great scott

Always the last one to catch on, I finally watched Scott Pilgrim vs. The World yesterday, and I just don't know how to describe how fantastic I think it is, so I am going to try a list form of random thoughts....
1) Computer game references that are very generation-specific like 1UP, coin collecting and KO (I 'KO' my boyfriend all the time, not literally but in too hard to explain ways, so we particularly enjoyed this) and crappy old sound card noises

2) This is a PR film for bass guitars, meeoowwww. My brother is someone who helped get me in to alternative music (well, suggested paths) and he's an ace on bass so I used to be quite into bass lines (especially in punk bands like Rancid) so it was nice to be appreciating the burly instrument again

3) chick drummer. But not in a hot way, not in an angry butch lesbian way just in an outspoken kick arse way

4) Teenage Dream - T-REX (yes, way before Katy Perry, and it's not a T-REX song you hear very often) and, probably my fave Stones song 'Under My Thumb'. They're both used really well too.

5) Seinfeld scene

6) Micheal Cera. I know he plays the same character in every film, although I feel there was some development in his playing of Scott. I also love how they cast his girlfriend Anne from Arrested Development as one of the evil exes. Not a may-anne-egg in sight though

7) Bathos

8) great female characters, and no real hotties so I didn't have to get upset or worry about the bf perving

9) The name Knives

I am sorry that I haven't read the comics, I am one of those twats, but my brother has them so perhaps I will give them a go; considering I read rock autobiographies it really can't be a step down in intelligence stakes.

Throughout I was reminded of this song and look what some bright spark has done with it, Jem and the Holograms, sweet deal.