Ghostbusters III, which is sounding more and more it’s actually going to happen. Ghostbusters remains the best New York movie of all time. (Eat it, Woody and Marty and Spike.)
* Oliver Stone re-adapting Helter Skelter? Sure, I’ll eat it. “Manson beat ya.” “Well, you can’t beat the king.”
* Torture Links of the Day: Meet some of the men we tortured: Dilawar and Habibullah, an Afghan taxi driver and mullah respectively who were tortured to death in Bagram; and Javaid Iqbal, a cable guy and small-business owner from Long Island who was imprisoned and tortured for nine months, in Brooklyn, while guilty of absolutely nothing.
* Tom Kaczynski draws the hell out of a Throbbing Gristle concert! I love writing sentences like that. This reminds me of an old maxim of mine, learned through bitter, bitter experience: People who own Throbbing Gristle albums shouldn’t fish.
