...according to Weird Al himself on the song's YouTube page, this song will not be part of his forthcoming album! In Al's own words:This is my parody of Lady Gaga's song "Born This Way" -- which, I'm sorry to say, will NOT be included on my upcoming album. I will give the details of the whole Gaga saga (and offer free mp3 downloads of the song) on weirdal.com very soon.If this is at Lady Gaga's insistence, I hope she will come to realize that to...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
President Kenendy demanded classified UFO files ten days before assassination
Somewhere tonight, The X-Files creator Chris Carter is certainly licking his chops about this...President John F. Kennedy wrote two letters to the head of the CIA, asking for highly classified files pertaining to the existence of unidentified flying objects.And JFK sent the letters on November 12th, 1963: just ten days before he was killed by an assassin(s?) bullet(s?) in...
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Classic SESAME STREET: Don Music tries to write a song
For this Sunday night, I ain't got nothing!Well, nothing except this vintage Sesame Street clip, with Kermit the Frog doing his reporter gig from the studio of master songwriter Don Music, as Music bangs his head on the piano in frustration over his latest work...
Friday, April 15, 2011
Chris sees ATLAS SHRUGGED, PART 1 and says it's a SPECTACULAR movie and the most elegant adaptation he's EVER beheld!
Six nights ago I was sitting in a theater in Asheville, North Carolina during ActionFest for a midnight screening of Hobo With A Shotgun, with a mostly male audience that didn't quite fill all the seats in the house.A short while ago, I came back from the one theater in Greensboro, North Carolina that's showing Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 on its opening day, and I saw it with a...
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Animated THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. 'Nuff said...
What is regarded by many as the greatest Batman story ever told may be getting the DC animated treatment very soon...Entertainment website Bleeding Cool is reported that The Dark Knight Returns is being adapted by the same team that worked on All Star Superman and the upcoming animated rendition of Batman: Year One.Hailed as the defining treatment of Batman for the modern...
A vow of liberty and conscience
I swear by the life that God alone has given me, that I shall control no man nor be controlled by any m...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
"What hath God wrought"
Because I have such a love of history, Samuel Morse's first message by telegraph seemed more than a fitting first post to make from my new iPad ...
Chris finally recovers enough from ActionFest 2011 to file a report!
I got back from ActionFest late on Sunday afternoon. And I'm still whomp-boggingly exhausted from the sheer awesomeness of it! Part of me wants to crawl back into bed and try to recuperate some more. But being a responsible blogger, I can't do that!So here's my report comin' atcha!!(I said it during my live Twitter-ing from ActionFest and I'll say it again: the girl in...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Today is also 30th anniversary of the first Space Shuttle flight!
Wow. Lots of history to be commemorated today. Now I'm being reminded that it was thirty years ago today that the first Space Shuttle flight - which was the orbiter Columbia - took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida.Here's footage of the launch...I remember watching that! 'Twas knee-high to a grasshopper as they say. It was supposed to have lifted off a day or two before, but the launch was scrubbed 'cuz of technical problems. And I was about...
50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space!
Longtime readers of this blog know that one bit of history that I'm particularly fond of is Russian space exploration. Say what one might about the policies of the Soviet government during those early years, I can't help but have huge appreciation for the engineers and pilots who took part in that endeavor. It wasn't politics that drove those men and women: just good ol'...
The American Civil War began 150 years ago today
I have heard many dissenting opinions during my lifetime as to who fired the first shot: the Union army that was holding Fort Sumter, or the newly-minted Confederate army (which is said to have initiated hostilities with a 10-inch mortar round from nearby Fort Johnston).But there is no dispute about the fact that the bombardment of Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston,...
Have we learned NOTHING from Joel Schumacher?!?
As if the costume design for the Broadway trainwreck called Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark wasn't bad enough...Here are the duds that'll be worn by the cast of the new touring Batman Live show:Click on over to GeekTyrant for a couple more pics, including a close-up of what must be the most ridiculous Joker costume in the history of anythi...
Monday, April 11, 2011
Little girl turns to the Dark Side at Disneyland
This video made my day! While at Disneyland with her family Sariah Gallego got picked to jump on the stage of the Jedi Training Academy feature. But this was one girl who wasn't satisfied with being a mere Padawan learner! No, she wanted something... more. She wanted to follow her passion. Even if that meant turning to the Dark Side of the Force.And so in front of everybody including no less a person than Mace Windu, Sariah swore allegiance...
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Back from ActionFest!
I am... frazzled.But then again, four nearly nonstop days of action movies at the world's only film festival devoted to action movies and the (largely unsung) talented individuals who make them happen, will do that to anyone. Heck, just back-to-back nights of Never Back Down 2, Black Dynamite and Hobo With A Shotgun is enough to pack a wallop!Full report coming soon. I gotta decompress first ...
Sidney Lumet has passed away
I'm still in the mist of ActionFest (report coming soon) and without a digital rig of my own to publish when I wish. But even so, this sort of thing demands a moment to pause and remember...Just read where Sidney Lumet, one of the greatest directors in motion picture history, has passed away. He directed Network, Serpico, The Verdict, and many many other classic films.Think I'll watch Twelve Angry men when I get back home, in his memo...
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Gone to ActionFest in Asheville!
"The Film Festival With A Body Count" is back... BIGGER AND BADDER AND BLOODIER THAN EVER!Yes faithful readers, in a short while I shall depart home for a few days and drive out into the dusk for the mountains of North Carolina. Destination: Asheville. The reason? the second-ever ActionFest! The inaugural festival last year was a huge success (here's the after-carnage...
Chris sort-of reviews TRON: LEGACY 5-Disc Blu-ray Collector's Set (which also includes original TRON on Blu-ray!)
Tron: Legacy came out on DVD and Blu-ray yesterday. I've been eager to own this ever since catching the movie this past New Year's Eve (click here for my initial review of the movie), not only 'cuz I thought it was a great film and worthy follow-up to the 1982 original Tron, but because I was seriously giddy to see how this flick would look on my high-def home entertainment...
