iHappy

So thanks to planets aligning or hell freezing over or some other anomaly, I'm FINALLY out of my Verizon contract and was able to pick up an iPhone today from a friend of mine at AT&T for an insane discount. Verizon did the whole sweet talk/up the ante schpiel, but it's actually cheaper for me to go with AT&T than to stay with them. Only issue is the texting plan for the iPhone, but otherwise it's great. As a recent Apple convert, I'm incredibly happy with it so far and the App Store is a thing of genius. All it needs is a solid GPS system and you couldn't really ask for much more out of a phone.

Saw Quantum of Solace last night and it was great - not as solid as Casino Royale, but still really good. It was like the writer's strike affected the story not being very fleshed out, so they just cranked the action up 20 notches to make up for it. What story is there is good and advances the plot and characters we've met thus far, but it would've been nice for some more narrative. I've seen every Bond film and am really happy with the way that they've relaunched the franchise.

We also got to view the teaser trailer for the upcoming Angels & Demons film, which I am ecstatic about seeing. The film is an adaptation of Dan Brown's book, which was superior to The DaVinci Code, in my opinion, and lends itself better to being a film so I'm excited to see what the studio will put out there. I'm curious to see if Brown's newest work, The Solomon Key, will make it out sometime in 2009 as well.

I'm guessing Twittering is officially the new cool thing to do. I've just gotten into it and it's kind of nice because it's like a mini-up-to-date blog for those of us you can't regularly update their own blogs (as Pete so consistently points out). Between that and Facebook, it may just be easier to drop this blog and maintain the other two. We'll see.

As always, CSz is starting to get really busy as we enter the Holiday season - which is good news for me (I'm curious if Corey & Mo are going to be able to join us for some shows this year as their own show, The Union, has landed dates for a run in Chicago @ The Annoynace - be sure to check it out if you're up there!). In addition to that, I've gotten some recent offers to audition for a couple films and commercials coming up before New Years, so I'm hoping that will lead to something fun.

Over at Dogsbreath Productions, we've got a couple of first drafts floating around for some new pilot ideas and are hammering out a realistic filming schedule for it as well - hopefully we can get something committed to film before 2009.

Hope you're all staying warm. It's about to start snowing here....allegedly.