Ohio is amazing. After living in a major city for one and a half years, it really gives a different perspective to coming home. The smells, driving, swagger, streets, people, and topics of discussion are completely different when I go home. A lot of talk was on how I’m a writer, so I must have read the Twilight books. I admire vampires and all, but not when they are fifteen, and dry humping each other.

One thing that was amazing was the old coffee shop I used to go to now sells beer. They bought the last liquor licenses in my town, and I guess it got all the locals in a fit because they wanted a bar and not a place that mostly sold liquor. However, when I walked in the coffee shop, it was heaven. They had some of my favorite beers that I would have to drive to a specialty shop just to enjoy. I couldn’t believe my town was selling Rogue, Stone, Dogfishhead, and Hoppin’ Frog.

I really enjoyed the Stone Levitation ale, which ran dark, but tasted thick, like a smooth red ale. This beer was delicious, although it was pretty low on the alcohol percentage level being about 5%, which I love beers that range in the 8-9%. I’m a red ale fanatic so I really enjoyed it, and I think most other people could sip on this too.

I'm just so happy to go home and have a place to buy some amazing beer.

I took a short hiatus from the blogging world or at least I like to tell myself this to not sound lazy. I'm here, and a lot of good music, journals, and movies have been consumed in that time. I'll continue with a movie I watched last week that everyone seemed to have heard of except me, until I watched it.

Moon is a Sci-Fi flick that follows Sam Rockwell in space with his "Hal"-esque computer friend, GERTY. For being a relatively low budget film, it worked really well. The moon scenes and space station were done very well and the "emoticon" faces of GERTY were really fun to watch. The story line is original and I thought Sam Rockwell played the part well. The plot reminded me of Solaris a bit, but definitely held its own.

The other reason this film worked so well is due to the amazing soundtrack. Clint Mansell does the score and he is famous for working the Kronos Quartet in films like The Fountain, and Requiem for a Dream. The score is great, the acting is pretty good, and the plot line had my interest throughout, so I definitely recommend this to not only the Sci-Fi film lovers, but everyone. Oh yeah, did I mention Daivd Bowie's son directed this?

Moon (2009)
Director: Duncan Jones
Screenplay: Nathan Parker
Score: Clint Mansell