1/05/2003 01:32:00 PM|W|P|Danny Eagle|W|P| I went to this movie ready to rock. I got in only to find only 3 seats left, in the front row. We all know that ain't no way to see the latest film by legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese. So I did the hard thing, and snuck into Adaptation. I saw the movie last night, a tinge baked and right smack dab in great seating land. What did I find? This was a theatrical, vaguely historic epic that in the end, was great to see despite the fact my ass had fallen asleep. Some parts were tough to believe, making the film a tad shaky. The film's opening scene looked more like Mad Max than it did 19th century New York, and it's cast of newly arrived immigrants had a tough time shaking their suspicious American accents. The battles and creative weaponry made the action and violence fun to watch. That's right, I said the violence was fun to watch. Also fun to watch was Daniel Day-Lewis who will no doubt win an Oscar for this role, mark my words. Diaz and DiCaprio didn't annoy me as much as I thought they would and the addition of John C. Reilly as a gruff and corrupt cop was welcome. Outside of a few hardly believable moments, Scorsese has created a pretty damn good movie. I will not buy it on DVD, fearing I will grow old and die watching it in its entirety. But, if you're a fan, go have a look, this is one worth seeing on the big screen.|W|P|90145228|W|P|Martin Scorsese | Gangs of New York|W|P|scottlmoe@gmail.com1/02/2003 06:11:00 PM|W|P|Danny Eagle|W|P| On a recent visit to Brooklyn sub-unit Williamsburg, the painfully hip capital of the world, I was given an actual written code of how to be cool. Legions of socially inept and unfashionable young people have roamed the earth for centuries looking for just such a guide, and now they can get their shit together. Not since Hamurabi's Code have I seen such an explicit and revolutionary guide to living in civilized society. I think I'm a pretty snappy dresser, but not looking exactly like a member of the Strokes I checked it out hoping that I was living right. What I found was astonishing; I was at least partially fashion able! Each page has a nicely designed set of statements about fashion, hygeine, and social activity. If you agree with them and practice them regularly, you will know what it is to be cool, at least until the next edition comes out. "All mixed drinks are cool because drinking is cool." Yes, yes drinking is so cool. "Wear Clarks... Yes, still." Holy crap! I'm stilling wearing my shitty Clarks! I might be cool! "Ruin Your Saturday Mornings" Done. "Be a Media Addict" Start it with CNN end it with Nightline. Suppliment with skate mags and FD. Aside from being extremely funny, "How to Be Fashion Able or Consume Like Me " codifies proper hip living and as the The Fader points out, makes you realize you are a walking stereotype. Put together by The Tynt Press, this little eight dollar beauty will empower you to live and buy like a cool fucker. There's finally hope for us all. Find out where to pick it up on tyntpress.|W|P|90135792|W|P|Andrew Coulter Enright | How to Be Fashion Able or Consume Like Me|W|P|scottlmoe@gmail.com