life's cheap in the city

People dying really saddens me. Recently a man was shot here in ny who was obviously not a serious threat to the cops, he was just out of his mind and weilding a very small knife witnesses say was too small to be life threatening, so after a taser failed, they pumped him full of bullets. how noble.

what a bunch of assholes. that's how it is sometimes though, people holding the gun going too far and no one wants to get in their face about it. what's more is just the general atmosphere around ny of 'i don't give a damn about anyone but myself' even to the point of abandoning each other or crushing each other to get ahead. I've seen it at work and i've seen it driving to work, seen it from my own sister and definitely the military who's main philosophy is to crush everyone else, not even view them as human. What? seriously? who are you to judge people? Superman?

speaking of him. zack snyder has been announced as the new director of superman. now way back i believe i talked about the superman war that happened online which i witnessed and participated in regrettably. no doubt another one is on the horizon. a lot of people think this to be a victory to get a director who isn't going to suck donner's cock or whatever... that's not the point, fuck. this is why i hate the internet world. will the movie be good? or like his other films, mindless videogames that soullessly copy the comics frame for frame without regard for film as a completely different platform...

this could be a worse movie than singer's. then again i'm excited. if 300 is any indicatin, snyder won't pull any punches and will give us a superman who steps right out of the comic's pages and gets into epic battles with other super powered beings and not just more luthor schemes. i love luthor, but he's not going to be exciting to watch pull out a rock of kryptonite for the thousandth time, that's all.

if i had it my way, i'd adapt the entire death of superman arc since i love that story and it really got me into superman, the comic version anyway. couldn't understand what the fuck happened after he died, but the beauty of seeing superman face off against the devil himself and fight him to the death really embodies everything about his character to me. Doomsday, yes, is one note, but so is superman. They're yin and yang. for the longest time superman's basically been able to walk through his foes, unless there was kryptonite, but not this mother fucker. Now the threat of dying is real to him and he has to chose whether to put his life on the line for others or allow this monster to win. in the end, just as in life, sometimes the only way to stop beat your enemy is to make an incredible sacrifice which says to me that good and evil are forever linked.