BONEY M._sometimes I just need some
If you held a gun to my head and demanded I tell you my favorite disco group I wouldn’t hesitate to answer Boney M. There’s something about their sound, their lyrics, and the strangeness of it all that I often need to revisit. Sometimes I’m struck by how well I would’ve fit in the late ’70s. It’s too bad I missed all the fun.
Love for Sale
STEPHEN KING’S CAT’S EYE_things that scared me as a kid
I haven’t posted sh*t this week. My excuses are numerous: work, conference expansion, umm… work. Okay, so it’s mostly due to conference expansion. But I did have time to both remember and watch a movie that totally freaked me out as a kid: Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye.
That goddamn troll.
Liberdade.
Livre está a alma,
a prisão não me guarda.
Liberto está meu pensamento,
nada mais me prende,
nada mais me abala.
Da queda ao abismo,emerjo forte,
rumo a luz..
a design by Francisco Freitas: http://www.flickr.com/photos/franciscofreitas/
CAPTAIN AMERICA (& THOR)_first look at…
Here’s your first look at the new Captain America costume for the upcoming movie. Not bad. I think it’s the right blend of Cap’s classic costume with a few modern touches…. but here’s the thing: Isn’t this costume suppose to be from World War II? In that case… umm. Well… maybe this costume appears after Captain America is thawed out (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it.) All in all, I like it. At first glance I feel better about it than roughly four-fifths of most superhero adaptation costume designs (Spider-man: lukewarm, Batman Begins: lukewarm, Superman Returns: lukewarm, Watchmen: nailed it, Catwoman: where the f*ck is my gun? Captain America… warm.) Captain America is a comic book movie that really has my interest. I have never read a Captain America comic book (though I’m crazy about that ’90s movie) but for some reason I have wanted to write the screenplay for a movie adaptation since high school. Seriously. It’s what I thought about in Home Ec. I thought it would be cool to take an approach like Interview with a Vampire… that is, have the Red Skull, sometime in the ’80s, perhaps hiding out in Brazil, recollect his run-ins with Cap. I’d have called it Red Skull. It would have been awesome. I’d be a national hero: woman would adore me, children would want to be me. But that didn’t happen… YET.
Take a look. What do you think:
UPDATE: And now they’ve thrown Thor at us. Caring very little of the character, other than his eventually involvement in The Avengers film, I’m okay with it. On a side note: is Thor the only Marvel character to sport a cape?
Thoughts & Concerns??
remember…
everything eventually ends up in the junkyard. everything. eventually. remember that…
AUGUST ROOM_music i stumbled across
I’ve really wanted to start posting about some of my friends and the wicked sh*t they’ve been coming up with… so here it is. Whether it’s music, mixes, books, or poetry, I’ve been blown away by it all. SO many of my friends are doing such incredible things I can’t help but be inspired. And since inspiration fuels my life, it’s best I start sharing. To kick things off, here’s a really excellent song by August Room, an alternative rock bank fronted by my friend Jud Mantz. Jud and I are old friends (which I’m prone to repeat, over and over, when intoxicated.) When he handed me his latest EP, my mind was blown. Take a listen to my fav, Words She Never Said. Feel free to share it yourself… and if Jud finds himself lurking these pages maybe he can tell us a little something about the song (what inspired him, what it means to him, how much he hates me, etc.)
Enjoy…
I came across this post today on io9…. and I instantly fell in love. I’ve long been obsessed with the cosmonaut canines of the Soviet space program… but I had never seen this image. It is glorious. It’s the sort of thing that makes that whole Cold War/Space Race worth it…
Belka and Strelka. Honor them.
Belka and Strelka: the first dogs to survive space flight. They were Soviet heroes. They are humanity’s heroes. I think I will name my children after them. In the meantime, read more about them (and the countless other space dogs) here. And I’ll try to post more about the Soviet space program… I love that crap. Especially their unrealized dreams for the future.
THE GREEN LANTERN_who the hell is
I knew this post was inevitable. I knew I couldn’t ignore this forever. I knew eventually I was going to have to address THE GREEN LANTERN. So, yes, here is the first of what can only be assumed as many posts on the Green Lantern. Now, on paper, this film is shaping up quite nicely AND i admit that. I approve of the director: Martin Campbell. And I approve of the star: Ryan Reynolds. I approve of the genre: comic book movie. And I approve of the subgenre: sci-fi comic book movie. My big problem with this Green Lantern film is that… well, it’s a Green Lantern film.
Image Courtesy of: Dispatches from Dimension X
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