Category: Arts & Entertainment
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Mickey Shrugged
This week Mac got me into a preview screening of Ratatouille. It’s really an outstanding movie. It’s gotten to where you just expect the highest level of quality from Pixar movies, and Ratatouille exceeds that. At the technical level, of course, it’s perfect — Pixar movies always have much, much more going on behind the…
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Schrödinger’s Capo
Well, that didn’t last. One week and seven episodes after I started watching The Sopranos, I found out how it ended. The culprit was Ron Moore’s “Battlestar Galactica” blog, of all things. Technically, it got ruined much earlier, several times over; I just hadn’t realized that when Yahoo News changed their big headline from “Will…
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Take the cannoli, mang
Tonight’s entry in the Movies Everybody Has Already Seen Except Me Marathon was the Brian DePalma classic Scarface. Now, I realize the movie is 24 years old, but I’ve got to throw myself on the mercy of the internets here, because I just don’t get it. I’ve been looking around for some kind of explanation,…
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Got myself a gun… about seven years late.
Update: Hey, this post was rambling and non-sensical even for me. I’ll leave it as an example of what happens when you put stuff on the internets while tired. But here’s what I would’ve written had I been typing coherently last night: “The Sopranos” aired its series finale this week. In the seven years the…
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Alas for you
When I was in high school, the rival school from across town put on a production of Godspell that rocked my world. I loved the music, I loved the concept behind the show, I bought the soundtrack and memorized it. When I went to college in New York, I spent my dining hall money to…
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Todavía me gusta la música
A few weeks ago, I rocked the internet to its foundations when I spent an entire week posting lists of my favorite things to this blog. But even by those low standards, I still managed to under-perform on the music section, a fact that haunts me to this day. I’ve been digging through my iTunes…
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What Polar Bear?
“Best Week Ever” interviews Ben from “Lost”. Once again, the show proves that there’s no joke they can’t over-do, but Michael Emerson is pretty awesome in this clip:
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Spoiled
Update: Yeah, ignore this post. At least, the bitchin’, if not the speculatin’. See comment 12. One of the consequences of working at home is that it can turn your standard garden-variety internet addiction into a full-blown compulsion. I’ve had more days than I’d like to admit where I’ve reached the end of the internet…
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The Hits Just Keep On Coming
The whole Rifftrax thing has been accreting coolness like an asteroid belt; eventually I’m just going to have to be redirecting this site to that one. What’s cool now is they finally got Mary Jo Pehl to do one. She played Mrs. Forrester on “Mystery Science Theater” (and also Jan in the pan from The…
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At least my name isn’t Earl, I suppose.
Now I know how the Geico Caveman feels. One of my friends has been complaining that a Korean R&B singer has stolen her identity. I don’t know if one Korean singer is better or worse than an entire new series (warning: that link plays video). The series, which I decree shall never again be mentioned…
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I just want a decent copy of this video!
My favorite commercial ever, back from when Cartoon Network was still cool, has been impossible to find for years. Once again, YouTube saves the day: I would’ve been willing to move back to Atlanta and work for Cartoon Network all based on that one ad. And the one where Jinx the Cat is riding a…
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Thieves just like flies
I don’t know when it was decided that comic book movie blockbusters were required to have multiple villains in them; I’m guessing it was during pre-production of Batman Returns when someone realized that more people would pay to see Michelle Pfeiffer in a leather catsuit than would be willing to see Danny DeVito dressed like…