It wasn’t the plan to do a FOURTH one of these (to be posted either Sunday or Monday) so I can finally be caught up. Truth be told, I’m exhausted right now, don’t feel 100% and as I promised to post something tonight… At least this afternoon I was able to visit the rural James A. Van Fleet State Trail for the first time in years. In the past such wild animals as gators, tortoises, turtles, and snakes were seen on the trail. Today, it was… a pair of deer. They were too far away to take photographic evidence of but they were pleasant surprises nonetheless.
I finally saw TRON: Ares. In what’s not a popular opinion, the original movie from 1982 was a weird, quirky thing I dig because it uses legit computer terms & the aesthetics are still awesome. TRON: Legacy looked & sounded great yet the story and characters were lame. Unfortunately, while Ares looked and sounded even better (especially at a Dolby Cinema in 3D like how I saw it), the story and characters were even worse!
The plot was nonsense-it’s a basic story not told that well and they only paid lip service to such topics as AI-the villain, pathetic, the other characters, forgettable… and oh boy is there an awful odious “comic” relief character that didn’t make me crack a smile even once. I’m glad the visuals at least looked nice and the Nine Inch Nails score was awesome. Jared Leto I don’t love as a human being—his presence isn’t why my opinion of Ares (character & film) isn’t high.
Just a little earlier I heard of Ace Frehley passing away. Now, I did once see KISS perform live in Orlando for the grand sum of… $4.80! Someone I knew mentioned on Twitter that August afternoon in 2013 that there were “free” tickets on Ticketmaster for a KISS concert—that was the night before the Arena Football League championship game in the same arena. The band would sponsor a team in the league the next season, as Gene Simmons will never turn down ANY opportunity to market his band’s likeness. While that version of the band did NOT have Ace nor Peter Criss in it, that was a lot of fun as someone who almost never attends any concerts.
For a long time now I’ve enjoyed the band and their music-Frehley played a key role in that as lead guitar. There have been other unfortunate deaths these past few months (such as Diane Keaton) but as Ace dying was just announced… hopefully when I return in a few days there won’t be any further deaths to mention.
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