am outta here

SO I'm taking off this afternoon, but some minor diversions:

Darth Vader's Blog for starts

secondly, went to a sneak preview to Lords of Dogtown last night, and it's basically a decent dramatization of the original story in Dogtown & Z boys, the documentary from a couple of years ago. Stacy Peralta was one of the main skateboarders to come out of that scene, and directed the latter and wrote the former.

with that in mind, things are pretty consistent between the two with Lords shifting some of the characters, with Heath Ledger's Skip being much more Jim Morrison-like than the real guy. the character of Sid (played by Jack's kid on Will & Grace) also appears inserted for dramatic purposes, to decent effect.

all I can really say is THANK GOD Fred Durst didn't end up directing this as originally scheduled, but it would've been interesting to see David Fincher's take on it as he also pegged for it (and ended up producing). Dogtown provides a complimentary portrayal of california in the seventies, with a zep-esque score by Mark Mothersbaugh.