Tonight at 9 p.m. I'll be co-hosting Monday Night Live for the entire hour along with Ken Echols (Mark Childrey couldn't make it tonight so he asked if I could fill in). I've been asked to bring along copies of Forcery and the promo for Schrodinger's Bedroom so looks like I'll be able to shill for KWerky Productions some in addition to the usual insanity that happens on that show. Click here if you'd like to watch it streaming live over the Internet...
Monday, March 12, 2007
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Intro sequence from Star Wars: TIE Fighter
Star Wars: TIE Fighter came out in June of 1994. I'd been waiting months for its release: earlier that winter I'd bought the original Star Wars: X-Wing and played it like crazy on my then brand-new 486 25-mhz computer (with 4 megabytes of RAM and a 170 MB hard drive). Well on its release date I was at Babbage's in Four Seasons Mall right when they opened, plunked down the money and took it home, where I eagerly installed it (from like 6 DOS floppy...
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Enzyte
Who the hell buys this stuff?I've seen two Enzyte commercials twice in the past hour or so (which is two times too many). And I mean... seriously, who in the world could possibly be conned into paying good money for this?I only started noticing the Enzyte commercials a few months ago when I was working at the TV station. We never ran the ads ourselves, but they were part of the packages with a number of syndicated programs that we did run, so I...
Friday, March 09, 2007
He's on a mission from God
27 years after Jake and Elwood did it, somebody has finally acted out in real life the mall scene from The Blues Brothers. Stephen Lowe of Augusta, Georgia drove his SUV plum through the glass doors of the Augusta Mall and drove all over the place inside the mall. He even did Jake and Elwood one better: Lowe drove on the top floor of the mall. See some amazing footage of...
GO WOLFPACK!
Yee-haw!!! 85-80 over Duke in overtime in the first round of the ACC Tournament.I'm just now finding out about this! I can't believe that I missed this game! AAAARRGGGHHHH...Speaking of N.C. State, tomorrow is March 10th. That's my Dad's birthday. March 10th is also the birthday of Jim Valvano. He would have been 61 tomorrow. Can't believe it's been almost fourteen years already since he was taken from us. I can't tell you how many people...
CONFIRMED: Rorschach is REALLY gazing back in new 300 trailer!
It's probably gonna be the biggest geek story of the week and Ain't It Cool News is verifying it this morning: 1 minute and 52 seconds into this extended trailer for 300, the following image appears VERY briefly (this pic is from a cap I took and it took a bit to nail it down)...After all these years of saying it couldn't be done... and even that it shouldn't be done...I guess...
"And starring Eddie Murphy as Tattoo!"
Dear Lord, when it rains it pours...This has been one crap-tacular weak on the pop culture front. First it's Captain America getting killed off. Then we hear that a film version of Gump and Company (the loathsome sequel to the novel Forrest Gump) is in the works.Now this: Eddie Murphy will star in a movie remake of Fantasy Island.For those of you who may have only come of age in the 90s or this decade, Fantasy Island ran from 1978 until 1984 and...
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Finally an (almost) complete set of Harry Potter
There's a book fair going on at my wife's school this week. She bought a few things from it and brought them home. Chief among them is this hardcover copy of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets:This needs some 'splainin' about why this is a big thing for me. The first Harry Potter book I bought was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire back in June of 2000, right after...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Cursory reaction to tonight's LOST
I'm going to have to watch this again but...WOW!!!The mythology is definitely developing further, although this episode - titled "Enter 77" - seemed to ask as many questions as it answered.Will try to be as spoiler-free as I can here: notice how that's now two of those things that Locke has managed to destroy?May post some more thoughts tomorrow, after watching it aga...
FORREST GUMP 2 ?!? Dear Lord, spare us this...
Works has begun on a sequel to the 1994 movie Forrest Gump.Presumably it's going to be based on Gump and Company, Winston Groom's sequel to his original novel Forrest Gump.I'm probably one of the few who will actually admit to reading Gump and Company and let's just say that... it wasn't good. The most ridiculous part was when Forrest and Lieutenant Dan commandeer a tank during the Gulf War, drive all the way to Baghdad and capture Saddam Hussein....
Marvel Universe: Maybe it's time for a reboot?
Geoff made this comment on the post about Captain America getting killed in the Marvel Comics..."Marvel is a crazy universe. I can't believe the did this."Me neither, Geoff. But it does lend some validity to something I've been thinking for awhile, about the Marvel Comics universe...It's this "moving time" principle by which Marvel establishes that all of its comics are canon, even though most of them now contradict real-world stuff. I mean, it's...
Captain America has been assassinated!
Breaking on news outlets everywhere now. Cap had just surrendered after the events of Marvel Comics' Civil War #7 and was being taken into a courthouse when he was shot and killed by an unidentified assailant.I say: if he's dead, let him stay dead. Let his death have meaning. 'Course this being Marvel Comics, it's probably only a matter of time before Doctor Strange does some mystical hoodoo and not only resurrects Cap, but mind-wipes everyone...
LOST tonight promises to be one of the best ever
On the November 1st episode of Lost - titled "The Cost of Living" - Locke led some of the castaways back to the Pearl Station, hoping to use the equipment there to locate Jack, Kate and Sawyer. While Sayid was playing around with the electronics of the video feed, this man appeared on one of the monitors before abruptly disabling his camera...Who is this guy? For some reason...
France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence
I was in France years ago. It's a nice place that gets too much of a bad rap: I found the people to be quite friendly (and the food there is delicious). But when they screw up... maaaaan can they do it bigtime. The French government has made it illegal for anyone other than "professional journalists" to video or otherwise document acts of violence.First of all, what the hell is a "professional journalist"? Journalism isn't something you're supposed...
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Physics laws that Hollywood ignores
Neatorama has a list of 9 laws of physics that are routinely ignored by producers of motion pictures. Among the conveniently forgotten concepts: bullets don't spark when they hit metal, cars don't usually explode and sound doesn't move at the speed of light.This article has inspired me to make all my future movies adhere to physical principles. Which will probably significantly drop the number of people who will want to watch them, but hey you...
Monday, March 05, 2007
Stomach-turning testimony about Walter Reed makes me wonder...
I just saw about this on the evening news. Here's the link to a story about it.Here's what I can't help but wonder: after all these years, the U.S. government is just now coming to find out about the HORRIBLE conditions in military hospitals?!I was hearing bad stories about those places when I was like 5 years old, and have only heard more of the same over the years.I agree with what expert witness Annette McLeod told the House panel today: if these...
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Finally watched THE PRESTIGE
The Prestige is a movie that I really wanted to see when it came out but I was too wrapped up in my school board campaign to do so at the time. It's just come out on DVD and it arrived at our place via Netflix a few days ago. So tonight Lisa and I put it in and checked it out...Man, I can't remember when was the last time I saw a movie that I just had to watch again. I'll...
