Category: Arts & Entertainment
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Me gusta la televisión
Thanks to the last few months of under-employment (which ends tomorrow), my TV-watching has almost gotten back up to the levels before I worked for EA and before I discovered RSS feeds. I still haven’t suddenly regained consciousness sitting on the couch 35 minutes into a History Channel documentary about classified Nazi cheese experiments, but…
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Asses on display
When are companies going to learn to stop hiring “guerilla marketing” firms? First there was the ridiculously ill-advised Sony PSP blog (Consumerist saved the original here after Sony was forced to take it down), which got the company much, much worse PR than they could’ve ever hoped to gain with the campaign in the first…
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One hot French slut’s illicit obsession
I rented With a Friend Like Harry… (the other translation, Harry, He’s Here to Help is actually a better title) because I thought Sergi Lopez was a bad-ass in Pan’s Labyrinth, and I wanted to see what he could do as the bad guy in a flat-out horror/suspense thriller. Also, I just wanted to see…
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Tonto! Jump on it!
Sometimes I’m forced to look into the very heart of my whiteness, and it’s astounding. It’s like walking down a long, white tunnel inexorably towards a blinding vanilla light. As I get closer I hear echoes of the Hellman’s Mayonnaise jingle and the white granny shouting “Where you at?” from cell phone commercials. Finally I…
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And all on account of some dame
After 35 years and I don’t know how many film classes, I finally got around to seeing The Killers. What a completely bad-ass movie this is. It’s already one of my favorites, and I’ve already decided I’m probably never going to see it again, because nothing could be as cool as watching it all unfold…
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And you don’t stop, you keep on eatin’ cars
I already confessed to how I broke up the Pixies and made the Pogues split. I don’t know how I do it; it just happens. I got into “Alias,” right before it went downhill and got cancelled. I waited until the last minute to start liking “Lost,” and then look what happened there. So it…
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Mama don’t wanna take her medicine
Somebody’s got to remind me not to go to the Kabuki for movies. For some reason I’ve got it stuck in my head that it’s perfect for dinner and a movie afterwards, and I always forget how they stuff you into cramped seats in a tiny 100-seat theater with a screen not much bigger than…
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She is one funny bumpy thing
I wasn’t a big fan of Jesus is Magic. In fact, it managed to do what I never would’ve thought possible: by the end of it, I was kind of sick of Sarah Silverman and wanted her to go away. If you want to read somebody who can write say what I’m thinking, Stephanie Zacharek’s…
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Ben Folds Five
Tonight I saw the live RiffTrax show at the San Rafael theater. It was the awesomest, which is lucky for me, since I’m going to be seeing it again tomorrow night in the city. A year or so after I graduated college, the MST3K guys did a Comedy Central-sponsored tour where they’d show one of…
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A Series of Really, Really Unfortunate Events
You’ve got to be in the right frame of mind to watch Pan’s Labyrinth and enjoy it. I’m not sure what that frame of mind would be, exactly, but I wasn’t in it. I want to make it clear up front that it’s a very good movie. The story is very well told, imaginative but…
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Nicholas Cage is in bad movies. Pass it on.
I think it’s every blogger’s duty to make sure as many people see this as possible. The best scenes from Wicker Man. I haven’t seen the movie, but by the looks of it he was just asking for the bees. What a dick.