First I have to say, it’s beyond creepy that I write an entry in which I profess my great admiration for Michael Jackson’s work, and then five days later he dies.
Weird.
But that’s Michael Jackson. The enigma. Strangeness personified.
I’m feeling pretty conflicted about all of this. And before I talk about MJ, I have to say [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 25, 2009
thoughts on michael jackson.
June 20, 2009
the 10 most defining songs of my childhood.
NOTE that I said my childhood. I would never pretend to speak for a generation. I thought the 90’s were pretty sweet, but I would think everyone thinks their decade of upbringing is/was a good one. Folks like me born at the tail end of the 80’s (I’m guessing my grad class covers 1987-1988 birthdays) [...]
June 19, 2009
‘zombieland’ trailer is up!
How can you not be excited for that?
2009 has already got off to an awesome start with Dead Snow. I can’t wait for this zombie epic. Woody Harrelson + zombies = awesome.
June 17, 2009
ben cooper (pre-radical face/electric prez.)
I love this little excerpt I just now noticed on Ben Cooper’s Radical Face blog:
And I off and on have people ask me how to play certain songs on guitar. But since I write everything down in this little shorthand that helps no one but me (I’ve never learned to write music properly), it’s always [...]
June 16, 2009
one of my favorite books becomes a movie.
I am very unsure how to feel about The Road in cinematic form.
That trailer is fairly garbage. I don’t think that’s an inaccurate assessment. But trailers are often cut/edited in a way such as to present them as “most marketable” to the largest audience. So I’m not completely surprised that we [...]
June 13, 2009
thoughts on ‘deadgirl’
So I recently caught a viewing of Deadgirl. And I’m still not sure what to think.
Let me rewind this back for a second. ‘Deadgirl’ is one of a couple films I had really been excited to see that had been caught up in distributory Hell for quite a while (the others being the as-yet-unreleased Trick [...]
June 11, 2009
vs. the apocalypse!
Kinda cool – that at least is going to be a short film packaged with the Observe and Report DVD. And now Mandate Pictures has secured the rights to make it a feature film.
Yeah yeah, you’ve had enough of Seth Rogen. But whatever…it looks funny. And Jay Baruchel is tragically underrated. [...]
June 9, 2009
thumping my melon
i’d like to pass along this link from a friend of a friend’s blog. thumping my melon. he was the Executive Director of the Association of Professional Journalists and he passed away last week. the blog is an account of facing his death sentence of cancer and coming to grips with mortality. [...]
June 7, 2009
enough with the penis!
It’s just not that funny anymore.
I’m not really sure where it started, but somewhere along the line – specifically in the Apatow crowd – it became a staple to start putting male nudity into movies. After two years, I no longer laugh.
(And listen, I’ll get this out of the way earlier: I get why. It’s [...]
June 5, 2009
spotlight: kyle andrews
Kyle Andrews.
Category: alternative, acoustic, electronica
Members: Kyle Andrews (and others for live shows, obviously)
Albums of note: Amos in Ohio, Find Love Let Go, Real Blasty
Downloads: Sushi, Amos in Ohio, Naked in New York
Kyle Andrews is the most ridiculously talented musician you have never heard of. There, I said it. And I’ll stand by it, no matter [...]
