Yesterday, I mentioned that I was surprised there weren't any officials trailers or posters out for the new X-Files movie.  Looks like I spoke too soon.  There's a new X-Files poster in town and it looks pretty cool. 

Has anyone read any of Simon R. Green's Nightside books?  I'm reading the first one now, about 100 pages into it, and I have to admit I'm a little bit smitten by it.  I'm thinking Jim Butcher fans would really like it (he actually blurbed the book I'm reading) and it does for me what I was hoping the Dresden Files would.  Imagine the middle brother of John Constantine Hellblazer and Fox Mulder  and you'll get Nightside's John Taylor.  Nightside is like Gaiman's London Below, a dark, gothic fantasy world with all kinds of creepiness, humor, and danger; Taylor is the P.I. for hire who doesn't solve things, he finds things, and he lets us ride shotgun while he takes us on a tour of the dark landscape in search of his latest job.  My one complaint is that the characters seem to feel the need to remind us often that that's just how it is "in the Nightside," but the rest of it is so much pulpy fun, I'm fine with it. 

Finally, local SoCal punk band Pennywise has a new album out, Reason to Believe, and for the next couple of weeks you can download it from their myspace account for free.  This isn't necessarily an endorsement.  I like some punk music quite a bit, and I was in HS when Pennywise first started getting big (although they were one of those bands that really shunned "getting big").  I confess, aside from "Bro Hymn," I never really got them.  But I grabbed the new album to give them another chance.  It's okay, for a free album, but I'm not sure it changes my opinion of them.  Has anyone else heard it?  What do you think?