I wasn't going to blog today but I had to because of these two links:
A Kentucky ex-prostitute's personal blog! This blog is one flat-out, no bullshit personal blog right here. Reading this at times made me feel sad, but there is a very endearing ammount of humanity and caring to be found within too. However you wanna spin it, this lady's life is one big fuck you to modern civilization, and I'm okay with that.
And this flipped me out too:
This took this kid 42 hours to make... I guess he doesn't play video games... And if I haven't mentioned on this blog yet, I think Lady GaGa rules. Like most things I love, I hated her when she first broke, and now I can't get enough. Long live the Queen Of Pop.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Been DJing pop music to myself all morning... some cool shit has come out lately. Current favorites?
Robin Thicke - 'Sex Therapy'. This is one of the smoothest things a white dude has ever put on wax. I was thinking about his feature on Carter III where he's singing "I work at the corner store / My family's got problems - problems", and that is some pretty hood shit to be singing considering he is Allen Thicke(the dad on Growing Pains)'s son. Anyway that shit rules.
Ke$ha - 'Tik Tok'. A straight man's guilty pleasure.
David Guetta - 'Sexy Bitch (Ft. Akon)'. Best Akon song since DJ Drama - 'Daydreamin (Ft. Akon, T.I., Snoop Dogg)'. Akon came out recently talking about a whole bunch of songs he recorded with Michael Jackson that never saw the light of day because of MJ's chronic perfectionism... I wish those shits would surface in bootleg. Akon is no MJ but he has been a pretty solid pop, club, and R&B producer.
Shawty Lo - 'Dey Know (Remix)(Ft. way too many southern rappers for me to care about listing in this blog)'. This was banging back in 2007 and I pull it out a lot for an old track. Still sounds sharp enough to be new.
Sade - 'Soldier Of Love'. First new Sade album since Lover's Rock like 10 years ago, and this first single is the furthest thing from a disappointment. Kind of downbeat, but sharp and modern. The military snare drum is a nice thematic touch.
Alicia Keys - 'Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart'. This is the best, most off-kilter pop song I have heard since Lil Wayne - 'A Millie' a year and a half ago. Tiffany-esque 80's new wave turned soft bedroom R&B lament, with a high definition, 2010 aural sheen. Sophisticated modern pop.
I'm trying to get into NHL ice hockey. As a fan, not an athlete. It seems pretty awesome. I'm gonna watch a game today, and then later we're going to watch the Blu-Ray of Coraline, which seems cool and was originally written by the great comic writer Neil Gaiman of Sandman fame. It's animated in stop-motion with partial 3D or something like that?
We're also going to show our buddy Ryan the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp because he was talking about how he would like to sit in on some holy roller/psychedelic christian type church services just to see what the speaking in tongues etc. is like. I have been to a place called Church Of God Of Prophecy a couple times which encouraged fake healings and speaking in tongues, it is a real spectacle. I like to think of it as people getting off by being crazy together at the same time. It's the only thing I can think of. But if you have never seen that docu then I would recommend it to anybody, it is some pretty scary stuff that everyone should know about.
I started reading an old run of Punisher written by Garth Ennis and that shit is hilarious, morbid, and extremely entertaining. For my money Garth Ennis is the best writer in all of comics. Other writers (Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Kurt Busiek) may have deeper aspirations as far as artistic depth, but as far as me giving somebody 3 dollars for a 26-page comic, Ennis gives you an absurd ammount of bang for your dollar. Every. Single. Time. To me he is the Quentin Tarantino of comic books. There is no question of whether it will be worth the price of admission, only of how it will stack in comparison to his other works. I can't imagine a day when I'll leave the theater after a new Tarantino movie feeling like I've been jipped 10 dollars.
Tomorrow is the last day of NFL playoffs; 3:00PM will see Colts Vs. Jets and afterwards at 6:30PM is the game I'm waiting for, Vikings Vs. Saints. I like the Saints, but Favre is my favorite football player so I want to see the Vikings win this without question. I'll be rooting for the winner of this game in the Super Bowl regardless, which I'm assuming will be against the Colts. GO VIKINGS!
Awright, peace out blog people.
Robin Thicke - 'Sex Therapy'. This is one of the smoothest things a white dude has ever put on wax. I was thinking about his feature on Carter III where he's singing "I work at the corner store / My family's got problems - problems", and that is some pretty hood shit to be singing considering he is Allen Thicke(the dad on Growing Pains)'s son. Anyway that shit rules.
Ke$ha - 'Tik Tok'. A straight man's guilty pleasure.
David Guetta - 'Sexy Bitch (Ft. Akon)'. Best Akon song since DJ Drama - 'Daydreamin (Ft. Akon, T.I., Snoop Dogg)'. Akon came out recently talking about a whole bunch of songs he recorded with Michael Jackson that never saw the light of day because of MJ's chronic perfectionism... I wish those shits would surface in bootleg. Akon is no MJ but he has been a pretty solid pop, club, and R&B producer.
Shawty Lo - 'Dey Know (Remix)(Ft. way too many southern rappers for me to care about listing in this blog)'. This was banging back in 2007 and I pull it out a lot for an old track. Still sounds sharp enough to be new.
Sade - 'Soldier Of Love'. First new Sade album since Lover's Rock like 10 years ago, and this first single is the furthest thing from a disappointment. Kind of downbeat, but sharp and modern. The military snare drum is a nice thematic touch.
Alicia Keys - 'Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart'. This is the best, most off-kilter pop song I have heard since Lil Wayne - 'A Millie' a year and a half ago. Tiffany-esque 80's new wave turned soft bedroom R&B lament, with a high definition, 2010 aural sheen. Sophisticated modern pop.
I'm trying to get into NHL ice hockey. As a fan, not an athlete. It seems pretty awesome. I'm gonna watch a game today, and then later we're going to watch the Blu-Ray of Coraline, which seems cool and was originally written by the great comic writer Neil Gaiman of Sandman fame. It's animated in stop-motion with partial 3D or something like that?
We're also going to show our buddy Ryan the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp because he was talking about how he would like to sit in on some holy roller/psychedelic christian type church services just to see what the speaking in tongues etc. is like. I have been to a place called Church Of God Of Prophecy a couple times which encouraged fake healings and speaking in tongues, it is a real spectacle. I like to think of it as people getting off by being crazy together at the same time. It's the only thing I can think of. But if you have never seen that docu then I would recommend it to anybody, it is some pretty scary stuff that everyone should know about.
I started reading an old run of Punisher written by Garth Ennis and that shit is hilarious, morbid, and extremely entertaining. For my money Garth Ennis is the best writer in all of comics. Other writers (Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Kurt Busiek) may have deeper aspirations as far as artistic depth, but as far as me giving somebody 3 dollars for a 26-page comic, Ennis gives you an absurd ammount of bang for your dollar. Every. Single. Time. To me he is the Quentin Tarantino of comic books. There is no question of whether it will be worth the price of admission, only of how it will stack in comparison to his other works. I can't imagine a day when I'll leave the theater after a new Tarantino movie feeling like I've been jipped 10 dollars.
Tomorrow is the last day of NFL playoffs; 3:00PM will see Colts Vs. Jets and afterwards at 6:30PM is the game I'm waiting for, Vikings Vs. Saints. I like the Saints, but Favre is my favorite football player so I want to see the Vikings win this without question. I'll be rooting for the winner of this game in the Super Bowl regardless, which I'm assuming will be against the Colts. GO VIKINGS!
Awright, peace out blog people.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
GO GREEN BAY!!!!
My favorite football team, the Gravity Bong Packers, play a wild card round playoff game against Arizona at 4:40 on FOX. GO PACKERS.
Got around to watching Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea yesterday. Its a pretty good Miyazaki joint, with certain elements being similar to Disney's The Little Mermaid but with tons of Miyazaki creature weirdness. The similarities aren't overwhelming so it is still very enjoyable, think Howl's Moving Castle as to Beauty And The Beast. I recently saw Pixar's Up, and while I am a pretty gigantic Pixar fan, the various similarites to Miyazaki's Castle In The Sky (and to some extent My Neighbor Totoro) just left me feeling like I'd already travelled that cinematic territory.
Been listening to a lot of leaked material from Usher's upcoming album Raymond Vs. Raymond and I cant' wait for it to legitimately come out. Have I mentioned how much I love 'Papers'? And it's not because I'm a divorcee, it's because of the instrumental track, I swear.
Jersey Shore. I watch it. Yeahhhhh. I try not to watch reality TV designed to make you look down upon it's subjects, but this shit is mad entertaining. And actually, Ronnie is a really cool dude. I would take bong hits with that dude.
There is a fan translation patch for the never-released-in-America 1994 PlayStation 1 game Policenauts by Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima floating around the internet. It is pretty damned incredible. It's done in a kind of point-and-click, Secret Of Monkey Island style, but also has shooter and puzzle segments. The noir-styled detective plot takes place over a sci-fi anime setting and is every bit as enjoyable as Kojima's wonderful Metal Gear Solid script. MGS is one of the handful of video games where the writing and voice acting kept me enthralled from beginning to end as if it were a good movie. There's a lot of the f-bomb and chronic cigarette smoking in Policenauts so I suppose that's why we never saw it state-side.
Started watching this new Japanese anime TV series called Himitsu: The Revelation in fansubs and it is a pretty good sci-fi show. It's set in a near future when police harvest the brain from homicide victims, scan its braincells, and review the memory data on supercomputers in order to find information about the assailant and apprehend them. Of course, the brain must be found within 48 hours of death to be of any use. That's pretty interesting and everything, but the ammount of consideration of how this would effect society and how the general public would frown upon these methods, no matter how effective at locating loose criminals, is what got me really thinking. It's animed by Madhouse studios, famous for the feature films Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, as well as great TV shows like Casshern Sins and Hajime No Ippo: New Challenger. I would recommend any of those to anyone who enjoys traditional animation or Japanese pop culture.
Somebody just called and told me the Patriots are losing! If GB doesn't do anything I'm gonna be rooting for the Vikings because of Favre and what not. Hopefully the Packers will go the distance though, they've had a strong second half of the season and I think we got a change at this thing.
Awright, I'm out! Peace
Got around to watching Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea yesterday. Its a pretty good Miyazaki joint, with certain elements being similar to Disney's The Little Mermaid but with tons of Miyazaki creature weirdness. The similarities aren't overwhelming so it is still very enjoyable, think Howl's Moving Castle as to Beauty And The Beast. I recently saw Pixar's Up, and while I am a pretty gigantic Pixar fan, the various similarites to Miyazaki's Castle In The Sky (and to some extent My Neighbor Totoro) just left me feeling like I'd already travelled that cinematic territory.
Been listening to a lot of leaked material from Usher's upcoming album Raymond Vs. Raymond and I cant' wait for it to legitimately come out. Have I mentioned how much I love 'Papers'? And it's not because I'm a divorcee, it's because of the instrumental track, I swear.
Jersey Shore. I watch it. Yeahhhhh. I try not to watch reality TV designed to make you look down upon it's subjects, but this shit is mad entertaining. And actually, Ronnie is a really cool dude. I would take bong hits with that dude.
There is a fan translation patch for the never-released-in-America 1994 PlayStation 1 game Policenauts by Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima floating around the internet. It is pretty damned incredible. It's done in a kind of point-and-click, Secret Of Monkey Island style, but also has shooter and puzzle segments. The noir-styled detective plot takes place over a sci-fi anime setting and is every bit as enjoyable as Kojima's wonderful Metal Gear Solid script. MGS is one of the handful of video games where the writing and voice acting kept me enthralled from beginning to end as if it were a good movie. There's a lot of the f-bomb and chronic cigarette smoking in Policenauts so I suppose that's why we never saw it state-side.
Started watching this new Japanese anime TV series called Himitsu: The Revelation in fansubs and it is a pretty good sci-fi show. It's set in a near future when police harvest the brain from homicide victims, scan its braincells, and review the memory data on supercomputers in order to find information about the assailant and apprehend them. Of course, the brain must be found within 48 hours of death to be of any use. That's pretty interesting and everything, but the ammount of consideration of how this would effect society and how the general public would frown upon these methods, no matter how effective at locating loose criminals, is what got me really thinking. It's animed by Madhouse studios, famous for the feature films Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, as well as great TV shows like Casshern Sins and Hajime No Ippo: New Challenger. I would recommend any of those to anyone who enjoys traditional animation or Japanese pop culture.
Somebody just called and told me the Patriots are losing! If GB doesn't do anything I'm gonna be rooting for the Vikings because of Favre and what not. Hopefully the Packers will go the distance though, they've had a strong second half of the season and I think we got a change at this thing.
Awright, I'm out! Peace
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Holy shit, fanboys! Batman: Arkham Asylum won't let me have my life back!
Do you like Batman? Do you like video games? Do you own an XBOX 360, PS3, or current PC? If you said yes to all three of these questions then you ABSOLUTELY MUST GO BUY BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM. IT OWNS MY SOUL. I don't even know why I'm blogging instead of playing it. PERFECTLY EXECUTED VIDEO GAME ART aimed at EXTREMELY DISCERNING COMIC BOOK FANBOYS. AND THERE IS LOTS OF HARLEY QUINN/POISON IVY FAN SERVICE. Now I must wipe my forehead of these beads of sweat and digress to another topic.
Which is: BATMAN! I just was reading this new Batman mini-series written by Kevin Smith called The Widening Gyre and it's pretty damn good. And of course it's Kevin Smith so it's pretty funny, too. Batman gets a legit girlfriend and spends his days lamping around Barbedos or some shit with some supermodel-looking chick and flies back to Gotham every night to do the usual roughing up of baddies. Kevin Smith gets to write about Bats getting nookie... his dream job, I'm sure.
Cause of all my game playing I have been ignoring the Billboard charts and basically treating music like a bastard step-child. I'll have to catch back up on everything I've missed in the coming weeks. I did read that Kanye West was serving food at a soup kitchen for New Year's but I guess he only gets that high profile coverage when he does something impolite. People are so concerned with politeness. All these people starving and being murdered in the world and everyone in the U.S. is so worried about such inconsequential bullshit. Like pop culture blogging.
I finally got around to watching the extended recut of Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's film Sin City and I'm glad I did. The stories are much more enjoyable in the separated format that the comics were in, and the whole Short Cuts treatment never really did them any favors. This way it's kind of like HBO-styled TV episodes. And of course the cut footage is nice, too.
It's been a rough holiday weekend of drinking so I don't have much else to report right now. I'll be watching the Rob Zombie Halloween II extended cut this week and trying to recall what's different from when I saw it at the theater. I'll also be watching the movie Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea by Miyazaki, my favorite animator.
A Happy New Year to everyone out there in blog world. I have to go because the GF wants me to make coffee.
Which is: BATMAN! I just was reading this new Batman mini-series written by Kevin Smith called The Widening Gyre and it's pretty damn good. And of course it's Kevin Smith so it's pretty funny, too. Batman gets a legit girlfriend and spends his days lamping around Barbedos or some shit with some supermodel-looking chick and flies back to Gotham every night to do the usual roughing up of baddies. Kevin Smith gets to write about Bats getting nookie... his dream job, I'm sure.
Cause of all my game playing I have been ignoring the Billboard charts and basically treating music like a bastard step-child. I'll have to catch back up on everything I've missed in the coming weeks. I did read that Kanye West was serving food at a soup kitchen for New Year's but I guess he only gets that high profile coverage when he does something impolite. People are so concerned with politeness. All these people starving and being murdered in the world and everyone in the U.S. is so worried about such inconsequential bullshit. Like pop culture blogging.
I finally got around to watching the extended recut of Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's film Sin City and I'm glad I did. The stories are much more enjoyable in the separated format that the comics were in, and the whole Short Cuts treatment never really did them any favors. This way it's kind of like HBO-styled TV episodes. And of course the cut footage is nice, too.
It's been a rough holiday weekend of drinking so I don't have much else to report right now. I'll be watching the Rob Zombie Halloween II extended cut this week and trying to recall what's different from when I saw it at the theater. I'll also be watching the movie Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea by Miyazaki, my favorite animator.
A Happy New Year to everyone out there in blog world. I have to go because the GF wants me to make coffee.
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