Who’s watching his watch, man?

3 days before Watchmen was released, I found the following email from my wife in my inbox :

‘I have booked tickets to see Watchmen in the swanky seats on Saturday Evening.
How much do you love me now?’

Oh, Yeah…my wife rocks, and of course, the answer she was looking for was, ‘I couldn’t possibly love you anymore than I do already’. – But I think I did…just a little.

Trackback to 18 months ago and me borrowing a copy of Watchmen from El Dan, who had spouted nothing but good things about it in an overly enthusiastic, possibly unnaturally fuelled rant one day. Everything about the book astounded me, the artwork, the premise of the story, the writing and the depth of some of the characters was amazing to me. I wondered why I had never heard of it before and quickly decided I needed my own Journal. The hype surrounding the film had just begun to leak in to the geeky circles I manage to sit on the outskirts of, and I was being infected. I wanted more.

17 months and 2 weeks ago, I walked out of Borders in town with my very own shiny yellow blood splattered copy and took my happy ass off home to settle down in the Snug and absorb it for the second time. Quick note – I don’t have a Snug, but if I did, this is most defiantly where I would go to read this book.

I didn’t get to read the book straight away. After explaining about Watchmen to my Wife when I got home she promptly nicked my shiny new copy, and went and contracted the infection too.

So there we were. Sitting. Infected. Waiting.

A few weeks later…

EL DAN : ‘Morning, beht….seen the Watchmen trailer?  It’s F&*kin’ rinsin’

Cue spilled Tea & short wobble, before falling off chair in the office and crashing to the floor with my happy face on.
B : ‘Errr…No’
EL DAN : ‘You OK, beht?’

So I sat at work and wasted a morning watching and re-watching, what I reckon had to be the most anticipated trailer ever for me. And what a trailer!

This film had to look good – it was a given really, but what set the trailer alight for me what the music. A remixed version of Smashing Pumpkins ‘The Beginning is the End is the Beginning’ had been beautifully mixed to parts of the iconic action sequences of the book. It’s a breathtaking trailer and the music made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, partly because of the audio/visual mix and party because Billy Corgan’s voice also brings back so many memories from my musical youth.

It’s such an innocent feeling when music does that to you. I love it.

B. Minor