Silicovis Somnium

2011-01-02T11:26:00.002-05:00

1/2/2011 No pretensions of starting the blog going again, but rather than flood my facebook friends with 11 updates in quick succession, topics involve the following:

Titus Jones has replaced Party Ben as the go-to mashup expert. Bootie should hire him to mix their next Best of compilation, as A+D didn't really get it done well this year.

256kbps Amazon MP3s playing on a Google Android sound better than native AAC audio files sound on my iPod Nano (5g).

And it's not even all that close.

Relevant listening is "My Dark Beautiful Twisted Fantasy" by Kanye West, which is the best album of this year, and about 20 previous years as well. Not because it is perfect, but because it is wildly imperfect and still so phenomenal.

The second-best album of the year, in my opinion, would be Sufjian Stevens ""Age of Adz"; likewise, imperfect, but in a lot more quantifiable ways. That is just an opinion, though.

I'd consider the statement "Kanye West put out the best album of 2010" to be as close to incontrovertible fact as any musical preference statement is capable of being.

Lots of other stuff probably not to come.

2006-12-18T09:36:00.000-05:00

Miami Vice

One of the best movies of the year?

Not as good as The Prestige but very very good in a different way.

#2 on my list of the, like 17 movies I've seen from this year with a full review coming shortly, I think.

2006-11-14T08:05:00.000-05:00

Because I have gotten so much amusement from Mike D'Angelo's site: The Man Who Viewed Too Much I feel compelled to add a link and also the note that he turned me on to the Dismemberment Plan's The Face of the Earth which I love, and thus, in counter offer Stay Together by Suede. Amongst my favorite songs ever, should you be able to find it, which, if not, MP3's will be available shoud you ask.

2006-11-03T07:20:00.000-05:00

New bonus feature:

Song of the past that I am amazed at how much I like, and thus listen to about 100 times quickly:

Last week: Ah! Leah! by Donnie Iris

This week: Synchronicity II by the Police

2006-11-03T05:55:00.000-05:00

M:I:III - C-

There are a lot of things about the Mission Impossible movies that the large majority of people hate. One of my favorite people summed up the most grating thing, though, I think for most people, when he said (of M:i:II): "It is two hours of Tom Cruise being the baddest ass ever" (Hey Peter!)

I should say that I really liked both of the earlier films - I'm torn as to whether what is going on with the franchise is that Tom Cruise is letting auterist directors go nuts with their versions of the same story time and again, which I think he was. The DePalma entry was excellent if excedingly cold. I disliked it more than a little bit when it came out in 1996. I would have given it something like a C+ or two stars then.

Sidenote here: If you are an HTML wizard and know how I can put little notes that would appear as cursor floaties in a nice font on a decent background when you move your mouse over them I would really appreciate that knowledge. What I'm thinking of is the visual equivalent of the awesome technique in David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster Audiobook, which I love. I wish I could microphone in certain points.

I'm back:

I would now rate the movie at a respectable 4 stars or an A-. It isn't perfect, but it manages to grab at something ineffable for a little while. It doesn't ever make Tom Cruise awesome or sexy, but it gets very close. And DePalma's usage of gadgetry as modern wizardry is inspired. It is also gorgeously shot, which, I suppose is de rigeur for movies that cost as much as that, which more about in a bit

M:I:II is a much more complicated monster. It is a better movie. It had a different kind of director and it had one of the best screenwriters ever write it and make several bad decisions.

A lot of people dislike M:I:II on varying levels, and I have no answer to their complaints. There are genuinely bad scenes, but for whatever reason, and I've watched the damn thing about 9 times with the last three of them all intending to dislike it (see, I wish I could insert an audio or extratextual note here because when applying the same standards to "classic" Star Wars, I really disliked it an amazing amount - I still love that movie, but the movie that I love is not the movie that can ever be seen by anyone again, and I don't mean because of Lucas' incessent meddling. I think Lucas knew that he made a very dated/kinda shitty movie that would look historically awful once people actually had access to his source materials (Kurosawa films are obvious, but crappy 70's blaxploitation pictures do have some revelence also), and so he attempted to retroactively cover his tracks), but I simply can't dislike M:I:II because it is utterly awesome.

M:i:II also had the best score of these movies, which leads me to:

The Prestige - A- - ****

I can not help but think that if this had a much better score it would have easily earned "movie of the year"-type honors from me. The score is somewhere between awful and passable. If it had been great, well, I don't know how much more I could have otherwise liked the rest of the movie.

I've now listened to the book it is based on, and every decision Christopher and Jonathan Nolan made was solid. I wish the movie and book didn't devolve into science-fiction on a crucial point, and I had for a long while even after I left the theatre assumed that is wasn't actually science-fiction: I assumed there was a twist coming that explained the weirdness (audio-note here would include a bit about how Memento had mental surprises for the viewer long after one left the theatre which, amazingly, all held together!), but book-listening now in, I think it does indeed have a simply unexplainable element.

That said, I need explanation of the final shot, which is, I believe of Angier's wife in a state. I believe.

There are many incredibly interesting things going on throughout the film, which work on multiple levels. It is an smart screenplay. There are easy and obvious echoes like the fact that this movie about people in the same field that hate each other is interupted briefly at a crucial moment by Edison's goons burning down Tesla's laboratory. (Would-be audio-echo note: David Bowie is _excellent_ as Tesla). There are also minor touches that tend to exist only in very smart screenplays that directors respect completely, like, for exmple, Rupert Angier declaring that the name Danton sounds too French.

For reference, I had the "twist" figured about about 7 minutes into the movie (the book makes it very much more explicit, more or less immediately), but that didn't ruin the experience - it just made me enjoy a secondary character's action much more, emotionally speaking, because those actions became more relevent.

I can't help but think just how excellent it could have been, however, if a decent composer had been in charge of the music.

So back to M:I:III:

This movie makes explicit my cousin's complaint about the second movie: People actually talk about how hot/pretty/awesome Tom Cruise is. "I'd marry him" two women say, at an early moment.

Ye gads!

J.J. Abrams sucks, in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, in that he seems funny and nice and likable in interviews, but he is not even a one-hundredth of a movie director, and unlike the other TV wunderkind of last year that came out and made the big-screen his bitch (Joss Whedon with Serenity said the audio-note), J.J. looks like he has never _seen_ a movie before. I guess I can give him credit, not that I know that this was his intent, in that M:I:III is, by far, the movie that most resembles the TV show that was his inspiration. But that isn't a compliment. At all.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman is more menacing than previous baddies John Voight and Dougray Scott, and that's pretty much the only positive comparison that I have.

Other movies seen:

Slither - B
Star Wars - C-
The Lakehouse - B-
X-Men United - C-
Thank You for Smoking - B-

Slither gets ***, and the others get ** should that be your prefered reading rating metric.

Slither also gets notes in the next update, I hope because it is the second horror movie to effectively use Air Supply as foreground music in a horror movie. More on that eventually.

There are many others which I will remember once I get some more sleep.

2006-11-03T05:47:00.000-05:00

Movies I have seen recently:

Stay Alive: More in a touch but C+

Brick: B+

Lucky Number Slevin: D+

Nightwatch: T/O

Stay Alive. I Like it very much more than I felt I would/feel I should. It's horribly written in terms of cliche after cliche, and it is somewhat nonsensical. But. It is oddly affecting. Or at least one specific scene is:

I should say that I was watching the "Unrated Version" which apparently extended the following scene by a good solid 30 seconds or more, which is an eternity in film time.

After a character named Phin dies there is a "no shit" cineloquey for him.

I don't know whether this sequence is incredibly awesome and trying to point out the human cost of the awfullness of horror film deaths or if it is amazingly sadistic, because whilst I wasn't at tears, it did put me in a contemplative mood. I guess what is so incongruous about it is that it is very very pretty in spite of the gore. And as it uses the now used-to-death, but apparently not for me, here, Koyanisqaatsi time-lapse effect, it has almost an almost religious aspect.

Also amongst things Stay Alive has is a sequence immediately before the one described in which the character Phin is rocking out to the song "Sweet Dreams" by Air Supply, which is the sort of thing that gives me almost hot fuzzies. If it had been "All Out of Love" it would have been a cheesy touch. That it was "Sweet Dreams" means that somebody was, as some point in their life an Air Supply Fan. That is not a cool thing to admit, and thus the very warm fuzziness.

2006-09-27T19:58:00.000-04:00

The Pink Panther - B - I'm surprised how much I liked this movie eventually, though my seven year-old step-daughter saying every so often "Good One" in that insane French accent helps its cause amazingly. She loved it. I think it is funnier than I had previouslly thought. Let us all agree to find it silly and funny and leave it at that.

2006-09-27T19:52:00.000-04:00

Jackass Number Two

How do you rate a movie that is supposed to suck? I got a single day off in the last 3 months and I go see this piece of garbage? It sucks exactly the way you expect it to suck and it is intermitantly funny exactly the way you expect it to be that way. I checked my watch _many_ more times than I did in the first movie. Relatively it is only moderately amusing. But I am _very_ curious how these movies get bonded, and I'm beyond curious how Johnny Knoxville can do so. It is heartening that he will do the most painful things that he asks his crew to do. It is also crazy that he does so, as he, like. has a career, potentially.

2006-08-23T06:22:00.000-04:00

Instant mini-movie stuff

The Matador - B
The Pink Panther - T/O
Running Scared - T/O
Swimming Pool (repeat) - B+ (repeat)
Inside Man - A (not quite A+ which would be 25th Hour, but a better script)

T/O is the new W/O. Being engaged, with a child around, means that much more of DVD watching. I am, regrettably, probably not going to Toronto again. On the other hand, I have someone that will back me at all, well, everything. And my heart goes buh-bumpy bump just thinking about her. Have a lovely day.

2006-08-11T05:56:00.000-04:00

I know it is closing in on forever since I updated this, and there are things that are coming. Stuff to do:

Old Boy (B)
Pirates of the Carribean II (B)
Masters of Horror 1-6 + 13 (In order A, C, B+, D, C, D, B-) (Carpenter, Gordon, Coscarelli, Garris, Landis, McKee, Miike) (My favorite of these is the Coscarelli, by a fair margin)
Dukes of Hazzard (C-)
Final Destination 3 (B-)
and, briefly Talladega Nights (30 minutes in, I left)

Thank you for your patience.

2006-01-30T21:22:00.000-05:00

*Pretty Persuasion (2005) - B- (though if what I'm curious about is the actual source of any large aspect of the film than C- is a bit generous. After all, beggars borrow . . . and this was borrowing.)

I don't know what I expected going into this, but it's exceptionally blunt and even more so caustic in terms of its obvious anger at amongst other things, the sacrifice of dignity for fame, the sacrifice of fame for infamy, and the meaning of the words "collateral damage" as imagined by somebody young in terms of being an American today.

The reason this is a bonus review is that I figured out where I had seen Evan Rachel Wood's performance before: the matter of fact silly-coquetish know-it-all who leads to friends' destructions, which is Ms. Beckinsale's character in Last Days of Disco, which, again, I can't help but recommend thoroughly (the latter film).

Particularly in the scenes at the end in which each actress lets their self-loathing shine through, which is a much longer and thus somewhat more painful scene in Ms. Wood's case, and please don't get me wrong, I'm not thinking Ms. Wood ever saw the movie - she would've been, what, 10, when it came out. Producers, however. . .

As for the twist, it's very much not a twist in that if you are paying attention, it's detectable about 5 minutes into the movie without any particularly silly conjectures necessary. Instead it's pretty much the equivalent of Heathers' Slater characters motive in terms of, well, duh (other) girl - it has always been fairly obvious what was going on.

2006-01-28T02:50:00.000-05:00

Fuck you.

I know I've taken forever to update anything here. I've seen a shit-load of films in the mean-time and I've liked a few of them.

I admire profoundly the people that can put this sort of drivelly bullshit out on an every-day basis, and I thank them for it because that's, like, 40% of my day gauging readings of stuff that's probably stupid and unfun, but sometimes yields gems.

I'm in a miserable mode, and I need to bail.

Review:

Underworld: Evolution: B

Greatly amusing in most ways. Dude, it's got Kate Beckinsale in some sort of PVC and tight thing throughout, and her, fairly naked (emotionally, metaphorically, and also literally, which, um, we were not expecting _at all_.)), in a way that we haven't seen her before.

She is, here, more naked (again, emotionally speaking) than she's been since Last Days of Disco*, in which she is so real that you can't actually believe.

As for plot, um, it's stupid and flimsy and entails Derek Jacobi fighting Tony Curran, which, any fight involving Derek Jacobi is awesome as far as I'm concerned, but, um, still. . . . Now, that the third act is entirely the Kate, fighting several people with "Ben" from Felicity occasionally doing damage, is by far the film's greatest strength (second is "Ben"'s tendency to, no shit, rip jaws off of people and things that disagree with him at any given moment), though it's weaknesses such as "why not ditch the exposition and make a great movie?" are very evident, and there is a "stop watching "the Matrix" whilst stoned and start making greatly fun movies yourself" vibe, which God knows I've encountered hundreds of those in the past several years.

Kate Beckinsale manages to be real and vulnerable and fun all at the same time here. I'd give her an Oscar because she is obviously trying, but doesn't let the strain show, and but still manages to transcend every bit of the material that she is given. She is awesome.

Relevent, I think, is Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider. Lots of pressure, very small personal rewards. In both cases the actors came out wonderfully, but I think Ms. Beckinsale came out considerably ahead in terms of any qualifiable standard. She acts well. Extremely well.

*which bonus review now coming up.

2006-01-12T22:30:00.000-05:00

I'm not entirely certain why I like so much the song "Cry Me A River" by Justin Timberlake, which, um I really like, which, what, 2004?

For 2005, though, I thoroughly recommend Dean Gray's remix of "American Idiot" by Green Day, which you can easilly find by way of bittorrent or newsgroups, but so is also the best thing to happen to mash-ups maybe, ever, but certainly in a long time, otherwise.

2005-10-07T09:57:00.000-04:00

Serenity Mark 3 A+

You can watch the first nine minutes of the film here should you like - it's the entire pre-credits sequence. And there is news that it's out on DVD Dec. 20,2005, which is so awesome I can't actually find the words to describe. It's going to sell like gangbusters, obviously - it's an active consideration to buy multiple copies to give to friends for quite a while.

Here's what I figured out on the third viewing - it's a kind of remake of Big Trouble in Little China in that the ostensible hero, Mal, isn't actually the hero at all - he is barely the most important character. It's pretty much all about River. And she smokes when she is on screen. Summer Glau was an interesting casting coup way back when. She has a dancer's body but still has a very round face that makes her seem very innocent and makes you want to protect her.

Her work here is similar to her work in the last episode of the Firefly series "Objects in Space" which I think is superior to any other one hour television episode ever. And I include Twin Peaks, which is a _huge_ concession by me.

Long and short: the movie is utterly awesome. My favorite movie of the year by a fair margin. But in all fairness, I'm a fanboy.

Greatest Game Ever Played ** 1/2
It was really cute. It was an interesting story. It was neat to see how different golf was then as opposed to now, and I'm a permenant Shia LaBouf fan because of whatever that Nickelodean show that did a musical episode that one time that was pretty great. That said, yeah - kinda whatever.

2005-09-29T01:49:00.000-04:00

Serenity mark 1 A

I watched the "blogger" preview of Serenity on Monday and I'm going to write about it quickly but not going to give it the benifit of the evil "musts" of the "new media" blogging concept that the e-mail entailed. Not because I won't give the movie all the free publicity I can, which I will, but because, free publicity with a hook is still non-free publicity.

Um, I loved it.

Here's the non-obvious part right from the beginning, the Reavers genuininely scared the fuck out of me. And they are the bad guys. I was genuinely in a sphincter-clenched-mode through-out the whole first major chase scene, and I'm not kidding. Are you 30 something young?

Do you remember either of two things that I am about to bring up?

Do you remember the episode of Greatest American Hero in which he invesitgates a Haunted House and that "claw" works him over? Do you remember the episode of Buck Rogers with the space vampires?

This movie has those two scaries combined and it does them so insanely well (and so prettily becausue, um, they're film .now.) that you forget how tv-ish it is in concept. Something interesting happens at the end of all that pretty film, though I will not spoil the movie. But the thing is, for 40 million dollars Joss has made a movie that warps dimensions around awesomesomesss as regards any other 180 million dollar movie including that movie I most loved previously this year - "Batman Begins".

Jehovah-Christum - the movie includes the line: "Dear Buddha: I want a pony and a plastic rocket . . . "

Are we clear on how many ideas of Buddism that breaks - pretty much all of them and intentionally? That's maybe the best line the movies will have all year (The cynic in me mildly favors "It Is said that" Evil Prevails when good men fail to act." It should be amended to "Evil Prevails"". "Lord of War.)

So favorite film of recent-dom, though not as favorite as Kill Bill Vol. 1 which is like saying I liked it, but Paul just wasn't as convincing as that guy Jesus.

Sacreligious is true and fine, especially now that my father has appeared on TV denouncing the Roman Catholic church (in an attempt to salvage it).

I _can_ guarantee he loved Serenity more, even, then I did, and I'm seeing it once again this weekend. He's seeing it at least twice, again this weekend and the thing is, I don't think he's alone. Genuinely _great fucking movie_. It sort of sneaks into my number two or three slot. I haven't decided yet. It's very close to my favorite movie of the year and it's into play on my favorite more ever list. If it were shorter it would eat slots, but it ends up kinda wordy and talking a bit. Funny-talkish, but that's problematic.

Anyway, mind, I love it, which is the most important lesson to take from this.

2005-09-26T00:19:00.000-04:00

Lord of War B

The kind of movie that I'm more glad for having watched than I actually enjoyed watching at the time. Nic Cage is brilliant as usual, but the relevent precident here is Blow which also enjoyed a stellar central performance by a great actor, but was hampered by usual plot mechanics of inevitablity. Blow is actually strikingly apt in comparison also because the main characters in both tales are intrinsically bad people, and the work for even worse people (Escobar is replaced here by Baptiste, but it's essentially the same sociopathic character) and you're supposed to feel, well, what, exactly?

It fits in a little to well with my generally liberal world-view for me not to feel icky with even the idea of liking it - it would be like patting myself on the back from several directions at once, which, I don't really play that.

2005-09-16T09:44:00.000-04:00

OK, to be more specific about why I like the Gorillaz video as much as I do, though I'm past the infatuation period at this exact moment, my friend (N) was buds with De La Soul way back when and he has since told me Posdnous had his brain connected somewhat. To see them again in this video makes me feel all cockled, as in my cockeles (of my heart) are all looking airbrushy right now. I also love the idea of animators creating videos, and I suspect this _is_ the future in a big way. Linkin Park is part of the trend toward this way, though their Numb/Encore production is way more instructive then they are as a band as such. Both hip-hop and Rap will be integrated into music, and more importantly is multimedia, which is to say videos will become more key than anything. Lesson here is from "Mark Romanek's "Closer", which is kinda maybe the best video ever, but which also showed the way toward videos which make the songs premanently better even just listening to them. Feel Good Inc. has this quality also.

Assuming I ever formed a band, which I wouldn't, I would absolutely ask an animator to be in my band, like, pronto. If they have musical talent (a la Mr. Hahn) then great. If they don't, um who cares? I need someone who c an bring the visual noise, and let's be honest, Jamie Hewlett may have significant musical skill or not, and I have no idea personally, but visually, he's near the head of the class of people who can make shit look aw3some. *

*intentional in terms of attempt to propogate a meme. It may not be reaching the right people, which is problematic, but this will tell me something, anyway.

2005-09-06T00:19:00.000-04:00

Feel Good Inc by the Gorillaz (video edition)

I don't think this can be over-rated by anyone ever. Hyperbole? perhaps? But it's a damn good song and it's a damn good video. Now part of this is my sheer respect for the various members of this super-supergroup. But oh my goodness is this a good video combining anime with a sort of laid-back style that is so American it hurts.

2005-09-05T10:48:00.000-04:00

More on Spartan, alas. And also more on personal intent. I will defend movies that are about defending girls with my life - though if those girls happen to kick ass, that's even better. Films with insanely intensely scripted dialouge, I'll love also. Continuity is a huge plus, but not key for me forming a relationship with that movie.

I guess, point is, I _Really liked Spartan a lot, as in maybe my favorite of that year lot and maybe even into my ten best movies ever sort of lot. It is _so_ sharp. I wish Mamet could be a better director of film, but his direction of actors deserves plaudits aplenty. His work here somehow borders between brlliant and fucking sterling as regards actor-handling, and that's keeping in mind that I have always liked Val Kilmer quite a bit (I think he was the actual protagonist in Top Gun though I also like Tom Cruise as an actor that makes excellent choices). Quite the sausage factory mess that I created for myself with that statement, eh?

2005-09-05T01:58:00.000-04:00

Movie log for 09/04/05:

40--year-Old Virgin, The (2005): B Much more R-Rated than you expected. Example line: "Are you gay? Because it's cool if you're gay. Do you like to fuck guys? Because I know guys that fuck guys. [3 second pause]. In prison." It sends you out, however, on an incredible high due to a musical number at the end, which if I'm ever a director I shall promise to end every comedy with a musical number.

Aristocrats, the (2005) B Who would have thought the dirtiest version of the joke would come from Bob Sagat (Though the South Park boys are a close third) In the middle is Sarah Silverman, whom I fucking adore on so many levels it isn't even funny, telling a truly offensive joke, pissing off one celebrity to the extent of suing, and also managing to turn a joke that's best as a meta-joke into a meta-meta-joke. Oh My God do I wish I were Jimmy Kimmel right at this second. But then, you know, you wake up, and say, Jimmy Kimmel?

Eurotrip (2004) B- But with my favorite cameo ever by Matt Damon. He proves that he is every bit as cool as he seems to be. The Affleck might be the suck but the Matt appears to be the man.

Spartan (2004) A(borderline A+): This rating is colored by how much I like writers. It is possibly the writers' best screenplay ever, right down to it's title which has a double entendre, assuming you get turned on by writing. And also, it has Kristen Bell) 2nd viewing.

Tesseract, The (2004): C-ish, undecided but leaning hard toward C- at best:. Will let you know later. Weakish source material (though I like, in general Alex Garlands writing dopesn't help. The first 10 minutes are silly stylish. Then, um, not so much in terms of distracting from a a plot that apparently defines itself on the basis of a hyper-cube, and, um, I havge passing knowing of quantum theory and astro-physics and I can't describe a hypercube to anybody that doesn't - fuck - I can barely describe it to myself. so but Alex Garland couldn't describe it to either Einstein or my new pet chipmunk: "chihuahua". And neither can Oxide Pang.

2005-09-01T17:43:00.000-04:00

A statement of Intent of sorts:

The intent is that this is the sucessor of the old blog which was an extension of the old blog though in this case the intent is to get more disciplined, as in, only write about things directly related to A&E. That said, we need to get a few things out front as early as possible:

1) I don't much care about men. They do scale in terms of regard but on a far more even level than women do:

2) Actresses, for me, occupy a special place in my universe. They are all on the "regard" scale, alas. And on the bright side for them, it is almost impossible for them to fall on the "regard" scale.

There is no non-bright side as far as I know. Examples of women that enjoy incredible regard: Jennifer Connely, Sarah Silverman, Any Twin Peaks sex kitten (Madchen Amick, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, Heather Graham, Moira Kelly, and Joan Chen), and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Why I adore them so is a weird combination of prettiness and smartness and willingness to choose good roles. Prettiness alone is not adequate even a bit.

Emma Thompson, for example, and she is profoundly pretty, but, shall we say a bit more wise than her colleagues in my standings, has extremely high regard. The profoundly untalented though certainly extremely pretty Kate Hudson on the other hand has the exact opposite of regard. Her regard level closes in on negative. And I said people can never lose regard - I was wrong.

Anyhow, that's how my actress (and to much lesser a level, my actor) thing works.

The reason this then comes up for me is that whilst I reallly didn't like Tiffani Amber Theissen at all, her Fastlane work is pretty awesome and so she has gained x number of points as regards regard. Though in all fairness, Peter Facinelli (who I would swear is Tom Cruise's brother were I not to know it isn't true) and Bill Bellami are recieving about 50% of those points as well, as s McG for producing the damn thing and directing the one shot I loved the most from the series.

2005-08-31T07:41:00.000-04:00

Toronto looks terribly stong this year, which happens about once every four or so years. The year that I went (2002) was not traditionally strong though I loved it a lot. Seeing 20 movies in 6 days does something interesting to you that this post is not really about. And I got to see and talk to Michael Almareyda, whom I respect, pretty much as much as any director working today - so that was good.

So anyway though, kinda wish I decided to go this year as I had planned. Instead I am venturing west just because I have never been. North and South Dakota and Wyoming, baby. Yeah!