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<img src="http://www.jaykim.net/blogpics/bacon.jpg" align="left">So today I was inspired to make a healthful breakfast.  I was watchin’ food network and I was feelin’ especially gourmet cheflike.  So I gets me into the kitchen, shoveling through the spice racks and the fridge like I knew what the heck I was doing.  My ingredients spread out on the counter, I get to work.  I scramble me two eggs and omeletize it with some shredded gouda cheese all the while telling this to an imaginary audience step by step.  Then I lower the pan down to medium heat and get some bacon all up ons.  After six strips, I have a really beautiful platter in front of me, but alas!  Something is missing!  That’s when I recall TV telling me "Eat Your Veggies!"  So into the fridge I go, to the drawer designated for vegetables to guarantee its freshitude.  And lo and behold…only carrots.  And using my food network skills, I wash, peel and chop and slice dem carrots and voila!  A healthy plate of veggies!  …a massive omelette and six strips of bacon.  I’m very happy right now.  Thank God for dishwashers.

My friend’s on Ellen today.  I just turned on the TV and there she was.  I’m gonna be like "yo, I saw you on Ellen!"  And then be like "not that I watch Ellen…"

So I saw Domino today.  I enjoyed it for the most part, as much as you can enjoy a film that gives you a friggin’ headache.  I can appreciate a filmmaker taking risks in the name of "style."  But I honestly don’t believe Tony Scott is going out on a limb making everything look like an acid trip.  Stylistic choices should be plot motivated, or else they become some sort of gimmick.  I tired of the jump cut, flash frame, strangitude after the first five minutes of the film.  It was interesting when he used it in his BMW film solely because the story involved Gary Oldman as the devil negotiating with James Brown for his soul.  I mean it sounds like an acid trip.  And the installment was a short 5 minute film.

Domino has a lot of trippy moments, but much of the film does not call for the sustained stylistic choices that consistently bombard you throughout the duration of the feature.  So when there is a really messed up scene where everyone is tripping on mescaline in a tricked out Winnebago and they have a religious experience embodied in the form of a crazy, convertible driving preacher, the audience is confused.  Because the scene is shot the same as the rest of the film.  The interrogation sequences, which are all dialogue driven and pretty tame are shot and cut in the same way as the actual trip scene.  The method loses its power.  It begins to just drag on, as if this is the way Tony Scott actually sees the world.

The films seems to be trying to bank on the sort of "cool," MTV editing that was so successful when used in moderation in films like Requiem for a Dream and Snatch to name a few.  But instead of using it in moderation for a reason, it’s sustained throughout the entire damn movie.  It makes me sick to think that, that’s what’s considered the new "cool" thing in films these days.  That a man can get away with a flawed story by bombarding the moviegoer with "cool."

Keira Knightley shows her boobies.  Me likey.