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UPDATED WITH WINNERS!! Three KROD MANDOON Sets!! Herc’s Monday Giveaway Part II!!
Congats to KROD winners @EricCraddock, @dadoftrips & @robknox. Quickly forward your shipping addresses & phone numbers to herculesAICN@yahoo.com!
I am – Hercules!!
In celebration of my first decade overseeing Ain’t It Cool’s TV section, we are giving away TV box sets every Monday.
All you have to do is:
1) “Follow” me on Twitter.
2) Constantly monitor my Twitter account between noon and 6 p.m. Pacific Time Monday, March 22. At some point during this window I will post two questions on my Twitter account. THREE of the first readers to correctly answer this question via Twitter AFTER I pose it via Twitter will get his or her own copy of Krod Mandoon & The Flaming Sword of Fire.
IMPORTANT!! The two-part question will begin with “KMQ.” That stands for “Krod Mandoon Question.”
IMPORTANT!! Your Twittered answer MUST begin with @hercAICN. Don’t screw this up!
IMPORTANT!! If you answer the question BEFORE I post the question in Twitter you will be automatically disqualified.
IMPORTANT!! This contest is only available to residents of the United States.
IMPORTANT!! If you win, immediately forward Herc your shipping address and phone number: herculesAICN@yahoo.com. If you fail to do so within 24 hours, Herc will assign the prize to another.
Even if you’re a giant loser this week, look for more supercool prizing in the coming days and weeks.
I will update this post after the winner wins.
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Delete this post please
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Wow. Sarcastic, sarcastic wow.
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since I might be the only one here who actually thoroughly enjoyed Krod Mandoon... can I just save you the trouble (and myself the shame of lurking around on Twitter, of all places) by requesting that you just gimme those DVDs now? nice and slow...
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..is that it managed to be a pretty close parody of Legend Of the Seeker, before LOTS came out. Must admit I got bored of it after a while, though.
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"Got bored of it **after a while**"? There were 6 episodes...it didn't even have "a while."
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The show had everything going for it except for the writing, the directing and the acting. Matt Lucas as the bad guy was inspired casting ... how the fuck do you screw that up? Anyway, if we don't win the box sets, do we get to pick out copies of "AfterM*A*S*H", "Hello Larry", Nicholas Hammond's complete turn as "Spider-Man" or the much-coveted "Battlestar Galactica 1980" (which STILL had a more satisfying conclusion than the Sfi-Fi version) on DVD instead?
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tried to watch one episode couldnt sit through to the end as it was just utter utter fucking shit
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India de Beaufort and Horst Draper.
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you americans can keep him
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Screw the haters - by the way, if you aren't interested in the subject, why waste the comment?
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Those that enjoy it are not alone. I also really liked it, and looked forward to each new episode while it aired.
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They're the flipside of commendations. Where you see praise awarded unfairly it is natural enough to balance the commentary by pouring scorn. 2for2true, would you ask the reviewers why they bothered posting a negative review of something? Surely not, since you come here to read news and reviews, not just adverts and blind adulation. You might find the talkbacks negative, but they're an essential ingredient of the success of this website, and can often be more enlightening than the articles themselves. Not to diss the articles- they're a more essential ingredient- but i'm just saying.. you can't trust all the reviewers all the time.
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Bring it back for a 2nd season!
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...to like this. But it was pretty awful And by pretty, I mean very. And by awful, I mean atrocious.
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but 6 half-hour episodes. Maybe if it had run 20, 18, or even 12 episodes I might have tired of it. However, I really did enjoy it. It's stupid, but I expected it to be. What else would one expect from something with such a redundant title?I'd like to win but can't because I live in Canada. Hercules may favour our health care but seems to have a certain displeasure with our postal system.
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FUCK twatter! Run a real contest, and stop with this bullshit. You're starting to piss me off. Write something worth reading douchebag.
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Name a single joke on it that you were incapable of coming up with yourself. I've done funnier things today, and I'm paralysed in hospital writing this by winking my sphincter in Morse Code.
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I'm not sure anyone can come up with such comedic genius like "winking sphincter morse code." Sigh.
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I've been waiting for a DVD release for a while, and much like I hoped they're the uncut BBC epsiodes. Sweet.
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sniff, sniff....Not too much Krod in the air...just open a window and get a fan and it'll be alright...
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Subbary® finally posted back where we were.
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I love a good BAMF.
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thanks again for keeping us up to speed...How was your night out?
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Until the next Subbary Subbaries right along.
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Shit...
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There's good soil here. We can grow soy and wheat.
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It's attained its own awareness.
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it was great to see him again..hope he keeps up this time...The Sheep return to the fold..
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it attained sentience at the moment we hit the first 10,000th post...then it doubled in intelligence on the second 10,000th post...Now that it is over 75,000 posts, there IS no way to stop it...It has become Colossus/Skynet...
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I thought it was funny when I read it last night. It gets even funnier when you read it sober.
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A thread dedicated to "Krod Mandoon' is destined to be at the top of Mt. AICN.It farts irony.
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...I want to watch it.
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it could be our very first programing sale...I'm sure A&E would be interested, it could play right after Madmen...
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Two Original Peebers return.
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Mar 27, 2010 11:33:34 AM CDT
Seriously, Cheeses. You are the perfect Pynchonesque hero.
by colonelfatheart
You should read Vineland, too. Zoyd Wheeler, my man. Toots & Stoner is definitely in the Pynchonian mode.
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...SPARTARIDICULOUS?
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Mar 27, 2010 11:35:31 AM CDT
Will DEFINITELY be checking out his books, Colonelman...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Thanks for pointing me toward something I am sure to enjoy...
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by 2PM I shall be in NJ. in 3 hrs I may be sizing up a bottle of wine. It's good to know where your day will end up ahead of time.
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...of your show. I NEED the show.
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Mar 27, 2010 11:37:06 AM CDT
Okay, now I have to get my fat ass on the exercise bike.
by colonelfatheart
Talk to you Pebrews later.
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...with?
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in 30 minutes I will be showering...by 2 PM I will have been at work for an hour...in 10 and a half hours I will be right back here drinking beer and smoking weed...So, except for the work part, today looks good...
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In 10 minutes I will be dressing myself for the outside world. In 45 minutes I will be driving to a tasting I agreed to do. In 6 hours I will be opening a bottle of wine white I cook dinner. After that, it's anyone's guess...
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And it's only noon... well, EST, anyway...
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Didn't you all know, soy is linked to psychotic behavior in males?!?!?!?! Wheat and grapes, please. The essential building blocks of any Western society.
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But seriously, what will Subs eat?
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I did not know that. OK, so a little soy. And spelt, maybe?
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See yall late tonight...
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In fact, I've missed the past couple. I'll have to catch up on Monday. Again, I'm sorry.
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...to un-krody a krody mandoon.
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As a matter of fact, later all! I'm outta here for the time being.
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Mar 27, 2010 12:07:45 PM CDT
...shit hits the fan, Colonel. I loved it for shits and...
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...giggles, but last night was pulp at it's best.
Oh, the adolescent hatred and spite I feel for certain characters...oh, to be Spartacus and work out my aggressions in blood. -
I feel refreshed and ready for my regimen of allergy meds. 2 hrs until I'm drinking vino.
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Catch you in the twilight hours.
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The Second place winner got two. Wacka. Wacka.
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Dammit.Everybody's off?Oh well, in two minutes, I'm gonna crack open a beer.In ten, I'm finally gonna pop RED CLIFF into the DVD player.In three hours, I'm gonna review it for you.
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Reasons for me on the couch are all of the above
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Kids love them eggs of Christ..I rep'd the jews
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Too bad you didn't get to wear the bunny suit.
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...I picture hopping, a fuzzy bunny costume, and Easter eggs plopping out the back.
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you stood there while The Christians scapegoated you and regarded you with The Poo Face of Self-Righteous Scorn?
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the apostles all got hammered and played naked leap-frog at the frat house.
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...toddler gummy bear vitamins.
I wonder if it's possible to eat too many? It wouldn't be very cool to OD on gummy-vites. -
One-A-Day Gummy Vitamins®
So, you have no excuse for stealing from ToddleraPoo. -
...LAST ONE IN'S A ROTTEN EGG!!
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Naked Quarters Naked Twister And Strip Jenga
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Who threw the tomato at jesus?!
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...in one decorative basket...because when you need Neosporin® and a Band-Aid® you're really in the fucking mood to dig through years worth of old suntan-lotion, herbal skin-creams, poison-ivy lotion, and cancer causing hair coloring shit.
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They used to wait until Judas passed out. Then, they tagged him with shaving cream and Sharpies® before waking him up by sticking his hand in a cup of warm water.
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...I think not.
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...the edge...
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He can dodge a frikken tomato!
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if you bleed all over the decorative basket, I bet the DW will get rid of it.
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...the other guys called Jew-das to be pricks...
Very funny, guys...you know we're all Jewish, right?
No way JEW-darissimo...we're Christian.
Well, I'm group treasurer, so your illiterate asses can eat foreskin for lunch...how's that?
Yeah, but it'll be CHRISTIAN foreskin!!
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Thank for the Pedalback. I laughed my ads off at that Judas stuff... And the tips on storing your household pharmaceuticals...
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He doesn't NEED to dodge.
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...and it's cold sunshine time for me.
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...sounds like bad synagogue humor.
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I would like to start off by apologizing to white_vader. I didn't mean to imply that his posts weren't worth reading only that when I am wading through 900+post(jeebus cripes people)that I have to cut corners somewhere. I also never look back so once I have skimmed..it's skimmed.Apologies don't fall under the DICKING banner but i like vanilla and couldn't let it go. Moving on.
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wading..which i got right but it was to close to "wadding" and could have meant something much nastier.
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Pebrews must be out enjoying the weather. It is supposed to be in the 70's by Thursday here in central NY.
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http://tinyurl.com/yeqhwuu
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...it'll save Subs some heavy Subbary® lifting tomorrow on The Lord's Day...we've been burying the poor guy recently.
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...I do The Dick-Around like nobody's business.
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...but different.
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http://tinyurl.com/ycj58sz Nice pants.
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"Very positive reviews" vs. "It's a Dreamworks animated film..." That's a tough decision.
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I'll just flip a coin then.
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...those are my free-ballin' Pedalbackin' pants.
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...and HOW TO SPANK YOUR DRAGON has good reviews and looks like fun...I think you can do no wrong.
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no wonder they have the biohazard symbol on em.
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HOW TO CHOKE YOUR CHICKEN
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...biohazard!
When I wear them I often sing to myself...
♫♪ now I'm freeeeee...freee ballin' ♫♪
♫♪ yeah I'm freeeeee...freee ballin' ♫♪ -
What's the world coming to?
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I usually like my job, but that SUCKED.
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2008. Mandarin. Subtitled. Theatrical version. Directed by John Woo.
Woo applies his ADDled style to an historical epic, and the result is an assault. In 208 A.D., a tyrannical Chinese Prime Minister urges the Emperor to declare war on southern clans, and an alliance rises to defend themselves. There's undeniably memorable imagery here, for the boys, and, for the adults, some interesting suggestions of Man's military strategy and Woman's desire for peace, but it's all bludgeoned to flashy incoherence by a frantic camera, continual edits, forced perspective and a reliance on CGI. I might sometime wonder whether two extra hours might turn this obnoxious mess into something worth watching, but I will never care. ★☆☆☆☆ ½ -
...one ★ to the back of the head...Take that, motherfucker.
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Mar 27, 2010 4:56:42 PM CDT
I dunno... I get tired of that whole "women are peacemakers"
by scarywaitress
crap. I mean, yeah, we are, most of the time, but still... I think it's a lazy fimmaker/storyteller who falls back on that old canard. Please. For me that's up there with telling a coming of age story, and having the pivotal moment always, ALWAYS be the first sexual experience. Like sex is what separates child from adult... which it DOES NOT. The whole "loss of innocence" bit makes me tired.
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im just gonna open all the mics and let the shit go.
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I've seen since [deleted]!
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PRECIOUS was immeasurably better.
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Subby threw that movie over a cliff. A Red Cliff.
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1. Broiled swordfish, with sautée of onion, grape tomatoes, drizzled with balsamic reduction, served over Basmati rice. Side of brussels sprouts. 2. Pan-seared pork loin with Italian herbs, smothered in sautéed onions and mushrooms, served over creamy polenta. Side of roasted baby carrots.
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So, there's two+ hours you'll never get back... that sucks. What's next on your queue? And, are you going to see either of this weekend's theater choices?
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...stories.
You can't hide from me. I know you've got them...what are you saving them for...my birthday?
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But I don't have time to be clever. I want to get OUT OF HERE!
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#2'd be my choice. But, #1'd make me mighty happy, too.What say you, Flick?
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Swordfish is yummy.
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but that really WAS awful.
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I might just go see WAGGIN' DRAGON tomorrow, if I have to baby-sit.
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hadn't oversold it. Just let them get the "cliff" reference on their own.
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I couldn't help myself. If I'm gonna crack a bad joke, I'm gonna crack it open!
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The only reason I would want to see Dragons in the theater is because of the 3-D... otherwise, that's a DVD pick for me, too.
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...last night I did my monthly popcorn binge eating contest against myself. I won...
So maybe I'd go with the lighter swordfish dish. Also, tomorrow is supposed to be rainy, and the heartier pork dish sounds like rainy day fare...and the fresher the better with fish.
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But I'm a sucker for an R-rated comedy, and a big fan of Cusack & Pink's Grosse Pointe Blank as well.
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i haven't been on the truck very long. Mostly it is young urban youth trying to get on TV. The other day I was by the court house and a homeless man stopped by to let me know that 100 cans will get him $5 and he was gonna take good friday off.
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but he picked #1, I might serve him hot dogs the next day.
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cried myself to sleep that night.
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...GROSSE POINT BLANK.
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get with me so I can recreate your "Casting The Peebers" thing. I honestly do not know what happened to it.
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I LOVED GROSSE POINTE BLANK.
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...you'd still have some making up to do for ruining the shrimp salad with barbecue sauce...
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whatever he doesn't pick today, he's sure as shootin' having tomorrow night. Besides, we don't have any hot dogs. My ridiculous child refuses to eat them... along with most other child food staples, including chicken, cake, ice cream, hamburgers, fish sticks, and pudding. Refuses them all. However, she'll down an entire can of black olives if I let her. Bizarre.
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If they'd sent me two discs of John Woo's bullsh!, I'd've felt obligate to watch both of them. Chrissy, I'm depressed and suicidal as is!
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Serve DH hot dogs and let BD (Beloved Daughter) eat his favorite right in front of him! ☺
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I'd pour BBQ sauce all over my fine pudenda and refuse you licking rights!
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...suicide jokes unless they want frequent unexpected house guests.
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That deserves a guffaw within two minutes!
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...AAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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BBQ sauce on fine pudendæ... it's getting a bit steamy in here...
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...page took forever to refresh for some reason. That was an immediate and unrequested "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!".
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I'd tea party with the young miss any day.Flick's ToddleraPoo, too.And, those of you who question me and suggest I might be a dirty old man can go fuck yourselves.
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...you know it's coming.
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Mwa-haha-hahaha!
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figure out the casting call. I'll get back to you.
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Riff is like The Inredable Rulk except he is a red version of Cliff Clavin from Cheers.
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Want me to have a crack at it?
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I'll find it eventually. I'm checking all the weekends during February. I just thought maybe you had some hints off the top of your head.
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Mommy's little dear. ☺
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...I'm more of an olive oil and balsamic vinegar guy...
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To be fair, I seem to remember Cobra--Kai loving RED CLIFF.To be fairer, I love Cobes, but I don't give a shit. That movie is crap!
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Juice, maybe.Imaginary tea, definitely.
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This movie would definitely be a rental for me, but the DGF wants to see a movie tonight instead of the Psychobilly band I wanted to see. She couldn't handle Sasquatch and the Sickabillies, the first psycho billy band I took her to and said it was too soon to see another.
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you know I'd break up with her for that D or no D.
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http://www.aintitcool.com/talkback_display/44180#comment_3185673
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with Continentalop. I've been waiting for that opportunity for awhile.
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I haven't looked at the Top Twenty for weeks. I'm gonna get slaughtered.
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...any of you are gay enough to listen to THIS AMERICAN LIFE, but I am.
Unfortunately, I don't think you can skip forward, but the second chapter of this episode is called Squirrel Cop...sooo fucking funny.
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Sasquatch and the Sickabllies was our first date and they did a cover of David Allen Coe's 'Don't Bite the Dick that Fucks You, Honey' and she went out with me again. http://tinyurl.com/ykxquel
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Is that Peter fucking WELLER?
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I'm gonna do a whole big thing and put it back up in Files @ The Shelter. I'll let you all know when it's up.
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in my head, I'm Batman.
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...whoever was Val Kilmer. At least, it wouldn't come up for me.
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"The Terminator and Aliens were hot, amazing works, and I'm always hoping he'll make a real movie again, to live up to that potential and not just make a film he wants to jerk off to." BWAH-HAHAHA-HAHAHAHA!
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In TOP GUN, with spiky hair. Maybe Mac can find another image?
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I'm Blue Beetle in my heart, too.
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...I'm like Braveheart that way.
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But Flicks biting dicks that fuck him comment kind of freaked me out, in all honesty.
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We all have to.
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...that's light beer by talkback standards.
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is there gonna be another explosion of "Toots & Stoner"-ific creativity in my absence? 'Cause I'm okay with that. Just sose you know.
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But I will post once in awhile.
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some days you eat the bear, and some days the bear's gotta eat.
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...so I'm out of practice.
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looking absolutely fabulous as he said it.
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http://tinyurl.com/y8dzzdk
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I thought we were sticking to comic books there for a minute.
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I'm at work for the evening, and Ess Dub has a mouthwatering menu for DH to pick from, (for the record, my pick is #2 - can' beat Italian!), and while the good lady prepares the repast, all the while thinking she's Tank Girl, you gents are all makin' with the man-flirting with each other!
It warms my heart to pop in and out of these things, it really does :D
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And Conti wins the day!
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....You'll always be defiant to me ;D
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I saw in the meanieback (I think) that you liked something that I liked. Something strange. But I cannot remember it now for the life of me. Oh well...
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...In a saner and more just future, ALL movie reviews will be written by THIS George A Romero. Because he has a fucking point.
AVATAR didn't fuck my eyeballs so much as massage them, give htem a half-hearted handjob, and then leave me with the whispered promise of so much more.
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TedKordLives. And he is telling me I should write a Wrecking Crew script.
How are you Ted? -
Ted - Wish I knew what strange thing it is that I liked that you did too. Was it MrsSpud-To-Be?? ;D
Hey, Conti! How you doin'?? -
Working on a Saturday, but I went to the gym and hiking early. Going to watch some fights tonight.
How are you doing? -
I want to be at home, sedated, playing video games. But I need the hours.
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...In my head, I'm either Nathan Fillion in FIREFLY or Jensen Ackles in SUPERNATURAL. In MrsSpud-To-Be's head, she WISHES I were Jensen Ackles in SUPERNATURAL (or Josh Holloway in LOST - she sure does love her bad boys ;D ). But yeah, that's who I'd be in my heeed.
In real life? Man, I've been compared to everyone from Steve Buscemi (idiosyncrasies, bit weird, British teeth) to Greg Wise (apparently the only casting director I ever met thinks I look like a snooty upper-class villain when casting me for a period drama; funny, since I'm a working-class likeable type of guy >:P ). Physically - and it PAINS me to say this - with a beard, I am a dead ringer for Tom Green circa CHARLIE'S ANGELS. So terribly sad. It's nice to know I could probably pull Drew Barrymore should I wish to (and she's a very cute chick), but, man... to resemble such a talentless cock... -
Just getting through the inevitable wind-down after my shift at work. And lamenting the loss of an hour's sleep as it turns British Summer time in about 80 mins (the clocks go forward). Got some DIY to do tomorrow - turning a linen cupboard on our landing into a walk-in wardrobe - so will be signing off soon...
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I used to get Hugh Grant. I guess I grew out of it, tho, because I haven't heard it in years.
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You just got the floppy fringe cut off, and stopped stuttering around pretty girls. And saying "Fa-HACK!" in that Sloane Ranger accent :D
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And turn beet red. My ears practically glow. Doesn't help.
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The only haircut I've ever had, except that time I had a bleached blond mohawk for a night. Long story.
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...after his whole tranny hooker incident.
Maybe everyone you know is thoughtful and polite. -
That was a long time ago. And everyone I know is an animal. AN ANIMAL, I TELL YOU!
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I've had God of War 3 sittin' here for was seems like forever, taunting me. But still getting harassed about bloody work on a Sunday, even though I'm delivering things ahead of sked and trying to save this animation thing we're working on which is going to the fucking dogs. As opposed to fucking bears.
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...Not only is everybody you know thoughtfully representative of a proportionally representative British middle-class liberal's wet dream, but they are unfailingly polite, boring to a fault, and ALL laughing at you for ditching Liz Hurley and dating a succession of morons, whilst bemoaning the state of your heinous movie "career".
Oh, and at least one of them will come out, whilst remaining the most appealing character to the British movie-going public. And may be played by either Simon Callow of John Hannah.
On the upside, you've fucked gorgeous women from Lt Andie "Downhome Country Peach-Pie" MacDowell to Julia "Home-wrecker" Roberts. So it ain't all bad... -
And everyone thinks I look like an Oirish gangster/hood.
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Was it you who just missed getting the props job on THE VAMPIRE DIARIES? Man... the temptation to replace stakes with TWILIGHT dildos would just be too overpowering for me to resist... >:P
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that he knew the foppish haircut sucked. And finally got someone to cut that thing.
Is it haircut day in here today or sumfin'? -
Tho I did steal a bit of his style with the ladies. With some success, I will add.
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http://tinyurl.com/ycrrdvc (add glasses)orhttp://tinyurl.com/ydoqh28 (add glasses)Must be somewhere in the middle
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Hey white_vader?
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Bought and enjoyed!!
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Scorsese brings it up when he talks about THE DEPARTED. Interesting conversation:
http://tinyurl.com/yayya7t
I will be honest, I did not know the origin of the opera Nicholson was listening to. -
Uh, not unless they're filming that shit downunder it wasn't. Or am I getting it mixed up with Vampire Academy? Or some other Vampire shit? And you can buy Twilight dildos? They'll merch anything! ;)
And those Harry Potter vibrating broomsticks sure were popular with the young girls. Shudder. -
As much as I'm enjoying this briefest of sojourns into the Pedalback once more, I'm off to bed 'cos I'm a boring bastard who's more than aware of how important sleep is when I think of what I need to get done tomorrow.
That said, life just ain't worth living unless I get to speak to at least some of you, so... Cheers guys, keep on keepin' on, Carry On My Wayward Sons, and I'll catch you in the morrow.
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In another life, I have the job coming up with porn parody title names. I think I would have been good at that.
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My Dad's side is very obviously Oirish, and he's looking more like a leprechaun every day. My Mum reckons half the cartoon characters I do look like him!
The Big Yin kicks arse though. It's true. -
Seriously - you can even put them in the fridge to simulate how it would feel to have Edward's cold, undead cock poking around your cobwebbed, echoing, unmaintained pudenda - a chamber so unused it's probably haunted by now. Shudder.
Think about that. A TWILIGHT dildo designed to be used AFTER being chilled in a fridge, so you can imagine how it feels to be fucked by a dead stoner dude with fangs.
Truly, the Apocalypse is upon us. And not a moment too fucking soon.
Spud out. Really... -
Or sloths ugly twin,..Next BAMF site nom---repo man/buckaroo banzai threadpretty please?!
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Or should that be "Now listen here Mac"...
Dude, I saw it and was just working up a reply. Don't sweat it, I was just havin' a crack at you before about the skippin' thing. Usually I do read entire TBs so I don't make an arse of myself by saying some redundant shite about transformers or Harry's grammar like all the other ADD TBers, and especially here in Peeber-land as it's honestly super enjoyable to read every post. Having said that I don't blame ya dude because I've been so busy that I've been skimming a bit myself just to catch up. There ARE a fuckload of posts every day after all!
And for the millionth time, thank God for Subby's Subbaries!
So don't sweat it mate! I'm not exactly conside, and boy do I go on when I've got a bone between my teeth! I take the angle of exhausting arguments to defeat any comeback in my rants. Peeps/Peebs are too clever in here though. It's like that guy said. Sorry I wrote such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a shorter one.
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I have always read EVERYTHING in the past but some days the PB explodes and I feel way behind.
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Mar 27, 2010 7:50:57 PM CDT
Actually I think Twilight dildos are a conflict of interest
by white_vader
Because they'd scare away exactly the confused little girls that are drawn to the wussy Vampire stuff precisely because of the bad-boy but well-spoken and sexually non-threatening template. Big cocks, real or simulated are exactly part of the whole want it but scared of it confusion that has their panties in a twist. They want the sex, but without the sex. And they reckon Emo BOYS are lame! I think the dildos are actually for the gay market. Now THAT makes sense! When I saw him sparkle like a disco ball in the cinema I actually spluttered "So FUCKING GAY!" out loud. Even my gay mates agree.
Ah, I'm just venting. You know what shits me more than anything about that stuff? That "Bella" being the character's name has absolutely no fucking connection or homage to the most famous vampire of all time, Bela. I nearly choked when my wife told me it wasn't an intentional nod by the author. How fucking ignorant can you be?
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I gotcha bro. same here.
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The other night I went down the coast to see my Leprechaun Dad for his birthday. And we're sitting there talking and Mum's there too. Now Aussie TV isn't exactly prudish especially after 9 at night, and strangely watching the government channels it's no-holds barred. SBS is the multicultural channel and after dark it's basically pretty fucking blue. So I'm sitting there and my Mum's making small talk about what's on, and then the final show of the original British Queer as Folk comes on and they're right at it in every position imaginable all over the house (no L-shaped sheets there). Naked as the proverbal day.
Boy was that uncomfortable. My parents' myopic views on sex and lack of knowledge is why I'm here in the first place! I was going to make some small talk/segue about how Russell T Davies went from that to the new Dr. Who stuff they love but I don't think it would have helped. -
i knew it was popular and unconventional and that is all i knew.Man was I fucking pissed when that homo started shimmering in the daylight.That is what I get for thinking little girls know anything about anything.
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That sounds unbearable, vades.
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watching 8mm. I did it. AWKWARRRRRRRD.
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I can't believe you actually saw Twilight of your own volition. Give me five laps around the internet.
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I was watching Kids in the Hall. Not sure if your familiar but there was one bit where two lawyers are negotiating the terms of a guy and a girls first date. They get caught up arguing about the kiss goodnight/feeling the girl up/hand job.Also not a scene I wanted to share with my mother.
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Mask:
One very cool thing was sitting down to lunch on set to be joined by Ben Stein. That was pretty bloody groovy. Especially since I'm supposedly part of pre and don't usually make it to the set even if we overlap with actual production.
Actually I had a great time doing all the looney-tunes style stuff and props and crazy cars and vacuum cleaners and things. Just too bad it turned out so awful and the director would not make a decision. And man, I wish I hadda got to meet Bob Hoskins! -
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Oh boy!
And not completely of my volition - if I'm gonna slag something off I wanna KNOW I'm right or at least only partially talking out my arse. And being an effects whore does have it's disadvantages... -
...have a regular thing?
I only ask because you mentioned one income, and I think you've mentioned three kids in the past...that's impressive by any measure, but that would take balls of solid steel as a freelance illustrator.
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on DVD not in the theater(McQeen save me not in the theater)and I think I was still doing Blockbuster on line so I could turn them in for free ones at the store. My GF wanted it and I didn't resist. Little did I know. I'm off to do my laps. I'm gonna dog it though.
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So I just found out about filmspotting and slashfilms podcasts..
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...clueless about sex for a woman with four kids.
Anyway, she has an unerring knack for walking into a room if there is anything even remotely naughty going on on screen. If it were anyone else in the world I'd swear they were doing it on purpose and just playing dumb... -
Yeah Mums eh? I was surprised when Dad said they watched Bad Santa and that she loved it. I said' "Even the 'I couldn't walk for a week' anal stuff?!".
We used to have a lot of fights when I was a teenager because I thought she had no fucking right to tell me what to do as I wouldn't even be here if she knew what she was doing when she was the same age. You know, the "Do as I say not as I did" thing.
But in retrospect I've been enlightened above that as a pre-pubescent in the 80s I was unintentionally gay so I guess I understand the parental concern now. And I did have a pair of lemon pants once. D'oh! -
We DO have a lot in common!
Like others here I was a huge Prince fan. Mum would generally walk in in the middle of the "Darling Nikki" howling... -
...I watch PROJECT RUNWAY with my DW he'd crucify me...I'm all for admitting that shit and taking your lumps like a man.
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When 90% of everything IS crap, I have no problem talking shit about it directly out of my ass.
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I found this out there. http://tinyurl.com/yk6kkj5 Seek it out if you haven't already.
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I wouldn't stop doing laps.
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check out the "blind mans beer" that will pop up after.
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I vacillate between being freelance and doing long-term stretches when I'm on a film. So yeah I fluctuate a lot too. And being freelance and sometimes not being paid for many months at a time doesn't exactly help my blood pressure.
There's also the "Grass is greener" thing of being on a full-time gig and thinking you could earn much more freelance, but then you're freelance and the "much more" stretches out for months (nature abhors a vacuum I guess) and you're wishing you had a regular income. Gah.
This why I was saying to Scary that I did so many double-shifts when on films - I can't afford not to. And that is a long fucking day to start with. Now I've just got Diabetes from bad habits and sedentary lifestyle and also the blood pressure thing. If a vampire attacked me I'd probably just pop! Speaking of which, there are a million big-arse bats at Fox studios Sydney! -
...and editorial I was like over-tightened piano wire from the base of my skull, to the outer edge of my shoulders, down to the middle of my back in a kite shape. Every couple of weeks or so I'd do something stupid while exercising, or just sleep wrong, and not be able to move my head or neck for days on end. Sometimes I'd suddenly realize I hadn't taken a deep breath all day...just shallow little fight or flight breaths.
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is piss weak! That's my half-arsed baiting tactic for the day...
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I needed the security of a steady check. I did a music video and even the pay grade for a PA(me) was damn good but I had to face facts, that there weren't music videos being shot around me on a regualar basis.The shit thing is Toronto is right across the Lake from me but the whole US working in Canada thing puts a real crimp in your dick.
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...with hatchets...and 50 less I.Q. points.
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I used to get a lot of neck-spasms. Eventually I left graphic design because of the idiot clients literally over my shoulder and agency buck-passing.
And then fell into working with marketing wankers and middle management morons on suits with the mascot/character design thing. Out of the frying pan...
I actually love fashion too (don't care about guys but women's fashion means you get to ogle chicks AND seem all artistic about it), but after advertising, bit of music, TV and film, dealing with another set of tools would be the end of me...
But I do the opposite thing to you as an artist where when I'm really concentrating I hold my breath - and then find myself gasping! -
...about.
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Very nice, sir. Thank you.
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http://tinyurl.com/yhz29ue It's what I had for din-din tonight.
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I think one o my buddies went somewhere in Vegas and they did that. Sounds good. I just stuffed my face at the China buffett next to the corpulent mouth breathers and group home escapees. Not really the same as what you did but I'm full.
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...then again, I guess it doesn't take long to move a piece of paper form one side of NJ to the other.
Unfortunately that was a pre-existing horizontal illustration of mine, so they had to shrink it down to about 1/5th the size.
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It wasn't high end, but it was pretty damned expensive. Great, though. The meat was phenomenal.
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Mar 27, 2010 9:07:17 PM CDT
Col... they do something like that in Argentina, too...
by scarywaitress
...a meal that's just meat course after meat course... an endless flow of carnivorous delights. You know how, when you're served a plate of food, you take bites that mix veggies with meat, etc? Argentina was the first time that I found myself combining different MEATS to see how they tasted together. It was sick. Incidentally, out of a group of 19 men and four women... I was the only one who came home from the trip and needed a steak within 24 hours. Most of the men were bragging how they didn't eat meat for two weeks afterward. Pussies. PS- blood sausage may SOUND gross, but blood sausage + slow-roasted goat, cooked over an open fire = HEAVEN.
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I once figured that I'd have a long and fruitful career in magazines. God, why did I have to be such a luddite in college?
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It's my job, I gotta ask.
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Mar 27, 2010 9:11:34 PM CDT
Now that's a festival of meats I can get behind, Scary.
by colonelfatheart
Tonight, everyone else crapped out really quickly. I was ready to keep the peg flipped to the green side for another half hour, at least. But, you know, I didn't want to look like (that much of) a pig in front of our double date friends.
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Lamb was the most outside the box cut. The online menu promised chicken hearts. There were none, though. Damn it.
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...the magazines you see in a book store used to be just the tip of the iceberg...there was a magazine for EVERYTHING.
It wasn't exciting work, but I used to do a lot with Community Banker magazine, Weight Watchers magazine, American Prospect Magazine, Supply Chain Management magazine...bread and butter jobs that payed the bills while you tinkered with more exciting projects.
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...who thought that good filmmaking ended when the 50's ended. Sitting through a movie I previously thought was hilarious became EXCRUCIATING with her there. Every "fuck" out of Denis Leary's mouth was agony. And he says "fuck" a LOT in that movie.
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I presume that ALSO means no livers, either, which is just criminal. How can you have a carnorgy without proper innards????
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Mar 27, 2010 9:21:29 PM CDT
..."God, why did I have to be such a luddite in college?"...
by flickapoo
...I was a militant Luddite. I switched from computer animation to illustration and took as Thoreauish an approach to life as possible.
At graduation some brand new company called Dreamworks asked me if I'd be willing to retrain on a computer and work for them. I said no, thanks.
I'm not sorry...98% of the time.
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No exaggeration, there is a magazine for EVERYTHING. Every sport, hobby, school of thought, religion, station in life, job.... Everything. It's ridiculous.
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Fack, I hate typos.
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millions of American children how to train their dragons?
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...carnorgy...carnorgy...carnorgy...carnorgy...carnorgy...carnorgy.
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Pirates of the Carribean 2 and my grandfather slept through it. Prior to that it was Quiz Show with my grandmother. That is a 12 year gap.
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I am done with work. I'm off to watch 'Black Dynamite' at a friends house! Later gang!
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if I had majored in accounting with a minor in computer science. But naw fuck that. I'm a romantic fatalist. If I'm gonna go down, I'm gonna tumble hard.
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...and blood sausage and short ribs STILL sound like something I want to do. Now. With a big glass of Malbec.
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...I thought I was a fucking GENIUS.
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I was 11. Surprisingly, the vampire orgy scene with Monica Bellucci was not awkward. Grandma was pretty cool, except when she was sneaking snorts of Wild Irish Rose from the aspirin bottle.
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I really want to see that, but I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for it at Blockbuster.
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You are a genius. Fuck it.
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I still haven't sent it back to Netfux cause I wanna see it again. Poor Samurai Jack season 1 just sits there waiting.
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...computer animation to illustration it was like committing suicide. The writing was already on the wall, and this was not long after T2 came out...computer animation majors were landing 80K jobs months before graduation.
I figured fuck it...worst case scenario I'll build a cabin in the woods and illustrate one of a kind books by hand like an Irish monk...there has to be some crazy rich collector for that sort of thing somewhere...
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And I have IN THE LOOP just waiting there. Fuck.
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have you seen it yet, Mac? That is SOLID GOLD. On my queue- screw that. That's on my list of DVD's to BUY at Amazon.
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Mar 27, 2010 9:35:05 PM CDT
...^ that was re: your romantic fatalist/tumble hard comment.
by flickapoo
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Trust me, I am. If I ever hit the Mega Millions or Powerball, I'd be glad to be that crazy rich collector looking for illuminated texts of Moby-Dick or The Collected Stoner & Toots.
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How do you do that shit?!
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I am seriously tired. I might skip TV and just go to bed, I'm that beat.
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I rib my father-in-law about it because he can't abide swearing. You know, the old "there's just no need ofr that" thing. Then I remind him that it's nothing compared to how insidious it is that all those Mystery/thrillers and Inspector Whoever-it-is shows that old codgers gobble up in books and on the box treat truly horrific things like murder and rape as basically light entertainent for mass consumption. You wanna complain about something? Complain about the society-wide implications of THAT!
To be fair, he's a sweet old Italian fella who is probably just sensitive to swearing because he endured decades of it working as an auto mechanic. And he gets that I'm half-ribbing him even though I do believe in what I say.
You can also bring out the big guns of Victorian times and pirates when they start going on about long hair drugs and kids these days. Just because people didn't alk about babies being born out of wedlock in "polite conversation" doesn't mean it didn't happen!
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http://tinyurl.com/yckwuq2
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Night Scary. And oh boy Mac, just getting into Sam Jack? Oh how I envy you!
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Mar 27, 2010 9:53:01 PM CDT
...it's a secret, but the price is just one embarrassing...
by flickapoo
...story about yourself.
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Mar 27, 2010 9:54:20 PM CDT
Mac, steady cheque brings up the whole Hollywood dichotomy
by white_vader
As an Aussie our industry sucks at the moment and many have left because there's no on-going work (Supes Lifts Things was the last big show) in local or overseas production. This is one reason George Miller is pimping his own properties with sequels in the well-intentioned and noble hope of getting a roll on and not continuously losing our best to Hollywood. I do everything I can in multiple disciplines and go from live-action to animation and pre to post like viz effects just to keep payin' the bills. And back to advertising stuff in between. I've thought about going overseas but obviously the family is a big part of it. And health care! ;)
Yeah I getcha about foreign countries. If that's what you mean about "crimp in your dick".
But that brings up the whole thing of Hollywood's outrage about going offshore/next door (by the way, Aussies are derogatorily referred to as "Mexicans with Mobiles" by the suits). I can see why people and unions are outraged when things go further afield and they've ostensibly lost a job. But I think there's a bit of disingenuousness about it in acting like film is an inherently Californian thing and Californians have first dibs whether they're competitive or appropriate for the story or not. There's pretty much ALWAYS been location shooting and foreign set or period stories and by that I don't mean Hollywood TV where those white fences and paddocks pass as "not L.A." (when I was a kid it just made me think the show or film was taking place in the same area as The Hulk!).
But hey, obviously it's a bitch when Hollywood hatched, American -based stories don't shoot there. We all gotta eat,a nd one thing you can't begrudge Bay is that he tries to make budgets work and keep things there for his crews. But it gets a bit fuzzy when apparently it's O.K. for an incredibly multicultural industry to operate when the foreigners come to the States to work, but not the other way around. Animation is even more militant about it when it's even more saturated with people coming in from all corners of the globe. It gets into arguing semantics and heated subjectivity for me. When at the heart of it it should ideally (I use that word on purpose) just be getting the best people for the job and if you're not one of 'em, becoming one.
Another interesting angle is I don't think it used to be that bad in the previous few decades. Just think how many of all of our fave/clasic films were shot at Elstree, Twickenham, Leavesden (there's one I'm forgetting) and so on. Awesome films of the sixties, seventies & eighties that we don't hate with a passion because dozy Brit crews made 'em INSTEAD of 'Mericans.
I'm not trying to stir up hate or anything and as an Aussie I'm very aware of my situation in respect to working on H'Wood stuff (and I must say that many of the key spots are taken by Americans in the art dept and these guys ARE the best in the world so they ship 'em over). I just think there are more shades of grey than a lot of the arrogance and outrage of recent years would suggest. We only benefit by having a broader film palette both in the finished product and talent base but I don't discount the immediate concerns of the Hollywood base. It's a sensitive subject to amny people for many reasons. One other interesting thing is that the first feature was made down under. So maybe I see "calling dibs" on live action or animation in a different light...
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in Catholic school and I got fully pantsed BOTH LAYERS. In hind sight the more embarrassing part was that I chased the kid down, tackled him and proceeded to strip his jeans off of him, unsuccessfuly since the teacher pulled me off him. Standing in fron t of a bunch of girls = not gay. Trying to remove a young mans pants in front of a crowd = gay. AND i was wearing a half shirt. not really about the shirt.
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You're giving me a whole new respect for the toilers in the industry. Bless you. bless you.
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http://tinyurl.com/ydnawnl
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http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/altchrc.html
Just don't tell Damkman, he hasn't put out yet. -
...complaining about the income-tax hassles and such.
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I saw Greenberg and it was good.
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Are you a Baumbach fan, 'moose?
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...watch out for bad guys, guys.
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Also did THE SQUID AND THE WHALE and a few others. Co-wrote THE LIFE AQUATIC and FANTASTIC MR. FOX with Wes Anderson.
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Mar 27, 2010 10:17:51 PM CDT
Did you guys remember to turn off your lights for Earth Hour?
by anonymoose
West coasters start at 8:30.
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I wasn't in the house for a while today.
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Everyone starts at 8:30 pm. THEIR 8:30 pm.
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I just remember Korean David Bowie from that... and some pirates and stuff. It was really weird in a good way.
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Knockout Ned from CITY OF GOD played the guy who sang the songs.
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Mar 27, 2010 10:24:36 PM CDT
crimp in your dick = not easy worknig in other countries
by macready452
visa, taxes, travel. tough gig.
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He was eerily good in Greenberg.
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for his talent. He's been hacking it for too long. Making some green, yes, but hacking it.
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I was just adding a sort of related thing to Mac's post.
And then Mac blows anything I said out of the water with an always-hilarious "pantsing" post.
Dammit Mac! ;P
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Mar 27, 2010 10:28:33 PM CDT
It'll be like the male equivalent to Sandra Bullock's nom/win.
by anonymoose
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and then I really gotta do some work. On Sunday. Booooo. Not as bas as last Friday night when I did an all-nighter. Boooo.
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Mar 27, 2010 10:32:46 PM CDT
I saw menace II society and boyz n the hood with my nana
by six demon bag
I shit you not...nana took me to many art house flicks..actually she was my gateway to film appreciation. also saw raising Arizona with her. tomorrow I will discuss me liking up in the air if my key still works the PB gate.
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Keep it real.
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Mar 27, 2010 10:34:42 PM CDT
I'm about to polish off a bottle of wine in a few mins.
by colonelfatheart
In other words, it's bedtime. Keep fuckin' that chicken, Pebrews.
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Anybody?
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...I am the CheeseMaster...
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you crashin', too? We gotta talk tomorrow...First we need to decide if it's 'Toots & Stoner' or 'Stoner and Toots'...both have pros and cons and similarities to to other programs that could be helpful or hurtful...Yeah...We got lots to talk about...
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vimeo.com/10455321
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at least for my antiquated steam- powered computer...
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That cop has obviously studied aikido, but one question - are they trying to make it look like he is copping a feel on the suspects?
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Mar 28, 2010 12:36:38 AM CDT
I prefer the Krav Maga method of disarming a gun myself
by continentalop
http://tinyurl.com/ya2oqsw
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I understand your regret about turning down Pixar,…But, what you have today probably wouldn’t have been possible had you taken the other path, and I KNOW there is NO way you would ever consent to NEVER meeting your wife and having toddler-poo…I have a similar tale…In 1988, I already had a family and I had a retail management job with a company that made many promises but the reality of it was that I actually wound up getting held-up at gunpoint on three separate occasions and that last time was just...TOO much…(ANOTHER story I don’t think I’ve told yet…). I already had an extensive retail management background at that early age of 26, so I put my resume’ out there and one of the places that contacted me was a company called Bizmart based out of Arlington, Texas. When I interviewed with them, there were only three people with the company…the CEO, the CFO and the COO… They liked me and we got along great, but I thought their idea, a giant store that sells nothing but OFFICE SUPPLIES, was the stupidest idea I had ever heard…They offered me an assistant manager job in their first store for some pretty respectable cash, but I turned them down thinking the long-shot gamble was not looking to pay out…Had I accepted that job and excelled at it, as I am sure that I would have, I would now be very rich and/or very revered important person in the world of Retail Giants today…. had I…only…taken that job…Look at all the acquisitions and opportunities for advancement a smooth guy like me would have had to grease elbows…Office Supply people drink heavily…http://tinyurl.com/yln3y46http://tinyurl.com/ycnuv2oWorst part…I eventually went to work for over 5 years for another Bizmart competition Office Supply Superstore…Best time of my life…
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Apart from the cool RV chase sequence, and the snake scene which went on way too long, it it went from mildly interesting to utterly boring. Not at all creeped out by the robed cultist plot. The acting, editing, writing, and effects were laughable. Peter Fonda was phoning it in the entire time. I stuck with it, though, only to see a bullshit, cop out ending.
I thought it could have made a good MST3K episode. Almost, could I hear the cracks about the poolside smiling people. Don't get me wrong. I love me some cheesy 70s thrillers, but this one crossed a line, in my opinion.
HOT RODS TO HELL was on next. Craaaaap. Definitely Rifftrax-worthy.
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I want to emphasize that. If you could just watch that part and skip the rest, I'd recommend it.
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...locked in, ready to go, 'cause it's working.
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I can't even be bothered to check my headlines for spelling errors...Wadden dat a WW Duece Germanian ship? The Bizmart?
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The 80's were a GREAT time for me...Does the whirlpool feature have a Flux Capacitor or somethin'?
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I saw Greenberg instead and I don't regret a thing.
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That good? He always seemed to have it in him to play serious...I loved him in Mystery Men...he was VERY serious in that...it was sort of his super-power...
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You gotta clarify that, Moose...He plays a creepy character? He is creepily accurate in his performance?Please elaborate...
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I'm saying he deserves an Oscar nom. It's weird seeing Stiller so vulnerable and real.
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from his battle with Ass Taste’s three-headed hell hound…But, NOW, after their brief skirmish, he held the mutt’s severed ball sack in his right hand and the animal was slinking, whimpering toward the terraces ledge…Stabby growled at it and lunged his free knife arm at the dog…Stabby slowly felt the bloodlust recede from his mind, his body calming, trying to heal his multiple bite and claw wounds and keep from going into overload…Sudden blaster burst from above striking inside of an inch from his foot shocked him into surveying his surroundings for other threats. It was only then that he saw Ambassador Colon El encased in a strange gelatinous shape-shifter shell/form…he recognized the ooze-alien as Odo-19 from the Space Ass Pirates files he had studied as Chief of Security for the USS Gary Oldman….“Ambassador Colon El,” Stabby screamed. “I know you can hear me, even thru that…that thing...You have super-hearing under a yellow sun…You also have super-heat vision….Cut your way out…”Suddenly twin bursts of red energy shot out from the Ambassador’s eyes and the shape shifter recoiled at the heat and slinked over to where the dog was contemplating suicide.“Thanks, Lt. Stabby,” The Ambassador brushed himself off. “I’m going to take this to the source…” And with that the Kryptonian ambassador shot off into the sky not even pretending to dodge the barrage of blaster fire that rained down from above only to reflect harmlessly off of his super-human indestructible body…What Colon El neglected to understand was that reflected blasters are still deadly to regular flesh and blood people. They are just reflected from their original target and often hit innocent bystanders…Stabby dived for cover, and wondered why the other Ambassador, Continentalop wasn’t seeking shelter…The two Vader’s had taken Cobra-Kai right behind Captain Subs and his people…But Continentalop just stood in the middle of the Terrace and seemed to be speaking to someone he couldn’t see…Fortunately, Stabby could read lips…“Asi-Q…Stop this…It can never be settled…accept it…I am subjective, you are objective…(or, is it the other way around?)…either way…we will never agree….what do you hope to gain here???”And suddenly Stabby saw an old glowing, naked-but-for-a-diaper, Portuguese man floating three feet off of the floor waving his arms madly…“I will HAVE the Cosmic Pudenda….I WILL!!!!”
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Mar 28, 2010 2:13:52 AM CDT
“Commander Moose…We have another ship blinking into existence..”
by cheeses_of_nazareth
“That corresponds to the energy surge I’ve been tracking on Nazareth,” Six Demon Bag, Chief Engineer and resident Shaman added to Ensign McSpud‘s report…”I think there’s a definite correlation…”“What is it this time, Sixes…It can’t be worse than a ‘Battlestar’ warship full of Cylons…”“Actually, it’s a single occupant, small craft that looks like…and, I’m not makin’ this up, Moose…it looks like some sort of insect…some kind of Blue Beetle…But it’s on a rocket course for the surface…Almost like it knows where it’s going…”“And, that is?” asked the First Officer .“The Nazarene Presidential Palace…” Sixes confirmed.“Imagine that?” Moose mused. “Captain…You have incoming.”“Understood,” came Captain Sub’s voice over the intercom. “What’s your status, Moose?” “ We have two unidentified ships in orbit…each appeared when an energy flux occurred that centered on the Presidential Palace, where you are, and each time it spikes, a new ship shows up…”“There it goes again…” Sixes reported. “Is that what I think it is?” asked Moose.“Sensors say it’s an old Constitution Class Federation starship…but, it appears to have been …how do I put this, sir…it‘s been REALLY ‘tricked out’…”
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sweeter than splenda
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http://www.whoismgmt.com/
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I'd carry things some of them trees and some sparrows, maybe other things.
Hah! I'd roll around with my wheel to the ground picking up lint and feeling the dents of whatever earth beneath me.
This things may be small, but not to me, I can roll and be whatever. I can carry on forever or as long as my constitution holds out.
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Almost all naked female refugees from the maelstrom that was currently going on outside the Presidential Palace of Nazareth. On hearing that yet another strange ship had blinked into existence above them in orbit, thus decreasing their ability to lower shields and bamf them all to safety , Subs had a captain worthy thought.“Moose,” he re-connected with his first officer. “Where in this building is this energy surge taking place.”“Sixes thinks it is a sub basement,” came the reply. “Understood,” Captain Subs acknowledged. “Bi-polar, Counselor Flick,” he addressed his comrades. “Find Series 7 and get the rest of these people to safety,” he added as he motioned to the naked serving staff that followed them.Once that was accomplished, the four of them proceeded much further down than the ground floor stairway exit… Then, when they had rounded their last stairwell, into the deepest darkest of sub-basements, they felt, heard and saw it all at once…There in the center of a huge sub-basement that would have made a bitching game-room/bar…was a giant stone ‘O’…It appeared to be ancient, and at first, Subs thought that they had discovered the hidden treasures of Oprah, but this stone circle faded in and out of existence and Oprah always defined existence, so, he knew that wasn’t the answer…Without warning, the stone circle spun and sputtered and gained a watery surface inside the circumference of the O and then splooched all matter of watery matter into the room only to have it recede leaving a small crumpled figure in a silvery space suit on the floor. The diminutive silvery man wore a big holster around his waist, slung low on his right side…it was completely full of Diox…the deadliest molecular personal weapon ever devised and marketed to the general population of the Alpha Quadrant …
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What's the rat-dick ramblin's...I thought I was all alone up in here...I feel obligated to finish PedalTrek: The Next Generation before I can really commit to Stoner and Toots...
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with plans and perspire spent all hell bent on gaining what cold hard and future spent cash lie hath in belly of bank soon not later to be taken and spent on whores.
I don't care what germs they splay me with said GUS with no eloquence. Gus you are grossing me out he said.
My stomach churned and spread soon to my mind souring the whole concept. Shortly after that I was on my way. Get me back to my wife and I hope you understand taxi driver.
We told each other the best jokes we had heard in the interim of the last meeting. So you are off to the wife and life? Yes I said. Yes give me the pipe and loafers. If my dog runs off I will savor the chase. Hard problems in the cage. Easy from the outside.
I thought he would never leave said Gus with a grunt. Grrrrumph. Ha la. Guuuuuurrrrrrruph! A spit of the backy and back to work you laggits. Back back. Yard Yard. Repetition is a glove that seems to fit but comfort only lasts so long before it falls right off your hand.
Gus stop waxing philogro skagainskiff my boy. It was the old man who had seen this all before. Let us rob this bank and have our day chaps. I have seen this all before and my watch tells me now is the time. They bent to their tools completing the task in record time.
The safe melted like chalk.
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How are you lately?
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Mar 28, 2010 3:19:52 AM CDT
Waterman...That is EXACTLY what I have been trying to say...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
ONLY BETTER...!!!How do you make it look so easy?
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and drunk on beer, my friend...You wouldn't expect any less, now would you?Just between you and me...the daughter wants to share a couple grams of psi mushrooms with me tomorrow...we're both off work until Monday afternoon...I'll be sure and document it all here, so please, check in periodically tomorrow to fuck with me...
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Perhaps we are all trying to say the same thing. You say it with fantastic and hilarious startrexipades. I say it with i forget what.
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Hey cheeses...remember that time we celebrated your birthday by getting high on salvia and absinthe?
That was the best online party I have been to. The couch fort was elaborate. -
Cavorting with a gaggle of good-lookings?
Subs? Hallo? -
You loved my liquid bathroom walls...
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Mar 28, 2010 3:34:13 AM CDT
Subs rarely comes home at night anymore, Waterman...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
He either has a new sqeeze he isn't talkin' 'bout, or he is getting arrested a lot...
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Daughter also wants me to do someting called DMT (I think)...it is 'supposedly' a chemical that is only produced in the mammilian brain during birth and death...Said to encourage conversations with and understanding of trans-dimensional other-cultures...
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I wouldn't talk about it if I were squeezing them hard enough to get arrested either.
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"Keep it Common Law...Keep it Common Law...don't get married, now, now don't get married...'
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Though I have trouble multi-tasking in 3 dimensions. 18 more...or however many there are might be too much to handle.
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I feel like a kid again...
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I'll wait for something special like Christmas Eve, Halloween or April 15th to do that...
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Well...........its been good talking to you cheeseman. Keep it real and have a good time with the mushrooms tomorrow. I've gotta get going
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Dream of arrowheads, and water-walled Lincoln bathrooms in a White House where a black family currently lives...
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Mar 28, 2010 3:56:45 AM CDT
So, nobody in England or Austrailia is up yet...?
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Or, are you guys all still just at Church right now?
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I've fucked enough chickens for one night...
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...a skeleton-crew night shift.
That, is why Cheeses makes the big pudenda-bucks.
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March 27th, 2010 ...Grade B maple syrup, with the hint of caramel that Grade A lacks, dripping down a stack of hotcakes, plus a deep tissue neck rub and a cup of steaming joe for breakfast ...vanilla has an omelete because it's healthier, and sugar's a personal no-no. ...Mrsspud wants Pink for herself. ...And another argument for single life: You'll never get kicked out of bed for snoring. You might be sent home early, but you'll always have a comfortable mattress of your very own to fetal up in and hog all the blankets. ...Yack disparages Aussiebacks as The Gang BAMF!s ...Node #44359 ...What's a Krod Mandoon? Answer: On the "Blue Mountain State" Scale of Unfunny Television Shows, "Krod Mandoon's Flaming Sword" ranks about a "Sarah Silverman" ...Vades enjoyed it, though. ...Plans for the day, down to the minute ...I can't eat wheat? Why? Because Yack says so? ...SPARTACUS is over-the-top pulp at its best, says Flick. ...Sixies makes it official @ 12:49:20 P.M., after "repping the Jews" at an Easter carnival. ...Apostles Gone Wild, playing games at the Holy frat house: It's all innocent fun until Peter gets too drunk and touches it to The Virgin. ...Mac opens his show with a clarification: He meant no offense to vanilla over the length of posts, and he admits he sometimes skims the longer ones. Then, the theme song plays (http://tinyurl.com/yeqhwuu), and it's time - LET'S GET DICK-WADDING!!! ...Flick dances The Dick-Around. (http://tinyurl.com/ycj58sz) ...☆☆RIGHT-BRAIN CINEMA☆☆™: RED CLIFF - the worst movie I've seen since [deleted] and that includes PRECIOUS ★☆☆☆☆ ½ ...Teddy's looking forward to HOT TUB TIME MACHINE, and Stabby's gonna see it for date-night. ...Dinnertime at Ess' place means good food no matter which option you choose. And black olives for L'il Miss Ess. ...Mac's Pedalback Casting is retrieved from 20.0 and will be returned to The Archives soon. ..."This American Life" (http://tinyurl.com/ybcm9kg) ...George Romero tells Fangoria magazine, "The Terminator and Aliens were hot, amazing works, and I'm always hoping [James Cameron]'ll make a real movie again, to live up to that potential and not just make a film he wants to jerk off to." ...Dick-biting begets "eating the bear" begets dick-eating grizzlies begets gay grizzlies begets "The Kids In The Hall"'s grizzly bears (http://tinyurl.com/y8dzzdk) ...Teddy and spud like something weird but can't remember what it is. ...spud wishes he looked like Jensen Ackles but admits he's a dead-ringer for Tom Green. ...Teddy stammers, all Hugh Grant-like, around pretty girls. ...Mac looks like a cross between John Cusack and Judd Nelson, wearing glasses. ...Scorsese on Noir (http://tinyurl.com/yayya7t) ...POONCOCK TAINTS and FANTASTIC MR. COCKS (I smell a meme) ...TWILIGHT dildos ...vanilla at home with the parents, watching dirty, gay telly, reminds mac of seeing 8MM in the theater with his mom. He also admits to seeing TWILIGHT of his own volition. It was a bad experience. We shouldn't rub his face in it. BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! ...Sixies, what are filmspotting and slashfilm podcasts? ...Moms and their instinctive ability to show up while you're enjoying something a bit randy. I think they're still trying to catch you self-pleasuring. ...If Mac has to run laps for seeing TWILIGHT, then Flick has to do a triathlon for watching PROJECT RUNWAY. See, Mac didn't know ahead of time what he was really in for. Flick volunteers. ...BLOOD, SWEAT AND BEERS (http://tinyurl.com/yk6kkj5) ...The creative guys admit to the stress of Art under the thumb of Business. If I'd been there, I'd've yelled "A-ha!" like a prick. ...The Pedalback needs hatchets? ...Colon-El says, "Rodizio is a parade of succulence." ...Ess mixed her meats in Argentina. A proper carnorgy must include some innards. ...When watching a movie with a grand-parent, it's best to pick something black-n-white, with no Denis Leary innit. Unless, of course, grandma's got some Wild Irish Rose to snort. ...♪ ♫ "Goodbye magazine, though I never knew you at all, you had the cologne in the fold, and photos all through-all." ♪ ♫ ...A politician says stupid shit. THAT almost never happens! (http://tinyurl.com/yckwuq2) ...vanilla on film-making belonging to the entire world ...The World's Tallest Dog (http://tinyurl.com/ydnawnl) ...For the secret of Alt-key, Mac admits to getting pantsed. ...'moose tossed a coin to determine whether he'd see HOT TUB or DRAGON, and he went and saw GREENBERG, instead, in which, he says, Ben Stiller is really good. ...Sixies' nana wasn't stuffy when it came to modern movies. -
Way cool.
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Alcohol and I have agreed to start seeing other people.
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They just took my tax refund for child support "owed". I've been goin round and round with them on this since PB 1.0. THEY entered my new orders wrong... THEY fucked up..they stole from me..bow they're gonna tell me they're gonna give me a fukken credit..which I'll see in 12 goddamned years..fuck that..if you see a plane flying into a government building tomm...I'll see you in the next .
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I've always said FACK Texas!
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...so you're off the sauce for a while? I'm off coffee, myself.
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tomorrow afternoon.
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Subs, If you and alcohol are on a break, do you mind if I drink yours, too?
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There are eight in the fridge.
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There's a point where ? symbols appear in Pedaltrek. What were those supposed to be? (So I can correct them for The Shelter.)
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I didn't think my steam-powered CPU could make them...plus there are none in my original word doc...only " signs...
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with Waterman...been WAY too long since the last time...
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I'm getting some work done. Taxes, census, 'shooping up something for The Shelter based on Mac's casting. If I seem to be absent, it's because that's where I'm at.Be nice to Sixies. he's having issues with the fukken State of Texas.
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floats my boat. I've got, probably, nearly all of the stuff he's posted on here. I swear I'll get it Archived one day!
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Sorry, Sixes...I completely feel you. Two things the Texas Department of Fukken With You takes seriously is Drunk Driving and Child Support...Not that that's bad, but they take it to fukken EXTREMES with no recourse for those wronged by the system...
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Sixies may be a fan of [deleted], but he is NOT a deadbeat Dad!Texas better recognize.
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Yeah when my son was born 6 years ago his mother went to the AG to get money from me even though I was already giving checks..she wanted more.then she wad dumb enough to start denying me my rights to see him so I ended up taking her to court.. Twice. Once for contempt, but do they do anything to her? No. But she did hafta pay my legal fees.FF 6 years later and she sneakily went back to the AG who she hasn't seen in 6 years to try to get more money from me!! They assume that since I've been writing her checks directly that I haven't been paying her.." if it doesn't go thru us then it doesn't count"after much back and forth saying I don't owe 30K and even though they starting siphoning my wages for backpay, it kinda got worked out..the worst part is I had to be nice to baby mama so she would bring her fat lazy ass down to the AG and sign affidavits that I have been paying her..all the while she was trying to get more money from me (she didn't succeed) and we tweaked the orders and ceased the backpay..but a month After all this happened I
got another letter saying I still owed money and they had intentions to take my refund if not payed..long story short...too late...they entered in the goddamned orders wrong...totally wrong!!! So I get screwed. Fuck that.. I want my money now.. Not when he's 18...now goddamnit.it's not like the money
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Had formed a defensive circle around the fallen MadFuckinMax using whatever weapons they could find at hand to fight off the Space Ass Pirates… Cheeses stood on a pile of dismembered pirates with a frayed electrical cord in one hand and the jawbone of an ass in the other. MacReady had charged up his cybernetic implants and was firing lasers at the encroaching mob from his bionic eye…SavageDave simply used his teeth and claws, because Werewolves from London just roll like that. Despite their most valiant efforts, the Space Ass Pirates were just too numerous to keep at bay. “Looks like this could be our last stand, boys…” Cheeses shouted over the din. “It’s been a pleasure ruling the world with you guys…” and with that they were overrun by flamboyantly dressed blaster toting Ass Pirates…Suddenly, screeching out of the sky came a bizarre craft, firing laserlike weapons into the crowd surrounding the Nazarene Warlords. The craft had six arm like appendages and two big bubble ’eyes’…it looked to Cheeses like a giant metal bug …“STEP AWAY FROM THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS…” A voice ordered the crowd thru the ship’s loud speakers. The ship spun around and picked off the closest attackers careful not to hit any of the Nazarenes. As soon as a path was cleared, the big blue bugship landed gently on it’s six legs and a hatch opened in it’s thorax…“Hurry, get the injured on board…” called a voice from inside the craft…Cheeses and his Warlords wasted no time getting the still unconscious MadFuckinMax into the safety of the cargo hold. As soon as they were aboard, the door shut and they could feel the stomach-dropping lurch of rapid ascension. A young man dressed in a skin tight blue suit with yellow bubble goggles stood at the doorway…“Sorry, to make you leave the party early,” the man quipped. “But, we have a date with destiny on the top of the Presidential Palace….”“Thanks for the E-vac,” Cheeses nodded to the man. “I’m Cheeses…”“Oh, I know who you all are, Cheeses…That’s why we’re here, me and Water-shit…See, I’m Ted Kord, the one and only true Blue Beetle, (uh, unless you count the other one..) And, we’re here from both the past AND the future to save the day…”
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Well, last night was a blast... as was getting in at 6:30 this morning and sneaking into bed.
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I watched Up in the Air last night and I kinda liked it. I heard mixed things about it mostly negative from here. I can see your concerns, but it still charmed me..never underestimate Georges smile. The wily fucker..it is false and manipulative in some parts.. Mainly the interviews with the fired folks..but the story involving George was fine..except his character has no arc..do I have a desire to see it again? Nah. But good entertainment.
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I was fortunate that my first Ex and I worked out everything beforehand and we both stuck to it until the kids were 18...Sounds like you got screwed by Texas' famous over-bureaucracy...
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Sounds like a night to remember, or have you forgotten most of it like I ususally do?
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Was jumping up and down on a huge trampoline, landing on my back, and looking up at the stars in the clear night sky, framed by the circle of safety net support that rings the trampoline.
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That's what I constantly have to say to my wife when she says I thought you had it worked out...zero fucking accountability.
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Just wanted to say George Romero has a lot of nerve talking about cinematic masturbation after SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD. What a piece of crap.
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...to give good critical analysis.
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and you aren't interupting anything here...all are welcome to participate in the pedalback...especially those who can see thru bullshit as you certainly appear able to do...
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Am feeling slightly masochistic today - so am watching TRANSFORMERS 2 for the first time since I saw it at the theater.
It really is abominably shit. I've had post-curry bog otters that boasted more character development than the cyphers Bayhem calls "leads".
The story is ridiculous. Shia LaBoeuf remains the object for most of my unfocussed hatred for this shitty-ass generation and their inability to act as anything other than themselves in a different outfit in every movie they make. Has ANYONE in the PB ever seen Shia playing anything other than a fast-talking shyster whose every word grates on your nerves like acid needles under your fingernails?!? GAAAHH! I fukken HAT£E that little shit!
At least now Louis Leterrier is doing Y: THE LAST MAN, it looks like Shia isn't. Small mercies and all that.
Anyway... Eye-candy it may be (when you can actually SEE what's going on) but mostly, I can't believe so many people fukken ENJOYED this shitfest. Myself included. -
I haven't seen DIARY OF THE DEAD yet, let alone SURVIVAL... do they BOTH suck??
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Nobody's gonna argue with the authori-TAY!
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I haven't seen it either.
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I agree with 'moose. In fact, I'd say, because Romero has made sh!t, he's more likely to recognize it.
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http://tinyurl.com/22zprp
I wish I could have walked out, but I was there with friends.
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What are we referencing here, reflecto?
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he's just rollin' in too much cash to give a shit...
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It came out waaaay too early for the academys attention span
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...to jerk off to. Something like that.
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I could email you guys some tracks if you want 'em.
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Mar 28, 2010 1:27:10 PM CDT
Diary is mediocre. He tries too hard to be hip. Survival is po
by reflecto
It is basically The Quiet Man with zombies, except it's supposed to take place in the general present. An island off Delaware populated solely by two old Irish families. "Get off muh land, Muldoon!" And of course the moral is that human conflict is foolhardy. I had no idea! The zombie setpieces are fine, the action is old-school Romero, but the story stinks to high heaven. He's just shitting them out. Also, Kenneth Welsh (Windom Earle from Twin Peaks) is a total cartoon in the film.
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CGI Gorillaz look great.
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He needs to go back to doing different films, unique ones like Bruiser. I enjoyed that.
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How's the track with the old Clash guys?(Sorry, I don't even know the name of it.)
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...put zombies in it and make it post-apocalyptic. Fuck the kids, they die from zombie brain munching. Think it's a vampire romance? Look again, the glitter is now bloody mayhem.
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If I can make my show a reality!
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Your show better NOT be called 'Zombie and Toots', or me and Flick and Mac might have to sue...
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It's mellow and synthesizer funky.
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No I missed that conversation completely.
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The zombie train. Very repetitive..now if they could make a film where zombies were taking over the job market and George clooney was laying off humans I'm there
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her real life counterpart is sunbathing in her bikini right in the middle my back yard. She has a fabulous tan lean body...she is trying to lure me out back...so, I guess I am standing outside the front door to smoke today...
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But shh shh about it.
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http://www.frumforum.com/waterloo "We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat.
There were leaders who knew better, who would have liked to deal. But they were trapped. Conservative talkers on Fox and talk radio had whipped the Republican voting base into such a frenzy that deal-making was rendered impossible. How do you negotiate with somebody who wants to murder your grandmother? Or – more exactly – with somebody whom your voters have been persuaded to believe wants to murder their grandmother?" FINALLY! Someone with some sense! -
did it for me in the zombie movie department. That was great... AND it had Cillian Murphy. That was really, really good. Although the Dawn of the Dead remake was pretty kick-ass. I KNOW, I KNOW it's considered to be more sophisticated to prefer the original... but the one thing about that to me is, the late 70's just looks SO DATED that it snaps me out. I keep thinking the whole time how much things have changed... and, effects have gotten better. So, I stand behind it. [Scary dons her kevlar and cracks her knuckles]
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One of my fav horror films from the past decade.
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...open letter of apology from the scribe of BATTLEFIELD EARTH. Scientology bashing galore...
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Fired from what, the speechwriting for Bush? And the Dawn of the Dead remake kicks ass. Scary won't find a fight from me.
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...notice the past and present tense.
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http://tinyurl.com/yfdonhu
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As was 28 days and weeks later...but romero with zombies is done
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Sounds kinda groovy.
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You know where.Lemme know what you thinks.
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Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are fucking awesome walk and talk movies.
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Mar 28, 2010 2:44:41 PM CDT
...I think Mac is a little psychic, or has a touch of ESPN...
by flickapoo
...most of those are inspired...in a few cases they've taken over and blown my previous mental images right out of the water.
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I am about to drink the sacred ‘shroom tea with my Darling Daughter…It will be a new experience for me, so I don’t know what to expect exactly, but I have no plans until noon tomorrow, so I’m gonna McQueen it and take an adventure….If anyone has any questions they want coherent answers to, I suggest you get them in now, in case I can’t reach you from whatever dimension we end up in…
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I'm waiting for Akiva Goldsman's apology.
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...from time to time...I want to witness this.
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...that you're going to be flying through the jungles of Pandora.
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You've got amnesty.
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Plan to stay in contact as long as possible...Plus, this could be a dud...she hasn't tried these ones yet and they look scrawny, but with dark blue centers, which she says is a good thing...
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Mar 28, 2010 2:51:34 PM CDT
Just don't hump the neighbor's cat, thinking it's a Na'vi.
by anonymoose
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...in its catmares.
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...you gotta love that.
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That's two things I never want to do. Trip balls with my old man off acid tea. And hump a cat.
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...[deleted]?'Cause you should wear the shit right out of'em if you saved them.
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See you on the other side of the moon...
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...protect your eyes from claws too...all good things.
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Guppy's recommendation of Okkervil River.
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I think I have some kalidescope glasses somewhere...Daughter just imformed me that this makes us officially hippies..."Whatcha doin' this Sunday...?" "Nuttin' just drinkin' Shroom Tea®
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did you ever explain what a slashfilm podcast was?
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...they were playing that MONSTER INC. movie...I was sort of impressed.
I would have 0 interest in seeing a live action movie or TV show on the damn thing, but games are going to FUCKING ROCK.
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Will never happen."Tom Brady, we've got this camera we're gonna put in your helmet, but we want you to stand like this when you throw the ball," says some fuckstick while posing like a crane on 'shroom-tea.
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Mar 28, 2010 3:11:46 PM CDT
...I'm waiting for the full 3-D glasses/visor Master Chief...
by flickapoo
...helmet and wireless assault-rifle controller...you're going to look cool as shit jumping around in that in your flip-flops and boxer shorts.
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Every player's helment has a 3-d cam and you can pick which plyer's 'eyes' you want to experience the game from...I'd pick some player on the bench near the cheerleaders...
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...ridiculous, wait till you see that kid jumping around playing wireless 3-D HALO in his 3-D visor Master Chief helmet...
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"Yeah but Clumsy McClusterfuck forgot to watch out for the 3D camera on the court, so now we'll have our eightieth injury time out.""And, we're just warming up.""Yeah, hope they get this figured out by the time of the opening jump ball.""I bet it look really cool at home, though.""Yeah. bet it looks just like that bowl of nacho chips is actually right there on your fucking coffee table, you knobs."
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...Holy B. thumper childhood too...maybe that's partly why he takes so many substances.
Maybe Toots is sort of religious...Catholic or something, and he's always giving her shit about it. Then one day he accidentally spills the beans on his childhood and she's all furious...
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20 minutes in …feeling of euphoria has been building, now starting to get good to me…happy diggin’ on William Devaughn “Be thankful for what you got…” 1974...
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I never tried the tea thing. The last time I did shrooms was in college when I went to visit my buddy at Buf State.It didn't so anything for me but cause severe social anxiety. I just wanted to get away from all teh strangers and bossy sorority girls.Cheeses your safe at home so you should have a pretty good experience..Hey yall.
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Check out "Mac's Head" in Files at The Shelter. If you approve, I'll leave it there.
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Keep brain stormin'....She's Catholic he hates religion and compares it to a drug...the opiate of the masses...She hates him for making her realize it...
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I only wish I could have found a better pic where Vinny Jones looks like he is straining on a liquid shit more. You would think it would be easy to find a pic of him gritting his teeth or looking mean.
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the bright yellow cereal box on the counter has a large 3-d bee on it...and it glows a bit, too...Funny I never realized that before...
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As was 28 days and weeks later...but romero with zombies is done
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there will be an exposé on the news about guys who are wasting away down to nothing, because their Master Chief helmet 3-D game experience (in Smell-O-Vision®, of course) is so addictive that they forget to take off their helmet and stop playing long enought ot eat. Scruvy will become a problem once again, as in days of yore... and to capitalize on this, there will be a new line of energy-shot drinks laced with 400% of the daily dose of Vitamin C. Orange groves will make so much money they'll be able to hire American workers, starting riots among immigrant communities... I can see it in my mind, clear as day. All these punks, dancing around in their helmets, boxers (if we're lucky) and waving their plastic guns at their TV screens... mothers weeping, because their punk kid is now 42 and all he does is play video games... and, of course, on Friday nights, go online into virtual dating sites where you can create your own avatar, and screw girls who have all decided to look like Britney Spears and Beyoncé... but they aren't screwing, they're just training their dragons on their moms' couches...
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http://tinyurl.com/yd6tery
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Then I made the mistake of watching TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. I kept asking my friends, "Why would anyone want to do this to another person?"
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Mar 28, 2010 3:28:17 PM CDT
...hi Mac...I'm feeling a little jealous of Cheeses right now...
by flickapoo
...then again, the guy I know who took shrooms most recently ended up way out in the country in the trunk of his buddy's car in the middle of the night...in an attempt to save himself from killer "explodium".
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in her perfectly tanned cleavage.
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at an alarming rate...did not expect it this soon...All is good...too good if possible...I feel fuckin' great....
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There won't be any virtual reality. Only reality. The line between war and video gaming has been blurring for years anyway. Maybe there'll be some kind of drug that makes you believe you're Master Chief, out in the shit, blasting aliens that are actually a guerilla force of indigenous people in some obscure corner of Asia.
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every ,on the hour. To see if any of you are paying attention.
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Mar 28, 2010 3:33:05 PM CDT
..."Why would anyone want to do this to another person?"...
by flickapoo
...AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!
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and who is Youngdog? never seen him about. Also Subs the Pic of Olivia Wilde/Scary could be bigger. Like the biggest;)There aren't many famouse Daves.
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already, but here you go. Dick Giordano died: http://tinyurl.com/yl9zdaj
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Because I have! I played Master Chief in Real-D for 17 hours straight while trippin' balls! Don't tell ME about the shit!"
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Now, I gotta start over!
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http://tinyurl.com/yepxctq
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He's kind of a minor Pebrew saint.
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it was a time and a place. No looking back.
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on my TV...
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cause that's where you were." -Andy Richter
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and I'll make a second version. Youngdog is now MrGeorgeKaplan, and he's another of The Mad Brits, just like savagedave, who's a competitive rower.
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"You need Kool-Aid ... "
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Foreigner, "Blue Morning, Blu-Ray"...or something like that...
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...mostly because I had no mental image at all, besides, you know...a moose.
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"I'm on a whole lotta drugs vvvvrrruuuuuuuuu..I'm on a whole lotta drugs vvvvvvrrruuuuuuuu."Kind of appropriate for you now Cheeses.
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I didn't even write bout zombies.. I was talking bout the merits of the color purple.gonna take it in for a check up
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Mar 28, 2010 3:52:23 PM CDT
Fuck! A PROPHET is out of the local art house theater!
by colonelfatheart
So is WHITE RIBBON. Now I have to choose from CHLOE, GREENBERG, THE GHOST WRITER, MOTHER and VINCERE.
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Yeah, that's how I hear it too...
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...Yack has a cheerfully confident style bordering on pugnacious...and he rocks the Jewish thing.
Perfect. -
our tech guy
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our Pebrew brethren. That is why Sixies/Leo is rocking the Star of David.
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...because their perfection is obvious and needs no commentary from me.
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and that mullet.....woohoooooo! Pottery..dance..ass whipping..whatevs.
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Mar 28, 2010 4:06:24 PM CDT
Cheeses, quick: What's your earliest memory of childhood?
by colonelfatheart
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...(who is?), but gene pool wise you're not far off...he could be my brother. Well, maybe my cousin.
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was the only hot girl behind a bar I could think of...or wanted to think of. Plus she provided a compass to a band of fucked up dudes on that short lived and never fully developed show.
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...I'm into both art, and sporty-spice outdoor stuff.
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I clearly remember being about 3 yrs old and my dad’s friend was on all fours chasing me around the furniture in our living room and I turned around and ran into him and our foreheads smacked together in a sickening pop that put my Dad’s friend, a grown man on the ground…and left me dizzy walking for minutes afterwards…
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Unbelievable! That frakkin' party is out of their fucking minds! Here they are championing dissent against the current administration, yet if one their own has the common sense to say "we're not using our common sense", he gets fired? Idiots. I hope the smart ones notice this.
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I think Colonel and I think Dekker. Just the first thing that comes to mind. I don't really see Colon_El that way but I had use him. D.Vader....not so sure where I was going with the Paul Walker thing. I think he was talking about hitting the gym or something and I just figured he was a young, lean, dream boat. One o them Hollywood types. Now take the production truck out of gear Vades.
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It was that SAME friend of my Dad’s that I have to thank for my geekdom…He always had monster movie magazines on his coffee table and would scare me with them whenever we went to his house…it was those very magazines that I gravitated toward when I got old enough to read…
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after the 08 election for daring to criticize the crazies.
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Or, what was the first monster you remember liking?
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Mar 28, 2010 4:17:42 PM CDT
Fitting, Mac. I was a big A-Team fan when I was a kid.
by colonelfatheart
I can't really remember many specifics now, though.
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He was a dinosaur...And I LOVED the shit out of Dinosaurs at that age...even wrote an award winning book about them back then, but, I've told that story before...
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http://tinyurl.com/y8j5v6l
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Vanilla is the white top voice of everyones favorite baddie..although i have come to know him as a skin head Oirish. 7 in Se7en.STL as a Lost guy he was almost Josh Holloway but I forgot.Stabby has stabby hair. I think i "explained that one" already.Everyone else is obvious
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But that's it! Any more will have to go on a second gallery.
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And then jumped off a building.
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Round up the fakking crazies with their guns before they do something stoopid.
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I only want him talking about childhood traumas and/or monsters.
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last time I was trying to get a visual on her age and appearance. I thought we would just work off your neighbor for obvious reasons. What celebrity's tits do hers most resemble?
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...different mental image for. I see Colon-El as less cigar chomping Colonel, more charge of the light brigade sort of Colonel...
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Actually, aftert ehr initial rush of visual distortion,, which only lasted 15 to 20 minutes, this has been like being REALLY high and on massive doses of anti-depressants...
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Maybe what you perceived as distorted is now the norm for your mind.
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http://tinyurl.com/yg4abju Or, uh, Colonel Mustard.
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I've lost track of the nicknames.
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You wanna join a militia, sign up with the National Guard. That's what it's for.
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WTFuck is the blotchy background that AICN uses? Every so often I look at it and think I'm missing something.
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I only have a clear mental image of Cobra--Kai. To me, for some reason, he looks like the top of Martin Sheen's head, coming up out of the river in APOCALYPSE NOW.
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They're in favor of it, actually. As long as it benefits their asses and not the dark folk. http://tinyurl.com/yeshfxg
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Used to be, back in the day, King Kong grabbing the log bridge.
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Those nutty Teabaggers. Soooooo stupid.
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...fit 12 year old body...grownup badass and boyish at the same time
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Is it an emoticon?
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...KING KONG background, just messed up a bit for copyright reasons.
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"He blames the government for his unemployment. “Government is absolutely responsible, not because of what they did recently with the car companies, but what they’ve done since the 1980s,” he said. “The government has allowed free trade and never set up any rules.”" So they want less government but MORE government protection? They love the free market and capitalism and think it should be allowed to exist, but they don't see how that caused them to lose their jobs? DUUUUUR HURRRRR. I'm glad the author of the story notices how stupid some of these people are: "He and others do not see any contradictions in their arguments for smaller government even as they argue that it should do more to prevent job loss or cuts to Medicare. After a year of angry debate, emotion outweighs fact."
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Nope...still don't see it.
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like X'd out eyes and the D is a grin cause your soooooo wasted on extasy. I think.
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Mar 28, 2010 4:55:26 PM CDT
The saddest (funniest?) thing about teabaggers is this:
by colonelfatheart
They're willingly giving free labor to the corporate lobby that put them out of work by gradually reducing pay equality and trade restrictions for the past three or so decades. It's a cruel (hilarious?) joke.
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See the big white splotch? That's the center of the picture, and in the center you can just barely make out some of the columns of the White House.
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the interior of the Alien Mothership from Independence Day...talk about your syncronycity...
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are the panes to the window where the alien worked..the one at the dock where the Fly and the Fresh Prince left their calling card...
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Not the mothership. But I thought you really went crazy when you started mentioning The Fly and Fresh Prince. I had no idea what you were talking about at first.
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Mar 28, 2010 5:03:33 PM CDT
You see? Cheeses is now seeing distortions as the real thing.
by colonelfatheart
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"...is a trait we once derided in the old socialist Left. Well boys, take a look in the mirror. It is us now." BOOYAH
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http://tinyurl.com/58cblm
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Regarding DAWN OF THE DEAD. The earlier DOTD will always be the vastly superior one IMO because it is about ideas and themes - the new one is just about fast zombies.
Technology changes, taste changes, audiences change, but movies that are actually about something are timeless IMO.
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looks like shit. ID4? Really?
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reverse the pattern and you will see it clear...I remember when the wallpaper first went up...
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And let's not forget the name "Aint It Cool" came from John Travolta's response to Christian Slater in "Broken Arrow" when he told him he was out of his mind.
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If it were a negative image, the explosion would be dark, not bright.
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Don of the Dead, zombie Godfather of the criminal underworld.
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I agree the movie is flawed but I am firmly convinced the RV chase was the inspiration for the oil rig chase at the end of THE ROAD WARRIOR.
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forget the explosions...
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Mwahahahahahha!
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http://tinyurl.com/ybqeysa
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You just titled the pilot episode. It should be a two-parter.
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How is ID4 still on here. Ridonkulous!
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whats up?
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or it is just slow
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good one.
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...between episodes.
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BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!So someone just tell me what Toots and her tits look like. My work computer is stupid er something.
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...personally, I don't care what Cheeses' past troubles with women are, if that's what his neighbor looks like, he needs to hit that directly.
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especially with the full explanation. I don't look like her, though. I asked my dh what celebrity he thinks most resembles me... he couldn't come up with an answer. I don't really look like anybody famous.
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2 great posts at the same time. This must be what a porn star who loves DP feels like.
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they broke the mold.
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...the very first time.Cheeses is right. If you post, but another post appears under yours...the likelihood of a simu-post is very high.
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you've like....got mail.
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Well done, gentlemen!
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I have no idea what they mean.I just learned Na'Vi, and I'm not ready for another foreign tongue.
I know somebody's gonna say, "Unless it's Monica Bellucci's tongue," so I'm just gonna go ahead and get THAT out of the way. -
How goes it Pebrews? I am happy to report my weekend was a success. I achieved everything I set out to and more. I even had steak. Good steak. I cooked it. Lady Yack loved it too. Oh, yes, she loved it quite a bit.
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Kelly LeBrock (then) for Toots. Alright. Who is our Agnes DiPesto? Supporting Cast?
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I lose count when I'm 'shroomin'...
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...your own post is almost always the last post. If it isn't, then someone squeezed in milliseconds after you...making a simu-post very likely.
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...his casting wall up at the shelter?
He originally posted the links weeks ago, but Subs just got it all organized. -
entited, "This is Toots and these are her Tits"...Some situation occurs where Toots has to pose as an under-cover toppless stripper to get info on the cocain coming into the harbor...We did decide on cable, right?
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...what your favorite 70s show SHOULD have been.
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sight adjustment..she "has to" pose toppless. I think she wants to. Not cause she likes being toppless but because she is so passionate about getting drugs off the street. WHATEVER it takes.
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cop guy that Stoner always makes a fool of and that Toots shows some kind of interest in to create some sexual tension between the 2 main characters. He is some kind of young straightlaced DEA agent trying to make the bust before Toots but she wants it for local funding.
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That was kinda the tone I thought Stoner and Toots would have. Kinda in over their head even in some kind of low level drug ring.Like high school kids are stealing meds from the old folks home. I was thinking Stoner would be cool but a bit bumbbling cause he can barely find the motivation to give a shit.
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Chad? Lance? I like it...adds depth...and increases the probability that "Three's Company" hijinks are allowed to flow freely...What if it turns out, over the course of the series, that that this guy was ALSO her half -brother...her father's OTHER Hippie Love Child...the boy he always wanted...and Toots could never be...
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Now I gotta go. Keep fuckin' that chicken, Pebrews.
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...Eastern Orthodox, but she's also Greek and Mediterranean...so sensual in the body and food department.
Stoner is a fuckup and a libertine, but he grew up Southern Baptist, so ironically, Toots' sensual freedom freaks him out a little. -
His name? Something queer. Skylar? Chad could work.
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But is real mother was a stripper to pay the bill which led him to be up tight/reserved sexually and also explains the vigorous drug use.
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Toots is a Kelly LeBrock class beauty and there are very few guys chasing her, all of whom she prompltly shuts down with viscious verbal digs at their manhood, and yet, she spends all of her time trying to seduce him...From his prespective, something is definitely whack with that picture...
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to Jeffery Dahmer.
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I keep seeing James Marsden as Chad...
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he knows she uses her sexuality to get what she wants. She knows it too but it infuriates her that he isn't falling for it. This will also allow for her to parade around in various situations using her sexuality to "get the job done".
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Vanilla is a friggin' classic.
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Dahmer ate Walsh's missin' kid?
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Mar 28, 2010 6:38:03 PM CDT
Xactly, Mac...YOU understand the chemistry perfectly...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
I think it is a WAY different dynamic than in most sitcom/dramadies...
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Mar 28, 2010 6:39:57 PM CDT
Stoner uses his understanding of her psychosis...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
to get her in all sorts of half dressed sexually compromising positions...
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In the episode, “Casto-bating Leaves Me Spent”, where Stoner convinces Toots that ‘One 1975 American Quality Blow Job’ could end the entire Cold War…
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She doesn't think there is anything wrong with her sexual appetite. If it is ok for a man then it is ok for her too. Stoner lends no credence to her criticism of his drug use cause he knows she is a different kind of addict.
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Mar 28, 2010 6:54:03 PM CDT
...in a perfect world, the pitch for this show would be simple..
by flickapoo
...a general premise, description of tone, character, sex & violence...all the stuff we've already covered...
And then just a shitload of notes and anecdotes on Cheeses' life.
I want everything in there...shrooms with his daughter, watercording, fighting with his ex over fucking filters for their old super-duper space-age vacuum cleaner...
Everything.
Done. Cheeses collects his check and will see you at the Emmy® awards. -
She is also a Catholic school girl who still clings to the 'Opium of the Masses", religion...She is in deeper denial than the self-acknowledged, enlightened functunal alcoholic/drug addict that Stoner represents...
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Mar 28, 2010 7:05:00 PM CDT
...of course, since technically I had the idea for the show...
by flickapoo
...when STONER AND TOOTS wins an Emmy®, I get to be the executive producer who gets up on stage and starts going on and on about what a wonderful journey this all has been, and how the show perfectly captures his vision...and everyone is like...
"who the fuck in this guy? Where is Cheeses? Who even let this asshole in here?! Queue the music, queue the music!..." -
I have lived a colorful life…at least, as I remember it…which ,really, is ALL that matters right?
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"No 'X' in the champagne room." Toots goes undercover at a high end brothel. Stoner tests the quality of the ecstasy that is being smuggled through there while sipping fine French sparkling wine. There's only one problem...the madam has a thing for Toots. Guest starring Monica Belluci.
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Good writing can make going to the grocery store look GREAT. Just imagine what it can do for your insane life... I see a legend... I see Emmys... I see Neil Patrick Harris in drag, singing your name...
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or Jennifer Tilly.
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:p8===================D0:
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to Stoner, or to Chad? It can't be Stoner. We're going to have waited all 4 seasons to see Toots and Stoner get busy.
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Mar 28, 2010 7:17:08 PM CDT
Christ, Mac, I almost choked on my grilled cheese sandwich!
by yackbacker
Wow, that's creative work!
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Monica will do it.
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like a good idea. Dinner tonight at Chez Scarie: Pork ragout (slow-simmered pork, carrots, and onions in a red wine/balsamic sauce,) served over creamy polenta. Paired with a rustic Cotes-du-Rhone. And grilled cheese STILL sounds like a plan.
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But you won't find that out til at least the end of season 1.
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Your mailbox has taken quite a stuffing today....and it's getting stuffed one more time...But, its a short message, if that helps...
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Guess it is all about the mood when you know you'll have the other tomorrow.
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she's be too distracting. I'd be all, like, "What the fuck is someone as hot as Monica Bellucci doing running a fucking BROTHEL?!?!? Fail." Whereas with Gershon, or Tilly... or, hell, Christina Hendricks... I wouldn't have that problem, but it wouldn't be shortchanging the episode.
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Marinated in lemon juice & olive oil, broiled on skewers. Served over basmati rice, topped with sautéed onions and fresh grape tomatoes in balsamic. Side of brussels sprouts. He wanted to bathe in the sauce from tonight's dinner, though, so I think the pork ragout may become a staple around here. I think my new cookbook just earned its keep.
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MAYBE Gina Gershon. Tilly, not enough class and Hendricks(god help me) not worldly enough. Go European and mature yet sexy as hell. If not Belluci then who?
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one of the tricks and Toots gets all upset cause he won't give her the time of day. Toots then gets in a naked cat fight with 2 other whores.
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Tri-tip steak (medium rare), crusty bread with a tapenade and lots of vino.
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http://su.pr/2Rbzm7
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turkey and swiss on wheat. Progresso Santa Fe chicken soup. Bon Appetit!
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The Grande Madame of the high End Brothel HAS to be Dana Delany...like in 'Exit of Eden'...But, with less-to-no Rosie O'Donnell...
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...when left to my own devices.
But I'm a minestrone or split pea soup man, myself. -
...I'm not normally into that sort of thing, but If I was a bird...I'd peck her and poop on her too.
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she is good enough for me Cheeses.
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Now go pay her whatever it takes to get her here. We got HBO pockets and we are working with Sopranos money.
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My station is airing The Fabulous Baker Boys. I just watched Jennifer Tilly's audition. Totally wrong for the madam in this fictitious drug farce that only exists in the rambles of a shroomed out interweb.
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(I call my girl friends guys too, so that includes you Ess, sorta like an actress is an actor too kinda thing)
Howdy Howdy Howdy. Boy good stuff today. Just took me an hour to catch up!
I vote Bellucci (well of course I do) too - she did Irreversible, she'll do anything. And I reckon having a ludicrously gorgeous woman like her as the Madame (French used intentionally there) is exactly the kind of belief-stretching we got in 70s and 80s shows all the time. Fits the tone perfectly in my O. -
Mar 28, 2010 8:48:00 PM CDT
hey WV. It has gotten pretty quiet here for the last hour
by macready452
People usually pour in all at once though. Hows tricks down under?
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Stoner should live in a halfway house that is filled with a rogues gallery of fuck ups and wash outs. Just another facet to keep the characters working. Maybe not a halfway house cause they wouldn't allow drugs and alcohol but some kind of clean living group homw that he has no respect for.
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The a team?
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her response to the creepy No respecting paramour who left her that long E-letter... I’m sorry I haven’t written back yet, I haven’t had the time or energy to respond appropriately to everything you’ve said… While I am flattered by your attention and appreciate your honesty, I have to tell you that I have been nothing but honest as well. I’ve tried to be as upfront about things as possible. I understand that with your job, you haven’t had much time to make friends and meet new people. I agreed to a movie after explaining to you that I am in no such place to be pursuing or pursued, but that we were going as casual friends. I did not mean for that to be any sort of challenge or for it to be vague in any way. I haven’t attempted to give you hints veiled in references about my general understanding of boys... I am not exactly who I think you are beginning to believe I am. I have some pretty wild theories about things between the opposite sexes, but I’m still figuring everything out just like everyone else. And at this point in my life, I’ve figured out I don’t want to be bothered with it anymore. I just want to focus on myself again for a few years. This past thing was only my 2nd serious relationship. I never went for boyfriends in high school til my senior year, or even for the first 5 years that I was here in Texas, until I met [omitted]. The whole monogamy, you own me I own you bullshit just doesn’t really sit well with me. Anyway, I’m only interested in adding friendship to my life and I see that you are hurting for companionship, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. You’ve been isolated for ¾ of the year for how long now? I completely understand where you are coming from, I used to be isolated in Montana growing up but you’re kinda pushing this all way too hard and way too fast for me. I can barely keep up with the few close friends I do have. I’m such a private person; I spend most of the week as a hermit and taking dad to work weird hours always just screws with my schedule, I should be focusing on my dance at least 3 hours a day, bonding with the kittens, reading a lot, playing computer games. I have to do all this shit to make ME feel like ME and it doesn’t leave a lot of room for other people. I guess that’s why I get together with the “fam” on the weekends, and sure most of the time we get fucked up but not all the time and not the whole time. And sometimes, when the time is right, we get together during the week and just chill. But it’s a relaxed, no pressure environment and honestly, your message made me feel pressure and I just don’t have the time or energy to devote to developing any sort of serious relationship, whether it is just friends or otherwise. I’m sorry if I’ve been too blunt. I think you’re a really sweet, honest guy who’s trying to balance work and life. I’m sure we’ll get a chance to hang out soon but I’ve been really just wanting to hang out by myself during the week and shit, I’m not even in the mood to go anywhere this weekend. I just feel like staying home and vacuuming the hell out of everything with the new one we FINALLY just got. Then I’m gonna meditate, do some yoga, belly dance drills, maybe paint some and read this book I’m in the middle of that someone put a hold on so now I can’t recheck it =( I hope all you guy's kids turn out as cool as mine did..
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HHHAAAA!!!!
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The letter should have read, "Dude I hate you. Get out of my life."
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I am here to be entertained. Fucking entertain me.
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" ... I haven’t had the time or energy to respond appropriately to everything you’ve said ... "
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Mar 28, 2010 10:01:15 PM CDT
Cheeses, I love how your daughter ends with a flourish.
by colonelfatheart
She's casually making herself out to be the coolest girl around. "In other words, weirdo," she seems to be saying, "'You bore me. Fuck off.'"
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for a Monday. The shit will come down pretty quickly this week though I think. Everyone wants everything yesterday.
Awesome work on the shelter pic btw. The white in my name is euphemism of a chemical Baleback nature after all (hey Cheeses!), and as we all know the spirit of Vader is encapsulated by Jones! And only he could get away with that haircut (what is is with me and hair lately?) in Conan. I like to think it was his dark humour and a kind of dare - anyone that laughed died. It was a test!
It's funny - those hairstyles are O.K. when a Frazetta painting, but I guess some things just don't translate that well to film!
I was going to post a coupla old Star Wars pics I did for the RPG about a decade ago just for fun because I thought D. Vader would dig 'em. Maybe I still should. They're tpical to the PB, too! -
the I prefer the fucking vacuum cleaner to you, douche! It's like the I'm washing my hair for the new (erm, not-so-new?) millennium!
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Sun-drenched, dry-heat, no breeze, sunglasses weather?
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Its his life story.
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And all I hear is Nolte bellowing, "Goddamnit!"
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This will not do. The self-absorbed prig in the e-mail you published WILL NOT UNDERSTAND anything in there. What he WILL do: Interpret the sheer length of this as a statement that she is interested in him. He will then spend most of the next 12 hours picking out the slightest hints from this text that she is interested, and is playing hard to get, and will interpret that as SHE WANTS ME. I JUST HAVE TO TRY HARDER. As a woman who has been stalked TWICE in her life, I stress. This is not concise enough. NO means no. NOT "I think you're a really nice guy but I need some time to figure out who I am and be with my family and do belly dance moves and play Xbox so we should just be very casual friends, not even really friends"
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..."fuckup". I meant that in the coolest possible way, and only in the context of the character.
No bearing whatsoever on the original Cheesetastic inspiration for the show.
I hope I've made my admiration for a well aged and smoked Cheeses abundantly clear, but still...I'd hate for anyone to take my description the wrong way. -
I've got relatives in "Tex-ass" (Spongebob injoke). I once asked my Aunty what the whole urban cowboy thing was because it pretty much seemed like a wank to me and nothing to do with real cowboys. She confirmed it. Don't even get me started on city girls dressing like cowboys as a fashion statement...
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Strike first strike hard no mercy sir.
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and experiencing the ever-escalating trainwreck that is Rod Blagojevich. I never thought I'd witness a real-live Coen brothers character.
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Mar 28, 2010 10:28:03 PM CDT
...this email epistle writing dude has to go in the show...
by flickapoo
...and of course, things aren't as simple as they seem.
I'm thinking he gets the long awaited vodka fueled Flaming Watercord.
I can't fucking wait to see that Vidal Sassoon spray bottle on film. -
He will not see nuance. He is too stupid for that. Chalk this up as, your super-cool (and I think she is) dd hasn't reached a place in life yet where enough of these guys has caused her enough grief so that she's learned: but I speak to her, again, as a woman who has BTDT. He will not get it. NONE of them will. You need to be blunt: as in, 30 words or less. Dear [douchebag], I appreciate what you shared with me in your e-mail a few days back... I don't check my e-mail much. I'm sorry if I've led you on, but I need you to understand: I'm not looking to be in a relationship right now. Thank you for your interest. Love, [super-cool daughter of Cheeses]
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Never been to Texas myself. Once I was in Arkansas, though. I had some wild boar bacon and went to Hot Springs, before the country cared about Bill Clinton.
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think he can "save her." Douchebags always think they're Superman or some nonsense of that sort. I fear that letter is only going to encourage him, I'm with Scary on this one.
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And we getcha, Flick. "Well aged and smoked". Beautiful!
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Nice turn of phrase. "...a well aged and smoked Cheeses..." Nicely done. Nicely done indeed.
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This is one of those situations like last week, where the person doing the e-mailing is gonna do what they want to do. You know, it's great fun to vote and pretend we live in a democracy, and all, but it's kinda pointless, because The Electoral College is going to do what The Electoral College is gonna do.
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That's right! He's not me in disguise! I swear it! :P
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You are nubile. You belly-dance for a living. You are not a prude, or a priss. Men will flock to you like moths to a flame... useless men, who live with their mothers and gaze at their own navels, and ruminate far too long on their own silly selves, and accomplish nothing. These men will feel it appropriate to "require" things from you. You must be ready, with an iron fist. You must bind your wrists in barbed wire. You must gird your loins for battle. You must sharpen your tongue. You must make your heart as stone. These men are simple, and unworthy.
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Mar 28, 2010 10:37:32 PM CDT
There is no such thing as democracy is what Subs is saying
by yackbacker
I agree.
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...and we were just being allowed to enjoy the carnage.
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You know, voting, emails and everything that matters to us!
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You couldn't even PRETEND to be that dumb.
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I had a great uncle and aunt in Florida too. Retired old Polish-Americans with a huge Yank Tank of a car. My Aunt even had horn-rims!
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Mar 28, 2010 10:43:04 PM CDT
Cheeses, you should just get Toots to do this guy in.
by colonelfatheart
Deport him or something. To Myanmar or Sri Lanka.
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First, I opened myself up to Cheeses' cool daughter, thinking it was private. I didn't expect him to re-print it here.Second, yeah, I typed "u" instead of "you." When you're my age, you've got to put on some pretense for the young ones. I mean, Sixies totally got that I was being all Prince-like and seductive, but the rest of u kinda hurt my feeling.Third, I resent the implication that I'm stalking Cheeses' Cool Daughter. I mean, I agreed to go to that movie she wanted to go to, and you all know how difficult that is for me, so I didn't think it was all that out of line to ask for a cuddle after.And fourth, you all know that I don't take rejection very well, so I kinda expected all of you to take my side and urge her to give me another chance.
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:( Sorry about the 3way emoticon...or is it Taffy that little minx. Don't worry I'll take all the blame/credit.
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I would die 4 U.
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Bed beckons. Sleep teases me... fucking bitch. I know she won't hang out all night... as always. Another long work-week ahead... I'll be in and out for a few. Vios con huevos, amigos. Continúe teniendo sexo con ese pollo.
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He's funny and he likes me. He stays, in my book. :)
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but i know chicken fucking when i see it.
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I had my girl saying that this weekend. Seriously.
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LET'S GET DICKING!!!
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Jesus Christ.
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Soon.
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It looks better than the first one, which I was fairly indifferent towards.
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1.) Commenting on Cheeses' Cool Daughter's e-mail is likely pointless since she's probably already sent it. I was trying to be subtle and funny and failing.2.) Nobody's voting on anything, let alone how gay Mac looks in a half shirt.
3.) I think when Flick asked, "Huh, Scary," she thought he meant why'd she say vanilla couldn't pretend to be that dumb. So, 10:35:36 points him (Flick) to vanilla's comment. In essense, vanilla's joking that Cheeses' Daughter's douchebag is not him in disguise, and Ess is saying he could never pull off a disguise convincing enough to make us think he were dumb.Clear as mud? -
Maybe I should do.
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I feel like I could fucking shoot someone!!!
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nothing has yet assuaged my fears that they've upset the balance toward too much comedy.But, I'm not yet invested one way or the other.IRON MAN was a big positive surprise for me, but I never really wanted a sequel. I don't think "franchise" when I enjoy a movie. I think, "leave it alone."
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...tonight...little gas-mask wearing zombie kids.
I'm feeling earnest and lacking in my usual pugilistic joie de vivre. -
I am continually surprised at just how dumb I can be though, to be fair.
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Just stream that Dr. Who and flush it all away.Little zombie kids wearing gas-masks would give anybody the heebie-jeebies.
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My curiosity is enough to get me into the theater. But you're right, this looks like a yuck-fest yearning to be an action-movie. It's a tight balancing act to do humor and action. Some movies are appropriately more comedy than action by design- like BACK TO THE FUTURE. But when an action-movie tries to make too many funnies, you get BATMAN & ROBIN or something insane like that film.
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Creepy-arse children! And spare a thought for me. I have identical twin girls. And I'm a Kubrick fan. The two don't mix well.
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baby, I'm a star.Did you hear Prince is refusing hip replacement surgery? Little dude's gonna end up in a wheel-chair.
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why Vades is threatening gun violence? he hasn't wigged out and gone all-tea-baggy on us, has he?
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Just because I was so happy they cast RDJ and not some teeny-bopper last time that I watched every trailer, and they did that fucking anoying Zemeckis thing where basically they gave the whole thing away and I came out sort of having loved it but also sort of "that was IT"?! On the other hand, the otherwise Not-hot© Gwinny looked pretty great in her killer Louboutins and the character (but not the end action) stuff was great fun.
I'm not going to make that mistake this time. Even if the siren song of the Johannson is calling...
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...and it introduces Captain Jack. I did it all backwards and watched TORCHWOOD first...I don't mind, it's fun to get the back story after the fact.
I noticed tonight that I think scary kids freaked me out when I was a kid...and then much less so when I was an ass of a young adult...and they freak me out a lot again now that I'm a parent. -
only when I was a young boy. Now when I wear a half shirt nothing could be more unappealing to homosexuals. I'm spin doctoring the vote.
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They did a really good job with the first one, adding little humorous touches, but we don't want to laugh at superheroes in the movies. SUPERMAN III, BATMAN & ROBIN, SPIDER-MAN 3 are all examples of this. Humor in a superhero movie equates to parody. Nobody wants to see Iron Man as a joke. (Snark is something altogether different.)
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Hip replacement! He better do it, if he wants to play with Cindy C. Prince and a stalker song. Somehow so natural!
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ftw!
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Stark fucking with Gary Shandling. He can still bitch slap his lab robots. Sam Rockwell could get some good lines. As long is the action and danger are kept serious they can work in plenty of jokes.
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...with IRON MAN 2 is that all the trailer beats come straight from a ROCKY movie.
You've got Stark getting all cocky at a Vegas style expo and losing the eye of the tiger. You've got the hungry Russian challenger who wants it more and puts the fear of god in him by whipping his car in half...apparently he teams up with a buddy...and I'm sure the love of a good woman will help him get his eye of the tiger back...
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I never meant to cause you any pain.
I only wanted 1 time 2 C U laughing.
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She's aesthetically pleasing, but she's that hot girl in high school who never seems to put out. She's more in love with who she is than what she can do to a man with her pudenda. That's not the kind of girl that ignites the inferno of my imagination.
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Snark Industries!
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that is all
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eye no, eye no,
I know times R changingIt's time we all reach out for somethin' new
That means U 2U say U want a leader
But U can't seem 2 make up your mindI think U better call meAnd let me guide U, babyThru the purple rain. -
All this talk of pudenda and ignition is prolly gonna have me up all night.G'night, everybody.Damn it! Who's messin' in the chicken coop at this hour?!!?
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...I'm not looking for a relationship. And she's a refreshing change from the skinny modely starlets we usually get.
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...tomorrow.
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and slutty.
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May the mighty watch over you.
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In case that wasn't clear..the opening of Lost in Translation is a shot of ScarJo's ass through sheer panties.
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i'm afraid of the dark. peace out PB
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...I'm on record saying that women like her need to get that stuff documented for posterity.
Imagine if there were no nudes of Marylin Monroe?...if people had to just imagine what her pink parts looked like for all eternity?!
Torture.
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Speaking of creepy kids, another fave creepy/horror stuff is evil or possessed dolls or ventriloquist dummies. I always loved the Tom Baker Dr. Who "Talons of Wen Chiang" or whatever it was called because it had that awesomely designed Chinese-opera-like dummy that came to life. Haven't seen it since I was little but did that shit leave an impression. Mum tells me how funny she thinks it is that I love Henson and prosthetic makeup and so on so much because I ran screaming from a panto of Snow White (the dwarves had masks) when I was little and would always go out of the room until mask stuff was over on the telly.
But you reminded me that one of the twins used to sleep with her eyes a bit open and that used to creep me out. That was AFTER I realised she wasn't actually awake. At first I used to crankily whisper at her to go to sleep and she wouldn't reply.
Yeah Captain Jack. Sorry, I know most people think he's great and all, but I didn't even watch Torchwood because I just feel that the guy has NO charisma. And when the whole character is predicated on the idea of being so charismatic he's irresistible to both sexes, it's a big problem to me. My wife felt exactly the same way without us even discussing it. Maybe we're just weird.
As much as I love Tennant's Doctor though (so in the cheap'n'cheerful spirit of the show), I just always wish Ecclestone had stuck around for just a second season. He didn't get time to flesh out his character choices I feel. He was really good and it would have been great to just get one more. Apparently he was terrified of being typecast. Ironically his bad choices SINCE then will do the real harm to his career! -
...it so often pays off.
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...I enjoyed TORCHOOD, but a big part of the appeal was that it was fun to watch with DW (unlike you, she's smitten with Jack).
It's probably good that we watched them in the order we did, because I think this new DOCTOR WHO is shaping up to be a better show. Not sure we would have liked TORCHWOOD as much if we watched it after. Funny that you should mention the change in Dr. We're only about six episodes in, but my DW is already lamenting the fact that he doesn't stick around... -
I've certainly fucked enough chickens for one day...I highly recommend 'Shroom teas for a wonderful afternoon spent feeling fabulous...Nytol...
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Maybe it's an artist thing? Although I go off women very quickly if they're not intelligent and have a fully-formed personality (yes yes, how snag-ish of me), the aesthetic thing is interesting. I seem to have missed the blonde gene most guys have that negates any other drawbacks and is the only reason I can find for guys having the hots for Ryden-eyed freaks© like Shitme To-tears (rhyming slang).
There are exceptions of course. Lovely Charlize, Scarlett, Grace Kelly, Janet Leigh...
What I was gonna ask though about the aesthetic thing is - as an artist (self trained but) after a certain amount of life drawing it can sorta take the wonder out of the base/nude figure, and I've noticed many artists and especially animators seem to like a bit of making things a bit more aesthetically appealing whether it's in more striking looks or the packaging; Scarlett certainly fits that bill.
Maybe it's having a sense for the graphic (you know what I mean), dunno. And being even more visually orientated than your average caveman. I reckon that's part of why classic 30s to 50s say, Avery cartoons or Gil Elvgren paintings still come off as sexy to BOTH sexes.
One thing I do find is that the women artists/animators who have that graphic leaning too do absolutely THE sexiest stuff, because they inherently KNOW the right body language/pose or subconscious (to the character) details to give a female character or illustration that thing that nails what turns us to jelly about femininity (and I don't mean the old-fashioned use of the term)!
P.S. Having said all that, I have never heard or care if I hear Kim Kardashian speak (apparently she's an idiot). In still pictures she sure is a beauty though. -
But I thought we'd gone off fucking chickens and now were onto fucking bears, being mindful not to let 'em eat our dicks though...
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I was workin' part time in a five 'n' dime,
My boss was Mr McGee.
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doin' somethin' close to nothin',
But different than the day b4.
That's when I saw her,
Ooh, I saw her
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The verbal assuault on the AG begins..
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Howdy X 3
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Mar 29, 2010 9:12:45 AM CDT
Cranky British columnist reflects my views in precise fashion
by yackbacker
re: 3-D, [deleted] and astigmatisms! http://tinyurl.com/ygsgcuk
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The line of the article, IMO.
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Just the throwaway nature of it.
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March 28th, 2010 ...A cop shows off his defensive manuevers against a few prop criminals. (vimeo.com/10455321) ...'moose saw RACE WITH THE DEVIL and wondered why there wasn't any snarky robot commentary, alà MST3K. The RV chase scene was awesome though. Also, 'moose repeats how "creepifying" Ben Stiller is in GREENBERG. ..."Pedaltrek" continues as the battle for cosmic pudenda gets fierce. ...diarrhea recommends MGMT's new album (http://www.whoismgmt.com/) and riffs on wheelbarrows and bank robberies. He and Cheeses reminisce about the time they celebrated Cheeses' birthday in a fort made out of sofa cushions in rooms with walls of water. ...Meanwhile, Vades is jumping on a trampoline. ...Sixies is ready to take on the whole State of Texas, but he kinda liked UP IN THE AIR. ...reflecto says George Romero has a lot of nerve, considering. ...spud pokes himself in the eye with something shiny and sharp. (http://tinyurl.com/22zprp) ...'moose is still digging on the new Gorillaz, and he shares the slinky-groovy title track with me. ...What's left to say about zombies? Vades thinks there's enough, but he's ssh-sshed about it. ...The dude who wrote BATTLEFIELD EARTH comes clean about it. (http://tinyurl.com/yhqz7e8) ...Cheeses is having a Mad Tea Party. ...Flick sees 3DTV at Best Buy® and thinks video games and sporting events will "rock." ...Ess envisions a future where men never take off their 3D gaming helmets and waste away to nothing, spending weekends dry-humping Puffy Scrapple® avatars on the sofas in their mom's basements. ...R.I.P. Dick Giordano, the artist who partnered with Neal Adams to ink the definitive comic-book image of Batman ...These are the Daves I know, I know. These are the Daves I know. (http://tinyurl.com/yepxctq) ...Colon-El reminds us that Dave Thomas said everything. ...Mis-singing the lyrics to Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love." ♪ ♫ "You need Kool-Aid, and I ain't foolin'. I'm on a whole lotta drugs." ♪ ♫ ...Sixies' iPhone® is repeating itself. ...Cheeses trip is uh, sorta mellow. ...The FBI raids Great Lakes region militias. (http://tinyurl.com/y8j5v6l) ...The truth about the Tea-Baggers, exposed (http://tinyurl.com/yeshfxg) ...If you squint your eyes just so, you might be able to make out the Capitol blowing up in the AICN background. ...This is Toots, and these are her tits. (http://tinyurl.com/58cblm) ...That'll be the title of the pilot, a two-parter with a "maddeningly tantalizing gap" between the pair of episodes. ...'Lop thinks up a new supervillain, The Don of The Dead - a mafioso zombie Godfather. ...The Guardian's 10 Favorite Movie Jesuses include Oliver Reed but not Willem Dafoe. (http://tinyurl.com/ybqeysa) ...hiyarrhea! ...Another SimuPo® at 05:35:18 P.M. between Flick and me. ...Mac and Cheeses continue to brain-storm "Toots & Stoner," introducing new supporting characters, including "Chad, Lance or Drew," a young, ambitious hard-ass who turns out to be Toots' half-brother, and the Euro-sexy madam of a high-end escort service. ...The Adam Walsh case might have a link to cannibal serial killer Jeffery Dahmer. (http://tinyurl.com/y8zcavb) ...Flick reminds everybody that he had the idea for the "Toots & Stoner" show, so, as Executive Producer, he gets to accept The Emmy. ...Mac does some emoticonning. (http://tinyurl.com/yaoap5s) ...THE PEEPS - Hitchcock and Easter candy (http://su.pr/2Rbzm7) ...Cheeses' Cool Daughter responds to The Douchebag with an e-mail that The Pebrews think is far-too gentle. ...vanilla and I sing Prince songs, and Ess tells us to get busy con los pollos. ...Yack's taught his girl Mac's Pedalback catch-phrase, "LET'S GET DICKING!!!" ...Will there be too much humor in the second IRON MAN? Mac thinks they'll get the balance right. ...Vades shouts "AAARRRGGGHHH!" ...Flick freaks out at some creepy, gas-mask-wearing zombie kids on "Dr. Who." ...vanilla, christened Nilla® Vafer by Flick, has two gorgeous twin daughters who have never once made him call to mind the scary twins from Kubrick's THE SHINING. ...Sweet dreams of the opening shot of LOST IN TRANSLATION and ScarJo's sheer panties, or nightmares of possessed dolls and 7 dwarfs' masks.
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I actually don't agree with EVERY point- I don't have the visual problems with it that he seems to- but the "OOOO it's 3-D, poppin' at ya" tricks make me tired in my soul... I DO agree that the industry is pushing this hard-core though. Yesterday I went to BestBuy to see it there was something I could do about the fact that our Blu-Ray player did everything but play Blu-Ray discs, and they had on display the "HOT NEW THING": a $3K tv outfitted to handle 3-D, complete with a special $450 DVD player to play the 3-D discs, and a "starter kit" of 3-D glasses THAT COST $350 FOR TWO PAIRS. What really pisses me off is, the industry finds something popular, and before you can even process it, they have 40 different ways to make money off it and are pushing it down your throat. You know full well this is all we're going to be hearing about when the holidays come around. I'm sick of it already.
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The British are unfailing polite, even when they're being cranky."The film was a bit rubbish.""Quite right, here, here, but there's no reason to be vulgar.""I said a bit. I really meant a gaping sod of rubbish.""Oh my. My. My.""Sorry, darling.""Well, cheers to you then, mate."[inaudibly under breath]"Bugger off."
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I just went back and checked...
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Mar 29, 2010 9:40:38 AM CDT
Not to diminish from the ever-eloquent Flick, of course.
by scarywaitress
Because he IS. You know, wise with the words, etc...
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I love my job... but Monday mornings are the effing WORST. Especially after a good day (like yesterday) and a shit night's sleep (like last night. THANKS, you rotten little urchin...) keep you all...
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maybe if Cameron's WankD was applied to something like, for an example, The BBC's "Planet Earth, or something - you know something real that one could relate to on more than just a superficial "wow-ish, I guess" level - it'd impress me more.I just can't see how you can acclaim the immersive realism of completely imaginary fantasy non-realism. You felt like you were on a new planet? Really? You didn't know, every second, of every scene, you were watching some made up, neon, cartoon fantasy?I don't know how the mind works.
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Which BAM!s it up a level.
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Looks like every BestBuy is pimping that $4K 3-D home system. Great. *as referenced in this morning's edition of the Subbary, ©Subtitles_Off, Mar 29th, 2010
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Staring at 3-D with tinted glasses over my regular glasses is a really annoying way to spend 2 hrs, let alone 3.5 hrs, thanks to [deleted].
A couple of years back, I went to a local theater and bought a ticket to see BEOWULF. As I was walking towards the ticket-taker, I realized (from the marquee) that the only screening they had was in 3-D. I went back to the ticket counter and returned my ticket, drove to ANOTHER local theater and went to see NO COUNTRY instead. In that instance, 3-D saved me from seeing a very mediocre film and helped guide me to the Oscar®-winning Coen Bros. goodness. While I did not know it then, was watching over me. -
Keep it real Peebers.
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men like me will be able to just march our aged, but un-wasted, selves into homes all around the nation and introduce ourselves to neglected wives. And the wives, who here-to-fore have had a greater selection to choose from, having lost a good portion to immersive video-game WankD technology, will look upon our meagerness and sigh, "Eh, what the hell. if I keep my eyes closed maybe it won't be so bad."Where you see apocalypse, I see possibilities.
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"The world is already in 3D. What's the big deal?"
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gonna sit on each other's lap in that one recliner in the den with the best view of the TV while wearing goggles is farcical.
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regarding our ailing economy.
One of the retail industries that has taken a big hit with the recession has been jewelry. Well, who are the most likely people working the counter at jewelry stores in malls across this great land? Attractive, single, young women! What a man should do is 1) go to the mall on an early Saturday night (around 5PM), 2) visit the jewelry store, 3) ask the young, attractive lady to see something for his mother (who's birthday is fast-approaching, no doubt!) and to 4) flirt like a champ with his captive, otherwise bored new friend at the counter.
It's like shooting fish in a tank! You will need to know how to flirt on your own, I cannot write those things down in a manual here. But if I was a single chap, that's where I'd be spending those lost hrs before a Saturday night anyway. If the girl is working the night shift at the store on a Saturday, there's a good chance she's not happy about it. And, as opposed to waitresses (Scary, verify this), they're not used to getting attention at work. Just make sure her manager isn't around or is otherwise disinterested. And if the manager gets suspicious, ask to see items costing $2K and up. That'll shut that manager up right fast. -
Yep, no truer words have ever been spoken! LET'S GET DICKING!
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You're a regular Scavenger of Love.
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Your post appeared below mine after my screen reloaded. Damn!
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While your man's immersed, we can cluck like that chicken.
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...is a copyrighted trademark protected by law...the two things have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
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Unless TOOTS & STONER is produced in that format. Anything less will inevitably disappoint humanity.
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about this Pedalback Tourette's that seems to be contagious.Last night, Vades showed up out of the blue, taking aim, and, this morning, Sixies dropped the F-bomb without explanation.What's afoot?"Eh, it's that thing at the end of your leg," said Groucho.
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Most days, the only people coming to the jewelry counter are older women. NOT the type to give much attention to a young, hot female. Unfortunately, the only problem with this plan is that you have to spend time in a department store looking at jewelry. Sounds like my idea of hell... which is why you wouldn't see ME working that job...
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Plus Vafer is a pun on two words - wafer and Vader - so it's worth double points.I think Colon-El would agree.
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I laughed for a month. My family was worried.
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Mar 29, 2010 10:26:37 AM CDT
...I believe that Sixies had just launched his campaign...
by flickapoo
...over the tax thing, and D. has been on a nightmare shoot...
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"You're wondering how it will look when she's wearing the necklace?""Well, I didn't know if I could ask, but would you mind putting it on.""Of course, sure. See how the sparkling jewels play off the sparkle in my eyes?""Oh, yes. yes.""Sir, my eyes are up here."
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I still laughed.See what I did there?
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lead-in dialogue to soft-core porn scenes. Brilliant!
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The hyphen is essential. Otherwise, blondes like me will get confused.
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Mar 29, 2010 10:33:09 AM CDT
...when I see a pretty girl, I look for her best feature...
by flickapoo
...and immediately try to incorporate it into a nickname. So if she has pretty eyes, I'll say...
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looks kinda like a logo when you lower the ™ a smidge.
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http://tinyurl.com/ygebysw
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"Hey baby, you've got pretty boobs"?!?!
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Let's just say that a project I've been working on... well it looks like someone stole my idea and is already in production. Could be coincidence, but #$%^#$^ I just don't believe it.
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I think I'll call you...Little Pretty Titties."Oops.
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If you can verify that with any proof, it's fucking war.
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"Hey, baby, you've got pretty eyes. I think I'll call you...Copier Needs Paper."
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My short that this project is based on has been on the web for over a year and it played at Dragon*Con last year, so its been out there for the public to view. I dunno who the writer of this other project is, if he went to Dragon*Con and saw it, if he'd read about me describing it here on AICN, if its just one big coincidence... but even if it is a coincidence, I think this pretty much kills my project dead in the water.
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I'm Sheriff 'Nilla!
Hey folks. Got a bit lonely there last night. Just me and a perfect pop song to keep me company.
Did you know the band "The Lightning Seeds" (excellent single was "You Showed Me") got their name from Rasberry Beret? There IS a funny audio blip during the word "sees"!
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You know how studios get a hot project and the competition loves to do the same damn thing out of spite - you could get to do it anyway!
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If I can get it finished today and sent out tonight, and if my friend sends it to his friend with the television production company contact, maybe we can make something happen first. Admittedly, my project is quick, easy, and cheap, and could be out before the others.
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you can verify that you were working on the idea since before last year.
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...and they obviously are ripping you off, doesn't that prove your case?
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Mar 29, 2010 11:04:29 AM CDT
...hey, baby...I like your scrapple. I think I'm gonna to call
by flickapoo
...Little Puffy Scrapple.
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And the way the other person executes it is similar enough to your work, then you have a good argument to make. You have copyright protections as a matter of common law.
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I think I'll call you...Maddeningly Tantalizing Gap.
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Mar 29, 2010 11:08:35 AM CDT
I don't know. I don't know how the law works in cases like this
by d.vader
My short was made in 2008, had a local premiere in 2008 and film festival premiere in 2009. I'm not sure how you go about proving such things. All I know is that this other project threatens my chances of getting a television series made. I guess we'll see?
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He saw it.
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Mar 29, 2010 11:11:10 AM CDT
Having said that, there ARE a ridiculous amount of co-incidences
by white_vader
in this business. Friends of mine had written an outline about Kung-Fu Pandas many years ago and I remember them telling me how upset they were that some studio was doing it and they couldn't fight city hall on it. And that was about a decade ago. Can these guys prove they've been working on it long enough that it's just coincidence?
I had a little (not whole story or anything) one of my own where while I was working on boards for I, Robot I was trying to come up with something more interesting than text-based data entry. So I thought I was very clever using sign-language type movements and the computer's visual recognition system as a sort of typing shorthand or whatever it is those stenographers in court do with their funny keyboards. We all break for the day and go see a preview of - Minority Report, for which I hadn't even seen a trailer. Fucking d'oh. And literally back to the drawing board.
And that sort of thing has happened many, many times, so I feel ya dude. The question you have to ask I guess is if the idea has been used in such an iconic way that it will take everyone out of your story and be thinking about the other, or if it's solid and strong enough and in context that you should use it anyway for the right reasons. I was working on a project years ago with big mean (genetically engineered) Polar Bears and an Ice-age with frozen skyscrapers. But since we never got that happening and after both Day after Tomorrow (Ah! The frost is chasing us!) AND Narnia came out, well...
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"Hey booby, y-" SLAP!!!
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that it was exhibited - even a flyer advertising the fest or a schedule of events that lists your project - you have a case.
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And then I guess the other guy would have to prove he was working on it before mine was shown?
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...get paid if you win...so if you've got a winning case, they'll take it.
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...to yourself and not open them...because a dated postmark is evidence in court. I believe fax phone records are (used to be) evidence too.
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He could never disprove that somebody saw it and mentioned it to him, or whatever. It's the sort of thing, where, if the two projects are similar in an essential way, you'd have an argument to be attached to his project unless, yeah, he can prove he had been working on it previously.I'm not saying your case is irrefutable - I'm not a copyright lawyer. But it might be worth looking into.
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Mar 29, 2010 11:27:06 AM CDT
And, since you were complimented on yours by no less than
by subtitles_off
George Romero, I'd start with trying to find out if Romero's got any kind of involvement with the other project, even as just an advisor or something.
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than those wussy Golden Compass one, too:
http://tinyurl.com/ydqlb9m
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You've got nothing to lose.
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Tusken Raiders!
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dick-eating bears!!!!
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...that's 's work right there.
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Before the other guys' movie comes out. That way, at least the world that watches AICN, will see that I had done it years before the movie.
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Your remedies diminish as time goes on. At this point, you could take him to court and have the judge issue an injunction keeping him from making his movie if your claim has merit. At that point, you are more protected than if you wait until after he completes production, and the court will be much less likely to give you that relief.
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...theory for over twenty years without publishing...then one day some dude named Alfred Russel Wallace sends him this little essay on a bright idea he just had...basically the same as Charles' theory of natural selection. Wallace was a ware of and respected Darwin based on other published work, and sent him his little theory to see what Darwin thought about it, and to see if maybe C.D. could help him out.
Darwin didn't know what to do, and considered dropping his theory all together.
Friends persuaded him not to, and fortunately for him, he had twenty years of research to back him up. He ended up presenting it as a co-theory to the National Royal Society of Whatever...but then was able to publish his meticulously researched book...thus essentially owning the theory. -
I think they're still in production now. I'm already asking my gf's law office who there has experience with copyrights and whatnot.
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Me being concise for once was what probably threw you!
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I can't remember if I gave the guys armour down there or not. Yikes! Not much to be done for the poor horses though.
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When I did a certain bunch of mascots. The thing was I had them doing certain sports that utilised each animal's actual/natural strengths, so if the idiot was doing his homework of COURSE he'd eventually come up with the same thing. Not to mention he'd pretty much covered every damn animal there was.
He got some TV coverage out of it and said he was considering court action but unfortunately for him we'd already been at it for years (documented) by then. The irony is that it was probably the biggest thing I've worked on, they didn't go with what got me the gig, and I got a pittance with no percentage (couldn't even get samples for Christ's sake) on something that generated tens of millions of dollars of revenue. Bah. And where that guy is concerned, if the people I was dealing with DID see his stuff, the contracts always state that the artist/designer takes the heat for doing something if it's found to be sufficiently/proven similar.
So watch out for the contracts. Mine have even stated when handing over intellectual property rights it's throughout the UNIVERSE. I kid you not. So if we start living on Mars I don't see a cent. -
...be they sharks, piranha, moray eels, pikes, trout, sunfish, whatever...
That parasite in the Amazon that swims up your stream of urine like a tiny salmon from hell and impregnates your urethra too...
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Mar 29, 2010 11:55:14 AM CDT
I understand why people fly cessnas into government buildings
by six demon bag
I don't condone it but I understand
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Little known fact about yours truly.
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But fish are alright with me. Crustaceans are another story.
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Anything resembling an insect is evil in my book. I do not trust them.
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...that seems reasonable.
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I was talking the other day about popping a coupla pics up at the Shelter using the upload thingie they got now for ya (maybe help cheer you up). It's Star Wars stuff I did about a decade ago for the rpg books & mags. One I snuck in while Lucasfilm Licensing had nicked off for Christmas holidays before press deadline, where I made the Disneyland Star Tours guys do a drug deal with those dorky bad guys from the Ewok movie. Heh. Another where the fucking Ewok drops the bag and the big thing from the Ewok flick is alerted and now gonna eat the lot of 'em. Many Ewok bones are scattered on the floor of the cave, ha ha.
And one other that's Star Wars getting back to its Kurosawa roots. Sheriff Mon Calamari. Howdy Howdy Howdy! -
What do you say about last night's verbose ruminations to you on artists and chicks? You an Elvgren fan?
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Hell yea those sound cool, I'll check 'em out! PS, one of my favorite jokes from Toy Story is the squeezy shark doing the "Look, I'm WOODY!" joke. "Howdy, howdy, howdy!" I love how the new micro-machines versions of Toy Story figures you can find on the toy aisles has the shark wearing Woody's hat.
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...trying to decide if I've got a Theory Of The Day, or just personal musings...
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Vafer, Nila, Vafer, Nilla, let's call etc etc.
Oh you and your pet names!
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Did you do artwork for West End Games version of Star Wars rpg?
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I think it was. Such a simple joke, but not dumb. Deepens Woody's character even in those few words.
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3/5 Interesting superhero premise. Ruined by shaky cam and "call me asshole one more time" jokes. Whatever.
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No ST, it's the one that's around now I think. Wizards of the Coast. I designed about 70 of the miniatures too. But couldn't afford to keep doing it. You wouldn't believe how lousy the pay is!
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...so cinematic, no wonder you do what you do. What is that, acrylic and acrylic wash?
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...my stuff is very influenced by manuscript illumination and naive art shallow space and lots of surface texture...almost anti-cinematic.
I've been dabbling a little in the other end of the pool recently...it's a completely different way of thinking.
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of Star Wars RPG. But that is cool you did artwork for it. And miniatures! I remember collecting and painting those in 5-7 grades. I need to find them somewhere.
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awesome.
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I like the sheriff one, but I was looking for a caption that says "Howdy Howdy Howdy!"
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There's an article on the front page saying Rachael Weisz may be cast as the head of SPECTR- err QUANTUM.
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constructing life sized robot for SHOGUN WARRIOR....are these just previews of April Fool's Day?
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http://gammasquad.uproxx.com/2010/03/everybody-walk-with-dinosaurs http://tinyurl.com/yg3pxpy
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Yeah for that stuff and obviously the concept stuff (which I do in the intended film aspect ratio/dimensions) the context is appropriate to take that approach. But coming from Graphic Design (that's the only thing I'm trained in), I love more graphic stuff and I lerve typography to bits. What you do is some of my fave stuff. I love texture and I love Illuminated stuff too.
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I think my favorite is Sheriff Mon Calamari. That shot definitely evokes the scene from Seven Samurai where they are looking for samurai to join their cause.
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I think he ate a guy though, and he's falling out his stomach!
Now I'm even more pissed I didn't go see it (my boy woulda freaked) when it was down here. The bunraku worked really well and obviously the guy's pants were coloured to be as invisible as possible for the mottled floor of the show. Very cool. -
Unfortunately, its not coming anywhere near me.
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...it's interesting. Yeah, I can say from experience (and the experience of entire life drawing classes), that straight up nudity stops being a big deal very quickly...especially after hundreds if not thousands of hours of life-drawing.
Interestingly, the model never removes his or her clothes in front of the class. I remember we once had a very attractive model, but it wasn't a big deal...but one day the privacy screen was missing from class for some reason and she had to remove her clothes on stage...you could have heard a pin drop. Gulp. Changed everything.
My first sexual thoughts all involved illustrations or cartoons, and weird as it may sound, the combination of art and sexy (whether it be a Modigliani painting, Frazetta, Milo Manara, Fujiko from LUPIN III, etc...etc...) still does it for me (I think this would be the exaggerated or stylized thing you were talking about).
In the hot chick on film department, I think maybe the one big difference is that I rarely have any interest in your average perfect figure. I know exactly what that looks like naked...no mystery there for me...no naughtyness.
An extraordinary figure gets me of course, but for the most part I'm attracted to girls that are a little off. I want to know what Kat Dennings looks like with no clothes on.
That's an interesting observation about female designers/illustrators...I'll have to keep my eyes open for that phenomenon.
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Nope, haven't actually touched a paintbrush, airbrush or watercolours since the start of the nineties. I nearly always always start with a pencil drawing though and scan in. My technique was pretty much just acrylics with no fancy tricks anyway when it came to painted stuff so when I was happy I could do exactly the same with photoshop I jumped. From graphic design I've got a good knowledge of pre-digital and then digital pre-press so I guess that helps a bit. Photoshop since version one man! Some of that stuff is Painter, but I always hated that interface. If you look I think some of it is a bit obviously digital. But hey, lousy pay and gotta eat, so tried not to spend too much time. I like the drug dealers one O.K. though for the McQuarrie-esque palette. But I reckon it doesn't matter whether it's digital or traditional, just that the painting's good. The end result is what counts to me more than how you get there - hence all my ranting on people and their prejudices for either all traditional OR all digital effects!
I'm not very good at colour, but appreciate people who are like anything. Teaching myself traditional and digital sculpting now at the same time so I won't be biased by either and will stay focussed on the goal and the best way to achieve it. -
Yeah the banality of the human body - I did do some life drawing for a bit and really want to do more. It was a good one too because the teacher kept pushing the students to draw what they ACTUALLY saw rather than what they THOUGHT they saw, but changing it up with women, men, old (eww), young, trannies and a pregnant chick.
The tranny and the pregnant chick were my faves (wait for it you dirty so-&-so) because it really got down to the nitty-gritty of understanding particular details and different centres of gravity etc. A lot of the class hated it for the same reason.
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My reply would be a very sarcastic cowboy going A-ha. A-ha ha.
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...that looks like thin acrylic to me...not that it matters.
When I was younger I was a rabid hardcore traditionalist, but I was an idiot. I still take a certain pride in doing things 100% physically for books, but in the editorial department I think I shot myself in the foot.
For editorial, any art involved is in figuring out the concept, communicating, solving the problem. The beauty is in the elegance of the idea...and then the magazine is going to hit the recycling basket. I'd spend days on the perfect concept, and that was the fun of it...but then I'd be stuck painting the fucking thing...sooo boring. And now I have an attic full of this useless shit. Who wants an original painting about how the internet is streamlining the process of data mining for bankers? Not me.
Most of that work is gone now anyway, but by the end I was really wishing my "style" allowed me to scan the concept drawing, make it nifty somehow with color and texture, and call it a day. -
...figure drawing. For a while there in the 90s I did a lot of pharmaceutical advertising...best money I've ever made. It felt fraudulent, because I'd be antiquing the paper and basically just imitating a Renaissance look, but at least it was good honest figure work.
It's odd, because I worked very hard to train myself out of that classical look when I started doing picture books...I suddenly got sick of that muscly Michelangelo thing. My first love was ancient and medieval art, so I suppose the transition made sense. I should probably start doing some of that again though, just for practice. -
A mate of mine sold a bunch of his originals to Lucasfilm for their collection. And here's stupid old me ostensibly handing the original straight over! D'oh!
But then there was the time I did a self promotional Calendar for the agency I was at, design through to finished art and all Illustrations. It was a bunch of duets - meetings between different famous people. I did one with Norman Bates - lying on a couch talking to - Sigmund Freud. Probably at the moment Siggy's just said, "tell me about your MOTHER"! I had vidual puns going on in the background - and that famous Escher one with all the stairs going in all directions. Ack. stupid me. In PERSPECTIVE. Had a headache for days after that one! Photoshop I woulda still hand=drawn it but could've distorted it into perspective in 5 seconds flat. Done. -
...and a few advertising originals too (always to the client). I don't think I sold any editorial stuff.
When I say I got "sick of that muscly Michelangelo thing", I mean sick of doing it. I'd be a moron to be sick of looking at it.
I think I can trace my aesthetic migration to 1- my interest in ancient art led me to modern through the back door...Paul Klee and Co. 2- my interest in ancient art and my new found interest in modern let me to children's art and outsider art. 3- I stumbled into the premiere of SAMURAI JACK on Cartoon Network and it fused with my pre-existing love of flat illumination.
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I'm back now. For now.
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And oh yeah I've done the pharmaceutical stuff too. But too many pics of pills and bottles and shit. Some arms & legs. But bo-ring!
Leo's my fave. I'm very much a figure guy too.
But I should say that generally even though I'm a digital guy I still build up the paintings very traditionally and try to be disciplined in the same way when it's appropriate to do a traditional look. That's why you can generally spot digital at 50 paces. If you take short cuts it shows. And I will generally build up textures by painting 'em up, not cut & pasting something. Which is why it's a bit embarrassing 'cause I cheated on that cave one for time. People say if you can't tell why not just do it traditionally, and my answer is generally that if I can get as good a result but either faster or using the same time to get a more finished piece (less set-up time, especially with airbrushing), not spill my drink on it or wait for the paint to dry, then THAT'S why.
Also, doing client changes is infinitely easier with digital. I don't miss the bad old days trying to get new paint to match after the other has dried, even with acrylic. And my clients always want endless changes...
Right dude, it's been awesome talking shop but it's 6 in the morning and I should have hit the hay ages ago. Might see you tonight (your time). Cheers mate. -
...bondage club looks like FUN!
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I can kill a TB like nobody's business.
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...for posting at The Shelter...great stuff.
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...if this is what family values, hating minorities, and militant ignorance means, then sign me up!
"The girl at the door sent us in right away and told us to go to a table by the bar and get some free Champagne. Seriously. This club is amazing. There are topless "dancers" acting out S&M scenes throughout the night on one of the side stages, there's a half-naked girl hanging from a net across the ceiling and at one point I walked to the bathroom and pretty much just stopped dead in my tracks to watch two girls simulating oral sex in a glass case."
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Mar 29, 2010 3:13:22 PM CDT
im gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys i see..
by six demon bag
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for tonight is assover..mcQueens holy day..where we play joyous games and pin the tail on Judas and turn that box of wine into an empty box of wine..
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yeah that new guy they got looks TOTALLY like him..not.
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...HAHAHA!
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1988. Italian. Subtitled.
Directed by Giuseppe TornatoreDirector's Cut
Knowing that this is a beloved film, I was shocked at just how unmoving and clunky this extended edition seemed to me. The first third is a charmer, telling the tale of a young boy in Italy just after WWII, his developing love of the movies, and his relationship with the father-figure projectionist at the village theater. The middle third becomes a rather predictable story of the teen's first heartbreak. The climax lurches and sputters with too many redundant sentimentalities and two - two! - revelatory conversations that commit the unpardonable movie sin of telling instead of showing, exposing a plot twist that muddies the central relationship of the beginning by focusing on the unrequited love of the middle. Having squandered any chance, the film tries to regain poignancy at the very end, when the grown man views a montage of all the kissing scenes that had been censored by the village priest from the films of his youth. What may have seemed like a gift of movie magic bequeathed by a loving mentor is reduced to a clumsy metaphor for lost romance.
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I wonder just exactly what's been added and/or taken out.Did the theatrical version have him reuniting with his childhood sweetheart in a car for a snog?
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in the later scenes was cast with a woman with at least a pound too many wrinkles? When did his mother suddenly become the oldest person in the village? Especially since her contemporaries are just aged versions of the actors from earlier scenes?
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Mar 29, 2010 3:54:16 PM CDT
...it's been at least fifteen years, I'm going to have to...
by flickapoo
...see it again. I remember liking it, and it being openly sentimental (the whole point of the movie, really)...and perhaps overlong in a family epic sort of way...
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Great stuff. Great to read about your experiences as an artist and Flick's too.It'll be quiet in here all afternoon while the latecomers try to catch up.
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http://tinyurl.com/y9229jt
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...is doing on safari...
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"Bubo The Owl" scene is a snark put-down of the original. So, it has come to this. The Digital Generation is so impressed with the size of it's own jock that it is now rudely dismissing the past for "humor." Whatever. The stupid little character in the 1981 schlock-fest original isn't much of an icon, anyway. Still, it's interesting to note that a mechanical owl was a polite homage from Ray Harryhausen to George Lucas' R2D2. A classy sort of acknowledgment that the torch had passed. You think today's film-makers know anything about class? Naw. They're too busy patting themselves on their backs.I think Michael Bay oughtta put a scene in the next TRANSFORMERS where one of the giant robot toasters craps on C3PO.
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Was it a professional project? A vacation? Was he serious about going on safari?That's something that I have always fantasized about doing since I was the littlest snot.It'll be cool to hear about when he gets back.
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...to fulfill his lifelong dream of knocking out a charging water buffalo with one well placed punch.
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jumping from elephant to elephant in bare feet and nothing but a loincloth?
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I got nothing.
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...maybe he wants to surf the charging herd of wildebeests as they plunge into and ford crocodile infested waters...
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what's GAIKING?
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...the source of the Congo River...an idol...ruins from before the dawn of time...an ancient, possibly intrademensional evil...and a hidden plateau, high above the jungle canopy...
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...most Americans of a certain age know the toys, but the cartoons were immensely popular all around the world.
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I uploaded something I photoshopped a couple of years ago, something peripherally Jewish. Check the Shelter.
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He was blinded by your biohazard freeballing pants Flick.
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Glad your girl has caught the fever Yack.
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She's from NJ, she's a self-declared feminist, she watches anything directed by Nancy Myers (SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE, and lots of other crap). And through all of that, she has the best sense of humor I've encountered in a woman. She's all about us getting dicking.
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"Put on a sweater. You'll catch a cold, you schlimazel."
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http://tinyurl.com/4na6x
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...biohazard symbol and the obviously flimsy fabric.
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Mar 29, 2010 5:26:25 PM CDT
free swinging balls strike fear into the hearts of the wicked
by macready452
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I read the spoilers and found the whole idea kind of underwhelming.
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totally dependent on how the person seated next to you would react when you pinched them during a slow bit.
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It is Blair Witch for this generation. At least the found footage thing was kinda fresh with BW. The couple are barely likable and essentially nothing happens for the whole movie.
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I was quite proud of saying he was a mere Jack Johnson concert tee-shirt removed from being a complete douchebag.
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from Cheeses to Scary in four moves. Scary would be ashamed of me for drinking the wine I have though.
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that PA does not? Movement. They're called motion pictures for a reason.PA was an entertaining two hours when seen with a large group. Little else.
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But really, you're saying the lead was a douchebag regardless.
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tool city. Maybe Papa Roach.
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But a bit shy of his usefulness as a tool.
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was to pound nails.
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...I bolt upright in bed in the middle of the night, convinced I heard a stealthy footstep...and sit there holding my breath waiting for the next one so I can triangulate where the sound is coming from...
Mix that with just a touch of demon heeby-jeebies left over from my biblethumper upbringing, and I thought it might get me.
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"Babe?"
"Babe."
"Babe!"
"Babe?"
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at least BW had them in the woods and burnt up houses and some kinda desperate situation. My GF hates scary movies and she even thought it was a joke. I told her, "I'm gonna watch it in the dark and in bed." She said that might help. It didn't.
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I'm happy too.
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Mar 29, 2010 6:00:30 PM CDT
Subs, sounds like the PA writer/director was going for realism
by yackbacker
If you hang around some couples long enough, they reveal their annoying traits. I'm not saying anyone here could qualify in that regard, but you know what I mean.
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What do I gotta do to get you out of that depression?
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...kept my interest for the duration...and I didn't turn it off...was impressive.
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They always make me feel cheerful.
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a half-shirt.
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I always wondered if that would improve or detract from the over-all experience.
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...a half-shirt.
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...I've never felt creeped out in a theater...too public I guess.
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http://tinyurl.com/yj23s6x I'm just so very happy to see this man achieving something so spectacular.
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clicking-my-heels, slurring-some-of-my-words gay, then.
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...in that picture.
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Maybe I can borrow some balloons from him, since he obviously doesn't need any.
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He's an actor? Where'd he get all the money for all that tech?
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and you should all be at seder.
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...let us slaughter the fattened pudenda in celebration!
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I hid the matzah somewhere. Whoever finds it in the pedalback gets to sleep with Christina Hendricks.
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And he was in (500) DAYS OF SUMMER, in a supporting role. I believe he is massively hung.
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...in the Matzo Ball if I were him.
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http://tinyurl.com/ydc49yv
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Shoot Sarah Palin in the face.http://tinyurl.com/yko87te
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Mar 29, 2010 6:38:31 PM CDT
Now, SUBS. That is not acceptable talk. We're the good guys.
by scarywaitress
NO talk of shooting that wing-nut and making a martyr out of her sorry butt.
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After her presidential campaign goes toots-up!
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I just meant she might enjoy quail-hunting with Cheney.'Cause she's all sporty and everything.
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It looks excellent. I have to watch all 3 episodes that have already aired to give a full review, but what I've seen is very promising.
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...Subs, you let people know that Pebrews show up for work come sleet, snow, hell, high-water, rain of frogs, or your beer turning to blood...right?
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and it had nothing to do with Dick Cheney. For shame. Seriously, the LAST damn thing we need is any of these looney toones becoming a martyr. Perish the very thought. And Flicka... clearly, everyone is at seder where they belong, you effing heathen.
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Wow.
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http://tinyurl.com/yfv7ax7
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What is that? Day-care at Xe?
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want to pull on that stubborn worm!
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...has never been as low as it is today.
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Did you hear the jackass in the audience? "That's my boy! Yeah!"
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Mar 29, 2010 8:51:25 PM CDT
...a couple of the adults featured in those picture books...
by flickapoo
...very specifically did want to "fudge" with him.
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"Hey Rabbit, you fukken that chicken?Rabbit says, "Nah. Just trying to help the chicken tug on its worm."Horse says, "Hey Pig, you fukken that rabbit trying to fuk that chicken?" Pig says, "Nah, Horse. Wanna help us tug our worms?"Cow says, "Hey Horse! How do you like this? Yeah. I betchoo like it real good! Aw yah! Gimme some of that fine Horse ass. I think I'll call you Pretty Eyes."[baw-chikka-baw-waw, chikka-chikka baw]
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...AAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Makes no sense unless Cow is wearing a strap-on. I didn't realize that was her udder.
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when he finally gets here tonight.
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Ah'm ba-ack.
I think the peebers have bought up every copy of the book. Amazon says only one left! And here's me just having done my order yesterday, dagnabbit. -
HowdyX3
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I'm tired..ate way too much at Seder. Elijah came and drunk our wine..then left. Good times were had. Pebrews werethte in spirit. Whoo hoo!
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Mar 29, 2010 9:30:10 PM CDT
"im gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys i see"
by white_vader
No Sixies! I'm your friend! We're all Peebers here! Aaaah!
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They're both always drunk and show up whenever I open my front door.
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udder lack of humor?
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That joke balmed!
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...farm humor.
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...UDDER FUCKING DESTRUCTION!
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1. You do that brushy-looking stuff in Photoshop? Do you use a panel and paintbrush interface? You can't be doing that with a mouse... anyway, I was fooled too, I would never have guessed those were digital. 2. I forget the second one. Dammit. Should have written it down.
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I think we are now making up for quantity with... er, quality.
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I liked this more than I should: http://is.gd/b5YLw
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for me to hate that song more.Now, it can't possible. It was possible before.
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I'm confused.
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And that Leia was no slouch at lip-synching (wink, wink, nudge, nudge!)
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...daughter.
http://images.askmen.com/women/votes_300/393_political_daughters.jpg
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Mar 29, 2010 10:09:34 PM CDT
Yeah, Kerry's daughter has that Carrie Fisher thing going
by yackbacker
The cocaine years Carrie Fisher, the one I was attracted to even at the ripe old age of 6.
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I'm glad there are some folk here who agree with me.
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but then there's a lot I love about that tiny pixie.
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Chewie groping her boob. Easy points, but hey.
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And now I've moved on to gin and tonics! Huzzah! And tomorrow I hope to finish my television series treatment (to beat out that damn project that's doing the same idea as me) and to see Shutter Island.
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I think everyone may have hit that actually...
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By accusing the media of "lying" about conservative vandalism against liberals. That chick is fucking nuts and is one step away from Hitler-style "everyone against me is lying about me!" propaganda.
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I just Googled Peter Mayhew.
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When I was 12 and saw The Professional for the first time. Do not doubt when I say I would leave my gf for her. And for Selma Hayek. And for, most likely, Olivia Munn.
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Defack® is this shit about being a member of the Suicide Squad?
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BOOOOOO indeed. Next thing you'll tell us is you don't know who David Prowse and Kenny Baker are.
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He was in CLOCKWORK ORANGE and some Hammer Frankenstein films.
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Seems like they could've handled that with some batteries and one of those, whaddyacallems?, remote controls.
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Mar 29, 2010 10:34:34 PM CDT
These are the kinds of posts that used to get me banned
by subtitles_off
around here.
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I can'ts takes it no mores!
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We stand united to educate the world about the artistic contribution of Kenny Baker. That dude had a difficult job!
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The man was a TIME BANDIT for pete's sake!
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"Looks like you should have baked him a little longer in the oven"? Alright, that was mean.
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I'm sure whoever said that about his mom didn't stay standing for long.
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Mar 29, 2010 10:57:12 PM CDT
Could you imagine Kenny Baker smoking a cig in that thing?
by yackbacker
Like the Peltzer Smokeless Ashtray from GREMLINS!
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for being high-tech. I never was very technical with my traditional painting, and likewise generally in photoshop it's just the straight paintbrush option with the opacity set to pressure sensitive. Sometimes I angle/narrow the brush, and that's about it barring a dip every now and then to some default textured brush default. For me because I don't think naturally in terms of colour it's all about consciously building it up until I get what I'm after. I also started with pshop 1 when the biggest brush you had was either 32 or 64 pixels wide (canna remember now). And layers I don't think came in 'til version 4?
But that was good in terms of having the same discipline and pre-planning as traditional. I've given talks at design schools and things and the biggest problem is the teacher throwing them a copy of whatever and not giving them the context they need to drive the tool instead of the tool driving them. So they'd say "Oh it won't let me do ..." Because they were thinking completely inside the capabilities of the tool instead of what their goal was and working backwards to achieve it any way they could (pshop can do almost anything, but probably not in one step or with some fucking canned filter) I can't say it enough, it's not digital that's the devil, PEOPLE are the cause/problem. We forget that there were loads of shitty traditional artists because only the best stuff sticks around. Digital the shit and the same tiny proportion of good stuff is all on display,so our wide view of both is distorted.
So yeah, they'd say to me about colours on screen looking great then printing out like shit and I'd have to explain that sorry, but you're gonna have to learn a little bit about pre-press (SO much easier now than at the start though). 16 million colours on your screen. And CMYK printing breakdowns (essentially duplicating those hues by mixing four colours) can only semi-accurately reproduce about 5000 PMS colours. Bit of a discrepancy.
And yeah I use one of those tablets where you draw down there but look up at the screen. It's like Muppet puppetry! A mouse is like drawing with a brick. Bleh.
The other BIG one was awful stuff you can spot a mile away as digital (not just talking about using default tools here) because there's no focus/focal point to the composition. Until recently with humungo screens, you never got what happened naturally with traditional. Where even if you were doing super detailed work you still had the general size and context of the composition in your peripheral vision. But with digital they'd all be zooming in and out to their heart's content and of course losing the overral flow of the piece. So of course it looks anal-retentive and tech-heady! Not such a biggie with big-arse screens now like I say, but still a giveaway. And don't get me started on fucking lens flares. Which aren't evil per se if they're used in CONTEXT! Kurosawa did it first and for the right reasons I think in Rashomon.
And you know what? All the same sort of mistakes that digital people make were made by traditional people with technical stuff like the airbrush. Just because it's a chrome airbrushed robot hand doesn't mean shit if you can't draw a hand in the first place! Feel me Subby?
In graphic design too optical spacing and all the boring old things are just as important. I couldn't wait to leave rubber cement and hot wax/cut 'n' paste behind but the lessons are crucial and kids should still be trained that way. The process of construction could often be a drawback of traditional, but the forced discipline is often a good thing. I'm a slackarse and know that about myself.
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He gave me an award! Yay! He was pretty cool. Prowse was a bit of a tool though. Right dude. You REALLY honestly were upset they didn't use your voice/accent? WTF?
But then, being in the James Earl Jones camp I would say that, wouldn't I?
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I'm a bit drunk and listening to In Rainbows as I flit around between different talkback pages and brainstorm ideas for a Star Wars themed commercial I'm going to shoot soon for a friend. I love this album.
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gettig back to before, A golden camp-as-a-row-of-tents robot is PERFECT for Transformers! Get with it man!
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The nude model in figure drawing class was a pregnant hippie. We used rubber cement and x-acto blades. I spent a semester hand-drawing typography.Horrible, horrible times.
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I liked in rainbows
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I'm going to order a tablet now. I can paint and draw traditionally and I've always wanted to do the same on pshop. Any suggestions for an affordable piece of hardware that works with Mac?
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Ya damn whippersnappers!
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He refuses to upgrade to a "computer!"
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In Rainbows is fucking awesome. Don't know if anything will ever beat the perfection of Just, but they keep tryin'!
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Wassup!?!?
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What do I need a FACKING® cell phone for?
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It's like a reunion episode of HAPPY DAYS in here!
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Isn't that what The Pope's buddies are in trouble for?
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...it's fucking bedtime, what's wrong with you people?
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When I was in 9th grade he came to visit my middle school. But for some reason, my grade/class wasn't allowed to see him speak. I was extremely disappointed. The same yr, Rosa Parks came and charged money for autographs. Anyway, at some point in the day, I was on my way to the library and stopped to drink from a water fountain right in front of the office, and who do I see coming down the hall but James Earl Jones and the school principal with others. I remember he looked smaller in his old age than I anticipated (this was 96-97) and his skin seemed a bit... yellowish (I would say the same thing when I saw Rosario Dawson in 2004). Unfortunately, I was 14-15 and didn't have the nerve to go up before school officials and him to say hey. =(. But, at least I saw him, and that was cool enough for me. "You must avenge me Kimba! DaaaaaaI mean... Simba!"
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because working with a mouse is a royal PITA, and I figured that if you WERE doing all that with a mouse, I should just call it a day. I'm actually of the no-school-but-the-old-school mindset, myself... but I'm not on any soapboxes, considering that after slogging it out as an artist with no job and no connections, I put that all aside and found a different career. So, basically, I gave up. I see things all the time that make me wish I hadn't... but at the end of the day, I was A. not good enough and/or B. unlucky and unconnected. If I'm brutally honest, it's a combination of both, leaning heavily on the former. It's not that I couldn't draw... it's that I had no life experience, really. I had a very sheltered childhood. I lived in suburban Connecticut. I didn't have a fucking thing to say, as an artist OR a writer... and I failed at both. So, there THAT is. I think a lot about how, when my kid is older, and I have more time, I'm going to get back to drawing, printmaking, etc... but if I'm really honest with myself, I know I won't... not just for myself. It's always been that way: if I can't be kick-ass at something, I don't bother. By the time I get to have enough time to draw again, I will be so fucking rusty I won't get anywhere with it... and I'll be old. No one gives a shit about art from old people, who do art in their golden years. It's just pathetic. C'est la vie.
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I've just got a decent sized Wacom Intuos. Not one of those fancy Draw on the screen ones (do got me a 30" montor, but it ain't the size, it's what you do with it...
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So here I am reading about Subs' adventures in Art school and I hear a loud POP and feel moisture hit my skin. I look over at my drink sitting next to the computer. Then I notice liquid all over my keyboard and computer screen.
What the hell? My drink just exploded with a loud crack that sent alcohol all over my desk! What the hell was that?!? I've never heard of ice popping/melting quite like that before! -
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Richard Kind, George Takei, Rick Moranis, Sting... there might be more, I'm too tired to remember at the moment.
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replacing the stylus on the surface like you would a mouse. Once you get it though it's rockin'. I go for months at a time forgetting to use the mouse.
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And, now I'm bummed. להמשיך טח כי עוף
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Jesus, that's a nightmare.
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Want to see said animation test? Its got a zombie and you can find it.. right here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GDVwJbrpvI
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I love him. Soul Cages changed my life.
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Mar 29, 2010 11:18:31 PM CDT
I feel ya, Scary…(not literally…just literarily)…
by cheeses_of_nazareth
When I was young I wrote stories like crazy…I had all the time in the world and nothing to say…now I got LOTS to say and no time to put it to paper…‘Course, if I wasn‘t on here every waking moment not spent at work…. But, then…what I got to say, you guys can hear…
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I'm going to ask my IT guy if he can get me one cheap.
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Holy shit, that was an awesome show. And yeah, a Star Wars themed ad, but I have no clue as to where to start just yet. Right now I'm leaning toward irreverent music video to advertise my friends' show.
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when I was still living in Bloomington. I once was walking down Kirkwood Avenue and saw this crowd part and then reform behind this one unremarkable dude walking down the street. The community just sort of left this instinctive block-wide swath of undisturbed pavement for whoever this guy was. I said, "Fuck it," and walked straight toward him and past him."You know who that was," my friend asked after a few steps."I dunno. Kinda looked like the guy from THE FUGITIVE, though."
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Nitroglycerine?
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The flip side is that when you do what you love for a living (and that's ALL I can do!), it can take take much of the joy out it gettin' screwed, clients ALWAYS choosing the worst option, and so on. And you stress about what should be a joy.
I think it's every bit as great to do something you may not even care about but that doesn't stress you so much, and really enjoy the other stuff in a pure way. I understand Flick completely when he talks about the idea stage vs. the slog.
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That drink was lethal! Geddit?!
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My drinks come straight from the bottle. Who uses glasses anyway?
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If I didn't know any better, I'd think someone was trying to kill me...
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OK day at work, budster?
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I drink from a can...and plastic cups if needed...
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actually I had the day off today. Back to work tomorrow. Thanks for asking though.
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I think I'm consistently the only person here not drinking booze in the PB. I'm definitely a below-average drinker in general- I'll have a glass of wine or two every other week at best. Back in my law school days, I was a fucking animal- drinking 5 nights a week- scotch, beer, and the sweet perfume of lady law students.
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Unless you spent the day making music or something.
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Maybe you have the superpower to speed up molecules in an object causing liquids to erupt when you get angry…My daughter and her mom are like that with electricity…I have seen them both blow out light bulbs in a room when they were very upset…My daughter even knocked out all of the electricity at Nokia Stadium when she wasn’t on the guest list of the band, Aiden, who she grew up with…It was crazy…
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'Cause I feel like drinking something bad-ass, that's why!
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I fucking love seltzer. I'm a Jew. Jews love seltzer. Seltzer = the Jewish champagne.
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Mar 29, 2010 11:35:07 PM CDT
Did everybody see the dinosaur thing Vades dropped earlier?
by subtitles_off
http://tinyurl.com/yg3pxpy
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At least by then you won't care about validation from anyone else. Go for it I say. I'm like you with the "if I can't be kick-arse", but I absolutely want to learn instruments when I retire (if I can ever afford to). I don't care what anyone thinks.
And the only big difference between artists and everyone else, is that everyone else stopped drawing generally when they were kids, but artists didn't.
But there was a crucial point where I had to decide whether to become a director/do film school, or accept the gig for designing the Olympic mascots. And it's deceptive. Everyone says oh boy it must have opened so many doors. But no, it meant I couldn't keep working for all those big clients as I was doing the other now. And the money was insulting (I made the decision though to go with it because at least I'd give it my best shot and it wasn't about the money anyway). And the experience was a nightmare. And with kids a while later and complications from that everything just went a different way. But you can never tell how things will go. And I don't regret it.
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I know that's a very, VERY odd thing to say, but its the closes approximation I can give for my first impression of her. She didn't look like a light-skinned black girl (which she isn't anyway), but her skin looked kind of... yellowish when I first saw her. I guess her shirt color could have had an effect. But she was lighter and , well... yellower than I expected on first sight.
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I did make some music...but for some reason I can only write folk music lately...which is depressing because of how awesome mgmt sounds.
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Too funny!
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Box yer ears fer putting yerself down!http://www.myspace.com/efftards
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I need more of that in my life.
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Twas an experiment with my 1st time using a tablet and Final Cut/Photoshop to animate. I'm glad to see pple liked it.
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but tickets were $70. I just can't justify spending that much on anything, right now, that I can't hold in my hands and keep forever.
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Dinosaurs + Groucho = fantastic evening.
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I'll box them if you insist.
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Mar 29, 2010 11:44:02 PM CDT
" I want to name him Clarence and ride on him next to the Popemo
by cheeses_of_nazareth
DAMN!!!! That brought out the Dinosaur lovin’ kid in me more than Jurassic Park!!!! HHHHAAAA!!!!I want one…
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My hours are so different from my gf that I end up editing videos late at night, and most of it is mindless button pushing bc its the same thing every week, meaning it doesn't require creativity. So, often, I'll just have a drink or five as I work. Tonight, my gf had a bad neckache from some workout induced whiplash and she wanted some alcohol, so I joined in. Now I'm alone with you fine folk, working, chatting, and well... drinking. Do I have a problem? Maybe in some way different from others... I don't binge anymore, and I don't drink everyday, but my drinking isn't limited to the weekends like it used to be.
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I downloaded that "Flash Delirium" song you suggested. It's got that good old Roxy Music-T.Rex-Bowie vibe that I dig.
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Don't get offended because it's not an insult, but do you think there was a SLIGHT Prince influence on the Electric feel video?! Around the World in a Day meets Sign O' the Times! Filmed in "crazy French" Gondry style! I couldn't find one of those mokeys with the cymbals though...
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Why'd you do that?
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I would be several drinks deep by now. You deserve to blow off steam.
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I went to the Walking With Dinosaurs stage show's main page a few months ago, and watching the videos brought tears to my eyes. The music, along with the footage of live-size dinosaurs interacting with people, was like seeing a dream come true. All I've ever wished for as a kid, whether it was a shooting star or a dandelion, was to see real-life dinosaurs, and finally, with that website, my wish came true.
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You gonna put them back up, right?
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Though i'm not really all that knowledgeable when it comes to prince.
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I was watching a bit of Monkey Business and Duck Soup earlier... had I known dinosaurs were in a Night at the Opera I wouldn't have gone into the office to interact with you fine folk!
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Dinos in OPERA? Eggads, I'm trippin' balls.
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Ha! Candied BRAAAIIINS! Awesome dude. Animation - another thing I'll never get around to doing...
Did I tell you that first directing animation thing all ended in tears? I'm afraid to even look at the final version the production house turned in. They sure as shit didn't listen to us or stick with the brief, that's for sure. Ah well. -
"Well, she was this blonde talk-show hostess who was married to Burt Reynolds for awhile," answered Groucho.
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I have almost finished my tv series treatment and the more I've talked to fine folk like yourselves and others, the more I think I have either A) a case or B) enough to make a series different and separate enough from that other feature. So I'm much happier than I was last night, when I had read that awful news before posting here and going to bed. Where it took a damn long time to fall asleep.
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"Well, just has he was comin' onstage, Dino stubbed his toe, and now it's sore," answered Groucho.
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LOL Facking killed me!
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From one writer to another, I know the fear and frustration that comes with feeling your idea slipping away from you.
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When I was during a busy stage and could only skim through the TB, I noticed your story about the project falling through, and for that I am truly sorry =(. That really sucks dude. I don't know how much it sucks, ie, how much income you lost or stand to lose, but I feel for you. Fucking suits. I hate them. For the record, animation was the career field I planned to move into for most of my life... either that or paleontology. And both of those ended in 97 when I decided to be a film director instead.
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Comedy!
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also...Great Lake's Avenger member...Dyna-soar....a pterydactle chick...
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Family of killed Iraq soldier forced to pay legal fees of church protesting gays at his funeral. Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK. My mind is boggled. http://tinyurl.com/yzsh4q9
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It's unconscionable.
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Looking forward to tomorrow. Another day in the PBhood.
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"...offered no details on how the court came to its decision."Is this the new trend?
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Type @ yas tomorrow! Have a good day all you workers! You contributors to society!
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What the hell. How does one come to that bizarre conclusion? What, we don't deserve an explanation as American citizens? Look, Tea Party freaks have the right idea in SOME areas... let's not make it easier for them! If they agreed with the opposing viewpoint, I mean, but you won't find any who do.
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ZZzzzzzzz....
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Hooah! Yeah I guess this seems weird on a monday night... but then again, I NEVER know what freakin' day it is. When you don't work a 9-5, Monday-Friday job, its hard to keep track of the days. Just sayin'. Don't judge. Please.
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If anybody else is awake, please post...I'll be up for a while yet...
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I drink to drunkenness every single day…If that makes me a drunk…then I am a drunk…I don’t really want to go all officially alcoholic and loose my amateur standing…Plus, alcoholics have to go to meetings... I am a drunk…
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Unless you're still there Cheeses me old mate.
I'm gonna post some pics and have a rant and then everyone can ignore what passed in the night, but if I don't I risk forgetting it. my brain's like a sieve. Then I gotsta do some work.
Oh and Subby, my first job they made me hand-render an alphabet/typeface every night for HOMEWORK! I hated that fucking job (but it got my foot in the door even if they paid worse than McDonalds), but that time rendering faces was absolutely invaluable for everything that came later. -
Mar 30, 2010 1:20:24 AM CDT
Flick & D.V.- a bigger, very digital one/more Shelter piccies
by white_vader
of the Polar Bears. Over at the shelter. One thing that eased me up on the whole "can't tell that it's digital" thing when it comes to just the concept stuff for me was Either Ryan Church or Eric Tiemens (awesome artist) saying that the telltale blowout of neon colours were O.K. with them because they were painting with light and that's pretty much what film is. Still don't like the way you can blow out to colours you'd never get in any other way completely when it distracts from the piece, but for film stuff I loosened up a bit after that. I can do the traditional look if I want but am concentrating more now on just the ideas and getting my colour up to scratch.
And there's another. The bridge of the supertanker coming down on the Attack Chopper coming down on our heroes as the rotor threatens to decapitate 'em. Woot!
And for D.V., many many years ago before it was inevitably done by everyone probably including Matt and Trey themselves, just for fun I did Star Wars/ South Park mashups. Also a watercolour (but not really -heh) Yoda getting a new cane for Christmas, Jabba, and so on. These are pretty much all from the nineties, back when we were excited about Star Wars again.
I'll take 'em all off in a bit so I don't overwhelm the Shelter. Just having some fun & sharing some goofiness!
Finally for D.V., a caricature of Radiohead I did for Rolling Stone many years ago. Much looser than my usual anal-retentive styles, but lotta fun. -
Post away, you mad artist type-facer, you....If I can post the shit I post on here and not get arrested….You go, man…
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the charcoal ones, right?
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Is it a good or bad time to tell you I have never had a hangover in my life? And it ain't from abstaining. I don't wear it as a badge of pride, but I am an Aussie after all!
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SOOoo....Did I miss the resolution of the NYT reporter saga…?Was Stabby just ribbin’ us? Or, did he REALLY go rouge and actually turn lip to the man?Enquiring minds want to know…
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Poor old Greedo is so lame, I thought he deserved a "bad-ass" moment. My Wars stuff may not be as accurate as some, but I think not using the same tired photo-ref as everyone else at least made it more fresh and fun.
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I may have the wrong files…I am pretty illiterate when it comes to computers…Star Wars Quarry like pics…? Nice…Wampas?I’m pretty high…
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New supporting characters and elaborate situations to explore over several seasons…CIA Drug smuggling, the fall of Siagon, the Bi-Centennial, Norweigen Tall Mast hashish smugglers and Women's Lib...
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"I was gonna look at pictures, but then I got haaaaiiihhgggggeeee!" - you go, Afroman! Don't let me ruin your mellow state...
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"Hey Booby, I -" SLAP!
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Xactly, Whiteyman...
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that's enough chicken vagina for me...Nytol...
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pleasant comedowns.
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I've been playing Devil's advocate about P.A. just because most (not saying this is you Mac & DV) TBers don't realise they're actually railing against the marketing of a no-budget flick and not the film itself. In most every case people who hated it were completely biased by what the ads promised them. I think it's very telling that most people who saw it before the hype loved it and saw it for the very simple homage to old-school bump-in-the night flicks it successfully (imho) and INTENTIONALLY honoured. It had blowing sheets for fuck's sake!!
I do take issue with anyone who says "nothing happened" or "It was boring" though. It was literally an old-fashioned creepy creaky bumps-in-the-night type bit of fun. YES that's all that happened. That's ALWAYS all that happened! And the D.V. cam was completely integrated into the premise/story. No budget? Sure, so they did exactly what the old no-budget flicks did. And even the true story/found footage was written off as a Blair Witch thing when obviously no-one remembers Texas Chainsaw. I know that misses the old-school stuff I was talking about by a few decades, but you get the point.
And people putting the guy down for being a dick? That was GREAT! You know why? Apart from the truism of that annoying dick who wants to show off because of his gadgets/car/social standing/coming from money etc. getting his comeuppance and not giving him any credence at any point, they NEVER did the thing that always happens where they wuss out and say oh he's learned his lesson we'll be sympathetic now. Nope, to their credit he stayed a dick and couldn't see past his own ego and it al broke down for him as a result. Good on 'em for keeping the stereotypes real I say.
And the plot mechanics of NOT making it a Poltergeist tied to the location but instead tied to her? Meant they were trapped in the house no matter WHICH house they were in and no matter WHERE they went. Pretty damn clever for keeping the heat on I reckon. That was actually my fave idea/thing about the film.
And it was never meant to be terror as in blood or gore or the usual modern horror scary. Just good ol' fashioned tension and building. And FUN! Now, here's where we get to the marketing. If you separate the film from that hype, you've got a tiny little no-budget flick where the limitations are absolutely integrated into the story. It had been sitting on the shelf with no release for YEARS because the studio was too gutless to release it. I went and saw it because I'd heard about it and considering it might never be seen I thought the Sydney Int. Film Festival was my only chance (well, that and my mate's directorial debut doco about Anton Corbijn was playing). And everyone there at least enjoyed the hell out of it. Not "Ohmygod that's totallylike the scariest thing evarrr", just lots of laughter from the guys and squealing (from the girls. Ahem).
So after quite a few events like this the studios decide nope, they're still gutless, so we'll hype it EXACTLY LIKE A 50s WILLIAM CASTLE movie and call it the SCARIEST FILM EVER! You MUST see it for yourself etc.! Oldest trick in the fucking book. And you know what? That shit STILL WORKS! Everyone DID go and see it! The studio laughed all the way to the bank!
But talkbackers fell for it and THEN were outraged yet didn't even realise how they'd been had! They said they'd been conned all right because the movie was a boring, non-terrifying piece of shit where nothing happened, but still didn't tweak to the ads promsing everything what they couldn't deliver. The film itself NEVER promised that.
And the piece de resistance being that these whingers are the militant anti-CG brigade always screaming for old-school horror! I guess that means eighties, not 30s or 50s to them.
Actually to backtrack a bit, one thing it does have very much in common with Blair Witch is the viral campaign thing. Because I deal with marketing people all the time and have for decades I'm hip to their sneakiness, but I must give them their due here. At first, after all the festival love the studio was still too gutless to release it. So they shirked all responsibility (no, I don't believe it!) and put it all on the AUDIENCE! If a couple of million (can't remember the exact number) of you DEMAND it we'll smile down on you and open it in a few measly cinemas. Genius. And then the mainstream two-punch with the scariest movie EVARRRR campaign. Gotta hand it to 'em.
Concerning the backlash though, precisely because of Blair Witch the revolt happened much, much sooner. Again, the hype was not the film's fault. I can totally see that it looks like the most pretentious shit ever if you had any sort of expectations (and 99.9% did). But that hubris is just NOT there in the film that lay around for a couple of years. It's a little, fun homage. And I thought the chick was great. People have more of a case against the contrivance of 'total realism' and shakeycam of Greengrass' 911 pic (I thought it was great, but you get my point) than P.A.
IMHO.
And Mac, this wasn't totally aimed at you. I know you're an intelligent guy and if it just didn't do it for you, no probs. You're a PBer and I loves ya, bro. Same goes for you D.V. So forgive me for my little (!) rant at just reaction to the film online in general. With people going crazy last week saying The Eagles were the most influential band after Beatles & Stones (although maybe they were just getting their semantics mixed - ubiquitous maybe, influential no way), I thought I'd cast my own dissenting vote. -
i think im dying...maneshevitz is a mean motherfucker
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some of us are lucky to not have seen it
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bloodshot? serioously? that shit hasnt been relevant since high school..what next SHADOWHAWK?
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I will begin this morning's short session by 100% agreeing with NillaV re: PA. He is correct, on all counts: it actually WAS kinda freaky, the hype is annoying (because hype always is) and it is NOT a classic piece of horror filmmaking. My theory is, hype is annoying- in any field- because all of a sudden, the geeks are confronted with a legion of "Average Joes" who suddenly feel like they're in on some big secret... so they go around spouting what they think are "deep and original" insights on whatever is being hyped, while not realizing that they're all saying the exact same thing (and usually just repeating what they heard about it on TV.) This is usually accompanied by the knee-jerk reaction, sprung from insecurity, that their opinion SHOULD MATTER AS MUCH AS ANYONE'S... you can easily trigger this but just trying to discuss the hyped thing in depth. You don't even have to get belligerent... the Average Joe will get defensive because they don't know enough to discuss it. This happens with movies all the time (Blair Witch, [deleted], PA...) it happens in art... hell, it happens in wine on a daily basis. Exhibit A: Yellowtail. I can't tell you how many times, at a family gathering, I'll have to basically shut up and let the other person talk about Yellowtail, or Beringer, or any other uninteresting, mass-produced wine... because once they hear I'm a sommelier, they THINK they want to discuss wine... but all they REALLY want is for me to tell them [insert boring wine here] is great. Which, for the record, I will not do... but I don't disparage anyone for what they drink.
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but i think the hype of PA and avatar are diff...avatar lived up to its hype tremendously..it sustained the box office for almost two months..something that hasnt happened since..hmm..interesting..titanic.thats not to say they are the be all end all of film but its better than the quick cash grab that fizzles after the word of mouth from the first weekend suckers.
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Usually I'm an anti-spoiler nazi. Which is why it's dangerous for me lately just getting to the end of season 2 of Lost.
But hang on, I don't think I DID spoil anything did I?! And it sounds like you're not going to watch it anyway. Riiiight? But yeah, sorry for the lack of spoiler warnings.
And what's with all the wine? Sixies? Scary? -
the wine biz is where I went after I gave up on being a professional artist... I went through some courses, did a ton of reading, and all that. That's where the wine talk comes in. The GOOD news is, I love it at least as much as being an artist- without the problem of having people tell me what to draw... doesn't keep me from feeling like a failure, though, every now and then. I AM really good at this wine thing, though. And Sixies: I actually agree on the qualities of [deleted]... but the hype was STILL super annoying. THAT you have to admit.
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...that would be nice, for a change.
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Although we do need it.
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Did I miss much?
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Wine is like books to me. You don't have to be "in the know" to enjoy it, but the more educated you are/well-read/informed on how to "read" critically, the more you can get out of it.
Having said that, I'm not very well read in either sense! -
Morning to you.
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no foul babe..i really am so lax about spoilers..you could literally tell me every ending to a film and i wouldnt give a shit..its the journey that i like..if the film is solely hinged on the ending..theres gonna be a prob..i DID like the ending of blair witch..evrything else sucked.
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You know, for a while now I'd been struggling with a way to pun on Nilla Wafers with your name, but I couldn't quite get it. I'm glad to see Pebrew Nation stepped up.
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avatar hype i dont think was created by the studio..but rather the fans..i try to ignore hype, dont we all?
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It holds up for me very well. The ending is among the more chilling moments in modern horror cinema, IMO, and it doesn't even have any gore or jump scares.
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...territory.
And pretty soon there won't be any 'territory' left...just water. -
On the other hand, I'll forgive a lot of dodgy stuff on the way through if something has a really great ending. But it's harder for me the other way 'round. But yeah. Solely one way or the other...
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...good movie watching weather, if nothing else.
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...and I really like that Radiohead caricature...love that wiry line.
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Got a lot of shit done. And I watched ANTICHRIST. I hope to pound out a review soon. Today a friend, who just quit his job, is coming over so we can drink and brainstorm. But mostly drink.
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...was hyped much at all, not to the general public anyway...a couple weeks of TV ads (bad ones)...nothing extraordinary.
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I missed the boat at first and there was SO much hype I let it slide and eventually watched it a couple of years after. So I was as 'clean' as I could be when I finally did get to it, considering. Yeah it was just a no-budget thing doing a good job with what it had. And yeah, nice creepy ending.
Don't, Don't, Don't - Don't believe tha hype! Ah Public Enemy, where have you gone? Nearly fell off my chair when I saw Chuck D in Anchorman (the whole alt. cut)! -
gotta put more of your stuff on there. C'monnnnn...
And while digging that other Star Wars stuff out I realised I haven't done or looked at any of that stuff in a lonnnngg time... -
...downpour.
I'm thinking I might cheat today, plug in some PONYO for the offspring, and do some brainstorming myself (minus the drinking).
I've got this little story sooo close...I just have to finish fitting the pieces together. Locking things down is the hardest part for me...getting all the moving parts to click, click, click... -
what kind of elements do you need for it to click?
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March 29th, 2010 ...'nilla thinks Kim Kardashian is hot, negating any theories he might express about artists being especially attuned to sexiness. But he closes with Prince's "Raspberry Beret," so it's all good. ...A 'cranky" British columnist dismisses 3D as a gimmick and says [deleted] is a "bit rubbish." (http://tinyurl.com/ygsgcuk) ...BestBuy® will change the future of your television for $4 Grand. ...Yack's gotta plan to pick up women at mall jewelry counters, and Flick flirts by nicknaming them after their prettiest feautre. ..."Are you payng attention, or are you watching the lady putting paper in the copier?" (http://tinyurl.com/ygebysw) ...Vades thinks maybe his copyright has been infringed and gets some advice about securing his creative property. ...'nilla gives examples of creative coincidence, shows us some fierce dick-eating bears that got shelved after GOLDEN COMPASS (http://tinyurl.com/ydqlb9m), and posts some of his way-cool STAR WARS concept art at The Shelter™. ...Alfred Russel Wallace, natural selection also-ran, watched from the shadows as Darwin got all the attention with his fittest theory. ...Flick fears dick-eating fish, including the Amazonian ones that swim up your urethra to spawn. What is it with all these animals and dick-eating? Hopefully, Cobes stays clear of the hungry hippos whilst on safari! ...STL gives HANCOCK the patented ★★★ seal of "meh," saying an interesting premise is ruined by too many "call me an asshole" jokes. ...Walking With Dinosaurs™ sets a baby T-Rex lose on some Japanese journalists. (http://tinyurl.com/yg3pxpy) ...More cool dinosaur stuff (http://tinyurl.com/mw42m4) ...'nilla and Flick discuss digital and traditional art. ...Republican Party head Michael Steele's bondage road-show (http://tinyurl.com/y9229jt) ...Blessed assover, Pebrews. Time, Sixies says, to play "pin the tail on the Judas and turn that box of wine into an empty box of wine." ...☆☆RIGHT-BRAIN CINEMA☆☆™: CINEMA PARADISO - DIRECTOR'S EXTENDED CUT overplays the lost-love romance. ★★☆☆☆ ½ ...Godzilla puts on a cardigan (a Yackbacker Shelter-exclusive™) and clears his throat, all ready to be re-booted. (http://tinyurl.com/4na6x) ...Mac and I make fun of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY. ...How come that Arend guys gets to spoon with Christina Hendricks whenever he wants to? ...Kosher wines (http://tinyurl.com/ydc49yv) ...Ess won't let me shoot Sarah Palin in the face. ...Flick shares a library of creepy children's books. (http://tinyurl.com/yftro7x) ...Al Bambino in: SCAREDYFACE (http://tinyurl.com/yb5w5b6) ...A children's book cover with cute farm animals fukken a chicken (http://tinyurl.com/yfv7ax7) inspires an udderly stupid joke. ...Coldplay by Alicia Keys for Jay-Z as performed by STAR WARS characters (http://is.gd/b5YLw) ...Peebers share stories of bumping into the STAR WARS cast in real life. ...'nilla gives a tutorial on doing art on a computer informed by an appreciation for old-skool technique. ...Hiyarrhea! ...Ess shares her frustrations with making art and her desire to one day get her artist back on. ...The terrorists might have gotten to Vades' drinks and liquid-based appliances. Exploding ice cube alert is at Level-Yellow. ...Rosario Dawson has scurvy? ...Vades' halloween Zombie (http://tinyurl.com/ycxjxfo) ...In honor of NIGHT AT THE OPERA on TCM and Walking With Dinosaurs™ coming to an arena near you, maybe, Groucho does a couple of paleontology jokes. ...Notshit®: Radiohead, mgmt and Efftards. -
...it's a 32 page picture book, so once you subtract title pages etc...that leaves 14 spreads (the two pages you see when you open a book and 1 dangling page, usually used for the intro or the coda.
The story is told 90% visually and at this point I just need to break down what happens on what page.
I have a series of plot points and scenes and I need to fit them, stretch them, combine them, or squeeze them into the correct number of pages.
Also, at a couple points I have more than one variation for the narrative, but going with one version or another changes everything else...
I'm making it sound more complicated than it is...it's just a simple little story.
Usually I'm presented with a story, and I try to figure the best way to illustrate it...this is more like a Rubix Cube...fun, but it makes my head hurt. -
http://tinyurl.com/6kq8sj Not really dick-eating, but still pretty fucking creepy crawly.
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Mar 30, 2010 10:00:06 AM CDT
Ugh, I really should proofread before I submit Subbaries
by subtitles_off
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I think I like the Radiohead one most of all!
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D.Vader...nice zombie animation. I checked your other videos out at Youtube as well. I liked the amazon.com and post-it notes ones, and the birthday party massacre was ...unsettling :)
white_vader: awesome pics at the shelter. The Greedo looked really good, and that Radiohead one was cool! Was that really in Rolling Stone? -
e-mail marketing for PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, and petitioned for a screening that preceded domestic release, I'll say it's absolutely OK for anybody to backlash on that movie based on the hype because without the hype, it would've stayed on the shelf.'nilla's absolutely correct that PA works as a fun experience when you're surrounded by a large number of people anticipating to be scared. But, as a film, it lacks most of the fundamental elements for cinematic goodness: dialogue, character, movement, lasting impact. It's, essentially, a one-trick pony.It's perfectly alright - crucial, even - for people to react with scorn when something is sold to them as the greatest thing ever and it turns out to be quite a bit less than that.Same thing goes for [deleted] which will be something that future cyborg humans point to as quaint and wispy when they remember us and laugh.
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i want my robot teddy
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BATTLEFIELD EARTH and ABOVE THE RIM as a category of films reflecting humanity's obsession with beings 7 feet tall and larger.
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...like I said yesterday, I was impressed that a movie made for 15,000 kept me interested for two hours or whatever it was...no small feat.
When I said that "it didn't get me" I meant that it didn't scare me deep down...frankly, I was a little relieved.
Movies almost never creep me out, but as a kid I had a very active imagination, and I had periods of significant night fears. Once every five or ten years a movie manages to tap into that childhood fear of the dark...I don't always enjoy the feeling. It has less to do with jump scares and everything to do with a lingering malaise bad feeling about life and the universe.
I thought PA was an impressive experiment, for what it was. -
I'll ignore your twisting my Kardashian comment in the Subbary then!
And the South Park stuff proves Eric Cartman is more Han Solo than Nathan Wannabe willeverbe. Dagnabbit! -
It's what I do.
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Any seconds?
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Other than the hype, which I never bought in to, and other than the ad campaign ("BEG For us to release the movie in your town!!!"), which I never believed either (come on, we all know it was going to be released everywhere regardless of vote count), were what I thought were unbelievable actions taken by the "realistic" characters. Yeah, the main guy was a dick. But I didn't buy that this guy would *continue* to be such a dick, after he's got proof of weird shit going on, and not call in any experts. And yes, the entity would have followed the girl, but would it have killed them to invite a friend to stay the night, or to at least TRY to stay somewhere else? I know they were limited by a budget, but moments like that took me out of the film and REMINDED me they were limited by a budget. And that chick with the huge boobs sleeps with her BRA on? Who does that?!? REALLY!
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Yep. Rolling Stone. I loved D.V.'s Birthday Party one too. Thought I was having some sorta crazy Sigmund the sea monster flashback where he goes psycho for a sec there. And the Ep1/300 one worked really well.
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wazzzzuuuuuuuuuuuuuup
I know, I know...old Budweiser meme...but I saw it again on the Office Season 1 dvd and snorted a bit. -
I couldn't believe they went that route with the last shot. Its been done to death.
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Have you tried just stepping away for a moment or two?
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Mar 30, 2010 10:38:19 AM CDT
..."And...chick with...huge boobs sleeps with her BRA on?"...
by flickapoo
...I know! That shit never would have happened in the 70s.
Virgins shouldn't be allowed to make movies. -
Halle Berry reckons sleeping in a bra keeps her twins nice and bouncy.
She IS crazy though... and you didn't buy him being a dick/not changing to the end/still wanting to be the man and 'handle' it? Ha, I could give you a million examples of real life people like that. But hey, I was mainly railing against the vast majority who DID believe the hype.
Does it bother you when chicks have makeup on when they wake up in bed?
I keed, I keed because I love. ;) And I put some Star Wars stuff over at the shelter for ya. Because I love. -
Anyone else have dry, itchy BAMF skin going?
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Garden Party Massacre was for the Fantastic Fest bump contest last year. We made the top ten but didn't win the overall votes. I think we came in 3rd. But I still have a $100 gift certificate waiting for me at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin. Episode I/300 mashup trailer was the first thing I edited when I got my new computer and editing software. It was a way to get back into editing after not having made anything in 2-3 yrs after I got out of college.
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Continue your thoughts at 44423.
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are the best! No seriously (I'm a leg guy), they do fear the sag though. Gravity spares no-one in the end.
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...for the last three months...it isn't so much being stuck as avoiding the hard organizational decisions...like procrastinating about cleaning your office or the garage.
I think I'm going to at least get it all sequential, (including double or conflicting plot points) and then show it around a little...get some pruning suggestions.
I'm making it sound like rocket science, but it isn't...it's about as complicated as your average episode of SAMURAI JACK. Still, with simplicity comes much responsibility. -
http://www.fox75th.com/
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I needed that.
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Well that's disappointing! Just sayin'. She's got some ample bosom, its a horror film, she's going to bed... I mean, the signs were all there for something else to happen.
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Bring yourself over to Node #44423.
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