Hey all -- sorry I haven't been posting many personal entries lately. Things kinda suck and not in an interesting way -- it's just more of the same general shit and I'm getting pretty tired of it. Work at the bookstore is grating on my soul, and what's more apparently the store's budget was cut and now they can only schedule me to work two days out of the week. So while I'll have more time off now to clear my head and hopefully seek out other work, and since I didn't make too much to begin with it won't be all that big a deal financially speaking, it still comes as something of a blow. It's a little insulting, actually. Since I've started working at the bookstore, no less than two associates have been promoted to assistant manager in less than a month from the day they started working there, whereas I've been there since June and haven't even gotten my three month evaluation with its accompanying raise. There's other stuff that bothers me but I won't go into it. Suffice it to say that I feel like I'm being shat on bigtime and I'm just sick of it all and tired of this life.

I read the official comic adaptation of Constantine last night. SUCKED. I thought some of the trailers for the film looked pretty cool -- though admittedly Reeves is doing way too much talking in them, which always spells doom for a movie because he's a horrible actor, especially when speaking, and should never ever be given more than three words of dialogue in any given scene -- but when the comic book adaptation of a film based on a comic sucks you know you're in trouble. Actually, now that I think about it, most of the comic adaptations I've read of films have been pretty bad -- the only decent ones that come to mind are those for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films, which were fairly simplistic as far as plots go. Granted, most of the films being adapted were pretty bad too, but given that the source material -- the original comics -- were supposed to be good (or at least good enough to warrant making a film about the subject matter), you'd think that a return to the format would make for a better product, if they actually tried. I dunno. The Constantine adaptation, like many film adaptations I've read, was just sloppy in that (I assume) scenes from the movie were left out, yet later in the comic the characters would refer to these scenes and while I could kind of figure it out, there's no excuse for this in a comic book. There's no excuse for it in a film, either, but really.

It seems like they put more effort into trying to draw Keanu Reeves than into making this adaptation a worthy read in its own right.