Of what it is

2008-09-08T20:50:00.001-07:00

Testing out ping.fm's twitter posting from AIM. I wish there was a sms ping.

Of what it is Updates.

2007-12-16T23:52:00.000-08:00

ofwhatitis.com has been a success so far. What started out as 1 website for everything soon became 3 different sites.

http://ofwhatitis.com

Creative commons record label and home base for a network of sites.

http://underthedog.com

Webzine quite similar to this one.

http://pickyourbattles.net

Political commentary from a non partisan slant.

ofwhatitis.com is now live and online...

2007-03-30T07:44:00.000-07:00

http://ofwhatitis.com

I have a hideous splash page of only text right now with a link to my blog and the template of my blog incomplete but with a small amount of functionality.

http://ofwhatitis.com

Blogger has been a good experience but being an actual webpage master makes it a little harder to shirk responsibility... So update your bookmarks and feedreaders...

If you found this from a link somewhere, lemme know where that link was so I can get it changed...

Of what it is is moving...

2007-03-27T11:06:00.000-07:00

To real hosting yall! I just sent off the order for my domain and a year of hosting. So you will see some changes around here. 1st off, I'll probably leave blogger for the greener pastures of wordpress. 2nd, a template change will occur. For the time being, I will be doing the bare minimum posting with box office, new crap Tuesdays and opening this week only getting done for now. I try to c and p a few new stories here and there but I can't make any promises though...

New Crap Tuesdays 3/27/07

2007-03-26T11:17:00.000-07:00

DVD

Children of Men

Clive Owen stars as a burned-out activist in a hopeless future plagues by infertility and the spiritual devastation of a world with now future in Alfonso Cuarón's gripping adaptation of the P.D James novel. When his long-estranged wife (Julianne Moore), now the leader of an underground revolutionary group, enlists him for a mission, he finds hope and responsibility again when he is trusted to save the first pregnant woman (Clare-Hope Ashitey) in almost twenty years. Nominated for three Academy Awards, including one for Emmanuel Lubezki's magnificent cinematography, it co-stars Michael Caine an aging hippie hiding out in the forest, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam, Danny Huston, and Peter Mullan. Details: Color, 110 mins, Universal, Widescreen anamorphic, 1.85:1. Supplements: Deleted Scenes; Featurette: The Possibility of Hope; Featurette: Under Attack; "Children of Men" Comments by Slavoj Zizek; Theo & Julian; Futuristic Design; Visual Effects: Creating the Baby. Audio: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1) and Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1). Optional Spanish, French and English subtitles.

I'm considering owning this. I watched it twice in the theaters and I enjoyed it both times. Lots of goodies on this release...

Forget the trailer, watch these scenes and then tell me you don't wanna see this movie... Safe for work these clips are not...

The Pursuit of Happyness

Will Smith earned an Academy Award nomination starring opposite his real-life son (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith) in this drama inspired by the true story of Chris Gardner, a San Francisco salesman and single father who endures eviction and homeless shelters to complete a competitive unpaid internship for a long-shot at a big paying career. Directed by Gabriele Muccino, it co-stars Thandie Newton, James Karen, Dan Castellaneta, and Kurt Fuller. Details: Color, 117 mins, Sony Pictures, Widescreen anamorphic. Supplements: Father and Son: Onscreen and Off ; The Man Behind the Movie: A Conversation with Chris Gardner; Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream ; Inside the Rubik's Cube ; "I Can" Song (audio only) ; Audio commentary with director Gabriele Muccino . Audio: English (Dolby Digital 5.1) and French (Dolby Digital 5.1). Optional Spanish, French and English subtitles.

Rent this one, it's worth a watch but dear lord don't waste your money owning it.

Curse of the Golden Flower

(China) Chow Yun-fat is steely as a scheming Emperor and Gong Li fiercely determined as the Empress he's slowly poisoning in Zhang Yimou's spectacle of court intrigue, royal assassinations, and private wars in the 10th century. As the conspiracies develop, the loyal sons become forced to choose sides. Yimou directs it more like a lavish theatrical pageant than action movie, though the martial arts scenes are impressive. Jay Chou, Liu Ye, and Chen Jin co-star. Details: Color, 114 mins, Sony Pictures, Widescreen anamorphic, 2.35:1. Supplements: "Secrets Within" behind-the-scenes featurette; Los Angeles Premiere. Audio: Mandarin (Dolby Digital 5.1) and English (Dolby Digital 5.1). Optional French and English subtitles.

I came into this movie expecting a movie with lots of action. There is a small amount of action but what this movie ended up being was "Marie Antoinette" with ninjas. Awesome use of color and damn good cinematography all around. Zhang Yimou directed "Hero" FYI. I recommend everyone watch this once...

Ha ha Chinese "rap metal" video with a song that is not in the movie but has footage...

Proper trailer...

MUSIC

J Dilla: Ruff Draft

I Haven't heard this one yet, but for those who don't know who J Dilla was, he was a very respected producer in the hip-hop community and he died recently. This is his third post humus release. Apparently there is a really rare ep of the same name and this is a VERY expanded version.

Adult. : Why Bother?

Sassy electro. I don't really like it. Sorry...

Box Office Report 3/26/07

2007-03-26T07:47:00.000-07:00

USA Weekend Box-Office Summary
23 March 2007 (Sunday Estimates)
Rank Title Weekend Gross
1. TMNT (2007) $25.4M $25.4M
2. 300 (2006) $20.5M $162M
3. Shooter (2007) $14.5M $14.5M
4. Wild Hogs (2007) $14.4M $124M
5. Premonition (2007/I) $10.1M $32.2M
6. The Hills Have Eyes II (2007) $10M $10M
7. The Last Mimzy (2007) $9.5M $9.5M
8. Reign Over Me (2007) $8M $8M
9. Pride (2007) $4M $4M
10. Dead Silence (2007) $3.47M $13.2M

TMNT wasn't @ my theater, so dunno what the crowd was like, but I though the top movies would be mimzy or reign over me. I haven't seen any of the new releases yet so I dunno if they are any good. Oh well, it did better than pride...

Shutdown Day

2007-03-24T01:47:00.000-07:00

I have planned to make Saturdays "editorial day", but this week, I'm just pointing you to this one site...

http://www.shutdownday.org/

Here is a pretty darn good one to share...

POLITICS: How Much for That Baby in the Window?

Mar 22, 2007 22:00:00 GMT

File this one under "unlikely to become law--riiight?" Texas state Senator Dan Patrick (R, as if you needed to ask) plans to introduce a bill to, get this, pay women $500 for their babies. No, I am not shitting you.

The bill proposes to create an "Adoption Incentive Program" which would give

a $500 payment to each woman who is a resident of this state and a citizen of the United States who places a child for adoption rather than have an abortion.

Once you get over the "did they just say pay women for putting their children up for adoption?" shocker, the practical--and, sadly, probable--reasons this won't pass start to come into focus. Obviously--obviously--the state of Texas doesn't want to just throw money around! And certainly not to birth mothers. So the money is only for women who place babies for adoption instead of abortion. But how would you ensure that? Obviously women who put babies up for adoption are unreliable sorts--they might just lie and say that they had chosen adoption instead of abortion in order to get the money. So the bill goes on to declare that

The department may only distribute the application forms to abortion providers.

So you're pregnant, you decide you cannot keep this pregnancy, you make an appointment with an abortion provider and you show up and there's a parental consent law (if you're under 18) and a mandatory 24-hour waiting period just to make sure you've thought about this, missy, and now they're also going to try one last ditch oh, hey, but would you reconsider if we offered you $500?

Honey, $500 isn't even going to pay for the extra groceries you'll eat during a pregnancy. Let alone the prenatal care, if you're not insured or on Medicaid, or the cost of the birth.

Senator Patrick, would you agree to take care of a neighbor's dog for nine months for a measly $500? Where the fuck do you get the balls to offer women $500 to rent out their uteruses and sell their children?

Bitch_PhD is pleased to find that we've advanced beyond the era when Jonathan Swift wrote A Modest Proposal; at least now a boy or a girl before twelve years old is a salable commodity.

Cross-posted at Bitch Ph.D.

(Written by: Bitch_PhD)

Bilboard for the movie captivity taken down.

2007-03-23T20:17:00.000-07:00

I made it small because it is kinda gross...

They were put up in the morning and lasted till 2 pm.

A lot of people say the movie captivity is a torture porn movie, but when I saw the director also directed and produced the super mario bros movie, I knew it should be a little tame...

Either way I probably won;t watch it...

Opening this weekend 3/23/07

2007-03-23T00:02:00.000-07:00

Stupid blogger screwed up the posts again....

What a busy weekend! 5 national releases for americans to spend their hard earned 6.50 matinee or 9 dollars regular. 2 childrens movies are coming out this weekend when there hasn't been much aimed at kids since 2 flops(Happily Never After and Arthur and the Invisibles).

Reign Over Me

Mike Binder director of "Blankman" is directing a feelgood movie starring Adam Sandler playing a very depressed person because lost his family to 9/11. I'll letcha know when I see it but I wouldn't take my chances on it.

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Shooter

Forgive me because I haven't seen tears of the sun and I love war movies. Who doesn't. I have heard that tears f the sun was awesome but I wouldn't know. This is big budget Hollywood for sure, Mark Wahlberg getting framed for the crime he is trying to stop and solving the mystery of the government conspiracy and clearing his name.

From the IMDB boards...

After viewing this movie tonight I have to give

an honest opinion. To sum everything up, Shooter was mediocre at best.

The whole plot was almost parallel to the movie 'Most Wanted' and

several others. The action sequences were fair, but were intertwined

with scenes of poor dialog and 'cheap humor'. By this i mean making

references to people like Anna Nicole Smith and other references that

seemed completly out of place within the context of the film. There is

also an undercurring theme of anti-americanism felt from this film.

Many times during the movie, there are quotes pertaining to the

'incompetence' of our government. Shooter tries to portray anyone

invovled with the government as a heartless, half-minded, cruel

individual. The acting by mark Whalberg and the rest of the cast was

again, mediocre at best. All in all, I would rate this movie a 5/10,

and if it wern't for a free screening I would not adivse paying 8.00 to

see this. Wait a month and a half for a DVD release.

In the movies defense there were people that liked it too...

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TMNT

CGI, PG. Need I say more?

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The Last Mimzy

I never knew so much controversy could be in one movie. New Line is the studio putting this film out and apparently the Bob Shaye director is a real douchebag. Apparently he fired Peter Jackson from the hobbit. Who the hell fires Peter Jackson from the hobbit?

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Bohemian Rhapsody apparently syncs up with the trailer...

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The Hills Have Eyes II

I'm boycotting this movie because it has a rape scene. I don't like watching rape or torture in movies. That is all I care to say on the subject at this time

LOL Modest mouse is EMO and Issac Brock cuts himself

2007-03-21T23:49:00.000-07:00

Issac Brock was seen cutting himself on stage at a show in Sioux Falls.

Video proof

Source

Speechless

2007-03-21T23:01:00.001-07:00

Disclaimer: Jehovah's Witness' do not condone abusing children.

Source

Sadistic foster mother's 19-year reign of terror

20.03.07

A

foster mother was found guilty today of subjecting three young children

to a "horrifying catalogue of cruel and sadistic treatment".
Eunice

Spry, 62, routinely beat, abused and starved the youngsters in her care

over a 19 year period. The devout Jehovah's Witness forced sticks down

their throats and made them eat their own vomit and rat excrement.

Eunice Spry regularly beat and starved children in her care
As

punishment for misbehaving, she would beat them on the soles of their

feet and force them to drink washing up liquid and bleach.
Spry,

a pillar of her local community in Gloucestershire, staunchly denied

all the claims made against her and insisted the only physical

punishment she ever used was "a smack on the bottom".
But a jury at Bristol Crown Court convicted of a series of charges.
During

the four-week trial the jury heard some harrowing evidence detailing

how Spry had subjected the children to a regime of abuse.
The

three victims, known as Victim A, B and C, all gave evidence describing

how their daily routines were punctuated by random acts of bizarre and

sadistic violence at the hands of their foster mother.
Kerry Barker, prosecuting, told how Victim A, now aged 21, was imprisoned in a wheelchair by the woman following a car crash.

The child's hand has been rubbed raw with sandpaper
Spry had tried to stop Victim A from trying to walk again following the crash so she could get more compensation money.
Victim B, also 21, told how her foster mother would pull her hair and shove her face in her pet dog's faeces as punishment.
Victim

C, now 18, described how his foster mother held his hand down on a hot

electric hob until it was left looking like a "gooey mess".
He

said he had been force-fed so much washing up liquid by Spry that he

could now differentiate between the brands on taste alone.
The

offences took place in two of Spry's homes in Gloucestershire between

1986 and 2005. Mr Barker, had told the jury: "On hearing the indictment

the word that probably sticks in your mind is cruelty.
"That is

what this case is about. It is a history of cruelty by Eunice Spry who

was an adoptive mother over a long period of time."

Face injuries of Victim A

The abuse was finally discovered after another Jehovah's Witness

secretly confronted the wheelchair-bound Victim A about marks to her

head caused when Spry rubbed sandpaper over her face.
Victim A finally plucked up the courage to report her foster mother to the police who quickly interviewed Victim B and C.
Mr Barker added: "The outcome of the interviews was a horrifying catalogue of cruel and sadistic treatment.
"Most of the acts were carried out as punishment; others were inexplicable acts of cruelty."
He said the children would be regularly punished for minor acts of misbehaviour.
Mr Barker explained: "They were made to eat lard and drink washing up liquid poured down their throats.

They called it home: Spry's foster children lived in squalor, with little in the way of comforts
"If they were sick (she) would make them eat the vomit and they were made to eat rat excrement."
He said that Spry would regularly beat the children on the soles of the feet with a "variety of sticks".
They would be "punched kicked and strangled", and if they cried the sticks would be forced down their throats.
Mr Barker said Spry used unusual punishments such as making the children lean against the side of a wall.

The bedrooms in which Eunice Spry's foster children slept were strewn with rubbish
If they moved, the soles of their feet would again be beaten with the sticks.
Full

cans of food would be thrown directly in their faces and they would

have their heads forcibly held under the water while in the bath.
Victim

A told how when she was a young girl her foster mother had fixed a sign

to the back of one her dress to cause embarrassment in public. The

message read: "This child is evil. Do not look at her or talk to her.

She wets the bed and is an attention seeker."
Victim A was

involved in a serious traffic accident in 2000. Doctors told the girl,

who suffered horrific injuries, that she would be confined to a

wheelchair for up to six months after the crash.
But medical experts who examined her soon found there was no physical reason why she could not walk.
Spry

refused a series of tests to find out what was behind the girl's

mysterious condition and deliberately hindered her recuperation in a

cynical bid to maximise the compensation payout she could get from

insurers.
In 2004, Child A fled from her foster mother and walked

on the very same day. She later confessed that Spry had forced her to

remain in the wheelchair since 2000.
Mr Barker said on one occasion Spry had forced Child C to place his hand over an electric ring on a cooker causing blistering.
He added that Spry was able to conceal her alleged reign of abuse as the children were home taught and not sent to school.
She has also terrified the children so much with her ritualistic abuse that they were too frightened to alert the authorities.
Spry

covered her tracks by forbidding them to be examined on their own by

doctors or dentists. She maintained her innocence throughout police

interviews and during the subsequent trial.

Band of the Week- 3/21/07-Jarvis Cocker

2007-03-21T04:41:00.001-07:00

I heard a song in the credits of "Children of Men" and I could not believe my ears. It had the word "c___"in it. Granted people in Britain use it more often in different ways than Americans do, it still plays loudly and anybody walking by on their way to see "The Pursuit of Happyness" might be subjected to hearing the word "c___" at least once while the song played with multiple times possible should the person decide to investigate. Some people think it's a gimmick but I can't help but kinda agree with Jarvis Cocker when he says that they're "still running the world".

http://www.youtube.com/v/e_M22STINYw

Jarvis was the singer of the band Pulp. I think the thing they will be remembered for the most was the song on the "trainspotting" soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/v/1ukcPaOu804

Here is another video...

http://www.youtube.com/v/1ukcPaOu804

Technorati Tags: Band of the week, indie, music, review, video,

New Crap Tuesdays 3/20/07

2007-03-20T01:36:00.000-07:00

Disclaimer... bl;ogger is being weird and I can't figure out why my post looks so funny...

Good week for music, not so much for DVD...

DVD

Blood Diamond:

I watched this movie in a sneak preview at my theater, it was pretty good. A lot of people were turned off by Leo DiCaprio's accent but I thought he nailed it. Plenty of action and blood plus plenty of downtime for the ladies. Some people called it heavy handed, I call it a good rent if you've seen evrything else.

Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave

Ha ha another ROTLD, the 5th in the series, I'm not sure if this is strait to video or what but I'm sure it'll suck... In a good way... Here is a crappy homemade trailer...

Music

I'll Sleep When You're Dead by El-P

By far the best Hip-Hop album so far this year. Lots of unconventional guests like cat power and trent reznor. Cop this one for sure...

Drums And Guns by Low

Pretty good stuff, these guys are pretty consistent and I have listened to it a bunch...

We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank by Modest Mouse
Well, I'm sure everyone knows by Jhonny Marr of the Smiths fame is an official member of the band lending his guitar and songwriting talents. I personally haven't liked this and the last record but if you are a fan of "good news" then you will love this one...

Living With The Living by Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

I didn't like it... I think I already deleted my advance copy.

Box Office Report 3/19/07

2007-03-19T02:33:00.000-07:00

USA Weekend Box-Office Summary
16 March 2007
Rank Title Weekend Gross

1. 300 (2006) $32.9M $129M

2. Wild Hogs (2007) $19.1M $104M

3. Premonition (2007/I) $17.6M $17.6M

4. Dead Silence (2007) $7.84M $7.84M

5. I Think I Love My Wife (2007) $5.67M $5.67M

6. Bridge to Terabithia (2007) $5.19M $75M

7. Ghost Rider (2007) $4.18M $110M

8. Zodiac (2007) $3.29M $29.1M

9. Norbit (2007) $2.77M $92.4M

10. Music and Lyrics (2007) $2.27M $47.4M

Rank	Title	Weekend	Gross
1.	300 (2006)	`$32.9M`	`$129M`
2.	Wild Hogs (2007)	`$19.1M`	`$104M`
3.	Premonition (2007/I)	`$17.6M`	`$17.6M`
4.	Dead Silence (2007)	`$7.84M`	`$7.84M`
5.	I Think I Love My Wife (2007)	`$5.67M`	`$5.67M`
6.	Bridge to Terabithia (2007)	`$5.19M`	`$75M`
7.	Ghost Rider (2007)	`$4.18M`	`$110M`
8.	Zodiac (2007)	`$3.29M`	`$29.1M`
9.	Norbit (2007)	`$2.77M`	`$92.4M`
10.	Music and Lyrics (2007)	`$2.27M`	`$47.4M`

No surprises here, 300 is now 205th in all time box office scores. I did expect "I think I love my Wife" to do way better as well as "Dead Silence". Wild Hogs wouldn't be doing so well except for the fact that nothing else is out right now...

Opening this weekend 3/16/07

2007-03-16T01:32:00.000-07:00

I Think I Love My Wife

Could be funny, one of the writers is Louis C.K. who has a pretty impressive resume...

Louis C.K.: Shameless (2007) (TV)
"Lucky Louie" (4 episodes, 2006)
"Saturday Night Live" (1975) TV Series (unknown episodes)
"One Night Stand" (2005) TV Series (unknown episodes)
Saint Louie (2004) (TV)
"Cedric the Entertainer Presents" (2002) TV Series (unknown episodes)
2002 MTV Movie Awards (2002) (TV)
"Comedy Central Presents" (2 episodes, 2000-2001)
- Louis C.K. (2001) TV Episode
- Dane Cook (2000) TV Episode (stand-up material)
Pootie Tang (2001) (written by)
Down to Earth (2001) (screenplay)
... aka Einmal Himmel und zurück (Germany)
Best of Chris Rock: Volume 2 (2001) (V)
... aka Best of the Chris Rock Show (USA: video box title)

Pulp Comics: Louis C.K.'s Filthy Stupid Talent Show (1999) (TV)
Tomorrow Night (1998)
The Legend of Willie Brown (1998)
"The Chris Rock Show" (1997) TV Series (unknown episodes)
"HBO Comedy Half-Hour" (1 episode, 1996)
- Louis C.K. (1996) TV Episode
"The Dana Carvey Show" (1996) TV Series (unknown episodes)
... aka The Dana Carvey Show Sponsored by Pepsi (USA)
... aka The Diet Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show (USA)
... aka The Mountain Dew Dana Carvey Show (USA)
... aka The Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show (USA)
... aka The Szechuan Dynasty Dana Carvey Show (USA)
... aka The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show (USA)
"Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993) TV Series (unknown episodes)
"Late Show with David Letterman" (1993) TV Series (unknown episodes)
... aka Late Show Backstage (USA: title for episodes with guest hosts)
... aka The Late Show (USA: informal short title)

Trailer...

Dead Silence

Writer and director of Saw has a new movie about ventriloquist dummies that kill people... I might watch it but I am not going out of my way...

Premonition

Stay away from one till you hear from some other sucker who went to see it...

Still out...

300

Daaaaaaamn! 70.9 mil made last weekend! You must be under a rock if you didn't see it. I thought it looked like a video game or music video and I was personally unimpressed, don't get me wrong, I had fun but the editing was way too much for me.

You might just wanna wait for never weekend as it will be a busy weekend with TMNT, Reign Over Me and Hills Have Eyes 2...

The Vagina Monologues Makes People Angry.

2007-03-15T03:01:00.000-07:00

I love words. I thank you for hearing my words.
I want to tell you something about words that I think is important.
They're my work, they're my play, they're my passion.
Words are all we have, really. We have thoughts but thoughts are fluid.
then we assign a word to a thought and we're stuck with that word for
that thought, so be careful with words. I like to think that the same
words that hurt can heal, it is a matter of how you pick them.
There are some people that are not into all the words.
There are some that would have you not use certain words.

George Carlin^^^

Source

Imagine your daughter, junior in high school, active drama student, takes honors classes comes home one day and tells you that she and 2 other friends auditioned a reading of the vagina monologues for an event sponsored by the literary magazine at John Jay High School in Cross River, a New York City suburb. Among the other readings was a student's original work and the football coach quoting Shakespeare.

Now lets say that the teachers asked your daughter specifically not to read what she auditioned because small children could be present and let's say that your daughter agreed not to.

On the day of the event your daughter performs the forbidden monologue and the community goes into an uproar over free speech. What do you do?

A. Join the community and fight for your daughters right to say the word vagina in front of small children.

B. Punish your daughter for disobeying an adult...

C. Praise your daughter for being strong willed and fighting for what she believes in?

D. Don't give a shit cause you have to be at your second job because we can't all live in New York City suburbs?

I believe in free speech, but in a school type forum, you should keep things g rated. If you want to perform the vagina monologues, set up your own event and warn people so they know what they are getting into. What do I know? They probably sucked anyways...

Here is a video of part of the show(not the performance from the news story but someone else doing a completely different part).

Geez...

2007-03-15T02:29:00.000-07:00

Freakin creepy pedophile...

New Crap Tuesdays 3/13/07

2007-03-13T03:25:00.000-07:00

Not too much coming out this week in the world of film or music...

DVD

Short Bus 64(metacritic)

John Cameron Mitchell follows up his debut feature, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, with an erotic drama about criss-crossing characters - male and female, straight and gay - who live in New York City and converge at a weekly underground salon called "Shortbus," a celebration of art, music, politics, and polysexual carnality.

This does look promising and maybe even something to watch just to say you have seen it. Was Hedwig very sexual? I never watched it cause everyone I knew that liked it was kinda strange.

Casino Royale 80(metacritic)

A critical and commercial success, this reinvention of the James Bond franchise introduced Daniel Craig as a gritter, tougher 007.

I watched it, I talked to my girlfriend the whole time. The movie was ok.

Harsh Times 56 (metacritic)

Christian Bale and Freddy Rodriguez star in a drama about an ex-Army Ranger who falls into a life of crime when he returns home to Los Angeles.

I wanted to watch this but I never got around to it. Doesn't seem like the type of role bale would do but w/e...

Music

Sound of Silver
Artist: LCD Soundsystem

I'm going to download this and review it cause I don't like it, but might so as a service I'm putting it down anyways...

Inhuman Rampage [CD/DVD]
Artist: Dragonforce

Ha ha powermetal is funny for a track or 2. Tons of talent in the guitar dept... Just watch the video and ignore the album...

Making Love
Artist: Shiner

Apparently all live tracks, I like the band but I haven't been able to secure a copy of it...

A little something I found on myspace...

2007-03-12T12:36:00.000-07:00

Last summer I watched Ira Glass from "This American Life" speak at Willamette University. He played part of an audiobook by David Sedaris and then read the FCC law and then the fines. Then he played the David Sedaris story again and counted on his fingers the number of FCC violations. Then he took out a calculator and multiplied that number the number of stations This American Life played on and explained how easy it is for the government to censor people.

The story contained not a single cuss word, drug reference, sex reference or really anything offensive. It was about using the bathroom at a friends house and someone before him didn't flush.

Anyways, I kinda liked this essay thingy...

Date: Mar 12, 2007 9:09 AM
Subject On Nudity
Body: On Nudity by Ryan Rogers (www.myspace.com/ryanrogersrizzo)

It was not too long ago that our country was gripped in panic and fear over something they saw on television. Something that happened accidentally (or perhaps purposefully) that gripped our country in fear. Congressional hearings were called. Massive fines were handed down. People were fired. It was bedlam. Parents were forced to contend with a horrible, overwhelming moral collapse of everything they had worked so hard to create. We were on the verge of anarchy.

Janet Jackson showed a nipple.

Yes, my friends, Janet Jackson, pop star and general gyrating flesh factory was performing with Justin Timberlake, and as if this were not embarrassing enough, had a part of her bodice removed during a choreographed dance number, exposing her right breast and nipple (I should say that she exposed her nipple, considering the bodice was already showing off a large portion of her breast already), not to mention perhaps the most tasteful and sexy nipple ring I have ever seen.

Of course, most of us know the rest of the story. Congressional hearings were, indeed, held, and massive fines were levied against the networks. Massive restructuring of the “allowed” images and words on the radio were put into law. Heck, even Howard Stern quit amid the turmoil. Parents were outraged. Family groups were outraged. Church leaders were outraged. And all this because of…a nipple.

Let’s put this in perspective. This was something that happened during the half-time show of the Super Bowl, a sport akin to Roman Gladiator bloodsports (but with padding), complete with perhaps the most violence allowed to be seen on Sunday afternoon television. Because after all, the violence is ok. But when the darkened nipple of a woman’s breast is exposed (the very same nipple which, if exposed on Justin Timberlake, would have been considered part of the act) the country is an uproar. Something tells me that our priorities are a little askew.

We live in a very unsafe and frightening time. People we know are getting killed, murdered, shot, tortured, or more. We fear for our lives. We fear for our children’s lives. We are afraid. So why is it that a film can be simply lauded with blood, gore, and violence, and television watchers seem to not balk at all (and perhaps enjoy it) but if a sexual, sensual or (good heavens) humanly anatomical image is on screen, we decry the decaying morality of our society.

It’s just a breast people. Many cultures seem to have very little issue with exposing the female breast. After all, it is beautiful. It is soft, sensual and aesthetically pleasing. It is part of the beautiful addition that gives a woman their heavenly curvaceous shape. Artists of the highest (and most religious) order have captured these breasts for centuries. They are not to be feared. And in a time of great turmoil in the world, shouldn’t we be far more sensitive to the violence that we constantly see, and far more lax and welcoming to the images of love and sensuality and beauty.
We are human beings. Just because we have chosen to drape ourselves in clothing does not mean that underneath this clothing we don’t all have the same beautiful parts (just in different colors, shapes, and proportions). So what’s to fear. Clearly Michelangelo did not fear the male penis when sculpting David. And heaven forbid I start to detail the famous authors that have paid great reverence for the human female form. It would take me all day.

I realize that we are the descendants of a puritanical legacy brought forward by our great ancestors, but perhaps it is time that she shake off the shackles of our ancestors and realize that our even greater human ancestors were not afraid of the human form. I am surrounded by art, sculpture, drawings, photography, all detailing this human form. The nipple, the breast, the penis, the vagina…these are not things to be feared, but celebrated. When a film tastefully presents these body parts, it is not obscenity, it is art. Heck, even if a film untastefully shows the female breast or the male penis, it is still not obscene. It’s just a body part. People do far more terrible, horrible, nightmarish things with their hands than they do with their sexual organs, yet we do not cover those up.

I am tired of the demonization of human body parts. Breasts are beautiful, and should be appreciated as such. Bodies in all their forms are poetry. The poetry of nature, and we should respect them as such. Nudity is not to be feared or frightened of. It is to be celebrated. And perhaps we would be in a far, far better place as humans if we spent more time worrying about the violence, hatred, and anger that is presented to us daily than the occasional viewing of a bare breast.

Opening this weekend update...3/11/2007

2007-03-11T06:42:00.000-07:00

On friday I posted this... (see post directly below)

Since then I have worked 23 hours of 49 possible and I have pretty much cleaned up after the messes of 5250 people (that is only for the movie 300 alone, we were busy for the movies wild hogs and bridge to terbithia and amazing grace) the worst being a toss up of the discarded underwear in a handicapped stall in the mens restroom or the vomit on the floor in a showing of "wild hogs" that the customer never told any staff about so it was a pleasant surprise. I'm not too mad about the customer not telling any staff that they puked, I would be quite embarassed myself but I am the type of person to offer to help clean it up. Fortunately we have something that deodorizes and solidifies any liquid/chewed-up food so that problem was easily solved.

1 thing I noticed alot of this weekend was people taking there small children to see rated r movies. The last time I noticed alot of that was the movie "apocalypto". I don't really have an opinion on wherther small children should watch something like 300 or "apocalypto" but I do wonder if people even think about what their children will think of it. Considering I usually observe one small child a day freaking out and crying and their parents having to explain that "it's only a movie and the girl in 'bridge to terbithia' didn't really die", I just don't ever wanna have to explain to my kid the concept of war and violence to a small child untill I'm ready.

To play the devils advocate, I work in the box office and I oftentimes see fathers and sons going to the movies and the father always asks me "do you guys have any horror or war movies"? I always assume in my head that the father hasn't always been around that the father is trying to make up for it by taking his son to a movie that mom would never let him see. I imagine them planning to tell mom they watched something animated and a couple years too young for for them and mom totally buying it and the kid going to school and telling all his friends that he got to see a rated r movie in the theater and all his friends being wowed by his story about how the guy in "apocalypto" beheads people and then rolls the heads down the steps of the pyramid.

I then imagine the kid in a few years not even wanting to been seen in public with any member of his family and how dad won't be able to get his sons admiration by taking him to see a movie where people get dismembered. I think if I have children I will want them to stay 8 forever so I can still impress them by taking them to see die hard.

But I digress, I watched "Wild Hogs" and I think it will be worth a rent, I laughed out loud and wished I could fall asleep as I knew after that I had to clean up after thousands of people.

Opening ths weekend 3/09/07

2007-03-09T12:46:00.000-08:00

300: This movie should pretty much rule. Frank Miller story done in the "Sin City" and "Sky Captain" style about an epic greek battle... The visuals are pretty cool but some of the editing is a lil bit flashy for my tastes, kind of like a music video. Everyone who I observed coming out of the theaters when I worked the midnight showing was very happy with it but they were die hard geeks.

A little plot background...

From Wikipedia: Battle of Thermopylae

Size of the Persian army

Fleet crew 517,610
Infantry 1,700,000
Cavalry 80,000
Arabs and Libyans 20,000
Greek puppet troops 324,000

Total 2,641,610

Size of the Greek army

Spartans 300
Mantineans 500
Tegeans 500
Arcadian Orchomenos 120
Other Arcadians 1,000
Corinthians 400
Phlians 200
Mycenaeans 80
Thespians 700
Thebans 400
Phocians 1,000
Opuntian Locrians 13

Total 5,200+

Trailer...

In Spainish...(moderately funny)

In German(More funny than the Spainish one).

Should be a pretty damn good movie. I watched at least 15 mins of it while I was working and there was 3 sold out midnight showings. I predict TONS of teenagers trying to sneak into the theaters since it's a rated r movie. Should be a pretty packed weekend, I'm guessing 300 will make at least 20 million this weekend with "Wild Hogs" Making 10 or so.

Zodiac: David Fincher film covered last week. It's almost 3 hours long.

Black Snake Moan: Covered last week

Reno 911!: Miami: Last weekend I said:

Reno 911!: Miami: Was alright. Worth a matinee ticket.

Free Proxy So Easy Even A Baby Could Do It...

2007-03-09T03:47:00.000-08:00

http://www.unblockr.net/

You don't even have set it up you just type in your destination and your surfin myspace at work.

Dunno how long this will stay up, but uncut 5 minute 300 trailer...

2007-03-09T03:34:00.000-08:00

Special thanks to the folks over at geeks are sexy for finding this...

Oh, and it's actually 2 and a half mins...

Battles The Band

2007-03-08T01:02:00.000-08:00

The new (and first proper)album by Battles comes out May 15, I have a copy of it and it's some of the freshest stuff in instrumental post rock whateverness. Some of the songs could almost be on the radio. Some of the songs are very long and downright epic requiring multiple listenings to fully grasp the tracks. Every track is different and has elements not present on the ep's. Melodies are present which is uncommon for this stuff often times. I like the track rainbows, probably the most. It's crazy. Oh, and it's not fully instrumental though I can't make out a single word. It seems like they are using effects or he's doing the sigur ros thing and just making up a new language.

From Wikipedia:

The group's lineup is composed of well-known musicians, including ex-Helmet drummer John Stanier, ex-Don Caballero guitarist Ian Williams, ex-Lynx guitarist Dave Konopka, and Tyondai Braxton (son of Avantgarde Jazz musician Anthony Braxton), who also plays guitar and keyboard and creates live voice samples.

Here is a video for their song(atlas)...

Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Colon Movie Film for Theaters Trailer

2007-03-08T00:46:00.000-08:00

Like! oh my god!, a movie from my favorite 10 minute cartoon after Metalocalypse, Sealab 2021, Frisky Dingo, Squidbillies and Morel Orel. If you don't know the Aqua Teens by now, you probably would not like it.

While were at it...

Lets check out Dana Snyder, the voice of Master Shake's IMDB profile.

A little more snooping on IMDB shows that the writers of ATHF also wrote Sealab, Squid Billies and Perfect Hair Forever.

But the biggest news about the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie is that ol Bruce Campbell is top billed in the cast.

New crap tuesdays 3/6/07

2007-03-06T15:37:00.000-08:00

Dvd

Borat: If you haven't seen this movie and you aren't easily offended, rent it now...

Fast Food Nation: Worth a rent if not only for the fact that bruce willis is in it. It's very heavy handed but worth a view regardless.

Let's Go to Prison: Bob Odenkirk's directorial debut. I was a lil dissapointed, but still worth a watch.

Southpark Season 9: has the Ginger Kids episode... If you must own a southpark season, this one was pretty solid.

Music

Well it looks like I put the wrong week into the billboard website and I reviewed this week last week, so it looks like I am going to just cover some stuff I didn't last week...

Air:Pocket Symphony

Revolting Cocks: Cocktailmixxx

RJD2: Third Hand

White Flight:White Flight I listen to this one a lot.

Television Maquee Moon Re-Released

5 Depeche Mode albums are getting re-released

A couple Magazine albums are being re-released

2 Stooges albums re-released

Total Chaos: 17 Years Of Chaos

Modern life is war

2007-03-05T13:07:00.000-08:00

Modern Life Is War is a hardcore band in the sense that fugazi is a hardcore band. They almost never do the double time beat. They singer screams in way that sounds like he really means what he's saying, but not fake to sound tough or snotty. I would say it's accessable to people who don't listen to hardcore. I listen to the album "witness" once a week.

Good news for fans...

First and foremost we are proud to announce that we have signed to Equal Vision Records. We will be recording our third album during the month of April at the Magpie Cage in Baltimore with J. Robbins. It will be out in late summer or early fall of this year. We will continue working with Lifeline Records and they will be releasing the vinyl LP version of our new album on the same day. The layout will feature artwork by an Iowa man of mystery who goes by the name Qojak. We will keep you updated on the details as they come.

Well, J. Robbins could make hootie and the blowfish sound good. Nuff said. Release date is 9/4/07 .

Opening this weekend 3/02/07

2007-03-02T08:06:00.000-08:00

Before I start

Zodiac

David fincher is one of those directors that movie snobs love to hate. His "cuts are too quick" and he is "too flashy" are the the most common complaints.

Black Snake Moan

A good 99% of the people who go to see this movie are not going because of the director or the artistic merit. They are going to see Christina Ricci naked... Shit, 75% are going based on the posters alone....

Movies worth seeing...

Bridge to Terabithia: I haven't actually seen it, but I think it will be decent.
Reno 911!: Miami: Was alright. Worth a matinee ticket.
The Astronaut Farmer: Haven't seen it yet, everyone likes it.
Amazing Grace: Haven't seen but everyone also likes it.

Don't see: Ghostrider and The Number 23

1 human life = a couple grand

2007-03-01T01:35:00.000-08:00

Source:http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/27/baby.downpayment.ap/index.html

Woman accused of using infant as car down payment

PUEBLO, Colorado (AP) -- Three people were arrested on charges of swapping a 5-month-old boy for a down payment on a used Dodge Intrepid and cash, police said Tuesday.

Nicole Uribe, 23, is accused of trading the baby to Jose-Juan Lerma, 47, and his wife, Irene, 27, in exchange for the down payment and an unspecified amount of cash.

All were arrested on suspicion of felony trafficking in children and were being held at the Pueblo jail under $50,000 bail each.

The baby was placed in a foster home, Police Sgt. Brett Wilson said. Wilson said he could not speculate on the motives for the alleged deal.

He said police found the child and arrested Uribe within hours of getting a tip on Monday. The Lermas were arrested on Tuesday.

Wilson said all three were Mexican nationals and federal officials had been asked to investigate their immigration status.

I think I'll let this story stand alone.

Short 5 minute documetary on circuit bending...

2007-02-28T10:52:00.000-08:00

Circuit bending is taking old toy instrument and messing with them to make them do things the OEM never intended you to do with them...

Edit: Check out this response!

Apparently, this guy takes off his shirt in every episode ha ha...

12 second clip of Mark Mothersbaugh form DEVO...

new crap tuesday 2/27/07

2007-02-26T14:11:00.001-08:00

Music

"Explosions In the Sky" "All of A Sudden, I Miss Everyone": More of the same instrumental crap that sounds good when I'm stoned, not so much when I'm not. I think there are enough instrumental bands out there and this one kinda get lost in the fold. No radio singles here(which is a good thing mind you). Try it out, maybe you'll fall in love.

!!!"Myth Takes": !!!(chick chick chick) is a band I have ignored for quite some time, mainly cause of the fans. I didn't realize they were a dance band(hey I can't keep track of every group). I was pleasntly surprised when I played it for the first time. They sound like a more dancy version of gang of four. Yes they play the forbidden drumbeat(un tiss un tiss un tiss un tiss) but they do some good things with it unlike the other bands that rely on it. Lots of multi-instrumentalization is present. The strangest track to me is "Must be the moon"...

Green Day "1039/smoothed out slappy hours": Good old fashioned pop punk from before green day was a huge successfull band selling out stadiums and stuff.

Ladytron "604": Haven't actually checked this one out yet, though I'm sure it's more of the same... For the uninitated, Ladytron plays electronic pop stuff...

Sisters of Mercy "A mecifull release": Well that was all the information given at billboard.com. I'm guessing it's a re-release of an old album. Check out the wiki for more info

Arcade Fire "Neon Bible" Yaaaaaawwwwwnnnnnn.... I tried it, I want my bandwidth back...

DVD

stranger than fiction: This movie did poorly in the theaters. Good for a movie theater employee, bad for the business. This film could have been so much more. I did laugh out loud more than once and overall I think it deserves a rent.

Well, I'm already behind so hopefully next weeks one cometogether better...

Literature-Map and listal.

2007-02-25T20:19:00.000-08:00

I have a del.icio.us account for letting people know about websites and stuff. But every once in awhile there is something so amazing that I'll have to post about it. Here is one of them.

Listal is a catalouging website/social network. Yes, social network ala myspace. While I won't go on a full scale tirade about how much myspace sucks I will say that I secretly wish my friends would all migrate over to listal. You can keep track of all the books, dvds and cd's you own and also the movies you watch. You can also see other members collections which is always fun and it can help you keep track of what you loan to people.. It has a ton of features like groups and voting/rating of stuff. Everyone should join up.

The next site is http://www.literature-map.com/ . It's just a neat lil recomendation site for authours. Just check it out. It's unique.

Another Phillip K. Dick story adapted for screen.

2007-02-25T03:54:00.000-08:00

The guy that did the screenplays for Total Recall and Navy Seals adapted a PKD story called "The Golden Man". The guy who directed xXx: State of the Union (2005)Die Another Day (2002) Along Came a Spider (2001) "The Sopranos" (1 episode, 2000) The Edge (1997) Mulholland Falls (1996) Once Were Warriors (1994) Thunderbox (1989) is making this one and (sit down this is big news....) it's going to star Nicholas Cage!!! I know, I can barely contain myself.

But seriously, what is the deal with Cage being in action movies???

trailer...

Other PKD stories turned into film...

A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Paycheck(2003)
Minority Report(2002)
Impostor (2002)
Total Recall(1990)
Blade Runner (1982)

When I thinkof baseball, I don't think of indie rock...

2007-02-25T03:42:00.000-08:00

Some of the songs for the MLB 2007 video game are...

311 "Down"
Bishop Allen "Middle Management"
Cities in Dust "Emergency"
Death From Above 1979 "Little Girl"
Dixie Witch "Set the Speed"
Editors "Munich"
Five Horse Johnson "I Can't Shake It"
Greatdayforup "Man's Ruin"
Les Savy Fav "Hold On To Your Genre"
Nerf Herder "High Five Anxiety"
Nirvana "Breed"
Sublime "Summertime"
Tapes 'n Tapes "Insistor"
The Jealous Sound "Naïve"
The M's "Plan Of The Man"
The Pixies "Mr. Grieves"
The Specials "A Message to you Rudy"
The Stooges "I Feel Alright"
The Thermals "A Passing Feeling"
The Walkmen "The Rat"
Wolfmother "Woman"

Hmmmmm. Apparently the 2k6 game had all matador records artists...

I wish I woulda done this when I was a kid...

2007-02-25T03:06:00.000-08:00

Dateline : Santa Fe, New Mexico

Some damn kids thought it would be funny to take some and record some with a lot of on them and place them under the of the .

I think it it is very

Proof it happened

It's funny because it's true.

2007-02-25T03:02:00.000-08:00

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/22/wwgwbd_flow_chart.html

For the Salem readers...

2007-02-23T03:59:00.000-08:00

The Painted Veil is playing at Salem Cinema... I want to see but dunno if I can find the time. Lemme know if I really should "make the time" cause I can't tell by the trailer...

Just so you know... I watched ghostrider... and yes, it sucked...

2007-02-23T02:19:00.000-08:00

Really, what more can I say? I get to see free movies and I took someone to see it who likes comic books alot. I wanted to see Bridge to Terbithia. I've seen everything else at my work. Norbit sucked as well. But we won't get into that.

There is a special sneak preview of "Wild Hogs" this weekend. I'll try to act all smug and say I won't be attending for obvious reasons. But for people who know me IRL, they already know I'm working. But I still won't see it when it comes out unless I get REALLY bored. I don't care if William H. Macy is in it.

At the movies today...

The number 23... Joel Shumacher. Original screenplay by a first time writer. I'm gonna see it but I don't have high expectations. Jim Carey in a completely serious and I think comedy free thriller about a guy obssesed with numbers.

The Abandoned... Writer Director Nacho Cerdà's 1st feature length film I think, don't quote me on that. It's a spainish director but it says it's in english??? It looks like it has some style.

Reno 911: Miami... No brainer, if you are reading this you probably know what it is and probably already have an opinion formed as to whether you will like it or not. But come on, old school "the state" crew. Need I say more? Showalter is credited for crying out loud. I'm gonna support it as long they don't eat babies alive.

The Astronaut Farmer... Writer Director Micheal Polish newest about a retired astronaut who builds his own rockets much to the chagrin of "the man". It's PG, Billy Bob Thorton is the lead. It's at my work so I might watch it but I'd have to be bored unless I hear a ton of rave reviews.

Amazing Grace... Michael Apted director of at least 1 bond movie(I'm too lazt to see if he directed more than 1) and has directed TON of television. Inspiration tale about emancipation in Britain a couple of centuries ago I think. Some church group pre ordered 50 tickets from me one day.

Also out right now maybe worth seeing...

Bridge to terbithia... I haven't seen it yet but it looks better than ghostrider.

Breach... looks promising

WTF is up with night at the Museum still running?

Essential Oil Wars!

2007-02-23T02:01:00.000-08:00

I recieved a comment on one of my previous articles about manboobs (a common subject here at of what it is) with a link to web-site that says something different is going on with the Scientific American study. Something about flwaed research? Maybe it's damage control from the essential oil industry...

Anyway, heres the site... http://www.aromaconnection.org/. And the study. You decide...

Lavender/Tea Tree Study Debunked

Neither lavender oil nor tea tree oil can be linked to breast growth in young boys
Robert Tisserand
Background

In a recent report, a correlation is alleged between commercial products containing lavender and tea tree oils and breast growth in young boys. Three cases were seen in boys aged 4-7, who had all been using such products. In each case, the breast growth reduced to normal parameters within several months of ceasing to use the products. Subsequent laboratory testing showed that both essential oils had estrogen-like properties (Henley et al 2007).

In the report, no information is given about any of the constituents of the products used. The information given about product use is sparse, and we do not know for certain whether any of the products contained lavender or tea tree oils, since they were not analyzed by the researchers.
The cases

Case one
In the first case, "The patient’s mother reported applying a "healing balm" containing lavender oil to his skin starting shortly before the initial presentation." No further details of the product or its use are given, but a healing balm sounds like something that might only be applied to a small area of skin. If so, then it is unlikely that any ingredient could have entered the boy’s blood in sufficient concentration to cause gynecomastia within a short time period.

Case two
In the second case, a styling hair gel was applied to the hair and scalp every morning, along with regular use of a shampoo. Both tea tree and lavender oil are cited on the ingredient list of both products.

In a subsequent website report, it is claimed that the two hair products used in this case were manufactured by Paul Mitchell, and that these were analyzed by a competitor. The shampoo was said to contain "very low concentrations" of tea tree oil, and the content in the hair gel was "virtually undetectable". Lavender oil concentration was not checked (Neustaedter 2007).

Dermal absorption of fragrance from shampoo application has been estimated to be 80 times less than that from body lotion (Cadby et al 2002). If the website report is genuine, considering that shampoo is a wash-off product, and that there was only a negligible amount of tea tree oil in the hair gel, tea tree oil can be ruled out as a possible cause of this boy’s gynecomastia. However, liberal use of a hair gel rich in lavender oil could result in moderate dermal absorption of lavender oil constituents (Cal 2006).

Case three
The third case involved "lavender-scented soap, and intermittent use of lavender-scented commercial skin lotions". This sounds as if there may not be very much natural lavender oil present. Further, soap is a wash-off product, and the use of lavender lotion is described as "intermittent". Whether any absorption of genuine lavender oil took place at all seems doubtful.

Since dermal absorption of soap fragrance is some 266 times less than that from body lotion, it is virtually impossible that the fragrance in a soap could be absorbed in sufficient quantity to cause any physiological effect (Cadby et al 2002).

Of great interest is the statement that, in this third case, a fraternal twin used the same skin lotions, but not the soap, and did not develop gynecomastia. It would be reasonable to assume that, since the soap could not be responsible for the effect, and since the twin used the lotions without any problem, the gynecomastia in this third case must have been due to some cause other than essential oils.
The in vitro testing

The in vitro evidence shows weak but definite endocrine disrupting effects for both lavender and tea tree oils. The second case was the only one in which tea tree oil was involved. Tea tree oil was tested because it was deemed to be "chemically similar" to lavender oil. However, apart from the fact that both are essential oils, they have little in common chemically.

The composition of the essential oils tested is not given, nor is any other information about them, apart from the supplier. Since they do not appear to be organically grown, biocide content is a possibility.
Discussion

It is unusual in such reports not to name the products suspected as being responsible for the effects under discussion. In the circumstances, it is also curious that the labeled ingredients were not cited. It is even more surprising that no attempt was made to ascertain, retrospectively, whether any constituents of lavender or tea tree oil were detectable. If the products are not named, no one else can test them either.

Even assuming that one or both of the essential oils were present at some level, we do not know what quantities of essential oil constituents may have penetrated the skin, but we do know that transcutaneous absorption from fragrances takes some time. The amount that could find its way into the blood from a wash-off product such as a shampoo or soap is negligible, because the time of skin contact is so short. Skin absorption from tea tree and lavender oil constituents is measured in hours, not minutes, in and some instances even leave-on products result in minimal dermal penetration (Cal 2006, Reichling 2006).

The Henley et al report mentions that none of the boys had been exposed to any known endocrine disruptor, such as medications, oral contraceptives(!), marijuana or soy products. However, no mention is made of other known endocrine disruptors, such as organochlorine pesticides, PCBs, polychlorinated dioxins, alkyl phenols, pthalates and parabens (Darbre 2006). Both pesticides and phthalates have been found in essential oils, and both phthalates and parabens are commonly found in cosmetic products.

It is, therefore, entirely possible that other ingredients in the products caused the gynecomastia. Pesticides, PCBs and dioxins are found in the environment, often in food, and it is also possible that some local surge of environmental hormone disruptors caused these cases in Colorado.

No attempt was made to identify the constituent(s) responsible for the in vitro effect, but it is reasonable to expect that any hormonal action in an essential oil would be due to one or two constituents, or even contaminants. It is noteworthy that, while in vitro hormonal effects from essential oil constituents have been previously reported, these are generally very weak, and have been estimated as being at least 10,000 times less potent than 17β-estradiol (Howes et al 2002).

There is no evidence that the effect seen in vitro would take place in vivo, and much more research would be needed before any definite determinations could be made. Many estrogenic substances have previously been identified from plant sources, and very weak activity is typical of these phytoestrogens (Chadwick et al 2006, Howes et al 2002).
Conclusions

As the report states, breast growth in pre-pubertal boys is extremely uncommon, yet three cases are reported within a short period of time, and all in the same clinic. Considering that some 200 tonnes per annum are produced of both lavender and tea tree oil, that most of this goes into personal care products, and that very little of the evidence presented for these 3 cases is convincing, the press reports of caution are premature.

Even if one or more of these cases was linked to product use, any connection with either lavender or tea tree oil is unproven. Other known endocrine disrupting ingredients in the products could have played a role. Furthermore, we do not know what other factors, such as dietary or environmental, may have played a part.

The in vitro work reported by Henley et al (2007) does indicate a hormonal effect. However, this cannot be extrapolated to estimate actual human risk, especially without knowing more about the essential oil constituents causing the in vitro effects seen. No connection was established between the in vitro work and the three cases, and the case for tea tree oil having an effect on prepubertal gynecomastia is especially weak. Phytoestrogens generally have a very weak hormonal activity, and it is implausible that the amounts of essential oil that enter the body from product use would have a significant effect. Further research will hopefully clarify these issues.
References

Cadby PA, Troy WR, Vey MG 2002 Consumer exposure to fragrance ingredients: providing estimates for safety evaluation. Regulatory Toxicology & Pharmacology 36: 246-252

Cal K 2006 How does the type of vehicle influence the in vitro skin absorption and elimination kinetics of terpenes? Archives of Dermatological Research 297: 311-315

Chadwick LR, Pauli GF, Farnsworth NR 2006 The pharmacognosy of Humulus lupulus L. (hops) with an emphasis on estrogenic properties. Phytomedicine 13: 119-131

Darbre PD 2006 Environmental oestrogens, cosmetics and breast cancer. Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 20: 121-143

FMA 2007 http://www.fmafragrance.org/sub_pages/020107henleyresponse.pdf

Henley DV, Lipson N, Korach KS, Bloch CA 2007 Prebubertal gynecomastia linked to lavender and tea tree oils. New England Journal of Medicine 365(5): 479-485

Howes M-J R, Houghton P J, Barlow D J et al 2002 Assessment of estrogenic activity in some common essential oil constituents. Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmacology 54:1521–1528

Neustaedter R 2007 http://www.cureguide.com/Natural_Health_Newsletter/Lavender_Dangers/lavender_dangers.html

Reichling J, Landvatter U, Wagner H, Kostka KH, Schaefer UF 2006 In vitro studies on release and human skin permeation of Australian tea tree oil (TTO) from topical formulations. European Journal of Pharmaceutics & Biopharmaceutics 64: 222-228

Contact: Robert Tisserand

Email:rtisserand@onepost.net

Buttocks in the history of art.

2007-02-22T11:43:00.000-08:00

What a great website.

Live video of Against Me!

2007-02-21T12:01:00.000-08:00

A video of Against Me! playing live has surfaced and I found it on one of my favorite blogs, "Late Night Wallflower". No word on whether the blog was named for the Jakob Dylan band but my suspicions say no.

The track is high energy and very punk rock. I like it though I hope the album has some ballady stuff. Did I mention they are on a major label(sire).

Here is the video for problems...

Lavender and tea tree oil makes man boobs!

2007-02-21T00:58:00.000-08:00

Scientific American says

The lavender and tea tree oils found in some soaps, shampoos, hair gels and body lotions can produce enlarged breasts in boys.

Holy crap.

Dinosaur jr. album preview

2007-02-21T00:30:00.000-08:00

Dinosaur jr. has a couple tracks from the new album entitled beyond that you can stream on myspace. The tracks are pretty high energy and see on par with previous albums. Check out their pictures as they look like they should be older. But they do look kinda old in this video. Sometimes I think James Iha and Billy Corgan stole the over the top shredding from J. Mascis.

Here is the video for "Feel the Pain " directed by Spike Jones though I couldn't find anything on the net to verify that.

Children need to know what scrotums are...

2007-02-20T23:14:00.000-08:00

"The New York Times" alerted me to this interesting little news story. The Newberry Medal winning book this yeah has the word scrotum on the first page.

there it is on the first page of “The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature. The book’s heroine, a scrappy 10-year-old orphan named Lucky Trimble, hears the word through a hole in a wall when another character says he saw a rattlesnake bite his dog, Roy, on the scrotum.

“Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough too much,” the book continues. “It sounded medical and secret, but also important.”

I don't see what the big deal is, except I'm sure parents and teachers don't really want to go through explaining what a scrotum is. If I had a kid I wouldn't care. I think children should be informed of body parts and know what they are so that they aren't scarred for life when they see
them for the first time.

Suicidegirls News had a pretty funny article about the whole debacle.

Stop illegal downloading!

2007-02-20T13:39:00.000-08:00

Celebrity Endorsed PSA

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I just came up on an advance of the new Poison the Well album "Versions"

2007-02-20T12:24:00.000-08:00

I was checking the oink top 10 today and was pleasantly surprised to find a leak of the new PTW album "versions". After an initial listen I must say it's the most unique album of theirs so far.

It has electric piano and lots of mellow stuff. Gone are the riff riff chugga chugga breakdowns and it now has a kind of Hope Conspiracy and American Nightmare feel too it with maybe a little bit of the Converge's "You Fail Me" album feel as well. So strange...

Gone also is the clean whiney singing and the outright growls back an forth. Don't get me wrong, there is clean singing and screaming, but the vocal style has changed up a TON.

Here is a fan video of them doing Smashing Pumpkins "Today"

And here is the video for "botchula"...

A little late for Valentines day but....

2007-02-20T12:20:00.000-08:00

The Taxrap Cometh

2007-02-20T11:33:00.000-08:00

In one of the dumbest marketing campaigns I have ever seen, you tube and Turbotax have a contest for the best tax rap. Headlining the whole things is none other than Vanilla Ice! Here is his introduction to the contest.

Here is Ice's Tax Rap...

This one ain't too bad...

This one is a lil bit disturbing...

Here is a segment on CNN for the contest...

ROFL!

2007-02-19T01:26:00.000-08:00

From a "Good Housekeeping" magazine circa 1955.
Source= Connected Internet

Famous people drink too...

2007-02-19T01:16:00.000-08:00

From the mental floss blog...

I’ll Have What Her Majesty’s Having (famous folk and their drinks of choice)

Mangesh, Feb 16, 2007 18:59:29 GMT

The sad truth is, we can’t choose a brand of jeans unless a celebrity endorses them. Just can’t do it. Nor can we pick a rental car service until we know some sort of professional athlete is comfortable shilling for their brand. That’s why we’re forgoing those no-name Nectarini’s we order night after night for a delicious celebrity-endorsed beverage. Because if it’s good enough for the Queen, Ernest Hemingway, or even Lyndon B. Johnson, then darn it if it isn’t good enough for mental_floss.

Queen Elizabeth II – More than tea, Her Majesty prefers a Gordon’s gin and tonic. Oh, and don’t forget the lemon slices. The British Queen takes 3 of them with each drink.

Lyndon B. Johnson – Scotch and soda. When it was hot outside, the former president loved to drive slowly around his Texas ranch in an open top convertible, taking long pulls from a large foam glass. When his cup runneth lower, Johnson simply dangled it out his window. Immediately, a Secret Service agent would run forward, grab the cup, race back to the service car following the president’s, re-fill the beverage, then hustle back to hand it off to the Prez. Secret Service with a smile.

Ernest Hemingway – While he always portrayed himself to be a man’s man, Hemingway loved daiquiris. It’s true! The man who loved boxing, fishing and bull-fighting also loved syrupy drinks– particularly the ones made at the Floridita Bar in Havana, where they substituted maschino liqueur for sugar in the diabetic writer’s rounds.

Oprah Winfrey – Lemon Drop Martinis. What can you say? I guess all the money in the world simply can’t buy class. (Just kidding, Oprah. Let’s help the healing begin, though. Invite us on your show and we’ll talk through this.)

Rush Limbaugh – Nothing by Port wine for our portly friend.

Adam Clayton Powell – The first African American to become a major figure in Congress drank Scotch with a healthy shot of milk. Supposedly, the milk calmed his ulcers while the scotch worked on his nerves.

Winston Churchill – Despite being a big fan of martinis and having a mother who was responsible for the invention of the Manhattan cocktail, Churchy preferred sipping on Johnny Walker Red!

So, what about whiskey- that delicious drink of drinks?
Sure, you’ve seen it on the list above, but it’s still a dicey choice. Here’s a quick for and against:
FOR: Frank Sinatra loved him some Jack Daniels.
AGAINST: Janis Joplin. While she loved her Southern Comfort, and always carried a fifth on stage with her, she’s not exactly a ringing endorsement for drinking.
FOR: Hunter S. Thompson – Wild Turkey on the rocks. If you’re going for an authentic Thompson though, you might need to add pills to taste.
AGAINST: Saddam Hussein – While he asked for hot water laced with honey for his last meal, Hussein’s drink of choice was whiskey on the rocks.

Maybe this is just a little sad...

2007-02-18T16:28:00.000-08:00

Heads Up: Penolope Trailer

2007-02-18T14:12:00.000-08:00

Suicide Girls news says that Mark Palansky is the next Burton. His short film "The Same" is kinda creepy. But his IMDB profile is unimpressive as he work for Michael Bay.

Here is the trailer for his first feature length film Called "Penolope" starring Christina Ricci.

Heads Up: New Wes Anderson film is shooting.

2007-02-18T13:41:00.000-08:00

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0838221/

Need I say more???

This is a commercial where he is on the set shooting the movie...

Ha Ha Fox News Has It's Own Version of the "Daily Show"

2007-02-18T11:39:00.000-08:00

New show coming up called the half hour news hour or something like that. It looks just like the Daily Show only with a conservative slant instead. I personally am conservative in the economic fashion and liberal in the social aspects, so it would be nice to see a comedy show that doesn't have a huge liberal slant on some stuff. But this show looks pretty bad...

Super Mario Bros played entirely with feet...

2007-02-17T15:58:00.000-08:00

Had to share this one...

Just what I waiting for! A Milli Vanilli Biopic!!!

2007-02-17T14:03:00.000-08:00

NME is reporting that a Malli Vanilli biopic is in the works.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0965381/

Same writer as "catch me if you can"

Name Change and were back!!!

2007-02-16T12:58:00.000-08:00

Sooooooooooo, I changed the name of my weblog and had to screw around with the template and stuff so I am still fixing some thing but posts are resuming and a new daily format is coming together with dvd and new cd reviews con tuesdays and movie reviews on thursdays and some other surprises as they come, in honor of the blog going back up, here is a pretty neat video of a 30 foot puppet that takes like 10 people to operate...

The Guillotine is going down for awhile...

2006-10-19T19:19:00.000-07:00

I am taking the guillotine down for awhile while I figure out how to transfer this all over to wordpress and stuff. I am going to get a real domain sometime in the next month and all that rot.

[VIDEO] Pretty fucked up vid....

2006-10-17T15:37:00.000-07:00

Ummmm, this would be funny if it weren't real...

[FILM & TELEVISION] Monty Python will never re-unite...

2006-10-15T09:48:00.000-07:00

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds38031.html

Eric Idle says he will not be reuniting with his Monty Python co-stars any time soon.

Despite attempts by Michael Palin, the Spamalot star is not interested in getting together again to record new Python material.

According to BreakingNews.ie, Idle said: "All this talk about, 'You guys should get back together,' is a complete load of b**locks. And let's not forget, when we were together, there were lots of people who f**king hated us."

Oh well, enjoy this video of South Park ripping off Monty Python...

[VIDEOS] 3 videos I thought were funny...

2006-10-15T09:42:00.000-07:00

[TV]New TV Shows Round Up.

2006-10-11T23:30:00.000-07:00

4 new TV shows caught my interest. If I didn't have a Tivo I wouldn't be able to find the time since I have a job that often requires me to work evenings and I just don't have the bandwidth to download a buncha stuff I don't even know if I like.

Strangely, 3 of the shows are on NBC. Studio 60, 30 Rock and 20 Good Years. Also strangely, The shows all have numbers in the names. Kind of reminds me of a time in the late 90's when every band had numbers in the name, Blink 182, SR71, and Project 86 come to mind. So, with out further adieu...

Freak Show. David Cross shares writing credits with a guy who has acted in the movie "New york minute". The show is pretty funny for a first episode and will offend the PC. It has some potty humor but also has some smart jokes so it all kind of evens out. David Cross does several voices and I think a guy who the voice for Coach Mcgirk from home movies does as a well. All in all worth checking out.

I couldn't find a video for freak show.

Studio 60. It's made by Aaron Sorkin who was responsible for "The West Wing". It is a drama about producing a comedy show. The writers have been spot on with some good plot twists in the first 30 episodes and I think the moments seem well scripted and believable. It gets better every episode so this one also gets my recomendation.

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30 Rock. Is Tina Fey's new show about a sketch comedy show as well, this one is more about being funny. I have only seen the pilot and was a lil disappointed. It's not that is wasn't funny, it just could have had way more funnies. I do see alot of potential in it. I'll wait for a few more episodes with this one.

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20 Good Years. Features John Lithgow(No references needed) and Jeffery Tambor(Arrested Development) and was also a little bit disappointing. The writers are basically unheard of the jokes were ok. 1 particularly funny moment featured John Lithgow in a tiny bathing suit. I dunno, maybe I just hate situation comedies. I will say that it's better than 90 of what's on television so I'll give it a chance.

[FILM]Halle Berry Is White. (video is NSFW)

2006-10-11T13:49:00.000-07:00

Halle Berry is going to play a white girl and it's stirring up controversy. She is going to be in soe movie that comes out in 2008 called "class act". It's about a teacher in reno who runs for office at the urging of her 6th grade students on the condition that the kids run her campaign.

And now... Halle Berry's Boobs...

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[EDITORIAL] Sad Sad Day In Film...

2006-10-09T23:29:00.000-07:00

It's a sad sad day when Jet Li's final film gets less box office than open season...

Also, why isn't the illusionist not getting any box office? Oh, because I am mixing it up with the prestige...

1. The Departed, $27 million.

2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, $19.15 million.

3. Open Season, $16 million.

4. Employee of the Month, $11.8 million.

5. The Guardian, $9.6 million.

6. Jackass Number Two, $6.4 million.

7. School for Scoundrels, $3.4 million.

8. Gridiron Gang, $2.3 million.

9. Jet Li's Fearless, $2.2 million.

10. The Illusionist, $1.8 million.

[MUSIC]Slayer's New Album Banned In India

2006-10-09T18:44:00.000-07:00

http://www.punknews.org/article/20195

Slayer banned in India

Slayer's new album, Christ Illusion continues to cause controversy worldwide. The album was recently banned in India. The ban is particularly interesting since Christians are a minority in India, which is largely made up of Hindus, Muslims and Buddhist.

Early this week, Joseph Dias, general secretary of the Mumbai-based Catholic Secular Forum (CSF), issued a statement taking "strong exception" to the album's cover artwork, which he said depicts "Christ with a missing eye and amputated arms." He added, "we also condemn the track, 'Skeleton Christ' as the lyrics are an insult to Christianity." The CSF also sent a memorandum to Mumbai's police commissioner, adding that the album "will affect the sensibilities of the Muslims on the track 'Jihad' and secular Indians who have respect for all faiths."

Kaveri Khullar, marketing manager, EMI India said in an interview, "We met with the CSF and were apologetic while assuring them that all copies of the album would be pulled out. We have no plans of re-issuing it in any way."

The CSF had earlier protested against the Indian release of "The Da Vinci Code" which led the Censor Board to instruct the India distributor, Mumbai-based Sony Pictures Releasing India, to include a notice to accompany the film to explain that it was a work of fiction.

The band's previous album, God Hates Us All was released in the United States with an altered cover, and Christ Illusion appears on Amazon with the cover art obscured.

I personally think this whole thing is quite funny.

Here is the video for slayer's "war ensemble"...

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[FUNNY]Holy LOL... just a funny from a BB I'm on...

2006-10-05T16:44:00.000-07:00

One of the funnier conversations with tech support...

Analine (29977): Hi, my name is Analine (29977). How may I help you?
Ender: Analine, how are you?
Analine (29977): I'm okay. About you?
Ender: I am not doing so great right now
Analine (29977): I see. What is the problem you are experiencing with your Linksys product?
Ender: I am having a bit of a problem with a Linksys product
Analine (29977): Can you give me a brief description of the problem that you're experiencing with your Linksys product?
Ender: How brief are we talking here Analine man?
Ender: I'll make this as brief as possible
Ender: There is smoke
Ender: SMOKE
Ender: Smoke in my motherfucking LInksys product
Analine (29977): I see. Can you please confirm the model and version number of your Linksys product?
Ender: It's tricky to see the model and version number of the product because of all the smoke!
Ender: Is this smoke a bad thing?
Ender: Analine i need help here
Analine (29977): Yes, I am willing to help you but first let me know the problem that you have on your Linksys product.
Ender: There is smoke coming from it
Ender: This smoke is getting pretty thick, the cat is choking on it
Ender: The Cat Analine!
Analine (29977): I see. Before chatting with Linksys, have you taken any steps to try to resolve the problem yourself?
Ender: Well
Ender: I tried throwing water on it
Ender: But it made it worse
Ender: Things are escalating Analine
Ender: I can see fire
Ender: Im sure I can see fire
Analine (29977): I see. I apologize but I am not able to help you if you are not giving me the correct information about your Linksys product.
Ender: What information do you need!?
Ender: I need help quickly Analine! Linksys products are serious business!
Analine (29977): Yes, I know.
Analine (29977): I need to know if you're computer can get online when connected to the router and the model and version number of your router.
Ender: WRTSL54GS, V1
Ender: Im online on a different computer
Ender: Oh Jesus!
Ender: it's on fire Analine!
Ender: My Linksys product has caught fire!
Ender: There is nothing in the troubleshooter about this Analine!
Analine (29977): How did the router get on fire?
Ender: You're the Linksys expert here!
Ender: Surely you know the most common reasons why Linksys products catch fire!?
Ender: Oh dear God! Analine my curtains have caught the fire!
Ender: My curtains have fire on them Analine!
Ender: Fire frmo my Linksys product!
Analine (29977): Im sorry but if you continue to talk about non Linksys products I will have to stop this chat

[FILM] Not Starring...

2006-10-04T21:11:00.000-07:00

I stumbled upon this neat lil website called not starring. It talks about people who were considered or auditioned for roles in films but didn't make it....

http://www.notstarring.com/

A good example is... Did you know Ridley Scott was supposed to direct dune first?

[VIDEO]WEIRD ASS VIDEO!@!!!!!

2006-10-04T21:10:00.000-07:00

Yay for Bollywood Michael Jackson ripoffs...

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[MUSIC] The Coup's video for "Me and Jesus The Pimp"

2006-10-04T20:59:00.000-07:00

Not to be nitpicky or anything but shouldn't it be "Jesus the Pimp and I"? Anyways, what an awesome vid. I don't like performance vids and this one is not. Just check it.

[MUSIC] Champion too release a dvd of their final show.

2006-10-04T13:07:00.000-07:00

Champion was a really awesome hardcore band from seattle. Very traditional sounding and super damn good and very positive. While hardcore may not be very technical compared to metal, I find that metal is often very negative with their lyrics and it's nice to hear uplifting music with high energy.

Apparently they have a dvd of their last show coming out, you know I'll be copping it.

[MUSIC] The Dischord of a Forgotten Sketch

2006-10-04T11:26:00.000-07:00

I heard about this Canadian band called "the discord of a forgotten sketch" from punknews.org. Normally I don't normally look into new new bands so this was an anomaly for me. I decided to give them a try and wen to their record labels myspace page and gave them a listen and was pleasantly surprised to heard some good noisy math rock. If you like good noisy math rock I strongly suggest you check them.

http://www.thediscordofaforgottensketch.com is their trippy ass website, it's kinda hard finding the links but I guess that is half the fun.

[MUSIC] Raekwon Signs to Aftermath, Nas and Jay-Z goto Africa.

2006-10-03T20:38:00.000-07:00

2 strange things in the world of hip-hop today, first raekwon signs to aftermath records and half of the album is being produced by dre. Weird. RZA is also doing production duties as well but this really threw me for a loop.

But the thing that really threw me for a loop is this whole Nas Jay-Z thing. I thought they hated eachother???

[MUSIC]Converge Previews!!!!

2006-10-03T20:30:00.000-07:00

Converge has posted a highlights track from their new album "no heroes". I saw them about a week or 2 ago and they played 3 new songs from the new album and they sounded like a mix between Jane doe and You fail me. Jake Bannon looks amazing in person. After the show was over there was a guy handing out converge stickers and he actually gave one to the bassist. Twas funny to see.

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[FILM] Hayao Miyazaki and Jackass 2

2006-10-03T19:58:00.000-07:00

In hopes that you get excited thinking there may be some sort of connection between the Japanese director and Knoxville and company, sorry there isn't, I just didn't wanna make 2 seperate posts if I don't have to. So on with the news.

Miyazaki is at it again. I hope for the return of the catbus.

In other news, some theater owner in Iowa decided to censor the marquee for the movie jackass.

[MUSIC]Weezer files a lawsuit against Miller Brewing company.

2006-10-03T10:47:00.000-07:00

I used to looooooove weezer when I was in middle school. The Blue album and Pinkerton rocked my world and loved them for it. OF course we all know what happened and how much they began to suck like no other. I blame television and video games.

Well it appears that weezer is pissed off at miller brewing because they used them in some ads and associated them with some bands they don't like. Oh yeah, did I mention it caused millions in damages? Yeah, sure.

Here is a copy of the lawsuit in pdf format. It's really boring. To make up for that, here is a fan video don in mspaint...

UPDATE!!!!!:I found out some of the bands they don't wosh to be associated with...

Audioslave (who also sued), Velvet Revolver, Puddle of Mudd, Trapt and Bon Jovi. I guess I don't blame them

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[SOCIAL]The Blog of Francis Bean(Kurt Cobains Daughter)

2006-10-01T09:32:00.000-07:00

Well I heard on a message board that Francis Bean had a blog so after a lil bot of cyber-sleuthing I found it at francis-bean.com. She writes about normal teenager stuff and says she wouldn't want to get into music but would love to direct a movie. 14 years old, god I feel old. Here is a photo of her now.

[GEEK]Holy Crap, 250 hrs of free courses from UC Berkley on Google Video

2006-09-29T21:31:00.000-07:00

http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html

What more do you need to know? Embrace you inner autodidactic.

[MUSIC]I'll take selling out for 500 Alex.

2006-09-29T19:57:00.000-07:00

It's hard to define selling out. It means different things for different people. Some peoples definition of selling out is whoring out products. If that is you definition of selling out and you listen to: The Thermals, Band of Horses, The Rakes or The Adored, then you will disappointed to know that Microsofts new "Ipod killer" named the zune, will have music from them preloaded on to the new units.

I personally don't think it's selling out unless your art suffers as a result of coddling from major corporations.

[MUSIC]Wu-Tang Updates, ODB Album.

2006-09-29T19:36:00.000-07:00

Billboard is reporting that there is a new Ol' Dirty Bastard album due out on Nov 7 entitled "A Son Unique". It has already been leaked. Expect an advance review from me soon enough. Expect Missy Elliot, Pharrel, Ghostface, RZA and Lil Frame from M.O.P. to be guesting.

A small blurb in the billboard article also mentions work is beginning on a new Wu-Tang album.

[MUSIC]New Siouxe Sioux Album In The Works.

2006-09-29T19:32:00.000-07:00

Yep, ain't she really old?

Cover songs are rarely funny.

2006-09-28T08:46:00.000-07:00

I think this one is ok. German country band "The Boss Hoss" covers outkast's "hey ya". Pretty standard with a funny stripperesque video to match. While it isn't something I'd listen to every day I figured I would share.

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Oh yeah, credit goes to ytcracker cause he found it.

File under uber nerd.

2006-09-27T12:23:00.000-07:00

Star Trek: Fanpic featuring George Takei.

You can make this shit up...

Edit, I couldn't find anything on the site about Takei anywhere, but get a load of the cast and crew page .

Shit like this makes feel old.

2006-09-27T12:19:00.000-07:00

I guess Sublime's self titled record is 10 years old. :(

R.I.P. Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower

2006-09-27T12:09:00.000-07:00

Plot is breaking up. They are on there last tour and will release an ep after the break-up. Plot was a pretty good good band and I had the pleasure of seeing them open for the locust a lil over a year ago. The singer fellated the microphone and made me a lil uncomfortable. I really enjoyed the jazz references in their music. I hope they go on to do some crazy stuff in new bands.

One sign of sucess is...

2006-09-25T21:25:00.000-07:00

Getting your music redone into childrens music. Nirvana has an upcoming remake album from the record label baby rock . Sadly, the track "rape me" will not be included.

Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Nirvana will be available on October 31.

War Sucks.

2006-09-25T08:29:00.000-07:00

I don't know who to credit for this but my friend Nate posted this as a myspace bulliten. Don't let that downplay the seriousness of this post. I won't come out and say what kind of politics I subscribe to, that isn't the purpose of my blog. I feel more people should hear this voice.

Words from the 172nd Stryker Brigade.

Right now we are living in big warehouses, sleeping about 150-200 guys in each warehouse. We have one trailer with 8 showers, 5 toilets, and 5 urinals. That's for the 150-200 guys living in your building. Not to mention we are living on the other side of the FOB -- away from any other living human being, phone center or internet café.

Did they mean to keep us away from everyone for a reason?

We don't bite, although some might think so. The females on this FOB were all given whistles before we arrived on this FOB. Bet that's something they didn't want us to find out, yet we were approached by the same females you gave them to.

We were called on to come here and take care of business. We were called on to come here and take of what I read on the internet as the most important mission of this war, the mission that will make or break this war, but we seem more like the black eye that no one wants around.

So be it, we will be the black eye of this FOB as long as they want to look at us like that, but with our backs against the wall we will never quit. We will fight tooth and nail as hard as we have to, to get home to what we deserve.

As our brothers in arms fall in Baghdad to save this city for a people we will most likely never see again, we will grit our teeth and do the job we were asked without any armchair quarterbacks losing sleep at night.

As everyone knows we were extended with some of us already home in Alaska, some in Kuwait and some of us living out of our bags with a matter of days to go before we were to fly home. It was about the biggest low blow we could have got. The morale of this unit was definitely 6 feet underground after that, yet we were being called on for the big game.

One of the arm chair quarterbacks at the top fell asleep playing his game of chess and now we have to pay the price and pick up the slack. We were in Mosul when Baghdad took its turn for the worst after the February bombing of the shrine that sent the country into a downward spiral.

Like it or not this country is in the middle of a civil war. When there are more civilian casualties from each other than there are deaths of soldiers involved in this war, what do you call that? When the morgue in Baghdad alone reports of 1800 plus bodies in the month of July alone. We may have been put in the middle of this civil war but theres only one way to referee it and thats to take care of every kidnapper, death squad and terrorist until only the deserving walk the streets of Baghdad.

When that bomb went off at the Golden Mosque they knew then that the units here in Baghdad didnt have the mobility of the Strykers but they sat on their hands hoping the problem would go away on its own. Well it didnt. It got worse and worse as the months went by and we watched it all over the news from our northern FOB. Why not call on us 3 or 4 months ago and move us to Baghdad and move another unit up to Mosul, a city that we made a hell of a lot safer.

We could have come to Baghdad for the last 3 to 4 months of our year long tour and still been able to go back stateside like we deserve after our performance over here. I know many of us had vacations planned and paid for, many of us had flown our families up to Alaska already and now are having to fly them right back home. Whos dishing out that refund? Wheres the money going to come from for my trip to the white sand beaches of Hawaii? Right out of our pockets.

Some had paid first and last months rent on a new apartment or starting buying new vehicles. They knew before they extended us that it was going to happen. Maybe a little heads up could have saved a lot of HARD EARNED money. We made that with blood, sweat and tears.

One other thing that people might not have thought about was our leave situation. We got 15 days of leave back to the states for being over here and well Ill just put it like this we went on leave 2 months after being here. Do the math and you will figure out that time was no where close to the middle of our tour and many of us will be here for over a year straight.

Now I know at the start of this war that happened to many veterans and I have to give it to you for that but how many years are we into this war now. We went on leave early and were held from leave in other months so this country could hold elections with all of us here.

Where did those so called 4 day passes go that we were told we would get since we went on leave so early? Ill tell you where they went, to non-combat MOSs that never left the wire. Do you have any idea what its like to hear someone talk about how they hated going to Qatar when they got there 15 days of leave also yet never left the wire. They went to Qatar and had a two beer limit, got to drop their flak vest that they never wore and had some free time in a green zone.

We worked our knuckles to the bone and held one of the safest elections in Iraq working 27 to 35 hours straight. Sometimes all we did was come back in to refuel and go back out in hostile territory. We had been promised those over and over again and have yet to see a single soldier in our unit go on a 4 day pass.

We have done everything from tower guard, gate guard, and chow hall guard. Not where the infantry should be used but our so-called down days were spent pulling 8 to 10 hour guard shifts on the FOB. When the non combat MOSs were talking about how they had days off. Thats ok we will continue to pull our weight and others' weight as long as the sky remains blue.

When we go back home each of us will know what we did over here. When we see you with your dirty M16 in the chow hall and hear you complain about how hard your day was, just remember standing right behind you is the man you keeps you safe while you sleep. Take a look around at the men that surround you before you decide to open your mouth about a job you had to do on the FOB.

Whens the last time the PX took small arms fire or had an RPG fired at it while you were pulling guard with no flak vest on. When you hear that firefight going on outside the FOB just remember who is out there fighting for their next meal, fighting for the next time the get to hear a loved ones voice on the phone. We go to the chow hall and they tell us we have to have a magazine full of ammo to get into the chow hall.

Ill tell you nothing makes me more nervous than being around a bunch of people who probably havent fired their weapon the entire time we have been over here and I can already see plenty of ammo laying around if something were to break out inside the wire.

I love my job as an Infantryman and I wouldnt trade it for any other MOS. I will do the dirty work that others pray to never see, I will be the red headed stepchild of the army, I will be the chosen one, just remember who we are cause the FOB you walk on has been secured with blood, sweat and tears.

One last thing I would like to put out is the next time some big wig wants to come to Camp Taji you make sure to show your face around the guys you called on for the fight of all fights, cause every time a V.I.P. showed up at our FOB for our year long tour we were always mysteriously out on patrols. We are like guard dogs at a rich mans house, whenever company comes over they put us in the garage and tell us not to bark, but when its dark outside they let us out to hunt and kill what goes bump in the night.

Make sure Mr. Rumsfeild the next time you serve dinner up at a chow hall like you did in Mosul a few months back you make sure your serving it to the men who are fighting the good fight as their time is due. Also I wont forget about you Mrs. Rice who has made many trips to the Middle East and yet to pay dues to the Artic Warriors. Its not the higher ups who search house after house and fight day and night in the streets that need to hear from you. Its not the higher ups who risk everything they have out there trying to track down the next suicide bomber who need you to pat them on the back.

Its the men who fight and die for a cause only some of us may understand. We have been told we are not the main effort of this mission down here we are simply the muscle behind this operation, but every thing I have been told and everything posted on the news and internet puts us front and center to turn Baghdad on its head. Maybe all these Generals and armchair quarterbacks should show their face to the men they signed off on with only days, hours and minutes to go.

We stood up a Police and Army that were decimated in 2004 in Mosul and we will do it again here if we have to. As we sit here talking of children and wives that we may never see again we will push on with our backs against the wall. We may be the black eye now but we will have our time in this life or the next. We will not go quietly, we will accomplish this mission. We may be a unit once forgotten after the Vietnam War, we may be a unit you have never heard of until they extended us, but we will be a unit you will never forget. Mark my word!

[Music] Smashing Pumpkins in the the studio.

2006-08-17T10:48:00.000-07:00

That's right, looks like Billy Corgan is broke or god knows what cause punknews is reporting that smashing pumpkins is back in the studio. No word on the line-upcept that Jimmy Chamberlain is in.

Gangster Rap may make you money, but it won't get you into the Hip-Hop meuseum in the Bronx

2006-08-05T10:44:00.000-07:00

Swiped from Hip-Hopdx .

1.5 mil has been allocated for a new meusuem in The Bronx, but they are trying to keep gangsta rap out of it. While I don't support those kind of lyrics, I do see Hip-Hop as a reflection of real life. That said, I think they should be included. We will see how this is played out.

[music] Jhonny Marr is playing on the new modest mouse album...

2006-08-05T10:29:00.000-07:00

I swiped this from punknews . Yes you read the title right, Jhonny Marr from the smith is playing alongside Modest Mouse and even share songwriting credits on the new album. I was done with modest mouse after their newest album, but now I have to check them out cause of this debacle. Lets hope for an ultra tremloed song a la "how soon is now"...

[movies] Secret Tarentino movie???

2006-08-04T09:37:00.000-07:00

Apparently there is a movie on the festival circuit called "Ten Till Noon" that people are speculating is from the mind of Quentin Tarentino. According to the IMDB it's not true but I'm willing to bet 5 bucks he could have used a psuedonym. I haven't seen it but I am hoping it will hit some theaters in oregon. Keep your eyes open for this one.

[movie] Philip K Dick Biopic!!!

2006-08-03T00:42:00.000-07:00

Bill Pulman is going to play PKD in the big screen. Not to many deatails except this one: Musician Matthew Wilder, best known for his 1983 hit "Break My Stride," will direct starting next month.

In case you don't know, PKD wrote a few lil books that became small movies such as "Blade Runner", "Minority Report" and "A scanner Darkly".

I for one am excited.

swiped from...
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060801d.php

[movie] The departed trailer is up.

2006-07-29T20:48:00.000-07:00

Ever heard the song by King Missle called "Martin Scorsece"? When I first heard it I thought to myself, who is this guy? Why does he he make the best fuckin films? I must have been 11 at the time. After a few years, I finally figured out who he was. Well I wouldn't place him in top 5 directors or anything, I will say he is pretty damn good.

It's now 2006 and I am 24, and M.S. has a new movie, "The Departed".

From the IMDB:
Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Boston State Police department and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy's identities.

Pretty exciting huh??? Check out the cast. Most notable is Jack Nicolson and Martin Sheen.

And now... the trailer...

THE INCONSISTANCIES OF WATCHING PORN FILMS

2006-07-28T20:23:00.000-07:00

Note: This was originally posted on nwtekno.org by drukore and has a decent reply response...

Over the years, I have become what I would like to think as a porn expert. I have watched easily enough porn to stretch over the course of
4 normal people's lives, and become accustomed to the ways life works within the confides of the screen. The reality of their world is of course, completely not ours. There is no parallel at all. How you and me have sex in our world only could be closely associated with the porn world because we learn as a child or impresionable teen that women and men might actually like the same thing in porn as we would want to perform in bed. Not sure about that? Ask yourself where you learned to have sex?

It wasn't from Mom and Dad explaining "When a man and woman are in love......" no it was when you saw your brothers Hustler or Swank, where the the business man and woman are standing in some kinda pre-pose like so.....notice how the lovely Amber Michaels needed to drop her car off at the lead singer of Rammstein's autoshop dressed like a ho.

Exactly. These aren't real scenarios. So now I would like to present the unrealistic scenarios of the Porn Universe. And chances are you probably don't have this stuff happen
in your life or never have. If so, then you outta be in pictures baby.

1. If you walk in your friends living room and she is female and you just pull your wang out, DOESN'T MEAN SHE IS GOING TO BE ALL FOR SUCKING THE THING!
You know what I'm talking about. The scene in a porn where the girl is on her couch reading a magazine and say, Bobby Vitale comes out naked and just stand next to
her head, ready to be hoovered and serviced. Ok. I have NEVER walked into a room naked at a girlfriend's house, even if I was dating them. Why? What if between the
the shower you were taking and that point, her mom stopped by? The mom doesn't wanna see your wang. Which bring me to my next point.

2. Walking naked into a room with two girls there, WON'T GAURANTEE A THREESOME. And then my next point....

3. Not every girl is bi. Even upon getting them drunk. So get over it.

4. So speaking of unrealistic porn, I absolutely abhor Mark Davis... something about the man just isn't right. Like sure, he looks like your average American male, hell, he's even uncut making him appeal even more to that 30% of the male population that views porno and also happen to be unsnipped. But he's the creepiest fucker in the industry next to anyone working under the first name "Randy". I made the mistake of downloading a clip of him getting his schlong mouth-spackled by some barely legal girl whose name escapes but if you saw her you'd totally know who I'm talking about. Anyway, she's deep throating him, which is also to degree completely fake, because I haven't met many women willing to forcibly insert 9 inches of uncircumsized man-meat down their throat. So he's making the worst facial expressions imaginable, you know, trying to convey to the viewer that he's really enjoying himself, even though it looks more like he just developed a hemmorhoid on the spot. The worst and most bothersome thing about this clip, though, is the climactic finale in which he predictably sprays the money shot mostly in her mouth, of course nailing her face as well... no sooner does this happen then he swoops down for a little bit of mouth-to-mouth action, while his tartar is still marinating in her jowls. Fuckin sick, man. Like I'm sure there is a small percentage of people that totally dig the snowball action, but I am not buying it. I'd shriek like a violated 8 year old if a girl even tried to smooch with my reproductive waste still coating her mouth... let alone volunteer for it. So remember kids, SNOWBALLING IS ONLY ALLOWED AS A CONSTANT IN THE PORN WORLD.

5. The MMF. Male- Male - Female threesome. Ok, guys I need to you leave the room for this one.....ok...good ....women are we alone....can I ask you all something? How many of you have had a 3some? With two guys? Yeah that's what I thought not many. What if two guys were over and tried to get you to have one? Chances are you would freak out. You might even run out of your apartment and call for help.....Ok now guys come back into the room.....ok...now fellas....if you were to have a threesome, how would you feel if your friend was like "Hey Rick, lets put both our cocks in her ass at the same time!! How bout it???"...You wouldn't be too down would you. What about if you were having sex with the girl, and then your guy friend stood over the girl to put his ASS IN YOUR FACE while he got a blowjob? Yeah, totally. Me neither. Next point about threesomes.

6. IN REAL LIFE IT'S NERVE WRACKING TO HAVE TWO GIRLS NAKED WITH YOU. Like ok I've had thressomes. They rule, but you know when you have to perform with a TOTAL stranger and ANOTHER ONE just as hot, that is a lot to live up to. A LOT. So don't expect to be able to go for three hours, and give them both headraging O's. Chances are, and this happened to me the first time, when two girls are giving you head, you won't last very long. But you will out grow it. With practice. But at first you won't be Randy Spears or Peter North. Those dudes have 3somes like EVERYDAY. So it's like working a bit of overtime at your job. No biggie for them. Only at your job OT usually doesn't require a cast and crew.

7. You know the porn where the plumber comes over to fix the sink and the housewife who is like 19 happens to be running around the house in a skirt on a Tuesday?
When you are in the service industry, the chance of going over to a house to fix the plumbing pretty much rules out girls like this WONT BE THERE SPREAD EAGLE ON A COUCH waiting for you. As much as you and I wanna be able to think this could be the case and drive most men to go out and get that door-to-door spackling job, it's just not realistic to think. NOWHADEYEMEAN? So the next time you think about getting a job as a plumber, know most of the housewifes that will be there will look more like Rosie O'Donell.

8. WOMEN DON'T CUM EVERYTIME. They don't and they don't cum as easy as you think in porn films...Example. Let's say Taylor Rain is doing a scene with Peter North....as as soon as she has Peter get all up ins, she like orgasms. Now MAYBE there are a few girls that can get off that easy. And there are a lot of guys who are good at thei tasks (I know this to be true) BUT USUALLY IT TAKES LONGER THAN 15 SECONDS TO GET HER TO ORGASM. So don't expect a giant Karma-Sutra style orgasm everytime. If at all. Porn girls, generally FAKE IT. If you couldn't tell, you shouldn't be allowed to have sex in the first place.
9. Porn films also set this weird expectation for guys to have to wear their hair really short, have ULTRA TAN, no body hair and wear a watch. C'mon, what guy on a regular basis gets his sack waxed? I can see guys trimming the southern forest more than often to show the ladies so payback for their landing strips....but I have never ever said "Shit dawg!!! Jenna is coming over tonight, I GOTZA GET MY JEWELS BUFFED! Seacrest out!!". Not once. Nor do I wear a watch during sex. Let alone a gold one.

10. Finally, guys if you ever think you wanna try something during sex with a girl you don't know very well. Here is the rundown of stuff you shouldn't do the first time having sex : ANAL CREAMPIES, CUM SWAPPIN BETWEEN FFM-3SOMES, SKULLFUCKING DURING BLOWJOBS, THE PILEDRIVER, ANYTHING ANAL REALLY, Rocco style sex with her head shoved in a toilet bowl by his foot while he nails her from behind, Double Anal Double Vagina sex (DVDA) or GANGBANGS....under no circumstances during a first date should you suggest a gangbang with her and you and 4 of your friends, FISTING, LOCKING THEM INTO CAGES, WATERSPORTS, TALKING LIKE A BABY DURING SEX ( i.e - "Oh wojawowo bebe yeah bebe? wojajuju yeah...awwwwwwww yeah...suckit..*get quieter* suckitsuckit wowawowowooowoo),

Remeber porn is meant to be downloaded at will. And watched for jacking off purposes. But I advise you to not follow it so closely. Thanks for your time

According to Kevin Smith's Blog...

2006-07-26T17:36:00.000-07:00

He is going to be guesting on Ebert and Roper since Ebert is having complications from his recent surgery. This ought to be interesting cause they might review the movie "world trade center".

[movie] Little Miss Sunshines

2006-07-26T17:14:00.000-07:00

I often don't find out about too many movies before they come out but I just watched the trailer for this movie before scanner darkly and it looks superb.

Steve Carrell is one of my favorites right now, he is on fire as of late.

The Rough Guide To Fiction

2006-06-22T02:09:00.000-07:00

Any person that enjoys reading and has the time for it should buy "The rough guide to Cult Fiction". It has profiles on a bazillion authors complete with recomendations and it tells what works are the best to start with.

This American Life

2006-06-22T02:07:00.000-07:00

http://thislife.org/

A man plays a prank in the office, a person gets up in a dinner party to use the restroom, ordinary even mundane things become suddenly interesting on the NPR show "This American Life". A show broadcasted out of Chicago, it has been on for 10 years and shows no sign of stopping anything soon.

The show can be described as interviews set to music but there is so much more to it. The editing is done in such a way that usually the interviewer cannot be heard and it sounds like the subject is just telling a story. I read a small zine/comic book where Ira Glass shows how to do it and it is not a simple task.

Of course it isn't all interviews as several writers have also read short stories on the show as well. David Sedaris and Nick Hornby come to mind off the top of my head. In fact, Davis Sedaris sounds nothing like I expected.

Streams of all the shows are available on the site.

Recent Books I have finished.

2006-06-22T01:57:00.000-07:00

Hey it's rare when I finish a book. I dunno why but it just is. I always start on really huge books and then give up. My worst offences are religous material. You would not belive how many books I have half finished. Dune, Peoples History of the united states, Soledad Brother, The Koran.

So you can see why finishing a few books is a big deal to me. As you can see from my listal account, I have a ton of books that I haven't read yet.

1. Sirens Of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Excelent piece of satire, I was laughing out loud quite often. This is my first Kurt Vonnegut book and I know for sure I will be reading more of his work in the near future.

2. Guns, Germs and Steel: The fates of human societies by Jared Diamond
Quite informative, I learned several things from this book and I often find myself quoting it in conversation. Of course it's sometimes hard to find people to chat about history and evoloution with. Some things are repeated several times and alot of people had that to complain about. I thought it really helped with my retension of the knowlege. I would read it again.

3. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Extremely well written piece of literature. It took me about 6 months to read it. Of course I am always reading a few things at a time so some things just take a long time. Alot of people don't like this book or Ayn Rand in particular. I found it to be quite entertaining and I often find myself comparing real life people to characters in "The Fountainhead". Of course I see myself as Howard Roark. I would probablly read it again.

I am currently reading: The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond, Me Talk Pretty One Day by Davis Sedaris and Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keilor.

Locust Show Review

2006-05-14T17:41:00.000-07:00

Feb 21st, 2005
Loveland, Pdx

The first band(can't remember there name) sounded just like don cab.thats a good thing.The plot to blowup the eiffel tower was ok,I really didn't like how the singer was licking the mike stand and his onstage antics were a little,too much for me.the music was great cept for the sound at the meow meow is TERRIBLE.The ex-models can fuck off and die,that shit was terrible.SixSeisRoku will own all in that style.it was sooooo repetive and lame and so boring.

The locust played for 15 mins,the pit was great,I got to push p[eople,it was quite empowering.They sounded good.but they really need to truly be appreciated on a good soundsystem with a good sound guy who knows what he's doin.Props to the dreaded girl in the pit.no props to the girl er um guy who looked like he was having a seizure(you know who you are)

All my old myspace movie reviews...

2006-05-01T12:43:00.000-07:00

Thursday, March 17, 2005

"Ong Bak:Muay Thai Warrior"

Ong Bak....such a crazy movie....Its in thai which is such a cool language to listen to.This Action movie was very good.Very little use of guns which I like.....

Cinematography:The shots were really throughout the whole feature...Sometimes showing the fighting from 3 different angles.

Direction:This movie has no stuntmen,no ropes, and no CGI.People are jumping over cars and jumping off high things and all sorts of crazy shit...The fighting is VERY realistic....

Acting:I can never tell good acting in foriegn films cause its in a different language....Its your standard action movie schlock...

Dialouge:So much is lost in translation in foriegn films that I can't judge the dialouge cause they could be saying the most beautifull compliment but for all you know see in the subtitles is"you look pretty".

Sound:The soundtrack was you basic techno and faux metal,the sound effects were all right and didn't sound fake.

Plot:Its an action movie....who cares.....

In summation...this movie fucking ruled....4/5 stars

Monday, February 21, 2005

"donnie dorko directors cut""i heart the hukabees"double movie review!!!!

I kinda think of these 2 movies being the exact same movie.Both contain conversations about philosophical things,but "I heart" did way better.both had some cool effects.Jason S was awesome and I can't belive I'm saying this but so was mark wahlberg for that matter.I will I heart but not darko.

I heart hukbees 5/5 stars
donnie darko 3/5 stars

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

"appleseed(2005)" "dagger of kamui" double movie review

"appleseed"
Beautifull,saw this one on the big screen.was totally awesome.plot was substandard.but.....the mix of cell shading and CGI was done really well.the water looked so real.water is the hardest computer animation to do(so I hear) so I give major props to that.

4/5 stars cause the plot was sub-par

"dagger of kamui"
This movie is from 1985, one of the first anime movies I have seen.Its a good movie to watch to show how much the genre has changed.the plot is a little hard to follow but the action is good.you will see how tv shows like dragon ball z are completely unoriginal in the animation dept.

5/5 stars cause its 20 yrs old

"Raging bull" movie review

Scorcese's(sp?)best that I have seen so far.Deniro's best?Maybe....The tension during that lovers spats actually made me feel uncomfortable.I can see the influence of how boxing movies are filmed.I also liked that it was in black and white.

4/5 stars cause it seemed like it was missing something.I dunno what.

"ronin" movie review

Yet another case of a bad movie with robert deniro,the dialouge ....terrible.the action scenes have way too many cuts.the score was sub-standard.Nothing more should be said....

Thursday, October 07, 2004

"spinal tap" movie review

I expected soooo fucking much from this movie.I found it to be terrible.It had some good moments,and it never seems like a fake documenterystill,I was very dissapointed.But I must tell you best song lyrics from the movie."the bigger the waistband the deeper the quicksand....."

"buffalo soldiers" movie review

A very good makes this a great movie,I tend to like movies about drugs.and this one is a good one.its also about the army,and dating the bosses daughter and stuff.very good movie,not much I can say.....

Saturday, October 02, 2004

Double movie review"royal tenambaums and good fellas"

Great fuckin movies,both of em.I think scorcese or however you spell it won this match.wes anderson is good though,I had never seen a wes anderson movie b4.the colors and stuff was all so beautifull,and the story,OMG it was crazy,makes me with I had an adopted sister so I could get it on with her.Goodfella's I had 3 gripes with it.1.they shot a guy who just did 6 years in the prison for them,2.they killed samuel l jackson3.I smoke too much weed to remember the other one.The music in good fellas is great.And wes anderson's choice of music was excelent too,I am sooooo stoked for Life Aquatic.

Sunday, September 26, 2004

"star wars episode I the phantom menace"

Another "older" movie...Acting------terrible-------Plot-----forgetable-------Cinematics-----fake looking and not in that good way like sky captain.I love that Darth maul has 5 lines of dialouge in the whole god damn movie.Did you notice that the aliens working for the trade federation have a kind of chinese accent?I think george lucas has some fucking race issues...big time

"eternal sunshine of the spotless mind"

I just watched this movie and all I can is whoa...It "reminded me of requiem for a dream",it also reminded me of "the shape of things".Its really fun to count the seconds between cuts cause you will almost never get past 8 seconds.Its like the god damn rodeo.Warning...it is a love story....but a different kind.