Helmsdeep In Candy

Wow....

Best Martial Arts Moments

By Maxim.  Clearly, Bruce Lee, Tony Jaa, and Jet Li are badasses.  But look at #3!  Dooder #1 has NO ARMS and dooder #2 has NO LEGS!

Wickerman Clips

I heard this movie was awful, and I believe it, but these clips are awesome!  OH GOD!! THEIR IN MY EYES!!!

Mic'd Hockey Fight

This is hilarious. They have audio from before a hockey fight.

Daily Lit

Do you like books but hate holding things?  Do you like reading but hate paper and ink?  Do you prefer to enjoy a story over a period of 8 million years?  Then this site is for you!!

Right, so it's a site that emails you a few paragraphs from a book you choose every day.  The idea being that you spend more time at email than w/ a book, so you'll get it read bit by bit each day.  Seems sorta silly to me, but whatever floats yer biscuit.

Box in a Box

Okay, I'm behind on this one, I actually saw it on Olbermann before I saw it online *gasp*  Still, it's hilarious.  'member I pointed to the SNL skit Dick in a Box?  Well there's a million parodies, of course, but this is the funniest I've seen is Box in a Box!  Ha!

Holy Behemothic Bunny, Batman!

Look at 'im!  Supposedly he's real.

Great Big Sea Redux

Okay, I don't think I could possibly love this band anymore.  I've been listening constantly for the past couple months and everytime I wear out a favorite song I find 2 more.  I just bought a couple albums, one is a live one (not road rage) w/ a DVD of them.  The performance is awesome, of course.  But more than that, they put their crazy videos on the DVD, including karaoke versions of ordinary day, goin' up, and MARI-MAC!  ha!   how cool are they?!  Closest they are getting anytime soon is wisconsin, I wish I had an excuse to fly there in march :)

Child's Play Update

So that charity I like, Child's Play, started by the webcomic guys, broke one million dollars!  That's crazy!  Small compared to most charities, of course, but still, game players and companies raised one miiiiiillion dollars.  That's awesome!  And I was uhh... 0.01% of that! :)

Fun With Signing Statements

And by fun, I mean constitutional rape.  GOD DAMMIT!

Hastert Demoted

Now look at you .. all back-of-the-bus 'n shit.

Killer Fungi

Jesus Fuck that's gross

Politically Incorrect Alphabet

A is for Abortion?  with a picture of a hangar?  holllly crap.

Movie Reviews @ The Temple

Apocalypto - Hollllly shit.  I can't say this movie had much of a chance, I went in expecting it to be pretty bad, but still.  Yikes.  There is some good action and all that, but the rest, jeez.  There's lots of details that could be used as examples, but I found myself wondering something else: which of these categories is sadder?

1) The movie makers are sorta racist and stupid - i.e. the white people are clean, the brown people are dirty and savage, etc.

2) The movie makers expect us to be sorta racist and stupid - i.e. really colloquial dialogue, a whole opening scene that I would absolutely believe was copied out of a sitcom script.

3) That we actually ARE racist and stupid - i.e. the people in the audience laughing just because a brown person w/ crazy tattoos and piercings made a face.  That's not a joke!  That's just different than you!  Jesus!  And, no, I don't give the guy who said "woah, that was badass, man" the credit of thinking he was laughing at the filmmakers.

Anyway, it's worth seeing just to know how crazy it is.  But I sorta wish I hadn't given Mr. Gibson 10 bucks.

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World Trade Center - Who's the fuck idea was it for me to watch this while I was feeling crappy?  Dumb!  Anyway, it was what I expected and good for that.  You have to expect it to be a microcosm, it's not about the whole thing (except that it, of course, is).  It was done well enough, hard to judge, emotional movie, emotional state of mind, not the best perspective to analyze film making skill, I suppose.

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 Monster House - Eh, I guess.  It was cute and funny.  Not as much as people seemed to say though.

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Blood Spell - Off the beaten path, here.  This is a machinima, filmed in Neverwinter Nights.  It's not all that well acted, written, or filmed.  But still, it's a huge effort for a new art form and for that reason alone I wanted to watch it.  In 5 years when some amazing movie is filmed entirely in a video game, we'll have seen its roots :)

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Wow, strange strange movie.  Very good, but very strange.  The first 30 minutes are pretty amazing.  I dunno how you make smell into sight, but it's dirty & visceral and does the job.  Then it gets into sort of a normal (albeit twisted) murder story.  Then it goes batshit insane.  But it's really quite good.

Ding! by Seed

A furry's wet dream? catchy song though.

I/O Brush

That is three kinds of cool, go MIT.

Pink Pwnies

Awesome!

NRA Handbook

Granted, the contents are awful (animal rights people are terrorists, brown people are gang members, liberals are evil, etc).  But, y'know, the art in this thing is sorta cool!

Zune Ad

Do you enjoy penises?  Then.... buy a zune?

Trailers

Fantastic Four - (I think everyone already saw this, but oh well)  Wow, the silver surfer looks pretty damn slick.  How can the same people who made the Thing look like a lump of papier mache dog crap also make SS look cool?  Oh, right, computers, but still!

Smokin' Aces - Just now saw this.  I like gang movies, hope this will be good!

Grindhouse - Wth?  Is this going to be awful or awesome?  Both I guess?