And here I dreamt I was a soldier

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I hate commercials; I try to avoid them at all costs. I also hate trailers, because even the ones for halfway decent movies now run well past the premise and into the second plot twist, which seems to defeat the entire purpose of a first act. But I do watch The Daily Show, and I don't know what flicker of color or image it was that got me to look up from my laptop and turn the sound back on, but I thought, You know, this actually looks like an interesting story. World War II America, this clever, undersized, determined kid who's been rejected by five different draft boards until a German-accented stranger offers him the chance to help the war effort in a top-secret way—so who's he going to end up with? The OSS? The SIS? Some department I've never . . .

. . . no, apparently it's Captain America.

That's the best trailer I've seen in years. I don't even care about the mythos and I might have to see this film. It could have been a straight-up historical drama until things started glowing.

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Whazza?

It was a series of Snickers adverts from a few years back. I think the group were supposed to be in search of a Snickers "Feast" bar or something like that. I remember some of the segments as having no small measure of absurdist charm.

I'll try to locate them on Youtube later, and when I do I will post the link. For now, I'm going to take a shower and see if I feel up to playing a few tunes at the Liffey; I just did a transatlantic interview over skype, which contained amounts of transatlantic coughing, as it seems to be the season for such in both Connecticut and Belfast, if not over all the world.