7/3/2008
“One of my many hobbies is drawing caricatures of Zach Braff.”
(via defamer)
7/3/2008
And what’s with the Billy Bob accent? (via ultragrrrl)
7/2/2008
Wallpaper:
The character at the centre of Design Miami is a dynamic, 25-year-old powerhouse for whom no task is too daunting in the realms of design. Ambra Medda grew up in the design world, with a gallerist for a mother (Giuliana Medda) and spent much of her youth being taken around the world from fair to fair, exhibition to exhibition. At the age of 23, she spotted the need for a new type of fair, addressing the as yet unrepresented crossover between contemporary art and limited edition design. We recently caught up with Ambra to hear how it happened…
7/1/2008
Put a little fedora on that guy, and you’ve got yourself a logo!
7/1/2008
BlackBerry or iPhone? “BlackBerry. I had the iPhone for a little while, but I’m more of a businessman; I wanted to have a phone where I could really actually do things.”
(via vanityfair)
6/30/2008
Bought a 1:20PM ticket to Wall-E but bagged that idea in line for corn syrup after coming to the idiot conclusion that a 1:20PM Wall-E is 100% moms and children under the age of shutting the fuck up in the theater. Soooooo, Wanted starts at 1:30PM… why not. After 15 minutes of TV commercials (IN A FUCKING MOVIE THEATER?!) and 15 minutes of the samesamesamesamesamesamesamesamesamesamesamesamesame action/adventure trailers that have saturated the web for the past year, we were ready to head anywhere and call it a FAIL. Instead we dug in, poured Sour Jacks and Coca-Cola into the hole and rallied. The following quotes speak for us, the only thing original we have to add is:
Thank De Jesus the $10 went to Wall-E.
“The movie is stuffed with cheap stabs at the post-modern condition that ape Chuck Palahniuk’s drugs, violence and sex-fueled novels (Office drones! Pill-popping! Adultery on Ikea furniture!).” (nyp)
“But as the body count rises, so does the portentous tone, and the relentlessness of Bekmambetov’s overamped style becomes oppressive.” (nw)
“Of course, Bekmambetov’s run-and-gun style might be enough to distract you from “Wanted’s” extreme lack of character development. Or its extreme misogyny as it serves up exactly three female stereotypes: the fat disgusting bitch, the lyin’-‘n’-cheatin’ bitch and the smokin’ hot, cold-hearted bitch.” (rj)
“The most interesting thing about Wanted is that its protagonist is one of the most unlikable action heroes in memory.” (df)
“Early in the film, during the obligatory “wax on, wax off” training montage that instantly transforms McAvoy from Dudley Dipshit to Carlos the Jackal, it becomes clear that Wanted is polishing a turd.” (ww)
“Things happen in “Wanted,” but no one cares. You could call that nihilism, but even nihilism requires commitment of a kind and this, by contrast, is a movie built on indifference.” (nyt)
“Hey, Danny Elfman, my girlfriend dropped an Oingo-Boingo cut on my new compilation, great stuff, now go return Tim Burton’s phone calls, buddy.” (dqn)
“In other words, WANTED is a massive step back for cinema and, I’d argue, society. It’s mainstreamed cruelty seeking to connect with the Texas Tower Sniper in all of us. “Six weeks ago, I was just like you.” Seriously, if you identify with Wesley Gibson, do the world a favor: get castrated.” (aicn)
But the best review of Wanted, with which we agree on nearly every point, especially: “McAvoy is hilariously miscast as Wesley Gibson,” comes from deep within the comment’s section on Hollywood Elsewhere and Scott Mendelson (comment #9)
6/30/2008
What coulda shoulda been the cover.
Oceanup: Devoted to Miley, Vanessa, Zac, Demi, Selena, Chelsea, Kevin, Joe, Nick and the rest of the Disney’s pre-fab, pre-school pornstars.
Kat Dennings is a YouTube goofball.
Welcome to the official website of Jenna Elfman.
Looking forward to The Green Girl.
The Waterboys, Windmill Lane Studios, 1987-88
The Do Not Attempt tumblr.
Sweet Jesus
6/26/2008
The Dark Knight is almost here, time to roll out the obligatory Adam West interview.
Most men have fallen for the wrong type of woman at least once – did you have some sympathy for your character for his love of Catwoman?
Oh yes. He was just a poor soul. He was so torn. It was heartbreaking! [laughs] He had these curious stirrings in his utility belt, and yet he knew she had to be put away in the slammer.
6/26/2008
lohangroupie.com:
Lindsay Lohan’s third album is reportedly entitled “Spirit In The Dark”. It is reported that her first single will be entitled “Playground” featuring Pharrell Williams. This single will be released to radio in September, while the full album is due out on November 4th.
Lindsay Lohan’s “Bossy” track, which is currently available on iTunes, is just a pre-single/buzz-track, and no video or promotion will take place for it.
6/25/2008
Starblazers.com
In the year 1974, a new anime series debuted in Japan that drew a line from the far reaches of outer space to the infinite depths of the human heart. Space Battleship Yamato brought Japan’s best artists, writers, and filmmakers together under a new genre called “Space Adventure Roman,” and they created a shock wave that can still be heard today. Spanning ten years, the saga incorporated three TV series (known to the English-speaking world as Star Blazers) and five magnificent, monumental movies that not only made box-office history, they also inspired the ‘anime boom’ that brought us some of the most exciting entertainment in the world!
Amazon.com
Starblazers was a landmark program in Japan and America. When it aired in syndication in the U.S. in 1979, the character names were anglicized (Susumu Kodai became Derek Wildstar; Admiral Okita, Captain Avatar, etc.), the violence and drinking were heavily censored, and the World War II connections of the Yamato were tactfully downplayed. The Quest for Iscandar comprises the first 26-episode continuity; two additional TV series and several features would follow. In the year 2199, the war with the planet Gamilon has turned the Earth’s surface into a radioactive desert. The radiation will penetrate the bedrock protecting humanity’s underground cities in another year, destroying all remaining life. A message arrives from Queen Starsha of the planet Iscandar, offering a way to eliminate the deadly radiation and providing plans for an engine that can power a ship across the 148,000 light-year gap. Scientists convert the ruined shell of the battleship Yamato into a starship in a desperate attempt to save the planet, and the perilous voyage begins.
Mediacircus.net
With its high-quality animation (which even included some 3-D effects achieved via rotoscoping), epic story lines, mature writing (including some well-handled pathos and romance), well-developed character arcs, and superb voice acting, “Star Blazers” raised the bar for not only televised animation, but also sci-fi drama in general. The writing found in “Star Blazers easily outshone the best efforts of the creatively bankrupt sci-fi dramas of the time, including “Battlestar Galactica”, “Buck Rogers”, and “Space: 1999”.
6/23/2008
Pleeeeeease, let it be Stallone… or Winehouse. (via heartonastick)
6/23/2008
6/22/2008
According to the fairly diabolical avrilbandaids.com forum:
Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend music video is less than 1 million views away from becoming the most watched video of all time on YouTube, so if ever there was a time for us to bring back our Girlfriend YouTube campaign, that time is now!
But making Girlfriend the most watched video on YouTube is small potatoes compared to what we’re capable of. We’re going to make Girlfriend the first ever video on YouTube to have over 100,000,000 views.
Girlfriend currently has 88,068,719 views and the #1 video Evolution of Dance has 89,046,834 views. Which means we’re just under 1 million views away from taking the #1 spot and 12 million views from hitting the 100,000,000 mark. So what we’re attempting won’t be easy but…. Bahh who am I kidding? Of course it will be easy because we have a secret weapon
Check out http://www.avrilbandaids.com/youtubeviewer.html - This page has been specially designed to kick some serious YouTube butt.
Every 15 seconds this page will automatically refresh adding 1 view to Girlfriend’s YouTube total each time it does. Keep this page open while you browse the internet, study for exams, or even sleep. For extra viewing power, open up two or more browser windows at this page!
The views will start to add up faster than you can even imagine. If we had 86 people keeping two windows open for 10 days straight, we would already be at 10,000,000 views.
6/22/2008
“It takes about an hour after it’s over for the heart to slow, the brain to recalibrate, and the nonsensicalness of the thing to sink in: I fell for that??? By then, you’ll have already babbled to a few dozen friends and strangers, “You gotta see this movie!!!” It’s like the bighearted urge to share your Ecstasy at a party.” ~ David Edelstein
6/22/2008
Eddie Vedder is wearing the same shirt. gruuuuuuuunge.
6/21/2008
Just a little something to help you get to sleep tonight.
6/20/2008
(nsfw)
6/20/2008
This is brilliant.
HARRISON FORD
Alright, the aliens or whatever want me to return the crystal to some ridiculous alien throne room.
CATE BLANCHETT
Not zo fast. I vill return skull instead.
HARRISON FORD
Shouldn’t it have been taken as an indicator of a writing problem when the good guy and the bad guy in a movie have the exact same goal?
(via kottke)
6/18/2008
Bought it, read it, ready.
6/18/2008
Sabrine Beck (nsfw)
6/17/2008
“A few minutes after he finally left the bar, someone found him searching through a sewage ditch outside. When they asked him what he was doing, he mumbled, ‘I’ve lost my flip-flops!’”
6/17/2008
Goldenfiddle’s Korean correspondent, Divad Q. Nead, heads to the cinema (The Incredible Hulk) with an unwilling chef, spills his pilsner in the aisle, and tells tiny children to shut the hush up. What comes of his movie time is but another dig at the film industry in crisis. However, he reports that assigned seating in Hogye is still the bees knees.
read more…
6/17/2008
(via draplin)
6/16/2008
Case you were wonderin what OC sex-moppet Willa Holland was up to.
Previously: Midnight In The Garden Of Good And SEXY!!!
Willa Holland Fun Facts/Trivia (according to the increasingly unreliable IMDB)
She is the step-daughter of film director Brian De Palma.
From the ages of 7 to 11 years old she was the top child model in the USA. She is with Ford Models Los Angeles.
Steven Spielberg told Brian De Palma that she needed to be in front of the camera. With Spielberg’s advice, Brian got her an agent.