Punctuation? Yes, Please!

Before I get into what I really meant to write about today, may I please have a moment of silence for the English language? The comments sections of YouTube and Songmeanings.net-- with posters' run-on sentences ("omg this song is sooo cool i don't know what it means but DM is one of my fave groups yeah!"), lazy non-capitalization, and utter disregard for the rules of punctuation may just finish driving in the stake with which chatroom jargon and, later, texting, fatally wounded English in the later part of the last century and the beginning of this one. Granted, I'm not the most technically proficient English speaker/writer on the face of the planet (I fucking bag groceries for a living, okay?), but I can at least form a complete sentence and manage to capitalize proper nouns.

Deep breath. Okay, that's the end of today's rant. The sort-of cool thing I actually wanted to blog about today, before I got absorbed in looking up the lyrics to "A Question of Time" and then disgusted with poor grammar, is District 9, a film coming out later this summer. The trailer, which you can check out here, initially looks like a documentary concerning illegal immigration-- which it is, although it's revealed that the aliens in question are of the extraterrestrial sort. It's an intriguing concept, made even more provocative by the film's website, which is linked, ARG-style, to a trio of sites concerning MNU, a shadow megacorporation that apparently handles relations between humans and "non-humans".

Anyway, sort of a cool-looking movie, and I'll probably see it when it comes out on August 14th. If you've got some spare time on your hands and were a fan of the elaborate ARG surrounding the 2007 release of Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero album, the film's website (d-9.com) is worth checking out.