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Book:
V: The Second Generation by Kenneth Johnson (443/future)
Remember the series V, from the 80s? The one about reptilian aliens that arrive en masse on Earth, claiming to want to help us, but are truly here with sinister plans? Well, Kenneth Johnson has gone and written a sequel to it. I watched most of the series as a child, and of course, thought it was fantastic stuff. But, most of my memories of it have faded, so I have no idea how it would stand up now (I'm betting time hasn't been entirely kind). Regardless, V: The Second Generation read like fanfic. Sometimes really good fanfic, sometimes really bad, but overall, it just felt like an overlong continuation of a series from way back then. But, then, I did read the entire thing, and it did have moments that I could easily visualize as being a movie or tv show [don't know if that's a good thing or not] and there were certain subplots that held my interest, so, um.... I guess the bottom line is that I would not really recommend the book, unless you are like a die-hard V fan.

CD:
I picked up 2 discs - The Jesus and Mary Chain's 21 Singles, which I didn't get around to listening to all the way through (doh!) and Jimmy Eat World's Chase This Light, which I did.
I've heard the first single off that album - "Big Casino" on the radio plenty o' times, and it's...decent. It's also pretty much what you can expect of the whole album. Catchy tunes, mehdiocre lyrics, and just more or less an Everyband type of sound that doesn't really stand out in any way.
A coworker told me that their album with the trophies on the cover ("Bleed American") is better, but I've not heard it, so I don't know.

DVD:
I watched Joy Ride, which was a better-than-average-but-still-pretty-much-shite thriller about a psychotic trucker with the ability to time travel who decides to stalk a couple of twenty-somethings.
Um. In the movie he can't truly time travel, at least it's not explicitly stated as such, but it's really the only way to explain how he's able to do the things he can do and know exactly what our 'heroes' are going to do before hand.
And, slight spoilers for the crappy movie ahead, what is the deal with horror/thriller movies always having to leave things openended for a sequel? I mean, seriously, what would've been wrong with having the time travelling trucker dying and staying dead? One self-contained story is plenty sometimes. No need to keep things going on and on.
I also picked up Junebug but we didn't get around to watching that. Maybe when Steph gets to the Js she'll grab it. It looked more like her type of flick anyway.